Tag: venture capital
Peru’s startup scene is ready for more
Greg Mitchell Contributor Greg Mitchell is regional director of Angel Ventures, a startup investor and advisor and is the creator of the blog Ruta Startup. Funding of Latin American startups has doubled each year over the past two years. And while most of this capital has been directed toward Brazil…
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Mike Volpi on the art of board membership
Mike Volpi Contributor Mike Volpi is a general partner at Index Ventures. Before co-founding the firm’s San Francisco office with Danny Rimer, Volpi served as the chief strategy officer at Cisco Systems. Much has been made about the roles and responsibilities of board members these days. This is especially true…
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Battery Ventures just closed on a whopping $2 billion across two funds, two years after its last fundraise
Battery Ventures, the now 37-year-old investment firm, just closed on two new funds that — at $2 billion in capital commitments — nearly double the record-breaking $1.2 billion that the firm closed on exactly two years ago. It sounds very typical of the broader trend in recent years of firms…
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Tuesday Capital teams up with design powerhouse Frog to grab startups’ attention — and keep it
In a day and age when everyone seems to have their own seed-stage venture fund, it’s hard to stand out. But Tuesday Capital, the San Francisco-based outfit formerly known as CrunchFund, thinks it has found a way. Today, the firm announced a new partner in Frog, the renowned design firm…
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Equal Ventures raises debut $56M fund to double down on thesis-driven seed
There has been a proliferation of venture capital the past few years, as funds go up and down the stack looking for unique and high-return opportunities in the startup landscape. Large funds are increasingly investing in small rounds, which has forced seed investors to answer much more carefully why they…
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A/O PropTech offers giant sandbox for startups disrupting real estate
The firm’s portfolio companies span 14 countries and serve 200K units Steve O’Hear @sohear / 9 hours A/O PropTech is a European VC that officially launched last week after raising €250 million in what it describes as “permanent capital” to invest in companies disrupting the €230 trillion real estate industry.…
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