TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The venture capital industry is built on signals. The startup, launching publicly today, is building a rating system for the venture capital industry. Part of the reason people love investing in venture capital is for the intangibles, right? Venture capital will soon be brimming with ghosts.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

The AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 At TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 , you’ll find AI’s influential fingerprints throughout the show’s programming. At Disrupt you’ll find multiple opportunities to increase your knowledge, make connections and develop collaboration possibilities across multiple industries and sectors.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 7, 2015

After checking out The Information's "open dataset" on diversity in venture capital , I felt pretty disappointed. I went back and calculated the number of companies in the first Brooklyn Bridge Ventures portfolio who have at least one founder who is female, from an underrepresented minority group, or LGBT.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2016

At the Upfront Summit in early February, we had a chance to have many off-the-record conversations with Limited Partners (LPs) who fund Venture Capital (VC) funds about their views of the market. LPs Still Believe Strongly in Venture Capital as a Diverse Source of Returns.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Regions once overlooked by the venture capital industry are racking up impressive investment totals in recent quarters. This is also reflected in funding tallies: Per Crunchbase data , venture capital funding into the region’s unicorns reached $10 billion this year to date.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Leary chalks up the boom to the disruption in consumer behavior, which opens up the opportunity for new companies to win. “[New founders] want to be in a place where they have enough money to get going but not too much money that they get locked into a ladder in terms of expectations that they’re not ready to take advantage of.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The decarbonization of the planet will be the next major disruption of the 21st century, according to SOSV managing general partner Sean O’Sullivan and Carmichael Roberts of Breakthrough Energy Ventures. ” This opportunity has helped climate tech become one of the hottest sectors to invest in.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

Dayna Grayson has been in venture capital for more than a decade and was one of the first VCs to build a portfolio around the transformation of industrial sectors of our economy. It should come as no surprise, then, that we’re absolutely thrilled to have Grayson join us at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 in September.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

We just wrapped up a three-day virtual event that included discussions and interviews with some of the most notable people in technology, media, government and venture capital. Even in person, there’s no way to absorb Disrupt in its entirety. Full coverage of TechCrunch Disrupt 2021. Walter Thompson. yourprotagonist.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

When you’re building a startup and thinking about what it’s going to take to raise your first dollars in a slowing capital market , perspective can be very helpful. In this case perspective, like any story worth telling, has two sides — founder and venture. TechCrunch Disrupt is back in person on October 18-20 in San Francisco.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 1, 2024

And we will see legacy applications embrace AI to make their products better and to remain competitive with the AI-first disrupters. So if we have healthier capital markets and more innovation than ever, what is up with the venture capital ecosystem? Well, that’s not such a happy story. USV TEAM POSTS:

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The world around us is being disrupted by the acceleration of technology into more industries and more consumer applications. And the loosening of federal monetary policies, particularly in the US, has pushed more dollars into the venture ecosystems at every stage of financing. how on Earth could the venture capital market stand still?

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 26, 2020

Nathan Heller published an article called Is Venture Capital Worth the Risk? It’s a well-researched critique of the venture industry. The key question he poses is: has the industry become so large that it needs to be disrupted? The evolution of the venture industry parallels the private equity industry.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 5, 2024

Sharon: Another thing you talked about is just this tremendous amount of private investment venture capital going into defense. So, as we shift in the nature of warfare, there’s more and more opportunity for non-traditionals and service providers to be a part of that procurement story. Replicator is an example of that.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

More than half of our TBFP Concept Fund investments and about 44 percent of investments from the Oklahoma Seed Capital Fund have been in IT, software, telecommunication, and internet firms, Brett Kolomyjec, Oklahoma entrepreneur and CEO of Happily, is upbeat about post-pandemic opportunities for businesses in these industries.

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

-Atul National Geographic Explorer, Victoria Herrmann The conversation: Choose your own adventure with National Geographic Explorer, Victoria Hermann The takeaways: Today’s climate problems are also incredible investment opportunities. Executing on opportunities at the intersection of utility and disruption allows for exponential innovation.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 12, 2022

However, few investors can directly impact the value of the underlying asset, except for private equity and venture capital investors with portfolio acceleration strategies. Large hedge funds over time hit liquidity limits and start impacting market pricing when they trade, losing their ability to exploit arbitrage opportunities.

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500

JUNE 9, 2020

Supply chains have been disrupted, businesses have had to close or operate at limited capacity for months, and even founders have had to expand their fundraising timeframes as we saw in our 2020 Female Founders Data Report. There’s no doubt that COVID-19 has affected nearly every industry globally.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Venture Capital Firm Launches third Cybersecurity Fund in the Past Three Years Warnings about cyber threats are so prevalent that people understand the importance of cybersecurity in their businesses and daily lives. SYN Ventures was founded by former Fortune 500 CISOs and C-level security leaders.

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Paul G. Silva

AUGUST 9, 2023

Every year billions of venture capital dollars flow into startups with disruptive innovations. Sustaining: explores opportunities that build on top of a company’s existing business model. Transformative: creates substantial growth from radically new opportunities.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 17, 2014

Many entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley believe that the financial services industry in the United States is “ripe for disruption. ” Like Google, Amazon, ebay, and Facebook, the leading Internet companies in China are interested in disrupting payments. The basis of this argument is really two fold.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Creative capital is the secret sauce, not venture capital. Brett Lovelady, founder of design firm Astro Studios, defines these design and development assets as “creative capital,” which “can ultimately last longer and potentially become more valuable” than venture capital. Is the U.S.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

With great innovation comes big change, or even better, disruption, to systems that have been in place for years. Studios are causing this precise disruption to the traditional ways of building companies and how to invest in them. This unprecedented growth provides a wealth of new opportunity for the investment community.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Firms such as SoftBank, Tiger Global Management, Tencent, Accel, Ribbit Capital and QED Investors are pouring money into LatAm. Some are even seeing more opportunity than in the U.S. One Mexico-based VC even declared that the story was about “talent, not capital.” Brazil and Mexico riding the gravy train.

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Jason Malki

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Over his 30 year career, Brian has built a very unique combination of successful experience as a venture capital investor, strategic advisor, exited tech entrepreneur, and international growth strategist. Presently, Brian has launched Crypto VCF and is Co-GP in it’s Blockchain Opportunity Fund. Thanks for the opportunity!

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2023

The venture capital opportunity in the South is better than it’s ever been,” Lisa Calhoun, a general partner at Valor Ventures, told TechCrunch+ last year. “A Last year, Atlanta startups raised around $1.65 billion, according to PitchBook; though an about 47.9% TechCrunch Live is going to Atlanta and you’re invited!

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

A recent ZDNet piece reaffirms that the AI edge chip market is booming, fueled by “staggering” venture capital financing in the hundreds of millions of dollars. He has a deep history of investing in deep tech startups that have gone on to disrupt industries across AI, data, semiconductors, among others.”

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Revolution

OCTOBER 4, 2022

And for decades, until the entire industry was disrupted, that attraction established a virtuous cycle. The silver lining to the horrors wrought by Covid is that the pandemic opened the venture capital community’s eyes to the world of opportunity beyond the traditional tech startup hubs of California, New York, and Massachusetts.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

This has led to an emergence of e-commerce aggregators , backed by venture capital dollars, that are scooping up successful businesses to grow, finding many through Flippa’s marketplace, Hutchison said. Though being bootstrapped for over a decade, the company’s growth and opportunity drove Hutchison to go after venture capital dollars.

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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. THAT is disruption.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 30, 2015

Most internet opportunities were of modest scale – often worth pursuing – but not usually worth taking public. Because most internet business concepts were not capable of productively employing tens of millions of dollars of venture capital does not mean they were bad ideas."

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

One of the reasons we founded InstaDeep was to show that there was real potential and opportunity for AI in Africa. Yet, it’s too early to assume that because of that, it’ll suddenly open the sluice of venture capital in Tunisian tech or Africa’s AI market, which currently lags several industries as hotbeds of investments on the continent.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2015

announced they raised $9 million from Sequoia , arguably the best venture capital firm that exists. We will have two well-funded companies educating the market on why this market opportunity for the $24 billion US storage market is ripe for disruption. This morning Clutter.io Congratulations.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2021

People have been discussing the importance of expanding opportunities for women in venture capital and startup entrepreneurship for decades. And for some time it appeared that progress was being made in building a more diverse and equitable environment.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

March 3 is your opportunity to hear from and engage with the people who, through entrepreneurship, venture capital, labor organizing and advocacy, are both using and challenging tech to disrupt the status quo for the betterment of all. Founded by Reetu Gupta.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

This year, we’re pleased to share hosting honors with Mayfield — a global venture capital firm with a people-first philosophy. It’s the perfect opportunity to showcase your business in front of all the right people in a casual, convivial atmosphere. If you want to attend our summer fete on June 23, there’s no time to waste.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

Some of the greatest areas of innovation opportunity are at the intersection of sectors historically segregated , e.g., computational biology. The TCU Values and Ventures Competition is a competition for undergraduate student ventures that demonstrate a societal or environmental need to be filled. Many universities (e.g.,

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