Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2014

A November 2014 report by Kiplinger asserts that economic momentum is back on track. A healthy manufacturing sector, likely to gain even more strength in 2015, is creating an impetus to invest. 2015 business optimism entrepreneur strategy' economy toward a self-sustaining and continuing economic expansion. Marty Zwilling.

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APRIL 14, 2016

in venture capital in Q1, according to the latest MoneyTree Report by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association, based on data from Thomson Reuters. billion raised in Q4, and even lower than Q1 of 2015, when $2.01 invested across 21 deals. invested across 21 deals. was invested.

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OCTOBER 5, 2016

Venture capital activity is gradually easing from last year’s peak, according to a new quarterly report put together by Seattle-based PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association. VC firms invested $14.99 It was the fifth straight quarterly decline in the number of companies getting VC funding, according to the report.

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JANUARY 8, 2020

Curtis is the former publisher of the Robb Report, which he sold back in 2015, and has a long history of operating media companies that have published such titles as Home Office Computing, Home Theater, Mobile Computing, Worth, and many others. We built that into the authority in luxury in 18 different countries. That was our plan.

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OCTOBER 24, 2018

Reports from Reuters say that Cloudflare has hired Goldman Sachs to lead its IPO, which will value the company at more than $3.5 It's unclear how big of a take that Qualcomm Ventures has in Cloudflare, after it joined Fidelity, Google, Microsoft, and Baidu in backing Cloudflare in a strategic investment round in September of 2015.

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OCTOBER 26, 2020

The core of the investing job of course is investing dollars into startup companies and helping as a mentor, advisor and board member on the companies in which you’ve invested. For example, we’re now already well into our third growth fund that we started in 2015 (the first returned 2x cash in 3.5

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FEBRUARY 6, 2017

WINTER For starters when we conducted our annual VC & LP survey in December of 2016 to prepare our annual Upfront State of the VC Industry report we found that twice as many VCs cut their investments in 2016 relative to 2015 with > 30% of VCs having cut investments. billion into Uber.

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JULY 15, 2016

billion in venture capital in Q2 of 2016, according to the latest numbers from the MoneyTree Report from PricewaterhouseCoopers, the National Venture Capital Association, and Thomson Reuters. billion raised in the region just a year ago in Q1 of 2015. Nationally, venture capitalists invested $15.3 READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 16, 2014

The speaks to the continued confidence in the venture capital markets and as I had predicted some time ago the VC markets right now are a great place to invest – especially relative to other places to put one’s money. Our last fund we raised was in 2012 and we began investing it in April of 2012. But that’s it.

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MAY 8, 2017

Austin —Dell Technologies is publicly unveiling a venture capital investment arm that has been quietly investing in startups since the operation was run by EMC, the data storage giant that Dell agreed to acquire for $67 billion in 2015. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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MARCH 15, 2019

CureMatch was founded in 2015 to commercialize technology developed at the UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center. million in outside investment, says its software can help guide customized care by using a patient’s genetic information to score and rank treatment options. It calls the guides it produces PreciGENE reports.

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JANUARY 29, 2020

Kleiner Perkins , one of the most storied franchises in venture capital, has already invested much of the $600 million it raised last year and is now going back out to the market to raise its 19th fund, according to multiple sources. Speaking onstage at the Upfront Summit, an event at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif.

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JULY 14, 2016

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. Still, the amount invested marked a 12 percent drop from the $17.4 Still, the amount invested marked a 12 percent drop from the $17.4 Included is the $3.5

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OCTOBER 27, 2016

Prices for agricultural commodities such as corn, soy, and wheat are at their lowest levels in years, but investment in agricultural technology has never been better. The increase in dollars flowing to agtech comes despite commodity prices that are down 65 percent from their 2013 peak, the report says.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2017

The final numbers on 2016 fintech funding deals are in from New York-based research firm and investment database CB Insights, and venture capitalists seem to be cooling on the industry. According to a report released today, financial technology companies around the world attracted $12.7 Fintech has seen a frothy flood of.

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APRIL 17, 2015

billion in investments in Q1 of 2015, according to the latest numbers from the PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association. MoneyTree report, which was released this evening, The quarter was the biggest, investment quarter for Southern California since the dot com era. invested in SmartDrive Systems.

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MARCH 11, 2021

As reported by Bloomberg, Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen took to Facebook on Sunday to post about the nation’s capacity to provide water to its citizens and businesses in the face of the worst drought the nation has faced in 56 years. Intel alone used 9 billion gallons of water in 2015).

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JANUARY 11, 2017

While we’re looking at venture deal numbers from the past year , let’s consider the education technology industry, which isn’t broken out by sector in the general reports I’ve seen. billion invested in 198 deals in 2015, according to EdSurge. The EdSurge report. education tech companies totaled $1.03

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JUNE 24, 2010

research report released yesterday on Santa Monica-based SharesPost , the report says that eSolar has an estimated valuation of close to $700M. The report says that eSolar has deals lined up which could bring it $185M per year by 2015. Citing the Next Up!

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AUGUST 28, 2015

After releasing its first ever report, Amazon has left many consumers and users wondering about a number of things. Between January and May 2015, Amazon has indicated it has received about 813 subpoenas with 542 already responded to. Amazon has also reported receiving national security kind of requests between 0-249 in number.

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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 VC firms invested $280.6 That was 32 percent lower than the $414.4

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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. million invested in 23 San Diego companies. So the $350.5

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JUNE 22, 2015

Why are the world’s biggest Internet companies investing in a technology created in the late 1800’s? So much so that Google recently reported that mobile search has finally overtaken desktop search, and Facebook rolled out a new app called Hello that connects the dots between people’s social and phone contacts.

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OCTOBER 24, 2016

Intel Capital has invested $38 million in 12 technology startups since July, highlighting its venture investment focus on innovations in self-driving cars and machine vision, the Internet of Things, sports and health, drones, and virtual reality. We’re aligned, but not overlapping, is the way I like to look at it.”.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2016

million in a Series D round of investment capital, according to founder and chairman Tony Farwell. Four of the companies here were founded in 2014, another three were started in 2015, and two—CureMatch and Lymber—debuted earlier this year.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Back in 2013, Google reported that 90 percent of multiple device owners switch between screens to complete tasks, using an average of three different combinations every day. Meanwhile, biometrics has stepped out of the realm of sci-fi and into the mainstream, playing an important role in the fight against cybercrime.

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APRIL 18, 2016

Despite the benefits of developing an app, there are valid reasons why retailers choose not to invest in one. Many retailers report $100,000 is the minimum price of entry. The report notes that in general, the companies that prioritize mobile had modest budgets. This is certainly on the high end of the spectrum.

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JANUARY 26, 2016

In 2015 an additional 237 thousand joined the online community. As online viewership and behaviors grew in 2015 – the average U.S. As online viewership and behaviors grew in 2015 – the average U.S. In 2015, issues of online security and data privacy consumed headlines. Data Security Concerns Dominate.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Station F is the brainchild of Xavier Neil, a tech billionaire and serial entrepreneur, who invested millions in acquiring and refitting the building. With a fresh investment of €1M, Simon Schaeffer is now taking the Factory brand to Lisbon with a new mega campus. Factory Lisbon.

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JULY 28, 2017

That's securing the network, looking at endpoints, and making other security investments across the board, and on such things like mobile device management for mobile phones. However, if you look at things like the Verizon data breach report, stolen identity is the number one issue out there. It's the elephant in the room.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

A cybersecurity report by Ponemon Institute, in association with Keeper Security, found that in the 12 months leading up to June 2016, 55 percent of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) experienced a cyber attack, while 50 percent encountered data breaches involving customer and employee information.

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JULY 31, 2017

While back in 2011, a cell phone user received or made 12 phone calls a day on average, the number has dropped to just 6 calls in 2015. According to another report from ServiceNow , 90 percent of managers waste their time on admin work outside their ascribed workplace duties. That’s a well-known fact for sure.

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AUGUST 12, 2016

In other Google-related news, Recode reported that Bill Maris, the founder and president of Google Ventures (now called GV), has left the firm and will be replaced by David Krane. 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. . —The U.S.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2017

(there’s a great story from Jonah in the video but you have to watch to hear it :)) But it’s undeniable that it has become a digital media powerhouse having raised around $500 million in capital with a valuation reported at $1.7 billion and revenues likely exceeding $250 million (Wikipedia lists 2015 revenue at $167 million).

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JANUARY 1, 2016

We want to invest in early-stage technology enabled startup businesses – upfront in the funding cycle. In fact, 90% of our investments are either Seed or A-round investments (10% are B-round). We’re a national venture capital investment firm but with our roots firmly in Los Angeles. That’s healthy.

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MARCH 9, 2017

You can remote in, pull some logs, and pull compliance data and reports. They invested $1M in Veracity in April of last year, and we just recently had another seed round of half a million from Microsemi, and another investor, Hollinbeck Financial, plus other individuals. That's how Veracity was born.

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AUGUST 6, 2015

billion in revenue in Q2 2015 alone, and CEO Jeff Bezos has proven that he’s invested in maintaining Amazon’s leadership position in online retail, as Lore well knows. However, Jet faces considerable competition: Amazon generated $23.18

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