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Reflections on 2020: Greg Martin, Archer Venture Capital

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Here, we have Greg Martin, Founder and Managing Partner of Archer Venture Capital (www.archervc.com). At Liquid Stock, we were fortunate the IPO market stayed red-hot and we had two successful IPOs with Sumo Logic and Wish along with the filing of Affirm, Marqeta and Robinhood which we expect to go public early in Q1/2021.

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Interview with Fouad ElNaggar, Redpoint Ventures

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Redpoint Ventures is one of the venture capital firms which has straddled both Northern California and Southern California, with offices in both locations. It would be interesting to hear about where your interests are nowdays, there was a rumor Redpoint had backed off activity here lately.

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Startups Weekly: Upfront Ventures bets on a bus service

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Hello and welcome back to Startups Weekly, a weekend newsletter that dives into the week’s noteworthy news pertaining to startups and venture capital. Landline , the operator of a bus network in the Midwest, is one of the latest companies to raise venture capital. Before I jump into today’s topic, let’s catch up a bit.

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2U Raises $120M In IPO

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2U , an online education company which has significant operations in Los Angeles, has had a successful IPO on the NASDAQ Global Market, debuting Friday morning as TWOU. Those investments were led by former Redpoint VC Greg Martin. Redpoint Ventures owned 23.2 Redpoint Ventures owned 23.2 READ MORE>>.

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11 Honore Gets $8M For Runway Fashions

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The funding was led by Redpoint Ventures, and also included Forerunner Ventures, Upfront Ventures, Greycroft and Canvas Ventures, all existing investors. The funding was led by Redpoint Ventures, and also included Forerunner Ventures, Upfront Ventures, Greycroft and Canvas Ventures, all existing investors.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. Greycroft is an early-stage VC. Closing a VC fund in 2009/10 is a major achievement in and of itself. To be fair to Ben Horowitz – I think he thinks this as well. Time will tell.

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

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It’s always fun chatting with Jason because he’s knowledgeable about the market, quick on topics and pushes me to talk more about VC / entrepreneur issues. Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. They also avoid Reg D.