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Reflections on 2018: Alon Goren, 805 Startups and Crypto Invest Summit

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Editor's note: As we head into the new year, we've been featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. Here's Alon Goren , founder of 805 Startups and the Crypto Invest Summit. What was the biggest news for your company in 2018?

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London and SF have become Impact Tech hubs, with 280% increase in VC in 5 years

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New research has found that San Francisco and London have become two of the world’s leading hubs for VC investment into tech solutions that address one or more of the 17 UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), more commonly referred to as “Impact Tech” They are followed by Paris, Berlin, Stockholm, Shanghai and Beijing.

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Reflections On 2018: Matt Stodder, Startup Boost LA

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What was the biggest news for your organization in 2018? Startup Boost became global, growing to six cities in 2018 (Los Angeles, New York, Toronto, Detroit, Dublin and London), helping over 70 early stage startups. Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software, that you found most interesting in 2018?

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The Changing Venture Landscape

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With the enormous changes to our economies and financial markets?—?how how on Earth could the venture capital market stand still? One of the most common questions I’m asked by people intrigued by but also scared by venture capital and technology markets is some variant of, “Aren’t technology markets way overvalued?

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Beyond Meat prices its public offering

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The Los Angeles-based company’s public offering should be a nice windfall for the Chicago-based investors DNS Capital, an investment firm managing the private wealth of the Pritzker family, and Cleveland Avenue, founded by former McDonald’s executive Don Thompson; as well as the venture capital firms Kleiner Perkins and Obvious Ventures.

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Upfront Ventures Raises > $650 Million for Startups and Returns > $600 Million to LPs

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Yves Sisteron , Stuart Lander & I (depicted in the photo below) have worked together for more than 22 years now and that has taken us through many cycles of market enthusiasm & panic. Since 2021, Upfront returned more than $600 million to LPs and returned more than $1 billion since 2018. The answer is: not much.

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Acquicent Adds Advisor, Investor

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Los Angeles-based Acquicent , the startup which is developing a marketplace that allows users to invest in "museum-grade" collectibles such as art and vintage automobiles, is announcing this morning that it has added Kevin Conroy, CEO of ConroyMedia and former director of Sotheby's, as both an advisor and ivnestor. READ MORE>>.