A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 13, 2021

USV TEAM POSTS: Albert Wenger — Jan 8, 2021 SilviaTerra. But I believe it will unleash all sorts of new behaviors and businesses that will be for the better. If you squint, you can see them coming.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

Adetola Onayemi was part of the negotiation team that saw the agreement take effect in January 2021. Trade has the least startup activity in a market that received $5 billion in VC funding last year. ” Onayemi launched Norebase with Tope Obanla in September 2021.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

billion in the first half of 2021 — a fourfold increase from the previous year. 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. Funding for Black entrepreneurs in the U.S. hit nearly $1.8

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

In fact, even some of the excesses of 2021 were eclipsed when the number of investments on the continent rose higher in 2022 than they had a year earlier, boosted by early-stage firms flocking to fund startups in the wake of landmark exits of homegrown companies like Jumia and Paystack. For global venture capital, 2021 was an outlier.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

Brett Calhoun Contributor Share on Twitter Brett Calhoun is the managing director and general partner at Redbud VC. Amid these turbulent times, the VC accelerator industry has emerged as a stalwart player. growth from 2020 to 2021. At the dawn of 2022, there were 2,900 active VC firms, marking a 225% increase since 2008.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

In 2020, VC investments totaled NZD $127.2 billion, from Q1 2020 to Q4 2021. 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 Technology startups are the pinnacle of that strategy.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2021

As we entered 2021, I wrote about the big question on every startup’s mind for 2021: How will a cataclysmic event such as a pandemic show up in post-pandemic innovation? Now, for one last time in 2021, let’s jump into the rest of this newsletter. TechCrunch Gift Guide 2021. The ‘art’ of VC startup valuations is a forgery.

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Jason Malki

AUGUST 2, 2023

I first joined Azibo in 2021 as COO, and now I lead the company as CEO. And once you get on the VC treadmill it’s really hard to get off. That’s not to say that VC can’t be great. Many amazing businesses wouldn’t have been built without VC, including Azibo. Azibo is the result. And that comes with a lot of pressure.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

When I started emPawa Africa, I wanted to experiment with the VC model by investing in many artists,” said the artist who recently completed a program at Harvard Business School. . According to him, powering artists and people in the creative space should be done in a startup/VC manner. Go team @Yoco_ZA go [link].

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Michigan is now the state with the highest growth in VC investment. In late 2021 RoboTire raised $7.5 Top Detroit startup Guardhat raised nearly $42 million in funding in early 2021 to create innovative safety solutions for industrial IoT. Now many Detroit startups are on the fast track to growth. InvestNext.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

raised approximately $7 billion in 2021 , up 59% year over year. Female-founded venture firms have shown strong support for female-founded startups accounting for 28% of their deal counts from 2016 to October 2021 in startups with at least one female founder. In addition, Crunchbase reports that w omen-founded venture firms in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Ukraine’s startup ecosystem was thriving before the war and making great progress, with Ukrainian startups raising $832 Million in VC funding in 2021. VC Funding was steadily growing before the war and there are more than 50 VC firms continuing to operating in the country. Secured seed finding from SMRK VC.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2022

African startups raised between $4 billion to $5 billion in 2021, according to various reports. MaC Venture Capital led the round while VC firms Luminate, Unicorn Group, Future Africa, and several angel investors participated. BCM was founded by Seyi Taylor and Bankole Oluwafemi in 2013. Digital media in Africa is years behind the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2023

In 2017, Stone publicly announced he was returning to Twitter to lead strategic vision, brand, and culture, where he remained until 2021. ” Founded in 2021, Stockholm-based Chroma last year raised $5.4 For Stone, that led to the creation of Jelly, a Q&A app and search engine that was later sold to Pinterest.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

In 2020, healthtech startups across the continent raised less than $100 million , but that number increased to $370 million last year, according to reports on the African VC landscape. African tech took center stage in 2021. mPharma raises $35 million in round joined by Tinder co-founder’s JAM fund, Bharti executive.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 28, 2023

“Founders should also evaluate which VC is able to add-value to their growth, rather than just focusing on the amount of money the investor has to offer,” Lou told AsiaTechDaily. I also had the opportunity to learn firsthand how VC firms put together an investment fund and understood the type of LPs coming together to form a fund.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

A combination of university talent pipelines, top-rated quality of life, growing startup ecosystem, and growing VC funding has Tree Town topping lists as one of the best places to start a tech company or find a top tech job. EverActive has won multiple awards, including a recent 2021 IDEA Innovation Award. Apply now to DocNetwork.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 31, 2023

US VC investment falls from $275b in 2022 to $200b in 2023 & sustains at about $200-220b in 2024 as LP interest in venture attenuates after the euphoria in 2020 & 2021. Record inflows into tokens fuel all-time highs in Bitcoin, Solana, & higher performance L1s who offer better price/performance to market.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

According to one source , VC investments in drone companies reached $7 billion in 2021 across 199 deals, up from $2.4 .” Drones might no longer be the buzzword of the moment, but investors continue to shower specialized drone ventures — like those with analytics components — with capital. billion in 2022.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2023

This is especially newsworthy considering that Stripe last raised at a $95 billion valuation in March of 2021. Ken Smythe, founder and CEO of Next Round Capital Partners — a capital markets and VC secondaries firm — validated our impressions. from $57 million in ARR achieved at the end of 2021. That’s up 417.5% Sandbar gets $4.8

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2021

It recently completed its fourth VC round that values it at a whopping $6 billion , triple the price it fetched a year earlier, and it has so far raised at least half a billion dollars. trillion in 2021, more than triple that of the No. The company aims to reach $1.2 billion this year. 2, the U.S. Image Credits: VCG.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Over the years, mobile and internet penetration and smartphone access have increased; according to GSMA Intelligence’s report, mobile phone subscribers accounted for 46% of Sub-Saharan Africa’s population, while smartphone adoption was 64% in 2021. We’re not only looking at VCs but development finance institutions and telcos.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

DECEMBER 15, 2020

In the most recent Pitchbook 2021 predictions , they project that Silicon Valley will make up less than 20% of all VC deals in 2021. If there is one megachange in VC from the pandemic (there may be many), I think it is the comfort with making investments over video without the founder or the VC traveling to meet each other.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2022

All of 2021, we spoke about the power pendulum shifting toward employees, spearheaded by the Great Resignation. Every LinkedIn "influence," VC, and "career coach" seems to be on the RTO train. How to respond when a VC asks about your startup’s valuation. — Miquel Plana (@mikeladion) December 9, 2022.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

I remember about fifteen years ago, a well-known VC said to me “you need to sell a company within a few years of the founder leaving. ” I told that VC that my experience has been different on that measure and that I did not agree. Companies can’t sustain their innovation after a founder leaves.”

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

APRIL 21, 2021

A well-known entrepreneur turned VC, who will go unnamed because I am not sure he would want me to share this conversation publicly, once told me “if you remove a founder, you must sell the company within a couple of years or it will start to decline in value.” It has to come from the top.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

Although many VCs seem to be new to quantum technologies, some investors foresaw this movement several years ago and are now making their first quantum exits. The company was founded in 2015, and it went public in 2021 through a SPAC at a $2 billion valuation. Quantum startups map, as of October 2021. Take IonQ, a U.S.-based

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 1, 2023

This has already started to happen but because so much capital was raised in 2021 and the early part of 2022, it has taken longer for these companies to fail. Many leading VC firms have dedicated climate funds now and we see huge amounts of capital available for climate startups with strong teams and novel approaches.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

APRIL 13, 2021

” So began a five year investment partnership between Flatiron Partners (our VC firm) and Susan’s Latin American private equity business. USV TEAM POSTS: Albert Wenger — Apr 9, 2021 Mask Mandates Were Effective. I told her that there must be but I wouldn’t know how to find them.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 23, 2023

fredwilson @cameron @tyler @BarrySilbert @Winter #Bitcoin pic.twitter.com/LGtDYef7U7 — Mr.Buidl (@MrBUIDL) May 21, 2021 I was reminded of that moment yesterday when, in our quarterly call with our Limited Partners at USV, we were asked if the regulatory pressure on web3 in the US would result in us cutting back our web3 investing.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JUNE 1, 2021

USV TEAM POSTS: John Buttrick — May 26, 2021 ADDI. We won’t know how this move to invest globally will impact returns and founder success. I am optimistic that it will be a positive change for both but only time will tell.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 14, 2023

Kaya Founders, established in 2021, brings together a team of entrepreneurs and investors, including Paulo Campos, Lisa Gokongwei-Cheng, and Constantin Robertz. The post Philippine VC Firm Kaya Founders Raises $12M to Support Southeast Asian Startups first appeared on AsiaTechDaily - Asia's Leading Tech and Startup Media Platform.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 17, 2021

USV TEAM POSTS: Hanel Baveja — Aug 16, 2021 Measurement in Market Making Nick Grossman — Aug 12, 2021 Dune Analytics. I am sure that Hanel has already heard from a bunch of founders working on measuring carbon and will hear from more in the coming weeks and months. That’s excellent and how it should work in our view.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 18, 2021

USV TEAM POSTS: Albert Wenger — Jan 8, 2021 SilviaTerra. Until we can look around the room and see at least one Black person for every six in the meeting, we haven’t done enough. Today is a good day to remind ourselves of that and recommit to the work that needs to happen.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MARCH 30, 2021

USV TEAM POSTS: Albert Wenger — Mar 22, 2021 Preparing Communities for the Climate Crisis Nick Grossman — Mar 20, 2021 Bitcoin as Battery. It is rare in the crypto sector to find a team that has successfully launched a blockchain, a wallet, and a number of popular applications.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

Early data indicates that Africa is set to trounce historical records in terms of venture capital raised in the year and that the first half of 2021 saw roughly twice the funds raised by African startups as was recorded in the first half of 2020. A 2021 comeback. billion H1 2021 total for deals above $1 million, and $1.19

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TechCrunch

MAY 1, 2021

Marketing in 2021 is emotional and not just transactional (2,200 words/9 minutes). 64% of VC firms still don’t have a single female partner. Black + Latinx female founders receive only 0.64% of VC funding, a slight uptick from the year prior. Announcing the Agenda for TC Sessions: Mobility 2021. Around TechCrunch.

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