Nov 4, 2019

Your Techstars Venture Capital Weekly Digest is here! (Issue #30)

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Venture Capital

Trends in venture capital, newly launched VC Funds, Spotlight on VC Diversity and insights from VC's about raising money and building startups.

THIS WEEK: The SaaS gold rush will become the ‘Hunger Games’; Why Spray & Pray Investing Is Wrong, Why Data-Informed VC Beats Data Driven VC & What To Look For When Investing In A Marketplace; The Engine on Tough Tech Landscape Report; 5 Venture Capital portfolio management tips; Here are the UK VC firms that startups should know about; Insight Partners Opens In Tel Aviv, Its First Outside the U.S.; CDPQ commits $50 million Fund of Funds to seed-stage funds in Québec Province (Canada); This Venture Capitalist Has Made a Science Out of Backing Women-Led Companies, Female VC to Women Entrepreneurs: Here’s How to Answer If an Investor Asks About Children; The Scariest Meeting I Had as a Founder/CEO: The Board Meeting; My company sold for $100 M and I got Zilch. How can that be?; Qualcomm Launches $200M 5G Investment Fund; Total Dedicates $400M Global VC Fund to Carbon Neutrality; The Utah startup scene gets another boost with Album VC’s new $75 million fund.

If you have Venture Capital Firm news to submit for consideration in this digest, just tweet us at @VCStartupDigest,

-Sergio

The SaaS gold rush will become the ‘Hunger Games’

SaaS has been the motherlode of enterprise software investing for two decades now. Venture investors, entrepreneurs, and Wall Street have all learned to pile on, leading to a shared consensus that cloud investing is “a sure thing.“

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20VC: Why Spray & Pray Investing Is Wrong, Why Data-Informed VC Beats Data Driven VC & What To Look For When Investing In A Marketplace

Josh Breinlinger is a Managing Director @ Jackson Square Ventures where he has made investments in the likes of Contently, OfferUp and rented.com.

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The Engine on Tough Tech Landscape Report

PitchBook, a leading provider of VC, PE, and M&E data, and The Engine recently partnered to produce a report on the 2019 Tough Tech landscape.

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5 Venture Capital portfolio management tips

Get better returns in your venture capital fund with this advice from experienced managers. Here are five best practices to consider.

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Here are the UK VC firms that startups should know about

Here are some of the UK’s top venture capital firms investing in tech startups

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Insight Partners Opens In Tel Aviv, Its First Outside the U.S.

New York-based venture capital and private equity firm Insight Partners is setting up shop in Tel Aviv, Israel, marking its first office outside of the United States.

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CDPQ commits $50 million Fund of Funds to seed-stage funds in Québec Province (Canada)

Quebéc-based institutional investment firm La Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec is committing $50 million in additional capital to Québec seed funds.

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Spotlight on Diversity

This Venture Capitalist Has Made a Science Out of Backing Women-Led Companies.

Kindur founder Rhian Horgan wants Baby Boomers to leave their retirement planning to her platform. Anu Duggal, founder & CEO of the $33M Female Founders Fund, offers expert advice on a crucial issue: earning customers’ trust.

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Female VC to Women Entrepreneurs: Here's How to Answer If an Investor Asks About Children

VCs shouldn’t ask female founders about their family situation, but they often do. Here’s how to answer.

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Building/Fundraising Tips for Entrepreneurs

The Scariest Meeting I Had as a Founder/CEO: The Board Meeting

There were very few moments in my life that were scarier than the very first time I went into a Board meeting as a CEO. That’s hard to admit, but it’s true.

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My company sold for $100 M and I got Zilch. How can that be?

Four years ago, I landed a VP of engineering job at a red hot startup, for which I was granted options for 2% of the company. I’ve been toiling away all these years through the ups and downs…

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New Venture Capital Funds

Qualcomm Launches $200M 5G Investment Fund

Qualcomm Ventures 5G Ecosystem Fund to invest up to an aggregate of $200 million in companies building the 5G ecosystem.

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Total Dedicates $400M Global VC Fund to Carbon Neutrality

The fund will increase its capital to a cumulative $400 million within five years’ time. The fund will be known as Total Carbon Neutrality Ventures (TCNV).

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The Utah startup scene gets another boost with Album VC’s new $75 million fund

Album VC, a Lehi, Utah-based early-stage venture firm that’s been known until now as Peak Ventures, just gathered up $75 million in capital commitments for its third early-stage fund.

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Techstars Startup Digest Venture Capital is curated by:

Sergio A. Escobar - Canadian🇨🇦 Seed/Series-A Corporate Venture Capitalist | Pre-Seed/Seed Accelerator MD | Investing in B2B Intelligent Enterprise Software across US/Canada | Twitter: @SergiusEscobar
sergio.escobar@startupdigestmail.com

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