Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2012

After you have successfully attracted angels or venture capital with your business case, your million dollar product idea, and you have a signed term sheet, there is still one more hurdle to overcome before investors write the check. This is the dreaded “due diligence” process. Business and financial status.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

million in a second round led by previous backer Genesis Partners and joined by T-Venture , the venture capital company of Deutsche Telekom. SimpliVT , a new venture in stealth has raised $9.2 Innovid raised $4.1 This is the startup’s second round, coming to a total of $19 million to date.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Don’t take my word for it – in the roundup of venture capital predictions for 2017 , I found it to be the top recurring theme. Venture Capital investments in AI, Europe 2016 (Source: Dealroom ). Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning will be eating the world. Some examples: AI will be the new mobile.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2010

After you have successfully attracted angels or venture capital with your business case, your million dollar product idea, and you have a signed term sheet, there is still one more hurdle to overcome before investors write the check. This is the dreaded “due diligence” process. Business and financial status.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

After you have successfully attracted angels or venture capital with your business case, your million dollar product idea, and you have a signed term sheet, there is still one more hurdle to overcome before investors write the check. This is the dreaded “due diligence” process. Business and financial status.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2022

In 2021 venture capital funds invested over $2 billion in 90+ Quantum technology companies. It can use fewer emissions to get the same detection result, for better detection accuracy at the same power levels – even detecting stealth aircraft. Over a $1 billion of it going to Quantum computing companies. Quantum Timing.

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Steve Blank

MAY 30, 2016

Understanding the left-side of the mission model canvas ( activities, resources , partners , and costs) forces all teams to ask, “Are we building a product for a DOD/IC customer only or do we have a “dual-use” product that could be sold commercially and get funded by venture capital?”. This post is a continuation of the series.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

This year was a banner year as boldstart portfolio cos raised over $150mm of follow on capital from some of the top Series A and B investors (highlights below). First check leads in 5 founding teams, all in stealth. congrats to Blockdaemon on their seed round led by Comcast Ventures and Wallaroo Labs on its seed led by RRE Ventures.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Two year-old TaKaDu , a SaaS product for water utility companies to monitor water infrastructure, has raised an undisclosed second round of funding led by Emerald Technology ventures and joined by existing investors Giza Venture Capital and Gemini Israel Funds [ Zdnet ]. Other venture capital links. venturebeat ].

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2023

As previously highlighted on VC Cafe (based on research by Sapphire Ventures) , while many funds avoid B2C investments, consumer startups can create extremely lucrative power-law returns for venture capital investors. B2C Venture Capital Investments in Israel To the most part, Israeli VCs shy away from B2C startup investments.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2021

Disclaimer: we have three portfolio companies in the consumer mobile space, still in stealth). This may also trickle down to Google and Amazon. The Information and VentureBeat have more on this. credit App Annie. social media. In 2021, optimism on investing in social media has returned.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Two year-old TaKaDu , a SaaS product for water utility companies to monitor water infrastructure, has raised an undisclosed second round of funding led by Emerald Technology ventures and joined by existing investors Giza Venture Capital and Gemini Israel Funds [ Zdnet ]. Other venture capital links. venturebeat ].

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Two year-old TaKaDu , a SaaS product for water utility companies to monitor water infrastructure, has raised an undisclosed second round of funding led by Emerald Technology ventures and joined by existing investors Giza Venture Capital and Gemini Israel Funds [ Zdnet ]. Other venture capital links. venturebeat ].

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Two year-old TaKaDu , a SaaS product for water utility companies to monitor water infrastructure, has raised an undisclosed second round of funding led by Emerald Technology ventures and joined by existing investors Giza Venture Capital and Gemini Israel Funds [ Zdnet ]. Other venture capital links. venturebeat ].

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 29, 2022

With the elite initial team they’ve assembled, they’ve managed to build their first product in record time and secure large six-figure deals while still in stealth mode.

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Great tips, fully inline with “Four Steps to the Epiphany” Also reminds me of Dharmesh’s “Stealth Mode, Schmealth Mode” — [link]. and an investor, has a great blog on entrepreneurship and venture capital. link] The Stealth Mode: Trada’s Position on Staying Stealth | Trada Blog. [.]

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 17, 2020

ai , a Breyer Capital early-stage investment, list on the New York Stock Exchange. We also have several stealth startups that sit at the intersection of AI and healthcare. Silicon Valley will continue to play a central role in Breyer Capital’s investment thesis.

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David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

Ideally each portfolio company would also report their own data to the data-trackers (except when they’re in stealth), but not all of them are diligent. HOF has to do this manually today with regard to our own investments into each company. This is roughly comparable to PRNewswire’s distribution service. Ethics Policy, Expenses policy).

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 25, 2021

just months after it came out of stealth. And he and his co-founders Ziv and Ilan made it happen: Melio’s now processing multi-billion dollar payment volumes less than two years after launch. On the back of this momentum, Melio today announced a $110m funding round, rocketing the company to a valuation of $1.3b

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VC Cafe

MARCH 22, 2021

Hila spent 12 years as the VP Marketing for Israeli venture capital fund Viola before embarking on an independent CMO career for startups. Many founders concentrate on perfecting their product, adding revolutionary features, and staying in stealth mode to avoid the competition.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

It involved building stealth aircraft to deliver these precision weapons unseen by any enemy radar, and designing intelligence and reconnaissance systems that would target for them. Smart weapons, smart sensors, and stealth. But this new strategy was more than making the bombs smarter.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

Dr Jean-Paul Rodrigue , in the Department of Global Studies & Geography at Hofstra University, observed that bubbles have four phases; stealth, awareness, mania and blow-off. In the stealth phase , prescient angel investors and Venture Capitalists (VCs) start investing in an industry or market segment that others have not yet found.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

The downside is that, unlike past DoD technology development – where the DoD leads it, can control it, and has the most advanced technology (like stealth and electronic warfare), in most cases the DoD will not have the most advanced algorithms or models. The analogy for AI is closer to microelectronics than it is EW.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Graphcore (in stealth, see this video at 28:58) calls them Intelligent Processor Units. Machine learning in cyber security has already attracted a substantial amount of venture capital (e.g. But these processors were designed for graphics. Is anyone doing this? Cyber Security.

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mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

“Most of that money [from venture capitalists and angels] is used to build a product,&# explains Haig Kayserian, the CEO of Kayweb Angels. Like a traditional capital fund, Kayweb Angels also has a board of directors that provides its startups with connections, guidance and help securing further funding.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 11, 2012

What I learned from raising venture capital – [link]. Sequoia Confirms Existence of “Stealth” Scout Program. The 5 Qualities of Remarkable Bosses – [link]. 8 Core Beliefs of Extraordinary Bosses – [link]. Poor long term returns by VC funds, according to Kauffman Foundation – [link]. – [link].

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Just last week, our team at Remagine Ventures published the updated Israeli Generative AI startup landscape and found that the number of Israeli generative AI companies more than doubled in the past six months and that funding to date has reached $2.3 The actual amount might be higher as companies choose to stay in stealth for longer.

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www.startupnextdoor.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

About SND StartupNextDoor is a site for entrepreneurs starting their own businesses without venture capital. Stealth Startups (9). Post Calendar. February 2010. Mar » 1 2 3 4 5 6 7. 8 9 10 11 12 13 14. 15 16 17 18 19 20 21. 22 23 24 25 26 27 28. Tags announcement. outsourcing. philosophy. Advice (12). Advice (12).

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

The Difference Between Stealth Mode and Quiet Mode – [link]. Want Venture Capital Funding? In Silicon Valley, Technology Talent Gap Threatens G.O.P. Campaigns | NYT FiveThirtyEight – [link]. Badges Beware: 80% Of Gamification Apps Will End Up Being Losers, Says Gartner – [link].

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 5, 2022

And our portfolio continued to grow: Day one lead/co-lead in 14 founding teams: (most still in stealth) representing , , , , , , Continued investments in developer first, SaaS, and crypto infrastructure companies. Ab Gupta , Operating Partner and former VP Strategy & Ops at Kustomer. Ernest Addison , Associate and formerly at Audax group.

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View from Seed

MARCH 29, 2018

Outside of life-sciences, we’ve noticed something interesting emerging: There is a huge dearth of seed capital for health care services and software-driven health-tech companies. The seed ecosystem for health companies is much less robust than in traditional software.

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SiliconHills

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Million in Venture Capital Stealth Startup Magic […] The post 25 of the Biggest Tech Stories in Austin in 2016 appeared first on SiliconHills. Here’s the top 10 list of what the stats report as the most popular stories for the Austin technology community in 2016 on the Silicon Hills News website.

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David Teten

MARCH 12, 2012

Fitness/life guru Tim Ferriss just posted my guest article on ff Venture Capital ‘s approach to building a fitness office. UPDATE: ff Venture Capital was recently profiled in The Roger, an online magazine that profiles creative workspaces. Thanks Tim!) Motion is better than no motion; stasis kills.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 31, 2016

by Brent Freeman , co-founder and president of Stealth Venture Labs. Brent is also an Entrepreneur-In-Residence at Crosscut Ventures , a venture capital firm based in Los Angeles, where he advises on customer acquisition, digital marketing, and consumer internet investments.

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Genuine VC

MARCH 16, 2015

On the number of founders and companies: Some people are likely in stealth mode, and haven’t self-identified themselves currently as founders, which is merely a known bias in the study. Quite the contrary. Rather, as Dimitri noted, we’re at the beginning of the cycle for these recent classes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2016

Angel investors typically provide early-stage rollout funding, while venture capital firms won’t be interested until you have real traction and revenue during scaling. But operating in stealth mode, or waiting for that perfect investor to find you, or feeling entitled, is even less effective.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2010

I often tell people that raising venture capital is more difficult than getting married. Not so in venture capital. I list all of the companies (except one in stealth) on my blog and this includes both VC investments and angel ones. You’re tied at the hip to your VC. I’m the same. I play open book.

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