A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 7, 2021

USV TEAM POSTS: John Buttrick — May 4, 2021 alt.bank David Gabeau — Apr 29, 2021 Tokenized Natural Assets Samson Mesele — Apr 28, 2021 Joining Union Square Ventures. I backed the project this morning and I hope and expect she will do great with this Kickstarter project.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Since first investing in Oklahoma startups in 1999, i2E, and now its independent Venture Capital Fund management partner, Plains Ventures, have managed numerous early-stage debt and equity investment funds, making 452 investments in more than 250 companies. billion at its IPO in April 2021.The Novazyme Pharmaceuticals Inc.

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Revolution

MARCH 26, 2025

We believe great companies can start and scale anywhere, aided by the fact that startups in emerging venture communities are often more capital efficient, offer a lower cost of doing business, and attract talent looking for a better quality oflife. I have more like them, but not nearlyenough.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 27, 2024

Women-founded startups show measurable positive results compared to those of men Alumni Ventures (AV), the most active venture firm in the U.S. Serving as America’s largest venture firm for individual investors, AV’s dedicated fund will now make investments in companies founded by highly accomplished women entrepreneurs.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

At our mid-year offsite our partnership at Upfront Ventures was discussing what the future of venture capital and the startup ecosystem looked like. Should SaaS companies trade at a 24x Enterprise Value (EV) to Next Twelve Month (NTM) Revenue multiple as they did in November 2021? By 2021 we had to write a $3.5m

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

But progress is being made as seen in the rising number of women-led venture funds that focus on funding women entrepreneurs. In addition, Crunchbase reports that w omen-founded venture firms in the U.S. raised approximately $7 billion in 2021 , up 59% year over year. billion of total venture capital.

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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

APRIL 20, 2023

As the technology industry retrenches and venture capital firms tighten their standards, savvy founders should consider this counterintuitive question: Even if my vision is compelling enough to secure funding, should I take it? Would it have been better for many of them to have not taken excessive levels of venture capital in the first place?

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Strategic investment fund BankTech Ventures invests in companies that are developing innovative technologies that enhance the ability of community banks to serve their customers. When Bank Tech tapped Carey Ransom as its first Managing Director, the firm valued his extensive 25-year career in software and venture capital.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 15, 2023

Register Singapore-based Decentralized Gaming Ventures, a venture builder in the web3 gaming space, has secured a substantial seven-figure investment round. Hashed, a prominent Korean venture fund, is the primary contributor to this funding. Over the past year, Venture Builder has supported releasing 15 games in the market.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 18, 2021

In early June, I wrote this post explaining that I and we need to do more to reduce the inequality issues for Black people in tech, venture capital, and startups. USV TEAM POSTS: Albert Wenger — Jan 8, 2021 SilviaTerra. I think MLK day is a good time to talk about what has happened since that post.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 5, 2021

Half of all venture funds outperform the stock market which is the benchmark most institutions measure VC funds against. USV TEAM POSTS: John Buttrick — May 4, 2021 alt.bank David Gabeau — Apr 29, 2021 Tokenized Natural Assets Samson Mesele — Apr 28, 2021 Joining Union Square Ventures.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 18, 2023

30 Investments to date in the areas of AI, autonomy, cybersecurity and space Shield Capital was launched in 2021 by the Managing Partners Philip Bilden and Raj Shah, both of whom have deep experience in technology and investing, driving their passion to support founders of frontier technologies.

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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. Consequently, the Bay Area experienced a surge, capturing over one-third of all early-stage venture funding in the U.S., marking its highest level since 2017. Seed- and Early-Stage U.S,

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 16, 2023

In The Figures that Will Move the Venture Capital Market in the Next 3-5 Years , I wrote about the correlation between interest rates & venture capital investing. The correlation is strong enough to build a simple prediction of early stage venture capital activity in 2023. correlation to -0.51. for only 2 variables.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

But there’s one question that many startups and investors are hoping will get answered sooner rather than later: What happens to venture debt? SVB was one of the larger, if not the largest, providers of venture debt to U.S.-based “Venture debt has its advantages, more so than ever before,” Bakalar said.

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Source Link

OCTOBER 26, 2021

According to the Microenterprise Collaborative of Inland Southern California’s 2021 Impact Report , over 90% of all businesses in the area are “microbusinesses (less than five employees). 83% of entrepreneurs have no access to bank loans or venture capital at the time of startup , according to research done by the Kauffman Foundation.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 21, 2025

F lourish Ventures , a global FinTech investor known for backing major players like Chime and FlutterWave, led the round, while new investors include Saudi Arabia’s Vision Ventures, Arab Bank Venture Capital, and Emurgo Kepple Ventures. With its just closed $5.2

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JANUARY 23, 2024

Innovating AI research and advancing entrepreneurship skills in Colombia By Jewelle Saunders “What motivates me in everything that I do is the movement that comes with curiosity,” says Jonathan Puerta Pereira , a 2021 YLAI Fellow. on Innovation & Technology Policy with a focus on artificial intelligence.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Register Singapore-based investment firm Foresight Ventures has successfully acquired an 80% majority stake in crypto media company The Block for $60 million. The acquisition by Foresight Ventures comes nearly a year after FTX and Alameda Research faced a downturn.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

APRIL 29, 2021

USV TEAM POSTS: David Gabeau — Apr 29, 2021 Tokenized Natural Assets Samson Mesele — Apr 28, 2021 Joining Union Square Ventures Hanel Baveja — Apr 20, 2021 Hacking Healthcare. I am excited to do that and believe my dad would be too.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The silver lining to the horrors wrought by Covid is that the pandemic opened the venture capital community’s eyes to the world of opportunity beyond the traditional tech startup hubs of California, New York, and Massachusetts. And that mass of talent, in turn, continued to build in Utah.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

million in a funding round led by Battery Ventures. While the startup declined to share its valuation, COO and co-founder Aaron Letzeiser said Obie “was able to achieve a significant increase in valuation” from its 2021 Series A round. led by Battery Ventures by Mary Ann Azevedo originally published on TechCrunch

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 1, 2021

percent by February 2021. When a dismal job market upended my hopes of becoming a high school English teacher, I ventured into the food and wine industry in my home state of Colorado: I began waiting tables at a restaurant called The Med. From hospitality to CEO.

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Our team evaluates each potential investment opportunity through lenses familiar to many of our venture peers: market, product, team, and traction. The report also recaps our 2021 investment highlights and shares our thinking on the trends that will continue to drive our strategy in 2022.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

APRIL 1, 2021

Most venture capital funds have a “recycling” provision that allows them to sell some percentage of their investments and reinvest those funds back into new investments instead of distributing that capital to their limited partners. Most venture capital funds have investments where you get your money back or a bit more.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 14, 2021

Camilo Salinas of Colombia, founder of Residia , was awarded the 2021 GSEA third-place prize of US$5,000. But then I came across the video game Minecraft where, from nothing more than my tenacious passion, I built my first venture: a Minecraft community that I converted into a business. literally building things!

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 4, 2021

USV TEAM POSTS: David Gabeau — Apr 29, 2021 Tokenized Natural Assets Samson Mesele — Apr 28, 2021 Joining Union Square Ventures. If you want to be inspired and encouraged, pick up The New Builders give it a read.

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Source Link

JANUARY 29, 2022

This year in particular, many of these searches are coming from the millions of Americans who quit their jobs in 2021. The conversation introduced a new framework for inclusive community development that incorporates cultural understanding, talent development and new venture creation.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 30, 2025

billionmore than double its 2021 Series B figure of $1.6 This unified platform approach is especially valuable for Mercurys core users: fast-moving startups, e-commerce brands, venture capital firms, and small businesses that need scalable financial infrastructure without enterprise-level complexity.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 2, 2022

Seven venture capital firms participated in the latest round: DS Asset Management, Industrial Bank of Korea, Hanwha Investment & Securities, S&S Investment, Toss investment, Korea Asset Investment & Securities and Venture Field. AIMMO posted $10 million of revenue in 2021, according to its IR pitch deck.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

So when I tell you what I’m seeing in venture financing these days if you disagree with me, it might just be that we’re touching different parts of the elephant. Looking back now, it makes sense – VC firms have lots of dry powder, and while they may have slowed down relative to 2021, they’re still making investments.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

The company was founded in 2015, and it went public in 2021 through a SPAC at a $2 billion valuation. More importantly, these IPOs show venture capitalists could make money from the quantum industry without significant commercialization of the technology. Quantum startups map, as of October 2021. Take IonQ, a U.S.-based

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Ever the adventurer, Lennert soon left Toronto’s advertising scene, at which point his new venture really took off. The venture quickly scaled beyond its initial vision. Maintaining Balance Sadly, Lennert lost Lucas Murnaghan to cancer in 2021. I just feel so honoured and humbled to have my story documented,” Lennert reflected.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Instead of late-stage opportunities, they’ll be focusing on early-stage venture in 2022. Hedge funds’s big chip stacks have become a market force in venture during the last three years. PitchBook surmises non-traditional VC (aka hot money) comprises 78% of venture dollars invested in 2021. But by how much?

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Revolution

JANUARY 19, 2021

2021: The Great Acceleration of the Rise of the Rest & the End of “Silicon X Syndrome.” But from the back half of 2020 into 2021, we are bearing witness to accelerated adoption and transformational change in industry after industry. Part I) Cities are Like Startups Cities are like startups.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

DECEMBER 10, 2021

USV TEAM POSTS: Mona Alsubaei — Dec 6, 2021 Joining Union Square Ventures. Getting it broadly available in schools is hard work and requires commitment and persistence and a massive investment of time and money. But it is all worth it. Seeing the kids get excited about coding brings a big smile to my face every time.

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