A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

When a company gets mature in their business operations, has repeatable revenues, and has a strong balance sheet, you can run the business based on an annual plan or a semi-annual plan. And you include balance sheet items like security deposits, equipment purchases, etc in it. They go hand in hand.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2022

These are a few recurring tasks that, when automated, can help your team check their status or progress at a glance: The preparation and review of balance sheet reconciliations. Balance sheet flux and/or P&L variance analysis. Completion and management of closing checklists.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

the Fed reducing the money supply and lowering its balance sheet by $100 billion each month). As we know, risky markets move in lock step with the balance sheets of central banks — particularly the Fed’s. And when the RRP balance decreases, it adds liquidity to the system, which is positive for risky assets.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Sure, the tried and true may have solid balance sheets, but they also perhaps stagnated in the idea department sometime around 2012. CIOs need to balance established players with startups as they set their IT budgets for next year. Startups building essential services in an innovative way should have fewer worries.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

It also helps the banks manage balance sheet size and earn potential revenue. With its tech-enabled marketplace, ModernFi is poised to be the interbank solution for those looking to monetize excess deposits and others that need access to balance sheet management on demand.” It is currently working with U.S.-based

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2023

Investors are also watching the path to break-even based on the current balance sheet — via metrics such as cash burn as a multiple of net new annual recurring revenue. In a difficult budget environment, high gross retention rates can be a strong signal that customers love your products and get real value from them.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 4, 2023

By understanding this process, you’ll hopefully be in a position to secure debt term sheets and determine the optimal funding path for your specific circumstance. Once the lender issues a formal term sheet, the company usually engages in some negotiation to discuss outstanding items. Let’s get started.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2023

After the satisfaction of such redemptions, the balance in Aurora’s trust account will be approximately $20,931,627. billion PIPE, or private investment into public equity, provided Better.com with a stronger balance sheet. As such, approximately 92.6% of the Class A ordinary shares were redeemed and approximately 7.4%

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

The past few months have hit the startup community where it hurts — the balance sheet. With inflation rates at record highs, a recession on the horizon and threats of a long winter by venture capital giants like SoftBank , VC money is becoming harder to come by.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2021

Square Financial Services will continue to sell loans to third-party investors and limit balance sheet exposure. The company said it does not expect the bank to have a material impact on its consolidated balance sheet, total net revenue, gross profit, or adjusted EBITDA in 2021.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 14, 2024

In either an IRS audit or an accounting review or audit, the accelerated costs and payments will show as an accrual – a balance sheet item – that does not change income, just cash and an asset. In other words, for the usual accrual-based business, there are fewer ways to affect the outcome than for a cash-accounting individual.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2023

A financial model will often include a few different statements: income statement (profit and loss statement), cash flow statement, and a balance sheet. For early-stage companies, with limited assets and liabilities, a balance sheet will often not be as relevant as it would be for a later-stage company.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

It didn’t come with a balance sheet. It was our first fintech acquisition without a balance sheet.” We want to maintain that balance of touch through all the digital channels that we pursue and so we were very excited about Long Game’s ability to help us do that.”.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

No balance sheet? If the last year has taught us anything, it’s that VCs let their portfolio companies get away with a lot. No problem ; here’s a $32 billion valuation. No proven product-market fit and your last venture cost investors billions?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

It’s worth noting that all of these funds are raising outside capital as opposed to investing off their balance sheets. It’s a particularly rough time in the broader venture market, and economy in general, in addition to being one of the toughest periods for emerging managers and first-time fundraisers.

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OurCrowd

DECEMBER 15, 2021

US-based popular insurance company Lemonade has added $1 million worth of BTC to its balance sheet, according to the documents submitted to the SEC. acquires Metromile, adds BTC to balance sheet appeared first on OurCrowd Blog. Read more here. The post [Lemonade in Our Bitcoin News] Lemonade Inc.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Today, a global investor base pre-emptively shoehorns dollars into the most attractive startups, saturating the balance sheet with cash every six to nine months. Still others forgo them altogether, not wanting to burden the balance sheet with excess assets. I call these mark-to-market rounds.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2021

employees use only 72% of PTO balances, even though it’s the most sought-after benefit. This creates a difficult problem for CFOs and accountants because its creates balance sheet liabilities on the company’s books, says Sorbet. Sorbet says that in the U.S., But under it is a $224 billion problem for U.S.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Before that, he led the firm’s Proactive Portfolio Management function and acted as director of corporate development, supporting the portfolio on inorganic and balance sheet related initiatives. Sean Fanning is a vice president on OpenView ’s Investment team. The flow of capital in SaaS is becoming increasingly bifurcated.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 1, 2024

This is a burn-the-boats strategy which requires a lot of courage, a phenomenal commitment to the long term, & a big balance sheet to sustain the short-term losses & invest in a new product & new sales & marketing strategy to transform a massive caterpillar into an even bigger butterfly.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 19, 2023

Some have significant balance sheets & discovered the ostensible product-market fit isn’t as strong as the business may have believed. It’s supposed to be hard - you’re changing the world. Muted valuation multiples have replaced the neon pink sticker price valuations of the early 2020s.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2023

That includes “potential strategic investments in the Astra Spacecraft Engine business to strengthen Astra’s balance sheet,” the company said. Astra also said that it had engaged investment bank PJT Partners as a financial advisor as it looks for more capital to continue operations. Separately, Astra said it had raised $10.8

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 2, 2023

Though it’s becoming more common , especially as VC investors pump the breaks, there is still some stigma around debt funding, and founders may worry they’ll be penalized for adding debt to their balance sheets. To leverage this moment and be successful you need to: Step 1: Plan ahead.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

The new funds will be combined with cash from Sky Mavis’ balance sheet to reimburse all users who lost money in the attack on Ronin, an Ethereum-based sidechain supporting the game. Animoca Brands, a16z, Dialectic, Paradigm and Accel also participated in the raise, according to Sky Mavis.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2021

Ultimately, Capitolis’ network software is designed to help financial institutions optimize their balance sheets and reduce risk. To date, Capitolis says it has optimized $9 trillion in terms of gross notional balances. The company says it grew its revenue run rate by “sixfold” in 2020.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The firm is structured to have a holding company and a balance sheet that holds its assets and cash. “ And the capital that we deploy either comes from our balance sheet or we take on follow-on investments from our shareholders. Such methods allow for making multiple investments without raising multiple funds.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Companies with strong offerings, management teams and balance sheets are poised to capture tremendous value. The digital healthcare revolution has already begun, and it will gain further momentum in 2022 as providers and patients look for new and better ways to improve care. Healthcare deals were hot in the first nine months in 2021.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JANUARY 3, 2020

To get to all of that information, you first have to start with these 3 foundational reports: Balance Sheet. A balance sheet is basically a snapshot of a business’s assets, liabilities, and shareholders’ equity. Some important things to ask yourself when looking at your balance sheet: What’s my cash balance?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

To build a thriving company, successful business leaders know they need to balance the needs of employees, customers and shareholders. It will be some time until this type of metric will appear on a balance sheet, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pay attention to these measures. Register today.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 11, 2023

On your balance sheet, this shows up as “Deferred Revenue.” But fast forward two years, and half our sales are in annual plans because there’s a small discount tied in. From a vendor’s perspective, this means you get 10-11 months of cash up front instead of one month, which can make a huge difference when revenues are falling.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Despite the correction in VC this year, $284b of new venture dollars will bolster American startup balance sheets - the second largest year ever, eclipsed only by 2021. Rather, the massively exothermic venture market has expanded within & beyond San Francisco.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

You’ve got personal data like your customers’ phone numbers, and all the way through to federal income statements and balance sheets internally. “So sensitive takes so many different flavors, right? So we’ve got a whole set of off-the-shelf classifiers, we call them, which are automatically looking for these things.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 3, 2023

Given the chilly climate for late-stage fundraising and widespread economic uncertainty, “it’s time for the startup community to redefine what “founder-friendly” capital means and balance both the source and cost of that capital,” writes Blair Silverberg, co-founder and CEO of Hum Capital. Image Credits: Bryce Durbin/TechCrunch.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 25, 2024

The platform also enables banks to gain large-value depositors, driving growth and increasing balance sheet stability.

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Berkonomics

JULY 1, 2021

Looking at it in that light, there is a check and balance for all departments and individuals ordering materials of any size that affect the cash position and profitability of the company. We members of the board never saw, (never asked) and the CFO never mentioned the balance sheet and cash position. The moral is simple. .

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

For a company with a longer payback, the payback period implicitly assumes a successful renewal to achieve the same positive effect on the company balance sheet. One couldn’t assert the same for contract B, which takes 10 months in our hypothetical example.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 8, 2022

This strategy from Cloudflare feels fresh. And if successful, it could prove to be a pretty smart bet.

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