VC Cafe

JULY 13, 2022

Israeli fundraising in H1 2022 – not nearly as good as 2021, but better than 2020. Though the number of foreign investor led deals decreased from 52 in H2 of 2021 to 40, it is still significantly higher than H1 0f 2020’s 19 deals. billion in revenue in 2021, 5% of global industry revenues in 2021 ($175 billion) ?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Benjamin Nadareski of DrumG , which solves data ownership and a broken valuations industry. The Forrest Four-Cast: February 11, 2020 One of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , DrumG is a global technology firm that builds and operates financial market applications and networks. What is your top goal for DrumG for 2020?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Benjamin Nadareski of DrumG , which solves data ownership and a broken valuations industry The Forrest Four-Cast: February 11, 2020 One of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , DrumG is a global technology firm that builds and operates financial market applications and networks. What is your top goal for DrumG for 2020?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

The valuations were too high! We’re at a new watermark because there are now global assets deployed and as the sun peeks out so to do the riders and the revenue. It’s truly staggering to realize that just a year ago we really hadn’t begun nationalizing let along globalizing. We are now in Act IV. But springtime is here.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 7, 2010

As a thumb rule, try to get enough validation so that you can get to at least a $2 million pre-money valuation before raising equity capital. That is debt financing that converts into equity at the Series A valuation once the price for that is set. (I Sub-$2 million pre-money, it is better to bootstrap. Photo by lco.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 15, 2020

While Ethereum based DeFi has stolen the show for most of 2020 – and rightly so, the amount of innovation and experimentation happening there is insane! If you want to feel bullish on how Lightning can be used as global payments rails, read this comprehensive essay by Nicolas Burtey of Galoy. Use Case I: Payments and Finance .

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2021

billion company and has built up this valuation outside the Silicon Valley scene. This year, Duolingo went public and has earned a $7 billion valuation. billion for the whole of 2020. With a quarter left, there is lots of scope to go even further past 2020’s high water mark. billion for the whole of 2020.

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Cracking the Code

JULY 15, 2020

The Accel 2020 Euroscape will be presented at SaaStock in October. This is what we will attempt to discover with the 2020 Accel Euroscape. Applications are now open , and if you think the name of your company should be on the list, you can apply HERE – applications will close on 9th September 2020. at the time of this post.

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Transformify

JUNE 20, 2020

Unsurprisingly, the shares of Wirecard plummeted and the valuation of the company went down to just EUR 5bn (as of June 18 th , 2020) versus the EUR 24bn two years ago. DACH) or operate globally. Big merchants operating globally. Operating globally, Adyen is the payment provider of choice for many e-commerce merchants.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The 2020 Accel Euroscape was unveiled earlier today at SaaStockEMEA. UiPath broke that milestone this summer, in just nine months, establishing Europe as a major global center for software innovation. 2020 Cloud Market: Is The Sky the Limit? Big milestones for the old continent! Is the sky the limit for Cloud public stocks?

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Companies have raised record amounts of venture capital money in 2020 and 2021. According to Pitchbook’s Q3 2022 European VC Valuations Report , Europe minted 40 unicorns in the first 3 quarters of 2022. Even, so, the figure of new unicorns in 2022 is bigger than 2018, 2018 and 2020 combined.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The global rise in venture capital didn’t skip Israel, which has been breaking new records the amount of venture capital raised by companies in 2021. According to CB Insights there are currently 832 unicorns globally, valued at a total of $2,702 billion. Global unicorn breakdown by category (Source: CB Insights ).

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 18, 2020

In the 2017 article, I wrote “True alpha returns have been difficult to achieve in the globally low interest-rate environment…”. Fast forward to 2020 and truer words have never been spoken. Two weeks ago in 2020 the same hairdresser was surprised to hear “Bitcoin was still a thing”. All in one day!

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The timing couldn’t have been more perfect—just as being a venture-backed hospitality company claiming some sort of moral high ground doing inevitable mass layoffs when the pandemic hit couldn’t have made it more of a target of racial reckoning issues in 2020. And did any company really make serious change since 2020? Did any company?

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 2, 2020

The Israeli tech ecosystem has made its mark globally since its early days somewhere in the 1990s. What’s less discussed, is that Israel also, has one of the highest number of unicorns, aka privately owned startups worth more than $1 billion, globally. The landscape of Israeli Unicorns – Oct 2020 (Source: PitchBook ).

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

With a present valuation of over $35 billion, the frozen food market is likely to increase in size by 1.3% Globally, the frozen food market is worth more than $300 billion. That is a 40% increase in value from the market’s 2018 frozen food business valuation of $260 billion. Source: Unsplash. COVID played a big part in this too.

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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. Early stage deal activity showed real resilience coming off of a slow Q2, with deal count at angel and seed stage in 2020 now about at par with the same period in 2019. billion in 148 funds for the first half of 2020.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 29, 2023

As per a report by Google, Temasek Holdings, and Bain & Company, as many as 40 million people in six countries across the region — Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Thailand — came online for the first time in 2020. This amount can triple by 2025. Now, you can find 49 unicorns and Decacorns there.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 30, 2017

Generally, investors focus on growth, profits and valuation. Since 2012, the company has received the highest possible score on the Global Impact Investment Rating System assessment of social and environmental impact. Before the end of 2020, d.light says that it will have helped transform the lives of 100 million people.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

billion valuation led by Andreessen Horowitz. Stripe (founded 2010) – at over $35 billion valuation, nothing seems to slow Stripe down on their quest to become the top payments solution online. Notably missing from this list are Unity , Bytedance , Spotify and several other global unicorns.

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David Cohen

MARCH 30, 2020

March 30, 2020. Uber took the shockingly low valuation of $4m when raising it’s first $1.5m. 3m valuation. Less than a $2m valuation for their seed round. Now, in 2020 our bodies are being attacked. For the rest of our lives, we’ll all remember this global pandemic that changed everything. I’m one of you.

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VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2021

Anecdotally, we at Remagine Ventures are investors in EchoAR , a CDN and CMS for 3D content which has seen the number of developers on its platform grow from 300 in March 2020 to over 10,000 in April 2021, with almost zero marketing effort. in 2020 over 2019. in 2020 over 2019. billion generated in 2020 (Source: SensorTower ).

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 20, 2021

So that’s why we are excited about 2020 because there will be more and more entrepreneurs and businesses. 3-Expand globally. Recognizing early on that the pandemic would affect various geographic areas and economic sectors in different ways, we decided to expand our focus globally, also reaching out to a wider range of industries.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 24, 2011

Additional work in figuring out the precise go-to-market consumer, academic institution, or enterprise - each is a different business), and consequent business model and pricing model will help enhance the company's valuation. The game set retails online at $49.95, and about 2,000 unites have already been sold.

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Cracking the Code

JULY 23, 2021

billion valuation to become the fastest growing company in history. Then, this summer, Celonis secured the largest private SaaS investment globally ($1 billion Series D), securing the company’s spot as Germany and New York’s most valuable start-up at a valuation of $11 billion. Submissions close on 31 August, 2021.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Why not go further, develop more valuation, customer experience, and really, deeply validate the business? These roundtables are the cornerstone programming of a global initiative that I have started called One Million by One Million ( 1M/1M ). So, in Gio's situation, it is clear to me that he is able to get customers to buy.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

With the benefit of increasing IPOs in the last few years, we are starting to see better growth: In 2020, there were close to 500 IPOs in the U.S., billion, more than was raised in the entirety of 2020, an admittedly banner year for SPACs. double the rate of the prior year, 103 of those being venture-backed companies.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 13, 2021

So that’s why we are excited about 2020 because there will be more and more entrepreneurs and businesses. 3-Expand globally. Recognizing early on that the pandemic would affect various geographic areas and economic sectors in different ways, we decided to expand our focus globally, also reaching out to a wider range of industries.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 28, 2019

2/ The Global Culture Clash And Bull Markets Effect. By the time I write this post looking back on 2020, we will hopefully have a clearer picture of what direction the country is heading — but for now, this has all resulted in an easy-money environment for technology, startups, and the firms that fund them.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 30, 2018

vs Uber (global)? Ultimately, I predict these and other companies will go out soon, but for many of them, they may also go slightly underwater relative to their most recent private round valuations. How will they price Lyft (operating just in the U.S.) Will Pinterest’s ad engine be compared to Facebook and Google, or to Snap?

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

EMERGENT RESEARCH is focused on better understanding the small business sector of the US and global economy. Intuit 2020 Research Report. The Global Small Business Blog. Globalization. Intuit 2020 Trends Report. Follow us on Twitter. Emergent Research. The authors are Steve King and Carolyn Ockels. Smart Mobs.

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Transformify

JULY 25, 2016

. “It is too early to say what the ultimate outcome of the referendum result will be, but even prior to this we were concerned about a weakening UK economy combined with high valuations of domestic cyclicals,” said Nick Purves of RWC Partners. The initial turmoil experienced on markets will not persist ad infinitum.

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David Teten

APRIL 6, 2015

We think that our job is to invest in the growth areas of 2018-2020, and we don’t know in advance what those are. Our process hasn’t changed; if anything we remain even more focused on investing at the seed stage, typically at valuations below $5m pre-money. How has the changing investment climate changed your process?

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

This post is part of Accel’s Secrets to Scaling series, where leaders from across our portfolio share their learnings and advice with the next generation of European and Israeli entrepreneurs building global winners. The round we did with Accel was in late February/early March 2020 – probably the worst time in the last 50 years to raise!

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Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

” “Multiples and valuations are out of control!” Maybe it will be 2019, or 2020 — or even 2021. on a global stage) and specifically the Bay Area (within the U.S.) “We’re in the nth year of an unbelievable bull market!” ” “Most of the country doesn’t have any savings!”

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 27, 2011

And, oh by the way, we also really like the idea of the 1M/1M entrepreneurs building valuation and negotiating leverage through these business development efforts, instead of signing off large chunks of their company in form of equity early on.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 3, 2011

At this point, Greg is in the process of bringing in two additional investors, and the primary topics of our discussion were valuation and ROI issues around the new investors. Orbiter expects to give its investors a 15 times return on investment based on their current pipeline and revenue forecast.

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