TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
It turns out that while later-stage investors, mostly international VC firms, grabbed headlines by writing immense checks, pre-seed and seed-stage investors were instrumental to the growth of the continent’s tech ecosystem. What drove such volumes when the rest of the world was reining back the collective enthusiasm of 2021?
TechCrunch
JANUARY 12, 2023
Having local expertise in the category every VC wants to invest in right now doesn’t hurt, either. I talked about Pittsburgh’s startup ecosystem on the City Cast Pittsburgh podcast recently in the context of two high-profile startup failures there, Ford- and VW-backed Argo AI and robotic vertical farming outfit Fifth Season.
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TechCrunch
APRIL 14, 2023
However, it’s in Eastern Europe that — I think, at least — that accelerators have their best effect in markets where where the tech startup ecosystem barely exists, if at all. As part of this they have bagged a former partner at Shilling VC in Lisbon, Pedro Santos Vieira.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 15, 2023
Brett Calhoun Contributor Share on Twitter Brett Calhoun is the managing director and general partner at Redbud VC. Amid these turbulent times, the VC accelerator industry has emerged as a stalwart player. At the dawn of 2022, there were 2,900 active VC firms, marking a 225% increase since 2008. psychedelics or construction).
This is going to be BIG.
FEBRUARY 21, 2021
The startup ecosystem is a terrific manufacturer of bad fundraising advice. Any VC will tell you that the ones they said yes to, they mostly got there right away—and that there are very few “maybe” deals that get tipped over the fence. Was she just an anomaly or is there something else going on here? First is network bias.
David Teten VC
NOVEMBER 18, 2021
One of the first decisions we had to make in setting up our new VC fund, Versatile Venture Capital , was our CRM and marketing technology infrastructure. . I’m very interested in the tech stack of private equity/VC firms , both to improve the efficiency of Versatile VC and also as a focus area for our investing.
TechCrunch
JULY 22, 2021
With more venture funding flowing into the startup ecosystem than ever before, there’s never been a better time to be a growth expert. Before Duboe’s presentation kicked off, he spent some time zeroing in on a definition of growth, which he cautioned can mean many different things at many different companies.
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