The Startup Magazine

JULY 20, 2021

Betancourt Lopez put together a group of investors, including Félix Ruiz and Hugo Arévalo, who were the founders of Tuenti, a social networking app. Following the financial commitment, Betancourt Lopez was named Hawkers company president and Arévalo became the company’s executive chairman in November 2016. Growing Hawkers.

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Rob Go

OCTOBER 14, 2012

At the time, I think we didn’t even had a name for the fund. About 75% of the portfolio companies that are at least 6 months old have successfully raised series A’s from good institutional investors at a nice valuation step-up from our initial investment.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

I’ve also presented at a range of industry conferences on how institutional investors can use professional networks for research , origination , market research , and value creation. GLG Share broadens that resource pool to our 400,000 experts around the world and across industries.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 20, 2021

Betancourt Lopez put together a group of investors, including Félix Ruiz and Hugo Arévalo, who were the founders of Tuenti, a social networking app. Following the financial commitment, Betancourt Lopez was named Hawkers company president and Arévalo became the company’s executive chairman in November 2016. Growing Hawkers.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

We are seeking Partner-level investment professionals at hedge funds, mutual funds, VCs, sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, family offices, and other institutional investors to interview for this research project. . I’m now launching a research project to better understand the emerging investment opportunities.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2019

As you might be able to guess from the name, a funding gap occurs when a company has secured a longer-term funding agreement that will kick in the near future, but doesn’t have sufficient capital to stay afloat in the interim period. What is a Funding Gap?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

And it was hammered home with Color —a startup without a product —raising $40 million, at a reputed $100 million valuation, from brand name VCs who should have known better. Meanwhile, the bubble for “seed stage&# startups began when Ron Conway’s Silicon Valley Angels and DST guaranteed every startup out of a YCombinator $150,000.

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David Teten

JANUARY 23, 2021

Conduct an honest self-evaluation: can you realistically raise money from institutional investors, or should you focus on high net worths/family offices? Institutional investors in funds are typically conservative. Keep an ongoing list of high-caliber investor-focused events in your geographies and sectors of interest.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 18, 2020

What happened after that crypto crash were 3 intense years of building behind the scenes – namely the scaling, custody, regulatory clarity and transparency required before institutional investors could feel comfortable holding this emerging, computer based asset class.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

Once you have your startup profile fully completed and up-to-date, and have carefully identified logical potential investors, it’s time to reach out to them. Simply enter their name and email, write a good cover letter, and click the share button.

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Growthink Blog

JULY 7, 2013

Another name for Crowdlending is "peer to peer" lending. Endurance has amassed a bunch of non-bank lenders including successful entrepreneurs, wealthy individuals, family offices and institutional investors. This is important because oftentimes banks don''t want to lend money to entrepreneurs and small business owners.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 17, 2011

What no one tells the Marks is that as they’re buying, the smart money and institutional investors are quietly pulling out and selling their assets. While Shills have no credibility, Promoters have “brand-name” credibility that makes the Marks trust them.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 2, 2012

Venture capitalists are institutional investors. Because they are dealing with money from many investors, VCs generally make larger investments than angels. However, in addition to looking at the numbers, they are more likely than VCs to be persuaded by your commitment to your business or the simple desire to help you succeed.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 25, 2011

Institutional investors will always insist on pro-rata rights. Before explaining “super” pro-rata rights it’s important to understand the tension that often exists when you have a company performing very well and raising money from a large, brand name Silicon Valley investor.

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David Teten

APRIL 7, 2017

This is the debut of an annual series of summits focused on sovereign wealth funds, institutional investors, family offices, venture capitalists, and entrepreneurs interested in technology-driven entrepreneurship and with ties to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Kashmir, Board Member and Screening Co-Chair of HBSAANY.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

It seamlessly creates a deal folder (company name) in our Google Drive, and notifies us that a new deal has entered the pipeline via Slack. One global institutional investor is investigating setting up a large-scale co-investment vehicle, similar to Correlation Ventures, but focused on private equity transactions.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

We’ve written before about how the company has raised millions of dollars to grow the company, with none of that coming from institutional investors. In contrast, iControl is funded by top tier venture investors Kleiner Perkins , Intel Capital, and Charles River Ventures.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2010

There is a primary reason that inside investors give companies convertible debt rather than just giving you the money as equity. VC’s money comes from mostly institutional investors called LPs (limited partners). He talked to his investors about a $250,000 bridge loan (7-8 months of runway).

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

We’re thrilled to have among our limited partners a select group of individuals from the startup ecosystem as well as several large institutional investors (including a university endowment, a corporate pension fund, and a multi-family office). NextView’s inaugural fund is just over $21 million.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 27, 2014

Here’s what we covered – it’s a bit inside baseball but just as with the funding post linked above, we think exposing the mechanics of venture can help entrepreneurs and future investors (plus, we learn a lot from any resulting discussions). Credibility : Getting our name out there. Afternoon Session.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

He was an Institutional Investor ranked analyst for several years. He was named among the World’s Top 100 Young Innovators by MIT Technology Review and received the TR100 award in 2002. He has lectured and consulted extensively for industry, academia, military, and intelligence communities.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Individuals or institutional investors could then log onto the website, review the loan requests, and decide if they wanted to fund the small business. So that winter Gupta and Cabo entered the Federal Reserve’s Investor Idol competition. The professors also encouraged the budding entrepreneurs to enter business competitions.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 10, 2012

At this point, you will be ready for institutional investors who can provide funding to scale or rapidly grow your business. Stage #3: Early Stage Investment (Series A & B) "Series A" is the term used to describe the first round of institutional funding for a venture.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

IPO markets had burned an entire cycle of retail stock investors and many institutional investors to boot. When you order an Amazon Kindle it comes pre-configured with your user name already configured into the device so that you can click a single button and buy shit. And buy people are doing en masse.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 22, 2009

Such market power allows bankers to shapes the profile of those companies worthy of going public to favor the natural demand from their largest clients: short-term trading focused hedge funds and large institutional investors that demand highly liquid public securities. Share and Enjoy:

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 24, 2012

Transcript Automated transcription services provided by: Dan Bowen: My name is Dan Bowen, and I’m up in the wine country in Healdsburg, California north of San Francisco, and the company name is SyncBloc, S-Y-N-C-B-L-O-C. And that’s what your name is. Jason: SyncBloc. Well I know what Sync is, but Bloc.

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Pascal's View

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Today, the threshold for liquidity demanded by institutional investors requires $100mm plus for an IPO. While todaythese companies are household names, let’s not forget that they were unknown small cap growth companies when they first went public. Between 1991 and 200 80% of IPO’s raised $50mm or less.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Excel and Google simply aren’t going to cut it if you expect to build a high quality institutional investor base.”. Beacon technology system , which automatically outbound-solicits a universe of over 10,000 institutional investors, without requiring LPs to register for an online network of funds. .

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The Next Web

JANUARY 16, 2014

Secondly, because he had single-handedly managed to achieve something that my adopted startup hometown of London (despite a fair amount of wailing and hand-wringing) has not yet achieved; namely, an incredibly successful public flotation of a homegrown tech company listing on the local market. Companies to watch. 99designs.

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David Teten

MARCH 24, 2014

For Professional Institutional investors: agency risk is a huge problem. One can verify that these advisors are trustworthy by doing your due diligence, i.e., making sure that control of the assets stays in your name, and that they use proper back office controls to protect your assets. It is not investment performance.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Plus, if the business doesn’t raise enough the capital in the first round to become self-sustaining, the crowdfunding round’s cap table and/or terms may make the deal unattractive or not doable for follow-on, institutional investors. investors— AngelList , Fundable , Crowdfunde r, and CircleU p, to name a few.

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VC Adventure

MAY 21, 2014

And depending on how many members there are to the syndicate and what crowdfunding exemption you use (more on that below) the actual limit will likely be quite a bit less than the total you see next to the syndicate name on AngelList. And, of course, it will also require some work on your part to pull syndicate members into your actual deal.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 22, 2015

– We are seed investors. Although the definition of seed is changing, we are focused on being the first institutional investor for an early-stage company, and most of our investments are pre-traction. That’s what we do and it’s the only thing we do. Every VC encourages founders to try to be great at only one thing.

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Austin Startup

JULY 24, 2017

I have never been in the position where I needed to ask anyone — friends, family, angels, institutional investors — for the capital to execute on an idea, and to develop a business around said idea. Most of my career has been on the other side of the table: listening to and evaluating pitches, not delivering them.

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VC Adventure

MAY 21, 2014

And depending on how many members there are to the syndicate and what crowdfunding exemption you use (more on that below) the actual limit will likely be quite a bit less than the total you see next to the syndicate name on AngelList. And, of course, it will also require some work on your part to pull syndicate members into your actual deal.

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Rob Go

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

The most impressive fact is that Sequoia is the only institutional investor in the company. Others grow really quickly out of the gates and fade just as quickly (I could name a bunch of examples, but I don’t want to hurt people’s feelings). This is very unusual for most large scale VC-backed companies.

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Austin Startup

MAY 17, 2017

Giving someone a seat on your Board of Directors is 100x more consequential to the company than naming them an advisor. Most angel investors writing small checks are buying the right to a small portion of the Company, and that’s it. Big difference.

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