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Analytics January 16, 2024

DocSend Report: Investors have less and less time, but that doesn't stop founders

In recent years, DocSend has become one of the recognized standards in communication between startups and investors. Entrepreneurs use it to share presentations of their companies, tracking interest statistics.

Blog January 15, 2024

The Evolving Landscape of Venture Investing: Seed as the New Series A

Blog December 22, 2023

Unicorn Nest Database and Scoring Algorithm

Analytics December 19, 2023

U.S. App Startups See Decline in Funding as Investors Shift Focus to AI

Analytics December 18, 2023

AI Startups in Europe: A Surge in Funding with Mistral AI Leading the Charge

Analytics December 15, 2023

3,200 startups failed this year

Interviews February 4, 2022

Duncan Davidson (Bullpen Capital): In Silicon Valley failure is a feature, not a bug.

Interviews January 28, 2022

Gilman Louie (Alsop Louie Partners): The most powerful thing about venture capital is that it is filled with optimistic people.

Interviews January 20, 2022

Ashesh Shah (The London Fund): Be Brave!

Blog December 16, 2021

Glossary of Venture Capital terms

Interviews November 30, 2021

Wal van Lierop (Chrysalix): We are more than just a financial investor; we are a very active contributor to scaling up companies.

Interviews November 5, 2021

Warner Philips (Rubio Impact Ventures): Don’t just do it because you think there is a market opportunity, do it because you believe it solves a problem that is close to your heart.

Interviews October 29, 2021

Brett Martin (Charge Ventures): This is my dream job - being an entrepreneur and being an investor.

Interviews October 28, 2021

Peter Harris (University Growth Fund): When you do the hard things, it’s very impressive because VCs know that those things are hard and it will give them more conviction to back you.

Interviews October 26, 2021

Scott Nissenbaum (Ben Franklin Technology Partners): We do encourage companies to look at the social aspects - what is the social good of this business, how does it make the world a better place, how can you measure this good by whether it is hiring people from my disadvantaged background or curing a disease.

Interviews October 18, 2021

Fabian Sacharowitz (EIT InnoEnergy): the energy transition is one of the most important and striking megatrends that we are seeing right now globally

Interviews October 8, 2021

Emanuele Levi (360 Capital): Our history of finding successful companies that we have been able to support since their very early days and have worked with for many years speaks for itself

Interviews October 4, 2021

Renana Ashkenazi (Grove Ventures): To be a good VC, you have to be curious and comfortable with making decisions when there are more unknowns than knowns.

Interviews September 30, 2021

Harry Haeck (SmartFin): We prefer to have a limited number of investments we can support decently rather than a large portfolio.

Interviews September 28, 2021

Kai Chen (OceanIQ Capital): Investing is the ability to participate in the success of an entrepreneur without being in the trenches

Interviews September 24, 2021

Rishi Garg (Mayfield Fund): We’ll try to be the most trusted, consistent, and powerful partner that our companies have.

Interviews September 21, 2021

Jacek Łubiński (Market One Capital): listen to your potential clients a lot to nail the value proposition and provide an experience which is ten times better than what they have right now.

Interviews September 20, 2021

George Spencer III (Seyen Capital): You go to a war with these guys, and I just love the battle!

Interviews September 2, 2021

Adrian Lloyd (Episode 1 Ventures): We want to see people who clearly could get extremely highly paid jobs in other technology firms, but have chosen this one.

Interviews August 31, 2021

Peter Redford (Band of Angels): Talking to investors is not that easy - you need to be on different levels of abstraction when you talk to them than what you normally operate on.