Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2016

In 2008 I started VC blogging. I had blogged when I was an entrepreneur. In 2015 I opened up my Facebook page to the public. They thought it was like MySpace and why did I need a MySpace page? In 2007 I started using Twitter and most of my friends & colleagues wondered why people would care what I ate for lunch.

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Xconomy

MARCH 22, 2018

The privately held company made its first investment in a startup in late 2015, and last year it officially launched a corporate venture. But in the past few years, Bose has also started to look outside its walls for other sources of innovation. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Xconomy

JULY 17, 2016

After the national MoneyTree Report was released last week, PricewaterhouseCoopers partner Ryan Spencer said he spent time on a call with Thomson Reuters, which provides the raw data, trying to figure out a change in the numbers for venture capital activity in San Diego. The investors included Illumina, Celgene, and GE Ventures. (A

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

My goal in the interview overall was to capture more of the personal side of Fred since so much of his investment thesis and portfolio work already comes out in his blog. We talk a lot about his schooling, his early jobs as a developer and then as a VC and we talk about his decision to spend winters in Los Angeles.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2015

I ran a VC AMA (ask me anything) last Monday on Meerkat and had > 1,000 simultaneous people asking me questions. Mark Suster (@msuster) March 14, 2015. For years when I did This Week in VC (now BothSides TV ) and one of the most magic parts was the people who watched the show live and could ask questions in realtime.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Venture Capital investments in San Diego startups fell by roughly a third during the three months that ended September 30, according to data released recently by Seattle-based PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association. VC firms invested $280.6 That was 32 percent lower than the $414.4

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Xconomy

JANUARY 11, 2017

A recent study by EdSurge , an edtech information firm, shows venture funding for U.S. billion invested in 198 deals in 2015, according to EdSurge. Those stats track with the overall trend in VC funding nationally: the industry saw a “correction” or “normalization” downward after hitting a peak in 2015.

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2019

Yet Frenkel, a participant in the summer 2015 class at Y Combinator , an influential Silicon Valley accelerator program, raised $120,000 from investors by August that year. Early this year, she sold her company, This is L. , to Cincinnati, OH-based Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG ).

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

What is the True Sentiment of VCs? I recently survey more than 150 VC friends from all stages and geographies what they thought about the market by asking “Which of the following statements best describes your mood heading into 2016?” When I started blogging it was because I was inspired by Brad Feld.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 20, 2015

VC funding. We love capital efficiency until we love land grabs until we abhor over funding until we get huge payouts and ring the bell for more funding until we attract every non-VC on the planet to invest in startups until it crashes and we start the cycle all over again none the wiser. blog here ). Same as I felt.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 12, 2018

The investment in the Ann Arbor, MI-based company was co-led by Germany’s Statkraft Ventures , the Capital Midwest Fund , and UL Ventures , and also included contributions from returning investors such as Huron River Ventures and Venture Investors. Today, the 19-person.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. Most experienced VCs won’t push you to give up founder control at this stage of the business nor should they. In the Early Days.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 9, 2018

That expanded into a 10-city tour in 2015, and a world tour in Europe and Asia in 2016, Pinnell says. That year the couple, both trained in design, founded a startup in San Francisco, then called KaleidoscopeVR. Its first mission was to launch a Bay Area VR festival to showcase works in the new immersive art forms. It was a pivotal year when.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 29, 2018

I pre-ordered a Glowforge from the eponymous Seattle startup on the first day of its 30-day crowdfunding campaign in the fall of 2015, which brought in a record $27.9 This simple project—enabled by a very complex machine—was a long time coming, but it was worth the wait. While some people found this.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

TuSimple, founded in 2015 in San Diego and Beijing, raised its Series C round of $55 million in late 2017. Composite Capital , a Hong Kong-based investment fund started in 2016, led that round. That was the year TuSimple became the first company in San.

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Xconomy

APRIL 18, 2017

Sadhal and Taylor (pictured above) founded Approved in August 2015, and moved into the San Diego tech incubator. “Our goal is to create a platform [for both lenders and borrowers] that is just as frictionless as possible,” Taylor said at the downtown EvoNexus incubator, where he has been working with co-founder Navtej Sadhal.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Alto launched in 2015 under the name ScriptDash Pharmacy, initially offering a mobile app-enabled prescription delivery service in the San Francisco Bay Area. In conjunction with a $23 million venture investment it.

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Xconomy

JULY 14, 2016

Showing little concern for stock-market volatility or worries over the Brexit, venture capital firms pumped $15.3 billion into 961 deals across the United States during the three months that ended June 30, according to the MoneyTree Report on venture capital activity. —Venture firms invested $8.5

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 10, 2015

Even when I’m not the one being sued I find myself being dragged into deposition after deposition and my blog (along with all my emails) are being served as evidence. Nobody talks about this publicly because the fights are too personal so people don’t blog about them. Lawsuits are becoming so prevalent these days.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2015

I wanted to spend the rest of the blog post telling you why we decided to fund the company, how we settled on the final product design and our unique way of launching the app. As a VC (especially based in LA), I see hundreds of video apps. Imagine if your friends could all contribute the Burning Man 2015 album and create a group story.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

million Series C round from a large group of investors, among them founding backers Flagship Pioneering and Arch Venture Partners, and new participants EcoR1 Capital and Casdin Capital. million since its inception in 2015. The Cambridge, MA, company has closed a $76.5 The raise brings Codiak’s total to $168.5

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Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Station F is led by Roxanne Varza , who’s been very actively supporting startups and the French startup ecosystem as former head of Microsoft Accelerator in France, cofounder of European blog Tech.eu. Amongst its tenants are over 10 VC funds who have taken desks on Campus: Accel, Index Ventures, Balderton, Daphni, Partech Ventures.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 28, 2018

San Francisco-based Puls, founded in 2015, offers to dispatch technicians quickly to a customer’s home or office to replace malfunctioning parts, mount a widescreen TV on the wall, or install smart home devices such as security systems, voice-activated assistants, and Internet-connected thermostats.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 7, 2017

In 2015, Chaturvedi conceived his mission to “spoil” health product development managers a bit by creating an online marketplace where they could quickly hunt for outside experts needed to shepherd a new treatment to its next stage.

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Xconomy

JULY 21, 2016

Zingle, a Carlsbad, CA-based tech startup targeting the service industry and consumer-facing businesses with its messaging app technology, has raised $3 million in venture capital, according to a regulatory filing earlier this month. The company raised $1 million last year, according to a 2015 regulatory filing.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 24, 2017

In the mega-class of 177 biotechs that went public from 2012 through 2015, women held 11 percent of the board seats, according to their 2016 regulatory filings. That’s according to British recruitment firm Liftstream and its new study of biotech companies that went public in the recent boom years.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 18, 2017

Ball was also part of Austin Ventures for a decade before the firm shuttered in 2015. Smerklo says the firm will largely focus on Austin startups, making Series A and B investments in tech companies innovating in. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

JULY 20, 2016

Dauntless came to light after the MoneyTree Report on second-quarter venture capital activity turned up a couple of funding deals for “Dauntless 1,” the first biotech created by the umbrella company. We’re trying to minimize the total cost [of drug development] because our needs change with each stage of development.”.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Including the 12 startups highlighted yesterday, an Intel Capital spokesman said his organization has invested $291 million in 31 new companies so far this year, with another $155 million put into 53 follow-on deals (for a total of nearly $447 million).

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

That led us to venture capital as opposed to trying to bootstrap ourselves. For another perspective which I certainly agree with, check out Kevin Drum’s blog post on The Power of Single-Mindedness at [link] but keep in mind that anything taken to the extreme probably isn’t a good idea…”. 5) It is 2015. It’s contagious!”.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 12, 2016

The news was a relief for Redwood City, CA-based Heron, which has been waiting for word on the status of its drug since September 2015. . —Heron Therapeutics (NASDAQ: HRTX ) won FDA approval of granisetron (Sustol) , a drug it developed for the nausea and vomiting associated with certain chemotherapy regimens.

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Xconomy

JUNE 30, 2016

Morphic was formed by Polaris Partners and Leukon Investments in 2015. “If they can make an a4b7 inhibitor that works as good as an antibody, power to them,” he says. But I want to see the evidence.”. Some others investing in Morphic’s Series A include Schrödinger and ShangPharma Investment Group.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 24, 2018

The company was co-founded in 2015 by Michael Marks, the former CEO of contract electronics manufacturer Flextronics. Katerra , a building construction startup inspired by the efficient practices of electronics manufacturing, announced today it has raised $865 million in a Series D fundraising round led by the SoftBank Vision Fund.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Photo of Tony Coles and Sue Lindquist at Xconomy’s “What’s Hot In Boston Biotech” event, April 2015. . —Hampton, NJ, and Needham, MA-based Celldex Therapeutics (NASDAQ: CLDX ) paid $62.5 million upfront , all in stock, for privately held Kolltan Pharmaceuticals. Ben Fidler contributed to this report.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 18, 2015

There is a lot of uncertainty about the state of the private, high-growth technology markets and the venture capital markets that underpin them. Perhaps I would call it “Mourning in VC” as in mourning for the days of rational behavior. I spoke last week at the annual Cendana VC/LP conference. Are LPs to blame?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

As an advisor to many entrepreneurs, I still hear frequently the irrational exuberance that crowdfunding is the quick alternative for startups that are passed over by overly demanding angels or venture capital investors. In reality, crowdfunding has become a major startup funding vehicle, expected to reach $3.62

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2020

As an advisor to many entrepreneurs, I still hear frequently the irrational exuberance that crowdfunding is the quick alternative for startups that are passed over by overly demanding angels or venture capital investors. It’s not easy money, so expect to work harder than you ever have.

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