David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

This is particularly true in New York, where their traditional financial services industry client base has sustained significant damage since the 2008 financial crisis. Can you give a brief overview: when you were founded, investors, current status? Previously posted at Forbes.

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New York Technical Review Networking Advisory Board 114

David Teten

MAY 20, 2016

Membership in the Meetup is open exclusively to: Institutional investors in private markets (VC, growth, buyout, distressed, etc.) The goal of this Meetup is to help ffVC and our peers to learn from one another so we can all be more effective. . who use tech solutions in their day-to-day process.

Private Equity 113

Private Equity Equity Cap Table Venture Capital 113

David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Prior to joining ff Venture Capital , I published the first-ever study of how private equity and venture capital funds originate new investments, with my coauthor Chris Farmer , CEO of SignalFire and an experienced VC. We drew on our work with leading institutional investors and in-depth interviews with over 150 funds.

Private Equity 114

Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Equity 114

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Of the last 15 investments we’ve made, we’ve been the lead or co-lead investor over 80% of the time. . That said, we tend to be very flexible on syndication to bring on great partners, and have collaborated with terrific partners like our most frequent co-investors Founder Collective, Accomplice, LHV, Softech, and others.

North America 120

North America Seed Stage Early Stage Lead Investor 120

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 25, 2015

Investors/buyers may even ask that the company be restructured. Larger institutional investors often prefer the predictability of a corporate structure and the protections of those pesky operation formalities. You should research the investors you may want to work with in the future to see if they have a preference.

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LLC Technical Review Software Review Limited Liability Company 100

David Teten

JULY 3, 2013

I hope you can join me for this program, cosponsored by Empire Angels ; HBS Alumni Angels of Greater New York ; and the The Young Venture Capital Society. what you need to know as an early stage investor: best practices in origination, evaluation, structuring and adding value. So You Want to Be an Angel?

Angel Investor 114

Angel Investor New York Accredited Investor New York City 114

David Teten

JULY 3, 2013

Co-Sponsored by Empire Angels, HBS Alumni Angels of Greater New York, and Young Venture Capital Society. Must be an individual Accredited Investor who plans to make a private investment in 2013. Introduction to Angel Investing and Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of Greater New York.

Angel Investor 114

Angel Investor New York Accredited Investor New York City 114

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

From California, to Illinois, and New York many of the largest U.S. Felix Rohaytn, widely credited with saving New York City in the 1970’s, recently published “ Bold Endeavors. ” [1] In it he warns: “The nation is falling apart – literally. municipalities are also the most fiscally troubled. Capital Solutions.

Private Equity 130

Private Equity New York City Chicago Investment Bankers 130

David Teten

JULY 14, 2014

Interestingly, the New York Times just ran an interview with James Gorman, CEO, Morgan Stanley , which showed that he shares the Bridgewater focus on management as a discipline. During her tenure, the fund grew from $15 billion to $150 billion in AUM and from 200 to 1400 employees.

Management 114

Management Portfolio Institutional Investors Government 114

Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

Concerns have been raised around what this reveals about the price discovery process for IPOs and whether retail investors are disadvantaged relative to certain institutional investors that have access to purchase shares at the IPO process. First, as the below chart shows, IPO pops are not a new phenomenon.

SEC 36

SEC Accredited Investor IPO Technical Review 36

David Teten

APRIL 7, 2017

In my research on how private equity and VC funds source investments , one of our conclusions was that VCs get better returns when they invest outside of the traditional geographic hotspots of New York, Boston, and the Bay Area. This is a generalizable principle: you get higher returns where other investors are not.

New York 60

New York Africa Cofounder Egypt 60

Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

and Canada… with startups in the Bay area, Edmonton, Los Angeles, Montreal, New York, Portland, Seattle, Toronto, and Vancouver. Our original target was $10M, so I’m extremely grateful at the confidence our investors placed in the fund.

Los Angeles 146

Los Angeles Portland Canada B2C 146

Rob Go

OCTOBER 14, 2012

Geography: 18 of the 23 are in Boston or New York. 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. The others are mainly in Silicon Valley with some exceptions.

New Hampshire 50

New Hampshire Croatia Omaha Portfolio 50

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Of the last 15 investments we’ve made, we’ve been the lead or co-lead investor over 80% of the time. . That said, we tend to be very flexible on syndication to bring on great partners, and have collaborated with terrific partners like our most frequent co-investors Founder Collective, Accomplice, LHV, Softech, and others.

North America 36

North America Seed Stage Early Stage Lead Investor 36

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

My key takeaways from talking to roughly 40 institutional investors in the valley about investing to an European startup are: Traction cures all ills. If you can really demonstrate up and to the right path and consistently deliver on your promises, the funding will find you.

Silicon Valley 104

Silicon Valley Startup Seed Stage Delaware 104

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

Along with Greycroft, I was the first institutional investor in Maker Studios (sold to Disney for nearly $1 billion) and am still the largest investor in Mitu Network , the largest online video producer of Latino content. Only modern thinkers about the new nature of online video audiences will build big businesses online.

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SEM Los Angeles Silicon Valley Acquisition 150

David Teten

APRIL 22, 2013

I met Adam Ghetti , Founder/CTO, at the first Flashpoint Demo Day in New York in early 2012 at Union Square Ventures. ff VC became the only and first institutional investor and I joined the company’s board in May. (This is the second ff VC company that KPCB has invested in, after Klout.).

Venture Capital 114

Venture Capital Security Operations Atlanta 114

David Teten

JULY 12, 2017

When I meet with other VCs, family offices, and other institutional investors, the most common question I get is: “What are the highest-potential companies in your portfolio which are raising now?” These all help to maintain the firms’ brand awareness, and I get a lot of useful market insight from these conversations.

Syndicate 60

Syndicate Syndication Institutional Investors LP 60

David Teten

JUNE 1, 2012

The Marcum MicroCap Conference is hosted by Marcum LLP and co-presented by CCG Investor Relations. The conference is geared towards investors in small-cap equities; expected attendees include institutional investors, mutual funds, hedge funds, wealth managers, and family offices.

Institutional Investors 122

Institutional Investors Angel Investor Early Stage Social Media 122

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

I met Adam and Social Fortress at the first Flashpoint Demo Day in New York earlier this year; ff became the only institutional investor and I joined the Board in May. (I I hope you’ll join us at the next Flashpoint Demo Day this Thursday.) We think this is an exceptional company.

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Institutional Investors New York Security Portfolio 60

David Teten

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Since I became an institutional investor, my #1 learning is: this is a highly unusual and somewhat baffling industry. Disruptable Pattern #5: Institutional investors are eager to cut larger checks rather than smaller ones. This is like a chef who likes to buy a whole cow in order to serve a client one hamburger.

Management 114

Management Pre-Money Valuation Venture Capital New Hampshire 114

David Teten

JANUARY 8, 2013

PEHub just posted this guest article: Can professional investors use social media? Historically, institutional investors kept their investing strategy and their activities very discreet. ff Venture Capital (ffvc.com) : ff Venture Capital is a New York-based VC focused on investing in seed and Series A-level companies.

Private Equity 114

Private Equity Social Media Equity Media 114

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2012

But the relaxation itself comes with limits, Mitchell tells us - limits that maintain the spirit in which the reporting rules were created, and which many investors actually insisted should remain.

IPO 118

IPO SEC Silicon Valley Startup 118

Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Have bankers simply become even more evil in 2020, deliberately diverting more money from a company’s coffers to line the pockets of the buy-side institutional investors who subscribe to IPO shares? From the founding of the New York Stock Exchange in 1792 until 1975, trading commissions were fixed at 0.25% of the trade amount.

IPO 36

IPO Securities and Exchange Commission Demand SEC 36

Rob Go

JANUARY 7, 2013

But we behave pretty much exactly the same way in those companies as we do when we are the lead and only institutional investor. Geography: 20 / 25 investments are based in the Boston and New York areas. We don’t need to be the lead, and in a number of cases, we have participated alongside another lead.

Portfolio 49

Portfolio Seed Stage Cofounder B2B 49

Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

We’re building a True SaaS company in Boise, Idaho, not in Silicon Valley or not in New York. It teaches you to be—my approach has just been to do things differently. It’s weird. We’re growing like crazy.

Small Business 95

Small Business Finance Forecast Metrics 95