Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

For investors outside of Austin and LPs: Austin is a a vibrant startup market and this list of capital sources can help you identify firms to co-invest with and funds to invest in. A vacuum was created in the market and today that vacuum is now being filled by angels, firms based in Austin and investors from elsewhere coming to Austin.

Venture Capital 54

Venture Capital Austin Texas Private Equity 54

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

The region also boasts numerous co-working spaces, as well as the American Underground , an area of revamped American Tobacco warehouses in Durham that now are home to many companies. There are numerous other seed funding sources, including Southern Capital , IDEA Fund Partners, and at least three angel groups.

North Carolina 151

North Carolina Raleigh United States Angel Groups 151

View from Seed

MARCH 16, 2016

I’ll discuss the latter in a second, but first, the increase in investors… A number of super-angels and angel groups institutionalized in the past year, creating a broader set of seed-stage funds, like Converge Venture Partners. Webb, as well as security-focused TenEleven , co-founded by Mark Hatfield.

Boston 215

Boston Early Stage Artificial Inteligence Semantic 215

David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

My former Partner John Frankel of ff Venture Capital observes that 20 years ago, the defining movie of the generation was “Wall Street”. This is a topic we care a lot about, given HOF Capital’s long-term strategy for partnering with universities and my forthcoming book on “ hacking the university ”. “CEO is the new Analyst.”.

Affiliate 60

Affiliate Connecticut Programming Community 60

David Teten

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

. - Susan Balloch, Managing Director, Golden Seeds; formerly Executive Director and Principal, The Blackstone Group. Karen Bantuveris, CEO of VolunteerSpot ( ff VC and angel-backed startup with 2.5m David Teten, Partner, ff Venture Capital ; Chairman, HBS Alumni Angels of Greater New York. Robert Dahl.

Private Equity 114

Private Equity North America Cofounder Angel Groups 114

This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 5, 2014

At the early stage, the ranks of the non-partner investor are disappearing. VC firms are going back to being mostly partner driven shops, where dealflow and decisions stay up top. Christina Bechhold didn''t forget that--and so she co-founded her own angel group. They are, however, staffing up with specialists.

Venture Capital 116

Venture Capital Early Stage Cofounder Angel Groups 116

David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2013

The good news for Techcrunch readers: Every major study conducted to date has placed angel investors’ IRR between 18 and 38 percent, as summarized by my Partner John Frankel and Professor Robert Wiltbank in prior Techcrunch articles. The only way to get data is to reach out to individual angels.

IRR 114

IRR Angel Investor Angel Groups Cofounder 114

Haystack

JULY 3, 2019

As a disclaimer, I am friends with Leo and Chad (and we co-invest frequently, or at least try to), and they did not ask me to write this. 3/ Had A Clear Plan To Scale The Fund – Now, it helps that one of the fund’s co-founders is the son of a person who started another major VC firm.

Chad 106

Chad Cofounder Angel Groups Limited Partner 106

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

According to Clarivoy CEO Steve White, entrepreneurs should seek a business partner who not only shares the same passion, but who brings a very different set of skills to the table to round out your expertise. According to trueDOK Co-founder Joe Anstine, Don’t be afraid to pivot.

United Kingdom 100

United Kingdom Columbus Oklahoma Startup 100

thestartuplawyer.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

He obviously never launched a startup and got shafted by a co-founder. He obviously never launched a startup and got shafted by a co-founder. You can start by examining every aspect of the co-founder relationship. Don’t leave anything out just because you and your co-founders already talked about it.

Cofounder 40

Cofounder Founder Preferred Stock Startup 40

This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Accomplishing that means understanding how the key stakeholders, like founders and investors, spend their time. If you start making introductions to founders based on openings they have, that’s going to get you in the door. You could run the same kind of group suggested above on a regular basis as a way to network with investors.

Startup 196

Startup Cofounder Angel Groups Limited Partner 196

David Teten

JULY 12, 2017

First, a formal definition: According to Capital Dynamics , “Co-investments are direct investments in a company made alongside and on the same terms as a lead [General Partner]. We see our potential coinvestors in four primary buckets: 1) HOF Capital ’s own limited partners. 2) Investors with very specific value-add.

Syndicate 60

Syndicate Syndication Institutional Investors LP 60

Austin Startup

OCTOBER 10, 2017

The Institute includes a co-working space and accelerator (the Blackstone LaunchPad at UT Dallas), an incubator, a training group, a seed fund, and much more — all working together under the unifying, umbrella theme of entrepreneurship. I’m also executive director of the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

Dallas 60

Dallas Austin Texas Cofounder 60

David Teten

APRIL 29, 2014

According to the National Venture Capital Association/Dow Jones VentureSource, the VC industry is dominated by men (89% of VC Partners), specifically white men (76% of the total). Of all VC Partners studied, just 10% identified as Asian, 1% as African-American, and less than 1% as Latino. Conventional Founder Background.

Venture Capital 114

Venture Capital Los Angeles Cofounder Technical Review 114

Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

As the former co-founder and CEO of two technology companies, Caroline has experienced both start-up failures and successes, and has raised close to $1 million in investment capital. I wanted to make sure we got it out there, the idea of how does one find a good co-founder? That’s really the purpose of the pitch.

Technical Review 60

Technical Review Software Review Due Diligence Exit Strategy 60

Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

Today’s #GivingThanks is to David Cohen , one of the founders and co-CEO of Techstars. He told me we were co-investors in a few companies as angel investors. He then explained why he wasn’t enjoying being an angel investor the way he was then doing it. I met David on one of my random days in 2006.

Angel Investor 70

Angel Investor Cofounder Denver Angel Groups 70

David Teten

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Blue Future Partners, a venture capital fund of funds, recently interviewed me on ESG in venture capital. One of the impact initiatives I’m proudest of is founding Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of New York , a nonprofit and now the East Coast’s largest angel group. I quickly recruited a board of experienced hands.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Partner Technical Review Cofounder 60