The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

After completing this project, he contacted his friend Blake Chandlee, president of global business solutions for TikTok/ByteDance. He had previously invested in Tastebud, which Tsai co-founded and served as vice president of product. Joshua Baer, founder of Capital Factory. Brett Hurt, founder of Bazaarvoice and Data.world.

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Nepal Private Equity Cofounder Startup 196

Austin Startup

OCTOBER 8, 2019

MASSCHALLENGE TEXAS NAMES TOP 14 FINALIST STARTUPS FROM AUSTIN-BASED ACCELERATOR International accelerator to award up to $500,000 in equity-free cash prizes to select top startups from the region’s third startup accelerator program at Oct. 19, 2019; source: Juice Consulting)?—? 17, 2019 at the Hilton Austin. To RSVP, see here.

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Texas Austin Houston San Antonio 48

David Cohen

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

The three founders (Isaac, Tim, and Jose) were based in the Los Angeles area when they moved the company to Boulder for the Techstars Boulder Accelerator in 2009. In 2019, SendGrid become the first ever company from any accelerator program to IPO, valued at over $1 billion. These are sorted by the year that we funded them.

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San Antonio New York City Seattle Los Angeles 171

VC Cafe

JULY 4, 2022

billion in 2,251 deals during the second quarter through June 15, versus about $70 billion in 3,369 deals in the first quarter • Declining valuations: In the secondary market for private equity, 55% of the equity offered for sale in May was offered at a discount to the companies’ valuations per share, compared with 47% in March and 35% in January.

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Venture Capital Valuation Private Equity LP 167

View from Seed

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The world is experiencing a global economic crisis of a proportion most living people have never witnessed. But during this period, many founders and investors do prize growth above most everything else. Secondary transaction liquidity also starts to become a reality for founders and early investors. 2009-2011: Retrenchment.

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IPO Early Stage Cofounder B2C 202

Austin Startup

JULY 19, 2021

There’s a reason why Austin has been named the top tech city in the US in 2019 and 2020 by CompTIA. Beereaders is one of the many examples of amazing founders and leaders continuing to build the impressive and diverse tech hub that Austin has become.

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Austin San Francisco Chile SEC 111

Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2021

After doing some market research, I realized that there was a market for the handcrafted greeting cards that I make, and in September 2019, MsCraftprincess Designs was formed. And that’s how I started my private equity business where I acquire both online and offline assets such as lead generation websites and physical real estate.

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Entrepreneur B2B Database Technical Review 137

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Quicc co-founders Jason Toevs and Mike Mathia. That’s the mission of Quicc , launched in 2019, in Wichita, Kansas. In just a year, Quicc has rocketed into the global marketplace and now serves video creators in 84 countries. Reach the 25,000 global user mark! and plugged his pick for the Super Bowl.

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Wichita Kansas Kansas City Cofounder 62

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The world is experiencing a global economic crisis of a proportion most living people have never witnessed. But during this period, many founders and investors do prize growth above most everything else. Secondary transaction liquidity also starts to become a reality for founders and early investors. 2009-2011: Retrenchment.

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IPO Early Stage Cofounder B2C 100

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

It seems like every day there is a new headline about an exceptional startup founder, investor, or corporate headquarters moving to Texas. Or are they running to a fresh perspective, a massive talent pool, and an innovation culture that balances social impact with global domination? Joe Lonsdale. Drew Houston. Jim Breyer. Who’s next?

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Texas San Antonio Houston Dallas 90

Reid Hoffman

JULY 13, 2021

It starts before the technology development even gets underway, says Stanford University computer science professor Dr. Fei-Fei Li , who is the co-founder and co-director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI. Before founding HAI in 2019, she served as the director of Stanford’s AI Lab. EPISODE TRANSCRIPT.

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Technical Review Artificial Inteligence America Algorithm 36

Reid Hoffman

JULY 13, 2021

It starts before the technology development even gets underway, says Stanford University computer science professor Dr. Fei-Fei Li , who is the co-founder and co-director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI. Before founding HAI in 2019, she served as the director of Stanford’s AI Lab. EPISODE TRANSCRIPT.

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Technical Review Artificial Inteligence America Algorithm 36

Reid Hoffman

MAY 7, 2020

Of course, back in 2018, we did not foresee a global pandemic and associated depression. Black swan is a light name for a global industry destroying asteroid. As Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky wrote in a letter to the employees being laid off: “I am truly sorry. This is a huge challenge for Airbnb.

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Vietnam Hosting United States Vesting 36