VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

billion valuation) to invest in the Metaverse and build the future of digital entertainment Epic owns Fortnite, one of the most popular multiplayer games, enabling users to interact with each other online in an immersive way to play, socialise, attend to virtual concerts. billion revenue in 2021 for Epic Games and was played by 83.3

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 27, 2021

2020 was a good year for Zoom. Now synonymous with video-conferencing, the company-name-turned-verb stock peaked in October 2020, a market interpretation of how the Zoom Boom has defined the daily lives of many millions throughout the COVID-19 outbreak. Their latest round of 138 millions dollars, led by Viola Growth ?-Next47

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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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Transformify

MARCH 4, 2020

Although Wirecard has denied all claims, an independent auditor, KPMG, has been assigned and the findings are expected to be disclosed in April 2020. On its turn, Orbit Corporate & Leisure Travels purchased services from Hermes iTickets which had already been part of Wirecard, thus contributing to group’s revenue and profit.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 1, 2020

Your revenue plans are no longer valid. What’s your monthly cash burn at your new low revenue level? The CEO should dial through as many of the largest existing customers to get a firsthand understanding of the magnitude of any revenue shortfall. Others are cutting their valuations. How many months of cash do you have?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

The valuations were too high! The company started the year with no revenue and at it’s peak had a run rate well in excessive of $100 million / year. 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. We are now in Act IV. they were highly visible.

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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! The market for mobile gaming is insanely large and growing quickly: >$77B in 2020 with >10% YoY growth. And >40% of that revenue is coming from in-game purchases.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 12, 2020

That leaves me out raising with two funds under my belt and no big exit and no unicorn valuations. 2020: “Hold my beer.” One just got a seed term sheet for twice the valuation I put in at in the pre-seed and the other is doing $200k/month in revenue. There are others, but they’re still pretty young. You cannot die today.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The 2020 Accel Euroscape was unveiled earlier today at SaaStockEMEA. This summer saw two record transactions within a month, as UiPath became the first European Cloud decacorn in July and Visma, a Norwegian company, became the world’s largest ever software buyout with a $12B+ valuation. 2020 Cloud Market: Is The Sky the Limit?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2020

Since they know that most startups fail, their target return is ten times investment, so be prepared to talk cost vs revenue and product life. Set a realistic valuation for your startup to attract angels. A typical valuation for an angel investment is $2.5M, meaning a $500K investment will cost you 20 percent of your company.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 28, 2021

And elsewhere creator monetisation tools and revenue streams continue to expand: Ads and bran deals – Youtube reported $6 billion in revenue for Q1 2021 , a 50% growth rate from the equivalent period last year. The sum is equivalent to the combined annual revenue of Snap and Twitter for 2020. Billion in 2020.

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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

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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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2020

Find some credible opportunity statistics that can support your own revenue expectations of between $20 million and $100 million in the fifth year. > Market penetration and revenue targets related to opportunity size. Companies that get investor attention usually double their revenue or more every year.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

billion a 125% increased compared to the equivalent period in 2020, the number of Unicorns, private companies valued at $1 billion or more has grown significantly, with several companies achieving “Decacorn” status – achieving valuations of $10 billion and up, including eToro , soon to complete a SPAC merger, and Rapyd payments.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 2, 2020

In any case, while those outsized outcomes were far an apart a decade ago, Israel has gone from 20 unicorns in 2019 , to more than double in 2020. The landscape of Israeli Unicorns – Oct 2020 (Source: PitchBook ). billion valuation when it was acquired by Google. The Israel Unicorn Landscape. From humble beginnings.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2020

Before looking for an investor, you or a partner need to demonstrate an understanding of the implications of startup valuation, revenue projections, break-even, and ROI. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 07/16/2020. Ignoring these, or taking an unrealistic position, will kill even the best solution proposal.

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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 revenue in five years from player spending. 2) VR adoption.

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David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

Thirty-four VC firms in OpenVC call themselves “early-stage” Yet, 30% of those don’t actually invest in pre-revenue startups. Valuation: $1M – $3M. Revenue-Based Finance and Flexible VC investors invest using “alternative VC” structures, as opposed to conventional preferred equity and convertible notes.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 27, 2021

The buzzy app, that only launched in April 2020 as the pandemic was hitting the US, reached Unicorn status last week with fresh $100M round led by A16Z and has gone from an invite-only insiders chat for Silicon Valley founders and VCs to early adopters everywhere in Europe.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 31, 2021

In November 2020, Appsflyer announced a $210 million round led by Salesforce Ventures at over $2 billion valuation. CMOs are expected today to have a growth mindset and to be accountable for revenue, as well as building a brand for the long-term. VC Cafe: What’s expected from a CMO today has changed from 10 years ago.

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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. Specifically, here is what we’re planning to work on: Quadruple our gross revenue and total cases/consultations. Add an income stream (new area of practice) that will be diversifying our business’ revenue.

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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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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

They already have several customers including some telcos, and are at about $350,000 in revenues. Because customer financing equals revenue, not equity. Why not go further, develop more valuation, customer experience, and really, deeply validate the business? You can get cash without diluting your ownership in the company.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

After all, in the year 2020, investors that had access to VC-backed IPOs, earned $206 million in average one-day gains for each of 165 separate offerings, for a total of $34B in one-day wealth transfers (including over-allotments). Last year, 2020, the AVERAGE IPO was underpriced by 47.9%! Here is the real gut-wrenching punch line.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 11, 2021

A sponsorship strategy should cover five areas: Assets Audience data Asset valuation Activations Market identification. Asset valuation. RailsConf does this with stats from its 2020 virtual event to give prospects an insight into the size of the audience they can reach. Your most obvious asset is the product itself. Source ).

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Many of the creator economy startups have conjured different ways for creators to generate revenue outside of advertising, which has been the bread and butter of ‘influencer’ platforms like Instagram, Youtube, TikTok etc. billion in investments in 2021 (up to June 15), more than 3x the amount raised in this space in 2020.

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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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Austin Startup

MAY 22, 2020

Blitzfailing: How to NOT Grow a Company Some time around 2016, a company that was raising at a lofty valuation pitched to me requesting capital from one of Sputnik ATX’s antecedent funds. I pointed out to their pitchman that they had lower unit revenue and far higher unit cost than their competitors. The company pitching was WeWork.

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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. million in revenue. The business is already profitable with $2.9

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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. Specifically, here is what we’re planning to work on: Quadruple our gross revenue and total cases/consultations. Add an income stream (new area of practice) that will be diversifying our business’ revenue.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 17, 2020

OH in South Park, San Francisco (or on Zoom from Big Sky, Montana): “OMG, crazy – that firm just paid 100x revenue to invest in [insert hot startup here] – what could they be thinking?” How valuation multiples work Why did multiples become a shortcut-heuristic for estimating valuations in the first place?

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Haystack

JANUARY 13, 2020

FinTech valuations have already been on the rise in private markets, most recently with breakouts like Chime, and we should expect that trend only to intensify given this exit size. I saw a tweet lamenting the acquisition price of Plaid as “crazy” because it was 35x revenue. 2/ API FTW. 3/ Strategic fit trumps financials.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

As well as tripling the company’s valuation to $4 billion since January 2021, the round came as the company grew its monthly processing volumes by 5,000% in 18 months. 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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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

billion in annual subscription revenues not including advertising or eCommerce). MySpace would liked to have owned YouTube but didn’t have the public stock valuation to purchase them at the price that Google did. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 billion, which at the time seemed laughably high and now seems prescient.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 3, 2011

Then Greg Snead, also from Tacoma, discussed Orbiter , an RFID venture that is moving along quite nicely, having clocked more than $700,000 in revenue last year. 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.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 5, 2018

How will we shop in 2020? In grocery, which represents over half of Walmart’s revenues, it plans to add 1,000 online grocery order pickup locations in 2018 in stores around the US; in December 2017 it unveiled a meal kit option and a partnership with Buzzfeed that will integrate Buzzfeed recipes with Walmart groceries. .

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