David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? In our previous essay, we introduced the concept of Flexible VC : structures which allow founders to access immediate risk capital while preserving exit and ownership optionality. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

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OurCrowd

JUNE 26, 2021

Ripple products are currently available in over 20,000 retail stores across the US, where the company has captured ultra-high value customers and driven category expansion of plant-based milk products. OurCrowd is joining a $55M Series E round with existing investors GV (formerly Google Ventures), Prelude Ventures, and Euclidean Capital.

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OurCrowd

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Israeli investors’ first look at the UAE tech economy. Over the past 9 years since the company was founded, it has served 4 million customers and raised $200 million in external capital,” reports Meghan McCormick. . . We are defining the rules of an entirely new category of software,” Hurt says. Top Tech News.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? In our previous essay, we introduced the concept of Flexible VC : structures which allow founders to access immediate risk capital while preserving exit and ownership optionality. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

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OurCrowd

MAY 23, 2021

The World Economic Forum says SqUID’s technological power and its ability to climb and work within existing infrastructures puts it in a unique category of its own: an “Autonomous Climbing Robot.” Join OurCrowd as we invest in a Series A round with Pico Venture Partners and Pontifax. Learn More.

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OurCrowd

DECEMBER 4, 2022

OurCrowd is leading SynergyMed’s current funding round. OurCrowd’s first R&D center outside Israel. Through its venture and innovation unit UBS Next, UBS joined OurCrowd, Mindset Ventures and lead investor Macquarie Capital in the Series B round. “We Learn More. 15 th , 2023. Summit Registration. Why Abu Dhabi?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. What are the three most important lessons investors could pass along to first-time entrepreneurs raising money? When you see a big round that is announced, does it mean that they really raised all this money?

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OurCrowd

JULY 11, 2021

Startup of the Week: Leading carmaker joins Foretellix round. Startup of the Week: Foretellix: Leading European carmaker joins round. Foretellix is expanding its Series B investment round from $25M to $31M due to significant oversubscription. ‘I would have been splattered if not for Ride Vision’. Introductions.

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Y Combinator

MAY 29, 2019

11:30 – Their first customers. 19:00 – Data examples from their blog. 29:00 – Finding good data scientists who work from first principles. 19:00 – Data examples from their blog. 29:00 – Finding good data scientists who work from first principles. 4:00 – From project to company.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

This $35M Series B round is led by Khosla Ventures with Upfront Ventures reinvesting. The social media network crash was not the first, but its sheer scale reminded the world how dependent businesses and individuals have become on web-based networks like WhatsApp. On October 4, over 3.5 Head of Finance & Legal for D-ID (Tel Aviv).

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OurCrowd

MARCH 6, 2021

The FDA has granted De Novo Marketing Authorization for the breakthrough Hominis robotic surgery system developed by Memic – a notable first. Future Family is the first company to bring together financing, technology, and concierge care in an easy-to-use online platform. FDA greenlights Memic’s breakthrough robotic surgery.

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OurCrowd

DECEMBER 13, 2020

times gross return on invested capital as of Q3 2020. Bizzabo powers through pandemic, raises $138M Bizzabo , the live conference platform, continues its perfect pandemic pivot to virtual events, raising a $138M Series E round as its business continues to grow with a blend of in-person and online event management. Learn more.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 27, 2021

Now Infina , which calls itself the “Robinhood of Vietnam,” is announcing an oversubscribed $2 million seed round. The seed funding, which was made in two closes, included participation from Saison Capital, Venturra Discovery, 1982 Ventures, 500 Startups, Nextrans, and angel investors like executives at Google and Netflix.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

I asked some investor friends to share, as the title suggests, one thing they wished people better understood about venture capital. I wish more people understood that venture is a people business first and foremost. A common misconception is that building a tech company automatically warrants venture capital, and vice versa.

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TechCrunch

JULY 24, 2022

This will include everything from funding rounds to trends to an analysis of a particular space to hot takes on a particular company or phenomenon. Earlier this year, Petal announced it raised a $140 million Series D round of funding at an $800 million valuation to help upend the “broken” traditional credit system.

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OurCrowd

APRIL 27, 2021

But even these blistering, back-to-back IPO s only underscored the gulf between public investors, who saw their opening-day shares double in value, and private shareholders who had been able to participate in the companies’ earlier funding rounds and enjoyed logarithmic returns. “The change is timely and a great step forward.”

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OurCrowd

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Corelight raises $75M in Round D fundin g. Investors participating in this round include Israeli cybersecurity guru and existing investor Pinchas Buchris, a former Director-General of the Israel Defense Ministry, and a former commander of the storied Unit 8200 of Israel Military Intelligence. QuantLR’s ‘Iron Dome for data’.

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OurCrowd

APRIL 27, 2021

But even these blistering, back-to-back IPO s only underscored the gulf between public investors, who saw their opening-day shares double in value, and private shareholders who had been able to participate in the companies’ earlier funding rounds and enjoyed logarithmic returns. “The change is timely and a great step forward.”

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 11, 2020

In the venture capital/private equity business, investors are B2B microinfluencers. The first three tools are only relevant if you’re going to generate significant content yourself: Teten.com , my blog and content marketing strategy. I typically publish essays in an established media venue, and then cross-post it on my blog.

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OurCrowd

MAY 16, 2021

Corporate venture capital is a win-win. OurCrowd is investing in a Series C round led by Almeda Ventures with participation from current investor Peregrine Ventures. Corporate venture capital is a win-win. Corporations are investing more in venture capital than ever before. Startup of the Week: Cordio Medical.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

It’s why the first company I ever invested in as a VC – Invoca – just announced a $20 million funding by Accel Partners. In a way it feels intuitive to us – the readers of this blog – because we’re the tech crowd. I suppose I could have skipped the whole rest of the blog post and just posted that.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

I was recently on The Hustle's "My First Million" podcast with Sam Parr and Shaan Puri. The Hustle My First Million Episode #197. Shaan: But I will say, I do put entertainment first sometimes. So first of all, is it weird that I know what your net worth is today because it's public information? That's like the first jump.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

I was out to raise my first seed money in my second startup of $500,000. At the time almost nobody had heard of the following funds: FirstRound Capital, TrueVentures, Floodgate and SoftTech. Jeff and his peer group have done an excellent job at creating a new category of seed-stage VC.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

There’s too much PR and too many tech blogs and too many newsletters and aggregators and Twitter summarizers to even try to catch everything that’s going on and equally there’s so much noise that it becomes harder to be heard. Have a shorter to-do list with more things that are in the “done” category.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

We received so much positive feedback from our This Week in Venture Capital show walking through valuation calculations & term sheets that we decided to do a Q&A show this week to address topics that entrepreneurs want to learn about. I explain in the video what happened in my first company (e.g. This is minutes 8-11.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

When I was new at Venture Capital I was trying to figure out the business. They are likely taking losses on their first project with the entrepreneur so they select carefully. I eventually stumbled on to the best source of high-quality deal flow imaginable – blogging. What kind of deals should I be doing? What stage?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

When I was new at Venture Capital I was trying to figure out the business. They are likely taking losses on their first project with the entrepreneur so they select carefully. I eventually stumbled on to the best source of high-quality deal flow imaginable – blogging. What kind of deals should I be doing? What stage?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

Brad on blogging. How did you start blogging? “My My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. was starting.

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Gust

OCTOBER 2, 2014

I like to speak about this topic with first-time wantrapreneurs because if you read the tech press every day you’d get the impression that it all glamor. I recently had coffee with a young friend who just finished his first startup. Early on in my first company I had an employee ask if it was a good time to buy a home.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The first three skills I espoused were: access to the highest-quality deal-flow, domain knowledge of the topic area in which you’re investing and access to VCs to help fund the next stages of development. Companies ultimately go through multiple rounds. Part 1 – Access to Great Deal Flow – is here.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 6, 2018

The best entrepreneurs in our industry focus on it year-round as opposed to just once every 18 months. How to get your Series A mojo back The rest of the outline I’ll write as a series to come back to this blog if you want to read more. … You never get a second chance to make a good first impression 3. Remind me why I love you?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

The best countries for startups are well rounded. While they might not be the best in any one category, they generally offer an environment that is amenable to startups in terms of business costs, business climate, labour quality and strength of the economy. Best by Category. Economic Health. Cost of Doing Business.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Flippa , an online marketplace to buy and sell online businesses and digital assets, announced its first venture-backed round, an $11 million Series A, as it sees over 600,000 monthly searches from investors looking to connect with business owners. Our strategy is verification at the source, i.e. data,” Hutchison said.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

Chennai and San Francisco-headquartered Chargebee said on Tuesday it has raised $125 million in its Series G financing round led by Sapphire Ventures and existing investors Tiger Global and Insight Venture Partners. The new financing round valued the 10-year-old startup at $1.4 Tiger Global goes super aggressive in India.

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 26, 2022

From Box to Glossier, and Comms to Venture Capital, Ashley Mayer Is Carving a Pretty Unique Path. Hunter Walk: Ok, so we first met when you were leading comms at enterprise software company Box, a startup you joined when they were still pretty early and stayed at until post-IPO. First, congrats! Enter Box.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

These features are made available by way of Insight’s extensions, some of which are suggested during the app’s first launch. Others, meanwhile, can be browsed inside the app, where they’re organized into categories like Search, Shopping, Cooking & Dining, News, Health, and Reading. ” Image Credits: Insight.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

If that comes to bear, the ByteDance news could prove more harbinger than one-off, perhaps reducing the total capital available to startups in the country. The boom in venture capital activity that the world recorded last year, and appears to be still afoot today, is increasingly in contrast to falling valuations for public tech companies.

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