VC Cafe

JANUARY 12, 2017

This doesn’t include the various lists of ‘hot startups to watch’ (where normally there’s a correlation between the startup and the recommending VC’s portfolio), but more general trends from VCs, sector specific predictions from other organizations, and 2016 annual industry reports. 2017 VC Predictions.

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David Teten

AUGUST 20, 2019

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. I have been impressed by how these venture capitalists are accomplishing a major social impact goal…without even trying to. I contacted every RBI venture capital investor I could identify, and learned: .

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? GCVF is pioneering the future of venture capital and high growth startups for all small communities. Their 2016 Fund was the first and largest fund so far using this structure, with $25M AUM. According to Indie.VC

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2023

With the advent and growth of crowdfunding over the past few years, many entrepreneurs have predicted the demise of angel investment groups and venture capital organizations. In fact, the latest figures show that crowdfunding globally is expected to grow from USD 1.41 billion to USD 3.62

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

With the advent and growth of crowdfunding over the past few years, many entrepreneurs have predicted the demise of those demanding angel investment groups and venture capital organizations. Early crowdfunding successes have been undeniable.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

We were roommates at the time and launched two different companies out of a kind-of dumpy apartment: We both went on to raise millions in venture capital and build meaningful businesses in interesting spaces. But we got serious in early 2016 when we developed deep conviction around the immense technical vision of Ethereum.

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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! Mike Bloomberg announces an open call for solutions to global challenges facing the new economy. Congratulations! You’ve decided to launch a technology-enabled startup with a positive social impact!

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Facetune was originally released in 2013, and Facetune 2 was released in 2016. This round was led by the prestigious global funds of Insight Partners and Hanaco Venture Capital. It is understandable why venture capital money is flooding in, as Lightricks is seen as a leader in a fast-growing market.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The global rise in venture capital didn’t skip Israel, which has been breaking new records the amount of venture capital raised by companies in 2021. According to CB Insights there are currently 832 unicorns globally, valued at a total of $2,702 billion.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. Josh was a perfect fit for us because he is global president of Accuen , which is the data-drive, programmatic buying part of the global media empire that is Omnicom. In the Early Days.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

The Texas capital recently was named the #1 place in America to start a business by CNBC. According to the 2016 Kauffman Growth Entrepreneurship Index , Austin grew its startups faster than every city except Washington, D.C., LA has also increasingly attracted more and more venture capital investment and investors.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

With the recent influx of startups, there is a lot of competition for venture capital funding. However, the majority of venture capital goes to men, with only 16.8% of global VC deals going to companies with at least one female founder. Published August 18, 2016. PitchBook News. Published March 15, 2017.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 19, 2019

Brett started his career in technology development at a large global management and was a very strong performer. I headed out to build a second career and found an emerging interest in advising young, bright entrepreneurs with big market disruptive game changing ideas and selectively making angel investments in such ventures.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

janryan (@janryan) | Twitter Kerry Rupp Kerry is a Capital Factory Mentor and founding partner of True Wealth Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund that invests in women-led companies in the sustainable consumer and consumer health verticals. Carolyn was recognized by Inc.

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David Teten

APRIL 28, 2016

I hope you’ll join me next week at Flashpoint NYC’s Demo Day 2016. The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), ff Venture Capital , the HBS Alumni Angels of New York , and Alpha Venture Partners , are co-sponsoring their 6th New York City Demo Day, next Tuesday, May 3, 2016, from 10 to 12 AM.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 19, 2020

“Because COVID is shaking our habits and beliefs it opens the door to discussion to whether we should change our whole system,” says veteran investor Sir Ronald Cohen, chairman of the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment and the man known as “the father of British venture capital” . Source: Fundera .

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David Cohen

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

The Techstars 2016 Global Impact Report was released on February 7. This report is a showcase of what Techstars has accomplished in 2016 and over the past 10 years, as well as a thank you to all the people who have contributed to the success of entrepreneurs around the world. The market cap for Techstars alumni is $7.8

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Cracking the Code

MAY 24, 2021

To provide more color, the global Salesforce Services market alone is estimated at $14.5bn today, with Salesforce itself earning approximately $1bn in service revenues in the last year. Technical teams that offer these services are usually trained and certified, for example, Salesforce and ServiceNow developers. Enter Salto.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

The Texas capital recently was named the #1 place in America to start a business by CNBC. According to the 2016 Kauffman Growth Entrepreneurship Index , Austin grew its startups faster than every city except Washington, D.C., with their startups growing by 81.2 Startup activity in Las Vegas is booming.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong recently singled out disruption as his country’s defining economic issue, telling Channel NewsAsia: “Old models are not working, new models are coming thick and fast, and we’re having to adjust and to keep up, because of technology and globalization. The human side of disruption. In the end.

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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. Carlson founded Polychain Capital in 2016. Venture capital firms Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz among others put $15 million into it. Source: Pexels.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 10, 2017

air events global is a shared economy platform for the events industry, connecting both sides of the marketplace, clients looking to outsource event work with event freelancers, looking for casual and contract employment in the events industry. January 2016 I started cold calling schools.Term 1, 2016 started with two schools on board.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Friday, March 9 Attracting VC Funding Outside Silicon Valley Panel with HomeAway founder Brian Sharples & Capital Factory Director Gordon Daugherty We do a lot of things differently in Texas, including fundraising. Contrasting China via their Zhi-Xing (? ?, She is also Editor-at-Large of the award-winning O, the Oprah Magazine.

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2015

And correspondingly, in this hopefully more positive, energized and forward-feeling state, let me offer five “end-of-year” mindsets to get 2016 off to the right start to be the BEST year of all of our business lives: 5. Pursue Global Markets. trillion mark in 2016. So if you have a global growth strategy, build on it.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

The Texas capital recently was named the #1 place in America to start a business by CNBC. According to the 2016 Kauffman Growth Entrepreneurship Index , Austin grew its startups faster than every city except Washington, D.C., with their startups growing by 81.2 Startup activity in Las Vegas is booming.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2016

These often lead to angel investors and venture capital investments later, or connections to local company venture funds for selected focus and technology areas. They have connections to industry associations and entrepreneur organizations that can kick-start your networking efforts, both locally and globally.

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The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 27, 2016

— Benedict Evans (@BenedictEvans) January 27, 2016. Jon Bradford, founder of Techstars UK, once said to me that corporate innovation budgets dwarf venture capital. That compares with $86.7bn in global venture capital investment in the same year.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

billion multi-stage venture capital firm focused on IT-related investments… I also serve on various investment committees, including for the St. Jude Children’s Cancer Hospital and the Stanford Medical Center, and teach entrepreneurship and venture capital at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

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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. See Also: 17 Venture Capital Blogs You Should Be Reading.

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Cracking the Code

JULY 23, 2021

Not only is this a far cry from the less than $1 billion invested in 2016, it represented around 50% of the US market. The market cap of public cloud companies in Europe and Israel also hit $124 billion, which is just a slight jump from 2016’s $9bn ;)! So, what’s in store for 2021?

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Transformify

OCTOBER 20, 2016

London, UK – 21 st October 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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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

Take a look at The Fortune Unicorn List : of the top 100 most valuable unicorns in 2016, 39 are currently based outside of the United States. According to the NVCA 2017 Yearbook , in 2004, 77% of global VC fundraising went to US VCs, and 85% of global VC dollars went to US startups. Source: NVCA, Pitchbook.

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

Take a look at The Fortune Unicorn List : of the top 100 most valuable unicorns in 2016, 39 are currently based outside of the United States. According to the NVCA 2017 Yearbook , in 2004, 77% of global VC fundraising went to US VCs, and 85% of global VC dollars went to US startups. Source: NVCA, Pitchbook.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Announcing the Greater Colorado Venture Fund ! I am proud to share that the Colorado Venture Capital Authority (VCA), in conjunction with the Office of Economic Growth and International Trade (OEDIT), has selected the Greater Colorado Venture Fund to steward the state’s rural venture capital allocation.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 2, 2017

Here’s the third edition landscape published by Shivon Zillis in November 2016 (source; Oreilly ). As of December 2016, the UK was home to 226 machine intelligence startups. Between January 2014 and mid-October 2016, 111 AI-related companies in the U.K. Building Machine Intelligence Clusters.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 28, 2020

On 23 June 2016, despite the betting odds being largely in favour of “Stay”, the UK decided to leave the European Union. In the meantime, let’s go back to May 2016. Fintech The biggest risk we highlighted in 2016 was the potential loss of European passporting for financial services.

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Cracking the Code

APRIL 21, 2021

When we got to know Daniel in late 2016, we saw someone who was thinking differently. Born behind the iron curtain and despite the humble beginnings of UiPath, Daniel had global ambitions from the offset. As the company rapidly grew, so did the need for capital and we offered to lead the series B from our global growth fund.

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