A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Buying something from the creator or issuer is often called the “primary market.” Reselling it to someone else is often called the “secondary market.” I have spent my career in the primary market, buying equity from very young companies and holding it for many years usually until a sale or IPO. That has worked well for me over the years but recently, I have watched a vibrant secondary market develop for private company shares and I think that is a good thing as I believe

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Contributed by Rich Mulholland, an EO member in Cape Town and founder of Missing Link. On 15 March 2020, South African president Cyril Ramaphosa–like many other world leaders–declared a national State of Disaster. This meant that there would be no public gatherings and that a lockdown was imminent. That’s bad news if you make your living from live conferences, like we did.

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

2021: The Great Acceleration of the Rise of the Rest (Part II): Does your City have a Moat? What’s the secret sauce for emerging tech hubs who want to seize this shake-the-snow-globe moment of tech talent redistributing across the country? I’ll frame my response in the same context that I used for Part I of this series: first, we must appreciate that cities are just like startups.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

This morning OutSystems , a low-code app development service, announced that it has closed $150 million in new capital. The round was led by Abdiel Capital and Tiger Global. Notably this is not the largest funding event that the Portugal and U.S.-based software company has raised. TechCrunch covered a $360 million round that OutSystems raised in 2018.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Here’s what you can learn from the 25-year-old prodigy Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Learn how to cultivate sustainable success by optimizing your mental, physical, and emotional health. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

When you’re just starting out building your company, there’s obviously a lot that can go wrong. Especially if you’re a first-time founder (but even if you’re an experienced serial entrepreneur), it can be hard to spot the potential pitfalls that might lead you astray before you even really get rolling. That’s why we’re thrilled to have Fuel Capital General Partner Leah Solivan joining us at TechCrunch Early Stage — Operations and Fundraising on April 1 and 2 f

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

And reinvented themselves with ruthless rationality Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Gravy , a startup helping subscription-based businesses recover failed payments, has raised $4.5 million in Series A funding for its specialized combination of technology and a human workspace that works to reacquire customers lost to what’s known as “involuntary churn.” That means the customer didn’t choose to end their subscription, but — for any one of hundreds of possible reasons — their credit card payment failed.

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

When a router goes down or WiFi is glitchy, today’s safety-conscious customers have no intention of simply waiting for service. Read more here. The post [TechSee in Telecomlead] How the pandemic has accelerated computer vision adoption in telecom appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

This morning Ally.io , a software startup with a focus on the OKR (objectives and key results, in case you’ve somehow avoided being exposed) goal-setting technique, announced that it has closed $50 million in new capital. The Series C round was led by Green Oaks Capital, Madrona Capital, and its Series B lead, Tiger Global. Ally raised an $8 million Series A in August, 2019 and a $15 million Series B in October of the same year.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

What does the state of freelancing look like in the U.S.? According to a report from online freelance marketplace Freelancer, freelance job openings increased over 25% between the months of April through June 2020. This study revealed that, in a COVID-19 landscape as well as post-COVID landscape, the state of work and how we work is trending toward new patterns.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Like corporate financial accounting, the power grid never draws headlines when things are going well. No journalist writes “The power remains on,” or discusses the extensive work it takes to maintain the grid. Instead, it takes a record-breaking ice wave to knock out power to one of the largest states in America for it to start garnering front-page coverage, or perhaps massive wildfires in America’s most populous state like the Camp Fire in California in 2018.

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Edgybees, a company that helps businesses, first responders and military users accurately geotag and augment their aerial video streams in real time, today announced that it has raised a $9.5 million Series A round. The news comes almost exactly two years after the company announced its $5.5 million seed round. . Read more here. The post [Edgybees in TechCrunch] Edgybees raises $9.5M Series A for its aerial video augmentation service appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Special purpose acquisition vehicles regained popularity in 2020 as an alternative way to take startups public, and now they are eyeing edtech companies. So far, Skillsoft has gone public through Churchill Capital, and Nerdy, parent company of Varsity Tutors, did the same through a reverse merger with TPG Pace Tech Opportunities. On the investor side, Edify and Adit EdTech Acquisition are both separate, $200 million SPACs for education companies.

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GCUC

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Here at GCUC we are immensely fortunate to cross paths and work with so many amazing people. Through our work, we’ve cultivated a global. The post Community of Cultivators: Edition 42 appeared first on GCUC Community.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

The day before Robinhood goes under the the Congressional hammer , domestic rival Public.com announced this morning that it has closed a $220 million funding round at a $1.2 billion valuation. News of the round was first broken by TechCrunch. Further reporting colored in the lines concerning the investment’s size and valuation range. Confirming the funding news today, Public added a fresh metric to the mix, namely that it has reached one million members – over the course of just 18 months

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

The post OurCrowd Job Index Q4 2020 appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

AEye, a lidar startup that developed its technology for use in autonomous vehicles as well as to support advanced driver assistance systems in passenger cars, is going public through a merger with CF Finance Acquisition Corp. III that will value the company at $2 billion. The agreement marks the latest lidar company to turn to so-called blank check companies or SPACs in lieu of a traditional IPO process.

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Edgybees, a provider of georegistration and augmented reality tools for drone operators, today announced that it raised $9.5 million, bringing its total raised to $15 million. The company says the proceeds will be used to drive product research, expand global adoption, and support an “aggressive” hiring strategy. Read more here. The post [Edgybees in VentureBeat] Edgybees raises $9.5 million for AI that augments drone camera footage appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Millions of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, and struggle to get out of a debt cycle. One startup is developing financial products targeted toward this segment of the population, with the goal of helping them build credit, save money, access funds and plan for the future. That startup, SeedFi , announced Wednesday it has raised $50 million in debt and $15 million in an equity funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz, also known as a16z.

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

There’s a low-energy solution to home heating and cooling sitting right underneath most houses, but until recently no one has been able to tap it at a low enough cost across a broad swath of the country. Read more here. The post [Dandelion Energy in TechCrunch] Geothermal home heating gets a $30 million boost from Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy Ventures appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

TigerGraph , a well-funded enterprise startup that provides a graph database and analytics platform, today announced that it has raised a $105 million Series C funding round. The round was led by Tiger Global and brings the company’s total funding to over $170 million. “TigerGraph is leading the paradigm shift in connecting and analyzing data via scalable and native graph technology with pre-connected entities versus the traditional way of joining large tables with rows and columns,&

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Scottsdale, AZ /PRNewswire/ – Trusona, the pioneering leader in passwordless identity authentication, today announced its industry-first, patent-pending app-less MFA solution, enabling enterprises to deliver fast, frictionless and secure passwordless authentication without requiring a mobile app. The solution utilizes FIDO-based technology, providing out-of-the-box authentication for customers and employees via mobile device.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

“Mining” has become synonymous with crypto the past few years in the tech industry, what with Bitcoin piercing the $50,000 barrier and GPUs and ASICs worldwide scrambling to hash functions in a bid for distributed crypto manna. That excitement belies an increasingly energetic push though to bring VC dollars and entrepreneurial acumen back to Mining 1.0 — actual meatspace resource extraction.

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