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Join us for a conversation with Richard Muirhead, Managing Partner at Fabric Ventures. Early days in consulting: ↪️ Richard gained industry expertise through strategic consulting. Building a telecom pioneer. ↪️ He then took the risk by founding a telecommunications company during the internet's mid-90s boom. Navigating the VC landscape. ↪️ Despite initial challenges with European VCs, his company successfully IPO'd. He even played a role in establishing Accel Partners' London office. Identifying a Gap & seizing an opportunity. ↪️ Recognizing the lack of seed funding for European deep-tech companies, Richard was inspired by Silicon Valley's A16Z. This led him to co-found a venture capital firm focused on deep tech investments between 2009 and 2012. Richard's story is a great example of adaptability, vision, and a passion for innovation. What resonates most with you in Richard's journey? Share your thoughts in the comments! 🔽 #EUVC #fundraising #venturecapital #industryreport

☕ This morning I was able to attend the "New to VC: Taking the Platform Route" hosted by nextNYC !! "New to VC is an educational series for a group of relatively new investors who want to be exposed to the best venture and startup thinking. Each event is attended by accredited investors and non-partner VCs that skew intentionally, but not exclusively, toward underrepresented backgrounds." 🎤 Charlie O'Donnell is a phenomenal moderator and brought the audience together to discuss the platform role in VC and the career paths around it with 3 venture professionals who have experience on both the investment and platform teams. 💸 The panel consisted of Olivia O'Sullivan, Partner at Forum Ventures, Cat Middleton, GP at The Venture Collective (TVC) and Lexi Quirk, Head of Product and Platform at 645 Ventures. 📓 It wouldn't be one of my event recaps without some takeaways right? ⬇ When discussing the importance of nurturing relationships in the ecosystem: “We ask ourselves, how do we get to know the people before they become the company?” When discussing what's the best way to move up from a platform role: "Have a very candid conversation with partners about growth early on." When discussing how to drive value to portfolio companies: "Try to be proactive... build a team and process that goes to the founders at onboarding and says 'here’s our playbook on X, here’s our playbook on Y' " 💥 And for my favorite - what to do to make sure you stand out to Partners? "You need to have skin in the game, and find a way to contribute to the bottom line as an operator." 💪 Be sure to follow nextNYC as well as these awesome professionals, especially if you're looking to learn from some of the brightest in NYC Venture Capital And stop if you've heard me say it before, Cooley LLP's NYC office is always so great to visit!! #VCplatform #venturecapital #nextnyc #newtoVC #femalefunders

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Behind the scenes at #Elevate2024 - speaking at the biggest tech conference in Canada re: #VentureCapital investing in deep-tech. Joined by Janet Bannister (Staircase Ventures), Eva Lau (Two Small Fish Ventures), Chris Neumann (Panache Ventures), we covered: - what types of companies are exciting to VCs (hint: moonshots), - specialist vs. generalist VC funds (founders: while it’s wonderful to meet a specialist VC that knows your domain really well, that is currently the exception, not the norm - so the art of telling your story to a broader investor base is crucial) - how VCs construct their portfolio to meet LP expectations (as a founder, you need to understand what motivates the investors you’re interacting with) Glad Creative Destruction Lab assembled this epic panel on the Moonshots stage ! Elevate Sonia Sennik #FutureTech #Innovation #IOV

Calling all tech enthusiasts and startup founders! VentureCrush is back, and this time it's happening both in-person and via Zoom on March 21. Mark your calendars and be part of the conversation. #venturecrush #startups #techcompanies #venturecapital #growthcompanies #founders

Calling all tech enthusiasts and startup founders! VentureCrush is back, and this time it's happening both in-person and via Zoom on March 21. Mark your calendars and be part of the conversation. #venturecrush #startups #techcompanies #venturecapital #growthcompanies #founders

Founders and C-Suite of Series A+ businesses this is an event not to miss!. 📲 Scaling a business is tough and often the exit is the goal for many founders. If this is your goal then look no further, Adaptor’s Scaling to Exit event (in partnership with Techspace) will help fill in the gaps and provide clarity on what it means to exit. Hear perspectives from 2 exited founders Julia Langkraehr, Kate McLaughlin and Martin Ericsson from Eight Roads and Jamie Moore from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP There are limited tickets available so register now – https://lu.ma/ifxh73p2 #Scaling #Growth #TechFounders #ScalingToExit #Hiring #BusinessGrowth

We have a handful of seats remaining for our 2nd biannual "Moves in VC" reception+dinner next week at #SFTechWeek, with 35 venture firms and LPs already confirmed to attend. 👉 If you are a senior VC or LP who has made a move in the last 12 months (new firm/fund launch, changed firms, or promoted), give us a heads up so we can consider you for one of the remaining seats --> https://lu.ma/2i17dp33

Fundraising Wave of the last 3 months has been extremely interesting. Players like Team8, Ubiquity Ventures, Black Tech Nation Ventures, Inspired Capital, and Dawn Capital over in Europe and others from various regions and sectors and gearing up for our new world we are stepping into. Growth Capital firms like Summit Partners, Thoma Bravo, TPG are extending their reach and establishing their power of influence in areas they haven't tapped into as much before. Deployment of some serious capital into Glean, Overjet, Bugcrowd, Clumio, Figure, Kore.ai in both new and revamped getting a piece of the pie... #investing #vcfunding #privateequity #growthcapital #tech #techcommunity #techinnovation #ai

S1 - EP29 - Borderless Kerty Levy 🎙️ https://lnkd.in/eSd4juqk Kerty is an advisor, investor, and friend who helps entrepreneurs succeed. Kerty and Ben collaborated through Techstars, so we grab the morning oars to dance with how smooth is fast. We then glide through the wild experience of accelerators, building a team, ecosystem exploration, founder-market fit, OKRs, KPIs, financial modeling, the #GiveFirst mindset, raising venture capital, perfecting a pitch, and the special bond that is Techstars for life.