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Venture Capital Access Program launches to aid women and diverse entrepreneurs

David Teten

Department of Commerce & the Minority Business Development Agency, between 2002 and 2007, diverse-owned firms outpaced the growth of non-diverse firms in gross receipts and employment. HBSAANY members include venture capitalists, individual accredited investors, and other institutional investors. According to the U.S.

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The Changing Structure of the VC Industry

Both Sides of the Table

Just 3 years ago there was talk of institutional investors “not being able to write small enough checks.” 2007 was the watershed year. [Note the full presentation deck with additional slides can be found on SlideShare here or you can simply scroll through it at the bottom of this post.].

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Real talk on fundraising for a small fund

This is going to be BIG.

I could never have imagined going from a 25-year-old analyst at an institutional investor to seeing what I’ve seen and being a part of this community. For over fifteen years, I’ve had a front-row seat to the growth of the NYC tech—and I’ve been honored to contribute whatever I could to it.

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How the Seed-Stage VC Trend Began, The Downsides of Unicorns & Much More

Both Sides of the Table

And to show you just how similar many of these pioneers of the industry went through a similar startup journey to you – Jeff started by investing his own personal money ($250k) for a few years – $25k at a time – until he could persuade a few institutional investors to give him some money.

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New money into venture explains ups and downs in the market

The Equity Kicker

With this slide he’s explaining that in 2006-2007 investments into startups were equal to the funds raised by VCs, implying that only minimal amounts of non VC cash was invested in startups, but by 2014/2015 the situation had changed dramatically.

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CacheIQ Raises $6M

Austin Startup

By July of 2010, the company announced they had acquired all the assets of StorSpeed, which had received $13M in Series A funding in June of 2007, and had hit the deadpool by March of 2010. Potentially they are continuing a trend set by uControl of raising sizable amounts of money from non-institutional investors.

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A Closer Look At The Quality Of Angel Returns Data

David Teten

The results don’t generalize to all angels, but they strongly suggest that more professional, institutional investors should do even better than individual amateur angels. All exits occurred between 1990 and 2007—the vast majority after 2000. It seems unlikely that the reporting problems above account for all of it.

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