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Has VC Become So Big It Must Be Disrupted?

Tomasz Tunguz

Second, as competition has intensified, VC funds have invested in platforms (we call it founder experience at Redpoint). Some firms run multiple strategies: different industries, geographies, and stages, akin to PE specialization and diversification. First, venture capital has become much bigger.

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France’s strategy for EU startup policies: Talent and money

TechCrunch

Tech companies, investors and associations signed a manifesto with the goal of reaching 10 tech companies that are worth €100 billion or more by 2030. New financial incentive to create 10 to 20 large VC funds. Around the same time, French President Emmanuel Macron launched a different group called Scale-Up Europe.

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Europe’s tech leaders define a strategy to create tech giants

TechCrunch

To achieve all that, I’ll follow your ambition — 10 technology companies that are worth €100 billion or more by 2030,” Macron said. The biggest VC funds aren’t as big as the biggest VC funds in the U.S. It means that Europe should consider using public funding as a multiplier effect for VC funds. or in China.

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The iconic VC-Backed founders are all White & Asian men. So why invest in diversity?

David Teten VC

(co-written with Katherine Boe Heuck , a MBA candidate at MIT Sloan (class of 2022); past intern at Versatile VC ; and a current intern at Metaprop NYC.). We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.” For funds with an overall return of 3-5x, which is what VC funds aim for, the overall return was 4.6x

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Batteries have become VC and PE’s most electric investment opportunity

TechCrunch

For the better part of a decade, VC firms and growth equity funds have plowed nearly $42 billion into battery technology startups across almost 1,700 deals, according to an analysis by PitchBook and TechCrunch. And if the risks from battery startups are tough for VCs to stomach, then it’s an even harder pill for growth equity to swallow. “Too

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15 Innovative Pitch Deck Designs That Drove Investor Engagement

StartupNation

I’ll never forget presenting to a particularly skeptical VC who kept questioning our projections. This slide listed potential obstacles we may face as a startup, along with our strategies to mitigate them and ultimately succeed.

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The iconic VC-Backed founders are all White & Asian men. So why invest in diversity?

David Teten VC

(co-written with Katherine Boe Heuck , a MBA candidate at MIT Sloan (class of 2022); past intern at Versatile VC ; and a current intern at Metaprop NYC.). We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.” Why are all of the VC home runs from white men, or Asian men in Asia, plus a few Asian men in the U.S.?

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