VC Cafe

JUNE 1, 2011

See the May 2011 edition after the jump. in the first quarter of 2011, supported by growth in consumer spending and exports. In April, the Bank of Israel raised its 2011 growth forecast to 4.5% IMD RANKS ISRAEL 17TH MOST COMPETITIVE ECONOMY IN 2011. In terms of access to venture capital, Israel was rated 2nd in the world.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2012

The latest IVC report reveals that in 2011, 546 Israeli high-tech companies raised $2.14 Let’s take a look at how VC money was deployed in Israel 2011. In 2011, 546 Israeli high-tech companies attracted $2.14 billion from local and foreign venture investors, the highest amount in 11 years. billion raised in 2009.

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View from Seed

MARCH 4, 2020

Interestingly, it looks like the Midas List skipped 2010 and changed methodologies considerably in 2011, so you’d need to wait until 2021 to do a true look back. The biggest rise, unsurprisingly, was China, which enjoyed a huge surge in venture capital dollars over the past decade and enjoyed its fair share of blockbuster exits.

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SiliconHills

JANUARY 15, 2022

The year 2021 marks the year of the biggest funding deals for Austin startups since Silicon Hills News began covering the market in 2011. Overall, the venture capital […]. Austin had several big funding deals more than $100 million. In fact, all the top ten deals for Austin in 2021 were worth $100 million or more.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

how on Earth could the venture capital market stand still? One of the most common questions I’m asked by people intrigued by but also scared by venture capital and technology markets is some variant of, “Aren’t technology markets way overvalued? The market today would barely be recognizable by a time traveler from 2011.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

2011 is going to be a great year for entrepreneurs – even better than 2010. Last month the National Venture Capital Association released a survey which reflected investor’s optimism on high-risk startups, and gave every indication that VCs would continue to invest, particularly in IT, mobile, and cloud-based technologies.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 13, 2021

The reality is that seed investing as a strategy was not a new thing back in 2011, and one could point to multiple prior waves where this sort of investing just didn’t work. When we started in 2011, YC was in its awkward growth/teenage years as they were expanding the classes pretty aggressively. That year, they invested in Segment.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

By 2011, there were a total of 1034 Technology Business Incubators across China, including 336 as National incubators, hosting nearly 60,000 companies. (20% Part 3, the next post describes the rise of Chinese venture capital. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital. Lessons Learned.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

As a venture capitalist, I am privy to innovations long before they become mainstream, one of the things I love about my job. But even more exciting is when I see inflection points of adoption — which is why 2011 was a particularly exhilirating year for me. What We Saw in 2011….

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allthingsd.com

JULY 16, 2012

Venture Capital Has Its Biggest Quarter Since Dot-Com Days. venture capitalists put $8.1 venture capitalists put $8.1 It’s clear that factors like the greater American economy and the bumpy tech IPO market don’t necessarily have a direct and/or timely correlation with venture capital spending.

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David Teten

MAY 20, 2016

My colleague Sebastian Soler, software engineer at ff Venture Capital, is leading the launch of a new Meetup with me. Prior to joining ffVC, I co-founded an early stage fashion messaging startup, and joined a TechStars NYC 2011 company as first engineering employee. I asked him to write a guest post: Hi!

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. 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.

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Innovation Report Shows San Diego Added 695 Tech Jobs at End of 2011. New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’. It took another 21 months or so for Correlation Ventures to secure its first $8.5 million, and Coats says they didn’t close the fund until November, 2011. Health IT ›.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2010

billion invested during the same three-month period in 2009, according to the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). Overall, venture capital investment fell in the United States last year but rose elsewhere. Tags: entrepreneur startups investors venture capital business. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2011

I just read the Q1 2011 report from CB Insights , which shows venture capital is back. Back to VCs, Silicon Valley venture capital firms are still the most active. So what can you do to get to the head of the venture capital investment queue? Overall, investors put $7.5 That represents a $1.5

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 4, 2019

In fact, the top quartile TVPI of the 2011 vintage is 2.6, So, that means that the top quartile fund has distributed 62% of paid-in capital after 7 years. For example, a $10B endowment might be looking to have 10% ($1B) allocated to venture capital at any one time. That’s only 0.5X nearly the same as 2007.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

By 2011, there were a total of 1034 Technology Business Incubators across China, including 336 as National incubators, hosting nearly 60,000 companies. (20% Part 3, the next post describes the rise of Chinese venture capital. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital. Lessons Learned.

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Here are seven bold predictions for 2011: #7. Venture Capital will Rise Again. Venture capitalists invested $4.8 Before the “great deal crisis” of 2008 – 2010, venture capital quarterly funding averages were in the $7.5 Small businesses have been late to the party, but look for that to change in 2011.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

is already well above the dot.com bubble of 15 years ago, although we have slipped a bit this year from the high point of 320 new entrepreneurs out of 100,000 adults in 2011. Twitter was one of the most notable, with a market capitalization now up to $38 billion all by itself.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 2, 2012

In the fall of 2010 Mahendra Ramsinghani reached out to me by email about a new book he was working on called The Business of Venture Capital: Insights from Leading Practitioners on the Art of Raising a Fund, Deal Structuring, Value Creation, and Exit Strategies. In June 2011 Mahendra sent me and Seth a final draft of the book.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 1, 2014

We all have our inherent biases and what I am not arguing here is that the venture capital world is a fair playing field for anyone. I repeat: I AM NOT ARGUING THAT VENTURE CAPITAL IS FAIR TO ANYONE. billion went to women-led ventures.". billion went to women-led ventures.". Sounds awful, right?

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 20, 2012

Today’s venture capital deal flow to innovative new companies looks a lot like a fat man trying to squeeze into a slim Italian suit. In 2000, venture capitalists poured a staggering $112.2 In 2000, venture capitalists poured a staggering $112.2 Today, venture capital deal flow has slowed to a relative trickle, just $28.4

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 21, 2009

On the third Wednesday of every month I co-chair a meeting called the SoCal VCA (venture capital alliance), which represents participants from all of the top venture capital firms in Southern California as well as prominent members of the Tech Coast Angels (TCA). What have been your experiences in the past 6 months?

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David Teten

JULY 17, 2012

If you’re interested in learning more about venture capital, or our fast-growing portfolio of tech startups, consider applying below. Summer 2011. Specifically, we are looking for an intern to join our team to finish out the Summer and transition into the Fall. We are looking for Fall and Spring interns as well.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 7, 2011

See the March 2011 edition after the jump. Provigent, which was founded in 2000, raised $55 million from international and Israeli venture capital firms. For previous editions, click here. ISRAELI UNEMPLOYMENT DROPS TO 6.1%.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Don’t take my word for it – in the roundup of venture capital predictions for 2017 , I found it to be the top recurring theme. Venture Capital investments in AI, Europe 2016 (Source: Dealroom ). YouAppi (2011)- YouAppi creates adtech to streamline mobile user acquisition. Billion in VC funding.

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David Teten

JUNE 6, 2011

The new FinTech Innovation Lab , an annual program run by the New York City Investment Fund and Accenture, had their launch event on Thursday night. It attracted a very high quality crowd of senior executives from major investment banks and members of the innovation community — two groups that don’t normally mingle.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

As every month, VC Cafe is re-posting the “Invest in Israel” Newsletter, published by the investment promotion center of Israel’s Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor , which offers many helpful tools for prospecting investors. For the Invest in Israel archive, click here. “We are delighted to welcome the BigBand employees to ARRIS.”

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David Teten

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! Founded by technology entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel in 2011, the Thiel Fellowship is a two-year program for young people [under 22] who want to build new things. Congratulations! Thiel Fellowship.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 13, 2011

steve blank in finland sept 2011 View more documents from steve blank. 9-to-5 Venture Capital. Yet Tekes does that and is trying to act like a government-run Venture Capital firm. It's hard enough to pick which existing companies with known business models to aid.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2011

The Clean Technology venture capital sector, which includes alternative energy, soared 68 per cent year-on-year during the first quarter of 2010. In previous articles, I’ve put some definition around the green and biotech investment categories, so I’ll try to do the same here for renewable energy. I expect another increase this year.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 24, 2015

At our firm, ff Venture Capital , we didn’t aim to go to Canada, but ended up there anyway. We’re a New York based early-stage venture capital firm. Since 2011, we have invested in four Toronto-based startups as well as one Ottawa-based company, out of 60 active companies in our portfolio. ff VC company.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Wednesday, February 23, 2011. It would have been easy to explain the difference by changes in the 2010/2011 revenue growth projections but unfortunately that is not the case. Venture Capital. (3).

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David Teten

MARCH 13, 2015

I meet with a lot of people from the academic world, so I thought it would be helpful to summarize how ff Venture Capital works with universities. Education ff Venture Capital Startup' Currently, our relationship works along several axes. We’re more than happy to act as a matchmaker. Photo credit: Wikipedia).

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 24, 2012

And such was the case when I read the latest statistics from the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). The seemingly good news from the NVCA was that the amount of venture capital funding grew 22% from 2010 to 2011. But sometimes market research is as clear as daylight. Down forty-eight percent.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 20, 2012

Today’s venture capital deal flow to innovative new companies looks a lot like a fat man trying to squeeze into a slim Italian suit. In 2000, venture capitalists poured a staggering $112.2 In 2000, venture capitalists poured a staggering $112.2 Today, venture capital deal flow has slowed to a relative trickle, just $28.4

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Gust

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Center for Venture Research. Venture Capital. $20 It is clear from this table that Friends and Family, Angel Investors and Venture Capitalists provide 95% of the capital for new ventures. The figure below shows the number of investors by investment size for startup ventures. Pre-seed, startup.

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