TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2022

There’s a galaxy of talented and/or well-connected startup founders out there, but few have any prior fundraising experience, which levels the playing field by an inch or two. What kind of opportunities are you looking for in Q1 2022? Examples of companies within our four investment areas are here.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 25, 2023

MINNEAPOLIS-SAINT PAUL, MN – The Forge North startup coalition announced the first close of the MSP Equity Fund – the first-known venture capital fund of funds in the country designed to invest across race, place, and gender. Lead investors include Allianz Life, Allina Health, Xcel Energy, and Abōva.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2022

While many funds are returning to more conservative check-writing , with a focus on profitability and business fundamentals, crypto remains a sector in the spotlight that attracts dedicated billion-dollar funds and investment terms that remind us more of 2021 than 2022. Influx of cash-rich attention.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 4, 2022

This article originally appeared in Harvard Business Review on October 3, 2022. At the turn of the 20th century, any number of American municipalities with similar access to talent, materials, investment, and transportation might have emerged as the beating heart of the automobile industry. as do manufacturing workers.

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Revolution

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

This article originally appeared in Harvard Business Review on September 28, 2022. “ This article originally appeared in Harvard Business Review on September 28, 2022. “ According to PitchBook , VC investments were down 30% in Q2 2022 compared with 2021, and IPOs hit a 50-year low.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

Founder Nathan Latka experienced firsthand the painful process of giving up too much of a stake in a startup he’d founded years ago — an experience, he says, ultimately led him to start Founderpath. With the market shifting dramatically in recent months, Latka says Founderpath has seen more demand than ever in 2022.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2022

An experienced executive, serial entrepreneur and internet pioneer in software and media, Dave Samuel is co-founder of Freestyle.vc. The seed-stage venture capital firm holds more than $565 million assets under management and investments in over 150 startups. TechCrunch Disrupt takes place on October 18–20.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

All right, here are the final five business Brahmins who will help judge the Startup Battlefield pitch competition. Mar Hershenson , co-founder and managing partner at Pear VC. He also served on the National Venture Capital Association board of directors. David Tisch , managing partner at BoxGroup.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Startups and VC. Despite shrinking investment into startups in 2022, venture capital funds of all sizes are still being raised. Her target is to invest in 25 to 30 U.S. startups at the pre-seed or seed stage.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Boston offers a world of advantages for startup founders Boston’s university-to-startup pipeline defies downturn to grow and diversify Boston has had a thriving tech startup ecosystem for a while, but things can change fast. After setting records in 2021 as “Zoom investing” took off, how are local startups faring in 2023?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2023

Though investment in food technology has slowed in line with the rest of the venture capital world, the industry recently achieved some milestones that suggest the sector and the government are moving into alignment. What does the future look like for investment in this space? billion over the next 10 years.

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TechCrunch

JULY 8, 2022

“Diversifying customer acquisition channels and organic growth will take time, but the investment is worth it in the long run to build an enduring brand,” he writes. 4 negotiation points startup founders must focus on in a down market. 4 negotiation points startup founders must focus on in a down market.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2023

It’s going to be the biggest and best Disrupt we’ve ever hosted: Along with a few to-be-announced surprises, we’ll have Startup Battlefield, as well as six new stages with targeted materials for founders of all types. What is a fresh innovation in venture land, however, is building a new fund or firm in public.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2022

. “Enable multifactor authentication (MFA) on everything you have,” said Katie Moussouris, founder of Luta Security. ” Last week at TechCrunch Disrupt, Moussouris and Brett Callow, threat analyst at Emsisoft, spoke about the need to invest early in locking down their systems, starting with MFA.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

market indicate that the Series A round is also looking green around the gills for domestic startup founders. Data from PitchBook (hat tip to Brex’s Shai Goldman ) and Redpoint detail a falling pace for Series A rounds in the United States through Q3 2022. However, further data focused on the U.S.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Startups and VC. Life as a startup founder is never dull. That’s doubly true for Black founders, who routinely struggle to raise funds, be noticed and get their fair share of attention, Dominic-Madori reports. For the new year, she conducted a mini-survey to find out what Black founders are expecting in 2023.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

Silicon Valley-based A16z provided an initial investment for Yuno as part of the firm’s program for fintech startup founders. Monashees and Kaszek followed as co-leads in the investment. The pair decided to formally found Yuno, in January of 2022. Why Latin American venture capital is breaking records this year.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2022

From there, it was time to talk about a new $100 million fund , which boasts some high-profile LPs and partners, that is out to invest exclusively in Latino(a) startup founders. Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev took responsibility for the company's over-hiring in 2021 and subsequent mass layoffs – two so far in 2022.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 23, 2023

Hear how this novel approach was developed and how it attracted investments from major firms, including Rajeev Batra at Mayfield Fund. The company quickly raised over $200 million in venture capital, becoming a unicorn with its $150 million Series B in October 2022. And the industry responded enthusiastically.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

People are led to believe that, for the most part, investors are clear-eyed, data-driven people who carefully explore the financial underpinnings of the companies they invest in. And these people investing billions of dollars surely have their eye on the ball, right? — Marcelo Claure (@marceloclaure) November 12, 2022.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2022

Meanwhile, Jeeves says it has seen its revenue grow by 900% since its September raise and even more impressively, that in the first two months of 2022, it brought in more revenue than all of 2021. Meanwhile, the startup has doubled its client base to more than 3,000 companies and reached about $1.3 Image Credits: Mila Ferrell / Cervin.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Austin made headlines in 2021 for being “the place” for startup founders and venture capitalists alike to set up shop. That’s why TechCrunch has chosen to shine a spotlight on the city with a special episode of TechCrunch Live centered on the growing startup scene in Austin, Texas. VCs invested over $5.5

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

I asked some investor friends to share, as the title suggests, one thing they wished people better understood about venture capital. There were no ground rules other than to specify that ‘people’ could be founders, politicians, LPs, etc and that it would be default attributed but anonymous if they desired. All money is green.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 13, 2022

whereas in 2014 around 71% of teens used Facebook, the study says in 2022 that number has dropped down to 32%. Magnus Grimeland, founder of the early-stage VC firm Antler, lays out some of the key principles to keep in mind. other stuff. million investors losing $5 billion collectively.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2022

I could spend hours discussing early-stage startup operations and community-based marketing, but deal flow is my blind spot. But when investment banking firm UBS picked up financial robot-advisor Wealthfront for $1.4 European and North American edtech startups see funding triple in 2021. Alex Wilhelm: Money over bulls**t.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

EDT when we bring you a special Twitter Spaces, “ Immigration law for startups ,” featuring Silicon Valley–based attorney and TechCrunch+ columnist Sophie Alcorn. Sophie will discuss immigration-related issues and answer questions relevant to startup founders and workers. Christine and Haje. The TechCrunch Top 3.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

Hello and welcome to this 109th day of 2022 – April 19 – which celebrates, among other things, National Garlic Day (nice try, Big Allium) and Bicycle Day , the anniversary of the discovery of LSD. And Australia’s Square Peg Capital is plowing $550 million into startups in Southeast Asia. PT, subscribe here.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

Photo by Scott Clark for Upfront Ventures (no, Evan is not standing on a box) Last year marked the 25th anniversary for Upfront Ventures and what a year it was. The industry has obviously changed enormously in 2022 but in many ways it feels like a “return to normal” that we have seen many times in our industry.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Y Combinator’s newly announced plan to invest more capital into startups that take part in its accelerator program is more controversial than many first assumed. program and investing group with hundreds of companies in each of its accelerator classes may have materially changed the earliest stage of investing.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Starry-eyed newlyweds routinely sign prenuptial agreements without losing their sense of idealism, and startup founders should do the same, advises Yonaton Aronoff, a partner at litigation and employment law firm Harris St. ” Why your startup needs a prenup. . ” Why your startup needs a prenup.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

As is our custom, you’ll see quite a few TechCrunch+ articles in the coming days that share predictions for 2022. It won’t be too unrealistic to expect something in 2022. AWS will buy a SaaS company, and other 2022 enterprise predictions. .” 3 views: Pay attention to these startup theses in 2022.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2022

Even if you didn’t experience this first-hand as a startup founder or employee, the sheer amount of funding dispersed just last year proves my point. mostly in Silicon Valley), and they came from a combination of private equity, investment banks and growth VC firms. Funding startup trends. This year’s a bit different.

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propel(x)

JULY 11, 2022

This way, Brelyon only saw the syndicate as a single investor and did not have multiple small investors showing up on the cap table , which is not desirable for a startup seeking funding in later rounds. Private placements are a high-risk investment. Brelyon raised money through Propel(x) via a Seed Round in early 2020.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Backed by Draper, of course, the program will launch in April 2022. As founder of the famed Silicon Valley venture capital firm known as Draper Fisher Jurvetson, or DFJ, Draper in 2018 introduced the Startup House concept. As part of the program, DSH will invest up to $100,000 in pre-seed startups. .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Dear Sophie: How can early-stage startups compete for talent? Dear Sophie, As a first-time, early-stage startup founder, I find it difficult to compete against other startups on compensation. billion invested,” reports Rita Liao. Eight years into his tenure, Satya Nadella looks to diversify.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Data reveals Women Entrepreneurs Gaining Ground On the startup side, according to the 2024 Wells Fargo Impact of Women -Owned Business Report, between 2019 and 2023 women-owned businesses grew at nearly double the rate of those owned by men which was exceeded during 2022 to 2023, reaching 4.5 billion of total venture capital.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The unprecedented rush of venture capital into startups is having an interesting knock-on effect: “Venture capital investors are racing to pay more to buy smaller pieces of startups that are less profitable than before,” writes Alex Wilhelm, who studied Silicon Valley Bank’s State of the Markets Report Q4 2021.

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