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One of the more surprising things that came out of our all-star panel of consumer software VCs was an admission that Marc Andreessen is starting to invest in a new wave of enterprise software companies. He said he’d just closed one deal he couldn’t disclose, and was expecting to do more.
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Tue, April 6 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
The venture capital valuations for still-have-that-new-car-smell startups like Quora, FourSquare, Blippy are reaching unprecedented levels, and we wanted to find out why. Top VCs Marc Andreessen, Ron Conway and David Hornik came by the TechCrunch offices to debate the issue.
Four month old Blippy is worth around $38 million. Quora, still in private beta, is valued [...]
Sun, April 4 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
What do Accel Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Khosla Ventures and Redpoint Ventures have in common? Besides being tier one venture capitalists, at least one thing: They are all fighting furiously to be the lead investor in Foursquare’s next venture round.
All that competition is driving the valuation massively upwards, too. A couple of weeks ago we’d heard [...]
Thu, March 25 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Editor’s note: When venture capitalists invest in early stage startups, more than anything else they are investing in the founders of the company and their ability to lead their employees through the most improbable set of circumstances to take an idea from a germ to a real and profitable business. In this guest post, [...]
Sun, March 14 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Editor’s note: Guest author Ashkan Karbasfrooshan is the founder and CEO of video site WatchMojo. Below are his picks for the ten most likely M&A deals in online video. Previously, he wrote a series if posts about the state of online video (Part I, II, III, and IV).
Which online video companies will [...]
Sun, February 28 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Some VCs are getting an early Valentine’s Day gift fromTheFunded, the site where CEOs rate venture capitalists and their firms. Below you will find the top-ranked individual VCs, as determined by their ratings in 2009. What makes this ranking particularly useful to entrepreneurs is that it is ratings by other CEOs, often CEOs [...]
Tue, February 2 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Ten-year returns for Venture Capital firms continue to slide downwards for the 5 and 10-year periods ending on September 30, 2009 according to the Cambridge Associates U.S. Venture Capital Index, the VC performance benchmark of the National Venture Capital Association.
As investments in startups during the lucrative 1990’s tech boom are no longer included, ten-year returns [...]
Mon, February 1 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Which venture capitalists funded the most companies last year? We went through our funding data in CrunchBase to come up with the Dealmaker Rankings below. The most active VC was Draper Fisher Jurvetson, which invested in 57 deals throughout the year by our count, followed by Kleiner Perkins (49), New Enterprise Associates (47) [...]
Fri, January 29 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
