A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Our family has invested in rooftop solar over the last five years in an attempt to reduce our carbon footprint and reduce our electric bills. Had we taken a 30 year self amortizing home equity loan to finance the solar installation, we would be paying $1900 a year in principal and interest payments at current home equity rates.

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 11, 2021

YC is hiring across many of our teams, including Admissions, Continuity, Software, People Ops and Finance. Data Engineer : YC Continuity is hiring our first Data Engineer to help us identify promising investment opportunities using data. Find out more about the open roles here. ADMISSIONS. Learn more. Learn more. Learn more.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 18, 2023

This is the launch of a second MM Catalyst Fund (MMCF) that will focus on investing in Black-led startups as well as overlooked businesses across Massachusetts. The inaugural MM Catalyst Fund launched in 2021 invested in 16 businesses across Massachusetts that included Black-led growth companies and rural startups. economy.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

Let’s look at six reasons to invest in tech startups that hail from Ukraine. For example, in the first half of 2021, the 50 largest Ukrainian IT companies grew their headcounts by 10,000 professionals. The country also has a strong educational infrastructure for the study of tech, mathematics, finance and economics.

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StartupNation

AUGUST 2, 2021

On today’s Business Beat, Jeff discusses venture capital investment, which was at a record high throughout the first half of 2021 and is experiencing greater gains through all stages in North America, according to Crunchbase. That’s topped only by March 2021, which saw more than $54 billion in venture capital investment.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Unique about the program, according to Better.com, is that employees will have the ability to finance their homes without actually selling their shares, only needing to pledge vested equity. Current and ex-workers can also use the mortgage tool for secondary vacation homes or investment properties. There is a catch, however.

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StartupNation

APRIL 20, 2021

But as businesses grow, it’s sometimes necessary to obtain outside financing. In some cases, a startup or small business won’t qualify for traditional financing options. For instance, traditional lenders don’t normally offer short-term, flexible financing. What is alternative financing?

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 26, 2023

Investments made by individual angels and angel groups continued to “fuel the tank” for entrepreneurs and kept investment pipelines flowing for venture capitalists. ACA’s angel groups made more investments in more companies despite the pandemic –continuing to risk personal capital to jumpstart businesses and ignite economies.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

All these inefficiencies, asides from being time-consuming, lead to errors and affects cash flow and finance, which is why almost nine out of 10 small businesses in the country fizzle out in the first five years. The startup’s new financing round was led by Berlin-based VC Target Global. million in pre-seed funding.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Naked , a South African insurtech company that helps consumers to insure their cars, homes, and valuables, has raised $17 million in Series B funding led by the International Finance Corporation (IFC). The round welcomed participation from the German Development Finance Institution (DEG), and earlier investors, Yellowwoods and Hollard.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

Bijan Moallemi, Joe Garafalo and Brian Campbell started San Diego-based Mosaic in 2019 after meeting at Palantir Technologies, where they worked on building out that company’s finance organization to 2,500 people and over $750 million in revenue. We are trying to create a Strategic Finance category. It declined to reveal its valuation.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

What’s more, about 75% of the investments in that period happened in the last two years alone. That started to change toward the end of 2020 — several quarters in the last two years have seen more than $2 billion invested, and a couple have had more than $3 billion. The number of deals has ticked up, too, nearly doubling in 2021.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2021

Many Southeast Asian digital businesses run into obstacles when seeking early-stage growth financing. That’s where Singapore-based Jenfi comes in, providing revenue-based financing of up to $500,000 with flexible repayment plans that co-founder and chief executive officer Jeffrey Liu refers to as “growth capital as a product.” .

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2022

million in equity and $25 million in debt financing. Fasanara Capital led the investment and was joined by Kube Ventures, ODX, Toehold Ventures, Wharton Fintech, Lightspeed Venture Partners Scout Fund, PRMM Inmobiliaria and a group of angel investors. million in a pre-seed round of equity and debt. The funding round was a mix of $1.5

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

The brothers had dreams of finding their own financial freedom through investing in real estate, but didn’t have enough individual capital to go into business alone. “On It also offers tools including a business ledger for groups to track their investment performance. . The Tribevest dashboard Image Credits: Tribevest.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

NJ Entrepreneur Support Program provides guarantees to support investments into Garden State companies TRENTON, N.J. Qualified investors under the program must be independent from the company, and the proposed investment must not mature for at least one year, cannot require payment for at least a year, and must be unsecured.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

There are many reasons for that, such as private equity and crossover investors investing earlier, or the fact that LPs in VC funds are affected by public market swings and could, theoretically, hit some VC firms to feel the pinch. Maybe it will be 2019, or 2020 — or even 2021. I am expecting a downturn at some point.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

With global corporate-venture-capital-backed (CVC) funding reaching $79 billion across 2,099 deals in the first half of 2021, according to CB Insights , the chances are high that startups will find great opportunities with this growing investor set. The arbiters of investment.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2022

Equally notable: One-third of all unicorns created in 2021 were fintech companies. billion in venture funding in 2021. As a firm that has been investing in the space for a while, what differences in the landscape have you seen since this time last year? Jay Ganatra , co-founder and managing partner, Infinity Ventures.

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TechCrunch

JULY 31, 2022

A few examples… When asked in February what differences in the landscape he saw in 2021 and if deals were much more competitive, Accel partner Ethan Choi responded: “On the investing side, deals were definitely more competitive and valuations certainly reflect that, even despite a correction in public fintech comps.”.

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

To help simplify your efforts, we’ve put together a list of the top 2021 marketing trends to help grow your small business. And, in 2021, knowing how to strategically optimize your own PPC helps to generate new leads in an era where digital is key. Invest in local marketing. Upgrade your marketing with small business financing.

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TechCrunch

JULY 18, 2022

Investing in private markets has long been reserved for the ultra-rich. Miller’s strategy of using tech to drive down the costs associated with real estate investing seems to have paid off despite the initial pushback. Fundrise manages over $2.8

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

We named this summit after a report we wrote with Pitchbook at the end of 2021 to explore the impact of the pandemic on investment patterns. To make it easier to toggle between the three, there needs to be significant policy, financing, and physical transformation. There are untold impacts of climate change many of us don’t see.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

At NEA, where she was a partner for eight years, she led investments in and sat on the boards of companies including Desktop Metal, Onshape, Framebridge, Tulip, Formlabs and Guideline. It should come as no surprise, then, that we’re absolutely thrilled to have Grayson join us at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 in September.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Moving through 2021, however, we’ve seen increasing signs of optimism. Small business owners should seize this opportunity to acquire new customers and engage lapsed customers. 2021 is all about establishing new relationships and routines that were disrupted in 2020. By Megan Wintersteen, Vice President of Marketing at Zenreach.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

It highlights important events in the continent’s tech ecosystem until this point, compares its journey with other emerging markets and provides guidance into the opportunities within various sectors. And though they are inclined to follow the money, Endeavor wants them to look beyond usual market opportunities and map out exit pathways.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 30, 2023

Register Joseph Lee has a strong track record in the finance industry throughout his career to date. Together with the rest of the Kairous investment team, the firm has collected more than 80 years of investment experience within the private equity and venture capital space across Greater China and the Southeast Asia (SEA) region.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

— was busy partying while the rest of startup land was buckling under a falling stock market, limited exit opportunities, and a dramatic repricing of the value of software revenues. billion in total investment during Q1 2022, an all-time high that bested the prior record (Q4 2021) by around $400 million.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

Peanut , the maker of a social networking app for women, is entering into the investing space with today’s launch of a microfund called StartHER. “The assumption that founders should have networks able to invest in their businesses creates an unfair starting line for most groups.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

we take for granted the ability to invest and trade in the stock market. For Mexico City-born Sergio Jiménez Amozurrutia, the fact that in his country of more than 120 million people, only a tiny fraction of the population have the ability to invest in the capital markets just didn’t seem right. Here in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

MAY 27, 2021

Wayflyer , a revenue-based financing platform for e-commerce merchants, has raised $76 million in a Series A funding round led by Left Lane Capital. In a nutshell, Wayflyer uses analytics and sends merchants cash to make inventory purchases or investments in their business. Where is the e-commerce app ecosystem headed in 2021?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The financing was “heavily oversubscribed,” according to the company, which has now raised $28 million since its October 2018 inception. It was there that the pair recognized the opportunity for an infrastructure service that would help any company provide financial products for their customers.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

He will focus on Africa investments as part of QED’s international team. This period — particularly throughout 2021, during which five unicorns were minted — saw an explosion in venture capital like never before as seasoned founders emerged with willing local and international VCs to back them.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

Mexican revenue-based investment startup Fairplay secured $35 million in Series A funding to invest in the online marketing campaigns of direct-to-consumer e-commerce brands and marketplace sellers in Latin America. Those who do invest in marketing usually put a majority of their spend into channels like Google or Facebook, he added.

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Impact Hub

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Between 2021 and 2022, DDA II is being delivered across four key markets; Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana and Rwanda. Meet some of the outstanding African entrepreneurs addressing challenges in sectors ranging from finance to healthcare to education and keep an eye out for the program’s Dealbook, where the full cohort will be featured.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

With this in mind, Aptiv might have a more long-term reason to invest strategically in a scalable system architecture that functions under the hood of autonomous vehicles.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

However, it appears that even though VCs are proceeding more cautiously than before and taking their time with due diligence, they are still investing. In both cases, about 25% of their overall investments went into fintech startups. Gone are the days of investing on a whim. And, while global fintech funding slid by 46% to $75.2

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