Austin Startup

AUGUST 12, 2019

This past month, SXSW called on the community to enter proposals for conference sessions at all SXSW 2020 events— and so the buzz begins. Now is the time to show your support for the innovative and creative thinkers we are lucky to work with at Capital Factory. Take a few minutes to learn more about each panel below and VOTE TODAY !

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David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

(co-written with Stephane Nasser , co-founder of OpenVC , an open-source initiative to collect and analyze all VC theses.). OpenVC is a new, open-source initiative to collect and analyze all publicly available VC theses, to help founders more efficiently find the right investors, and vice-versa. of venture capital deals.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

As an early stage investor in the world of gaming and metaverse technology at Remagine Ventures, I find these companies have the potential to set the agenda, become the potential platforms for developers building in this space and future acquirers/consolidators of startups building the next generation of the Internet. Here we go! Epic Games.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 29, 2022

Yotam Segev (left) and Tamar Bar-Ilan (right), cofounders of Cyera The complex equation of data reality With AWS, Azure and GCP growing 40-50% YoY at massive scale (AWS’ run rate is more than $70B!), Latest estimates are that the 65 zettabytes (1 zettabyte = 1 billion terabytes) of global data in 2020 will have nearly tripled by 2025**.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2017

Chang Xu for her tireless effort in helping me prepare and analyze the data) If you met with LPs to raise a fund in 2009–2012 the most common refrain was, “We have too many managers and too many dollars in venture. Note that all of these names were not started in Silicon Valley. link] So here are some details (please thank & follow!

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 25, 2021

The first time I met Matan, the founder of Melio, he told me that his mission was simple: he wanted to “help small businesses stay in business” by making B2B payments fast, simple and flexible. And he and his co-founders Ziv and Ilan made it happen: Melio’s now processing multi-billion dollar payment volumes less than two years after launch.

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View from Seed

APRIL 3, 2019

Original research on gender diversity and fundraising amongst HBS founders. Historically, there has been a general bias against MBA founders — a skepticism around their grit and hustle. Gender diversity in entrepreneurship has been a high-visibility topic of late, in both the media and venture community.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

Congratulations, class of 2020. In 2020, entering the real world means staying at home, sheltering in place. So what’s the YouTube or the Facebook of 2020? But for you, in 2020, when jobs are hard to come by, what does that mean? In other words, compared to you guys, we had it pretty sweet. Instagram Influencer.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Brunner (@heatherjbrunner) | Twitter Preston James Co-founder & CEO DivInc Preston is at the center of everything Diversity & Inclusion in Austin. An early Human Rights Campaign board member and longtime Austin LGBTQ leader, Eugene co-chaired President Obama’s & the DNC’s LGBTQ Leadership Council.

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Eric Friedman

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Company is a great fit: they host, advise, mentor, lend a shoulder, and provide a place to founders and teams. These things are right up my alley because it’s what I love doing and align with my goal to be the best advisor to early-stage founders. And all in the heart of NYC!

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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. Israeli graduated unicorns (2020-2021), with minor exceptions (Checkppoint, Wix, Mobileye, Autotalks) which exited earlier.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

- This article was co-authored with my colleagues Varun Purandare and Candice du Fretay and published initially on Tech.eu. The 2020 Accel Euroscape was unveiled earlier today at SaaStockEMEA. 2020 Cloud Market: Is The Sky the Limit? In 2020, Europe and Israel minted seven new unicorns, taking the total number to 25.

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Cracking the Code

JULY 15, 2020

- This article was co-authored with my colleagues Varun Purandare and Candice du Fretay and published initially on Tech.eu. The Accel 2020 Euroscape will be presented at SaaStock in October. This is what we will attempt to discover with the 2020 Accel Euroscape. 2020 has been the best of times and the worst of times.

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 25, 2015

Forerunner Ventures is one of Homebrew’s favorite co-investors for consumer commerce/retail startups. Firm founder Kirsten Green has an amazing analytical mind combined with empathy for the consumer. HW: Is venture still an “apprenticeship” business? . EK: Absolutely. EK: It’s a great question.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Even in 2020, a difficult year by any measure, the Austin community has surpassed all of my expectations. Breyer Capital continues to deeply plug into these exceptional academic communities and we’re eager to add value and work with some of the city’s best and brightest. Richard was previously the Chief Scientist at Salesforce.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 15, 2021

In my own view, this is awesome news — because I’ve been an investor in Aurora since February 2018 when I co-led its Series A round for Greylock and joined Aurora’s board. Meanwhile, market pioneers in blitzscale-up mode are exactly the kind of company Reinvent aims to serve with its “venture capital at scale” strategy.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 9, 2020

Prior to co-founding Foundry Group , he co-founded Mobius Venture Capital and, prior to that, founded Intensity Ventures. Brad is also a co-founder of Techstars. Brad is a writer and speaker on the topics of venture capital investing and entrepreneurship. Like this show?

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 20, 2020

On November 5th, from 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM EDT, I’m co-hosting a DEIS Practicum with Rodney Sampson and the OHUB Foundation. Instead, we are being intentional about how to support an increasing number of Black board members, founders, CEOs, teams, suppliers, and anti-racist products. It is not a performative event. No hashtags here.

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 14, 2020

Here is a quick video: It all started with this tweet by Jeff Richards of GGV Capital ( @jrichlive ) on Twitter: Caption this: pic.twitter.com/EoOHzVKhYh — Jeff Richards (@jrichlive) February 7, 2020. My inclination was that “this is a team of scrappy founders, and I like how they think.”. I immediately liked what I saw.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

After all, in the year 2020, investors that had access to VC-backed IPOs, earned $206 million in average one-day gains for each of 165 separate offerings, for a total of $34B in one-day wealth transfers (including over-allotments). Last year, 2020, the AVERAGE IPO was underpriced by 47.9%! Are We Too Gullible or Naive?

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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. Gayle King is co-host of CBS This Morning. as in pro wrestling?—?you’re you’re going to take some hits.

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Austin Startup

JULY 19, 2021

There’s a reason why Austin has been named the top tech city in the US in 2019 and 2020 by CompTIA. And these groups are not the only ones; it seems like every day we are seeing news of new and established firms closing capital in Austin. It’s no surprise investors are choosing to come to Austin.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

It seems like every day there is a new headline about an exceptional startup founder, investor, or corporate headquarters moving to Texas. trillion in 2020. The Innovation Center at Houston’s TMC (TMCx), co-located with Johnson and Johnson’s J-Labs, and the Center for Medical Device Innovation, drive medical innovation.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 28, 2020

and we expect that number to grow significantly in 2020. Joshua Baer, Founder, General Partner & CEO In partnership with JP Morgan, we invited dozens of investors from around the world on a three day Texas Startups Roadshow highlighting the best of Austin, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio. There are many more examples like this.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). ” Hackernews list of “Tools of the Trade” for startups - includes over 150 SaaS tools used by startups, and over 150 comments with interesting insights from founders. National Venture Capital Association â?? Raising Venture Capital.

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 5, 2020

And this year, in 2020, it’s $40 billion and counting, with a full quarter yet to go. Venture capital is incredibly important to the technology startup process; every one of the top American technology companies had great venture capital investors to help the founders navigate the stressful and challenging stages of growth.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

The first time I met Matan, Melio's co-founder and CEO, he told me that his mission was simple: he wanted to “help small business stay in business” by making B2B payments fast, simple and flexible. The round we did with Accel was in late February/early March 2020 – probably the worst time in the last 50 years to raise!

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Cracking the Code

APRIL 21, 2021

It was a difficult time of exploration and iteration, as many founders experience, and it took 10 long years to build the company from $0 to $1mm in revenue, a difficult phase. After going $0 to $1mm in their first 10 years, UiPath has now hockey-sticked to over $600mm in revenue in 2020, and the automation market is still in early innings.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

From Box to Glossier, and Comms to Venture Capital, Ashley Mayer Is Carving a Pretty Unique Path. I had gone to high school with the founders in the Seattle area, and we had recently reconnected. What She’s Learned, And What You Can Learn From Her. We had overlapping circles and then became friends. Enter Box.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 10, 2020

Meanwhile, Philly quietly chugs away drawing entrepreneurs and venture capital (VC) dollars. The city’s pro sports teams are winning again, especially the 76ers NBA franchise, which is at the top of the odds to claim the Eastern Conference in 2020. Image by David Mark from Pixabay. But the noise is getting louder.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Abu Dhabi Virtual 2020 : Cooperation between The Nest – ???? ?????? ?????? & & Founder Institute UAE Abu Dhabi Virtual 2020. Pre-seed startups (all vertical) are welcome to register to world’s largest pre-seed startup accelerator, the Founder Institute Final Admissions Deadline: October 04. Apply here.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

As the company is still growing, we can easily guess that in 2019-2020 time frame, Airbnb will be delivering around $50B per year to home-owners who were previously sitting on highly underutilized assets. Instawork was cofounded by Sumir Meghani in San Franciso and was a member of the 2015 Y-Combinator class.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 13, 2021

The Greylock general partner and the host of The 20 Minute VC pick back up from a December 2020 episode of the popular podcast , during which Hoffman discusses his wide-ranging career and key lessons learned. Reid: I’m doing some SPACs with a venture firm called Reinvent Capital. You can listen to the podcast here.

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Transformify

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

The possibility of working from home or co-working spaces has been around for some time. billion and may go public by the end of 2020. Adaptable office space and co-working spaces allow flexibility as never before. Access to capital and the established ecosystem attract many startup founders to the big tech hubs.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 28, 2019

The result is more startups, more money and firms to fund it, and an increasing belief that access to technology-related equity (either as a founder, employee, or investor) must become increasingly democratized or rebalanced as a result of the compounding effects at scale we are now witnessing. 3/ The Streaming Media Effect.

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

CCS Insights forecasts that 411 million smart wearable devices, worth a staggering $34 billion, will be sold in 2020 (up from 274 million this year). These devices and their associated technologies and software applications are already transforming industries as diverse as healthcare, telecommunications, entertainment, gaming, and more.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 18, 2010

RSVP: [link] Wednesday, January 20th EVENT OF THE WEEK: 7PM Kevin Ryan & Henry Blodget: NYTech -10 +10 @ 92Y Tribecca The city's enhancement-free version of the "Bash Brothers" talk NYC Tech in 2000, 2010, and 2020. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. RSVP: [link].

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