www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

View More in Seattle ›. Seattle Events ›. New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’. The firm, Correlation Ventures, is using predictive analytics technology to tilt the odds in its favor. Venture Capital innovation people. View More in San Diego ›. San Francisco ›.

San Diego 40

San Diego Venture Capital Technical Review San Francisco 40

David Cohen

MAY 1, 2013

TechStars Seattle is on fire. In total, the 29 past TechStars companies from the Seattle program have raised nearly $40M in venture capital so far. In total, the 29 past TechStars companies from the Seattle program have raised nearly $40M in venture capital so far. in funding. And Tred has raised 1.7M

Seattle 133

Seattle Early Stage Venture Capital Global 133

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

Boulder’s entrepreneurial system is bolstered by a number of local venture capital firms, including Foundry Group. With its concentrated mix of start-ups, established businesses, and venture capital, Boulder has all of the elements to fuel sustainable economic growth. Startup activity in Las Vegas is booming.

United States 82

United States Las Vegas San Francisco Denver 82

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

Yeah, that was when I changed for me…” “…there was so much positive feedback on demystifying this one element of venture capital. Brad’s start in Venture Capital. Venture Capital in Boulder and other smaller communities. “So National Venture Capital Group endorsed it. was starting.

Technical Review 288

Technical Review Venture Capital Silicon Valley Software Review 288

Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 2, 2014

When people ask me how they can become a VC, I point them to my partner Seth Levine’s excellent blog posts How to become a venture capitalist and How to get a job in venture capital (revisited). The post My First Experience As A Venture Capitalist appeared first on Feld Thoughts. An accidental one.

San Francisco 159

San Francisco Boston Venture Capital Angel Investor 159

Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 10, 2010

I’m on a six week rhythm in Seattle for the three boards I’m on up here – Gist , BigDoor , and Impinj. It was an absurdly beautiful day in Seattle. It’s about 33% full but that’s going to change next week when TechStars Seattle begins and fills out the place. When the sun is out, this place shines.

Seattle 97

Seattle API Cofounder Venture Capital 97

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 20, 2020

All while the majority of the economy is driven greatly by boring industries often owned by private equity, not venture capital. It’s one of the reasons sites like Fortune, Entrepreneur, Inc and Forbes spend a large majority of their content creation time filled with stories of startups, new companies and “the next big thing.”

Sweat Equity 107

Sweat Equity Non-Compete Startup Azure 107

David Teten

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

… “ Group Health Cooperative , a nonprofit health care system in Seattle with 10,000 employees, has also thrown out its budgeting process. Disclosure: Graphite Financial is a spinoff of ff Venture Capital , where I was formerly a Partner. ThedaCare also introduced a daily financial management tool for department managers.

Agile 60

Agile Management Forecast Silicon Valley 60

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. In the last full year where we have data LA attracted $1.5 To some extent – of course they are. It is different.

Los Angeles 376

Los Angeles Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Seattle 376

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

Boulder’s entrepreneurial system is bolstered by a number of local venture capital firms, including Foundry Group. With its concentrated mix of start-ups, established businesses, and venture capital, Boulder has all of the elements to fuel sustainable economic growth. Startup activity in Las Vegas is booming.

United States 48

United States Las Vegas San Francisco Denver 48

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 20, 2020

All while the majority of the economy is driven greatly by boring industries often owned by private equity, not venture capital. It’s one of the reasons sites like Fortune, Entrepreneur, Inc and Forbes spend a large majority of their content creation time filled with stories of startups, new companies and “the next big thing.”

Sweat Equity 78

Sweat Equity Non-Compete Startup Azure 78

Haystack

AUGUST 7, 2018

Earlier this summer, my friend Michael told me about a small investment his team made up in Seattle in the Amazon ecosystem. We were about to move houses and with all the impending details that process was generating, I initially didn’t give it a proper look.

Seattle 69

Seattle Technical Review Search Business Model 69

Haystack

JUNE 5, 2018

After being installed in 2014 as Microsoft’s new CEO, Nadella has turned around the Seattle ocean liner on a new course after the Ballmer regime. Buying that time and capital paid off, as Microsoft recently announced it would purchase GitHub for $7.5B. Satya strikes again.

Acquisition 71

Acquisition Azure Open Source Seattle 71

ReadWriteStart

JULY 14, 2011

The venture capital database CB Insights has just released its report of investment from the second quarter of 2011, and based on the deals it's tracked, venture capital funding is at a nine-quarter high - both in terms of the amount of funding and the number of deals. The full report can be found here. Discuss.

Venture Capital 115

Venture Capital Massachusetts Seattle Database 115

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2013

Just ask the people of Portland, Seattle, Boulder, Iowa, Princeton, Dallas or countless other cities that don’t have enough venture capital. If you don’t live in a major VC zone, I have some tips for how to make it easier to raise Venture Capital. Ask SuperCell. Or UrbanAirship.

Kansas City 365

Kansas City San Diego Kansas Dallas 365

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I’m in Seattle this week. Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. As I gear up to give a keynote at the annual Seattle 2.0 awards dinner on Thursday night I started reflected on what it would take to “change the trajectory&# for Seattle or for any regional market, really.

Seattle 317

Seattle Silicon Valley Technical Review Los Angeles 317

The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 10, 2020

In the US, places like San Francisco, Austin, Seattle, and Washington, DC get the lion’s share of attention as startup sweet spots. Meanwhile, Philly quietly chugs away drawing entrepreneurs and venture capital (VC) dollars. One thing this historic city doesn’t often get noticed for is its emerging Philadelphia startup scene.

Philadelphia 82

Philadelphia San Francisco Los Angeles New York City 82

Gust

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Boston, New York City, Seattle and Southern California spawn many exciting startups…but do not exceed the Valley in any measure of entrepreneurial achievement. This is not to say that there is no competition for deals in Seattle, Boston, New York and elsewhere.)

Silicon Valley 107

Silicon Valley Southern California Tucson Seattle 107

Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Our particular focus is in San Francisco Bay Area, Toronto/Waterloo , Seattle, and NYC. As competitive as venture capital often seems, we are incredibly humbled by the amount of support and love we have gotten over the years from our community. And last but not least, we thank our investors, the LPs.

Silicon Valley 127

Silicon Valley North America San Francisco LP 127

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

She has been in operations in Seattle and Los Angeles. As I like to say (and as Kara humbly hates when I do so in front of others) … she has a much better resume to a venture capital partner than I do. Kara has worked in finance in Boston, NYC and Silicon Valley. But she also has the temperament, which is important.

Partner 408

Partner Las Vegas Los Angeles Baltimore 408

Version One Ventures

JUNE 3, 2013

The analyst position is a two- to three-year role where you will learn about what the venture capital business is all about and get the chance to work with some interesting startups. appeared first on Version One Ventures. News Analyst hiring Vancouver venture capital version one ventures'

Hiring 156

Hiring North America Los Angeles Advisory Board 156

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

The stats are now looking better, and even venture capitalists are more prepared to take risks. In 2017, venture capital made a total of $148 billion in startup investments, with 40 VC-backed companies achieving valuations of $1 billion or more, qualifying for the unicorn club.

Small Business 176

Small Business Silicon Valley Valuation Seattle 176

YoungUpstarts

JULY 28, 2017

Seattle inventor and entrepreneur Mark Grabham says that you can’t rely only on your own expertise to make things happen or to scale quickly. One mistake won’t kill you-the same mistake, twice, might.”. Never Stop Learning or Asking for Help. He says, “You have to get help from other people. There’s a large pool of talent to pull from.

Silicon Valley 140

Silicon Valley Seattle Stock Venture Capital 140

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

For starters they has asked him to hire a CEO (Hamet was a first timer) and that person lived in Seattle even though NextMedium was based in LA. Hamet started his career in Venture Capital working for the first post-apartheid VC fund in South Africa. I believe investors had forced him to do this. And he followed through.

Partner 340

Partner Los Angeles South Africa Cap Table 340

SiliconHills

MAY 13, 2013

Intuit, which has a venture capital firm, ranks the best cities for female entrepreneurs and found that San Francisco ranks first, followed by Seattle and Washington, D.C. More and more women are starting up companies. Austin ranks seventh and Houston earns an honorable mention. San Antonio is not on the list.

San Antonio 94

San Antonio Austin San Francisco Houston 94

David Cohen

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Most of those companies from the Kinect program are doing great, and many have gone on to raise venture capital or angel financing since the program ended. We couldn’t be more excited to have added Matt to our team in Seattle.

Azure 110

Azure Seattle Angel Financing Incubator 110

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 7, 2011

Since 2002, the law form of Fenwick & West has conducted a venture capital survey, a response to "the burst of the 'dot-come bubble' and a desire to provide the entrepreneurial community with objective information about the status of the venture environment."

Preferred Stock 115

Preferred Stock Silicon Valley Seed Stage Venture Capital 115

rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

If you’ve begun the process of raising capital, ask the angels or venture capital partners to recommend technologists who consult on a part-time basis. Reply What To Do When There’s No Venture Capital « Web Startup Help says: January 13, 2009 at 10:42 pm [.] Also try a search on LinkedIn.

Fractional CTO 40

Fractional CTO CTO CTO Hire Fractional VPE 40

Feld Thoughts

JULY 30, 2015

Yesterday we closed our fifth fund, Foundry Venture Capital 2016, L.P. In 2007 we raised our first fund – Foundry Venture Capital 2007. As with all four of our other funds, it’s a $225 million fund. We subsequently raised a $225 million fund in 2010 , another one in 2013 , and a late stage fund in 2013.

Minneapolis 70

Minneapolis Phoenix Portland Syndicate 70

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

The company was based in Seattle. The company ultimately sold to Northwood Venture Capital in 2010. This family-like environment and team was fun, dynamic and we seemed to be good friends. I joined immediately and became the Zevia go-to-girl for Southern California. To experience soda without chemicals and artificial sweeteners.

Southern California 100

Southern California Los Angeles California Venture Capital 100

Haystack

JANUARY 18, 2020

To be fair, not all of them held this view and many of them were investing nationally earlier, but as we flip over to 2020, there is a general acceptance among Bay Area VC partnerships that they need to be able to invest across the country, not just NYC and LA or Seattle. The AUM of many VC funds has increased dramatically.

Seattle 130

Seattle Seed Stage Deal Flow Vertical 130

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

I’m just pointing out my gut feel for approximate ranges of deals that I’ve seen with Silicon Valley having the highest valuations, NY / LA / Boston / Boulder / Seattle having valuations in a slightly lower range but comparable and sometimes significantly lower prices in markets that don’t have a healthy venture market.

Pre-Money Valuation 336

Pre-Money Valuation Valuation Silicon Valley Stock 336

Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

We are geographically agnostic, though focused on North America with main “hubs” in SF, Toronto, NYC, and Seattle. These trends align with a tweet that Boris wrote last week and here are the main takeaways of our investing thesis and strategy….

North America 116

North America Seattle Early Stage Cofounder 116

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 23, 2012

We pulled into Seattle about four hours in to scoop up the city's GROW-bound passengers (and, mercifully, to restock its beer supply) before rolling on to the Canadian border. We imagine it will be exactly like The Hunger Games , but with more venture capital at stake. benhuh planking the luggage racks on # goat.

Portland 147

Portland Elevator Pitch Silicon Valley Incubator 147

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

In short, the first wave of internet companies were widely distributed and brought people online (AOL in Virginia, Microsoft in Albuquerque and Seattle, Dell in Austin, etc.) in the last four years we’ve seen a 250% increase in venture capital funding and have doubled the number of startup development organizations in our community.”

Texas 90

Texas San Antonio Houston Dallas 90

Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

Of the 23 funds listed here, 13 are in the Bay Area, 3 in NYC, 3 in Boston, 2 in LA, and one each in Detroit, Seattle, Toronto, Waterloo, Indianapolis, and Fargo, North Dakota. San Francisco proper was #1, and taken on the whole, the Bay Area, of course, receives more venture capital investment than anywhere else, naturally.

San Francisco 116

San Francisco Silicon Valley Seattle Venture Capital 116

Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

George, Chicago, Des Moines, Burlington, Seattle, Detroit, Boston, Montreal, Toronto, Lexington (KY), and Palm Desert. Foundry Group adds $225M to its venture capital pool. This is the first time I’ve done three weekends back to back (I’ve done two before). I love this country (and Canada). Or send her flowers.

Oklahoma City 124

Oklahoma City Detroit San Francisco Vermont 124