David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Blue Future Partners, a venture capital fund of funds, recently interviewed me on ESG in venture capital. I quickly recruited a board of experienced hands. Many of my board members are still there, a decade later. . Numerous thoughtful people are worried about how technological disruption will destroy jobs.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

Raising venture capital is rarely an easy lift for startups, but 2022 is turning out to be a more challenging year than we’ve seen for some time. As venture capital continues its slowdown after an aggressive 2020 and record-breaking 2021 , it’s clear that early-stage founders looking for their first dollars will require a new approach.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Blue Future Partners, a venture capital fund of funds, recently interviewed me on ESG in venture capital. I quickly recruited a board of experienced hands. Many of my board members are still there, a decade later. . Numerous thoughtful people are worried about how technological disruption will destroy jobs.

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HPA

MARCH 24, 2021

FourKites , the #1 real-time supply chain visibility platform, today announced a new $100 million Series D financing round. The growth financing is led by Thomas H. The supply chain disruptions from the pandemic accelerated the push for businesses to invest in real-time transportation visibility solutions.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Startup SG Founder The Standards, Productivity and Innovation Board Spring (SPRING) consolidates various startup assistance programs. Startups qualifying under Startup SG can access cash grants, equity financing, and business loans. This collaborative effort injects crucial financial resources to help the expansion of startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Should You Allow Board Observers on Your Startup Board? Photo by Antenna on Unsplash A board observer is somebody who attends your board meeting but doesn’t have a voting right. Why do board observers exist? Note: This is part of a series on Startup Boards. Types of Board Observers 1.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Startups digitizing B2B e-commerce and retail in Africa continue to grab the headlines after the pandemic paved the way for widespread offline retail and commerce disruption. The Series B funding is coming almost eighteen months after raising $10 million co-led by Partech Africa and the International Finance Corporation (IFC).

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The battle to win Startup Battlefield began long before TechCrunch Disrupt kicked off Tuesday. She is also on the board of Nordstrom and previously served on the boards of Dollar Shave Club and Bonobos. While at Pinterest she helped it expand internationally, close its Series C financing and led three acquisitions.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

A recent ZDNet piece reaffirms that the AI edge chip market is booming, fueled by “staggering” venture capital financing in the hundreds of millions of dollars. It brings Sima.ia’s total capital raised to $150 million. After emerging from stealth in 2019, Sima.ai

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

This is part of a series on building your career in venture capital: Reading list for working in private equity/venture capital , including all of the major online communities, programs, and educational options for people studying VC. How to get a job in venture capital. How to find a job as a VC scout.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Two years ago, the African tech ecosystem saw newfound attention from global players that translated to the continent’s best year of receiving venture capital. Venture capital investment in Africa predicted to reach a record high this year. These predictions weren’t entirely off the mark.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

As startups and venture capital grow in tandem, fundraising has gone from a formal affair on Sand Hill Road to a process that can happen anywhere from Twitter to Zoom. It’s nice to see some other cities put points on the board. Image Credits: Sequoia Capital / Wolfe + Von / TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

As the pandemic led to increased digitization across the board, employees were suddenly making spend decisions from outside the office and more merchants were accepting digital payments. “We Greenoaks led the financing, which also included “strong participation” from Elad Gil, Base partners and “all key existing financial investors.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The rising tide of venture capital that has lifted startups around the world also splashed over America’s Midwest this year. Braze set to put points on the board for New York’s startup scene in impending IPO. Braze set to put points on the board for New York’s startup scene in impending IPO.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

By bringing Baer and Camhaji on board, Claure said in a statement, SoftBank will “be better able to identify high-growth companies and support them at every step of their lifecycle.”. SoftBank describes Baer as one of the pioneers of Brazil’s venture capital industry. He has invested in more than 20 companies since 2010.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

Wale Ayeni , one of Africa’s well-known investors, has a new role as the head of Helios Digital Ventures, the venture capital strategy of private equity firm Helios Investment Partners, TechCrunch has learned. This market downturn also affects startups, big and small, as their finances and valuations take a beating.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

million seed round to further its insurance payments platform that combines financing, collections and payables. Ascend is offering point-of-sale financing to enable insurance brokers to break up those commercial payments into monthly installments. Bill Trenchard, partner at First Round Capital, met Wynn while he was still with Sheltr.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 17, 2017

And the giant gets disrupted precisely because its cost structure to serve its customers and its cash cow, high-priced offering makes it nearly impossible for it to try compete. The deal fell through at the last minute and ADT chose not to continue financing the company, which was forced to shut down. And what prompted this lawsuit?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Besides Riverwood, edtech-focused Owl Ventures (which led its $5 million Series A round last June), Endeavor Catalyst and Roble Ventures also participated in the financing. Federico Storani, executive director of Riverwood Capital, is joining UBITS’ board as part of the financing.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Venture capital continues to flow into Latin America at a staggering rate. Mauricio and I had this bold vision of backing as many disruptive entrepreneurs as we could, and leveraging our previous backgrounds and experiences.”. Why Latin American venture capital is breaking records this year.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 13, 2023

Sarfraz Maredia, Uber’s vice president of delivery and head of its Americas region, has joined Serve’s board. Archer Aviation raised $215 million in new capital from its manufacturing partner Stellantis, Boeing, United Airlines, Ark Investment Management LLC and others, to accelerate its path to commercialization. Vroom vroom!

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Experts say Africa is poised to be disrupted by web3 in a similar fashion that has seen Southeast Asia become one of the best markets for web3. The latter is home to startups like Axie Infinity and Yield Guild Games, which have raised millions of dollars in venture capital owing to the adoption of crypto and play-to-earn models.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

The round was led by Pan-African early-stage venture capital firm, TLcom Capital , with participation from nonprofit Women’s World Banking. The raise comes after Pula closed $1 million in seed investment from Rocher Participations with support from Accion Venture Lab, Omidyar Network and several angel investors in 2018. .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

The pandemic failed to slow the momentum of venture capitalists pouring money into startups, but Chicago stands out as an “outlying benefactor of accelerating venture capital activity and the rise of remote investing,” Alex Wilhelm and Anna Heim write for The Exchange. How to establish a health tech startup advisory board.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

The key to being able to run a business that isn’t yet profitable (on operating margin) is availability of capital to finance losses and preferably at a cost that isn’t too punitive to the founders and employees. Sustaining short-term losses is all predicated on ability to finance the losses through venture capital or other means.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

We like sectors that are prone for disruption in Latin America and that require local customization,” Maciel said. He also “made valuable contributions” as a board member, according to Menin. “Those are more suitable to investors with deeper pockets than Volpe,” Maciel said. .

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TechCrunch

JULY 31, 2022

Bell, a corporate finance attorney and a former White House policy advisor for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, in a press release. Tim’s just been brought on board to build out the infrastructure so the company can scale.”. With over $3B in AUM, Portage Ventures targets $750M for its first late-stage fintech fund .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

While a decline from the previous year, venture capital funding in the cybersecurity sector totaled $18.5 Wiz’s success in securing financing is impressive considering that startups are increasingly failing to command the high valuations that were common in past years. billion in 2022, according to Momentum Cyber.

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 15, 2023

I had the pleasure of interviewing Amir Kabir, partner at AV8 Ventures. Amir has been an entrepreneur, operator and investor with over 15 years of experience, working with early and mid-stage companies on financing, partnerships and strategic growth initiatives. I noticed that you’re on dozens of startup boards — very impressive.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

As part of the investment Todd MacLean, managing partner at Silversmith Capital Partners, joined the Zonos board of directors. One of the things that attracted MacLean to the company was that Reid was building a company outside of Silicon Valley and disrupting global trade far from any port.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

The venture capital industry is so heavily skewed to Northern California, which the remains spilled over Boston, New York & Southern California. So it was wonderful to hear from a leading venture capital firm based in Washington DC. There are of course other outposts like Austin and Seattle. Revolution, what is it?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

Good relationships with executive buyers can help shape your company as it grows, ultimately serving as an unofficial advisory board of the top leaders and experts within your customer base.” Corporations are scrambling to get into the venture game. ” Thanks very much for reading TechCrunch+, and have a great weekend.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The startup says it will use its new capital to scale rapidly across new markets in the U.S. Homebound currently has just over 200 employees and also plans to use its new capital to conduct “massive hiring across the board.”. This is a tough category to build a business in,” Pechet said. But with a 5.5

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 30, 2016

I have been evangelizing to founders for years to be more thoughtful about how startups update investors and run board meetings so I would be pretty hypocritical if I wasn’t willing to try and be more effective myself. So I decided to change up our format a bit. Here’s a short sample of what we now do.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 2, 2020

OurCrowd’s Pandemic Innovation Fund will provide the financing to empower a broad range of companies working to develop treatments, vaccinations and cures for COVID-19 and future pandemics as well as those providing solutions to the fundamental changes that have been wrought in the economy and society by this crisis.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

This transformation has already led to an increased number of startup failures, a growing venture capital reset2 and 210,000 tech sector layoffs since the start of 2022. 2 A (temporary) venture capital reset? Greater governance role for limited partner Boards of Advisors.

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 31, 2020

Last week’s historic decision by the US Securities and Exchange Commission to broaden its definition of an “accredited investor” is a game-changer for the venture capital industry, boosting access to the kind of investments in startups that OurCrowd has helped pioneer. Israel’s RealView Releases New Product for $5.4B

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