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

Both Sides of the Table

The industry has obviously changed enormously in 2022 but in many ways it feels like a “return to normal” that we have seen many times in our industry. Considering that many of our funds are in the $200–300 million range, these returns were more meaningful than if we had raised billion dollar funds.

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What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?

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Probably not and 10x (May 2022) seems more in line with the historical trend (actually 10x is still high). We’ll just wait until companies that last raised in 2019 or 2020 come to market.” million, our Seed Funds mostly between $200–300 million and have delivered median ownerships of ~20% from the first check we write into a startup.

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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

You had the entry into our ecosystem of hedge funds, cross-over funds, sovereign wealth funds, mutual funds, family offices and all other sources of capital that drove up valuations. In a world when LPs benchmark VC performance on a 3-year time horizon from deploying one’s fund (is your 2019 fund in the top quartile!!??)

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AKUA lands $3.2M to turn kelp into burgers

TechCrunch LA

The total funds include backing from a Republic campaign, pre-seed investors and capital from the co-founders. In 2019, the company came out with its first product, Kelp Jerky, which comes in four flavors, and was a product Boyd Myers thought would be a good trial run to help people see ocean-farmed kelp in a new way.

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Six Tech Startups to Look Out For in 2023

Tech.Co

We've scoured the startup scene to find out which budding businesses have made big waves in 2022 — and whose growth is showing no signs of slowing down. This April, the startup raised a staggering $4 million in a seed funding round. Wander's apex came in 2022, however. Screenshots from Wander's mobile app. Source: wander.com.

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5 Crowdfunding Approaches To Tempt Every Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

Even if you ignore all the hype around crowdfunding, there can be no doubt that it is a real alternative for entrepreneurs to achieve visibility and funding today. These sites often sponsor pitch contests with small cash prizes for funding, as well as other valuable services to support entrepreneurs.

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Venture capitalists ‘like and subscribe’ to influencers

TechCrunch LA

million in funding from Rebecca Minkoff and other unnamed investors. CEO of Patreon Jack Conte attends VidCon 2019 at Anaheim Convention Center on July 12, 2019 in Anaheim, California (Photo by Jerod Harris/Getty Images). Naturally, these were also the first business to get funded. focused fund.

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