Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Over the past month a colleague ( Chang Xu ) and I sifted through data on the venture capital industry (as we do every year) and made a bunch of calls to VCs and LPs to confirm our hypotheses. if you want to download the deck it’s here on SlideShare ) Why Did The Seed Market Emerge in the First Place? Why Has Seed Investing Declined?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

One of things I’ve loved the most about doing now 11 weeks of This Week in VC is a chance to have an hour-long recorded conversation with investors. And in my interviews with many VCs I feel that people can watch these and get to know the VC’s as human beings a bit better. So how did Mike get into VC?

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MAY 14, 2018

I know all of this because every VC knows this because we’ve all either funded companies that have marketing technology or we’ve seen a pitch with a company that does this. If you haven’t read the other VC fund-raising posts I’ve done as part of this series you can find the whole outline and this first in the series here.]

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 21, 2009

They do around 7% of the total VC-backed deals in the US per year or just under 40 deals / year on average (present year excluded!). Where I add commentary from myself or my fellow VC colleagues from our discussion after Jamie left I’ll put in red. 2009 has been the worst year for M&A in a decade. per year.

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JUNE 3, 2010

This was really a fun week at TWiVC because we decided to have an entrepreneur come and talk about raising capital rather than having a VC come on. In particular I tried to do most of the “entrepreneur advice on VC” up front so that if you don’t want to watch our views on the deals you don’t have to. Estimated 15mm downloads to date.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Download the a16z Guide to Raising Debt Thank You Your download will begin shortly. Or click here to download manually. OUR PRIVACY POLICY By clicking the Download button, you agree to the Privacy Policy. has the company recently raised VC funding, are there a number of customers who are in existing similar products?)

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

Company reports 250,000 users in 49 countries with 1mm+ application downloads. Fast-growing application store with more than 1billion apps downloaded (second in size only to Apple). -One of the new investors Raghuvinder Kataria is an early backer of Bharti Airtel and now the majority owner of Vopium. Competitors: Skype.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

OCTOBER 8, 2020

I took this photo while waiting for my coffee to come out yesterday: The initial download and setup of the Toast Takeout app takes a few minutes. At my regular coffee shop in NYC, they now encourage ordering in advance versus standing in line to order your coffee. It is not something I would have done in the past.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Our last thoughts on the VC funding markets heading into 2016 was published here and I followed up with a little more context on the resetting of the venture industry , some thoughts on how startups are valued and how to think about burn rates at startups. It’s linked to here where you can download it or embedded below.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 5, 2021

You can download a cryptocurrency wallet onto your phone, you can send some Ethereum to it from your Coinbase account in the cloud (called a “hosted wallet” and/or “exchange”), and then you can send that Ethereum to anyone else using any other crypto wallet.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Yes, VC / Startup Funding is up Massively If you look at how much VC firms have raised from Limited Partners (LPs) over the past 2 decades you’ll see that we’ve returned to a level that we haven’t seen since 1999. If you want the whole deck you can find it on SlideShare but I’ve written up a short summary with commentary below.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2013

I am a VC. But through expressing points-of-view I can raise above the consciousness of my customers (entrepreneurs and limited partners who invest in VC funds) in ways that I couldn’t without breaking through the noise of the hundreds of others of VCs who also have money. I hand out money. How differentiated is that?

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JULY 7, 2023

Like tens of millions of others, I downloaded Threads onto my phone yesterday and signed up. The thing that Twitter has been missing since it killed off its ecosystem over a decade ago is competition. And as we all know, lack of competition is a very bad thing. In governments and in products. Competition keeps you honest.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 23, 2024

Business analytics platform CB Insights released their State of Fintech 2023 Report which indicates the fintech sector experienced a greater downturn than the broader venture capital market—which reported that Q4’23 was “the harshest quarter for global VC in 6 years”. Globally, fintech funding was down 50% year over year to $39.2

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

Startups and VC Gotta love some solid startup drama, and Brian covers it in his summary of Turntable and all its iterations over the years: Turntable LIVE raises $7 million ahead of public launch , after years of co-founder disagreements and music licensing challenges. Big Tech Inc. Tweet at Christine and let her know your favorite piece.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2018

Or if you’re a VC raising from LPs you have to list all of your deals, your investment value, your carrying value, your multiples, your IRRs, TVPIs, DPIs, etc along with net cashflows plus your previous LPAs. So what does a VC do when he or she isn’t ready to say “no” or perhaps might like to talk with you in a year but not now?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Investors in the round include Caruso Ventures, Vision VC Fund, e& capital, investment pillar of e& (formerly known as Etisalat Group), DFDF (Dubai Future District Fund), WIN (Webit Investment Network), SRMG, Elbert Capital, and Yasta Partners, Faith Capital, Panthera Capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

The importance of the conference is that it assembles most of the top privately held early-to-mid-stage technology companies in the country (and some globally) as well as most VC’s, growth equity funds and corporate development departments from large industry players looking at technology acquisitions. Tapulous had raised $1.8mm.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2012

The median VC exit price for deals is $70 million (FLAG Capital via Bryce.VC). Bimodal returns are a fallacy, many great VC funds are built on the power law curve. They say the same about VC. If you have any problems downloading deck from above SlideShare presentation you can try this link. So entry price matters a lot.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2021

There are data in both directions.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

million downloads and raised a total of $15 million in total. Investors to date include D Moonshots, Cleverage Venture Capital, Roca X and Gapminder VC. SkinVision reached 1.2 Medicai co-founder Alexandru Artimon (CTO) previously co-founded software company Atta Systems. Meanwhile the Tumor Board project continues.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 22, 2010

I just want to figure out what a fair valuation is.&# I figured all the VC’s talked so we should. How VC’s Calculate Valuation : We walked through a standard deal where you raise $1 million at a $3 million pre-money valuation leading to a $4 million post money valuation. The VC assumes you’ll have an option pool.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2021

You might not be familiar with Singular, but it makes a ton of sense to see the VC firm on the cap table. Former Alven partners Jeremy Uzan and Raffi Kamber left the Paris-based VC firm to raise their own fund. You can then download your tax documents or send them directly from Indy. Singular is leading today’s funding round.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

Similar to Spotify, the Uppbeat website leverages a freemium model, To get started, creators can sign up for a free account that provides access to about 50% of the site’s roughly 1,000-track music catalog and 10 downloads per month. The paid plan offers full catalog access and no download limit.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Today it’s announcing a $12 million seed raise, led by Outsiders Fund and featuring additional investments from Bain Capital Ventures, 8VC and Liquid2 VC. Flux says its technology is supported by “all modern browsers,” requiring no downloads. Image Credits: Flux.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

Here is that video: If you want to get more videos like this, you can download the Recount iOS app and/or sign up for their videos delivered via a daily email. So to be able to get a sense of Wednesday night’s debate on my phone on the subway between meetings was so great.

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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.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

” This is a frequent theme of mine when asked to speak to audience about the VC industry. Fooling us into downloading an app to watch a video and afterward feeling duped. And this is fueled by the VC culture in Silicon Valley. And this is fueled by the VC culture in Silicon Valley. It is VC math, like it or not.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 17, 2022

In just a few weeks, Revyze managed to attract 35,000 downloads. firstminute Capital, Kima Ventures, AirAngels, Nomad Capital and Ligature VC also invested. firstminute Capital, Kima Ventures, AirAngels, Nomad Capital and Ligature VC also invested. Image Credits: Revyze.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2015

I’d love it if you’d take a moment to download the app and tell us what you think. As a VC (especially based in LA), I see hundreds of video apps. We saw downloads immediately spike, feedback rolled in quickly and thousands and thousands of videos were uploaded in a very short period of time. So Why Did We Invest?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The round was led by Hannah Grey VC , with participation from K50 Ventures , Tribe Capital , Alumni Venture Group , Verissimo Ventures , Conscience VC and select strategic angels. .” The company just announced it closed a $2 million pre-seed round late this summer. ” “We’re not fighting social media.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 20, 2020

non symmetric, meaning the upload speeds are not nearly as good as the download speeds. As I understand it, cable internet suffers from a few problems relative to fiber. The bandwidth in cable is usually (always?) For applications like browsing the web, that’s fine. For applications like videoconferencing, that’s not so fine.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2022

Bucketplace also claims that OHouse has been downloaded more than 20 million times in South Korea. Investors in the Series D round include SoftBank Ventures Asia, Singapore’s Vertex Growth, a VC backed by sovereign wealth fund Temasek, Bond Capital, BRV Capital Management, Korea Development Bank, IMM Investment and Mirae Asset Capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2020

I had originally signed up to talk about the “VC Market Trends” overall but it seemed inauthentic to speak about VC funding without addressing the virus in the room. But for now you can have view the deck I plan to use below (or click to go to SlideShare if you’d like to download it). I welcome any feedback.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Gogii is the creator of the 36th most downloaded application in the history of the iPhone app store – a product called textPlus. If you download the app on your iPhone or Android phone you can save more than $200 / year on text messaging. By the next Monday we had lost the deal to a NorCal VC. More on that later.

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JUNE 11, 2015

I watched him jump on a plane regularly to be down at all of our board meetings and while I know that sounds like an obvious commitment from a VC, I’ve watched other scenarios where NorCal VCs find reasons to always dial in via Google Hangouts or ask non-Silicon Valley investments to travel to Menlo Park or San Francisco for meetings.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

He later went on to more entrepreneurial efforts including the VC-backed social web browser Flock (which received its fair share of TechCrunch coverage back in the day), followed by an early smartphone game maker Tapulous, makers of Tap Tap Revenge. ” a title that’s seen a billion-some downloads by now.

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