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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

Platform that provides radio music programming via crowd sourced contributions from social community; programming is syndicated nationally. Tested platform on San Francisco’s Live 105; then scaled out for national syndication with positive audience uplift. Competitors: Knewton.

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Create Your Own Live Internet Radio Show With Spreaker

YoungUpstarts

It’s pretty simple to record and syndicate audio content from your desktop or mobile device and broadcast it live – or recorded as audio podcasts – across social networks. where Spreaker recently opened an office in San Francisco. The funds are targeted to ramp up sales and marketing efforts in the U.S.

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

It is as if the staffing and management of projects is run by international syndicates more interested in controlling job territories than in assembling vital, dynamic teams who are empowered to succeed. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Our profession is in trouble. krasicki April 3, 2009 7:19 AM control valves said.

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Our Q2 2016 Round-Up

Version One Ventures

Businesses using Shippo in San Francisco, NYC, and Chicago now can offer local customers on-demand delivery via UberRUSH. We still like marketplaces (and recently syndicated our marketplace handbook in deck form ), but we’re also looking toward the AI/ML space. Looking ahead: what we’re excited about.

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Boston Startup Talent: Leaky Bucket or Everlasting Spring?

Agile VC

One of our portfolio companies, Plastiq , announced yesterday that they raised a $10M Series B led by Khosla Ventures and are planning to move their headquarters from Boston to San Francisco. In fact I introduced Plastiq CEO Eliot Buchanan to my former PayPal colleague Keith Rabois at Khosla.

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Pioneer Square Labs – Investing More In Seattle

Feld Thoughts

We’ve made over 60 investments through FG Angels – our AngelList syndicate – and are one of the most prolific investors on that platform. Mattermark, which is based in San Francisco, just opened an office in Seattle. Previous investments include Gist (acquired by RIM) and BigDoor (which failed).

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Bright future for London VC scene

The Equity Kicker

Gil Dibner has built a $550k syndicate on Angel List which Techcrunch says is ‘thought to be the largest outside the US’ There’s another decent sized fund by a prominent VC that’s launching shortly. Investment over there was therefore much higher than here both on an absolute and on a per capita basis.