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Founder Interview with Philip James, Founder and CEO at Penrose Hill

by Tribeca Venture Partners

Philip James is the founder and CEO of Penrose Hill, one of the largest wine producers in the US, selling wines around the world through multiple channels, including via its Direct to Consumer website, Firstleaf. Philip is a serial
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Breaking into Venture Capital

by Tribeca Venture Partners

Our Senior Associate, Nitya Rajendran, recently sat down with SoGal Foundation to discuss Breaking into Venture Capital. Each month, Elizabeth Galbut interviews venture capitalists to gain valuable insight into the various paths to land a
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Q4 Portfolio Update: ACV Auctions, AiCure, clypd, Hive, and Thinkful

by Tribeca Venture Partners

We are thrilled to announce two recent exits in the Tribeca Venture Partners portfolio. Congratulations to the founders and teams at clypd and Thinkful for successful exits. It’s been an absolute pleasure working with both teams over the
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Founder Interview: John Furneaux, CEO and Co-founder at Hive

by Tribeca Venture Partners

John Furneaux is the CEO and Co-founder of Hive, the secret behind the blistering pace of execution at brands like Uber, Starbucks, Netflix, and Google. John founded Hive after seeing a white space in the collaboration space, and coded the
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Finding Genius: The Journey

by Tribeca Venture Partners

Nitya Rajendran, Senior Associate I am excited to finally announce the publication of Finding Genius. As a contributing author, I wrote a chapter unpacking major trends, opportunities, and challenges in the fintech space. Fintech is
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Founder Interview: Charles Bonello, CEO and Co-founder at Vivvi

by Tribeca Venture Partners

Charles Bonello is co-founder and CEO of Vivvi, and its very proud “First Dad”. Prior to starting Vivvi, he co-founded Grand Central Tech and helped build it to NY’s largest, most selective and most inclusive tech ecosystem, with over
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Back to School: Perspectives on Edtech

by Tribeca Venture Partners

We’ve been talking about education and edtech recently given the Back to School buzz in Tribeca. New York is the nation’s second-largest ecosystem for edtech and has been growing over the past few years. With parents, educators,
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Zander’s Reflections on 3 Yrs at Tribeca Venture Partners

by Zander Farkas

It’s been 3 years since I joined Tribeca Venture Partners and I thought it would be helpful to pause and reflect on my time with the team.  There have been a lot of good lessons and I’ve worked with some great entrepreneurs. I’m
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End of Summer Reading List

by Tribeca Venture Partners

It may feel as if summer is winding down, but there’s still a lot of summer left in us here at Tribeca Venture Partners. So, the team is sharing our End of Summer Reading List for those looking for a good read. And for anyone who’s
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A Look At What’s Ahead

by Tribeca Venture Partners

We live amongst the trees – or buildings here in NYC – but once in a while, we try to think about the forest. One example: If I told you right now that your phone was lost, you would probably feel physically ill. That’s how
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The Fed Just Cut Rates

by Tribeca Venture Partners

The Fed just cut rates. A few thoughts from our Managing Partner Chip Meakem: It’s a Global Market: We think about the Fed rate too domestically. While the connection between Fed Funds Rate and the US Treasuries is complicated, they
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Bank On It Podcast: Episode 223 Brian Hirsch on Fintech

by Tribeca Venture Partners

“New York is eating the east coast venture capital market.” I recently sat down with John Siracusa, host of the Bank On It Podcast. Each week, John Siracusa interviews impressive leaders and entrepreneurs in Fintech to gain their
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AlphaSense Raises $50M Series B

by Tribeca Venture Partners

We are thrilled to announce that our portfolio company AlphaSense has raised a $50M Series B round led by Innovation Endeavors with participation from Tribeca Venture Partners, Soros Fund Management and other existing investors. AlphaSense
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TVP Leads $10M Round In Spiffy

by Chip Meakem

Happy to announce our latest investment – Spiffy – on-demand car care. The last time I worked with Spiffy founder and CEO Scot Wingo, he took his company Channel Advisor from idea to a public company. Simple rule of venture
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Negotiating the Terms: Q&A with Tribeca Venture Partners’ Nitya Rajendran

by Tribeca Venture Partners

Published by Negotiating the Terms on September 25, 2018 Nitya Rajendran is an associate at Tribeca Venture Partners, based in New York. Prior to TVP, she was an investment banking analyst at Lazard. What attracted you to venture capital
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Congrats to AppNexus

by Chip Meakem

Congrats all AppNexians for building the platform and team that will now be the backbone of AT&T’s digital advertising strategy.  Thanks to Michael R, Jon H, Nithya D, Ryan C, Catherine W, Ben J, Tim S, Pat M and hundreds of
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TVP Named Top 5 NYC VC Firm

by Tribeca Venture Partners

Published by Red Herring on June 27, 2018 Silicon Valley is still the king of American venture capital: last year the San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA metro area contributed just over $23 billion, or 34.13%, of the nation’s entire VC
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EdSurge – Thinkful Raises $9.6M to Grow In-Person Hubs for Its Online Coding Bootcamp

by Tribeca Venture Partners

Published on EdSurge by Sydney Johnson, 1/10/2018 Darrell Silver is a unlikely critic of coding bootcamps, the 9- to 12-week intensive courses in computer science and programming skills. “Bootcamps as an entity aren’t working,” he
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Thinkful Announces $9.6m Fundraise to Bring High-Growth Tech Careers Everywhere with 1-on-1 Learning

by Tribeca Venture Partners

Brooklyn, NY – January 9, 2018 – Thinkful, the school that brings high-growth careers to people everywhere, today announced a $9.6 million Series A funding to reach students and employers in up-and-coming tech hubs. “The tech
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We’re Excited to Announce Our Investment in Quantum Circuits Inc.

by Zander Farkas

One of my favorite parts of being a VC is the amount I get to learn from our entrepreneurs. For our latest investment, Quantum Circuits Inc. (QCI), I went back to school—six of them in fact. I spent time with leading scientists and
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Thoughts from MIT EmTech 2017: Day 2

by Anna Whiteman

Day 2 of MIT’s EmTech Conference was packed with fascinating topics like emergent paradigms in social media, future of work, brain/machine interfaces, and more. As a follow up to my coverage of Day 1, here are some highlights and key
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Thoughts from MIT EmTech 2017: Day 1

by Anna Whiteman

I had the incredible opportunity to attend MIT’s annual EmTech, short for Emerging Technologies, Conference this week and, in a sense, the opportunity to take a peek at what the brightest minds in the world are cooking up for our future.
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The Third Wave of ECommerce

by Anna Whiteman

In a world where 77% of people in the United States wield a smartphone, it’s always mind-boggling to me how small e-commerce’s share of the overall retail market is (8.5%). Even more compellingly, upwards of 80% of consumers research
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Bridging Your Seed to Series A

by Anna Whiteman

Here at Tribeca, we’re in the fortunate position of investing primarily in companies at the Series A level. As an investor, this is an amazing time to get (formally) involved with a company. At the Series A, companies most often have
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Your Brain on Content

by Anna Whiteman

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about how emerging mediums of content are changing the way that our brains are wired to receive and decipher information. I don’t mean to invoke a debate around whether or not Snapchat is the downfall
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The Very Rad Consumer

by Anna Whiteman

Many people have been asking me lately what makes one tech-enabled consumer company distinguishable, i.e. investable, from another. My answer? Whether you’re speaking of consumer in the context of marketplaces/ecommerce, mobile, devices
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Behavioral Econ’s Role in Shaping Emerging Enterprise

by Anna Whiteman

A lot of lip service has been paid lately to companies using principles of behavioral economics and social psychology to drive business models. Just last week, the NYTimes published an in-depth editorial on how Uber has made use of
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ShopKeep Enters Small Business Lending Market

by Tribeca Venture Partners

Like its competitor Square, ShopKeep seems to be stepping closer into its business users’ back offices. On Wednesday (Aug. 29), ShopKeep announced the launch of a small business financing solution, ShopKeep Capital. The merchant cash
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First Data Expands ShopKeep Partnership

by Tribeca Venture Partners

First Data, the commerce-enabling technology company, and ShopKeep, a cloud-based company whose technology transforms an iPad into a cash register, announced on Thursday (Feb. 16) they inked a new partnership that expands their existing
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ACV Auctions raises $15 million in venture capital amid fast expansion

by Tribeca Venture Partners

ACV Auctions has raised $15 million in Series B venture capital funding, continuing the Buffalo-based tech startup’s meteoric trajectory. ACV was founded in late 2014 by co-founders Joseph Neiman, Dan Magnuszewski and Jack Greco. It
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LoftSmart raises $1.7 million for its local rental marketplace for college towns

by Tribeca Venture Partners

My first home-way-from-home was a room in a house with an unrepeatable nickname on West College St. in Oberlin, OH. I lived with 8 other people in a two-story, rambling warren filled with rooms and roomlets that had been created over the
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Tentrr makes camping easy with furnished campsites

by Tribeca Venture Partners

There’s an app for everything these days, and one of the latest industries to get the tech makeover is camping. Tentrr is a free iPhone app that makes camping easier by letting users find and book private campsites close to major
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Camping Today: Goodbye Pup Tent; Hello Wi-Fi

by Tribeca Venture Partners

If you’re planning to spend the last weeks of summer sleeping under the stars, you won’t be alone. A new wave of campers is taking to the great outdoors, though you might not find them in A-frame tents. They’re in tree houses and
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PebblePost raises $47M as it uses online data to fuel direct mail marketing

by Tribeca Venture Partners

PebblePost, a startup that uses online data to target consumers with printed mail, has raised $47 million in a combination of equity and debt. That includes the $15 million, RRE Ventures-led Series B that the company announced in
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Truveris gets $25M to grow prescription benefits analytics platform

by Tribeca Venture Partners

Truveris, a healthcare technology company focused cloud-based data analytics solutions for the $450 billion prescription benefits industry, today announced that the company has secured $25 million in a new round of funding to accelerate its
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CommonBond Closes $231 Million Securitization of Student Loans

by Tribeca Venture Partners

CommonBond is reporting they have closed a $231 million securitization of refinanced student loans. The online lender says the issuance received their highest ratings to date with Moody’s rating Aa3, DBRS at AA. The securitization was
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The Next Billion-Dollar Startups 2017

by Tribeca Venture Partners

Every year for the past three, Forbes has gone looking for 25 young U.S. companies with a strong shot at reaching a valuation of $1 billion or more. Last year’s list included hot companies like the crowdfunding site GoFundMe, online
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Entrepreneurship at Cornell

by Tribeca Venture Partners

I drove up to Cornell University last week for the ELAB’s Entrepreneurship Kickoff event held at POPSHOP, their coworking space. As a Cornell grad it was a great excuse to make the beautiful drive up Route 17 along the southern flank of
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Welcome to the team Zander!

by Tribeca Venture Partners

Brian and I are excited to welcome Zander Farkas to the TVP family as a Principal. He comes to us by way of Bain & Company, four years with our friends at Greycroft Partners and most recently Wharton, where he earned his MBA degree.