K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

2) New market (less common form, examples are Lyft and eShares) and 3) New business model (least common, non-K9 portfolio examples are PriceLine and SolarCity). What led you to the venture capital world? That company merged with another company in Boston and grew to about 80 people and was acquired in 2005.

San Francisco 48

San Francisco Early Stage Portfolio Software Engineering 48

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

New Capital Earmarked for Global High-Growth Investments LARCHMONT, N.Y., 26 Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP), the oldest venture capital practice in the United States, today announced the closing of a $350 million supplement to its current fund family, BVP VII, which closed in June 2007. 2009 Bessemer Venture Partners.

Software Review 48

Software Review Partner United States Venture Capital 48

abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

I immediately reached out to the founder and CEO, Katrina Lake , who had previously worked for another Benchmark portfolio company in the fashion space, Polyvore. On August 23, Stitch Fix announced that it had shipped its 100,000th Fix , and today the company announced that it has grown 500% since its last financing round this past February.

eCommerce 62

eCommerce Technical Review North America San Francisco 62

This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 28, 2013

However, in this moment, I think one''s career in venture capital depends on changing your perspective. If you are a venture capital investor and you''re not preparing yourself to succeed in a more diverse ecosystem of entrepreneurs, you''re just going to get left behind. Stop--AND think. That''s less than 10%.

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Rob Go

JANUARY 7, 2013

This is why I’ve made a habit of profiling our portfolio quantitatively and why we write summaries announcing pretty much all of our new investments. So, here is our annual quantitative summary of our portfolio. A Stroll Through Our Portfolio. Geography: 20 / 25 investments are based in the Boston and New York areas.

Portfolio 49

Portfolio Seed Stage Cofounder B2B 49

David Teten

APRIL 7, 2017

In my research on how private equity and VC funds source investments , one of our conclusions was that VCs get better returns when they invest outside of the traditional geographic hotspots of New York, Boston, and the Bay Area. Onsi Sawiris, HOF Capital Co-Founder & Managing Partner, says, “The current growth of MENA markets is strong.

New York 60

New York Africa Cofounder Egypt 60

Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

This is a post I’ve wanted to write for a long time, but I needed the time to digest all the other great posts on the topics by other investors, and to analyze specific portfolio data from Haystack over the last five years. Well, that time has finally come. Will folks be able to buy a house and raise their families here?

San Francisco 116

San Francisco Silicon Valley Seattle Venture Capital 116

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?

Lean 108

Lean Venture Capital Conversion IPO 108

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

When we started NextView, there were relatively few seed focused venture capital funds in the country, even fewer on the east coast, and almost none in the Boston area. With the advent of more open, standard financing documents, it’s also more possible for founders to just set terms themselves and have investors subscribe.

Cram Down 66

Cram Down Institutional Investors Dilution Seed Stage 66

SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

10 Ways To Be Your Own Boss - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , June 18, 2010 The folks at Behance and Cool Hunting asked me to talk at their 99% Conference a couple months ago. The founder and CEO of another of our portfolio companies is wrapping up a large round and he showed me his pitch deck. Yes, even bootstrappers.

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Cofounder Technical Cofounder Term Sheet Startup 175

finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

Almost all of them would be characterized as venture capital, with a few exceptions for funds managed by The Blackstone Group ( BX ), Providence Equity Partners and Spectrum Equity Investors. Through 12/31/11, less than 66% of the fund-of-funds called capital had been returned to limited partners. Posted in: Venture Capital.

Naming 49

Naming Term Sheet Private Equity Equity 49

Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 18, 2012

There is alot I like about Dave McClure's post on VC industry trends ([link] It captures many of the trends of that are transforming the venture capital industry, particularly the bifurcation of "mega VC" and "micro VC" funds. A number of companies in our portfolio have followed this strategy. They are in the middle.

Silicon Valley 42

Silicon Valley Colorado Boston Early Stage 42

Pascal's View

MARCH 14, 2011

In his view, board practices generally in the venture industry are substandard and there are few organized resources to guide board members, outside of the work done by the National Venture Capital Association under the leadership of Pascal Levensohn of Levensohn Venture Partners. He plans a formal rollout this summer.

Government 37

Government LLC Boston Venture Capital 37

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 18, 2018

For m­any years, conventional wisdom held that a promising startup needed to be located in a traditional venture capital hub like Silicon Valley, San Francisco or New York to be successful. In fact, many venture capital firms in those areas would routinely require their portfolio companies to relocate.

Nashville 153

Nashville San Francisco Venture Capital Silicon Valley 153

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

The venture capital industry is so heavily skewed to Northern California, which the remains spilled over Boston, New York & Southern California. So it was wonderful to hear from a leading venture capital firm based in Washington DC. There are of course other outposts like Austin and Seattle.

Cofounder 277

Cofounder Merger Founder Venture Capital 277

David Teten

APRIL 29, 2014

According to the National Venture Capital Association/Dow Jones VentureSource, the VC industry is dominated by men (89% of VC Partners), specifically white men (76% of the total). Despite all this, we are living on a different planet when it comes to which companies receive venture capital.

Venture Capital 114

Venture Capital Los Angeles Cofounder Technical Review 114

David Teten

JANUARY 13, 2015

I also was fortunate to gain a lot of insight on this topic from Don Charlton, Founder/CEO, TheResumator *, a ffVC portfolio company. While people think a Southern drawl is smooth, and a Boston accent is “so Boston”, unfortunately you’re going to be judged harshly (and quietly) based on how you speak. Own your “anti-pattern”.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Advisory Board Greece Cofounder 60

Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Starting in three cities - Tel Aviv, London and Boston - at almost the same time helped, but can you walk us through how you thought about building a global company from day one? The company started as a two-headed monster, evolving into three and four heads with Ottawa and Boston. What have you learned from it?

Community 62

Community Cofounder Security Open Source 62

Transformify

MARCH 4, 2018

Over the years, Randstad has acquired smaller competitors thus expanding their portfolio of services and territorial outreach. Not only one of the leading temporary staffing agencies but also among the women-owned businesses in Boston. Their customer portfolio includes a wide array of companies, organizations, and industries.

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Hiring Finder Canada Australia 61

David Teten

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

I also suggest look at the UAE-Israel Technology & Finance Community/Mailing List. Phoenix Capital , a tie-up between OurCrowd and Abdullah Al Naboodah’s business development unit. In OGS, fellows can expect to build for-profit and non-profit ventures. Our ventures, in turn, have raised over $2 million in external funding.”.

UAE 60

UAE United Arab Emirates Technology 60

David Teten

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Blue Future Partners, a venture capital fund of funds, recently interviewed me on ESG in venture capital. For example, I’m an investor via ff Venture Capital in: – Plated.com is a meal kit company, delivering you the recipe and fresh ingredients to make a gourmet meal in your own kitchen. .

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