This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The headlines in the tech and startup world have not been good over the last couple of years. On top of that, the rise of tech is exacerbating wealth inequality, creating some serious data privacy issues, and allowing hate and misinformation to grow rampant on its platforms. It’s not surprising. That’s it.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 19, 2019

This is what happens when your tech largely gets built by people at the top of the social food chain--it escapes their imaginations that someone might want to use it to hurt someone else because they're so rarely the victim of anything.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 9, 2022

Tech:NYC is launching a new initiative, Tech Year NYC , which helps young people from underrepresented backgrounds get access to careers in NYC’s fast-growing tech sector. Tech Year NYC is a rollup of several existing city programs into a single point of entry and engagement for tech companies and students.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Not having many tech skills, I opted for a role as a Junior QA Tester, and I immediately fell in love with the work! Why are so few women in tech and specifically software development? By comparison, 53% of men who majored in computer science are currently working in tech. It was 1998. It provides opportunities for mentorship.

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Venture Well

MAY 11, 2021

The post reimagining chemical engineering education: q&a with Dr. Pedro Arce of Tennessee Tech University appeared first on VentureWell. Faculty grantee, Pedro Arce, designed courses that tasked chemical engineering students with developing innovative, nature-inspired solutions to societal challenges.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 31, 2025

The post Agriculture Tech Innovator Bonsai Robotics Secures $15 Million in Series A appeared first on American Entrepreneurship Today. Biegalas enthusiasm for Bonsais vision underscores the growing recognition that AI and robotics are the future of agriculture, and Bonsai Robotics is positioned to lead that charge.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

We can mitigate the impact of technology on our relationships and cultivate meaningful connections by establishing boundaries on tech use and leveraging it to enhance intimacy and closeness. The post How to Balance Tech and Humanity To Cultivate Connections in Business first appeared on The EO Blog. and more articles from the EO blog.

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Revolution

APRIL 24, 2023

While many think achieving that goal is unlikely, as investors with capital to put to work, we have to have a ‘challenge accepted’ mindset.” — Kristin “I look for tech opportunities that enable sustainable B2B change versus small lifestyle changes. degree threshold set by The Paris Agreement.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 10, 2024

The Partnership for NYC, alongside its partners at the MTA, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, NJ TRANSIT, and NYC Department of Transportation, launched a call for applications for the 6th annual Transit Tech Lab this week. Interested applicants are invited to attend an information session on February 1 at 1pm ET.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

OCTOBER 12, 2023

NYC Tech Week is next week. It will be a week filled with events for the tech sector to engage and connect with each other. A particularly great part of tech week is VC Open Office Hours. There are over 100 VC investors signed up to participate next week.

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Revolution

MARCH 26, 2025

Ive been grateful to see that support firsthand throughout my careerwhether through the passage of the JOBS Act , the creation of Opportunity Zones , or, most recently, the Regional Technology and Innovation Hubs (Tech Hubs) initiative. In tech hubs, people view progress as an upward trajectorythere is a sense of infinite possibility.

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Revolution

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Fast forward to today, the tech-forward company spans more than 140 stores nationwide; partners regularly with chefs , artists , and cultural icons ; caters to millions of app users; and has officially debuted as a public company on the NYSE. In 2013, Sweetgreen had 22 locations in D.C., Maryland, Virginia, Boston, and New York?—?the

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 1, 2022

Tech:NYC is the industry association for NY’s tech sector. They play a number of important roles and one of them is to educate and inform about the impact of the tech sector in NY. Innovation Indicators is a dashboard that shows the latest data on the impact of the tech sector on the NY economy. USV TEAM POSTS:

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Here are the big things that happened in tech, startups, business, and more in the decade that is ending today, in no particular order of importance. What society does about this situation stands as the most important issue in tech at the start of the 2020s. — Steven Kane (@stevenkane) December 26, 2019. And so I will.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Terradot, a climate tech startup founded at Stanford, announced its launch with $58.2 They were joined by Ju lia Marisa Sekula , esteemed Brazilian climate author and ex-banker, and C onnor Sendel , climate-tech operator and ex-BCG. million in funding and carbon removal deals.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 26, 2025

vc, a venture capital firm based in Singapore, has finalized a $30 million fund to support innovation in the deep tech sector. The fund is dedicated to helping early-stage startups […]

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 1, 2023

I want to focus this post on the macro environment for tech, startups, web3, and climate because that is where my head is at right now. With that macro view in mind, what would that mean for tech, startups, and web3? The largest tech companies will emerge from this downturn leaner and more profitable and growing more slowly.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

DECEMBER 31, 2022

What happened in 2022 is the bottom fell out of the capital markets and the startup and tech sector more broadly. In the areas that USV works in; tech, startups, and web3, there have been a number of important downstream effects of the popping of the bubble and they are worth enumerating. This is the first of these two posts.

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Revolution

AUGUST 2, 2022

What we did: Revolution Growth Vice President, Nancy Hilliker , participated in the 2022 Dig-South Tech Summit, where she discussed supporting a more diverse innovation landscape and the acceleration of connections between VCs and founders in non-traditional tech hubs. Where we went: Miami, FL ??

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

In their words, functional tech > fictional tech. Were thrilled to welcome Hidden Level to our portfolio of companies operating at the intersection of tech and policy. We look forward to partnering with CEO Jeff Cole and his team in their mission to safeguard ourskies.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Smart energy grids. Voice-first companion apps. Programmable medicines. AI tools for kids.
We We asked over 40 partners across a16z to preview one big idea they believe will drive innovation in the coming year.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Silicon Valley will remain a mecca for talent and tech for as far into the future as I can see. So let’s stop worrying about Silicon Valley, it will be fine, and start celebrating the rise of tech entrepreneurship everywhere. It is also the case that Google and Apple show no signs of leaving the bay area any time soon.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

In February of 2017, Susan Fowler’s description of the pervasive cultural issues at Uber, after the company’s abject failure to address her sexual harassment complaints properly, finally broke through in a way that garnered the tech community’s appropriate attention. Not in the “founder friendly” culture of tech anyway.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

DECEMBER 31, 2023

That look-forward post also missed the biggest new thing in tech, Chat GPT, which had initially launched about a month before I wrote it. The end of the 2022/2023 tech/startup downturn happened when two things came together. To some extent, these two things are related. More on that tomorrow.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Halliday joins with co-founders Berna Gonzalez who was Tech Lead at Rootstrap and Matt Hammel was Vice President-Sales at Bungalow. The AirOps platform seamlessly integrates into existing tech stacks and can connect to CMS platforms like Webflow, Shopify, WordPress, and others, unifying the content ecosystem in one place.

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American Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Seed funding came from venture firms committed to deep tech. The team had a specific goal in selecting their investment partners, seeking funds from those with hands-on experience and a track record of success in deep tech.

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Revolution

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Said another way, how can location be a strategic and competitive advantage for a company taking on often more amply-funded players headquartered in established tech hubs? For investors, expanding horizons beyond traditional tech hubs can uncover promising opportunities that capitalize on regional strengths. Let’s get into it.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

So What Impact Did the Drop in Tech Founding Costs Have on VC? As a result of the IPO window shifting we saw a massive inflow of public-market capital into the latest stages of venture. As you can see below the number of seed funds shot up dramatically between 2006 and 2014.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

But more than the tax, what bothers me about these monopolies is the innovation tax they impose on the broad tech sector with their terms of service/rules. I am rooting for Epic/Fortnite in their battle with Apple over the 30% tax that Apple charges developers for distribution in their app store.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 1, 2024

I have never seen an environment with more innovation in the forty years I have been in the tech sector. But fortunately, like web3 and the Internet before it, the tech sector will not wait for those issues to be resolved. I think 2024 is going to be a terrific year for tech. We also need innovation. It is breathtaking to see.

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