Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Venture Capital is a tricky industry. Internally at Upfront Ventures we talk about “high consensus” vs. controversial deals with “high conviction.” As Venture Capitalists we take some near-term bets and some higher beta deals with more risk and more upside if they work. Far from it. Startup Lessons'

funders

Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

They’ll have to back up the truck for their best companies, take acquisitions off the table, and go right after the incumbents head-on. Speaking of acquisitions — many leaders of larger VC funds have privately given up on the incumbents buying their companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

The venture capital industry is so heavily skewed to Northern California, which the remains spilled over Boston, New York & Southern California. So it was wonderful to hear from a leading venture capital firm based in Washington DC. We are a venture capital growth equity fund in Washington DC with about $500m invested.

founder

TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

As the market swoons, venture capital firms continue to announce new funds. Haris Khurshid, general partner at Chalo Ventures , launched a $50 million second fund focused on investing in Pakistani startups and a smaller percentage in Latin American startups. As the global venture capital market slows, is the US dodging the downturn?

venture capital

TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

“Challenger” startups in banking and insurance have upended their industries, and picked up significant business, by building more customer-friendly tools and services — more personalized, easier to access and usually competitively priced — than those typically provided by their bigger, incumbent rivals.

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Revolution

JUNE 3, 2021

Nowhere is this more evident than in the world of work where we have been acutely interested in two data points: the acceleration of funding to early-stage startups outside of the Bay Area and the acceleration of remote work opportunities in tech. At Rise of the Rest, we see opportunity first through the lens of geography.

startup

TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2021

Jeff Farrah is the general counsel of the National Venture Capital Association. The knock-on effect of these reforms for young companies and their venture investors is unclear. NVCA-Pitchbook data on acquisitions and IPOs back up the sentiment of founders when it comes to likely exit opportunities. Jeff Farrah. Contributor.

startup ecosystem

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Abstract Ventures led the financing, which also included participation from Propel Venture Partners, NFP Ventures, BoxGroup and Precursor Ventures. BrokerTech Ventures (BTV), a group consisting of 13 tech-focused insurance agencies in the U.S. million in a seed round. Are insurtech startups undervalued?

data analysis

TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2023

Anthony Cimino Contributor Share on Twitter Anthony Cimino , head of policy at Carta , works with policymakers and innovators to drive economic opportunity through expanding equity ownership and private market liquidity. This negative narrative has immense implications for the venture community. This is an inflection point.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The two co-founders leveraged their tech backgrounds to pursue an entrepreneurial opportunity. Backers include the Rounds lead N otable Capita l, with significant participation from Redpoint Ventures and existing investors Ribbit Capital, Thrive Capital, and GIC. This has historically hindered small business growth.

finance

Revolution

JUNE 10, 2019

In fact, according to the 2018 year-end report by CREtech , funding for “proptech” startups has surged with over $20 billion invested across early and late stage venture rounds in the last two years?—?quickly quickly making real estate technology one of the fastest growing venture asset classes.

hospitality

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

ALLVP and Infinity Ventures, a firm founded by a trio of ex-PayPal execs, co-led the equity raise. Better Tomorrow Ventures, Lee Fixel’s Addition, Broadhaven and Magma Partners are also backers of the company. based corporate spend startup that in June closed a $60 million Series B led by Menlo Ventures and whose CEO is an investor.

incumbents

TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

We cover a lot of venture capital news here at TechCrunch. Lately, we’ve had to touch on rolling funds, solo GPs and a faster-than-ever investing cadence that has rewritten the rules of venture investing. But there’s another venture capital trend worth discussing: venture capital firms going public.

VC

TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

A recent ZDNet piece reaffirms that the AI edge chip market is booming, fueled by “staggering” venture capital financing in the hundreds of millions of dollars. EdgeQ , Kneron , and Hailo are among the dozens of upstarts vying for customers, the last of which nabbed $136 million in October as it doubles down on new opportunities.

startup

TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2023

Embedding a learning management system directly into workers’ core everyday tools is one of LMS365’s core selling points versus incumbents in the LMS space such as Workday , Eloomi , or TalentLMS. Germany, and Australia. “We “We will use M&A strategically going forward, including in relation to product development.”

incumbents

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Today, Teampay has hundreds of customers and significant venture capital financing behind it. million in debt) Series B led by Fin Venture Capital with participation from Mastercard, Proof Ventures, Trestle and Espresso Capital, bringing Teampay’s total raised to $65 million. million in equity, $11.75

economic environments

TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

But despite my privilege, I’m also confident that my Black heritage made it more difficult for me to raise venture capital. Today — and the data proves this — if you are a white male, you have an unfair advantage when looking to raise venture capital. At the time, I didn’t even know that raising venture capital was a possibility.

entrepreneurship

TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

It’s raising a $30 million Series B, led by TransUnion — one of the largest incumbents in an industry that Spring Labs is looking to shake up. GreatPoint Ventures and August Capital, among other existing investors, are participating in the Series B round as well. “We

collaboration

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

“Having worked in hardware and software we had the opportunity to experience both ecosystems and knew how easy things could be when technology bridges gaps between ideas and scale,” said Gulley. “The big players on the cap table are Bain Capital Ventures (BCV) and Y Combinator.

incumbents

Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 20, 2024

You could either spend, you know, you raise some venture funding, you could either spend some of that funding on hiring out a whole team and developing all those competencies, or you can spend that on making your model even better. You know, incumbents versus startups. You need to do billing in all these different countries.

incumbents

TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

On competition between these platforms, Adeseun said a few of these chain pharmacy incumbents, such as MedPlus and HealthPlus, are taking on a digital strategy by adding telemedicine capabilities, thus responding to the innovation that startups introduced. The pan-African initiative will have four hubs in east, north, south, and west Africa.

investment

TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

In a nutshell, Geopagos feels it is in the ideal position of being able to serve as the software enabler that can retrofit incumbents like large banks and launch the enablers like fintechs. This spells ample opportunity for payments infrastructure providers such as Geopagos. The bootstrapped are coming, the bootstrapped are coming.

startup

TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

With plans to raise a $25 million fund and more than $15 million already invested, PsyMed Ventures focuses on early-stage startups developing psychedelic therapeutics. venture capital activity,” he writes. “We’re big believers of Bitcoin, so we’re just going to continue to buy whenever there’s an opportunity to.”

transportation

TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

and United Emirates; and existing backers Bessemer Venture Partners, Pitango, D1 Capital, Atreides Management, and Harel Insurance Investments & Financial Services are also participating. “We have seen in the past couple of years some of the incumbent networking vendors starting to adopt our model,” said Susan.

networking

TechCrunch

JUNE 5, 2022

And this gives Affirm an opportunity to generate more revenue as it makes money in part on interest fees. But it is illustrative of the measures that financial services companies — incumbents and fintechs alike — are taking to make their installment loans available to more consumers.

incumbents

Ecosystem Builder Hub

MAY 21, 2021

The current ecosystem excludes far too many, denying economic opportunity and a shot at the American Dream to all,” said Kate. It is incumbent upon those of us working to build vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystems to put inclusion front and center, at the heart of everything we do. Because right now, it is anything but equitable.

peer-to-peer

TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

“The valuation we received is great recognition of the value our employees and stakeholders have helped to create, as well as the exciting opportunities ahead for OneStream.”. Those using its software include the likes of Fruit of the Loom, McCain (the frozen fries king) and AAA, but also Takeaway.com, the Carlyle Group and many others.

finance

TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

If it sounds frustrating as a salesperson, well, that’s what AcuityMD is here to resolve; to find opportunities for your sales process. The company raised $31 million in Series A funding led by Redpoint Venture Partners, with support from Benchmark. “Instead we got 140 instruments in a surgical tray. .” ”

education

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Previous backers One Peak and Project A Ventures also participated. Spryker’s argument is that by being a newer company (founded in 2018) it has a more up-to-date stack that puts it ahead of older startups and more incumbent players like SAP and Oracle. ” The roster includes Metro, Aldi Süd, Toyota and many others.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 13, 2015

But which lesser known startup sectors are starting to raise venture dollars? Where are founders finding unique opportunities to innovate? Earlier this week, we examined the trends in the major categories of startup investment including eCommerce, Software, Social Networking and Education.

investment

Ecosystem Builder Hub

JULY 1, 2020

We amplify the voice of the innovators and entrepreneurs, of small business and new ventures. As ecosystem builders, we are new entrants coping with well-entrenched incumbents who are well-motivated to hold their turf. To you, what is an Ecosystem Builder? All of them. ALL of them. Effective ecosystem builders are them? (Cf.

education

TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Abdigani Diriye, Khalid Keenan and Youcef Oudjidane, the other co-founders, have combined experience across engineering, investment banking and venture capital. The only worry is incumbents might want to eat into Duplo’s meal — but then again, the market is massive. Bloom’s offering allows Sudanese to save in U.S.

startup

TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

The venture potential of a startup that caters to individual students — instead of a slow-moving, small-pocketed institution — has a bullish aura that attracts investors. Last year brought a flurry of record-breaking venture capital to the sector. billion in venture capital across 265 deals during 2020, compared to $1.32

education

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

I’d venture that companies that reach unicorn status fastest have a higher likelihood of getting regulated. If there are no concerns about a technology, then there may also not be a significant opportunity for that technology. Therefore, the possibility of regulation itself creates significant opportunities for companies.

incumbents

Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 13, 2023

There is a unique window of opportunity today for a new 3D Creation Engine (aka game engine) to revolutionize the way we create games, film, virtual worlds, and simulations. Ultimately, these engine unbundling approaches are market wedges to find soft spots where a new creation tool can provide 10x improvement over incumbents.

incumbents

TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Daniel Cohen , partner, Viola Ventures. Ben Wiener , partner, Jumpspeed Ventures. Inbal Perlman , partner, TAU Ventures. Dror Nahumi , partner, Norwest Venture Partners. Sharin Fisher , partner, Fort Ross Ventures. Tal Slobodkin , partner, StageOne Ventures . What are some overlooked opportunities right now?

startup

TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

We seek innovation from everywhere and we know sometimes the newest ideas don’t necessarily come from the incumbents in the industry.” The earlier seed investors included Tom Chi’s At One Ventures (he also met Felts in Alaska), the Sustainable Ocean Alliance, the Sony Innovation Fund, and Regeneration.VC.

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