BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

2018 Recap. Thanks to all of the amazing founders, advisors, co-investors, corporate partners, and others that helped make 2018 an amazing year. While the cloud wars, AI, automation, and digital transformation dominated the enterprise headlines in 2018, we have to remember that we are still early in the cycle.

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Stealth Advisory Board Cloud Virginia 79

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. March 9, 2018 3:30PM?—?4:30PM March 9, 2018 3:30PM?—?4:30PM March 9, 2018 3:30PM?—?4:30PM

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Technical Review Silicon Valley Texas Austin 58

VC Cafe

JUNE 19, 2019

The takeover of Corporate Venture Capital - how CVCs passed traditional VC volume in the US in 2018, how does it compare to Europe and Israel and what are the drivers for this unprecedented level of. This is a content summary only.

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Venture Capital Europe 168

View from Seed

JULY 6, 2020

Since we first opened our New York office back in 2015, we have steadily increased our presence over the years ( Melody joined us in 2017 and Dorothy in 2018), and now roughly 40% of our investments are in New York. You have a deep desire to learn the venture capital business and are ready to hustle to meet the next great founder. .

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Technical Review Software Review Hiring Seed Stage 257

BeyondVC

JANUARY 6, 2018

Before diving into yet another year and list of predictions for enterprise in 2018, we’d like to recap a few thoughts and moments from 2017. — BOLDstart Ventures (@Boldstartvc) June 16, 2017. There will be more deep enterprise tech startups founded, funded, launched, and scaled out of NYC in 2018.

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Cloud Cofounder Portfolio Advisory Board 60

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Boulder’s entrepreneurial system is bolstered by a number of local venture capital firms, including Foundry Group. With its concentrated mix of start-ups, established businesses, and venture capital, Boulder has all of the elements to fuel sustainable economic growth. Las Vegas, NV.

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United States Las Vegas San Francisco Denver 113

ReadWriteStart

JULY 13, 2023

Department of Defense (DoD) and the venture capital firm Sequoia Capital are interested in the company because they believe the technology it develops could give the U.S. billion in 2018. million in Mach’s seed round came from companies like Marque VC and Champion Hill Ventures.

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Technical Review Venture Capital Cost Developer 117

David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? BCG (June 2018): “Startups founded and cofounded by women actually performed better over time, generating 10% more in cumulative revenue over a five-year period: $730,000 compared with $662,000.”.

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Cofounder Founder Technical Cofounder Technical Review 78

VC Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2021

Amazon Corporate Development – Notable acquisitions include Whole Foods ($13.7B), smart doorbell system Ring ($1.2B, 2018) and autonomous mobility technology Zoox ($1.2bn). Deliveroo), but in comparison with Google and Microsoft, Amazon has yet to launch an official Corporate Venture arm (read more about the rise of corporate VC here ).

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Technical Review Startup Venture Capital Incubator 174

YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

In 2018, Canada had a record-low unemployment rate and as a result we are seeing more companies, startups and online-based businesses dedicated to serving the niche-jobs industry. In 2018 seven of the most well-paying in-demand occupations required a digital or technical background. million in venture capital to move.

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Canada Hiring Artificial Inteligence Software Developers 167

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Without venture capital, without external loans, I bootstrapped my business and brought it to acquisition – in a field traditionally dominated by males ( 16% of male entrepreneurs are in the tech industry, compared to 4% of females ). iBirth was acquired in June 2018 by Babyscripts, Inc.,

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Technical Review United States Bootstrapping Venture Capital 370

VC Cafe

JULY 26, 2020

“After the crash, venture capital was scarce to non-existent. Capital resources alone don’t do the trick. In 2018, Quibi (back then called NewTV), raised $750 million in seed capital pre-launch (the service went on to raise an additional $1 billion ahead of the product launch in March 2020).

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Lean Seed Capital Startup Burn Rate 214

ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

In 2018, venture capital investments in Latin America doubled for the second consecutive year, according to LAVCA’s Annual Review of Tech Investment in Latin America. Looking at the major markets in Latin America in 2018, most show increases in VC investment in keeping with the regional average.

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Colombia America Technical Review Startup 146

ReadWriteStart

JULY 5, 2023

Neko Health is well positioned to achieve its goals, as the board of directors recently welcomed notable investors such as Niklas Zennstrom, co-founder of Skype, and Klaus Hommels, founder of the venture capital firm Lakestar. We try to be as clear as possible about what it is that we do and how it operates.

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Sweden Artificial Inteligence Cofounder Technical Review 126

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

It was only a year ago that many in the Venture Capital industry were predicting that “winter was coming” and to be fair the author of this post was chief amongst them. While this it total FDI as opposed to just venture, it should give you an indication of the international trend. Baidu alone raised $3.2

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Venture Capital Saudi Arabia Kuwait Burn Rate 150

Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2018

On the first official day of SXSW I’m going to be at the convention center all day until I head over to Capital Factory to kick off the SXSW Startup Crawl ! Join us and learn how to attract Venture Capital investment in your startup when you live somewhere other than Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, or Boston.

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Technical Review Austin Texas Cofounder 89

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 29, 2020

With that said, Israeli Venture Capital funding broke a new record in Q3 2020, according to an IVC report. Anecdotally, we see a lot of activity in seed and pre-seed financing at Remagine Ventures, with sizeable deals closing very quickly. In September alone , Israeli startups raised $1.2 Seed investments in Israel ( source ).

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Venture Capital Angel Investor Later Stage 148

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2018

May 10th and 11th, 2018. May 1st – 3rd, 2018. SaaStock 2018. October 15th – 17th, 2018. If you’re at the stage where you’re looking for outside investment to take your business to the next level, SaaStock boasts having over 200 representatives of venture capital funds in attendance. London, UK.

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Las Vegas Software Review Affiliate Cofounder 124

Version One Ventures

JANUARY 2, 2019

We’re proud to say that we wrote a blog post every week in 2018 – and we’ve done that now for the past three years. In case you didn’t catch each and every post, here’s a look back at some of our favourite and most read pieces from 2018. What are the opportunities for the next venture-scale marketplace business?”.

Silicon Valley 144

Silicon Valley Venture Capital Distribution Artificial Inteligence 144

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2019

of venture capital investment in 2018. Another reason that makes it difficult for women to gather adequate funds is more than 89% of investors are male in the Venture Capital World, who often overlook women entrepreneurs. According to a report, in spite of playing a significant role in the U.S.

Technical Review 113

Technical Review Founder United States Cofounder 113

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Then seek angel investors or crowdfunding, as required, for the rollout, and venture capital for scaling the business across multiple geographies. Marty Zwilling First published on CayenneConsulting on 08/22/2018. The best entrepreneurs I know don’t let initial funding constraints discourage them from starting.

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Early Stage SBIR Technical Review Seed Stage 225

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

On the other side of the spectrum, the idea of finding a unicorn has attracted many investors toward the much riskier venture capital and emerging technologies. Real estate has long been considered a sound investment, and has become even more popular in recent years as historical data has shown the market’s relatively low volatility.

Private Equity 134

Private Equity Equity Technical Review Software Review 134

David Teten

APRIL 13, 2021

Empirically, few small emerging investment managers hire placement agents, particularly in venture capital. Private equity/venture capital managers have a much longer duration than most any other fund type. Further reading: 15 Steps to Fundraising for Your New Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund.

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Private Equity Technical Review Management LP 60

Austin Startup

JULY 15, 2019

You will coordinate and administer the most active venture capital fund in Texas and see an insane amount of dealflow. Job opening: Fund Administrator at Capital Factory In two or three years you’ll gain a decade worth of experience and dealflow. We did 70 transactions in 2018 alone!

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Texas Technical Review Silicon Valley Venture Capital 56

SiliconHills

JANUARY 20, 2019

By LAURA LOREK, Publisher of Silicon Hills News Venture capital investments in Austin soared to $1.33 billion in 2018, the highest on record since the dot-com boom in 2000, according to the latest MoneyTree Report from PwC and CB Insights. Venture capital investments in Austin rose 70 percent in 2018, from $783.4

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Venture Capital Austin 89

David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Prior to joining ff Venture Capital , I published the first-ever study of how private equity and venture capital funds originate new investments, with my coauthor Chris Farmer , CEO of SignalFire and an experienced VC. ff Venture Capital. First Round Capital. Acquirer/ Investor. 2009) [ii].

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Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Equity 114

David Teten

APRIL 6, 2015

We think that our job is to invest in the growth areas of 2018-2020, and we don’t know in advance what those are. Fred Wilson wrote about a similar dynamic at Union Square Ventures. . Analytics and Data ff Venture Capital Management Venture Capital'

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Venture Capital Stealth Seed Stage Bandwidth 60

View from Seed

APRIL 3, 2019

Yet, despite the attention and efforts in 2018, funding to female-founded startups continued to plateau: 2.2% of venture capital went to companies with only female founders (Pitchbook, October 2018). 17% of venture capital went to companies with at least one female founder (Crunchbase, January 2019).

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Founder Cofounder Venture Capital Programming 272

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? What Does this Mean for a Venture Capital Firm?

Pre-Money Valuation 471

Pre-Money Valuation Valuation Venture Capital Early Stage 471

David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. I believe that Revenue-Based Investing (“RBI”) VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem. 2018 also had the fewest number of angel-led financing rounds since before 2010.

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Revenue Term Sheet Founder Technical Review 60

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

He’ll be speaking at this year’s Lean Startup Conference , and also has a new book (for which I very happily wrote a short foreword) coming out next month: Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It. What is venture capital, really? And what does a venture capital firm do?

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Lean Venture Capital Conversion IPO 108

VC Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2023

As previously highlighted on VC Cafe (based on research by Sapphire Ventures) , while many funds avoid B2C investments, consumer startups can create extremely lucrative power-law returns for venture capital investors. B2C Venture Capital Investments in Israel To the most part, Israeli VCs shy away from B2C startup investments.

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B2C Generative AI Artificial Inteligence 148

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Since Sprout’s IPO, according to Midwest+startups , capital invested in the Midwest has doubled, from nearly $10 billion in the twelve trailing months ending June 2019 and Jube 2020 to $20 billion in the year ending June 2021. Growing Venture Capital Activity. billion in venture capital, compared to just $2.7

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Silicon Valley Kansas City Chicago Denver 178

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Companies have raised record amounts of venture capital money in 2020 and 2021. Even, so, the figure of new unicorns in 2022 is bigger than 2018, 2018 and 2020 combined. In Tel Aviv 27 unicorns produced 108 startups by alumni. In 2021, a new unicorn was created every 3 days.

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Europe Balance Sheet Valuation 97

VC Cafe

JULY 29, 2020

A new report on global venture capital investment volume shows that H1 2020 investments in startups reached $129 billion (this includes all stages as well as CVC activity). The total number of Haredi tech employees reached 9,700 in 2018 representing approximately 3% of the tech labor force. It’s a 6.5% Source: Crunchbase.

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Global Venture Capital Europe 179

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Just this week, entrepreneur and investor Tim O’Reilly wrote a powerful piece in which he challenged Hoffman’s blitzscaling strategy, which often encourages companies to grow as fast as possible by raising venture capital to dominate new markets, a strategy leveraged by Uber among other unicorns (i.e.

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Silicon Valley Technical Review Venture Capital San Francisco 48

View from Seed

DECEMBER 6, 2018

I’ve been writing checks for 8 years, and was lucky to get my start in the industry with the team at Spark Capital where I was able to witness some amazing early investments as part of that team. As I start my second 10 years in venture capital, I want to both reflect on some recent learnings that have changed the way I approach the business.

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Early Stage Florida Deal Flow Venture Capital 120