VC Cafe

JANUARY 2, 2023

As Vintage Venture Partners put it in a recent presentation shared in Tel Aviv , 2022 started off well but fell of a cliff in the second half (the slides were shared on Twitter by Amitai Ziv from Tech 12 ). A report by Greenfield Partners puts the total fundraising of Israeli startups at $15.16 2022 in Israeli tech and venture.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

And this is happening in mezzanine (pre-IPO) deals as well. And post IPO deals, although these tend to correct more quickly. If everybody is over-paying for early-to-mid stage deals you’d imagine that these all need to feed into a frenzied M&A and IPO market that will garner big returns for these risks investors are taking.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

All Unicorn participants — founders, company employees, venture investors and their limited partners (LPs) — are seeing their fortunes put at risk from the very nature of the Unicorn phenomenon itself. In 1999, record valuations coexisted with record IPOs and shareholder liquidity. 2015 was the exact opposite.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 21, 2023

It’s this part: “I’m getting inbound from investors…” Nearly all of the inbound VC interest happening out there is from non-partner investors (i.e. A check-writing partner reaches out to you. That’s why down rounds exist. professionals who can’t write a check) and they’re doing it systematically.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

Greylock Partners · Brian Chesky | People-First Capitalism. Airbnb was preparing for an IPO right when the pandemic hit, and everything changed in a matter of days. So we have to think of ourselves as partners. And most companies have a partner, group and then society. I always saw it as the opposite.”.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

Greylock Partners · Brian Chesky | People-First Capitalism. Airbnb was preparing for an IPO right when the pandemic hit, and everything changed in a matter of days. So we have to think of ourselves as partners. And most companies have a partner, group and then society. I always saw it as the opposite.”.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

Many had started IPO’ing and we started to think about our future. Mark dutifully went to partner meetings, back-channel references began, firms started calling existing VCs to “test prices” and we started debating whom our best partner would be. forward sales with some as high as 12x sales.

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