Mia Hegazy

To all #founders and #entrepreneurs out there, our intro meetings are conversational and easy going. Feel free to message me to setup a call. Learn what Pioneera Ventures can do for you!

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Maven Ventures , a seed-stage venture capital firm celebrated for its early investments in companies like Zoom and Cruise, has recently launched a new $60 million fund. This fourth fund raises their total assets under management to $200 million, with a continued focus on pioneering startups in the consumer technology sector. 𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗘𝗧𝗔𝗜𝗟𝗦 👉 https://lnkd.in/d_9Y84Ri Robert Ravanshenas Nick Stanley Jim Scheinman Sara Thomas Deshpande Naomi Scheinman #startups #fundingnews #investmentfund #venturecapital #privateequity #finance #investors #siliconvalley #consumertech #innovation

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We love seeing founders be able to keep their equity and take advantage of non-dilutive funding sources⚒️. We're excited to collaborate with Stacy Chin, PhD leader of KeepYourEquity.co, who has secured over $15M in SBIR/STTR grants for startups across various sectors. She's written a guest blog post sharing her insights on navigating the competitive landscape of grant funding 💰. Some highlights: ❇️ Understanding SBIR/STTR: A lifeline for startups, offering up to $2 million in non-dilutive funding! ⏺️ Learning how to overcome hurdles and capitalize on the golden opportunity. ❇️ Gaining essential tips on outlining your go-to-market strategy, choosing the right program, and preparing thoroughly. ⏺️ Benefiting from Stacy Chin's 10+ years of grant writing experience and her extensive track record in securing funding for startups. Read More in the blog post linked in the comment below 👇🏾 #SBIR #STTR #GrantFunding #StartupSuccess #SmallBusiness #KeepYourEquityCo #ShayCPA #cpafirm #techaccountants #startupaccountants #techstartup #techcompany #nondilutivefunding

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Catch another episode of This Week in Startups where Upfront Managing Partner Mark Suster interviews Max Altman and Ben Braverman, two of the three co-founders of Saga Ventures. With Saga’s new $125 million fund, the trio talk about: ➡ Fundraising challenges the co-founders faced as a first-time fund and the playbook of how referrals can be the best leads for increasing the chances of success ➡ Nuances of determining a fund size to maintain competitive advantages in deal strategies ➡ Ben’s learnings from working with Ryan Peterson at Flexport as well as Max’s experience and unique advantages working with his brothers Jack and Sam Here's a short clip below about the attributes of successful founders that they look for, including those willing to take unconventional risks 👇

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Yesterday, Underscore Partner Lily Lyman joined TechCrunch Early Stage to share tactical advice on how founders can effectively build relationships with the right investors. Importantly, she shares the nuance between the "nurture phase" and the "actively raising phase" of fundraising. Turns out fundraising has a lot of parallels to the 2000s romcom "He's Just Not That Into You" - So we were sure to have some fun drawing out the similarities! Explore the deck here by swiping right *pun intended*:

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Super helpful article and accompanying doc with a #Startup #Equity Calculator to determine the equity for early hires, thanks to Pear VC head of talent Matt Birnbaum! Thanks for sharing Pejman Nozad! 🙏🏼 You can read more here How to structure startup equity for early hires: https://lnkd.in/ggmpT5-Y Google Doc: https://lnkd.in/gjsvths6

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A few Friday thoughts... After several days in Chicago surrounded by 200+ LPs at the ILPA Members' Conference covering everything from AI to NAV facilities, I'm headed into the weekend energized by what's to come. That may come at a surprise after the week we've had as an industry. The decision from the U.S. Fifth Circuit on the SEC's Private Fund Advisers rules was handed down just moments before we kicked off ILPA’s AGM on Wednesday. All along, ILPA has viewed the PFA as addressing areas that pose risks to both LPs and the industry around transparency, governance and alignment of interest. It was disappointing—albeit not a shock—to see the PFA vacated. But ILPA is choosing to turn our energy to the compelling opportunity before us as an industry. Together, we can chart the path for how we'll work better together, on our own terms. Particularly around transparency. Just days prior to the ruling, we had debuted the next evolution of ILPA reporting templates on fees and expenses and performance for industry feedback. The templates were developed by a broad industry coalition over a three-month period, partly to comply with the PFA quarterly statements rule implementation deadline, but largely because this work needed to be done. We've temporarily paused the comment period. Now we have the benefit of more time to ensure that these minimum reporting standards have cross-industry buy-in to ensure wide support and adoption. Will you join us in this effort, in paving the way forward as an industry? https://lnkd.in/e-6hspU4

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Flourish Ventures team is excited to back the indomitable Chris Brummer as he builds Bluprynt to transform the infrastructure for disclosures. We feel privileged to be part of an amazing group of industry leaders and backers working with Chris. Arguably, we are living through a pivotal moment for disclosures and trust and transparency in finance. The concept of financial disclosure became prominent with the Securities Acts of 1933 and 1934, following the 1929 market crash. Digitization began in the 1990s with EDGAR and XBRL in the early 2000s. Today, we face a new phase in disclosures with the integration of digital assets into the financial system. This evolution reflects market changes and regulatory responses, presenting an opportunity to transform the technological underpinnings of disclosure systems fundamentally. #fintech #digitalassets #crypto #disclosures https://lnkd.in/eme7fgDE

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The job of a CFO in venture is "fascinating"... I've worked with the best!... Kim, Kristin, and now Mark Allen at GC. It requires precision, creativity and a collaborative spirit. Sasha Orloff captures it all in Mark's words... here in his latest podcast episode. 👇

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"Use your financial model as an operating plan not just a financial plan." We were nodding our heads in agreement during our recent chat with one of our VC partners, Phil Boyer from Crosslink Capital. Check out the full convo to hear more about what VCs care about leading up to a successful fundraise ➡ https://lnkd.in/gKhKrP58

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13% of Venture GP's don't plan to raise another fund due to LP pullbacks and a tough fundraising environment. In 2024, Weraise Ventures is redefining how founders and GP's raise capital - if you're apart of the 87% of GP's actively fundraising, let's chat! #venture #capital #markets #vc #gp #lp #fundraising #business #crypto #fund #founder #startup

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I recently had the pleasure of speaking with and learning from several software execs from our portfolio companies and industry experts during Thoma Bravo's AI Summit in Miami. It was great to share our insights into trends and practices we see in our portfolio and how we manage opportunities and risks. At TB, we have a long history of guiding enterprise software companies through digital transformation, and we’re already navigating the transition driven by generative AI. Our focus is on managing this new innovation by absorbing the technology to bring meaningful benefits to our portfolio companies and indirectly to their customers. And it’s evolving fast! We see our portfolio companies today using gen AI in generally three ways: first, to create new products and provide customers with incremental use cases. Second, to defend against cyber attacks that have become much more sophisticated by bad actors. And third, as an enabler of talent to make business operations run more efficient and productive. In our view, AI presents a significant growth opportunity, but we also believe that to really maximize that potential, companies should carefully evaluate the risks and be thoughtful about governance, trust, security and data privacy. AI is poised to accelerate innovation and it’s hard to predict the full, transformative potential of AI, but we are confident that some of the advantages of incumbent knowledge and data will be key to unlocking its value.

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Abby Levy talks about venture's role in US healthcare and what we can expect to see as technology impacts the space on TFR. Check out the rest of the conversation with Abby & Alan Patricof of Primetime Partners on Episode 433.

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Join us tomorrow for a panel discussion on the complex relationship many FirstGens have to money and how that affects founders, investors, operators and others. See you tomorrow! https://lu.ma/9rixyzgs

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VC Link's Venture Firm and Fund Report Jay Hoag's TCV has raised $3 billion for its latest fund. The announced fund will focus on supporting growth-stage start-ups. https://lnkd.in/e_c_Hu4f Temple Fennell and Daniel Goldman's Clean Energy Ventures raise $305 million for its second flagship fund, Clean Energy Ventures Fund II. The newly closed fund that will focus on advanced energy technologies and business model innovations received investments from new and existing limited partners. https://lnkd.in/eh5cD9q4 Jean-Francois Pariseau's Amplitude Ventures raises $192 million for its second fund, Amplitude Ventures Fund II. The fund received investments from a group of undisclosed investors, and will focus on developing new precision medicines. https://lnkd.in/epGCg2as Sanjay Nayar's Sorin Investments raises Rs 1,350 crore for its maiden fund. The newly closed fund, that received investments from the Nayar family office, Banga family office, Munjal family office, Henry Kravis (KKR) family office, and other KKR senior partners, will focus on Series A/B stage investments in tech and tech-enabled businesses. https://lnkd.in/ey7kqNDT Abhishek Goenka's RPSG Capital Ventures has raised Rs 550 crore for its second fund, RPSG Capital Ventures fund II. The newly closed fund, that received investments from the RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group and other domestic investors, will focus on consumer-oriented startups. https://lnkd.in/dVNAxGdt William J Kridel Jr. and Mitchell Ng's Hippocrates Opportunities Fund seeks up to $30 million for its inaugural fund. The fund aims to invest in sectors including gene editing, orphan diseases, immuno-oncology, and central nervous system disorders, focusing on financing both privately held and publicly traded life sciences companies. https://lnkd.in/e4NS6hs8 Allison Kelly's ICA Fund seeks $25 million for its second fund. The raising fund will focus on supporting local businesses in the San Francisco Bay Area, emphasizing investments in women and entrepreneurs of color, pairing funding with high-caliber business advising to foster sustainable growth and social impact. https://lnkd.in/gjR4F76P Ashok Holani's Holani Consultants Private Limited raises Rs 184 crore for its first SME-focused venture capital fund. The raising fund, which includes a green shoe option for an additional Rs 100 crore, will focus on fostering innovation, entrepreneurship, and economic growth in India. https://lnkd.in/eS_5S9iN

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Access to scaling/ working capital for small to midsize businesses is difficult to come by. Pipe is changing that by embedding their financial solution into the current workflow of small/ midsize businesses. This is literally a game changer. See Luke Voiles' post and the Fintech Nexus article to learn more.

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In our newest blog post, Nine Four Ventures General Partner Kurt Ramirez shares some of his thoughts on the current environment of startup shutdowns and valuation resets, and if these are natural consequences of an earlier period of frothy investment and easy money. Some key points are around how:  ·        Startup failures are common and expected, especially after a period of high funding.  ·        The recent increase in shutdowns should be viewed relative to the outsized number of startups funded in the boom years of 2020 and 2021 and reaching their make-or-break moment now.  ·        Some of these startups may have been funded based on unrealistic expectations of future growth, leading to valuation drops. Read the full post on our site, Substack, or by clicking below to learn more. Please reach out with any questions or comments on trends, companies, or anything else. https://lnkd.in/dZm6vfis Cc Jeffrey Elowe, Kurt Ramirez, Paul La Londe, Sophia Ghadamian Kier, Avi Pradhan #VentureCapital #Startup #Valuation #Tech

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Such an excellent conversation this week. For those in venture capital, this is a must listen. https://lnkd.in/gQUgM8q9

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