A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 9, 2024

USV TEAM POSTS: Jared Hecht — Jan 4, 2024 Joining Union Square Ventures Nikhil Raman — Jan 3, 2024 NFTs Have Evolved, NFTs Endure I want to congratulate Governor Hochul, the leaders of our academic institutions, and Tom Secunda, for their vision and initiative here. This is important.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 26, 2024

In January 2024, China saw the announcement of 251 venture capital (VC) funding deals, with a disclosed funding value of $2.6 billion, marking a decline of 8.4% in deal volume and 31.4% in funding value compared to the same period last year, according to GlobalData, a prominent data and analytics company.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 2, 2024

But even so, I still get a ton of daily traffic here at AVC.com and I have not posted anything new here since January 10, 2024. USV TEAM POSTS: Nick Grossman — May 2, 2024 Doubling Down on Onchain Publishing with Paragraph So a lot of the AVC readers have been getting emails of my posts at AVC.xyz this year.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 10, 2024

USV TEAM POSTS: Jared Hecht — Jan 4, 2024 Joining Union Square Ventures Nikhil Raman — Jan 3, 2024 NFTs Have Evolved, NFTs Endure If you know of a company or emerging innovator that would be a good fit for this year’s Transit Tech Lab, please let us know about them via email or encourage them to apply here: [link].

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Hunter Walk

JANUARY 3, 2024

Tom reflects on his ‘wins’ [Apple, Pandora, Snapchat] and his more sideways experiences [Pets.com, Quibi] in a way that actually brings emotion to a CV and produces some actionable ideas for people earlier in their careers.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 14, 2024

Investment Accelerates the Development of SaaS Solutions Suite Featuring API-based Pharmacy and Telehealth Products SAN FRANCISCO, CA – March 11, 2024 – Foundation Health, a pioneering healthcare technology company, today announced the closure of a $6 million seed funding round.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 30, 2023

The first launches of the Dorado rocket are slated for mid-2024. VC is a Singapore-based early-stage VC fund investing in technologies of the future and founders that create emergent industries with a global impact. Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet?

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

In response to Gartner’s prediction that 7 out of 10 apps released in 2024 will be developed by non-tech professionals, Skylink introduced its groundbreaking platform, WaveOn.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

The funding will go toward the second and third of the planned missions, scheduled for 2023 and 2024. The Series C was led by Japanese VC firm Incubate Fund, with additional investment from partnerships managed by Innovation Engine, funds managed by SBI Investment Co.,

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

According to CrunchBase, Rigetti has raised just under $200 million in VC capital since it was founded in 2013. In addition to the financial news, Rigetti also published an updated roadmap, that projects the company will produce 1,000-qubit machines in 2024 and 4,000-qubit ones by 2026. Currently, its systems scale to 80 qubits.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2023

million in pre-seed funding led by M25 with participation from investors, including Hustle Fund, Pillar VC and The Community Fund. The new funding, closed last month, will help the 14-employee company expand outside Chicago, beginning in 2024, said Bell, who was mum on the next locations. Now Entrée itself is announcing $2.5

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2023

In a galaxy far, far away : If you’re a Star Wars fan, Disney+ will debut a new series called “The Acolyte” in 2024. Startups and VC Everyone needs some good competition to get the creativity flowing. Last year, VCs flowed approximately $6 billion to resale platforms, writes Brian Schwarzbach, an investor with Cathay Innovation.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

The money came from its recent funding round led Better Bite Ventures and participated by Ahimsa VC, PeerCapital, Spectrum Impact, Rohit Gulati (Managing Director and Partner at Boston Consulting Group), Sandhya Sriram (Chief Executive Officer, Shiok Meats), among others. Dairy has a huge environmental cost.

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American Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Early stage climate tech VC firm Anthropocene Ventures also joins Kind Designs’ seed round. Rapidly growing climate and construction tech startup Kind Designs gained the support of entrepreneur Mark Cuban and VC firm Anthropocene Ventures for its $5 million seed round.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

The round was co-led by Eni Next, the corporate VC arm of Italian energy giant Eni; along with Neva SGR, the VC company owned by European banking group Intesa Sanpaolo. “The investment will also support Energy Dome’s business expansion in the U.S.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Data reveals Women Entrepreneurs Gaining Ground On the startup side, according to the 2024 Wells Fargo Impact of Women -Owned Business Report, between 2019 and 2023 women-owned businesses grew at nearly double the rate of those owned by men which was exceeded during 2022 to 2023, reaching 4.5

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2024

With the overall amount of VC funding raised in Africa dipping significantly across the year, according […] © 2023 TechCrunch. Venture capital was hard to bag (as predicted earlier), bridge and down rounds became the norm, and news of fire sales, layoffs and startup closures reverberated across the continent. All rights reserved.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Though Ramesh declined to disclose the valuation of the deal, he did say that as combined online grocery platforms, it would accelerate Misfits Market toward $1 billion in sales and reach profitability in early 2024, something that would not necessarily be possible as two separate companies. billion industry by 2024, up from $95.8

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

Startups and VC. And Valkyrie looks to raise $30 million for its new crypto VC arm , Anita writes. This may have it going mission-to-mission with Relativity and Impulse, which are planning to launch a rover to Mars in 2024. This is part of YouTube’s rollout of new shopping features.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 29, 2022

billion and majority owned by Walmart, doesn’t plan to list until at least 2024, according to a person familiar with the matter. Oyo, which planned to list in January next year, is unlikely to move forward with that plan, according to two people familiar with the matter. Flipkart, valued at $37.6

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

million seed round led by Singaporean VC firm TNB Aura, with participation from AgFunder, Trihill Capital and B.I.G. Its target is to work with more than 50,000 farmers by the end of 2024. Eratani is an end-to-end management system that helps them get financing and supplies, and then helps them sell crops once they are ready.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 28, 2024

X 2022 24.9% - 2023 46.2% - 2024 55.4% - The relatively constant drumbeat of smaller acquisitions provides liquidity essential for the venture capital ecosystem, both for venture capital firms to recycle and reinvest and also for founders to generate significant outcomes and potentially try again. X 2015 20.1% - 2016 43.0% X 2021 43.8%

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Holidays, cheer, and daydreaming about what shenanigans we’ll get ourselves into in 2024. Yes, 2024, because clearly we’re just going to skip past all of 2023. Startups and VC. PDT, subscribe here. There is officially only 8.3% left of the year. You know what that means! We’re pretty excited for 2025 already, tbh.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

Startups and VC At first glance, Boston Dynamics is a strange fit for a show like ProMat, Brian writes. Looking for “the perfect vehicle for chaos?” : Then look no further than the 2024 GMC Hummer EV SUV. An excuse not to go to the mall : DoorDash users can now order from Lush Cosmetics, Victoria’s Secret and Party City.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

Startups and VC. Chevy unveiled its fastest Corvette yet, the electrified 2024 Corvette E-Ray. The headline says it all : We couldn’t help but steal from the TC+ section because Tim ’s headline is just so good: “Nest co-founder Matt Rogers’ new startup is trash.” We won’t ruin it any more for you. Matt has more.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Startups and VC. Apart from the world of crypto, it was a good day for new funds — Christine reports that New Fare Partners is the latest female-led VC to close first fund , and Catherine has a story today about Iterative launching its second fund targeting Southeast Asia–based startups. It’s electric! Jaclyn has more.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

.” Laying the groundwork for growth, Manta today announced that it raised $35 million in Series B funding led by Forestay Capital with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners, SAP.io, Senovo VC, Credo Ventures, Dan Fougere, and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. billion by 2024. ” Kratky said.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

trillion by 2024. ” Starling Bank founder Anne Boden says new book ‘isn’t a memoir’ Pandemic’s impact disproportionately reduced VC funding for female founders. ” Pandemic’s impact disproportionately reduced VC funding for female founders. 4 takeaways from fintech VC in Q3 2020.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2022

According to Gartner, organizations running cloud infrastructure services will suffer a minimum of 2,300 violations of least privilege policies — i.e. when a user is given privileges above what they need to do their job — per account each year by 2024. Meanwhile, the average global cost of a data breach reached a record $4.24

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Hunter Walk

JANUARY 28, 2024

Here’s what I predicted in Allocate’s 2024 Outlook Last week Pitchbook asked me (and others) for background on how a VC actually gets fired (or more often ‘transitioned’) Darwin moves slowly in venture, but these investor changes can be very disruptive to the founders who were backed by the exiting partner.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Matt reports that the electric Ram 1500 REV is packed with screens and, surprisingly, buttons and knobs, but sadly won’t be available until 2024. The strategic move comes as the company forms two business units in an effort to do just that.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 23, 2024

Alex Immerman: If 2023 was the year of efficiency, 2024 is the year of generative AI. No VC, no employer, nobody wants to think about firing, but if it enters your mind, you probably should do it. Here’s an edited excerpt from their conversation. And then that’s a good conversation, and that kind of becomes their onboarding.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2022

New Zealand-based VC firms GD1 (Global From Day One) and Nuance Connected Capital led the round, with additional participation from Shasta Ventures, NZGCP, K1W1, Austrian billionaire Wolfgang Leitner, Alt Ventures, Enterprise Angels, Arkisys and NZVC. “We The technology caught the interest of investors, who recently contributed to a NZ$10.5

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

“Insurtech startups that do not offer embedded insurance, and rather provide other innovative solutions will still attract VC funding this year, especially if they can show cost-efficient and sustainable growth,” said Nina Mayer, a principal at Earlybird.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Promus Ventures , a VC firm based in Chicago, closed a €120 million ($139 million) space fund, dubbed Orbital Ventures. ispace scored a new investment from Airbus Ventures, part of a Series C extension that brings the company’s total raise to around $200 million (ispace has three lunar lander missions planned through 2024).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2023

A recent spike of interest in crypto is rebuilding momentum, and many think that next year could be promising for crypto startups’ valuations. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The round, which is a combination of equity and debt financing, lists investors from the Middle East, including DisruptAD and (the VC arm of ADQ, an Abu Dhabi-based sovereign wealth fund), and SHUAA (a major UAE asset management and investment banking firm).

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