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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

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To see the video of This Week in VC click on this link. We spent the first 45 minutes or so talking about industry trends (in this order): The history and background of True Ventures, one of my favorite early-stage VC’s (and the one with whom Om is a venture partner). Are “strategic investors&# (e.g. OTHER DEALS: 1.

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Stephanie Zhan walks through the Rec Room pitch deck that won Sequoia’s investment

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Sequoia is one of the most sought-after VC firms in the world, and predictably, it sees plenty of startups competing for its attention. Sequoia, alongside almost every other VC firm, prizes one factor when deciding to investing in a consumer-facing company: User love. Love is the answer.

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The Big VC Thaw – Why The Market is Moving Again (part 2 of 3)

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In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. There are now signs the VC market has gathered pace meaning it’s a great time to be fund raising.

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What Angel Investing & Florida Condos Have in Common

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They have marked-up paper gains propped up by an over excited venture capital market that has validated their investments. Logic tells me the following: It is hard to make money angel investing. I have called it a “mug’s game&# and I mostly try to avoid it. It was an investment management class.

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Riot Games and Konvoy Ventures back games publisher Carry1st in $6M Series A

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million seed investment. CRE Ventures led that round , but this time, the company, which has offices in Cape Town and New York, brought in a blue-chip group of investors spanning gaming, media and fintech. VC firm Konvoy Ventures led the Series A round. Carry1st has $4M to invest in African mobile gaming.

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Why you have to pay attention to the Indian startup scene

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2019 was the country’s biggest ever in terms of venture dollars invested, with Bain counting $10 billion during the year. After a somewhat average start to the year, Indian startups saw their venture capital investment fall to just $1.5 billion invested into Indian startups during the three-month period.

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Equal access to capital and entrepreneurship is the final civil rights movement

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I started off with several introductions that one of my friends from college and a former VC made for me to several of his previous colleagues. I began to realize that venture capital is a bit of a social game — and I was about to play it for two years. Joseph Heller is CEO and founder of Supplied. Image Credits: Supplied.