FinSMEs

AUGUST 30, 2023

Geek Ventures, a NYC-based venture capital firm investing in immigrant founders, closed Geek Ventures Fund I, at $23M. The inaugural fund will be used to support […] The post Geek Ventures Launches First Fund to Support Immigrant Tech Founders appeared first on FinSMEs.

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Angel Investors Venture Capital Funds Capital 109

FinSMEs

JULY 20, 2023

The round was led by Las Olas Venture Capital with participation from Ubiquity Ventures, Underscore VC, Long Journey Ventures, SilverCircle, Automotive Ventures, Alumni Ventures, CreativeCo Capital, and angel investors.

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FinSMEs

JANUARY 14, 2024

The round was led by FUSE, with participation from Ascend Venture Capital, Highsage and a group of strategic angel investors. Avante, a Seattle, WA-based enterprise software startup, raised $10m in seed funding. The company intends to use the funds to accelerate its product development, engineering and data science team.

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Angel Investors Venture Capital Funds Startups 67

FinSMEs

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The round was led by Zetta Venture Partners, Crane Venture Capital and Essence Venture Capital with participation from angel investors with deep data experience including The New Normal Fund and the founders of dbt […] The post Gable.ai Raises $7M in Seed Funding appeared first on FinSMEs.

Venture Capital 67

Venture Capital Angel Investors Funds Capital 67

FinSMEs

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Innovestor, a Helsinki, Finland-based venture capital firm, launched a $30m co-investment fund in collaboration with Business Finland Venture Capital. The fund will invest in early-stage startups alongside investor groups of angel investors.

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Venture Capital Angel Investors Funds Startups 57

FinSMEs

JANUARY 25, 2024

in new cash led by Montage Ventures with participation from Techshop SGR, alongside other angel investors, with the remaining €1.6m The funding round will provide €2.3m in Funding appeared first on FinSMEs.

Angel Investors 62

Angel Investors Startups Funds Venture Capital 62

The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In addition to founding and advising start-ups, Altman also has a prolific career as an angel investor. The majority of Reddit is owned by insiders, including members of its executive team, and venture capital firms. Image Source: Getty Images How can you invest in Reddit?

Stakes 245

Stakes Accredited Investors Conglomerates Initial Public Offering 245

FinSMEs

AUGUST 24, 2023

The round was led by Wavemaker Partners, with participation from other venture capital firms such as Hustle Fund, Amand Ventures, Black Kite Capital, and angel investors. Pi-xcels, a Singapore-based provider of digital receipt solutions, raised US$1.7M in funding. in Funding appeared first on FinSMEs.

Angel Investors 52

Angel Investors Funds Venture Capital Capital 52

FinSMEs

JULY 12, 2023

The round was led by Adrian Fenty at MaC Venture Capital with participation from YCombinator, Soma Capital, Atlanta Ventures and several angel investors, including Gene Lee (Ramp), Eric Feldman (Bolt), David Tsao (BillionToOne), Austen Allred […] The post Gradia Health Raises $4.2M in Seed funding.

Angel Investors 52

Angel Investors Venture Capital Funds Capital 52

FinSMEs

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The funding round was led by Silverton Partners, with additional participation from Floodgate, Bill Wood Ventures, Firebrand VC, Aperiam Ventures, Active Capital, Sputnik ATX VC, Capital Factory, and a handful of angel investors. The […] The post Handraise Closes $6.4M

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Angel Investors Funds Capital Investors 107

AltAssets

AUGUST 30, 2023

Geek Ventures, a venture capital firm investing in visionary immigrant founders, has closed Geek Ventures Fund I. The post Geek Ventures closes inaugural fund at $23 million first appeared on AltAssets Private Equity News.

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Venture Capital Funds Capital Angel Investors 83

SuperAngel.Fund

JANUARY 22, 2024

These investors are willing to take great risks to achieve a bigger financial outcome. These investments might include angel/venture capital, private equity, collectibles, crypto, day-trading small-cap stocks, emerging market bonds, etc. So, this got me thinking about my behavior as an investor.

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Angel Investors Venture Capital Leveraging Assets 40

SuperAngel.Fund

DECEMBER 23, 2022

DeWolf , Member / Chair, Technology Practice, Co-chair, Venture Capital & Emerging Companies Practice. Just ask Ben Zises, angel investor, fund manager, and founder of SuperAngel.Fund. As such, angel investors rely heavily on their intuition and other qualitative key selection metrics. Source link here.

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Angel Investors Venture Capital Education Leveraging 40

Udu

APRIL 21, 2023

Inbound Platforms Inbound platforms specialize in helping firms source deals from a variety of sources, including venture capital firms, angel investors, and other private equity funds. There are several different types of private equity platforms.

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Deal Origination Due Diligence Angel Investors Investing 40

SuperAngel.Fund

JANUARY 19, 2024

VC Activity ⬇️ According to PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association, 2023 saw the lowest level of venture investment activity in the U.S. Across the 52 angel investments that I made prior to starting SuperAngel.Fund , my average check size was $13k and median check size was $10k. since 2019.

Startups 69

Startups Due Diligence Deal Flow Angel Investors 69

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 30, 2019

They put the founder in the difficult position of promising an amount of ownership to an angel/seed investor that they cannot actually deliver down the round when the notes convert. Here are some suggestions for the entire angel/seed sector (founders, angel investors, seed investors, lawyers): Do priced equity rounds instead of notes.

Angel Investors 84

Angel Investors Venture Capital Financing Finance 84

This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Angel investor Jeff Stewart once told me that either the product takes twice as long and costs three times as much to build as your plan, or takes three times as long to build and costs twice as much--you just don''t know which one. Venture Capital & Technology' Tough questions are a godsend. I wish they had.

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Due Diligence Angel Investors Startups Venture Capital 136

The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

This week, we speak with Albert Wenger , Managing Partner at Union Square Ventures. thru the company’s sale to Yahoo and was an angel investor in Etsy and Tumblr. Wenger is the author of World After Capital , describing the shift to a “Knowledge Age” and its implications for businesses & society.

Angel Investors 77

Angel Investors Capital Companies Investors 77

This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Fund investing can be additive to your angel investing and there are two main arguments for it: Getting indirect benefits from being invested in one or more funds. Having a better overall portfolio of venture capital by adding funds into the mix. That’s why it might be worth not just being in one fund, but in several.

Leveraging 134

Leveraging Portfolios Deal Flow Funds 134

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MARCH 17, 2014

I certainly would have wanted to be an angel investor in Thrillist at the time. Venture Capital & Technology' The fundraising will be for that content team, additional developers, and salespeople to leverage the unique brand they''ve built. Nice, tight story that makes sense.

Startups 150

Startups Consultants Consulting Venture Capital 150

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FEBRUARY 7, 2010

Well, remember the dust up a while back with the backlash against “pay to play” pitch events where startups had to pay to meet angels? Jason Calacanis came up with a solution—creating an event where angel investors and startups get to know each other in a casual environment without a cost to the entrepreneur.

Startups 76

Startups Angel Investors Venture Capital Funds 76

This is going to be BIG.

JULY 25, 2016

Is every Uber angel investor likely to be the finder of the next big deal? So before you start aiming to work with or follow "top" investors, think long and hard about what you're getting yourself into and what you're likely to experience. Also, it could have been just dumb luck that isn't likely to be replicated again.

Investors 105

Investors Angel Investors Venture Capital Funds 105

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APRIL 12, 2010

Even more problematic was the number of angel investors who wanted in that I had to say no to. We’ll have to figure that issue out, because NYC has a lot of experienced angels that aren’t well known that I want to get out in front of more startups. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology nextNY.

Startups 84

Startups Law Firms Angel Investors Venture Capital 84

This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

The truth is, for most of you actually reading this, it simply doesn’t apply to you—similar to most of the prescriptive stuff about fundraising written by the top investors. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology. Was that entrepreneur unfriendly? Not at all. Writing the check was the friendliest thing he ever did.

Angel Investors 104

Angel Investors Startups Venture Capital Legal 104

This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 10, 2015

Take venture capital, for example. Very few are ever going to wind up in the former category--so the most accessible option for most investors would have to be a venture capital fund. First, you have to be an accredited investor--someone with a few hundred grand in income or a million to your name.

Venture Capital 139

Venture Capital Accredited Investors Returns Capital 139

This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

More entrepreneurs get to try out their ideas with smaller amounts of capital, but the bar remains the same to get to the bigger rounds. More ideas, more companies, but the system vets the ideas earlier before they require tons of additional capital--and better ideas make it. It's actually a great situation for the ecosystem.

Startups 104

Startups Angel Investors Capital Funds 104

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OCTOBER 4, 2011

One of the most knowledgeable angel investors out there, Jeff Stewart , told me that the definition of success as an entrepreneur was when you walk into work, and there's nothing for you to do. At that point, you've hired someone better than you at all of the tasks you did previously as a founder.

Angel Investors 115

Angel Investors Startups Companies Investors 115

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OCTOBER 28, 2011

applications are due this Monday the 31st ) The company said no because their main angel investor didn't think it was a good idea to let an audience see their pitch. Its an opportunity to pitch Sony on a biz dev deal --a no brainer for nearly any company given the scope of Sony's areas of interest.

Companies 118

Companies Angel Investors Buyout Stakes 118

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

A lot of people have talked about the need for NYC to have a PayPal--a multi-billion dollar exit that scattered on the rest of the community a bunch of experienced startup talent that scaled a company over time, as well as a host of new angel investors.

Startups 122

Startups Companies Angel Investors Investors 122

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MARCH 1, 2010

My company was not well executed enough to achieve venture capital financing—and that wasn’t the city’s fault, it was mine. In terms of who is here and what does get funded, the average entrepreneur spends way too much time doing after investors that have a shingle on their door that says angel investor or VC.

Startups 120

Startups Venture Capital Capital Financing 120

This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 1, 2013

Plus, I've heard, and can anecdotally corroborate, that most angel investors put 70% of all the money they will ever put into startups to work in their very first year of angel investing.

Crowdfunding 115

Crowdfunding Pension Funds Angel Investors Startups 115

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DECEMBER 13, 2015

I don't know a single venture capital investor who doesn't get a firehose of e-mail. That unfortunately reinforces the lack of diversity in venture capital circles these days--unless you happen to be that one white male venture investor whose tech friends and connections aren't also mostly white males.

Venture Capital 131

Venture Capital Deal Flow Angel Investors Capital 131

Pension Pulse

JANUARY 25, 2024

Teachers’ Venture Growth (TVG), the venture capital investing arm of the $250-billion pension fund, is the lead investor in Instagrid’s Series C funding round and gains a seat on the company’s board. I’m very] excited to be part of the team!” More recently, she served as a non-executive director of Barclays Bank.

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Funds Investors Startups Assets 59

The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Alicia Alfiere: Well, and two, I think just to add some context, there is still venture capital activity happening here. Tim Beyers: Yeah, and to be clear, early stage venture investing is still as robust as it ever has been. Late stage, lots of venture investors, angel investors piling in saying, so let me give you an example.

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Investing Capital Debt Private Companies 130

This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 21, 2015

Conventional wisdom says that you follow on in your winners in venture capital, but I''m not sure you can always accomplish that so cleanly. In hindsight, if you were an Etsy investor, you would have wished you participated in every single round the company ever did, putting as much as you could in.

Angel Investors 132

Angel Investors Venture Capital Funds Capital 132

This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

When I raised money from 21 angel investors, only one of them told me I wasn’t raising enough money. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology. They’ve seen this model play out time and time again. Entrepreneurs often dismiss the “haters”, but I think there’s really something to that.

Angel Investors 115

Angel Investors Venture Capital Funds Investors 115

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FEBRUARY 25, 2019

It used to be that the only people who could even get into angel rounds were high net worth individuals that could write at least $25,000 checks—so if someone said they were an angel investor, you could assume this was their minimum check size. I feel the same way about someone who calls themselves a “VC”.

Angel Investors 109

Angel Investors Investors High Net Worth Individuals Venture Capital 109