VC Cafe

JANUARY 20, 2014

While there were IPOs (notably Wix in November), most of the acquisitions were made by global technology companies with R&D Centers (and their corporate M&A teams) in Israel, including Apple, Google, EMC, AOL, Cisco, IBM and now Facebook. In 2014 we are looking for innovations around better mobile advertising.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The global financial crisis started in 2007 and it went on for much of 2008. Investments from capital markets to real estate plummeted. Sachin Bansal and his business partner, Binny Bansal, launched an e-commerce site in India in 2007. He started it in 2009 with 10 employees and sold it to Susino Umbrella in 2014.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Your time at ESADE has trained you to become a global business leader. Just look at the disruptive challenges that businesses face today– globalization, China as a manufacturer, China as a consumer, the Internet, and a steady stream of new startups. Congratulations class of 2014: Embrace change and lead the way.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

For much of 2014 and 2015, I banged my head against a plane window flying back and forth between Austin and Silicon Valley while trying to raise institutional VC money for Localeur. Are there amazing Silicon Valley VCs out there with whom entrepreneurs should work to partner? or were forced to raise too much venture capital?—?something

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

In this first edition of 2014, the highlight is in the 2013 performance of VC-backed companies in Israel, reaching a decade record in return. ISRAELI EDUCATIONAL APP TAKES MILLION-DOLLAR PRIZE AT GLOBAL CONTEST. LOCKHEED MARTIN AND EMC PARTNER FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN ISRAEL. billion in 2013, a decade high.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

According to the 2019 Annual European Venture Report by PitchBook , European startups raised €32.4 Corporate venture capital (CVC) represented 45% of the total capital raised. The fund is done in partnership with several top tier venture capital funds including Accel, A16Z, KPCB, Spark Capital and others.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 2, 2014

Well, if you don’t, try on these IPO, M&A, and financing stats from 1st Quarter 2014: Initial Public Offerings: 72 companies went public in the U.S. Mergers & Acquisitions: Global mergers & acquisition activity totaled $710 billion (Thomson Reuters), up 54% from last year. Venture Capital. Private Equity.

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Up and Running

MARCH 16, 2016

As we head into 2016, we leave behind a year of robust trends for venture capital—or “VC”—funding. The Pacific Northwest had a great overall year for venture capital activity in 2015—even if you count the 59 percent dip in Q4. billion in 2014 and $1.4 Pacific Northwest. billion in 2013.

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The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 27, 2016

Jon Bradford, founder of Techstars UK, once said to me that corporate innovation budgets dwarf venture capital. That got me thinking, so I took a look at corporate R&D spend and it turns out that 2014 spend in the US was over $250bn and in Europe it was over $200bn. These activities are interesting, but small scale.

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Transformify

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The aim of the partnership is to create more remote jobs globally available for vulnerable categories of people and, at the same time, to attract more skilled professionals to PitchData and other startups. In 2015, startups raised over $98B in venture capital, in comparison to $88.7B

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Austin Startup

JUNE 29, 2017

I’m focused on solving a problem I’m passionate about and delivering venture sized returns for my investors without a VC firm, but it wasn’t always that way. The photo below is from early 2014 when things were much different, especially my dependency on the idea of what VCs represent.

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thebarefootvc

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

It’s important to note that a fair amount of the recent capital in the market is driven by speculation from the astronomical returns that cryptocurrencies have achieved in 2017, and a “fear of missing out” (FOMO). Gox imploded and China first shut down bitcoin exchanges in April 2014, when the price hovered around $400.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

When venture capital teamed up with technology entrepreneurs in the 1960’s they brought with them the canonical MBA planning tool – the business plan. From the seed of this initial idea Professor Nathan Furr at BYU did the hard work and created a global business model competition, this year receiving over 100 submissions.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

For the market size, he states, “For my base case valuation, I’m going to assume that the primary market Uber is targeting is the global taxi and car-service market.” He then goes on to calculate a global estimate for the historical taxi and limousine market. The global market would obviously be much larger.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Decades ago, the thesis of Yossi Vardi , a prolific technology entrepreneur who has invested in 75 Israeli startups, was that Israeli entrepreneurs should seek quick exit opportunities through global corporations interested in buying a window into Israeli talent and technology. In 2014, for example, 18 IPOs raised a record-breaking $9.8

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Pascal's View

APRIL 5, 2016

My inaugural keynote lecture focused on the challenges and opportunities for Salzburg to become a global center of innovation excellence. But it is not enough to simply have technology tools and risk capital in hand to build a sustainable innovation ecosystem. He published the book Zero to One in 2014.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 2, 2017

Between January 2014 and mid-October 2016, 111 AI-related companies in the U.K. raised $342 million in venture capital. David Kelnar, Partner at MMC ventures mapped the UK AI landscape ( source ). France ranks #2 in Europe with 180 startups and counting.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

This thinking is largely driven by the venture capital industry (and subsequently Wall Street) who are in search of high margin, highly scalable businesses. I gave them advice I don’t think they were expecting from a VC, “Don’t raise venture capital for this business. This team is talented.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Other New York initiatives include the World Innovation Tour to Asia organized by New York International and four Asian governments; Startup Global New York City ; and the GlobalNY program. . At the Dutch Consulate alone, we saw more than double the amount of companies interested into scaling into NYC between 2014 and 2015.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 1, 2018

More than 1,000 customers globally use Pingboard to power their live org chart, including companies like GoFundMe, Udemy, Sequoia Capital, Khan Academy, and the Linux Foundation. Over the course of a couple weeks, I met with partners at about two dozen top tier VCs to pitch them on Pingboard. million round.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

The first one in 2007 was Cornerstone OnDemand, the second one was Peopledoc in 2014 and the third one is Gloat in 2021. Gloat has pioneered the Talent Marketplace to solve that, and it’s now becoming a strategic tool for global enterprises. Fun fact: it seems that I end up investing in a cloud HR company every seven years.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

O’Reilly’s article describes two businesses from his own career at O’Reilly—the Global Network Navigator (GNN) web portal, which he sold to AOL, and the Website web server, which eventually fell by the wayside. Thanks to the internet and other globalizing technologies, the entire world has entered the Networked Age.

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thebarefootvc

MARCH 5, 2017

Consider this quote from a NY Times article from 2014: Dr. Abbott collaborates with scientists at Columbia and elsewhere, trying to build computer models of how the brain might work. Bradford Cross, a partner at Data Collective, just published a great blog post on this, along with other machine learning predictions for 2017.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 18, 2019

It is prime time for European SaaS companies and the third edition of the Accel Euroscape, the list of the top 100 SaaS companies from Europe and Israel, shows the rising position of Europe on the global SaaS stage, benchmarks how European SaaS companies compare to their US counterparts and lays out five predictions for the European SaaS market.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 5, 2017

Consider this quote from a NY Times article from 2014: Dr. Abbott collaborates with scientists at Columbia and elsewhere, trying to build computer models of how the brain might work. Bradford Cross, a partner at Data Collective, just published a great blog post on this, along with other machine learning predictions for 2017.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

We estimate that the global GMV for ride sharing was over $100B in 2018 (including Uber, Didi, Grab, Lyft, Yandex, etc) and still growing handsomely. Upwork is a global freelancing platform where businesses and independent professionals can connect and collaborate remotely.

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