The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

By contrast, the $30 share price implies a valuation closer to $10 billion, giving venture capital investors a potentially painful exit. Nevertheless, many market participants are pleased that Instacart will break the logjam of venture-backed companies looking to go public. There's plenty of debate about Arm's potential.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 21, 2023

As long as there was an SEC regulatory overhang, there might have been investor concerns about "locking up" crypto funds in Cardano's DeFi protocols. For that reason alone, I was concerned about Solana from a regulatory perspective since it already seemed to be in the crosshairs of regulators.

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OCTOBER 17, 2011

Not every company raises venture capital—most don’t. Not raising gives you flexibility about the market size you want to go after, speed of growth, and de-risks your plan—because once you start spending someone else’s money, the clock starts ticking on your “out of cash” date. 1) You need it.

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A Wealth of Common Sense

OCTOBER 21, 2023

On today’s show, we spoke with Samir Kaji, CEO, President, and Co-Founder of Allocate to give us an update on Venture markets. See here to learn more about Allocate’s VC platform for advisors and family offices.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2014

The company is doing about a million a month in recurring revs. The fact is, it''s just not cool to criticize the investing side of the venture capital market. For the most part, journalists give startups a free pass when venture capital money is raised or when companies that clearly seem to have failed get "acquired".

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JULY 18, 2022

This is all about getting multiple sets of eyes on the marks. If you might lose money on an investment, it is always best to signal that ahead of time. – Have Multiple Sets Of Eyes On The Marks. We debate and discuss the marks with each other.

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JULY 30, 2015

One of the first things I did when I joined the venture asset class as a lowly institutional LP analyst in 2001 was to build the VC fund cashflow model. Just about every analyst who looks at fund investing has built one. Let's be clear about this exercise. Venture capital is all about finding the extraordinary.

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OCTOBER 1, 2014

We all have our inherent biases and what I am not arguing here is that the venture capital world is a fair playing field for anyone. I repeat: I AM NOT ARGUING THAT VENTURE CAPITAL IS FAIR TO ANYONE. billion went to women-led ventures.". I AM NOT ARGUING THAT WOMEN AREN''T SEEKING VENTURE CAPITAL.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 1, 2024

Despite these challenges, my adventure in creating a line of travel-inspired diaper bags taught me valuable lessons about securing funding, navigating various options, and the importance of persistence. They're not just about the money; they offer mentorship and a community that can be priceless for aspiring small business owners.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Deidre Woollard checked in with Miller for a chat about what real estate data says about inflation, the boom in artificial intelligence investing, and the great lag between the Fed and the economy. You're talking about trillions and trillions of dollars of that. I don't know what you think about that.

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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. Below that and they need to keep you from investing in really risky stuff, like venture capital. Think about it, though.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 20, 2024

Private equity and venture capital firms typically have access to investments that are not available to everyday investors. Well, to put it simply, these funds raise capital from ultrahigh-net-worth individuals called accredited investors. In fact, shares didn't hit the New York Stock Exchange until earlier this year.

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MARCH 5, 2014

About seven years ago, I wrote a post on breaking into venture capital and I continue to point the five or six people a week who ask me how to break into venture. When she asked why, I said it was because if anyone was better qualified, we''d already know about them by now. Venture Capital & Technology'

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FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Besides, there were a limited number of places where I could do my job in venture capital anyway—and while I might be a go to for a pitch from super early stage pre-seed and seed founders looking for quick answers and decisive term sheets in New York City, the reality is that I would be pretty far down the list in the Valley.

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MAY 5, 2015

mention about themselves. That's largely how I think about my job. I think of venture capital as a service business. Thinking about how you can offer more is a great way to be a better investor, and it gives people a reason to want to work with you over and above a check that clears. Generosity.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 19, 2024

The energy company will spend about $14 billion on oil and gas development projects in 2024 alone. One aspect of its strategy has been using its venture capital arm to launch funds that invest in innovative companies focused on lower carbon energy. The company is spending about $2 billion on lower carbon projects this year.

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Mr. Money Mustache

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

– Which brings up a few questions about whether we need to worry, or do anything about this new development. What about my current house – should I hang onto it forever because of the solid-gold 3% mortgage I have locked in for the next 30 years? So let’s talk about strategy. What if I want to buy a house?

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Private Equity Insights

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The firm also invests with blue chip venture capital partnerships with target fund sizes less than $750m. About Taurus Private Markets Taurus Private Markets, LLC was formed in 2018 by Kevin Campbell and Eric Wilcomes. The firm invests in leveraged buyout, private credit, and venture capital opportunities based in North America.

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Private Equity Insights

JULY 17, 2023

Crown Growth Opportunities IV (CGR IV), the organization’s fourth international venture capital fund, underwent a final close at LGT Capital Partners Trough co-investments, secondaries, and funds, the Crown Growth Opportunities Fund IV collaborates with venture capital firms.

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JULY 8, 2013

I probably get around a dozen e-mails a week asking me how to get into venture capital. On top of that, anytime I talk to anyone who wants to get involved in startups but isn''t sure what they want to do, inevitably, I hear, "And then I was thinking maybe I should look into venture capital, too.". Cry me a river, you say.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2016

If you're an institution, you basically care about returns and that's it. You run X amount of capital and Y percentage of that is allocated to venture capital. For the VC that means if you're returning money to your institutional investors, that's about all you need to worry about.

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MAY 16, 2016

There aren't many people who get the chance to analyze venture capital fund return data. So when someone gets access to a dataset, no matter how incomplete, it's no surprise they'll rush into making lots of declarative statements about how the asset class performs without even a reasonable gut check.

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OCTOBER 7, 2015

After checking out The Information's "open dataset" on diversity in venture capital , I felt pretty disappointed. I went back and calculated the number of companies in the first Brooklyn Bridge Ventures portfolio who have at least one founder who is female, from an underrepresented minority group, or LGBT. And does it work?

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JUNE 15, 2020

In venture, it’s all about getting an opportunity to make partner and being included in the carry—the economic upside of a fund. There are lots of problems with access to venture connections that account for some of this, but how you invest and pay your own team is the one indisputable thing that is in a VC firm’s control.

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Private Equity Insights

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Shein is backed by large investors including Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund Mubadala, venture capital group Sequoia China and private equity group General Atlantic. IPOs have raised about $23.64bn so far this year, compared with $21.3bn during the same period last year. Shein and the banks declined to comment.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

About one-fifth of total global start-up funding in July and August went toward AI companies, according to Crunchbase. In the winter cohort earlier this year, just 59 firms identified as AI-driven, and last summer's class included just 22 AI firms.

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AltAssets

APRIL 18, 2024

DTCP, the infra and growth investment house launched by senior venture capital execs at Deutsche Telekom, has raised about €1.6bn for the final close of its new digital infra fund. The post DTCP soars to €1.6bn digital infra fund close, over 8x larger than debut in strategy first appeared on AltAssets Private Equity News.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 26, 2024

Bolstered by low interest rates and a venture capital market asking businesses to grow at all costs, ZoomInfo's sales-growth-focused platform was in high demand, with revenue spiking by 57% in 2021. recession in 2023 -- these same venture capital firms asking for growth in 2021 now needed to see profitability above all else.

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Private Equity Insights

MAY 10, 2024

In Asia, investors have been cautious about deploying capital in China due to an economic slowdown, regulatory crackdown and Sino-U.S. Get the week’s top news delivered directly to your inbox – Sign up for our newsletter Sign up About $131.6 billion, Preqin data showed. billion, Preqin data showed.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 21, 2024

Moreover, venture capital investor Chamath Palihapitiya recently posted on X (formerly Twitter) that voice represents the "front door" to the next phase of the AI revolution. This was before SoundHound went public, and it was raising funds from venture capital firms and prominent tech giants.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 5, 2024

In the context of a hedge fund, investment bank, or venture capital group, customers would be extremely happy to see gains on that scale. That means you should not jump into the deep end of cryptocurrency just because they are enthusiastic about doing it. Finally, prepare yourself emotionally.

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MAY 17, 2012

2) Supply and demand of capital willing to invest in your company. The second is pretty obvious, but what about the first? It seems to come down to two things: 1) How much do you want to raise? So the more you want to raise, the more your company is worth?

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The Motley Fool

MAY 5, 2024

Hercules Capital Hercules Capital (NYSE: HTGC) is a business development company ( BDC ) that allows individual investors to take part in the previously elusive world of venture capital investing. Even billionaires with the means to dabble in venture capital are buying shares of Hercules Capital.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 24, 2024

A big part of women's history is about money: when, whether, and how women are allowed to earn their own money, control their own money, and make their own decisions about personal finances. That's right: until 1974, women didn't have the right to open their own credit cards. Only 10.4%

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

But eventually, the real test of a cryptocurrency is whether it can bring about utility for people in the real world. And according to a report from venture capital firm Electric Capital, Shiba Inu doesn't even crack the list of top 100 cryptocurrencies in terms of the number of developers working on advancing it.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 19, 2024

As a start-up, the company was partially funded with the help of the CIA's venture capital arm, In-Q-tel. The trickiest thing about the stock market is that a fantastic company won't always make a worthwhile investment -- mainly, because of valuation. Palantir has the added advantage of a close relationship with the U.S.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

But by the end of 2022, Bitcoin was only worth about $16,000. Inflation, soaring interest rates, the failures of high-profile tokens and exchanges, and concerns about tighter government regulations had quickly chilled the market with a new "crypto winter". The British multinational bank Standard Chartered (OTC: SCBF.Y)

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