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State of VC 2.0

View from Seed

Building off Rob’s original post, let’s continue to look at the 2007 vintage. For context, seed-stage pre-money valuations are up 24% from H1 2020 to H1 2021. The chart below illustrates this, with the black vertical line representing the average VC return. What Does the VC Performance Data Tell Us? Source: AngelList.

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State of VC 2.0

View from Seed

Building off Rob’s original post, let’s continue to look at the 2007 vintage. For context, seed-stage pre-money valuations are up 24% from H1 2020 to H1 2021. The chart below illustrates this, with the black vertical line representing the average VC return. What Does the VC Performance Data Tell Us? Source: AngelList.

Valuation 295
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State of VC 2.0

View from Seed

Building off Rob’s original post, let’s continue to look at the 2007 vintage. For context, seed-stage pre-money valuations are up 24% from H1 2020 to H1 2021. The chart below illustrates this, with the black vertical line representing the average VC return. What Does the VC Performance Data Tell Us? Source: AngelList.

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1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Ownership Matters

ReadWriteStart

An incubatee with Indian Angel Network, Anirudh Motwani from New Delhi, India, discussed IndiaCollegeSearch , a vertical search engine to address the problem of finding detailed information about various colleges and institutions in India. I was looking for what you teach back in January of 2007 and couldn't find it anywhere.

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

In many cases, a deeper focus on a particular category or vertical allows these marketplaces to distinguish themselves from broader marketplaces like eBay. The company was acquired by ebay in January 2007. These vertical labor marketplaces are to LinkedIn what companies like Zillow, Expedia, and GrubHub are to Google search.

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Impact Investing: a time for problems to become opportunities

VC Cafe

The term “impact investment” was coined in 2007 — an approach that deliberately builds intangible assets alongside tangible, financial ones. During one of GITA’s latest webinars , researcher Montanes showed how FinTech, Healthcare and ClimateTech are currently the main impact tech sectors.