A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 1, 2022

However, we were not able to do that in 2020 and 2021 so this was our first Portfolio Summit since 2019. Those of us who work in VC and startups can work remotely and get most everything we need done. Every year we invite the leaders of our portfolio companies to come to NYC and spend a couple of days with us and each other.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Overall fintech deal volume dipped 24% compared to Q3 2019, totaling 451 global deals. As fintech deal count falls in the largest VC markets — North America, Europe, Asia — it is rising in Africa and Latin America, something to keep an eye on. That was up from 11 in Q2 2020, and nine in Q1. Now, into our four mega-trends.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

I have had the great pleasure of working with Matt Blumberg and the senior leadership team of USV’s former portfolio company Return Path (which was sold in 2019) for much of the last twenty years. A few months later, USV joined that investor group along with our friends at Costanoa.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

million VC-backed company, Carbon was founded by Chijioke Dozie and Ngozi Dozie in 2012. When Chijioke Dozie, the CEO, spoke to TechCrunch in 2019, he cited recruitment purposes and clientele trust as reasons why the company made its financials public — an exercise it has done every second quarter for two years. .

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StartupNation

JULY 28, 2021

In 2019, venture capital investment into U.S. So, while it comes as no surprise that 2019 was also a record year for female founders securing these dollars, many would be shocked to learn this funding amounted to a mere 3.4% Only about 12% of decision makers at VC firms are women, and of all the partners at these firms, only 2.4%

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2022

Women in VC have caught the entrepreneurial bug. In 2019, she noticed a growing number of solid early-stage companies trying to solve problems in the care economy. Over the past year, numerous notable women investors have left their roles at established firms to launch funds of their own.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

And between that talk and today, Scratch published their 2019 Annual Report. As an example of a powerful model that I like very much, I talked about Scratch , the visual programming environment built at MIT over the last twenty years. Anyone can use Scratch, from anywhere, as long as they have a computing device.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

The dynamics that play into this forecast, aside from the impact of COVID, include a youthful population (the youngest globally), rising smartphone adoption and internet penetration that has led to a burgeoning tech ecosystem backed by local and international VC dollars. from 2010 to 2019. and Latin America’s 2.8%.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2021

Meet Singular , a new VC firm based in Paris that just finished raising its initial fund. While Singular is based in Paris, the firm plans to build a true European VC firm with its headquarters in Paris. Singular started fundraising in late 2019 and early 2020. These are historic VC investors.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 13, 2021

I’ve been working exclusively from home since the end of November 2019 when we left NYC to go to LA. So the Gotham Gal and I took an hour-long walk with our dog Ollie. It cleared my head and when I got back to work, I was full of energy and clarity. It has been a stretch of incredible productivity for me.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

From varying sources, it is estimated up to $2 billion went into African tech startups in 2019. In the end, information from the likes of Maxime Bayen and Briter Bridges made 2019 numbers look like child’s play. In Africa, the first two unicorns were Jumia (in 2016) and fintech giant Interswitch (in 2019). billion and $1.5

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2023

billion such companies picked up in 2020 and 2019, respectively. In 2019 and 2020 Black web3 founders raised $2.5 Data visualization by Miranda Halpern , created with Flourish VC funding to Black web3 founders popped last year, bucking trends by Dominic-Madori Davis originally published on TechCrunch billion and $4.2

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Dream It

APRIL 26, 2019

Upcoming Events Cyber Investing Summit | May 16 | New York, NY | CISO's, financial analysts, VC's, private equity managers, institutional investors, public companies, startups, and more come together at the Cyber Investing Summit each year to discuss investment trends and opportunities in cybersecurity.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

In 2019, the company embarked on one such project as it developed Nigeria’s first real-time election database. Bloomberg, at its core, is a data company; we love how they approach elections and our approach in 2019 was driven by them,” said Ideh, who has always been vocal about Stears building the Bloomberg of Africa.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

VC has been invested over the past decade according to race, gender and educational background makes for grim reading — with all-ethnic teams and female entrepreneurs receiving just a fraction of available funding versus all-white teams and male founders. female entrepreneurs face in accessing VC funding versus male counterparts.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

— Charlie O'Donnell (@ceonyc) February 21, 2019. I feel the same way about someone who calls themselves a “VC”. Call me old fashioned, but back in my day, I was happy working for a VC firm, but content to use my actual title of analyst so people didn’t think I was on the same level as the VCs who actually started the firm.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 22, 2020

First, this is what an Internet Treasure looks like by the numbers: Across Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange network, we saw around 10 billion page views from 100+ million unique visitors over the course of 2019. In 2019, Stack Overflow added over 2.8 Over 40,000 jobs were posted on Stack Overflow Jobs in 2019.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

In venture capital, there were something like 30,000 companies that raised venture capital in 2019. And within each category, there are so many different investment opportunities. In public stocks, there are something like 5,000 listed stocks in the US. How do you make sense out of all of that opportunity?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

In 2020, VC investments totaled NZD $127.2 USD $76 million) in 2019, due to a near doubling of transactions from 46 in 2019 to 92 in 2020. or Australian) VCs or the government. Despite the pandemic, venture and early-stage investment in New Zealand is reaching record highs. million (USD $86 million), up from NZD $112.2 (USD

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

To understand how much growth has occurred, African startups raised a meagre $400 million in 2015 compared to the $2 billion that came into the continent in 2019, according to Africa-focused fund Partech Africa. Did African startups raise $496M, $1B or $2B in 2019? Briter Bridges pegged total 2020 VC for African startups at $1.31

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

Venture capital (VC) firm Lifeline Ventures today announced a fresh €150 million ($163 million) fund aimed at early-stage startups across Finland. While a lot has happened in the world since 2019, Ahopelto says that it’s pretty much business as usual from an investment perspective. billion for a majority stake in 2016.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

DECEMBER 31, 2019

— Steven Kane (@stevenkane) December 26, 2019. My friend Steve Kane suggested I take a longer view in my pair of year end posts this year: What, no decade end/decade ahead posts? And so I will. 1/ The emergence of the big four web/mobile monopolies; Apple, Google, Amazon, and Facebook.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

As of 2019, 81% of all venture capital funds worldwide are clustered in just a handful of countries, primarily in the U.S., Overall, of the 50 VC firms and three startup accelerators analyzed by Amnesty International, we found that almost all of them lacked adequate human rights due diligence policies and processes. of all U.S.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JULY 23, 2020

The live reads ad market for podcasts was in excess of $700mm in 2019 and seems headed to a multi billion dollar ad market in the coming years. Live reads are powerful and a form of influencer marketing. If you love Howard and he waxes eloquently about LoJack, you love LoJack. Or so it seems.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

But most venture-backed startups are “still overwhelmingly white, male, Ivy-League-educated and based in Silicon Valley,” according to a study conducted by RateMyInvestor and Diversity VC. Or will we have to repeat the same conversations about representation failings within VC funds?

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 4, 2021

In June of 2019, I got a cold e-mail with a single link: “My name is Braeden Kelekona and I’m the founder of Kelekona, a drone service for passengers and cargo. It seemed unrealistic—not that all startups aren’t in some way realistic—but VCs generally communicate communication style with competency. Below is a link to the pitch video.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. I have been researching this both to support Versatile VC ’s portfolio companies and also as part of research for my new book, To University and Beyond: Launch Your Career in High Gear. 1) Your school.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

There has been little movement in the amount of VC dollars going to women-founded companies since 2012. Though by no means does this mean that women aren’t doing incredible work in the field and it’s only right that women founders receive their fair share of VC investment. Venture capital is far from a level playing field.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2022

Haus launched in 2019 as an answer to a generation’s craving for a more transparent alcohol brand, raising millions in venture funding from angels such as Casey Neistat, Away co-founder Jen Rubio and funds including Homebrew, Haystack Ventures, Coatue, Shrug Capital and Worklife Ventures.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

2021 saw phenomenal returns for our industry and it topped off more than a decade of unprecedented VC growth. Photo by Scott Clark for Upfront Ventures (no, Evan is not standing on a box) Last year marked the 25th anniversary for Upfront Ventures and what a year it was.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

But in 2019, various policymakers across different parts of the continent signed the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Agreement — a framework for Africa to be a single market for trade and services — to make intra-trade less painful (side note: the agreement is yet to make any significant impact.).

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Earth Venture Capital (Earth VC), a global climate tech venture fund with Southeast Asia focus, led the recently concluded funding round that was also participated by KSL Maritime Ventures, the venture capital arm of The Kuok Maritime Group, and existing Ampotech investors like Silicon Solution Ventures and SEEDS Capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Further, if you don’t trust that VC to serve on your board then why would you take money from them in the first place? In 2019 market conditions often are such that founders retain control of the board through the A-round, usually in a 2–1 (common to investor) ratio but sometimes it’s 3–2 (common to investor). Not really.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 6, 2021

Most African startups’ bulk of VC money is from foreign investors, making it imperative for African startups to incorporate abroad, especially in the U.S. When Raise launched in 2019, it was in private beta and was backed by Binance Labs, the sole investor in its pre-seed round. The company is active in Nigeria and Kenya.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 31, 2023

Jeremy Loh, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Genesis Alternative Ventures highlighted a concerning trend of dwindling venture capital (VC) funding for Asian startups. He stated that VC funding experienced a substantial decline of 60% in Q3 2022 compared to the previous year’s corresponding period.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

When the company filed initial public offering paperwork back in February, it was coming off of an expensive year of growth in 2019. More from Alex Wilhelm : DoorDash has grown incredibly rapidly, scaling its revenues from $291 million in 2018 to $885 million in 2019. We’re torn on the round, but Danny likes it and he’s a former VC.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Its Series C was detailed in October of 2019 and was also worth a quarter billion dollars. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Read it every morning on Extra Crunch , or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday.

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