VC Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2023

As previously highlighted on VC Cafe (based on research by Sapphire Ventures) , while many funds avoid B2C investments, consumer startups can create extremely lucrative power-law returns for venture capital investors. B2C Venture Capital Investments in Israel To the most part, Israeli VCs shy away from B2C startup investments.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 6, 2018

We were first check leads in 8 founding teams including Wallaroo Labs , MState (fka hyperfab ), blockdaemon , and 5 in stealth. 6 portfolio companies raised Series A financings including Manifold , Hypr , and 4 unannounced, 1 raised a Series B (unannounced), and Security Scorecard raised a $28mm Series C.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 29, 2022

With the elite initial team they’ve assembled, they’ve managed to build their first product in record time and secure large six-figure deals while still in stealth mode.

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David Teten

MARCH 12, 2012

Fitness/life guru Tim Ferriss just posted my guest article on ff Venture Capital ‘s approach to building a fitness office. UPDATE: ff Venture Capital was recently profiled in The Roger, an online magazine that profiles creative workspaces. Thanks Tim!) Motion is better than no motion; stasis kills.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 5, 2022

With COVID raging at the beginning and end of the year, it is all the more amazing what our portfolio companies have accomplished the last twelve months. 2021 Recap. Sending and from the boldstart team at the end of a challenging 2021. 1/ We started @boldstartvc in 2010 w/ $1m. Ernest Addison , Associate and formerly at Audax group.

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View from Seed

MARCH 29, 2018

Outside of life-sciences, we’ve noticed something interesting emerging: There is a huge dearth of seed capital for health care services and software-driven health-tech companies. The seed ecosystem for health companies is much less robust than in traditional software. 3) Health Data Applications.

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Vertical Stealth Portfolio Seed Capital 120

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 25, 2021

just months after it came out of stealth. And he and his co-founders Ziv and Ilan made it happen: Melio’s now processing multi-billion dollar payment volumes less than two years after launch. On the back of this momentum, Melio today announced a $110m funding round, rocketing the company to a valuation of $1.3b

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2010

I often tell people that raising venture capital is more difficult than getting married. Not so in venture capital. Make sure to call the companies in that VCs portfolio that didn’t succeed. I list all of the companies (except one in stealth) on my blog and this includes both VC investments and angel ones.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Kapor Capital’s expansive portfolio includes Bit.ly Qualcomm Ventures is invested in a number of startups including Livescribe, Obopay , Arieso and Zeebo. The firm’s portfolio includes the likes of Gist , Lijit , Brightleaf, Memeo, SimpleGeo , StockTwits and Zynga.

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BeyondVC

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Before diving into the standard year-end predictions on the enterprise, I thought I would share some data on our firm and our founding teams from 2016: we welcomed 9 new enterprise founding teams to the portfolio including Workrails (started by venture partner Jeff Leventhal), BigID , Hypr , Init.ai , and 5 stealth companies.

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Stealth Canada Azure Architecture 60

BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

While this sounds simple, there is a ton of work that goes into helping our portfolio companies get to a successful Series A. Finally, we try to prewire the Series A investment by getting our portfolio companies to meet with the right partners at the right firms early on before they even need money.

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BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

We kicked it off Sunday night with a boldstart founders and execs dinner where we talked about what’s next in cybersecurity with some of our portfolio companies like security scorecard , bigid , snyk , stealth co and many friends from the industry representing strategic partners and IT buyers.

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Security Artificial Inteligence Stealth SEC 74

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Marc Andreessen: We have a bunch of stealth investments. I mean, this is a big, big thing — big change for us, so we have a bunch of stealth investments — I mean, companies that haven’t talked about what they are doing yet. Alexia Tsotsis: Let’s see, what about other companies that aren’t in your portfolio? Exactly right!

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Software Review Startup Venture Capital Stock 22

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. You raised four rounds within 18 months, waiting until your third round before coming out of stealth mode.

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Seeing Both Sides

JANUARY 12, 2016

As a former entrepreneur, I have always viewed venture capital as a service business. As part of our work leading into the new fund, we went on a listening tour - talking to founders about what they want and need from their venture capital partners.

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New York City Early Stage Artificial Inteligence Boston 20

Haystack

JANUARY 14, 2019

5/ Copycat Culture And Stealth Mode Back En Vogue: I’ve alluded to this above and below, but now when a category gets hot, founders and capital flood it. And, many of these firms would love nothing better than to cherry pick from the portfolios of the best venture brands out there.

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