ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Rise of Global Tech Hubs An exciting shift in recent years is the emergence of new technological hubs across the globe. This global expansion means startups now have a wider array of ecosystems to choose from, each with its unique advantages, resources, and challenges.

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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. EShares is an increasingly popular tool in our portfolio for tracking private company cap tables. But we’re doing it slowly. 9% (1 / 12). 1) Market fund. 6) Negotiate deal.

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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). . A standalone fund can arguably take more risk with a view to its portfolio’s overall performance.

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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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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2021

The sudden arrival of the global pandemic has shifted the playbook for founders and venture capitalists. Noting our own experience, we questioned whether the fast proliferation of virtual interaction introduced by the COVID-19 crisis had changed investor decision-making more broadly across the venture capital industry.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Today there are over 1,000 unicorns globally. The term ‘Centaur’, coined by venture capital firm Bessemer, indicates companies that achieved $100M in annual recurring revenue (ARR). billion in 2021, and so far the fears of a recession haven’t materialised in 2022 despite the global slowdown in venture activity.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2015

In January, Jerry Neumann wrote a long and detailed analysis of his view of the VC industry in the 1980’s titled Heat Death: Venture Capital in the 1980’s. Secondly, the driver of returns for the funds raised in 1978 – 1981 was not their underlying portfolios, at what stage, or in what industries they were built.

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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. Clearlake Capital Group’s role in the investment will be supporting the global leader’s efforts to innovate products, accelerate growth and bolder M&A.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 26, 2023

It’s a global phenomenon, but to be successful in AI, startup hubs require a density of AI engineers, access to data and compute power and access to capital. While ChatGPT is most famously known, there are over 750 generative AI globally. We made two new investments in this space which are still in stealth.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 25, 2017

Venture Capitalism is changing. As an industry, VC essentially acts as a broker between investment banks, who can’t invest in risky startups due to laws on loan interest, and entrepreneurs who desperately need capital. As it happens, in the last 30 years, available capital has tripled to stand at roughly 10 times global GDP.

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David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

As I’ve worked to build out HOF Capital ’s portfolio acceleration platform , the #1 question I think about is: how do we scalably support our companies? Many VCs offer (or strive to offer) a bundle of levers and support structures to help their portfolio companies. We have lower AUM, therefore lower management fees.

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David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.” This would be easy to detect: among their portfolio companies, do startups with female founders outperform those without? All of the 40 companies’ 92 founders were male.

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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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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. Global and Local. The global story is undeniable, but what about what’s going in the USA outside the Bay Area?

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 26, 2022

Almost Half of Chemical Companies Fear Losing Markets Due to Not Meeting Customers’ Needs.” — Accenture’s Global Buyer Study. According to, Crunchbase, it received an undisclosed sum in unknown series funding from Evonik Venture Capital, Pinpools. Image Credit: Customer Centricity; Provided by the Author; Thank you!

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

That’s on average the time venture capital investors spend on a pre-seed pitch deck, according to the latest Dropbox/Docsend funding research report. 2 and a half minutes. The time spent on reviewing decks went down compared to 2021.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

SIGNIFICANCE PROMINENT. --> The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. The National Venture Capital Association estimates that 25% to 30% of venture-backed businesses fail. NAME David Cowan.

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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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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

This enabled Torch to evolve with China’s rapidly global economy. Torch has four major parts: Innovation Clusters , Technology Business Incubators (TBIs), Seed Funding (Innofund) and Venture Guiding Fund. Part 3, the next post describes the rise of Chinese venture capital. Innovation Clusters. Lessons Learned.

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David Teten

AUGUST 20, 2019

In addition, their portfolios look far more diverse than VC industry norms. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2013

Within the venture community, the first rule to remember is that opportunities abound these days, due to the increasing pace of technology evolution, and the scope and creativity of the global community. The same hold true for venture capital investors. Marty Zwilling.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

6/ Venture Capital In Expansion Phase. Technology is, like water, flowing and seeping into nearly every sector and eventually into most of the global economy. Public investors, cross-over investors, and even traditional private equity firms have taken notice, further blurring the lines of what constitutes true venture capital.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . The proportion of LPs using technology to manage their portfolios will continue to increase, and GPs unable to provide quality data to LPs will find it increasingly hard to retain and attract LPs.

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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? If the company sells or raises enough capital, the investment converts into an agreed-upon percentage of equity. GCVF is pioneering the future of venture capital and high growth startups for all small communities.

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 8, 2020

While this is a fine initial use case, I look forward to the development of more p2p lending for productive purposes (think microfinance, small businesses lending, or venture capital), which will help to create actual new wealth and dampen volatility. Exciting times ahead!

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 19, 2023

In the fast-paced world of technology and venture capital, a new player has emerged, poised to significantly impact the startup ecosystem. Big Sky Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm , has recently announced the launch of its inaugural fund, with $20 million in capital commitments.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

This enabled Torch to evolve with China’s rapidly global economy. Torch has four major parts: Innovation Clusters , Technology Business Incubators (TBIs), Seed Funding (Innofund) and Venture Guiding Fund. Part 3, the next post describes the rise of Chinese venture capital. Innovation Clusters. Lessons Learned.

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Haystack

JANUARY 2, 2020

A topic that’s been on my mind a lot in 2019 is “time diversity” in venture capital funds. On top of this, technology is no longer a vertical sector — it is entirely horizontal and spreading outward into global markets and new industries.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Since then, the space has only heated up (bad pun, I know) with more startups building and even more venture capital available to scale them. Renoster and Calyx Global are working on this, as is NCX*. Version One portfolio company. Current carbon verification registries lack transparency.

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Austin Startup

MAY 11, 2017

645 Ventures: A New Era of Venture Capital Investing Arena Growth Partners We help great leaders build great businesses. Aspect Ventures | Aligned VC We believe that the interests of investors and entrepreneurs can and should be aligned. For most of us, we have been the only woman partner or senior executive in our firm.

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Haystack

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

In this podcast, Eggers details his view of the phases the venture capital industry has gone through and recounts some stories about how Lightspeed was able to break through, and how hard it was to get that chance. Only a small handful of other venture firms have grown into such global powers, such as Sequoia and Accel. [

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David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

As a globally focused LP in early stage VC funds, we at Blue Future Partners have observed a growing trend of firms investing substantially in software tools, whether developing proprietary solutions or adopting off the shelf tools. But what tools are they using themselves to automate their own processes?

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thebarefootvc

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

– Austin Hill , co-founder Blockstream (FPV’s newest portfolio company). I founded FuturePerfect Ventures earlier this year because I believe that technology’s potential for positive social impact is still in formative stages. Globally, there are 2.5 Even in the United States, one in five households are underbanked.

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David Teten

AUGUST 1, 2020

It’s immoral because if BDS succeeds, it will hurt billions of people globally who use Israeli technology , including in many cases to save lives. The BDS movement (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement) is a global attempt to persuade people not to do business with Israel or businesses that do business with Israel.

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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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VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2021

billion gamers worldwide will help the global games market generate revenues of $189.3 ” Let’s meet in the virtual world – Even as IRL events return, expect these virtual destinations to continue as a way to make events more accessible to a global audience, according to Ketchum. Fortnite alone made $1.8 social media.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 20, 2017

While general impact investing is becoming more mainstream for high net worth individuals and institutions, gender lens investing has not benefitted from the same level of traction in the private equity and venture capital space. Contrasted with an average VC fund size of $30M… there is a mismatch.

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