TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Shawn Carolan, partner, Menlo Ventures. Abhijit Ganguly, senior manager, Goodyear Ventures. Rachel Holt, co-founder and general partner, Construct Capital. Sebastian Peck, managing director, InMotion Ventures. and Khosla Ventures Acquisition Co. Dharmesh Thakker, general partner, Battery Ventures.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Three ways VC firms can construct sustainably diverse portfolios. If you follow mainstream tech media, you could be forgiven for thinking that venture capital is a founders’ market today after two years of record round sizes and outcomes. Leslie Feinzaig is the founder and CEO of the Graham & Walker.

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Dream It

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

However, Amit says, “VCs aren’t going to build your business, you’re going to build your business.” When a VC signs onboard to help you with your company, do not expect or look for them to do the bulk of the work for you. Instead, when considering different VCs, look for ones that will cause you to think differently.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Just as it seemed the venture capital boom of 2021 was slowing down, the startup and VC worlds spun on their axes practically overnight, birthing a new dynamic where “growth at all costs” was quickly replaced by a more measured and careful approach to business and investing. This year’s been eventful for investors and founders alike.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

What’s going to happen to those semi-vacant office towers, some of which are still under construction? ” Here’s who he interviewed: Clelia Warburg Peters, venture partner, Bain Capital Ventures. Christopher Yip, partner and managing director, RET Ventures. Casey Berman, general partner, Camber Creek.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2022

billion last year — up 153% year-over-year in terms of global VC deal value. There has been much talk as of late of a slowdown in venture funding. Brex launched a venture debt program last August as part of its effort to be many financial-related things to startups and maturing companies alike. In other news.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

I’m often asked about the differences between being at a VC and being an entrepreneur and whether I prefer one or the other. The biggest difference I cite is that Venture Capital often feels like an “individual sport” while startups are a “team sport.” It was more hedge fund than venture capital.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) last week sent ripples in startup ecosystems around the world, and it is emerging that millions of dollars held by African startups and venture capital funds at the bank were at stake, until the U.S. Federal Reserve acted to save the day. Sad to see them go down. bank accounts.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Venture capital continues to flow into Latin America at a staggering rate. Venture firms in those countries are also raising funds; for example, this month, Colombia-based Marathon Ventures announced its first fund of $26 million. VCs say there are more startup opportunities to chase in Latin America.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

There’s the argument — sometimes coming from venture capitalists desperate to see portfolio companies succeed — that being in-person will help grow productivity, and eventually the bottom line. In the rest of this newsletter, we’ll talk about noisy venture firms, Salesforce spinouts and Artifact. This tweet by VC Matt Turck.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 21, 2014

Our founder, Yves Sisteron, was my mentor and board member at my first startup. My other partner, Steven Dietz, was on the board of my second company. Stuart Lander has joined Upfront Ventures to help us run operations. They have trust, short-hand communications, know each other’s strengths & weaknesses, etc.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 23, 2012

Venture capital is kind of like a knuckleball. VCs construct stories in their head as to why they invested in this or that, and much of it is based on prior experience, but they're often awful at articulating the real reasons. Try and figure out exactly what a startup had to show at the moment a VC chose to invest in them.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2023

Writing a crisp summary for a board meeting requires input from multiple stakeholders and more than a little bit of research. Amy Cheetham, a partner with Costanoa Ventures, shared 11 board slides with TC+ that show effective ways to convey accomplishments, pipeline details, hiring and team growth, and other key priorities.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 16, 2012

People who just weren't inspiring at all and couldn't get me on board for any kind of ride. There's nothing personal about this particular area for them and it's unclear what motivates them to keep going--other than the prospect of having a VC validate them. The movie centers around a lawsuit. Not exactly Braveheart.

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 11, 2022

In 10 years of venture investing I don’t think I’ve ever participated in a seed round which had less demand than supply. Nor Do VCs. While there are excellent counter-examples, your VC also likely didn’t spend their career as a marketing or communications leader! Best Practices In Marking & Comms Are Highly Extensible.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Sequoia’s Jess Lee will talk you through how to get that first investor on board, which will more often than not get other investors excited about the prospect of working with you. Pair that with a well-constructed pitch deck and you’re off to the races. Mary D’Onofrio (Bessemer Venture Partners). Wedge to TAM.

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TechCrunch

JULY 10, 2022

In 2021, fintech startups were the top recipients of venture capital globally, accounting for about 21% of dollars raised with $131.5 seed round for Adaptive, a construction software and fintech play. Layoffs up in H1 2022. billion across 4,969 deals. smartphones per adult,” McCormack added. a16z leads $6.5M

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 4, 2022

For some context, I have been covering Pipe since it raised $6 million in a seed round led by Craft Ventures back in 2019. Second, I found out that once a new CEO is found, that individual will assume Hurst’s seat on the board. Two, why would Hurst — who has been the very vocal frontman of Pipe since its inception — leave the board?

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 5, 2023

and was co-led by Ironspring Ventures and Chicago Ventures, with continued participation from FUSE VC and Cercano Management. NASHVILLE— GoodShip , a collaborative cloud-based analytics and transportation procurement platform for shippers, announced a $5M seed round today. The raise brings GoodShip’s total funding to $7.4M

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

British venture capital firm Draper Esprit recently moved its listing from the AIM to the main board in London, the LSE. Draper has always felt like something of an anomaly from our perspective, a generalist venture capital firm that was itself public. It’s a reasonable point. But the model is not perfect. and not in the U.S.

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MAY 11, 2015

That's one thing you have to realize about venture capital. So, I decided to actually take a look at past data and construct some average days and weekends to figure out where all the time went. In two-thirds of those investments I'm in enough of a lead position where I'm acting as a board member, officially or otherwise.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 23, 2021

I’ve been fortunate to be a Partner at two different VC firms over the past 9 years, and we’ve grown AUM 10X both times. The next best move is to build your core team, e.g., recruit an Advisory Board, Venture Partners, and EIRs. For ideas, see How Executives Can Work from Home with Private Equity and Venture Capital Funds.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

An easing of laws around the construction of accessory dwelling units (ADUs) around the U.S. And it just closed on $15 million in a Series A funding round led by proptech-focused VC firm Fifth Wall to grow its business. has opened up opportunities for companies that build such structures. Cottage is one such company.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

Grab the Wite-Out : Alex and Anna look at venture capital activity in Latin America and sense that a decline is in the cards for the second quarter, alluding to a possible correction. Startups and VC. Not today, neighbor : Haje covered how Ergeon enables anyone to order construction projects like fences, driveways and more.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 23, 2021

I’ve been fortunate to be a Partner at two different VC firms over the past 9 years, and we’ve grown AUM 10X both times. The next best move is to build your core team, e.g., recruit an Advisory Board, Venture Partners, and EIRs. For ideas, see How Executives Can Work from Home with Private Equity and Venture Capital Funds.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 12, 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? And I think the way that we’re structured over here is somewhat different and unique relative to a lot of the other venture talent partners that are out there.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

That’s why so much of our robotics coverage revolves around startups and venture funding. ” Here is what they told me: Peter Barrett, Playground Global: Why the venture community decided to call in an airstrike on their portfolio companies is quite beyond me. It’s a lens through which we attempt to view technology at large.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2017

The perverse nature of raising capital is that “no’s” almost always precede “yeses” because it’s very easy for a VC to tell you that you’re not a good fit without doing any real work to evaluate your company so you hear “no” far before others start doing more work. The best VCs follow up but then so, too, to the best entrepreneurs.

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JUNE 4, 2012

The PTA Board is changing, too. Society--a relatively recent construct relative to the age of our ancient mammalian brains--is changing faster than we can physiologically adjust to it. In fact, I'd venture to say you'd be a little less human if you didn't--because it is simply that: different than what you are used to.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 14, 2023

It also provides us a “big board” capability where we can get an overview of a meeting. Below is a screenshot of an AngelSurvey big board from one of our recent meetings. Versatile VC uses FlowInc , in which I’m an investor.) These may indicate room for Versatile VC to build or invest in a startup addressing that need.

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FundersClub

JUNE 30, 2017

" EquipmentShare is the most well-funded construction tech startup in Missouri, which has seen 5% of total US construction tech deals, in " New Build: Construction Tech Deal Pace Slows Slightly After Steady Rise. " Investor Thoughts. part 1 of 2).

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The firm’s advisory board is headed by Aya Jakobovits, PhD, Founding CEO of Kite Pharma, which was acquired by Gilead for $11.9B. This $35M Series B round is led by Khosla Ventures with Upfront Ventures reinvesting. It will break ground on a 100-home project in the Austin area next year, along with construction giant Lennar.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

We raised a seed round of capital in 1999 and our first venture capital round was the first week of March 2000 (e.g. I had very little cash in the bank yet the stories were still coming out about how we were going to change the world of online engineering and construction. We were based in London. We were weeks from bankruptcy.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

(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.). What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.”

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MAY 10, 2021

They want the government to stay out of their way but they definitely want the government to come and ticket the car blocking the driveway, to stop construction noise, and to solve homelessness but definitely not to put low-income housing on their street. They want everything yesterday. Andrew Yang , on the other hand, has not. jobs by 2025.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

(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.). What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2023

Startups and VC Ann Lai, a general partner at Bullpen Capital, says she has been fired from the firm, Natasha M reports. Amy Cheetham, a partner with Costanoa Ventures, shared 11 board slides with TC+ that demonstrate effective ways to convey accomplishments, product pipeline details, hiring and team growth, and other key priorities.

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