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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. Current round: $35mm in Series C (extension of Series B at higher valuation) from General Atlantic, Matrix Partners. Note that these are “gross” revenue numbers. OTHER DEALS: 1.

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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

Between 2006–2008 I sold both companies that I had started and became a VC. SEEING THINGS FROM THE VC SIDE OF THE TABLE While I was a VC in 2007 & 2008 those were dead years because the market again evaporated due the the Global Financial Crisis (GFC).

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Lessons Learned: How Choosing the Wrong Partner Cost One Entrepreneur Her Business

Up and Running

With her business savvy and the scientific minds of her three other partners, the team planned to take Wall Street by storm. partners started to challenge the suggestions she made. partners started to challenge the suggestions she made. They were just about to launch their product when the financial collapse happened in 2008.

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Meet Benchmark’s New Partner: Eric Vishria

abovethecrowd.com

Today Benchmark announced that Eric Vishria has joined us as a General Partner. Eric is one of the up-and-coming stars in the technology industry, and we are very excited he is becoming our partner. In 2008 Eric co-founded his own startup, RockMelt, and ran the company as CEO until its acquisition by Yahoo last year.

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Growth Funds Shed Rose-tinted glasses

Lightspeed Venture Partners

in India and Southeast Asia since 2008, with 11 unicorns in its portfolio. Partner Dev Khare shares optimism for the Indian market due to technological advancements. Lightspeed India is a VC fund investing $1.5B

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Transformify Partners with Genashtim to Help Bridge the Skills Gap

Transformify

The initiative launched by Transformify and supported by its valuable partner, Genashtim, will help those who can not afford the skills training to access it on - line. Since 2008, Genashtim became a partner of eCornell in Asia - the eLearning arm for Cornell University of Ithaca, New York.

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Upfront Ventures Adds Hamet Watt as New Investment Partner

Both Sides of the Table

I am thrilled to announce that we have added Hamet Watt as a Partner at Upfront Ventures. But as sweet as that success has been (we invested pre-revenue in a small team) today my even more important news was the further expansion of our partner ranks. We have been on a drive to add more operational partners. What does that mean?

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