The VC Stack Makeover: What Today's Funds Need - Webinar
The Seraf Compass
JULY 21, 2025
For an industry built on innovation, our infrastructure has lagged behind.
The Five "Ups" of Getting Early Stage VC Deal Flow
This is going to be BIG.
MAY 2, 2025
How do you get 150+ VCs to show up for something? nextNYC, the startup events platform I run, produces the largest formal VC/Founder intro event at NY Tech Week. Last year, over 150 VCs participated and were looking forward to having even more. No VC on the face of the earth has a magical Good Deals Only stream of opportunities.
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If you get an offer from YC or Techstars VC. Take it.
Founder Bounty
DECEMBER 23, 2024
Time and time again i hear about founders that have bigger egos then anything else rejecting offers from top tier VC's (like YC ) and eventually leading thier companies to fail. If you do get and offer from top US VC's take them, dont be greedy and stay humble. Dont have a big ego.
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AirOps Unifies Content Ecosystem, Raises $15.5M in Funding
American Entrepreneurship
OCTOBER 17, 2024
million in Series A funding led by Unusu al VC , with participation from Wing VC, Founder Collective, XFund, Alt Capital, Lauryn Motamedi, David Rogier, and JD Ross. The startup has been embraced by marketing agencies and in-house teams who are now building AI-growth as a core competency.
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Lioncrest Ventures Launches $100M Equity and Credit Fund Platform for Growth-Stage Tech Startups
American Entrepreneurship
JUNE 19, 2025
New multi-strategy venture fund addresses capital alignment challenges with equity and credit options tailored for scaling companies in regulated industries. Lioncrest Ventures, led by experienced investor Leib Bolel, aims to change that by offering flexible capital solutions tailored to business models and scale trajectories.
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Creator Ventures Raises $45M Fund II to Back the Next Generation of Consumer Internet Startups
American Entrepreneurship
MAY 21, 2025
Consumer has the largest share of global GDP, and yet consumer startups have been underfunded by venture capital in recent years, said Sasha Kaletsky, Managing Partner at Creator Ventures. What sets the firm apart is not just capital, but a deep blend of market expertise and firsthand creator economy experience.
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15 Innovative Pitch Deck Designs That Drove Investor Engagement
StartupNation
JUNE 4, 2025
I’ll never forget presenting to a particularly skeptical VC who kept questioning our projections. For example, during a pitch to a major venture capital firm, one partner was particularly intrigued by our customer acquisition costs.
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Praise Our Lord For Secondary Markets, Because Selling Shares Is Now an Essential Part of (Seed) Venture Capital
Hunter Walk
APRIL 21, 2025
I entered venture capital with some beliefs – many of which still hold true (such as ‘your LPs are your business partners, not your customers’). But I’ve also seen a few change quite dramatically based upon the progressing ‘game on the field’ and my own VC experiences. VCs increasingly *are* traders.
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Interview: James Burnes, Ministry of Awesome
NZ Entrepreneur
MARCH 16, 2025
So it’s much less about raising capital, it’s much more about business fundamentals. And we’ve kind of moved to a virtual event because, for us, we have a great relationship with VC’s in the market, and with angel investors in the market. Topics that are important have really emerged from past events.
VideaHealth Transforming Dental Care with AI, Raises $40M Series B
American Entrepreneurship
JANUARY 31, 2025
Backing from Industry Leaders Thre shold Ventures led the Series B round with participation from Avenir Ventures, BAM Ventures, and existing investors Spark Capital, Zetta Venture Partners, and Pillar VC.
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A Startup Financial Playbook: Budgeting, Funding and Risk Management
StartupNation
JULY 17, 2025
Venture Capital (VC) If rapid scaling is one of your financial goals, venture capital might be the right choice. Grants and Crowdfunding “Non-dilutive” funding sources, like grants or crowdfunding, help you raise capital without giving away ownership. EquityNet RAISE CAPITAL Use flat-fee crowdfunding with no commissions.
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What are the antler VC investment terms?
Founder Bounty
MARCH 25, 2025
Follow-On Investment Antler often reserves capital for follow-on rounds and participates in seed and Series A rounds. Program Fees Many Antler cohorts include a program fee (e.g., 40,000 to $50,000 deducted from investment) to cover costs of mentorship, office space, and resources.
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Headwinds, Tailwinds, and Crosswinds Ahead for Rising Startup Ecosystems
Revolution
DECEMBER 23, 2024
With scarcer exit opportunities and LPs looking for returns, VCs may retreat further to perceived safety in traditional techhubs. In regions where venture capital is already sparse, accessing funding remains difficult and expensive. startups in Q1-Q2 of 2024.
The Constitution for Your New Fund: Strategy, Culture, Decision-Making, Budget, and Data
David Teten VC
FEBRUARY 17, 2025
At Coolwater Capital , the Y Combinator for VC funds, we assess this as part of our diligence process. See 33 Questions We Asked Ourselves Before Starting Pace Capital and Alexander Jarviss collection of investment theses. And at Orrick , we assist fund sponsors with preparing their constitution.
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VC's should be embracing founders with startup experience not rejecting them
Founder Bounty
JULY 25, 2025
If you scan LinkedIn you may be able to see the amount of VC's that have little to no startup experience. I am a VC scout, but have not been approched by the silicon valley VC's for a full time position. So VC roles are more about connections than anything else. But why is this?
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Launching Orange Collective: Exclusively Investing in Y Combinator Companies
David Teten VC
MARCH 31, 2025
Following our investments, our four portfolio companies raised $34M more in Tier 1 capital at an average 1.5x Following our first close, we’ve invested in 4 of the top companies from the recent Y Combinator batch, including companies that have since shown viral growth like Browser-Use and Mastra.ai. higher valuation cap.
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Why Interviewing Others is Awesome for Building Your Brand
This is going to be BIG.
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
In 2015, a then 18-year-old Harry Stebbings launched The Twenty Minute VC from his bedroom in London. No background in venture capital. Fast forward a few years, and The Twenty Minute VC became one of the most influential podcasts in venture capital. No industry connections. No podcasting experience.
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How much of my business do I have to give to an investor?
Berkonomics
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
If you’re looking for growth capital, this one’s for you. To grow your business to a size that will be attractive to a VC or angel making an investment now, you’ve got to show that the business will be large enough at the time of the investor’s liquidity event (cashing out) to make the investment attractive at all.
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The last money has the first say.
Berkonomics
DECEMBER 26, 2024
So, the combination of bad news and VC or professional investors on the Board can be volatile for the founders or management. These are only a few of the considerations that have caused an increasing number of early-stage entrepreneurs to draw up business plans for companies that can be grown with angel and friends-family capital.
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Temasek Retreats from VC Space After High-Profile Startup Failures
AsiaTechDaily
JUNE 3, 2025
Singapore’s state-owned investment firm Temasek is significantly pulling back from early-stage startup investments, shifting toward a more cautious strategy amid rising interest rates and past high-profile losses. The fund’s exposure […]
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Warnings about investor limitations!
Berkonomics
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
Some businesses just can’t fit within the angel capital or friends and family model for raising funds. Sooner or later, you may need to seek venture capital and accommodate the needs of the venture community in negotiating the terms of an investment.
Malaysia Unveils Tax Perks to Boost VC Investment in Startups
AsiaTechDaily
JUNE 23, 2025
Malaysia has rolled out new tax incentives to attract more investment into its venture capital (VC) and private equity (PE) sectors to deepen the funding pool for local startups. Second […]
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Partnership Judo: Don't work against people when vying for a partnership position
This is going to be BIG.
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
Is your firm feeling like Two VCs enter, one must leave given the limited number of partnership slots? Join us for an educational VC panel in NYC! Play the Long Game Venture capital is a long game. It doesnt have to be that way.
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Singapore’s Investigate VC Unveils New $500M Fund Targeting Startups Worldwide
AsiaTechDaily
MAY 20, 2025
Singapore-based early-stage investment firm Investigate VC has announced the launch of its new global fund series, Fund 2 (I–III), with a target of raising over $500 million in assets under […]
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Simple Advice for Junior Folks in Venture Capital: Don’t Be a Generalist. Do One Thing Really Well for your GP and One Thing Really Well for Founders.
Hunter Walk
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
This one is “what advice do you have for someone who is a new VC analyst or wants to join a firm at that level?” ” If you’re joining a venture capital firm as a junior professional I’d recommend against being a generalist, or trying to get good at everything.
US VC Firm Eight Roads to Sell Stakes in 40 Chinese Tech Firms
AsiaTechDaily
JUNE 13, 2025
Eight Roads, a US venture capital firm backed by Fidelity Investments, is preparing to sell its stakes in around 40 Chinese tech startups, according to a Bloomberg report. The planned […]
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Winning at Seed Investing Isn’t Just About When to Buy, but Increasingly Also When to Sell
Hunter Walk
NOVEMBER 10, 2024
Now we have more and more consensus auctions where the price is an outcome of a VC’s ballooned business model and FOMO. So ‘playing the game on the field’ means considering selling portions of your stake to other investors earlier than ever in order to lock in some gains and recycle capital.
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Snowcap Compute Launches with $23M in Seed Funding to Power the Future of AI, Quantum, and HPC
American Entrepreneurship
JUNE 24, 2025
Superconducting Compute Platform Unlocks Ultra-Efficient, High-Performance Infrastructure for Next-Gen Workloads A bold new entrant in the compute infrastructure landscape, Snowcap Compute has officially launched with $23 million in seed funding led by Playground Global, alongside participation from Cambium Capital and Vsquared Ventures.
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HKMA and AIIB Partner to Boost VC in Emerging Asia
AsiaTechDaily
JUNE 27, 2025
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) have entered into a new partnership aimed at boosting venture capital investment across emerging markets in Asia. […]
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Checklist legal and institutional action items for launching your emerging manager
David Teten VC
MAY 11, 2025
We finished publishing in OpenVC and here our series on structuring the team and legal infrastructure of a new private equity/VC fund. Writing the Constitution for Your New Private Equity or VC Fund: Strategy, Culture, Decision-Making, Budget, and Data Ownership. Everything to consider to set up your firm for success.
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STG acquires Movable Ink
David Teten VC
JULY 7, 2025
Kudos to ffVC portfolio company Movable Ink and CEO Vivek Sharma! STG, a software-focused private equity firm, has announced they’re acquiring Movable Ink. My old firm, ffVC, invested when Movable Ink was a seed-stage company.
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arcneo GmbH - HRB 261478 B - 30082027
Leapfunder
JUNE 5, 2025
VCs in our network: Get started Sign up as investor Sign up as startup Sign up as VC Invest in startups Early Bird Holedo The Netherlands Every industry has a talent pool. This spells out our use of functional, analytical and tracking cookies. Return p.a. But job boards, LinkedIn, and social media own the gate. You pay to search.
Traverse Holdings International BV - 89960750 - 31032027
Leapfunder
JUNE 5, 2025
VCs in our network: Get started Sign up as investor Sign up as startup Sign up as VC Invest in startups Early Bird Holedo The Netherlands Every industry has a talent pool. This spells out our use of functional, analytical and tracking cookies. Return p.a. But job boards, LinkedIn, and social media own the gate. You pay to search.
Hubql GmbH - HRB 7109 - 31032027
Leapfunder
JUNE 5, 2025
VCs in our network: Get started Sign up as investor Sign up as startup Sign up as VC Invest in startups Early Bird Holedo The Netherlands Every industry has a talent pool. This spells out our use of functional, analytical and tracking cookies. Return p.a. But job boards, LinkedIn, and social media own the gate. You pay to search.
Dliwr Technologies GmbH - HRB 235090B-25102026
Leapfunder
JUNE 5, 2025
VCs in our network: Get started Sign up as investor Sign up as startup Sign up as VC Invest in startups Early Bird Holedo The Netherlands Every industry has a talent pool. This spells out our use of functional, analytical and tracking cookies. Return p.a. But job boards, LinkedIn, and social media own the gate. You pay to search.
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Urban Agrotech BV - 73600741 - 01062026
Leapfunder
JUNE 5, 2025
VCs in our network: Get started Sign up as investor Sign up as startup Sign up as VC Invest in startups Early Bird Holedo The Netherlands Every industry has a talent pool. This spells out our use of functional, analytical and tracking cookies. Return p.a. But job boards, LinkedIn, and social media own the gate. You pay to search.
Understanding What’s Going on in #LATech
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 15, 2017
Upfront Ventures was created 20 years ago as one of the original VC funds in Los Angeles. 10 years ago we found ourselves trying to persuade LPs and VCs that it was worth spending more time getting to know the LA market and now the most common refrain that I hear from them is “there really is something going on in LA.”
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Both of us worked at investment banks. One of us had startup experience. Only one of us got into a tier 1 VC.
Founder Bounty
APRIL 20, 2025
Getting into VC is very very difficult. This story is a case of 2 of the exact same profile of people, one with and one without operating experience getting into VC both who had worked in investment banking but one of which got an offer from a top tier VC and the other didnt. Which investors make the best VC's?
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Hospitality Leaders Source Code Limited - 759270 - 31032028
Leapfunder
JUNE 5, 2025
VCs in our network: Get started Sign up as investor Sign up as startup Sign up as VC Invest in startups Early Bird Holedo The Netherlands Every industry has a talent pool. This spells out our use of functional, analytical and tracking cookies. Return p.a. But job boards, LinkedIn, and social media own the gate. You pay to search.
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How to Make Sense of the PPP Loan Program for VC-Backed Startups
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 6, 2020
But I have been in close contact with the NVCA, many of the major law firms and many of the major VC firms. If your US-based business is adversely affected by Covid-19 such that you would need to lay off employees imminently and having access to capital would enable you to keep more employees on the payroll then you might be eligible.
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Playing the Long Game in Venture Capital
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 24, 2021
Of the first four investments I made as a VC in 2009, two have exited and two (Invoca & GumGum) still are independent and likely to produce $billion++ outcomes . The abundance of late-stage capital is good for us all. My first ever investment as a VC was Invoca. The abundance of late-stage capital is good for us all.
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How come VCs are. jerks?
This is going to be BIG.
OCTOBER 3, 2016
That was a question posed to me by a new analyst at a venture capital fund. While there are lots and lots of really kind, generous people working in venture capital--the recently retired Howard Morgan, Hunter Walk, Brad Feld, and Karin Klein for example--it's really tough to argue that there isn't widespread jerkery. So what gives?
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How To Pitch A Real Estate Tech VC
Dream It
MARCH 6, 2020
Dreamit Urbantech Managing Director Andrew Ackerman recently sat down with Jeff for a wide-ranging conversation on real estate tech, and a large part of that conversation focused on what founders can do to successfully raise venture capital from real estate tech investors. Has the founder done his homework before his pitch?
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