TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Leah Edwards is a passionate fan and connector in technology and impact, a lecturer at UC Berkeley and Stanford and a partner at Pegasus Tech Ventures , a Silicon Valley-based VC firm. Public companies with at least one female board member typically outperform companies with only male members. Hiring to improve results.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2021

To scale such models, new businesses will need venture capital. Leaving this subsector, we see creative acquisitions such as a Roblox for edtech buying a language learning tool, and a startup known for flashcards scooping up a tech tutoring service. How is edtech spending its extra capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Venture capital is about backing the leaders of tomorrow who imagine the world as it should be and aren’t constrained by what it is today. As an industry we’re not always as good as we could be about our own “creative destruction” to create the tomorrow of venture capital. So What Does All This Mean?

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 21, 2021

Venture capitalists and boards used to value a company every 18 months. If things continue as they are, the venture capital ecosystem will mimic the stock market, which marks companies to market every minute. At the same time, venture capital fundraising sets records each year. Then, every 12 months.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Board Meetings. I have my best creative break-throughs this way. I’ve talked in the past about how I manage my own creative process. If you struggle to find moments of creativity you might read that post. I also have huge creative spurts when I run. Frankly, I think venture capital is that way, too.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 22, 2023

While the worlds of investing, venture capital, and technology may seem daunting, a running lesson that leaders shared was to dive in head first: meet new people, ask the questions, follow up, get as much information as possible. There will be pressure and scrutiny but can you depend on yourself to go put some points on the board?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Something happened in the past 7 years in the startup and venture capital world that I hadn’t experienced since the late 90’s — we all began praying to the God of Valuation. How might our next phase of the journey seem brighter, even with more uncertain days for startups and capital markets? What happened? It was 1991.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2022

Andy Stinnes , general partner at Cloud Apps Capital Partners , leads early-stage investments in cloud businesses and serves as active board member and adviser, offering operational support for portfolio companies based on his 20+ years in executive roles in business software. Andy Stinnes. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Besides, there were a limited number of places where I could do my job in venture capital anyway—and while I might be a go to for a pitch from super early stage pre-seed and seed founders looking for quick answers and decisive term sheets in New York City, the reality is that I would be pretty far down the list in the Valley.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

. “From that perspective, I got this firsthand view of the power of R/GA Ventures,” Ross told me. To participate in the Coalition Venture Studio, startups must be majority Black-owned or have a Black CEO, CTO or board chair. ” Black Tech Nation Ventures is a new fund for Black entrepreneurs.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 17, 2012

I am ecstatic to announce the creation of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures --my new seed investment fund. It is the first venture capital fund based in Brooklyn--the city’s most exciting and creative borough. Gilt Groupe maintains a significant presence there, as does scores of creative agencies and design firms.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Andreessen Horowitz, a venture capital firm with $16.5 Labster has now raised $100 million in total known venture capital to date. Months later, the startup brought on $9 million in equity funding to bring GGV’s Jenny Lee onto the board and expand its Asia operations. million students. million students.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

I’ve covered Wyvern in the past, including when the startup participated in incubator Creative Destruction Lab (CDL)’s academic conference-like demo day back in 2019. “Christine had been on our technical board of advisors for quite some time,” he said. “Both of our teams really meshed well together. .”

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 6, 2024

For Founders Make It Make Sense Venture capital is where innovation meets investment. Building Strategically with Athletes, Entertainers, and Executives Reaching out to potential strategic investors with significant influence demands creativity and resourcefulness.

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 3, 2023

Prominent Venture Capital Firms and Individual Investors back the AI Startup to build world’s largest AI Cluster While follow on funding is a hurdle for many startups, Inflection AI faces no such challenge. Suleyman’s other co-founders are Chief Scientist Karén Simonyan and Board Member Reid Hoffman.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

For those who wielded that role or the coveted CEO position, you were likely to be placed on a pedestal or be viewed as a visionary, aided by a venture capital market that experienced an overextended bull run in the background. Upadhyay : At the board level, the bar is really low. There are other subtler impacts.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 11, 2014

I''m super proud of Rob, Ben and the whole Backupify team--and this is particularly special for me because Backupify was the first investment I ever made as a VC, and the first board I ever sat on. We stayed in touch and I got to know a bunch of the Louisville startup and creative crew, like Todd Earwood, Matt Winn, and Ashley Cecil.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Braid, a group-financing platform, is trying to make transactions work for various entities, from shared households to side hustles to creative projects. Image Credits: Paper Boat Creative (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. Best practices for Zoom board meetings at early-stage startups. Public markets fly high.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

million seed from Africa-focused venture capital firm EchoVC and other investors that year. Super Sema is the story of a 10-year-old African girl — a superhero — with the powers of creativity, determination and team skills. The company raised $2.5 We’ve always seen our target audience as global.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

Meanwhile, Alex dove into how great crypto startup venture capital investments were going in the first quarter, before “everything went to hell,” as he put it. This follows the “Terra ecosystem’s meltdown this week” that took down its stablecoin, UST, and the rest of the cryptocurrency market.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2021

Then, when Sanlo’s proprietary algorithms determine the business could benefit from the smart deployment of capital, it will assist by offering financing. That creativity. million in seed funding co-led by Index Ventures and Initial Capital, with participation from LVP, Portag3 Ventures, and XYZ Venture Capital.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

“Since our initial investment, Miro has scaled with tremendous momentum, strong market leadership, and incredible product velocity,” said Matthew Jacobson, general partner at Iconiq Growth and Miro board member, in a written statement. “We However, with statistics showing that 53% of the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

To this end, marketers develop creative ways to gather lists of, and information on, key contacts at these potential partners. For companies that require FDA approval, commercial advisors, consultants and board members fully take on the partnership strategy work (which represents the bulk of the marketing needs) prior to the Series A round.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The round also included continuing and new participation from Aperture Venture Capital, BootstrapLabs, Breyer Capital, Duke Capital Partners, Good Growth Capital, Omnimed Capital, Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund, and others.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Paulo is the co-founder of Vale do Dendê (Dende Valley) and AFAR Ventures , a global diversity and inclusion creative and consulting agency that identifies opportunities for multinational brands, corporations and investors in emerging markets. Paulo Rogério Nunes. Contributor. Tara Sabre Collier. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

We hadn’t done this before, and we weren’t following the standard playbook, so it took time, research and creativity. For businesses that are ready to revamp their employee equity plan, here are a few key lessons we figured out along the way: Get buy-in from your board of directors.

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Jason Malki

DECEMBER 5, 2023

It’s forced me to be extra creative on how we share what we do with the world. Bringing someone else on board will be a big unlock for us to grow. It’s also made me dial in how much we can test things. In short, if one of our efforts isn’t profitable early, it’s hard to justify keeping it alive.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

Participating services include, but are not limited to, YouTube Premium, Dollar Shave Club, Adobe Creative Cloud, Nintendo Online, Apple Music, SoundCloud, Xbox Live, Amazon Prime, HBO Max and DisneyPlus. I also understand the immediate opportunity to further expand the credit market informed by my board role at FICO.”.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Those sorts of entrepreneurs can land a fund or board in deep water if they aren’t willing or able to change. Also by Diane Yoo: The Venture Capital Diversity Gap. Every entrepreneurial leader needs to be able to creatively think outside the box. I always tell others to beware of uncoachable founders.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 30, 2013

The first time I met Andy Dunn he was working for the venture capital firm Maveron. As a founder or CEO over 13 years I raised $35 million, sat on boards with 7 different venture capitalists and I’m in touch with every one of them today. Raising Venture Capital Tech Market Analysis'

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Red Rocket

MAY 11, 2021

I recently stumbled on this great article below from my good colleague, David Gardner (pictured), the founder and General Partner at Co-Founders Capital , one of the most active early-stage venture capital firms in the Southeast, based in the Raleigh-Durham area. Thanks again, David, for sharing your wisdom with our readers.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2023

Startups and VC Everyone needs some good competition to get the creativity flowing. Meanwhile, Rita reports on a promotion over at Tesla China , and Kirsten reports that JB Straubel could return to Tesla as a board member. Kyle , Devin and Manish teamed up to look at Anthropic’s $5 billion, four-year plan to take on OpenAI.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. Alternative Capital Summit.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Bret Taylor is on a roll: On Monday, he became the chair of Twitter’s board, and a day later, Salesforce made him its co-CEO and co-chair. Every blog post, Tweet and Instagram Story is an opportunity to explain to customers (and your board) how the company creates value or is a step ahead of the competition.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Benoit Wirz, partner, Brighteye Ventures (an active edtech-focused venture capital fund in Europe that backs YouSchool, Lightneer and Aula). Charles Birnbaum, partner, Bessemer Venture Partners (a generalist fund with portfolio companies including Guild Education and Brightwheel). .”

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Current Board service includes: First Fidelity Bank, REES Architects, Oklahoma City University, the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, United Way of Central Oklahoma, the Civic Center Foundation, the Oklahoma School of Science and Math Foundation, i2e (Innovation to Enterprise) and the Arts Council of Oklahoma City. Get started!

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2023

Here’s four more for your Friday enjoyment: Your turn : Amanda writes that after weeks of backlash and protest from content creators and fans, Dungeons & Dragons’ publisher made a decision to put the game under a Creative Commons license.

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