TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

But to build one, founders must first define clear goals and create value for participants. 500 Global’s Christine Tsai shares her 2022 VC predictions. 2021 was a year like no other when it came to venture investment, and this year is poised to tread a similar path, writes 500 Global’s CEO and co-founder, Christine Tsai.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2023

Investors believe the market correction, which caught up with the continent in the second half of 2022, will spiral into this year. But before that, there was shared optimism that African startups would raise more VC funding last year than in 2021 when the continent, for the first time, passed the $4-5 billion threshold.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

For Black founders, who have rarely received more than 1% of total venture capital invested in startups, 2022 wasn’t kind, and 2023 doesn’t look promising given how things are going. Sevetri Wilson, the founder of Resilia, said she, like many other founders, is planning for a recession regardless of whether one happens or not.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2022

Global data was clear: The 2021 venture capital startup investment cycle was record-breaking ; around the world, startups raised more money than ever before, with individual geographies posting all-time hauls. PitchBook data collected on the European 2021 investment cycle pegs venture activity at €102.9 Africa had a killer year.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2023

Much hope remains after the crypto winter almost froze the sector: the Luna crash , the bankruptcy of Celsius and the arrest of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried for alleged fraud. By 2022, that number dipped to $21.5 By 2022, that number dipped to $21.5 Bubble had to pop,” People of Crypto co-founder Simone Berry said. “It

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

That global venture capital slowed down in Q1 2022 might no longer be news to you. However, their European, Canadian, and African counterparts attracted more dollars in Q1 2022 than they did in the previous quarter. According to CB Insights’ latest State of Venture report , the amount of funding flowing into U.S.-based

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

It’s been more than 10 years since that percentage fell below 30%,” reports Mary Ann Azevedo, who analyzed “Beyond Silicon Valley,” a report released by investment firm Revolution and PitchBook. You ain’t seen nothing yet,” said Revolution founder and CEO Steve Case. 3 disruptive trends that will shape marketing in 2022.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

Last year, a total of $643 billion was invested globally, according to Crunchbase News , compared with $335 billion in 2020 – that’s 92% growth year over year. Beyond being awash in capital, the VC industry has also seen a historic number of exits. Deal activity is at record highs. Web3 goes mainstream.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

Companies with all female-founding teams raised about $800 million, or 2.1%, out of the estimated $37 billion invested in U.S. billion all-female founding teams raised in Q1 2022. When the economy is volatile, appetite for risk decreases, which impacts venture totals in general and certain founders in particular. At just 2.1%

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

For the first time, the sector attracted over 1,100 unique investors in 2022, which in turn resulted in a record fundraising haul of $6.5 This shows that Africa’s investment landscape is still very promising because it continues to grow, and there’s increasing interest in multiple startup ecosystems, including nascent ecosystems.

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

The venture community has realized several things in recent years: Climate change isn’t going away, and there is a huge opportunity to invest in companies that promise to define entire segments of the future economy. Women founders have received just 6.9% VC funding of women climate tech founders is abysmal.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 24, 2021

This week, Bill Taranto, president of Merck’s Global Health Innovation Fund, wrote a TechCrunch+ article that explored six digital health trends his corporate VC fund is tracking as we enter 2022. billion in VC, “dwarfing the previous record of $14.6 The growing power of digital healthcare: 6 trends to watch in 2022.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

(co-written with Katherine Boe Heuck , a MBA candidate at MIT Sloan (class of 2022); past intern at Versatile VC ; and a current intern at Metaprop NYC.). What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? Well, we learn to invest exclusively in men, preferably white or Asian. . Of the 43 U.S.-based

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Rebecca Mitchem is a partner at Neotribe Ventures , which invests in early- to growth-stage companies developing breakthrough technologies. Over the last several years, VC money has been abundant and relatively cheap. Source: PitchBook data from 2012-2022. Source: PitchBook data from 2012-2022. Rebecca Mitchem.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Russ Heddleston is co-founder and former CEO of DocSend at Dropbox. Start up solo or bring on a co-founder? There’s plenty of money to be invested, and founders who have the right mix of purpose, business model and traction need to remember that opportunities for funding can still be found. Russ Heddleston. Contributor.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

This question sits atop most founders' lips and boardroom agendas. Instead of late-stage opportunities, they’ll be focusing on early-stage venture in 2022. PitchBook surmises non-traditional VC (aka hot money) comprises 78% of venture dollars invested in 2021. The broad market sentiment is they will be lower.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2022

Bearing those factors and others in mind, Ben Parr, president and co-founder of e-commerce marketing platform Octane.ai, shared his e-commerce predictions for 2022 : Personalization and zero-party data become critical. ” My prediction: We’ll be running many articles in 2022 with tactics for zero-party data collection.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Venture capitalists pin their hopes and expectations on revenue because it’s a clear signal of how quickly their investment may grow. 2022 crypto predictions from Prime Trust CFO Rodrigo Vicuna. 2022 crypto predictions from Prime Trust CFO Rodrigo Vicuna. Is algorithmic VC investment compatible with due diligence?

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 11, 2024

With war, inflation, supply chain disruption, epidemics and the end of nearly free capital, the twelve-year party ended in 2022. The sharp reversal in 2022 from bubble to sober economics is well illustrated by Pitchbook’s index(1) of how founder or investor friendly the investing climate is. Did we do fewer deals?

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Revolution

MARCH 8, 2023

population, but in 2022, companies with solely female founders garnered just 2% of the total capital invested in venture-backed startups. The long and short of it: Female founders face systemic barriers to founding, funding, and scaling their businesses. Women represent 50.5% of the U.S. That ticked up to 15.4%

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

After inking deals with Amazon and Walmart, the Quidsi and Jet.com co-founder aims to launch a “more equitable” city in the desert. It’s a pitch that has landed thousands of members and, most recently, a billion-dollar valuation as of May 2022. Marc’s Lore: Startup Schemes, Utopian Dreams. with Dylan Field (Figma).

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Ivan writes that BeReal won “app of the year” for 2022 in Apple’s annual App Store Awards. Startups and VC. Seedstars announced today it has launched a platform called Seedstars Capital with Swiss-based investment holding company xMultiplied to help new fund managers around the world launch funds and develop their investment firms.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 4, 2022

On today’s episode of the Business Beat, Jeff highlights a few companies mentioned by Cronicle Tech News as hot tech companies to watch in 2022 in the Great Lakes region. Top Detroit Startups and Tech Companies to Watch in 2022. for the WJR Business Beat. Listeners outside of the Detroit area can listen live HERE.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Last year, round sizes for climate tech startups quadrupled, with more than 600 investments totaling over $40 billion. The start of 2022 shows no signs of slowing, with more startups jumping into the fray to tackle one of humanity’s biggest challenges. Joshua Posamentier , co-founder and managing partner, Congruent Ventures.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

After a blockbuster year for venture capital funding in 2021, the flow of capital to Indian startups seemed like it would buck global trends in early 2022, but dried up in the second half of 2022. For Ashutosh Sharma, head of India investments at Prosus Ventures, it is paramount for startups to ensure their existence at this time.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 21, 2022

In this week’s edition, we discuss: Approaching the funding raising process from a VCs point of view The future of cryptocurrency in 2022 Is your side hustle profitable or a waste of time? A founder’s guide to startup due diligence What are your chances of actually getting funded by a top VC? Let’s get to it. Weekly ?? #10:

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 29, 2022

India, which has doubled its pool of unicorns to over 100 in the past two years, has attracted over $75 billion in investments from tech giants Google, Meta and Amazon and venture funds Sequoia, Tiger Global, SoftBank, Alpha Wave, Lightspeed and Accel in the past half decade. Swaroop’s presentation from 2014. PharmEasy, valued at $5.6

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Mar Hershenson , co-founder and managing partner at Pear VC. Mar Hershenson co-founded and serves as managing partner at Pear VC, a seed-stage investment firm in Palo Alto backing companies like Guardant Health, DoorDash, Gusto, Aurora Solar and Branch. He also serves on the board of Friends of Hudson River Park.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2023

Even as Y Combinator reveals the latest startups in its cohort for this winter , we have poor news for founders: the global venture capital market shrank in Q1 2023, and it would have been even worse if it were not for a few mega deals, according to Crunchbase (disclosure: my former employer) and PitchBook reports.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

Sanjay Aggarwal Contributor Share on Twitter Sanjay Aggarwal is a venture partner at F-Prime Capital focused on frontier technology investment opportunities. From 2018 to 2021, investments in the AV sector across the U.S. Then, in 2022, investments fell to $4 billion, with 2023 likely to see further precipitous declines.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 28, 2023

Register Startup founders are often too focused on the amount of money they can get from an investor that they mostly fail to see the value that other investors have to offer to grow their businesses further. Sharon Lou, venture partner at Indelible Ventures , considers this as one of the top mistakes that founders commit when raising funds.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2022

We started 2022 on a relatively high note. And oh, many of you were curiously really curious about the concept of fractional real estate investing. valuation after ‘a nearly 10x’ YoY increase in revenue : The corporate spend startup had doubled its valuation from August 2021 to March 2022. . — Mary Ann.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2022

Shanea Leven is co-founder and CEO of CodeSee , a developer platform that helps developers and development teams better understand codebases. Raising money is catastrophically challenging for female founders, and even harder for Black female founders.”. Women are still behind. This is what we need to latch on to and scale.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

But 2022 was the year when this “spending” slowed and was instead more widely rebranded and accepted as actually being “borrowing.” These conditions are not conducive to inducing confidence for investors or founders. Against this background, we formed our annual review of European edtech activity for 2022.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2022

Here’s a look at just some of the ways early-stage founders can learn to build, grow and fund their startups at TechCrunch Disrupt on October 18–20 in San Francisco. Check out everything SBF 200 founders receive and apply to the SBF 200 today ! Word to the budget-wise: don’t miss out on early-bird savings. PT and save up to $1,300.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Register Singapore’s Jungle Ventures has announced the launch of First Cheque@Jungle , a new program aimed at investing in startups during their pre-seed and seed stages. The First Cheque program plans to leverage the expertise of experienced founders from Jungle Ventures’ current and former portfolio startups.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2021

My question heading into 2022 is: How can the tech community sneak activation energy into startups, especially those built by historically overlooked founders, beyond capital? The average age for a Z Fellow is 20 to 25 years old, meaning that the program has successfully convinced first-time founders to take a jump.

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