Founders Coop

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

This is obviously a huge milestone for the founders, not to mention the 1,600+ employees who have joined them along the way. It’s a different kind of milestone for me as an investor: 10 years ago I led the company’s Seed round and joined the board, where I served until the Series C.

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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.

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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. Over the last five years, Brazil has witnessed a startup boom. Paulo Rogério Nunes.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

Since he began angel investing in 2014, Soyombo has invested in 33 startups, including Stripe-owned Paystack , PiggyVest, and TeamApt. Today, the investor is announcing the launch of Voltron Capital , a Pan-African venture capital firm he co-founded with Abe Choi , a U.S.-based Abe Choi (Co-founder, Voltron).

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 1, 2021

Joe wasn’t sure how to share the news with Monica, his company co-founder. Monica came back from a morning coffee with one of her Board members, Albert. He’d just finished a lengthy call with Brothers Corp about five additional features they want for their pilot. How did they get us into that situation? - he asked himself.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Founder, and former President and CEO. What advice would you give to entrepreneurs pursuing a startup in Oklahoma? While the State is not known as a hub for venture capital, we have frequently been recognized by national sources as a great place to start a new business. Q&A with Meg Salyer. Get started!

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

A map can also be an effective guide for all of the actors in the ecosystem. It can be used as a storytelling tool to enable ecosystem organizations to see the different onramps and paths that different founders take, and identify what’s working as well as gaps that need to be addressed. That’s just a starting point.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

Since its inception, Eterneva has seen triple-digit growth in sales — including in 2020, when it more than doubled its revenue, according to CEO and co-founder Adelle Archer. Archer and co-founder Garrett Ozar launched Eterneva in the first quarter of 2017 after working together at BigCommerce. I knew that I had to do that, 100%.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

Despite the pandemic’s economic impact, Southeast Asia’s startup ecosystem has proven to be very resilient. While tech fared well compare to many other industries, one downside was that the COVID-19 pandemic caused overall global venture capital investment to decline.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Much of this can trickle down into the startup ecosystem. A successful seed investor once remarked to me that he views “the traditional seed round” today for a good or proven founder to be akin to having a “ free first move on the chess board.” Dreams can be fueled here.

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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. But for the first time since abandoning my law school plan A, my mandate was clear: I needed to work at a startup. I had gone to high school with the founders in the Seattle area, and we had recently reconnected. Enter Box.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Changes in the Software World & in Venture Capital. Changes in the Startup Ecosystem. But notably you had the following changes: Horizontally scalable computing & storage systems, which meant you required less capital up front for hardware. And then the world changed. Welcome to the future.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 30, 2022

Register Kickstart Ventures , one of the most active venture capital firms in the Philippines, celebrates its 10th anniversary with a renewed commitment to invest in startups across the Philippines, and in major innovation hubs in Southeast Asia and beyond. on its first year.

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2021

6 VCs talk the future of Austin’s exploding startup ecosystem. Bruno is no stranger to startups, having co-founded Austin-based PR analytics company TrendKite, which sold to rival Cision in 2019 for $225 million. It also plans to work on scaling partnerships and expanding product offerings to finance and HR functions.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC?

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC?

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Starting a venture capital blog post with 1970s country music lyrics is pretty uncommon, but so is writing about when and why an investor might choose to sell equity before the company exits. We’re aligned with the founders and the rest of the cap table until we aren’t. This doesn’t happen — a Board would stop it” (or whatever).

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, Softbank and GV have been among those that have invested in subsequent startups (but not in EF itself). We got to $10 billion of portfolio value with what is essentially a single product for a very specific type of founder,” Clifford said. “Innovation is not easy.”

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I’m inspired by the enthusiasm of the young, emerging startup ecosystem that is here. I gave him the same advice I give nearly all over-worked, control-freak, do-everything-yourself startup founders: “Your number one priority isn’t any of these things. There’s you and your killer CTO co-founder.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

“In meeting and talking to founders, I saw interesting talent coming here, but there was no support, and startups were very undercapitalized and had low valuations,” Pavlyukovskyy said. “We He says when looking at the New Zealand startup ecosystem, it is similar to Israel and Singapore, and has “fountains of talent.”

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

From an investor’s perspective, 2022 witnessed a sudden market reversal from an extreme equity seller’s market to an equity buyer’s market, causing dislocations throughout angel, VC, and startup ecosystems. 2 A (temporary) venture capital reset? Greater governance role for limited partner Boards of Advisors.

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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 29, 2020

Some of those bets involved actual venture capital dollars. Others involved individual decisions on where to live: do you bet on the future of San Francisco or do you want to partake in the growth of some other startup hub? The cynicism of immediate perfection is one of the strange dynamics of startups in 2020.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

“You had one job” might be funny when a birthday cake decoration goes wrong, but if we’re talking about executives who don’t show up for board meetings, the stakes are much higher. Many entrepreneurs view board meetings as hurdles to avoid or overcome, which is unfortunate. Mecca Tartt, executive director, Startup Runway.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Israel’s startup ecosystem raised record amounts of funding and produced 19 IPOs in 2020, despite the pandemic. Some people are more excited by emerging areas like artificial intelligence, which has been a focus of the country’s military for years, and like cybersecurity is now producing many fresh teams of founders.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Flytrex’s deeply experienced management team is led by CEO Yariv Bash, Co-founder and CEO of SpaceIL, which raised $100M for Beresheet, the first private interplanetary spacecraft, which reached the moon. Life lessons from a venture visionary. The use of drones for food deliveries is forecast to increase dramatically. Learn more. .

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Not in the “founder friendly” culture of tech anyway. Investors let him control the board as long as he continued to make them paper rich, and then actually rich--so they couldn’t technically force him out. It’s male founder friendly. Founders have to reckon with that. Travis should hire her back?? The second reason?

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OurCrowd

MAY 20, 2022

That’s all about to change with the Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle revolution – and it’s making its way into the startup ecosystem. Former Mossad Director Tamir Pardo has joined the advisory board of our portfolio company NanoLock Security. Register Now. BetterSeeds ships Israel’s first cannabis seed exports to US. Introductions.

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OurCrowd

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Investing industry bible PitchBook has crowned OurCrowd as “the most active venture capital investor in Israel this year as record amounts of capital flood into the country’s startup ecosystem.” joined the company’s advisory board. . Pitchbook: OurCrowd Israel’s most active investor.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

The Nordic countries make up just 4% of Europe’s total population, but they account for a significant amount of venture capital investment. What are companies you are excited about (your portfolio or not), which founders? What are the biggest worries of the founders in your portfolio? Norway does video tech well.

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Angel Capital Association

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Through the work of its public policy team and committed members, ACA has become a leading voice on Capitol Hill for the early stage investing community, promoting a stronger entrepreneurial ecosystem. This letter emphasized how important patents are to startup companies. Another main policy priority is to push for QSBS-Sec.

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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. When we launched in 2010, I saw a white space: a burgeoning NY tech ecosystem, but only one angel group regularly writing checks. I quickly recruited a board of experienced hands. Why is that?

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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. When we launched in 2010, I saw a white space: a burgeoning NY tech ecosystem, but only one angel group regularly writing checks. I quickly recruited a board of experienced hands. Why is that?

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