1994 Finance Operations Portfolio 
Up and Running
JUNE 13, 2017
The explanation for the discrepancy is simple: large banks are focused on sourcing and scaling loans over one million dollars, cross-selling products to their customers, and driving down costs through standardized operating procedures and technology. CDFI program awardees financed 13,300 businesses. Meet the community lenders.
Version One Ventures
DECEMBER 14, 2016
Mattermark (a portfolio company) looked at the matriculation rates for a class of startups. Likewise, early-stage investors may not appreciate just how much follow-on support their portfolio companies will need. So, how have Version One portfolio companies done in this environment? 2016 for Version One companies.
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David Teten
JANUARY 10, 2012
Michael Parekh , a Wall Streeter for over 20 years, former Partner at Goldman Sachs, and Founder of its Internet Research effort in 1994, Michael has been living online since the early days of CompuServe in the 80s and AOL in the ’90s. Michael was the lead research analyst for the IPOs of Internet companies like UUNET, Yahoo!
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 13, 2011
There was a lot of consumer internet activity again…resurgence of things, but it was still mysterious, venture capital was still kind of closed, 1st time entrepreneurs had a lot of questions that were unanswered, and there was still some sort of hand waiving around all the financing stuff and so we took it on….”. Some Angel groups endorse it.
K9 Ventures
APRIL 14, 2020
In CS147 one of the video we showed to the class was the Sun Starfire concept video that was produced in 1994. I am pleased that I/K9 Ventures got to lead the Pre-Seed round of financing for Pragli. They operate at a pace that far exceeds that of any other companies and founding teams that I have worked with. advisor Prof.
abovethecrowd.com
OCTOBER 17, 2013
I immediately reached out to the founder and CEO, Katrina Lake , who had previously worked for another Benchmark portfolio company in the fashion space, Polyvore. On August 23, Stitch Fix announced that it had shipped its 100,000th Fix , and today the company announced that it has grown 500% since its last financing round this past February.
Ben's Blog
JUNE 18, 2011
Similarly, Google, well on its way to owning the dominant smart phone operating system and which maintains a near monopoly position in search, trades at a price/earnings (P/E) ratio (ex-cash) of around 13.7. Back in 1994, very few people would have predicted that the largest bookseller in the world would be a software company.
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