VC Cafe
APRIL 4, 2024
The landscape grew to 2,011 companies in 2024 from merely 139 logos in 2012 when it was first published. How can startups even compete against big tech, scale ups and other startups? Despite being less than 2 years old, Mistral is now looking to raise funding at a $2 billion valuation in December 2023.
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). We feature a prominent speaker at every event.
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YoungUpstarts
JUNE 20, 2016
Before the advent of cloud technology and the Internet, company files had to be stored away in physical data rooms (PDRs). A 2012 study done by IBISWorld revealed that VDRs experienced a steady growth of about 17 percent annually as a result of technological advancements as well as the growth of global demand for these storage services.
View from Seed
DECEMBER 4, 2019
If you aren’t familiar with these metrics, I recommend reading the original post to get a sense of the numbers that I’ll be reviewing here. If you look 5 years later at the 2012 vintage, top quartile TVPI is 2.29. The top quartile DPI for the 2012 vintage is 0.62. For the 2012 vintage, the top 5% fund had a TVPI of 4.49.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 28, 2014
by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. Valuation. I wanted to call out special attention to valuation in this debate. You really need to subtract the final month.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
Nearly every successful tech startup I’ve observed over the past 20 years has gone through a similar growth pattern: Innovate, systematize then scale operations. So it makes me laugh to this day when I talk with a journalist or potential investor in the company and they ask flippantly, “How is MakeSpace a technology company?”
Rob Go
DECEMBER 28, 2011
It got me thinking about this past year, specifically around consumer tech in Boston. So I thought I’d jot down some of the highlights I have seen from my vantage point in this 2011 Boston Consumer Web Year in Review. Zipcar: Ok, not exactly consumer web/software, but a great consumer tech company nonetheless. from Accel.
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