Revolution

DECEMBER 23, 2024

The optionality to lock in gains amid prolonged investment cycles through secondary sales and continuation funds are disproportionately available to larger, multi-stage, incumbent funds. In regions where venture capital is already sparse, accessing funding remains difficult and expensive.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

The startup ecosystem is a terrific manufacturer of bad fundraising advice. Or that venture capital is a meritocracy? This doesn’t take into consideration, however, that venture capital is a financial product—a product that works for some people and doesn’t work for others. That adds risk.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2023

startup ecosystem lost an important business partner. But these disclosures carry significant financial costs for small, private companies — and they carry the extra risk of exposing sensitive financial information to competitors and large corporate incumbents. With the failure of Silicon Valley Bank, the U.S.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Much of this can trickle down into the startup ecosystem. Now that everyone knows the stakes of a Facebook-like outcome, there’s more money looking to fund and fuel web-scale network-effect businesses. Money has been coming into the U.S. and the Bay Area specifically at a rapid rate.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Israel’s startup ecosystem raised record amounts of funding and produced 19 IPOs in 2020, despite the pandemic. Which areas are either oversaturated or would be too hard to compete in at this point for a new startup? Ben Wiener, Jumpspeed Ventures. Are there startups that you wish you would see in the industry but don’t?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

individuals give money and personal data to network operators in exchange for access to information. “In In Web3 there is a possibility — not saying that it’s going to actually 100% gonna happen — but there is a possibility where the network owns the network,” said Rubin. Which form of venture debt should your startup go for?

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