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Headwinds, Tailwinds, and Crosswinds Ahead for Rising Startup Ecosystems

Revolution

In 2025, startups beyond the coasts and outside of the traditional tech hubs will face new challenges and, with customary resourcefulness, also seize new opportunities. With scarcer exit opportunities and LPs looking for returns, VCs may retreat further to perceived safety in traditional techhubs. startups in Q1-Q2 of 2024.

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After Investing $100 Million Into New VC Firms, Here’s What I Look For: Traditional But Better, or Different & Excellent.

Hunter Walk

In these cases we’re asking ourselves, can this individual/partnership execute a ‘known’ playbook better than incumbents, because it’s not very interesting to put people in business who are going to be Traditional But Average. But we’re interested in taking this risk when the person and opportunity warrants it.

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Why I Backed a 24-Year-Old Trying to Assess Human Potential

Both Sides of the Table

Today Upfront Ventures is announcing that we’ve backed Rebecca Kantar ’s startup Imbellus , a company designed to assess human potential and ultimately change the way we teach children. I speak a lot on college campuses and entrepreneur events and amongst the most common things I’m asked to talk about are: What do VCs fund?

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Revolution co-founder talks Living Social, ZipCar, Steve Case & GroupOn Super Bowl Ads

Both Sides of the Table

I run Revolution’s VC investments. We look at huge markets where there are large incumbents that might not be incented to innovate or react to what they perceive as an insurgent. Both AOL and Time Warner had existing VC operations. Startup America , an Obama administration initiative headed up by Steve Case. -

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Why We’re Looking to Fund Stuff With More Meaning

Both Sides of the Table

There were many moments in each space when pioneers were funding startups and the press hadn’t written much about them and if you were a typical investor you were still funding the last trend while some VCs were trailblazing into new categories. Startup Lessons' Almost nobody believed and now look at it. Online education.

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Venture capital funding may have slowed, but VC firms have no problems raising new funds

TechCrunch

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. This allows Pakistani startups to scale faster throughout the country and expand into other markets.”. billion in capital commitments.

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Restrictions on acquisitions would stifle the US startup ecosystem, not rein in big tech

TechCrunch

US rule changes could mean more startups would need government approval to hire immigrants. Acquisitions are an important element of the startup ecosystem. For VC-backed companies, there are effectively three outcomes: standalone company (often via an IPO), merger or acquisition, or bankruptcy. More posts by this contributor.