Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Over the past month a colleague ( Chang Xu ) and I sifted through data on the venture capital industry (as we do every year) and made a bunch of calls to VCs and LPs to confirm our hypotheses. As a result of the IPO window shifting we saw a massive inflow of public-market capital into the latest stages of venture.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

She had so much insight to share that we broke the interview into two parts, 1) Corporate Venture Capital and more broadly, 2) How the Fortune 500 Can Buy, Invest and Partner with the Innovation Economy (coming soon). . Previously she was Co-Founder and CEO of SNAZZ, a cloud-based event management platform.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2021

After covering Google startup outreach and support (from first hand experience), today I’m happy to add Amazon and AWS, by looking into the variety of ways startups can engage with the commerce and cloud giant. The Alexa Fund also provides up to $200 million in venture capital funding to fuel voice technology innovation.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 25, 2021

When Accel led Melio’s series B last year, we had high expectations for the company and its vision but didn’t imagine it would become one of Israel’s cloud unicorns in such a short space of time. Fintech stack shifting to the cloud From the outset, Melio’s broader platform vision of enabling B2B payments in a contextual way has been key.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund and mutual fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. We’ve seen some modest progress in people upgrading from Excel to Google Sheets; use of some CRM; and a cloud-based storage service. ff Venture Capital portfolio company.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

“The Centaur is a business that reaches $100 million of annual recurring revenue (ARR)—a rare breed of cloud business, part of an elite subset of the growing unicorn herd.” The term ‘Centaur’, coined by venture capital firm Bessemer, indicates companies that achieved $100M in annual recurring revenue (ARR).

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VC Cafe

JULY 21, 2020

In the past I’ve covered the rise of corporate venture capital and the growing number of Fortune 500 companies who are actively launching CVC arms or investing in startups/funds. Another big commercial area is Google Cloud for startups. Google Cloud or Google Compute). But investing is only part of the picture.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 11, 2022

A couple of weeks ago I was did a fireside chat with Alon Grinshpoon, founder and CEO of Echo3D , a CDN and CMS for 3D content in the cloud and a Remagine Ventures portfolio company, as part of an entrepreneurial finance MBA class in Tel Aviv University. As the venture capital industry evolves, so do the models for supporting founders.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 26, 2021

In March 2021, Israeli venture capital fund Benson Oak introduced a “passionware” as a new category of software tools and platforms? The latest edition from March 2021, comes from Glilot Capital Partners in collaboration with IVC. Source: The Digital Insurer in collaboration with the InsurTech Israel ( Download ).

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2023

Tightening of monetary policies has led to skyrocketing interest rates as central banks try to manage rampant running inflation, supply chain issues persist despite the fact that the pandemic is now in the rearview — and venture capital funding has looked to dry up almost overnight. Do Not Fear! This is an Opportunity!

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VC Cafe

JUNE 10, 2022

For the past few week I’ve been sharing here the impact of the current downturn that started in the public markets on startups and venture capital. Dealroom shared very interesting data in the “ State of VC in 2022 ” on the slow down in Venture Capital activity in Q2 2022, particularly in the growth stage.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2014

However, four critical advances over the past decade (cloud, accelerators, Lean, and Angels) not only changed the math for tech investing but made regional tech clusters possible. The cloud , open-source development tools and web 2.0 Focus on capital efficient, scalable startups and founders.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

In this three-part series I will explore the ways that the Venture Capital industry has changed over the past 5 years that I would argue are a direct result of changes in the software industry, not the other way around. So it’s unsurprising that typical “A rounds&# of venture capital were $5-10 million.

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VC Cafe

JULY 26, 2020

“After the crash, venture capital was scarce to non-existent. With the risk of sounding too conservative, what matters for startups now, as venture capital becomes less available and consumer spending tightens, is adaptation and survival. In fact, they were screaming at them to dramatically reduce their burn rates.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

There has been much discussion in the past few years of the changing structure of the venture capital industry. The rise of alternative sources of capital (crowd funding and the like). The overall trends in our industry have breathed a new life into the venture capital industry. The iPhone was released.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 29, 2020

With that said, Israeli Venture Capital funding broke a new record in Q3 2020, according to an IVC report. Not to mention the availability of talent, the smart phone penetration and improved infrastructure which can accelerate things like cloud gaming or AR/VR. In September alone , Israeli startups raised $1.2

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Let us face it, most startups are cash-strapped and are focused on producing a marketable output of their activities until their venture capital runs dry. What kind of access (VPN, cloud-based work, centralised servers, thin/thick client schemes, etc.) Software Choices. should be used to work on shared projects?

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

For the last 75 years computers (we’ll call these classic computers) have both shrunk to pocket size (iPhones) and grown to the size of warehouses (cloud data centers), yet they all continued to operate essentially the same way. More computing power – AI In the Cloud. Some cloud vendors train on >10TB data sets.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Today, you can start a web/mobile/cloud startup for $500,000 and have money left over. Every potential early-stage Venture Capitalist should take a year and do it before he or she makes partner. Venture capital as a profession is less than half a century old. venture/operating partners to get them into new industries.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 12, 2022

2) Technology – Blockchain/Defi/Web3, 5G/6G and stronger GPUs, cloud gaming and graphic engines like Unity and Unreal, advanced GPUs, hardware (such as the Oculus Quest 2, the first mainstream VR headset at $300 a pop, with over 10 million units sold in 2021) all make it easier for the Metaverse to succeed now.

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SiliconHills

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Instead of seeking venture capital, Joyce Durst, Co-Founder, and CEO of Growth Acceleration Partners decided to bootstrap the software development company. Growth Acceleration Partners, known as GAP, offers analytics, cloud, mobile and QA services.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 22, 2018

We weren’t winning or losing business to other developers, rather it generally came down to three options: Buy – the client saw the value in our platform and they subscribed to our cloud. The decision on whether to purchase or develop the innovative applications that your firm needs to compete has changed dramatically with cloud solutions.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Others may not have the experience you want and they fill up a seat that makes retaining founder control more difficult if you ultimately raise large rounds of venture capital in the future. What happens at the A-round of venture capital? With that said, no venture capital firm really wants to replace a CEO.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

I am excited to share the news of First Round Capital 's recent investment in cloud-to-cloud backup service Backupify. Not only were they files in the cloud, but they had all sorts of attached metadata like tags, comments, and groupings that didn't come in a neatly packaged desktop file. Flickr has an API. S3 has an API.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 30, 2022

I previously covered on VC Cafe the state of ‘Creative Automation’ Cloud-based asset management, build, and release systems – Most of the 3D content used in these games/experiences is hard coded and locked. Why can’t the assets be centrally managed in the cloud? Jonathan Lai, General Partner, A16Z Gaming fund.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Yes, venture capital is very good for scaling businesses rapidly. I personally have nothing against venture capital. Next week, we will delve deep into cloud computing businesses. To prepare, please study the Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing trends and opportunities series. Very encouraging!

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Version One Ventures

MAY 29, 2014

venture capital deals go to women founders and CEOs. Business Insider recently crunched the numbers behind 26 of the top venture capital funds in Silicon Valley and learned that the percentage of female-founded startups in their portfolios ranged from a high of 19% to a low of just 4%.

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David Teten

MAY 29, 2013

The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), ff Venture Capital, and The Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of Greater New York are once again co-sponsoring Flashpoint’s upcoming New York Demo Day, on Friday, June 14, 2013, 9:30 AM to 11:30 AM. The event will be held at SUNY Global Center, 116 East 55th Street, New York, NY.

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David Teten

MAY 29, 2013

The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), ff Venture Capital, and The Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of Greater New York are once again co-sponsoring Flashpoint’s upcoming New York Demo Day, on Friday, June 14, 2013, 9:30 AM to 11:30 AM. The event will be held at SUNY Global Center, 116 East 55th Street, New York, NY.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

Yesterday I wrote Part 1 of the series on the changes to the software industry over the past decade that has led to changes in the venture capital industry itself. Open cloud led by Amazon with their AWS services drove total operating costs down by 90%. This led to an explosion in startups.

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 30, 2013

Union Square Ventures partner Albert Wenger wrote a post yesterday about the disruption of venture capital which lists the changes afoot: Information about VCs on the internet. Startup costs have fallen – open source software and cloud computing have driven startup costs down by a factor of 10.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 4, 2019

For example, a $10B endowment might be looking to have 10% ($1B) allocated to venture capital at any one time. So, if the venture asset class performs well in terms of unrealized mark-ups, the % of VC relative to the total portfolio actually increases. That 10% might start to look more like 12% or 15%.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

The European and Israeli cloud ecosystem is accelerating as never before. Back in 2016, Europe and Israel had only four public companies worth less than $9B combined and local cloud companies had raised just $900M throughout 2015. of market capitalization. 60% of the cloud IPOs had a market cap of $5B+ vs. only 28% this year.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

Google is perhaps not synonymous with the metaverse, but the company has already invested billions in the future of AR, VR, XR and 3D content in the cloud. Animoca Brands is a Hong Kong-based game software company and venture capital company founded 2014 by Yat Siu. Honorary mention – Animoca Brands.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2021

The move to remote work forced quick adoption of cloud technology and tools that were once having difficulties selling to large corporates, saw explosive growth – from Zoom to Hopin, new unicorns were born in record time. I also believe that there was a fundamental change in consumer behaviour. Fortnite alone made $1.8

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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. As the cloud continues to empower users with data and analytics, Hauser and Clearlake will have a hand in the success of Precisely’s work within the industry.

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BeyondVC

APRIL 4, 2018

We are at the beginning stages of one of the biggest IT shifts in history as legacy workloads in the enterprise continue to move to a cloud-native architecture. Rise of multi-cloud. Most legacy workloads are still locked on-prem and not moved to any cloud infrastructure. SaaS to Infrastructure, Salesforce and Mulesoft.

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