TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2023

The crypto venture capital industry has become more selective thanks to the general market downturn and wavering trust caused by a slew of scandals and market disruptions, but investors at major firms are still writing checks in the space. How can the gap between traditional finance (TradFi) and DeFi be bridged?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 22, 2019

My hope is that this book will appeal to a broad audience that includes entrepreneurs, policymakers, the business community and all citizens who are passionate about preserving the American dream of starting your own business for future generations. I hope that Boom can shed light on this problem and a direction for possible solutions.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

I had witnessed a number of early-stage tech startups in LA raise seed capital from the Bay Area and relocate. It was 2009 and it was terribly difficult to get any financing (if you can remember a time like that!) And Jim & I went on to raise several more venture capital funds in our day jobs. And Jamie hers.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Try searching online for angel investors , early seed investors, or incubator/accelerator programs that could help your business get funding. Harlem Capital Partners , Humble Ventures and Kapor Capital are just some of the venture capital firms that focus on allocating funding to diverse founders.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 2, 2010

First off all, not every company is right for equity financing—and many other companies would be better off starting without it. I can’t tell you how many companies I’ve run into where the inability to get financing, or the lack of interest in it, led them to building better companies.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Found was incubated at Atomic , a San Francisco-based venture studio, in the spring of 2020. Earlier this year, it raised $24 million in a Series A round led by GV (formerly Google Ventures) and Atomic, with participation from Define Ventures. Parks was previously chief science officer at Happify Health. .

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Salyer made the decision to take her community service commitment to a new level in November 2008 when she successfully ran for the Ward 6 City Council seat. Salyer served as a member of the Council Finance Committee, Council Economic Development Committee, and as chairman of the Council Social Services Committee. Get started!

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

While finance and media are typically concentrated in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, a city of three million in the state of Bahia, is considered one of Brazil’s cultural capitals. More recently, a “Black Silicon Valley” is beginning to take shape in Salvador da Bahia.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Incubators such as the one Zappos’ CEO Tony Hsieh started a few years ago are also a great way to jump-start your innovative ideas, receive mentoring, network, etc. Brad Feld helped co-found the venture capital firm with one goal in mind: to help entrepreneurs. “We

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 27, 2010

The local tech community is figuring this out, not surprisingly, way before the academic institutions are—and where it is being discovered by academia, it’s being done on a one-off basis by educational revolutionaries in the innovation space who aren’t stopping to ask their schools for permission or to change curricula.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

He’s personally led more than 50 financing rounds. led by Altos Ventures and Maverick Capital, with Larry Braitman. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008. Offers two products: Palantir Government and Palantir Finance. Used by hedge funds, the intelligence community and multiple government agencies.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Ahrefs claims to have become a $100 million company in annual revenue without venture capital. Blocksport Blocksport builds Web3-ready platform solutions for the professional sports and entertainment industry to enable tokenization use cases for their fan community. Finmap A cash flow management service for businesses.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Pan-African focused venture capital firms Samurai Incubate Africa, Future Africa and Consonance Investment Managers led the round. Individual investors like Stephen Pagliuca, the chairman of Bain Capital and Justin Kan of Twitch also participated. Today, the company is announcing that it has raised $2.7 Then the $1.5

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

There are several very active tech investment networks coming from several angles, e.g., university-led, groups of private angels and tech incubators. Very strong in deep tech with an invested local community of entrepreneurs, incubators and investors. What are the tech investors like in Bristol? What’s their focus?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

Were you incubating companies together? And then for the follow-on financing, it ranges in terms of what the person needs and also [it’s tied to] when we invest into that company, so it ranges in valuation, as well. Our chat has been edited for length. How did the whole thing work? How much of a stake does that $50,000 buy you?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

Yesterday I wrote Part 1 of the series on the changes to the software industry over the past decade that has led to changes in the venture capital industry itself. With new micro VC entrants into to early-stage investing plus increased competition from angels, incubators and the like – traditional VCs have taken notice.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 25, 2021

Prior to her CD2H role, she was the Entrepreneurial Program Director at the Oregon Bioscience Incubator, where she helped grow the incubator three-fold and spearheaded statewide programs and partnerships to support entrepreneurs and startups. Group in India, helping to establish their clean energy and water technology businesses.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

“You can still finance hopes and dreams, but just with smaller dollars, and you’re generally going to give up a little bit more of your company in terms of dilution during an economic downturn,” said Gupta. But having 20% to 30% ownership of a token or of a network is very bad and frowned upon by the community.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2021

BIGBAN is a private nonprofit angel investor network based in Valencia, and incubators and accelerator programs continue to proliferate, supported by corporates and local government initiatives such as Startup Valencia. There are more family-owned companies, and individual and institutional investors, and they have also invested capital.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 14, 2018

– Encourage founders to turn to other founders and their broader community as resources, not just the VC’s own staff. First Round Capital’s forum for portfolio executives is a powerful example of a scaleable resource. – Launch a “ venture studio ” or “ foundry ”. (I’m – Launch a venture capital fund of funds.

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Don Dodge

APRIL 6, 2015

Ycombinator is the largest and most successful startup incubator in history, and it was started right here in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Startup incubators and accelerators are everywhere today, but were relatively unknown when Ycombinator started 10 years ago. Ycombinator, the incubator of billion dollar unicorns, is a unicorn itself.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Entrepreneurs and investors who have spent any time dealing with convertible debt seed financing transactions are likely to have encountered the subject of valuation caps. The cap is irrelevant if the next equity financing is at a valuation below the cap amount.) was spun out, and the valuation was set by that financing round.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

The UAE took in 46% of the total venture capital received in the Middle East and Africa in 2021, according to the country’s Ministry of Economy. Al Olama recently spoke with me about the burgeoning Emerati startup and venture capital ecosystem, and the country’s approaches to attracting U.S. VC investment.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! Fortunately, there are a wide range of organizations that specifically want to support you, not just the VC community. Congratulations! Mulago Foundation Rainer Arnhold Fellowship.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

billion of total venture capital. List of 60 Top Women-led Venture Capital Firms The following includes venture funds founded by women or those that have a focus on funding women-founded or gender-mixed startups and early-stage companies. According to the PitchBook data, in 2022 U.S.-based

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! Fortunately, there are a wide range of organizations that specifically want to support you, not just the VC community. Notley Ventures. Congratulations! Mulago Foundation Rainer Arnhold Fellowship.

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Angel Capital Association

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

By: Dror Futter, Legal and Business Adviser to Startups, Venture Capital Firms and Technology Companies The SEC announced a series of amendments (likely to be effective early next year) to the rules governing private offering exemptions – by far the most frequent path for venture fundraising.

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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 GET A SCOUT ROLE.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

It wasn’t long before venture capital firms started up and major tech companies like Microsoft, Google and Samsung had R&D centers and accelerators located in the country. However, the decline may also be a function of large tech firms setting up incubation hubs to cut up and absorb talent. So how are they doing?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2022

million in pre-seed financing — its first venture round. Africa-focused fund 4DX Ventures and UAE-based venture capital firms Nuwa Capital and Shorooq Partners led the round, one of the largest in Egypt after Rabbit, Telda and Milezmore. Following two years of bootstrapping, the company has raised $4.5

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

Ancient8 , Vietnam’s blockchain gaming guild, develops a community and software platform to enable everyone to play P2E (play-to-earn) games and build the metaverse while earning rewards. “We Ancient8 announced today it has raised a $4 million seed financing led by Dragonfly Capital , Pantera Capital and Hashed.

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OurCrowd

MAY 20, 2022

OurCrowd, Regal Four (a Beren family venture entity), F2 Venture Capital, NGN Partners and Future Energy Ventures participated in this new round. Classiq adds HSBC, NTT Finance to $36M Series B. CanNegev launches drone and unmanned tech competition.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

We’re still caught in the “post recession bounce” : What’s happening is that the angel & VC community is still feeling good from having bounced back from the nadir of the famous “ RIP Good Times ” funk that we felt in 2008. I’m a venture capital investor so I will still be looking to make investments.

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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. For example, I’m an investor via ff Venture Capital in: – Plated.com is a meal kit company, delivering you the recipe and fresh ingredients to make a gourmet meal in your own kitchen.

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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. For example, I’m an investor via ff Venture Capital in: – Plated.com is a meal kit company, delivering you the recipe and fresh ingredients to make a gourmet meal in your own kitchen.

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