Leapfunder

JUNE 5, 2025

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JUNE 5, 2025

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JUNE 5, 2025

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

We seed funded a company a few years ago called Parachute Home that has grown 180% CAGR (compounded annually) and is now doing tens of millions of revenue with very little capital raised. I will use some examples from Parachute and some other portfolio companies to give you examples from our experiences of watching successful brands grow.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

Let me start by saying that Clayton is one of the most influential people on my thoughts about markets that led to both the concept behind my first startup and my main theses in investing. He spoke about ROCE (return on capital employed). Venture Capital. New company in Boston with a model called “royalty capital.”

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

I was having dinner with a friend last night and we were chatting about venture capital and a bit about what I’ve learned. I started in 2007 with a thesis that my primary investment decision would be about the team (70%) and only afterward about the market opportunity (30%).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Charlie Graham-Brown is the partner and Chief Investments Officer of Seedstars , a Swiss-based group with a mission to impact people’s lives in emerging markets through technology and entrepreneurship. He leads the group’s venture capital fund, Seedstars International, which invests in seed-stage startups across emerging markets.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

The D’Amelio family, including TikTok stars and digital creators Charli D’Amelio and sister Dixie , are formalizing their investments in startups with the launch of a new VC fund, 444 Capital. He and Renert had discussions about putting such a fund together, which has a similar focus as Tandem Capital.

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Revolution

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In 2017, we partnered with iconic leaders in American business to turn the thesis we developed on the road — that great companies can start and scale anywhere when given a chance — into an investment vehicle. In the last decade, we’ve socialized several Rise of the Rest-isms to describe investments that check those boxes. Louis, MO St.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 14, 2013

We used Dumbo as a reference and talked about how the critical mass of Two Trees buildings created a neighborhood with multiple destinations. There was no strategic goal to build venture backed startup companies, but yet at least three companies in her community got VC investment last year. Venture Capital & Technology'

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 25, 2023

Register Venture capital firm Goodwater has concluded its latest funding round, raising $1 billion in capital commitments for its fifth early-stage and third opportunity-style funds. Most of the capital, 60%, will be allocated to early- and seed-stage startups. With this successful raise, the firm now manages $3.3

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 25, 2013

Back in 2006, when I started working on putting together some community groups for entrepreneurs and tech people, I looked for a better name to reference this collection of people. Want to get involved in this community in some way--working for these companies, moving here to start one, angel investing, bringing more creative space online?

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David Teten VC

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

It’s hard enough to raise capital from VC, private equity fund, and family offices. We are a community for family offices, private equity funds, and VCs focused on using technology and analytics to make better investments in private companies. In roughly descending order of impact, I suggest: Invest in funds.

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OnStartups

MARCH 24, 2021

An Odd Start To My Angel Investing. So I thought of an idea: Why not invest in startups? Angel investing is like having a niece or nephew. Both were actual companies (not academic exercises), and I decided to make an angel investment in both of them -- mostly because I really respected the two guys: Brian Shin and Mark Roberge.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

In late 2020, a group of Stanford students banded together to create Stanford 2020, a venture fund solely to invest in their fellow classmates’ ventures. million for the debut investment vehicle — waitlist not included. million seed funding round led by Initialized Capital, with investments from GSR, NEA and Canaan.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2022

After incubating a startup — Axelera AI — to commercialize their chip technology within the blockchain company Bitfury Group, Del Maffeo and team secured capital from VCs including Imec’s venture arm, Imex.xpand. In addition, the Netherland Enterprise Agency awarded Axelera AI a $6.7 MemVerge, GigaSpaces, Hazelcast and H20.ai

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

The easiest way to work with and for VC funds is to become a part-time scout, getting paid for sourcing investments. How to win consulting, board, operating, and investment roles with private equity and venture capital funds (video). How to get a job in venture capital. But how do you do that? . Monetizing our deal flow.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

Simultaneously , they announced that the fund had invested $1.5 The idea for a syndicate fund would come in the following months as the pandemic disrupted investment activities worldwide. This is because most of the capital in Africa for promising startups is typically distributed among many investors.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

When covering a story of a mishandled altercation between members of The Wing that involved issues of race, Jezebel referred to The Wing as “a glossy women’s coworking space we keep having to write about.” It makes me want to quit venture capital entirely. It’s an embarrassment to the ecosystem.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

with $15 million to Prove It The venture capital world has started firing up a few cylinders again and looking for businesses that it believes will help us all succeed in ways that resonate with new ways of working as we begin to return to work. Ryan Smith, the founder of Qualtrics, also invested and has joined the board of directors.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 6, 2021

A vast number of our members are capitalizing on their business success in order to tackle the world’s greatest obstacles. Carbon neutrality , often referred to as “CO2-neutrality” or “net-zero carbon,” is the balance between emitting carbon and absorbing carbon from the atmosphere. .

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

I recently sat down with Troy Carter to talk about what he does and why he believes it is applicable to venture capital. Troy represents what I believe the best magic of Los Angeles is – the merging together of creative talent with technical talent and he brings the lessons learned from these two fields into investments nationally.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 6, 2022

The way people fund their business has also been evolving and, in 2022, the traditional ways like angel investment and VCs will walk hand in hand with new and emerging blockchain-based options that offer loans outside the traditional banking system. Angel investment. Venture capital or VC. Get angel investment for your startup.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

What are the ‘jobs to be done’ of an investment manager? The macro trends forcing change on the investment management industry. The easiest way to work with and for VC funds is to become a scout, getting compensated for sourcing investments. We may as well get compensated for referring them to others.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 6, 2021

With Decagon, Nwobi is charting new territory in the fast-paced startup world after years of investing via his seed-stage firm called L5Lab. The dire need for tech talent in Nigeria has become more evident these days, where startups are raising venture capital at a ridiculous pace. also took part.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Leading this financing endeavor were Japan’s venture capital firm, SBI Investment Co. and Global Hands-On VC (GHOVC), a collaborative venture capital entity with a track record of successful semiconductor investments that span the Japan-United States nexus.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Over the past couple of years, there’s been an overlap between tech and art, fueling a growing interest of movie, music and sports stars investing in tech startups. What’s pulling African music artists to tech investment? based and Africa-focused mobile payments company through Zagadat Capital. Europe and globally. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2023

So since they have less money overall, their motivation to invest in risky assets takes a hit. Angel investors will often assess valuations both by themselves and as part of an angel investment group. The benefit to founders is that if one angel refers you to their group, other angels in the group will often invest as well.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2022

Whatever you do, don’t refer to LG’s incubator program LG Nova as a corporate venture capital (CVC) outfit. “CVC, as you know, is a venture capital play. Because of that, they invest in companies with the potential to grow the market value. And a financial investment is just one part of that.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Register Startup founders need to be authentic and prepared when they get the chance to meet prospective investors, according to Rex Fong, founding partner at investment and advisory group Capitale Ventures. Fong’s Capitale Ventures is an investment and advisory group with expertise in complex, cross-border transactions.

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Startup Blogpost

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

From collaborating for brand awareness and leads to sharing costs and growing with partnerships, discover the key strategies these leaders recommend for capitalizing on business partnerships. Ironically, that experience with our partners has given them the trust to become our clients and refer other clients as well.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Learn why you should be investing in cybersecurity for 2021 in this article. Cybersecurity refers to the practice of protection and prevention of theft, damage, or tampering of internal information. That’s why investing in cybersecurity can give you a comprehensive edge in staying protected. Investing in cybersecurity.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

So how does a country evolve from a position of relative uncertainty, with comparatively few resources, to one that leads the ASEAN region in venture capital investment and has been home to 10 unicorns? When the country first became independent, its mandate was to simply survive rather than thrive.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

” “Secrets” in the context of app development refers to anything about an app that a developer wants to keep secret. Users can create references to frequently-used secrets in Doppler and get alerts via Slack and Microsoft Teams when things change. million in capital to date, The startup has raised $28.8

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

That only changed in 2019, when it decided to incur losses in favor of investing millions trying to conquer the U.S. People referred to them as the invoicing company.”. Klarna is also, perhaps, even more mythical than a unicorn: a fintech that has been profitable nearly from the get-go. market, choosing New York and L.A.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

The latest funding, which totals $550,000, includes backing by Flyer One Ventures, Geek Ventures, Vesna Capital and Imaguru and will go toward an international expansion that will make the product available in multiple foreign languages. For instance, this summer, Filmustage will become available in Spanish, French and German.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

Parallel Systems also intends to use the new investment — which was led by Anthos Capital and includes investments from Congruent Ventures, Riot Ventures, Embark Ventures and others — to hire about 60 engineers, most of whom will deal with software, says Soule. In the U.S.,

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