Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

It’s always fun chatting with Jason because he’s knowledgeable about the market, quick on topics and pushes me to talk more about VC / entrepreneur issues. The following was available: “I kept hearing about startups that raised VC funding, but which hadn’t filed Form Ds (nor issued a press release). Short answer: no.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

David Teten is founder of Versatile VC and writes periodically at teten.com and @dteten. 5 innovative fundraising methods for emerging VCs and PEs. Paulina Symala is a consultant at Oliver Wyman and a past intern of Versatile VC. At Versatile VC , we’ve used all these models. More posts by this contributor.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. I have been researching this both to support Versatile VC ’s portfolio companies and also as part of research for my new book, To University and Beyond: Launch Your Career in High Gear. 1) Your school.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

Prabhat Gusain is currently the chief of staff at Caffeinated Capital and was previously an intern with Versatile VC. David Teten is founder of Versatile VC and writes periodically at teten.com and @dteten. How to win consulting, board and deal roles with PE and VC funds. Next are VC firms looking for founders.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 1, 2021

I’ve recently advised a number of emerging private equity and VC funds who are wrestling with the question: What are the highest impact steps they can take to support their portfolio companies? . VC Platform community has grown approximately 120% in the last 3 years. Alpaca VC shares their Master Agency List.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

Their backgrounds, according to Ayele, run the gamut from finance and marketing to product and technology across a range of sectors. “We’ve built an algorithm-based matching platform where we curate relevant deals to VC investors. The CEO who studied finance and investment banking in the U.S. for law school. ”

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 4, 2023

MoveinSync’s Strategic Funding Round This financing round is intended not only for growth but also to provide an opportunity for some of its early investors to partially exit. They aim to secure between $50 to $60 million.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As an early-stage VC I love this phase. This financial leader could well have come through the finance org at another startup or at a larger company but they often also can come from strategy consulting (Bain, BCG or McKinsey) or through investment banking (Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, etc.).

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 5, 2014

” I said I learned this 15 years ago because that is when I stopped being a consultant. I enjoyed the first half of my time at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) because I was a computer programmer and had to build stuff that actually worked. Consultants spend all of their time pretending to know these answers.

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Feedough

MARCH 22, 2021

They are responsible to: Develop the offering with independent R&D, Introduce the offering to the market, Advertise, market and build clientele, Manage the entire supply chain from sourcing to final delivery to the user, and Handle finances of the business. Consultant : They provide business advice and differ in their area/s of expertise.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 6, 2021

Ken Norton, who recently left his job as director of product at Figma to consult rising PMs, thinks it’s easier to start with defining what they aren’t: the CEO of the product. 11 words and phrases to cut from your VC pitch deck. 11 words and phrases to cut from your VC pitch deck. Making sense of the $6.5B Okta-Auth0 deal.

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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. Paulo Rogério Nunes. Contributor. Tara Sabre Collier. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

But according to data from PitchBook, less than 2% of VC funding went to all-women-founded teams in 2021. It’s identical to what’s happening in Africa: Less than 1% of all VC dollars went toward startups with one or more women founders last year, according to The Big Deal , which details investments in Africa.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 20, 2019

A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. In addition, their portfolios look far more diverse than VC industry norms. Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

What do early-stage founders need to know to capture VC interest, and dollars, in a challenging market? As a consultant at Bain and Company, Case worked with clients in technology, private equity and education. Annie Case, a partner at Kleiner Perkins, focuses on investments in consumer, healthcare and marketplaces.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 1, 2021

I’ve recently advised a number of emerging private equity and VC funds who are wrestling with the question: What are the highest impact steps they can take to support their portfolio companies? . VC Platform community has grown approximately 120% in the last 3 years. Alpaca VC shares their Master Agency List.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2022

MaC Venture Capital led the round while VC firms Luminate, Unicorn Group, Future Africa, and several angel investors participated. TC Insights , a data analytics consulting service, works on research, data and industry strategy on different projects. BCM was founded by Seyi Taylor and Bankole Oluwafemi in 2013. market of the mid-2010s.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2021

Kara Penn is the mother of four daughters and owner of Mission Spark, a management and strategy consulting company. So far, Penn has invested in five startups across a range of sectors including real estate, food, apparel and finance. . Despite gains, gender diversity in VC funding struggled in 2020.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

The judges for this pitch-off will be Yoon Choi (Muirwoods Ventures), Mar Hershenson (Pear VC) and Gabriel Scheer (Elemental Excelerator) on day one; and Sven Strohband (Khosla Ventures), Victoria Beasley (Prelude Ventures) and John Du (GM Ventures) on day two. ” Mar Hershenson — Pear VC. ” Day 2 . . She also holds a B.S.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Michigan is now the state with the highest growth in VC investment. They were founded in 2020 and have solid VC backing, recently raising $2 million, raising their total funding to $4.4 Formerly PrivacyCheck, Hush is a VC-backed digital privacy startup founded by Detroit boomerang Mykolas Rambus. Apply now to Rivet.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

of all VC funds raised in 2022 to 17.2%—seen as part of a decade-long trend. Aspect Ventures : co-founded in 2014 by Theresia Gouw and Jennifer Fonstad, the early-stage venture firm uniquely focuses on bridging the funding gap between angels and the larger multi-stage VC platforms through collaboration and diversity.

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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. While at Pinterest she helped it expand internationally, close its Series C financing and led three acquisitions.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2023

Last week, I published a scoop on fintech-focused VC firm Anthemis having laid off 28% of its staff , or 16 people, earlier this year as part of a restructuring. That founder wrote me a note saying that while at Anthemis, “Farhan was the first VC to believe in” his company. You may agree.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Ukraine’s startup ecosystem was thriving before the war and making great progress, with Ukrainian startups raising $832 Million in VC funding in 2021. VC Funding was steadily growing before the war and there are more than 50 VC firms continuing to operating in the country. Secured seed finding from SMRK VC.

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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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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

And the founders of the startup themselves come from consulting backgrounds so they well understand the role these companies play in the process of bringing technology into big businesses.). Partners include the likes of integrators and other global services technicians, such as Microsoft, Deloitte, CapGemini, KPMG and so on.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2022

Pre-pandemic, VCs were notoriously reluctant to invest in education-related companies. Today, edtech startups are seeing higher average deal sizes, more seed and pre-seed funding from non-VC investors, and an influx of generalists. Image Credits: Matejmo (opens in a new window) / Getty Images.

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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

MARCH 21, 2024

My Partner Winter Mead, Founder & CEO of Coolwater Capital , the accelerator for emerging VC fund managers, said: “Fewer than 5 of the 180 emerging managers we’ve worked with are raising via 506c, in order to get in front of more retail LPs, who are generally already following the GP, e.g., through the GP’s newsletter or community.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Fortunately, there are a wide range of organizations that specifically want to support you, not just the VC community. Our 20 selected organizations will receive coaching from Google’s AI experts, Google.org grant funding from a $25 million pool, and credits and consulting from Google Cloud. Google AI for Social Good.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

It represents the great majority of entrepreneurship and eschews the fairytale rags-to-VC-riches stories we so often read about in the press. She found non-traditional financing. Without this money she wouldn’t have been able to finance operations. Just not the kind you would initially read about on TechCrunch.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 25, 2022

we are on a mission to help entrepreneurs succeed, whether you’re a side business indie hacker, a bootstrapped local shop owner, a freelancer to agency founder, or hypergrowth VC-backed startup. We exist to help people turn their ideas in their heads into cash in their hands. Two reasons come to mind for why this problem exists: 1.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Fortunately, there are a wide range of organizations that specifically want to support you, not just the VC community. Our 20 selected organizations will receive coaching from Google’s AI experts, Google.org grant funding from a $25 million pool, and credits and consulting from Google Cloud. Google AI for Social Good.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 25, 2022

Kevin Rose ( @kevinrose ): partner at VC firm True Ventures , host of the Modern Finance and Proof podcasts. 6529’s thread on property rights & crypto highlight the need for decentralized finance. you’re now free to explore the frontier of internet finance. Ryan Selkis ( @twobitidiot ) : one of the longest tenured?—?and

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 21, 2014

An impressive number of new VCs have been created – most of them with new seed funds. We’ve had an explosion of alternate sources of financing from crowd-sourcing, angels, accelerators, incubators, corporates, corporate incubators. Every consultant was pitching a process for reinventing your organization through BI.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

I got a job at a bank, and I worked in their corporate finance group. We had a finance group for all of the bank branches based in San Diego, and I wrote programs to download stuff from the mainframe so we could do analysis three days faster than they could send us the data. Comp sci in the 80s was terrible.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

It was 2009 and it was terribly difficult to get any financing (if you can remember a time like that!) Throughout all of these years I was a full-time VC so Launchpad really came out of evenings and weekends for me. Adam had a full time startup and then was doing consulting (he later raised a VC fund). But my prediction?

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