A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 23, 2021

I realized a long time ago that the VC’s customer is the founder/CEO/portfolio company and that our investors (called LPs in VC speak) are our “shareholders” That was a very defining moment for me and has clarified what matters the most in a VC firm. That said, we take investor relations very seriously at USV and always have. This is our model: 1/ We are loyal to our LPs and offer them the opportunity to invest with us fund after fund after fund unless something has materially

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

Lagos and Toronto-based mobility startup Plentywaka has raised a $1.2 million seed round to scale its operations on the back of leaving the Techstars Toronto accelerator program last month. . Canadian-based VC firm The Xchange led the round, SOSV and Shock Ventures participated, while Techstars Toronto made a follow-on investment. Nigerian firms Argentil Capital Partners and ODBA & Co Ventures took part in the seed round, alongside some angel investors from Canada, other parts of Africa and

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 23, 2021

The man saving Radio Shack Image courtesy of Tai Lopez The COVID-19 pandemic has destroyed businesses across the world, with the retail sector being especially hard hit. Brick-and-mortar stores rely on getting consumers in the door, which was near-impossible under strict lockdown rules. It was the worst year for retail sector bankruptcies since the 2009 financial crisis.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

With COVID-19 disrupting the entire manufacturing supply chain including semiconductor shortages, companies across multiple industries have been struggling to seek a procurement solution that can rebalance the gap between supply and demand. CADDi, a Tokyo-based B2B ordering and supply platform in the manufacturing and procurement industry, helps both procurement (demand side) and manufacturing facilities (supply side) by aggregating and rebalancing supply and demand via its automated calculation

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StartupNation

AUGUST 23, 2021

Philanthropy. Corporate giving. Social responsibility. These are a few of the different terms that are used by businesses to define their approach to giving back. Don’t be fooled by the jargon. All of these terms lead to the same result: using a business to leave the world a better place. . Regardless of what you want to call your giving back plans, all philanthropic activities and charitable giving should be a strategic component of your businesses’ identity and, as such, incorporated into your

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 23, 2021

They both have benefits and drawbacks, but, if you think carefully about the choice, one is clearly a better option Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

Sumi Das. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Sumi Das is a partner at CapitalG, Alphabet’s independent growth fund, where he leads healthcare tech and consumer fintech investments. Prior investments include Robinhood, Stripe, Convoy, Albert, Aye Finance, Next Insurance and Strive Health. Nina Gerson. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Nina Gerson is a vice president at CapitalG, Alphabet’s independent growth fund, where she co-leads healthcare tech investments.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 23, 2021

The brutal truth about passive income Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

As more companies provide more API-first services, Moesif has developed a way for those companies to learn how their customers are utilizing them. The San Francisco-based startup is adding to its capital raise Monday with the announcement of a $12 million Series A round led by David Sacks and Arra Malekzadeh of Craft Ventures. Existing investor Merus Capital, which led Moesif’s $3.5 million seed round in 2019, also participated in the round, bringing the company’s total raise to $15.5 million, M

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 23, 2021

How entrepreneurs can use work uniforms to be more productive Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

An Indian startup that operates a business-to-business marketplace for manufacturing items is the latest to attain the coveted unicorn status in the South Asian market. Bangalore-based Zetwerk said on Monday it has raised $150 million in a Series E financing round led by New York-based D1 Capital Partners. New investors Avenir and IIFL also participated in the round, along with existing investors Greenoaks Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital and Accel Partners.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

AUGUST 23, 2021

Contributed by Cass Polzin, co-founder of Zealous Advertising and content writer at Missinglettr, has been blogging for nearly a decade, turning her hobby into a career. As an e-commerce owner, you have a lot to juggle. It can be hard to manage everything from launching new products, marketing to your audience, driving traffic, and influencing sales.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

Getting children to school safely and reliably is a challenge as old as public education itself. But rarely have any entrepreneurs tackled the problem of updating and optimizing one of the nation’s largest legacy transit systems, now nearly a century old. It’s still common to find people at U.S. student transportation hubs speaking into walkie-talkies and wrangling clipboards as they sort passengers into gas-guzzling yellow buses.

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 23, 2021

The first US Army Iron Dome Battery has completed a live fire test at New Mexico’s White Sands test range, according a statement from the Israeli Defense Ministry. Read more here. The post [mPrest in i24 News] mPrest Collaborates with Microsoft to Empower the Digital Transformation of the Energy Industry appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

Figuring out size and cut of clothes through a website can suck the fun out of shopping online, but Revery.ai is developing a tool that leverages computer vision and artificial intelligence to create a better online dressing room experience. Under the tutelage of University of Illinois Center for Computer Science advisrr David Forsyth, a team consisting of Ph.D. students Kedan Li, Jeffrey Zhang and Min Jin Chong, is creating what they consider to be the first tool using existing catalog images t

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Smart Hustle Magazine

AUGUST 23, 2021

You’ve built your family-owned business from the ground up, and you want it to last. An establishment that’s sustainable for generations is a goal worth working for. But there’s one problem I’ve seen again and again in small family businesses– a tendency to focus too much inwards. Sometimes our focus on continuity and sustainability means we lose touch with external trends and competition.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

Deena Shakir is a partner at Lux Capital, where she looks to invest in technologies that are streamlining analog industries while also improving lives and livelihoods. Among the companies she has backed, for example, are Shiru , which is leveraging computational design to create enhanced proteins to help feed the world; and AllStripes , which aggregates and analyzes medical records, then sells the de-identified data to pharma companies to help them develop medicines.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 23, 2021

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

Pry Financials wants to make startup finances approachable for its entire team, not just the people in charge of its accounting spreadsheets. The Y Combinator alum announced today it has raised $4.2 million from Global Founders Capital, Pioneer Fund, NOMO VC, Liquid2 and Hyphen Capital. . Launched in March, Pry now has more than 200 customers and claims it has grown 35% month-over-month since YC’s Demo Day.

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Feedough

AUGUST 23, 2021

A few decades back, having employees work from home sounded. Read more.

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AUGUST 23, 2021

Covering public companies can be a bit of a drag. They grow some modest amount each year, and their constituent analysts pester them with questions about gross margin expansion and sales rep efficiency. It can be a little dull. Then there are startups, which grow much more quickly — and are more fun to talk about. That’s the case with Shelf.io.

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Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 23, 2021

Virgin Hyperloop has demonstrated that it can transport humans over a hyperloop system, and now it’s trying to convince everyone that this idea of transporting people at 670 miles per hour isn’t a crazy pipe dream. Read more here. The post [Virgin Hyperloop One in Venture Beat] Virgin Hyperloop explains how its pods will connect cities at 670 mph appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

Inflation may or may not prove transitory when it comes to consumer prices, but startup valuations are definitely rising — and noticeably so — in recent quarters. That’s the obvious takeaway from a recent PitchBook report digging into valuation data from a host of startup funding events in the United States. While the data covers the U.S. startup market, the general trends included are likely global, given that the same venture rush that has pushed record capital into startups

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 23, 2021

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are continuing to adjust their policies as new COVID-19 cases surge due to the Delta variant. Read more here. The post [JumpCloud in Venture Beat] JumpCloud: 68% of small to medium-sized enterprises in the U.S. are mandating COVID-19 vaccine appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

When Clarisse Beurrier was getting her education in chemical engineering and biotechnology, she already knew she wanted to make a difference; hence her participation in Effective Altruism Cambridge, an organization dedicated to helping smart and capable people target their philanthropic urges at the problems that will have the biggest actual impact on the world.

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