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Getting Together In Person

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

Last week we held USV’s annual Portfolio Summit here in NYC. Every year we invite the leaders of our portfolio companies to come to NYC and spend a couple of days with us and each other. However, we were not able to do that in 2020 and 2021 so this was our first Portfolio Summit since 2019. In the three years that have passed since our last summit, we roughly doubled the size of our portfolio, adding 65 new investments.

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A final column and a thank you for reading

Innovation 2 Enterprise

Thank you for reading this column for nearly a decade. By Scott Meacham. This is my final column for The Oklahoman. As CEO of i2E , I have had the wonderful opportunity since January 2013 to write this weekly column for the readers of this newspaper. That stacks up to more than 460 columns on all aspects of entrepreneurship and innovation in Oklahoma.

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Building a better mobility fintech startup on TechCrunch Live

TechCrunch

QED incubated this auto financing company in 2016 and Kevin Bennett became CEO in 2018 and soon after raised its first seed round. It started as MotoRefi, and rebranded in November 2021 to Caribou. But the mission remains: Transforming consumers’ financial relationship with their cars. Since the founding, Bennett has raised $74 million for the company, including early angel funding from Rachel Holt.

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Jungle Ventures leads $5.3m funding in Vietnamese startup Dat Bike

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Vietnamese electric motorbike startup Dat Bike has announced a $5.3 million Series A fundraise led by Jungle Ventures , with participation from existing investor Wavemaker Partners. This brings the total fundraise by the company since inception to $10 million.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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What’s To Stop Twitter’s New Owner From Publishing The Company’s Historical Internal Emails?

Hunter Walk

Selective Leaks of Previous Discussions & Policy Debates In The Name of ‘Transparency’ Would Put Twitter Employees At Risk. Typing “I know this makes me sound like a crazy person but.” as a blog post opener is usually a good reason to close my browser window and take a walk. But hey, it’s 2022, let’s soldier onward…. Since it was announced that Twitter’s Board of Directors and Elon Musk had reached an agreement to pursue a sale of the company there’s been a lot of speculation about how the s

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