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SLUSH is the THE MOST
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In 2023, $3 Trillion dollar in capital was present.
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SLUSH is the THE MOST FOUNDER-FOCUSED
EVENT ON EARTH: who attracts the most Investor Capital?
In 2023, the event showcased an impressive $3 trillion in capital, uniting top venture capitalists, investors, and funds from all corners of the globe!
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Press: Forbes, TechCrunch and WSJ
On behalf of my partners at DFJ Venture — Bill Bryant, Emily Melton, Bubba Murarka, Heidi Roizen, Andreas Stavropoulos, and Josh Stein — and our intrepid operations team and staff, we would like to thank our limited partners for entrusting us with their capital, and our incredible entrepreneurs, who choose to partner with DFJ to make their audacious dreams a reality.
Business Enterprise in New York City.
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High Fidelity raccoglie 11 milioni di dollari dal fondo Vulcan Capital. Ne parliamo su www.mondivirtuali.it/2015/03/03/high-fidelity-raccoglie-a...
High Fidelity raises 11 million dollars from Vulcan Capital. We talk about it on www.mondivirtuali.it/en/2015/03/05/high-fidelity-raises-1...
Livingstone Mukasa and Christopher Mukasa of Archability(@archability) launches Archability in the DEMO Focus: Cloud Technologies category during DEMO Spring 2012, the Launchpad for Emerging Technologies, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California Wednesday April 18, 2012. For more info on Archability bit.ly/archability DEMO is sponsored by AARP, Dynamics, Fusion-io, Microsoft BizSpark, Startup America Partnership, Porter Novelli and PlugandPlayTechCenter.com.
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SLUSH is the THE MOST FOUNDER-FOCUSED
EVENT ON EARTH: who attracts the most Investor Capital?
In 2023, the event showcased an impressive $3 trillion in capital, uniting top venture capitalists, investors, and funds from all corners of the globe!
Photos and video credit: Lars Ling
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Richard Dale Snyder, aka Rick Snyder, is a Republican Governor of Michigan.
Snyder apologizes for Flint crisis, to release e-mails - Detroit Free Press.
Sanders: Snyder should resign over Flint water crisis - The Detroit News.
This caricature of Rick Snyder was adapted from a Creative Commons licensed photo available via Wikimedia. The water hose was adapted from a Creative Commons licensed photo from bark's Flickr photostream.
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The panelists with their residual self-image... =) The challenge: “What new trends will emerge in the next several years with the potential for explosive growth in about five years' time?” Five VCs are chosen by the Churchill Club to submit two Tech Trends, aggregating to a top 10 list. We then debate the issues on stage and the audience votes in real time.
I have done this for ten years now, and it gets progressively more difficult to come up with two new trends each year that are important, and non-obvious, and likely to come true.
This year, my fellow panelists were Bill Gurley of Benchmark, Jenny Lee of GGV, Rebecca Lynn of Canvas, and Shervin Pishevar of Sherpa Ventures. In the photo, we are flanked by Karlgaard and Upbin of Forbes magazine, the debate moderators.
Here is some of the press coverage:
blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2015/05/22/robocars-and-hype...
www.forbes.com/sites/roberthof/2015/05/22/five-top-ventur...
www.eweek.com/mobile/ambient-computing-disruptive-banking...
www.forbes.com/sites/kathleenchaykowski/2015/05/22/five-t...
and the full video: youtu.be/qQIu5UO6OZ8
Our 2015 Top 10 list
1. On-Demand Ambient Computing.
On-Demand Ambient Computing driven by AI will usher in a world of invisible computing that will drive efficiencies across many industries. Growth will come from API's/algorithms across mobile platforms; AI will predict human intent and deliver items/information at the speed of human thought. [Shervin Pishevar]
2. Traditional Banks Will Continue Losing Share to Startups while Bitcoin Fades in Relevance.
Financial-services institutions will continue to be disintermediated, and will either act as the back-end infrastructure or co-exist as they do in the Lending Club model. Meanwhile, Bitcoin as a currency and remittance solution will lose steam. [Rebecca Lynn]
3. The Virtual Me.
Advances in hardware and sensors and the adoption of connected devices will create an explosion of personal data in the next 5 years. With increased data processing capabilities and smarter predictive software, all this data will be aggregated into personal digital profiles – the virtual you – which will know even more about you than you do. [Jenny Lee]
4. The Skynet Economy: broadband access for the unconnected billions.
From thousands of satellites orbiting around the poles, and new airborne transponders, the entire Earth will be bathed in broadband, bringing an unprecedented influx of human talent to the global economy. [Steve Jurvetson]
5. The End of the Auto Nation.
For the better part of a century, the United States has designed its cities around the notion of individual car ownership. This has resulted in massive waste, congestion, pollution, long commute times, remarkably underutilized capital assets, and over 30,000 deaths per year. Suburban sprawl reached its ultimate limit, and the trends are all rebounding around a new urbanization. [Bill Gurley]
6. 5th Mode of Transportation.
5th Mode of Transportation will be unlocked in the next 5 years. Technologies like Hyperloop will skip over 19th and 20th century transportation modes and do what wireless mobile communication did to fixed line telecommunications in places like Africa. [Shervin Pishevar]
7. Reemergence of Women in Tech.
In the next 5 years, 50% of computer-science students will be women – surpassing the previous high set in 1984. This means you’ll increasingly see more female technology startup founders and Fortune-500 CEOs. [Rebecca Lynn]
8. The Economy of Me.
By 2020, mobile will bring the next 2 billion people online and make the online economy more powerful than the offline. This shift will breed decentralized business models. Commerce and services will skip the middle man and revolve around the individual consumer. Welcome to the personal economy. [Jenny Lee]
9. Rise of the Robocars: Driven by a Machine [the winning trend].
By 2020 we will no longer debate the inevitability of autonomous electric vehicles when we first experience the convenience and efficiency of urban autonomous driving services. [Steve Jurvetson]
10. The Native Mobile Application Platform Dominates the “Mobile Web”.
Consumers drastically prefer mobile applications to the mobile web because they are WAY better. The majority of incremental Internet users will be exclusively on smartphones. The aging search/browser platform will be stifled as a fertile ground for new innovation. [Bill Gurley]
Following up on our debate about the inevitability of autonomous electric vehicles, the IMF just released a study tabulating the subsidy that fossil fuel companies receive: over $14 billion per day. "The IMF calls the revelation shocking and says the figure is an extremely robust estimate of the true cost of fossil fuels. The $5.3tn subsidy estimated for 2015 is greater than the total health spending of all the world’s governments."
This is the north wing of the Maria Hospital -- once the largest hospital in Finland. The Art Nouveau north wing was designed by the renowned Jugendstil architect Lars Sonck in 1908. Maria served as a hospital until 2014 and has since been turned into a startup hub called Maria01 -- apparently the largest of its kind in Europe -- and it is buzzing again.
The building is utterly gorgeous and we are fortunate to live literally across the street from it and can admire Maria from our balcony.
Sage Panelists Josh Elman, Principal at Greylock Partners, Tracey Isacke, Director of Investments & Business Development at Telefonica Digital, Jason Medelson, Managing Director at the Foundry Group discuss the Social Category with moderator Jolie O'Dell, Writer at VentureBeat during DEMO Fall 2012, the Launchpad for Emerging Technologies and Trends, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California on Wednesday October 3, 2012. Executive Producer, DEMO
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Ann Miura-Ko, founding partner at Floodgate, talked to hackNY's Summer Fellows about startups and venture capital as part of hackNY's summer lecture series.
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Ann Miura-Ko, founding partner at Floodgate, talked to hackNY's Summer Fellows about startups and venture capital as part of hackNY's summer lecture series.
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Ann Miura-Ko, founding partner at Floodgate, talked to hackNY's Summer Fellows about startups and venture capital as part of hackNY's summer lecture series.
Photo by @evankorth
SLUSH is the THE MOST
FOUNDER-FOCUSED
EVENT ON EARTH who attracts most Investor Capital.
In 2023, $3 Trillion dollar in capital was present.
Photos and video credit: Lars Ling
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Richard Dale Snyder, aka Rick Snyder, is a Republican Governor of Michigan.
The source image for this caricature of Rick Snyder is a Creative Commons licensed photo from the Michigan Fitness Foundation Flickr photostream. The body is from a photo in the public domain from the White House. The background is from a Creative Commons licensed photo in David Shanes Flickr Photostream.
Ann Miura-Ko, founding partner at Floodgate, talked to hackNY's Summer Fellows about startups and venture capital as part of hackNY's summer lecture series.
Photo by @evankorth
Ann Miura-Ko, founding partner at Floodgate, talked to hackNY's Summer Fellows about startups and venture capital as part of hackNY's summer lecture series.
Photo by @matylda
Ann Miura-Ko, founding partner at Floodgate, talked to hackNY's Summer Fellows about startups and venture capital as part of hackNY's summer lecture series.
Photo by @matylda
Nikon D700 + Nikkor 58mm Noct, auto-ISO 200, 1/125 sec at f/1.2.
Buck's Restaurant in Woodside, California, is a charming breakfast place nestled in bucolic surroundings that feel so remote from the high-tech world of Silicon Valley. It is also a favorite meeting place for venture capital investors and entrepreneurs. Usually, most of the people around the restaurant look more casual than the group in the picture. The food and service are excellent, and the price is reasonable.
Improving spending and access to venture capital is the first pillar of the #BCTECH Strategy. With venture capital you can sometimes obtain large quantities of money, and this money can help businesses with big start-up expenses or businesses that want to grow very quickly.
Ann Miura-Ko, founding partner at Floodgate, talked to hackNY's Summer Fellows about startups and venture capital as part of hackNY's summer lecture series.
Photo by @matylda
SoftTech VC Managing Partner Jeff Clavier, Intel Capital Director Christine Herron, American Express Ventures Managing Partner Harshul Sanghi, Co-Founder and CEO of Nextdoor.com Nirav Tolia.
Moderated by Jolie O'Dell, writer, VentureBeat.
DEMO Focus: Social and Media Technologies category during DEMO Spring 2012, the Launchpad for Emerging Technologies, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California Thursday April 19, 2012. DEMO is sponsored by AARP, Dynamics, Fusion-io, Microsoft BizSpark, Startup America Partnership, Porter Novelli and PlugandPlayTechCenter.com.
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The first ever VC4Africa Meetup in Accra took place at the plush Rhapsodys Pub & Restaurant (located at the Accra Mall) on Friday the 6th of January, 2012. The event was a huge success.
In all, about 65 old and young Entrepreneurs (most from the technology side) and angel investors attended to meet-up and share ideas on ventures being developed and created in Ghana and Africa as a whole
The meet-up started with an informal introduction by event host; Makafui Ayimey who helped put in a lot of time and energy into organizing the event. He explained the main ideas of the VC4Africa Meetup module which is:
- Networking and sharing ideas on viable ventures from Ghana and Africa
- Creating platforms for Entrepreneurs, Investors and Start-ups and also
- Building Africa through networking.
It was the first time Entrepreneurs and Investors were meeting unofficially to dialogue, meet-up in person and also network. A lot of the discussions were focused on the various projects each of the young entrepreneurs were working on and also getting feedback/advice from themselves and the older entrepreneurs.
The format of the event was splendid as everybody who came was very pleased with the unofficial setup which took the unconference form just like Barcamps… Even though there were seats by the bar, most people were busily connecting with names and projects they’ve seen online and were happily chatting the night away.
Herman Chinery-Hesse, popularly known as “African Bill Gate” was at the event to also meet-up and network, offer his advice to the upcoming entrepreneurs and just hang-out with the crowd. He’s got a remarkable story indeed. He is one of those people that makes you feel like you can do anything with nothing. That’s because Herman believes in African style solutions for uniquely African problems.
In an interview he lauded the idea of this type of unofficial Meetups and also suggested, the organizers keep up with it and also organize it once a month. He also stressed on the young entrepreneurs to develop solutions to African problems by saying;
“Europeans and Americans don’t have power failures and bandwidth problems, so Africans can’t copy first world solutions and expect them to work here.”
Spotted at the meet-up were the following; Eric Osiakwan – Director (Internet Research), Herman Chinery-Hesse – Chairman (SOFTtribe Ltd), Foster Ofosu – Founder (Africa Works), Tim Akinbo - Founder (TimbaObjects Company ), Derrydean Dadzie – Co-founder (DreamOval Ltd), Ato Ulzen-Appiah – co-founder (Museke) and Edward Amartey-Tagoe – co-founder (NandiMobile Ltd).
A couple of Ghanaian bloggers were also there to listen and share with others, their views on the entrepreneurial and technology scene currently making the news in the country.
At exactly 21:00 GMT, the event came to a close but a few people stayed behind for awhile. Most of the conversations right after was manly on; how soon the next meet-up will be organized and if there were any special requirements.
Jose Ferreira of the NAV Fund takes a meeting with Nicholas Crane from theExbook.com at the FundingPost Perfect Venture Conference in NYC.
Invite Only - JCSU's Smith Tech-Innovation Center hosted the Comeback City Tour for Charlotte. This Forum brought together local and national political leaders, civic leaders, entrepreneurs and investors to discuss challenges and opportunities within Charlotte's Innovative Ecosystem. Speakers included Congresswoman Alma Adams (NC, Congressman Ro Khanna (CA), Congressman Tim Ryan (OH), Roy Bahat Bloomberg Beta, Rob Hayes - First Round, Shiyan Koh - Hustle Fund, Charles Hudson - Precursor VC, Shauntel Garvey - Reach Capital, Tracy Dodson - City of Charlotte/Economic Development, Rick Klau - Google Ventures, Tyson Clark - Google Ventures.
The VC4Africa team just returned from an amazing trip to Ethiopia where we presented at the Making Finance Work in Africa conference, hosted a VC4Africa meetup and ran a workshop on business modeling at ICE Ethiopia, the country’s first real technology incubator. See a video on a similar trip we made recently to Cameroon and the work we did there with ActivSpaces. We also did video pitches with the entrepreneurs and many said it was the first time this was ever done in the country. Can you imagine that? The country is just incredibly inspiring. 85 million people and by 2050 the population could double. The market potential for mobile/web services is immense and waiting to be unlocked.
To some dismay, France Telecom runs the only telco. Ironic when you buy a simcard and receive the message, ‘welcome and thank you for choosing our service.’ The Seacom cable has been connected and prices have dropped 80% in the past three months, yet the real impact seems yet to come. Connecting with TEAMS could further increase access, but without a terrestial backbone in place access remains limited. Although only 400.000 people might have access to internet the enthusiasm for social networking is confirmed when 75% of these users can be found on Facebook. The country counts no more than maybe 20 bloggers although these numbers are sure to change fast.
Local techpreneurs know they want to be early and are looking at numerous ways to build services for the market. Advanced mobile services are not yet relevant given low smartphone penetration. Mobile banking and SMS information based services were the most talked about. Setting up locally is quite difficult and often entrepreneurs are connecting with Diaspora in the US. Often the businesses register in the US, get funding from the US and/or share in development. Also a VC network from Germany are looking at Ethiopia as a potential market to engage early and building on the significant German presence in Addis.
The barcamp starting today (after a party last night) will follow last year’s success. And where the first barcamp saw some 300 participants this year’s event will possibly see 700 people come together. There is clearly a growing enthusiasm for a digital future in Ethiopia.
Total number of clean tech deals from 1999-2011
If a sector that helps drive American economic growth loses 26% of its value—$22 billion—and sees a 26% decline in new companies in just three years, would it be a crisis?
It should be. Unfortunately, this decline is happening today to U.S. venture capital, the sector that financed the creation of such iconic American companies as Intel, FedEx, Apple and Google.
The collapse has hit the emerging clean energy sector particularly hard, with investments spiraling down 44% in the last year alone. And it’s happening at a time when the U.S. is locked in an intense competition with China and Europe to win the $2.3 trillion global clean energy market. Yet almost no one in the nation’s capital is ringing alarm bells about venture’s demise.
In this report, we make the case that the crisis in clean tech investment is starving promising new technologies and risks the U.S. missing out on a huge engine for economic growth in the 21st century.
READ THE REPORT: Nothing Ventured: The Crisis in Clean Tech Investment