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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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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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. The post Phyx44 raises $1.2

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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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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. And Happy Birthday Matt!

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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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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

billion by 2024. The seed round was led by Pan-African focused VC 4DX Ventures. It also included participation from Raed Ventures, Beco Capital, Breyer Capital and some private investors, including Magnus Olsson, co-founder of Careem. With over 1.25 Today, it is announcing that it has secured $6.4

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Rowe Price, Bessemer Venture Partners, Franklin Templeton and In-Q-Tel. According to CrunchBase, Rigetti has raised just under $200 million in VC capital since it was founded in 2013. .” The transaction values Rigetti at about $1.5 Supernova’s Michael Clifton will join the Rigetti board after the transaction closes.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2023

And there are lots of venture-backed players. 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.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 29, 2022

In 2014, Prayank Swaroop made a pitch to the storied venture firm Accel, where he worked as an associate, about future marketplaces in India. billion and majority owned by Walmart, doesn’t plan to list until at least 2024, according to a person familiar with the matter. Swaroop’s presentation from 2014. Image credits: Accel).

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 4, 2024

The head VC guy seems a little bit… weird. Early-stage VCs and investors have one objective, finding hero startups in the sea of zero ones, the ones that will eventually turn into a zero-dollar valuation sooner or later. A great VC will identify the teams that are capable of creating a hero in the future, and bet on them.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

Startups and VC. AM Ventures raised $100 million for industrial 3D printing , writes Haje. AM Ventures raised $100 million for industrial 3D printing , writes Haje. And Valkyrie looks to raise $30 million for its new crypto VC arm , Anita writes. It’s a question worth asking, as Instacart takes a serious haircut.

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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. Existing investors also participated, including Barclays’ Sustainable Impact Capital, CDP Venture Capital, Invitalia, Novum Capital Partners and 360 Capital.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2024

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. With the overall amount of VC funding raised in Africa dipping significantly across the year, according […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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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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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

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. But investors are being careful to not put all their eggs in one basket.

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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. Anja Rath, managing partner, PropTech1 Ventures. PDT, subscribe here. There is officially only 8.3% left of the year. You know what that means!

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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.

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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

In the last decade, the total number of venture backed software M&A by count has remained relatively constant. The black line shows the linear trend across US venture backed companies with disclosed values of $50m or more. What drives the acquisition market of startups? It’s the big deals. X 2015 20.1% - 2016 43.0%

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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

OCTOBER 27, 2022

SGNL.ai , a company developing enterprise authorization software, today announced that it raised $12 million in seed funding led by Costanoa Ventures with participation from Fika Ventures, Moonshots Capital and Resolute Ventures. billion in venture dollars went into the identity management space in 2021, about 2.5

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

Startups and VC. New spaceports are entering operation, cell phone users will soon have connectivity from space, and the Artemis program backed by NASA is one of several ventures that will bring robots (and eventually human crews) to the moon. Chevy unveiled its fastest Corvette yet, the electrified 2024 Corvette E-Ray.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

trillion by 2024. Even so, according to Merritt Hummer, a partner at Bain Capital Ventures, “B2B marketplaces cannot simply remain stagnant, serving as simple transactional platforms.” ” Pandemic’s impact disproportionately reduced VC funding for female founders. 4 takeaways from fintech VC in Q3 2020.

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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. ABL Space had a huge week, closing $200 million in funding from existing investors including Fidelity Management and Lockheed Martin Ventures. Other news from around the web.

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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. million ($6.585 million) seed round. Zenno has firm sales agreements with U.S.-based

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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. Temperature check : If you’re tracking your fertility, Samsung has an app for that.

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Hunter Walk

JANUARY 28, 2024

Lots of venture capital transitions underway. Since writing “ Oh S**t, Your VC Just Quit Her Fund! What a Good CEO Should Do Next ” in 2019 I’ve seen plenty of startups get effectively stranded within a firm.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Startups and VC. More money from more places : Ron explores the story behind the folks who are working to bring more diversity to the venture LP investing pool. I am on an H-1B, have an approved I-140, and an I-797 that expires in March 2024. Tage has more. Evidently, the downturn hasn’t soured investors on the travel industry.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 18, 2022

The spending per buyer in e-commerce is forecasted to go from $2,600 in 2019 to $4,300 in 2024. Venture capital investments have also poured into Korean startups and grew 78% year-on-year in 2021, surpassing 7.7 CNT Tech invested in over 70 startups in 2021, which is the country’s largest number of venture investments.

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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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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 30, 2023

Mobee projects Indonesian crypto annual trading volume to reach over $100 billion by the end of 2024. The funding round for the exchange was led by leading Southeast Asia VC fund, 1982 Ventures, and strategic Indonesian family offices and individuals.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

alone expected to hit $2 billion this year — a figure that’s set to double by 2024. based VC Acequia Capital, which has previously invested in billion-dollar companies such as Square, Pinterest, and Wish. Podcasting has emerged as a major billion-dollar industry, with ad revenue in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Its plans have attracted investor interest: the company said Thursday it had raised a $40 million Series A to take it through to its first planned commercial flights in late 2024. Earlier this month, World View also announced it would offer stratospheric balloon rides by 2024, for $50,000. 10 Family Office.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 3, 2022

Fresh VC money is drying up and there aren’t likely to be more new entrants into the space. Let’s dig a bit deeper into that last. My colleague Aria Alamalhodaei wrote a two-part series on the trends shaping the eVTOL space. I spoke to a few experts and came up with some interesting, and even wacky, responses.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Talent in 2024. Starting with where the world is today: talk to us a little bit about venture’s lens on talent and how does a venture talent partner assess talent? We do these workshops where we have folks that are interested in technology and VC who are coming in. And how are you thinking about 2024?

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