Last night we had the privilege of bringing together founders and VC ecosystem leaders for an evening of ice breakers, meaningful conversation, and thoughtful connections at The Hideaway in Beverly Hills. Thank you to Alejandro Guerrero from Stifel Bank and Rebekah Willetts and Chelsea Piedad from Sequoia for making evenings like this possible. It was a fantastic inaugural event for Struck Studio and we're excited to keep the momentum going!
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Partnerships at Culture Amp. Host of the The Bridge podcast. Author for Entrepreneur Media.
A founder's ability to hone in on their ICP and build value and solve a problem for a very specific customer segment is crucial. 🎯 One insight I took away from Parker Gilbert's journey building his company Numeric is not only their ability to do this effectively, but to elect to work with a focused customer segment where the value of the partnership compounds over time (i.e go-to-market, integration). 🥞 For Numeric that's incredible finance customers and partners like Mercury, Plaid, Wealthfront, Betterment. 💜 Not to mention the traction that led to raising their $10M round from top firms like Founders Fund, Menlo Ventures, and 8VC. 💸 🚀 🎙 🎙 Check out the entire interview with Parker here: https://bit.ly/numeric-br
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I used to invest. Now I dad, build community among NYC innovators, and coach emerging VCs.
📈 One of the biggest questions that everyone in venture and startups has right now is, "When will the exit market open up?" Whether you're talking about the IPO window or acquisitions, NYC has some great private companies that are experiencing fantastic growth at scale and are a market window away from being the next big VC fund returners. 🗓 On Wednesday, as part of our nextNYC Opening Bell Forum, I'll speak to two investors, Jade Mandel and Yoonkee Sull who watch these market cycles most closely because they're investing more than $10 billion of committed capital between them. We'll discuss the market for later-stage rounds and their expectations around liquidity. 🌟 The conversation is an invite-only special event for a group of VC-nominated later-stage companies with fund returning potential as well as a limited group of earlier-stage "future stars". 👉 There are a handful of seats open in the room, so if you'd like to join, you can request a seat using this form: https://lnkd.in/e5SwsqRp 🤝 Thanks to our friends at Stifel Bank KPMG Haymaker Group and Bolster for helping to make this happen.
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Chief Influencers Officer and C-Suite Executive at ION Analytics | 🎙️ Host of ION Influencers Fireside Chat | Keynote Speaker | Panel & Event Moderator | Connecting Influencers in the Capital Markets
I spoke to Brian Dudley from Adams Street Partners and he believes that growth-stage investing is about to enter one of its busiest periods in over a decade. Here are three key factors contributing to the demand for capital from companies outweighing the supply from investors: - Cash-burning: Growth companies that delayed fundraising in 2022 due to the fear of a valuation reset are now running low on cash - Early-stage boom: A wave of innovative early-stage startups graduating to the growth stage and requiring additional capital - Exit of non-traditional investors: Many non-traditional investors that entered the market in 2021 have been retreating from the space Brian argues that this dynamic could fuel stellar growth vintages for investors in the coming years. Watch the full fireside chat for more insights here: https://bit.ly/44vk1Ew | Mergermarket
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2024 is shaping up to be the year of decision in VC. From small firms to industry giants, everyone's reassessing their game. Expect a wave of mid-career and senior investors at crossroads – stick with their firms or chase new ventures. It's like the 80s cop movies, but with more team-ups and fewer car chases. #VentureCapital #IndustryShifts
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We ❤️ fostering collaboration and innovation! Last week, our General Partner Yash Patel hosted a phenomenal Roundtable discussion, bringing together fellow VCs and portfolio founders to share valuable insights and growth strategies. These insightful conversations are a powerful driver of success within our ecosystem. #venturecapital #collaboration #innovation
And that's another one in the book! Always fun to host great conversations, connections, cocktails and Thai food with esteemed founders, co-investors, partners and friends! (cc: Telstra Ventures, Swish Analytics, Super.com, Harlem Capital, BMW i Ventures, Singular, Guideline, Conductive Ventures, Playbook, Alumni Ventures, G Squared, Cathay Innovation, Industry Ventures, Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, immi, New Enterprise Associates (NEA))
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Our team just convened a group of 70+ full time #venturecapital investors + a panel of long time VCs and LPs. 3 Takeaways: 🤗 If you're a junior investor looking to change firms in this market ... you're not alone. A lot of folks are loose in the saddle. Be proactive, including in how you represent your brand to the market. 🔁 We've seen this story before during the 08/09 VC dip... fortunately, this time it's not nearly as bad. 3️⃣ kinds of VCs ... which one do you want to be? 1) Spend most of their time with VCs 2) Spend most of their time with LPs 3) Spend most of their time with founders. (Guess which ones perform the best?) Thanks to our amazing panelists 👇🏻 Philip Kim (Capital One Ventures) Danielle Lay (NEA) Nihal Mehta (Eniac Ventures) Charlie O'Donnell (Brooklyn Bridge Ventures) To our incredible host (Cooley LLP) and sponsors (Fidelity Shoobx and Intercom) ... and to Conner Roach of Clik for the snaps that you see below! 📆 Want to learn about our multi-day VC event that's right around the corner? There's a pointer to it in the comments!
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Competition in the current investment landscape has left scale-ups in the ‘funding gap’. If scale-ups are to succeed in 2024, it’s critical they access and excite groups of Angel investors, as well as gaining the early attention of VCs. For post-Seed and pre-Series A brands, how you manage your brand has never been more important. Insights from Sonal Lakhani, ex-Head of Global Ventures at Barclays, Boldspace Founders Nick and Mike + yours truly! We'll be discussing: ◾ How to ensure brand strategy lives up to business strategy ◾How to leverage investor psychology within a funding strategy ◾How to create and maintain buzz and momentum optically ◾How to use data and analytics to craft the best case To RSVP, get in touch with our events team at events@boldspace.com Thanks to Nick Ford-Young and the Boldspace | B Corp team for pulling this one together. We'll hopefully see you there! #SeriesA #Funding #ScaleUps
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Monday VC insights 📌 Top 10 most active US VCs in the past 1 month: ► 1. General Catalyst - 10 deals ► 2. Khosla Ventures - 10 deals ► 3. Sequoia Capital - 10 deals ► 4. Founders Fund - 8 deals ► 5. Lux Capital - 8 deals ► 6. FJ Labs - 7 deals ► 7. Lightspeed Venture Partners - 7 deals ► 8. GV - 7 deals ► 9. 8VC - 7 deals ► 10. Arch Venture Partners - 3 deals
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Fractional Exec | Scaled Emerging Business as VP/Head Cloud Sales | GTM Strategy, Transformation, Biz Ops | Technology Lover | MBA
Just a incredible journey the tech industry has been on over the last 10 years. Thanks for sharing Zach Rose from AirTree! Even in 2014, there was a clear trend in declining cloud, storage and bandwidth costs - and this enabled the mass explosion of applications, data and ubiquitous usage on devices that we see today! What will we see in the next decade? Will these charts just reflect the explosions of GenAI and related companies or will this just pass? (There's even a slide from 2014 on Big Data "Patterns" 🙂) #brightfuture #cloudcomputing #genaitrends #investements #startupgrowth #genai
2024 marks AirTree's 10th anniversary 🌳 We could spend forever talking about what an incredible decade it's been. But for now, let's go back to the start. It's October 2014, and AirTree has just closed its first $60m fund. What's happening in the ecosystem? What trends are we seeing? What's the plan from here? Here's what we shared with our investors (special shout out to the awesome StartRail Network visual on slide 34 featuring all the OGs: BlueChilli Group, Startmate, Blackbird, OneVentures, Fishburners, Sydney Angels, Tank Stream Labs and more) 🙌 Hindsight is, of course, 20:20. Here are Craig's reflections: "Things might feel challenging now, but try making an investor presentation on tech trends with futuristic sound bites when you have limited traction to the bold LPs who've just entrusted us with $60m of their capital. Wind the clock forward to today; we have a track record showing that venture capital can generate attractive cash returns, support hundreds of budding tech entrepreneurs and create thousands of new exciting jobs. In 2034, we'll have a fresh set of faces wondering what jokers pulled together this year's investor presentations."
