Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 6, 2024

On the flip side, athletes, entertainers, and C-level executives also ask what they should expect when investing in technology startups and working with founders looking to build the next big thing. For Founders Make It Make Sense Venture capital is where innovation meets investment.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Here’s what I said: In your career in tech and VC, how has your focus on ESG responsibility changed over time? I see a clear cultural change happening in the investing universe, as more people pay attention to ESG objectives and apply an ESG filter to their investments. I quickly recruited a board of experienced hands.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Without further ado, here are the five judges who will pick the 2021 Startup Battlefield winner: Kirsten Green is the founder and managing partner of Forerunner Ventures, a San Francisco-based VC firm she formed in 2010. She is also on the board of Nordstrom and previously served on the boards of Dollar Shave Club and Bonobos.

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Founders Coop

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

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. Today marks the first time in my investing life that an investment I led at Seed has made it all the way to its Wall Street debut. And I still have so much to learn.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Tara Sabre Collier is an early-stage impact investor with more than 15 years of experience at the intersection of economic development, social entrepreneurship and impact investment. She is a Visiting Fellow of Oxford University where she teaches and writes about impact investing, diversity and equity.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

One of the ways that those pots of cash are being invested is through venture capital, which means the money flows to the coasts — New York, Boston, Silicon Valley. For the past decade, Gener8tor has been working to shift that by spinning up accelerators in local communities that have money but are underserved in terms of startup support.

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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. Chipper had insignificant exposure to SVB ~$1m.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 11, 2012

In fact, thanks to increased scrutiny of investment funds in a post-Madoff world, this imbalance will probably get bigger and bigger. 25 people I've actually placed at companies as part of a message of how I help startups. But crowdfunding investments in startups is the answer to all our worries in life, right?

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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. It is unclear if VCs will agree to these terms, but LPs believe they now have more leverage. Smaller VC fundraises?

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Startup Catalyst

AUGUST 15, 2018

There’s an entire ecosystem that I would say sits within the broader startup ecosystem: the scaleups. You would call a business a startup when they’re getting to be cash flow positive or at least getting some decent monthly recurring revenue. Make an “investment” decision. Get on a board. Tweet this quote ).

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Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Much of this can trickle down into the startup ecosystem. There are many reasons for that, such as private equity and crossover investors investing earlier, or the fact that LPs in VC funds are affected by public market swings and could, theoretically, hit some VC firms to feel the pinch.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

Olumide Soyombo is one of the well-known active angel investors in Nigeria tech startups and Africa at large. Since he began angel investing in 2014, Soyombo has invested in 33 startups, including Stripe-owned Paystack , PiggyVest, and TeamApt. Non-traditional startup founder to an angel investor.

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Jason Malki

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Michael is an experienced high-tech leader, board chairman and software industry analyst. Currently Michael is the Founder, CEO and Chief Analyst at Arion Research, a global cloud advisory firm; an advisor to G2 and Board Chairman at LocatorX. and five VC-backed technology startups. and PeopleSoft, Inc.

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 26, 2022

I’m an Ashley Mayer superfan so beyond the affinity, have been fortunate enough to also bring her into Homebrew as an advisor to our portfolio companies, and invest in Coalition , a venture firm she founded along with three other amazing female operators. AM: Angel investing was our collective gateway to building Coalition.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

“We received three term sheets and were able to put together an all-star investment group.” Cuban took a 9% stake in the company in exchange for a $600,000 investment. 6 VCs talk the future of Austin’s exploding startup ecosystem.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 1, 2021

Monica came back from a morning coffee with one of her Board members, Albert. If the company is an industry reference, you may collect a nice logo for your website and investment deck, but only recurring revenue will drive up the valuation of your company. Joe, I had an interesting talk with Albert.

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 7, 2022

Top investment opportunities Startup of the Week: Workspot’s secure cloud desktop Binah.ai: World’s first blood pressure via video InsideTracker guides users to longer, healthier lives Israel hits new VC record of $25.6 Board chairman Mark Templeton is the former president and CEO of Citrix. Invest Now. Invest Now.

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OurCrowd

OCTOBER 10, 2021

This $100M round is co-led by two strategic investors: a leading vehicle systems supplier and a leading global investment fund. 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.”

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Top investment opportunities. Startup of the Week: Bionaut micro-robot inside the brain. The firm’s advisory board is headed by Aya Jakobovits, PhD, Founding CEO of Kite Pharma, which was acquired by Gilead for $11.9B. Invest Now. . Tiger Global Management doubled down on its investment to lead the round.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Top investment opportunities. Startup of the Week: Flytrex drones deliver to your backyard. Samsung invests in Stellar Cyber’s $38M raise for XDR platform. Startup of the Week: Flytrex drones deliver to your backyard. Invest Now. . Invest Now. . The chip that stole Christmas. Sniffing out Covid-19.

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OurCrowd

MAY 20, 2022

Top carmaker invests in Connected Energy. OurCrowd is investing in this Series B round alongside energy, banking and equipment manufacturing giants. Israeli startup ProFuse aims to cut the production price of lab-cultured protein. Learn Mo re. We kicked off in the UK and focused on the Benelux countries in Europe. Learn More.

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HPA

APRIL 7, 2020

Built In Chicago: Online community hub for Chicago startups and tech. Built In Chicago is an online community that provides information on job openings, tech news and events for the startup ecosystem in Chicago. Chicago Inno: Chicago Startups that are Hiring Right Now. Propllr: Chicago Startups that are Hiring Right Now.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

Those already investing in it is an impressive list, including individuals like Tom Blomfield, Taavet Hinrikus, Reid Hoffman, Matt Mullenweg, Nat Friedman, Claire Hughes Johnson, Sarah Leary, Sara Clemens, Matt Robinson, Elad Gil and Lachy Groom. “VC should be hard,” said Clifford of the efforts.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Changes in the Startup Ecosystem. This can have an enormous benefit to kick-starting a local startup community as it will ensure many more early-stage at-bats happen locally. We have invested $17.3 We started investing the fund in April 2012 and by early 2013 had closed our fund to new investors.

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Y Combinator

MAY 22, 2019

39:40 – What’s a strong opinion he had about running a startup that he’s changed since running Meesho? 41:10 – How has the Indian startup ecosystem evolved? 43:30 – Can foreigners come to India and start a startup? 45:45 – After Meesho, what’s the most exciting startup in India?

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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. And I think about the “Seattle issue&# as a metaphor for startups and business in general. It’s why my investment philosophy is called, “ the entrepreneur thesis.&#. I need to take some VC meetings.

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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. Here are the investors in their own words, for any TechCrunch reader who is interested in hiring, investing or founding a company in the country. What trends are you most excited about investing in, generally?

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

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. When it happens at companies run by women, the media, disgruntled employees, and their investor board members, burn them at the stake. VC David Sacks tweeted “??

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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. That said, Norway’s VC community has been somewhat dormant for a while. What trends are you most excited about investing in, generally? and Nomono. E-commerce. More than 50%?

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