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The venture capital investors behind the super-sized Series A. 2013 New York VC investing snapshot.



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Microsoft M&A Sees Resurgence in 2013

Over 80 acquisitions since 2007. Microsoft completed its six-month CEO search today naming Satya Nadella to the top spot, but the software giant has also been busy on the M&A front and saw a resurgence of acquisitions in 2013. See the full brief for M&A trends by stage, geography and VC firm.
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The nine private companies that aired in ads during the Superb Owl

From Squarespace to Goldieblox. Since the game was terrible, and because we have a one-track mind, the CB Insights team was watching for ads by private companies. Here's all of the ads by the nine private companies during the game. No sock puppets. But one of them has $80 million of revenue and no outside investors.
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The rise of New York's tech VC ecosystem

Started from the bottom, now we here. When it comes to venture capital, New York is all grown up. On a YoY basis, NY VC funding jumped a notable 49% and hit a five-year high as deal levels increased 12%. See the top stages, sub-industries and largest VC deals in NY in 2013 in the research brief.
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The Super-Sized Series A

A16Z does the most mega Series A's. Since 2009, there has been a decisive increase of $10M+ Series A rounds to tech companies. Leading the most super-sized Series A deals are Andreessen Horowitz and Accel Partners. See the full brief for the data and the 10 VCs with the most mega Series A deals.
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Raising Seed Capital

A must-have for entrepreneurs. Steve Schlafman of RRE Ventures, a firm we love, (and they like us too) breaks down the seed funding process including valuable info on investors, lawyers, accelerators and much more in this 81-page overview. Grab the SlideShare, which features some seed VC financing trends from our seed investing snapshot.
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Insights on Venture Capital

Interesting articles by venture capitalists or about investing and M&A.
  1. Should VCs Fund Game Companies?: Benchmark's Mitch Lasky (@mitchlasky) on when venture capital becomes the ideal vehicle for gaming startups.
  2. Betting on Potential: Greylock's Joe Cheung (@joeseekit) on the patterns that matter when evaluating a hire based on potential.
  3. Startup Sales in Europe: DFJ Esprit's Scott Sage (@scott_sage) on how to create a measuring trend analysis for European SaaS companies.
  4. Walking the Tight Rope: Tomasz Tunguz (@ttunguz) on the maximum viable churn rate for a startup.
  5. Harvey Keitel, CEO: Scott Weiss of Andreessen Horowitz (@W_ScottWeiss) on the methods that explain how great people manage to pull off the impossible.
  6. The Age of the Social Network Is Ending: MG Siegler of Google Ventures (@parislemon) on why we're entering the era of the great unbundling of Facebook.
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