TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

When Zola Electric was launched in 2011 by Erica Mackey, Xavier Helgesen and Joshua Pierce, the company provided solar home solutions to off-grid rural communities in Tanzania. And that’s where our development and capital is going — to fill out that energy ladder.” The company has evolved since then.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Register MessageGears, a customer engagement platform for big consumer brands, has announced the completion of a $62 million growth financing round. With the new funds, MessageGears now has investments totaling to $80 million since its founding in 2011. Remember Me. No account yet?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

The company just closed a €20 million funding round (roughly $22 million at today’s exchange rate) from Felix Capital. But this allowed us to develop the company in a self-financed and profitable way,” Utzmann said. Second, Effy could start offering some financing options with partners. That’s why it is making a bet.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

A leading financial advisor in the entertainment and sports industries, Roman focuses his holistic service model on creating and maintaining efficiencies within his clients’ finances. In 2011 he founded Legacy Private Client Group, where he built a platform that facilitated holistic solutions.

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A Smart Bear

JANUARY 4, 2018

This week we closed $250M in financing from Silver Lake , the premier technology private equity firm. Of course a nice chunk is primary capital, i.e. for the company balance sheet, to invest in growth initiatives, security and quality, and advancing our existing strategic priorities through acceleration and de-risking.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 20, 2020

In 2011, Greg’s first book, Simple Numbers, Straight Talk, Big Profits shares his core principles of how to turn your business into a wealth-building engine. By taking the traditional balance sheet and turning it into the Simple Numbers Capital format, you will better understand what parts of your balance sheet impact your cash flow.

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Gust

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Last week , we gave some attention to the “why” behind convertible note financing for early stage startups. As with so many subjects in law and finance, mastering the jargon is half the battle. This may seem like a no-brainer now that you understand the basic structure of a convertible debt financing.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

I had witnessed a number of early-stage tech startups in LA raise seed capital from the Bay Area and relocate. It was 2009 and it was terribly difficult to get any financing (if you can remember a time like that!) By 2011 the market had started to change dramatically. We announced Fund I in 2011. And Jamie hers.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The company helps businesses communicate with their customers via mobile messaging platforms and today is announcing that it has raised $91 million in a new financing round. and of course, that listing hasn’t materialized yet considering its new private capital round.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Unagi, which doesn’t yet have its own website, was founded out of Paris by Charlie Guillemot , son of Ubisoft co-founder Yves Guillemot and formerly studio manager at Owlient, a free-to-play game studio acquired by Ubisoft back in 2011; and Remi Pellerin , also formerly of Owlient. million) in equity financing, and $5.7

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Founded out of Switzerland in 2011, Beekeeper targets the estimated 80% of the global “deskless” workforce who don’t work from a fixed office-based location, spanning hospitality, retail, manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, among other industries. .”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2021

New investors include angels like Gokul Rajaram and Emilie Choi, founders and employees from Wealthsimple, Orum, Alloy, Chime, Square and funds/syndicates in addition to Primer Capital, Gaingels and Moving Capital. With the latest Series A financing, Nelo has raised a total of $25.6 million since its 2019 inception.

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Gust

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Here are the trends in venture capital financings from 2006 through 2010 – the number of seed stage deals funded and total investment by region in millions of dollars. . And, according to MoneyTree© for the first three quarters of 2011, the average invested in NYC Metro seed stage VC deals was even less. All Seed-VC.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

To finance the acquisition of its well-funded competitor, Kobiton raised a $14 million extension to its $5.2 million Series A from its existing investor BIP Capital and new investor Fulcrum Equity Partners. Mobile Labs, which was founded in 2011, had raised about $15 million before the acquisition, according to Crunchbase.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 22, 2019

In 2011, I heard a speech by Mark Zandi [chief economist of Moody’s Analytics] revealing that entrepreneurship in the U.S. We have consolidated entrepreneurial ecosystems (and capital) to just a few cities and we have made it increasingly difficult for women and minorities to start businesses. What prompted you to write Boom ?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2021

San Francisco-headquartered Gupshup has raised $100 million in its Series F financing round from Tiger Global Management, which valued the 15-year-old startup at $1.4 Gupshup , which has raised $150 million to date and concluded its Series E round in 2011, says each month its clients send over 6 billion messages.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

Inovia Capital and Lion Capital co-led the new growth round, which included participation from Acrew DCF, Thayer Ventures and Full In Partners, as well as existing backers Telstra Ventures and Bee Partners. The financing brings Snapcommerce’s total raised since its 2016 inception to over $100 million.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

For example, Leading Edge Capital closed on nearly $2 billion for its sixth fund, Base10 Partners brought in $460 million for its third fund, Founders Fund secured $5 billion for two funds, Freestyle raised $130 million for its sixth fund and the list goes on and on. That’s new.”. Image Credits: Overlooked Ventures.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

Roommates, partners, married couples with distinct finances, or just friends going on skiing trips all have to deal with shared expenses. Per Bittner, Splitwise has attracted tens of millions of registered user who have shared or managed what it calculates to be $90 billion since 2011. The product concept has found a global audience.

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Feedough

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

But, still, every startup, especially those seeking angel and venture capital funding, are conditioned to project this growth curve – because investors love it. Usually, entrepreneurs use bootstrapping to finance their expenses. Surging Growth: This period started in 2011, where Groupon crossed the 1 billion mark.

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Gust

MARCH 11, 2014

According to analysis by my partner Jamie Davidson on typical periods between financings peaks around 9 months so the follow on rates for Series Bs should be accurate up until the 2011 class, which gives these startups more than 2 years to raise their B. The secular decline in all of these ratios screams of increased competition.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 1, 2011

.&# That’s how it felt then and a bit how it feels in May 2011. I think that’s the beauty of both capitalism and innovation. And 18 months later, in May 2011, I have crossed 422,000 views. I still have to get sales, operations, finance, HR & corp dev right to win. I agreed to finance a company today.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2020

You might not know yet of XYZ Venture Capital , a four-year-old, San Francisco-based seed-stage venture firm, but many veterans of Palantir are surely aware of it. At the same time, Fubini began raising his own pool of capital under the brand XYZ Ventures, eventually launching a $70 million fund.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2022

Battle of the bridge: Startups struggle to secure runway financing. Dear Sophie, I’ve been on an H-1B since 2011. It’s not your imagination: After a deluge, it has stopped raining venture capital. In the meantime, have a great weekend, and thanks very much for reading. Walter Thompson. Editorial Manager, TechCrunch+.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2021

Insight Partners led the financing, which included participation from Union Square Ventures and Stripes. Sift was founded out of Y Combinator in 2011, and has raised a total of $157 million over its lifetime.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2021

Bezos Expeditions — Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ personal investment fund — and Whale Rock Capital joined the round, adding $40 million to a $60 million raise led by Sequoia about one month prior. But it chose not to raise so much capital. . Bottom line is companies don’t have to accept all the capital that’s offered to them.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Embedded finance connects services like payment processing with everyday activities like grabbing a coffee before unlocking an e-scooter. According to the entrepreneurs and investors reporter Natasha Mascarenhas spoke to, this deal “shows the strength of edtech’s capital options as the pandemic continues.”

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

If 2011 & 2012 look like 2010 then the current crop of angel investments will look great. But if 2011 & 2012 look more like 2008-2009 than 2010 then one of the most important skills of angel investors will be whether they can get their companies financed (or ramen profitable, but this is harder to sustain over a long period of time).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

Having just raised $30 million in a Series C round in October and achieving profitability in 2020, the Nuvemshop team was not looking for more capital. Nuvemshop’s rapid growth caught the attention of Silicon Valley-based Accel. Accel has been investing in e-commerce for a very long time.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

In 2011, the Nigerian government launched a financial inclusion initiative and set a target to include 80% of the country’s adult population. But today, we’re fast becoming an embedded finance platform.” Doing that and building our proprietary IP ourselves changed our business,” the chief executive said.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Armed with a new financing model and purpose-built small solar-powered generators and water pumps, Nichols and Ibrahim have already built a network of customers using their equipment to increase incomes by anywhere from five to 10 times their previous levels by growing higher-value cash crops, cultivating more land and raising more livestock.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

2007, 2011) and for the hottest of companies and in bad markets for fund raising (2003, 2008) prices test the bottom end of the range. Prices have definitely gone up in 2011 as depicted in the anecdotal chart below. That’s the deal you get when you’re raising in a good market for startup financing. That’s fine.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I guess that makes USV, Spark Capital, Foundry Group, Accel, Benchmark, Revolution (along with several others) pretty happy right now. source: Capital IQ. source: Capital IQ. Or worse yet they may never get financed. Still, market amnesia by ordinarily rational actors always surprises me. And well they should be.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

If 2011 & 2012 look like 2010 then the current crop of angel investors will look great. First Round Capital & True Ventures seem to spend as much time cultivated relationships with “second round capital” as they do entrepreneurs. So where are we now? It’s hard to say. And the best early-stage investors know this.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 25, 2021

She co-founded the Portland Seed Fund in 2011, but also serves as the Director of Portland State University’s Center for Entrepreneurship and manager of the Portland State University Business Accelerator, allowing her to monitor prospective and existing portfolio companies that originate from the university. He received his Ph.D.

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Haystack

APRIL 10, 2018

Earlier today, the folks from Afore Capital hosted their inaugural “Pre-Seed Summit” in San Francisco. OK, so microVC funds and smaller pre-seed financings could really be a thing. About 150 people showed up, a healthy mix of founders, seed-stage investors and big fund VCs, and a bunch of LPs of various sizes.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 28, 2022

The function that concerns personal and institutional capital allocators is how countries that are not in the Western axis of power will respond to the fallout of financial sanctions on Russia. The goal of this essay is to examine from a theoretical point of view the issues capital account countries face and their policy options.

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