Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

We’ll cover what information you’ll expect to provide, your range of expected values and amounts of investment to expect. VC rule of thumb Most VC’s look for a 10x opportunity – that is – ten times increase in the valuation from investment to liquidity event. The post-investment value would be $4,000,000.

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Hunter Walk

APRIL 21, 2025

But I’ve also seen a few change quite dramatically based upon the progressing ‘game on the field’ and my own VC experiences. One example is whether it’s assumed that seed VCs maximize outcomes by religiously holding their shares until the company itself exits.

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Leapfunder

JUNE 5, 2025

VCs in our network: Get started Sign up as investor Sign up as startup Sign up as VC Invest in startups Early Bird Holedo The Netherlands Every industry has a talent pool. Read 43 articles Learn handling investment and funding and utilizing the platform of leapfunder to its full potential. Return p.a. You pay to search.

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Leapfunder

JUNE 5, 2025

VCs in our network: Get started Sign up as investor Sign up as startup Sign up as VC Invest in startups Early Bird Holedo The Netherlands Every industry has a talent pool. Read 43 articles Learn handling investment and funding and utilizing the platform of leapfunder to its full potential. Return p.a. You pay to search.

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Leapfunder

JUNE 5, 2025

VCs in our network: Get started Sign up as investor Sign up as startup Sign up as VC Invest in startups Early Bird Holedo The Netherlands Every industry has a talent pool. Read 43 articles Learn handling investment and funding and utilizing the platform of leapfunder to its full potential. Return p.a. You pay to search.

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Leapfunder

JUNE 5, 2025

VCs in our network: Get started Sign up as investor Sign up as startup Sign up as VC Invest in startups Early Bird Holedo The Netherlands Every industry has a talent pool. Read 43 articles Learn handling investment and funding and utilizing the platform of leapfunder to its full potential. Return p.a. You pay to search.

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Leapfunder

JUNE 5, 2025

VCs in our network: Get started Sign up as investor Sign up as startup Sign up as VC Invest in startups Early Bird Holedo The Netherlands Every industry has a talent pool. Read 43 articles Learn handling investment and funding and utilizing the platform of leapfunder to its full potential. Return p.a. You pay to search.

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Founder Bounty

JULY 16, 2025

We both have similar backgrounds, having also been working in investment banking. The differece is that i have sold a SAAS business and been backed by top US VC's for previous startups. Her content is informative and interesting and this is exactly what the algo wants to see. "she " What content works?

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Leapfunder

JUNE 5, 2025

VCs in our network: Get started Sign up as investor Sign up as startup Sign up as VC Invest in startups Early Bird Holedo The Netherlands Every industry has a talent pool. Read 43 articles Learn handling investment and funding and utilizing the platform of leapfunder to its full potential. Return p.a. You pay to search.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 11, 2022

What Alan recognized was that most IRL forums and networking events are absolutely awful places to pitch and here’s why: 1) When a VC shows up in person, they’re looking to replicate the kind of top of the funnel they would get in an hour or two’s worth of e-mail, and that’s not going to happen if you corral them into a corner for 30 minutes.

VC

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

I started in 2007 with a thesis that my primary investment decision would be about the team (70%) and only afterward about the market opportunity (30%). But they are also a tax on your time with portfolio companies, looking for new investments, running your shop and honestly they are a tax on your family life. I don’t.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 6, 2020

But I have been in close contact with the NVCA, many of the major law firms and many of the major VC firms. If you do apply you must certify that your information and application are true and honest. Am I ineligible since I’m VC-backed? There is nothing in the rules that state that VC-backed businesses are ineligible.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

” From the hyperbolic Jason Calacanis weighing in that “The petty VC’s did everything to deride [Naval, the co-founder of AngelList]” as though the industry was collectively s g its pants that AngelList was going to put us out of business. This is the same way VC firms, by the way. Bowery Capital).

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

What is a principal at a VC firm and how does it work at Upfront Ventures? ” Associates have different functions at different VCs. VC firm admin. VC firm policy or fund analysis. Helping be the VC “presence” at key events. inside insight into VC decision-making. Industry reviews.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

With our 2020 Robotics + AI sessions event on the horizon in early March, we’re diving back into the sector to learn about the attributes of construction attracting robotics VCs the most and which types of startups VCs are actually writing checks for in 2020. How much time are you spending on construction robotics right now?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

Picking a VC is hard. So I thought I’d write about out with what I would look for in a VC knowing what I know now and why. Most VCs are book smart. VCs should be more of a coach than proscriptively telling you what to do. You want a VC who will spar with you but then STFU and let you get on with things.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

I can’t help feel a bit of rear-view mirror analysis in all of “VC model is broken” bears in our industry. Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. The Funding Problem. The Exit Problem.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Internet giant Google announced today that it has made the first investment from its Africa Investment Fund in Ugandan super app SafeBoda. Google sets up $50M fund to invest in African startups. We are focusing on investments where we believe that Google could add value,” the managing director said in October.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 16, 2016

Computer Vison Startup Nanit If you follow me on Snapchat ( msuster ) you might already know that I’ve been looking at and investing in a number of companies in the computer vision space. Today I am so excited to announce our latest investment in the category —  Nanit  — which is a smart baby monitor.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2013

It’s the first EIR that we’ve had in the years that I’ve been with the firm and I hope will be the start of our investment in this program. We’re excited to continue to grow our investment professional staff and will continue to do so over the course of 2013 & 2014 with our new fund.

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Dream It

JANUARY 13, 2021

Learn how to pass a VC associate screen in under 10 minutes! Alana suggests that before speaking to an associate, you gain a basic understanding of the fund’s focus and stages they invest in. VCs love when founders come back to them having hit or exceeded the goals they laid out. What does good prep look like? For example.

VC

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2013

If you’ve been following the press about VC funds you’ll know this is no small feat. We think transparency and easy access to information benefit our entire ecosystem. Like many modern VCs, we’re committed to investing in the community and in our portfolio companies. See what we did there?

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

The easiest way to work with and for VC funds is to become a part-time scout, getting paid for sourcing investments. How to win consulting, board, operating, and investment roles with private equity and venture capital funds (video). How to find a job as a VC scout. VC recruiters list and compensation data.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 6, 2022

The way people fund their business has also been evolving and, in 2022, the traditional ways like angel investment and VCs will walk hand in hand with new and emerging blockchain-based options that offer loans outside the traditional banking system. Angel investment. Venture capital or VC. Decentralized crowdfunding.

VC

This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

In late 2018, the company raised $75 million Series C from Sequoia, arguably the top VC firm in the world. After being largely ignored by Valley investors (the biggest checks in her seed, Series A, and Series B came from men on the East Coast), she finally found support from the VC elite. VC David Sacks tweeted “??

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Sopoong , a social impact-focused VC, intends to support environmentally minded tech founders in South Korea and Southeast Asia, while building a bridge between Korean conglomerates and startups in the sector. Sopoong has closed on around $8 million (10.3 Sopoong has closed on around $8 million (10.3

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

This event is aimed at innovative startup companies in Pangyo Techno Valley and is designed to help them hold one-on-one business meetings for IR, to attract investment from global VCs. This event will also help startup companies enter the global market, gain marketing information, and network with other companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

We led a $4 million investment along with Thrive Capital, GLG and Sound Ventures. As leaders we know that to succeed in today’s economy we need people who possess abilities to deal with large volumes of information and cut through the clutter to get to what’s important. We need leaders who can rigorously prioritize.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 30, 2024

And we are thrilled to announce today that we have co-led Valar’s Seed and Series A financings, alongside partners at Pear VC and DCVC. Let’s go back to those histology images that every patient already has on file…what if these same histology images contained far more information than what they are telling us today?

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 28, 2023

“Founders should also evaluate which VC is able to add-value to their growth, rather than just focusing on the amount of money the investor has to offer,” Lou told AsiaTechDaily. Indelible Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in B2B SaaS startups that can scale internationally.

ventures

This is going to be BIG.

MAY 4, 2021

Honestly, I didn’t take it that seriously—mostly because I was starting with no information. It seemed unrealistic—not that all startups aren’t in some way realistic—but VCs generally communicate communication style with competency. And then I disappeared. Nevermind that I had no idea what his background was.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 24, 2022

startups received VC funding of around $75 billion in Q1 and about $50 billion so far in Q2, despite investors pulling back and valuations decreasing as the markets trend downward. But Charlie Jarvis, co-founder of art exchange platform Fairchain , says investors shouldn’t conflate playing it safe with investing in less diverse founders.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

See How to negotiate a partner role at a VC or private equity firm.) At Versatile VC , we’ve used all these models. However, historically most private equity professionals were former investment bankers and other finance professionals. We discuss below all of the different ways you can work with the investment community.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 30, 2023

The event, co-hosted by The Global 51, a family office association, and Revere, an information platform for asset allocators and emerging VC managers, brought together over 30 family offices and investment firms to discuss the latest trends and opportunities in the tech industry.

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 23, 2023

Investing in someone is primarily a business relationship. Specifically I’ve had the chance to spend meaningful time over the years with Michael Mignano as he went from startup CEO to Executive/Angel Investor and now VC Partner at Lightspeed. Michael Mignano: Throughout my time building Anchor, I met and pitched many, many VCs.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2023

Signals suggest the Commission could require companies that raise capital under Reg D to disclose more financial and company information. Congress purposely carved out venture capital from SEC registration, but the SEC nonetheless proposed rules that would indirectly regulate VC by prohibiting common industry practices.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

Brett Calhoun Contributor Share on Twitter Brett Calhoun is the managing director and general partner at Redbud VC. Amid these turbulent times, the VC accelerator industry has emerged as a stalwart player. There is an unprecedented amount of information or knowledge that is now freely available to guide founders (e.g.,

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