Tag: Equity

Serial entrepreneur and Hockeystick founder Raymond Luk talks about how the Canadian startup uses data to match entrepreneurs with the right investors.

Fintech startup Clearbanc’s co-founder and CEO Andrew D’Souza shares how the Toronto-based company hopes to make growth capital more accessible to founders, who Clearbanc’s customers are, and how the business model works. 

Ellie Wheeler, partner at Greycroft Partners, shares best practices and tips on how to get started and funded through a VC.

Global Head of Executive Compensation & Benefits for JP. Morgan, Robert Barbetti, and VC Partner at Lerer Hippeau, Graham Brown, help you become equity smart by sharing the fundamentals to a successful startup equity and compensation model.

Our panel of experts break down the seed-stage fundraising process and unpack the fundamentals of the term sheet.

European startup culture is evolving rapidly, both in terms of priorities and investment. The technology sector has seen especially significant growth over the last decade, with $23 billion in investments in 2018, up from $5.2 billion just five years prior. The European Union has adopted a brighter attitude toward startups as venture capital funds in the region have matured and investments have soared. Perhaps unsurprisingly, entrepreneurial enthusiasm isn’t hard to come by in Europe, and neither are up-and-coming folks with promising ideas.

Benn Stancil, Chief Analyst and co-founder of Mode, gives a crash course in the practical analysis startups need to raise money.

Shawn Carolan, Partner at Menlo Ventures Just call Shawn Carolan Menlo Ventures’ “mobility man.” Not only did the general partner champion the venture capital firm’s investments in Jump Bikes and electric scooter startup Skip, but Carolan was also among the earliest to understand how the transportation sector would unfold, backing connected-car and location-based services company […]

As more companies move towards this mode of application development, we expect to see a massive amount of innovation around AI and machine learning, application of AI to vertically-focused applications, and new applications for IOT devices driven by the ability for companies to build products faster than ever.

Josh Elman, a consumer specialist at venture capital firm Greylock Partners, couldn’t have been blunter about “acquihiring,” the practice of big companies paying big bucks for startups to hire teams for their expertise. “There was this funny little period time where that seemed like it was a thing,” Elman recently told a crowd of startup entrepreneurs at the AWS Loft in San Francisco. “I think that’s gone.”

That doesn’t mean big companies aren’t buying startups, Elman continued. In fact, it turns out that acquihiring didn’t translate to getting better talent than just hiring—it’s just more expensive.