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Creator Ventures Raises $45M Fund II to Back the Next Generation of Consumer Internet Startups

American Entrepreneurship

Consumer has the largest share of global GDP, and yet consumer startups have been underfunded by venture capital in recent years, said Sasha Kaletsky, Managing Partner at Creator Ventures. With this raise, the firm more than doubles its prior fund and brings total assets under management (AUM) to $65 million.

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i2E & Plains Ventures Surpasses $100M Milestone in Total Investments

Innovation 2 Enterprise

Since first investing in Oklahoma startups in 1999, i2E, and now its independent Venture Capital Fund management partner, Plains Ventures, have managed numerous early-stage debt and equity investment funds, making 452 investments in more than 250 companies. Alkami , Oklahoma’s first unicorn, was valued at $3.1

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 3

Both Sides of the Table

Finally, a lot of people asking me about typos on my blog. Our “hot deal of the week&# turned out to be more of the “hot theme of the week.&# P2P lending networks are revived and brought it a whopping $40 million in investments announced recently. The build “implicit social networks.&# Other deals.

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7 Tips for Building a Strong, Vibrant Network

This is going to be BIG.

I was speaking at Internet Week yesterday on networking and so I wanted to gather some of my thoughts. I have a huge network of people here and it's probably the thing I get valled out the most for--and complimented on. Building my network is something that comes naturally to me, but it's also something I put a lot of hard work into.

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14 Tips on How to Sell to Private Equity and Venture Capital Funds

David Teten VC

I list the online communities for VCs in general at Reading list for working in private equity/venture capital. These are relevant to all B2B sales, but more so in the hard-to-access private equity/venture capital/family office client base: Win and highlight social proof. You can also sponsor their events.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

Both Sides of the Table

To interconnect these computers we needed IP-based telecommunications equipment build by the likes of Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks. Changes in the Software World & in Venture Capital. I’ve blogged about this before and provide a lot more details in these posts: 1. Venture Capital.

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Why Aren’t There More Female Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

On my blog I’ve been hesitant to take the topic head on. But last week I noticed a blog post by a woman, Tara Tiger Brown, that asked the question, “ Why Aren’t More Women Commenting on VC Blog Posts? In it she observes that only 3% of the comments on this blog are from women.