TechCrunch

JUNE 27, 2021

In Southeast Asia, startups in this space that have raised funding over the past few months include Ajaib , Bibit and Stashaway —and that’s just a (very) partial list. Infina works with financial partners like Dragon Capital, ACB Capital, Mirae Asset Fund Management and Viet Capital Asset Management.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Machine learning models predict code, synthesize images, author blog posts reducing composition time by a factor of 2 or 3. Most categories slow down meaningfully, including Defi. but a Fed Funds rate of 5%. In the private markets, data & machine learning companies continue to raise capital despite the macro-slowdown.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

While they might not be the best in any one category, they generally offer an environment that is amenable to startups in terms of business costs, business climate, labour quality and strength of the economy. Despite not winning any individual category, Germany topped the charts as the overall best country in Europe for startups.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2021

Jamie Finney is a founding partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund , where he blogs about his work on VC and small communities. raised money from VCs and 7.7% raised from angels. Where else can fast-growing companies get funding? We detail below the major categories of VC: Funder category.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The easiest way to work with and for VC funds is to become a scout, getting compensated for sourcing investments. There are a number of VC funds that share the carry earned in their co-investment to the referring party. What really matters is scout-fund fit. For example, if the overall fund is a 0.9X A few funds (e.g.,

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 22, 2018

While being female and being black are clearly not the same thing, they do fall into the category of "not white men", which the fundraising environment favors--but perhaps not in the way people assume. 5) Both diverse founders and investors need to change their behavior if the funding statistics are going to change. Ducks head.]

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The company, with bases in both Austin and Australia, was started in 2009 and facilitates exits for millions of online business owners, some that operate on e-commerce marketplaces, blogs, SaaS and apps, the newest data integration being for Shopify, Blake Hutchison, CEO of Flippa, told TechCrunch.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

It’s why the first company I ever invested in as a VC – Invoca – just announced a $20 million funding by Accel Partners. In a way it feels intuitive to us – the readers of this blog – because we’re the tech crowd. I suppose I could have skipped the whole rest of the blog post and just posted that.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

One of the questions we discussed is, “How much capital should a startup raise?” My goal in the interview overall was to capture more of the personal side of Fred since so much of his investment thesis and portfolio work already comes out in his blog. Blogging is like Venus Fly Paper. This is classic Fred.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

One would think entrepreneurs would never want less available cash – until such time as their competitors ridiculously and unnecessarily all raise $50 million in the name of a “land grab” thus making it much harder for your totally reasonable company to attract investors. For investors life is no different. You own how much?”

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

According to the SEC we’re not allowed to market the fact that we’re fund raising, so I won’t. But for some strange reason they make you file your progress on fund raising, which is the widely picked up by the press. So it is now publicly known that we have closed $150 million in our 4th fund.

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TechCrunch

JULY 24, 2022

This will include everything from funding rounds to trends to an analysis of a particular space to hot takes on a particular company or phenomenon. In May, I wrote about Jay-Z-backed Altro, which raised $18 million to help people build credit through recurring payment forms such as digital subscriptions to Netflix, Spotify and Hulu.

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Haystack

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

And this week, the company announced it had raised a super-sized $20M Series A financing co-led by Kent Bennett from Bessemer Venture Partners and also Goldman Sachs. The company’s blog has become a destination for original research on consumer behavior and insights — check it out here: [link].

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OurCrowd

APRIL 27, 2021

But even these blistering, back-to-back IPO s only underscored the gulf between public investors, who saw their opening-day shares double in value, and private shareholders who had been able to participate in the companies’ earlier funding rounds and enjoyed logarithmic returns. trillion raised in public offerings.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

And now Casted has raised $7 million in Series A funding led by Revolution Ventures. . Existing backers High Alpha Capital, Elevate Ventures and Tappan Hill Ventures also participated in the financing, which brings Indianapolis-based Casted’s total raised to about $9.3 million since its inception.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

To conduct market research, the platform looks at billions of tweets, posts, discussion forum threads, reviews and blog posts over a two-year period and then filters for roughly 400,000 distinct concepts (e.g. Oxx led Black Swan’s latest funding round, with participation from AlbionVC. ”

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 6, 2013

I said, “This category is going to be huge. Like most markets online it will likely be a ‘winner take most’ category so if you’re going to go for it … you better be prepared to win.” They have raised now a total of $22 million. The photo in this blog (like many of mine) came from 500px.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The startup announced today that it has raised a $10 million Series A led by Union Square Ventures, with participation from Owl Ventures and Progression Fund. Previously, Fiveable had raised more than $4.2 “When we first started, we were livestreaming, we had some blogs and study guides,” said Ho.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2022

This will include everything from funding rounds to trends to an analysis of a particular space to hot takes on a particular company or phenomenon. Last October, TripActions raised $275 million in a Series F “growth” funding round at a $7.25 Earlier this year, Solvo raised a $3.5 Read more on the company’s blog post here.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 14, 2021

could it be a blog post, or a tweet? The company had just raised a $12m Series B round and were looking to build their profile to impress potential hires. and why it’s better than just publishing the news on your blog?—?is Photo by Adeolu Eletu on Unsplash Press releases are the hoary old uncle of PR and communications.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

You’re writing a freaking blog post! I try to bucket my tasks into major categories and spend some time doing each of them. I had a pre breakfast with a CEO of a company in which I invested talking about his next fund raising round. I called another about his fund raising (DUDE – you never called me back! ).

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 1, 2010

There has been much discussion about VCs doing seed funding in the past year. I’ve written about it myself (Is VC Seed Funding Dead?) and (Is There Really a Signaling Problem with VC Seed Funding?). Knowing What the Seed Funding Policy of your VC is. million of our $200 million fund for seed funding.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

The easiest way to work with and for VC funds is to become a part-time scout, getting paid for sourcing investments. How to win consulting, board, operating, and investment roles with private equity and venture capital funds (video). Syllabus for how to launch, manage, and invest a VC fund. There are a number of VC funds (e.g.,

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 26, 2022

Better Place was building the charging infrastructure to enable mass adoption of electric vehicles; it was led by a charismatic CEO, raised gobs of capital before that was the norm, and later imploded spectacularly. Operating keeps you honest, while getting to work across multiple companies and categories gives you perspective.

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OurCrowd

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Bionaut Labs raises $43.2M OurCrowd is leading SynergyMed’s current funding round. Bionaut Labs raises $43.2M MedTech pioneer Bionaut Labs raised $43.2M in Series B funding, TechCrunch reports. Our portfolio company Shield raised $20M for its AI-powered workplace intelligence platform, VentureBeat reports.

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OurCrowd

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Rebel Fund: Nurturing the next DoorDash and Airbnb. Canadian clearance for our flagship OC50 Fund. Bizzabo powers through pandemic, raises $138M. Rebel Fund: Nurturing the next DoorDash and Airbnb. Canadian clearance for our flagship OC50 Fund. Startup of the week: OncoHost. For more information, click here.

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OurCrowd

JULY 1, 2022

The company’s net revenue grew in 2021 despite supply-chain disruptions during the Covid-19 pandemic, with sales growing several times faster than the industry average across all categories. OurCrowd has secured an up to $5M allocation in the company’s new funding round, an up to $25M SAFE, at a 20% discount. L earn More. Learn More.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

I eventually stumbled on to the best source of high-quality deal flow imaginable – blogging. Before I tell you the reasons I’m concerned about investment banking intros, I should start by saying I think bankers are enormously helpful for entrepreneurs in raising money. And for the record, GRP has funded YC alum.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Salted raises $16M to expand US operations. Autobrains raises $101M for AI-powered driving platform. Funds will be used to continue R&D, complete clinical trials, and develop partnerships with other biopharmaceutical companies. Tovala gained popularity during the Covid-19 pandemic and has raised over $50M in funding. .

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 2, 2011

It’s apropos because there is so much noise these days with email, Twitter, Facebook, blogs, web shows, etc. I was thinking back to a few previous “insider baseball&# blog debates that raged for several weeks: AngelGate (aka Bin38 secret cabal), convertible debt vs. equity, bubble vs. not, and now the AngelList discussion.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

To begin with, it is important to understand some basic facts about the world of entrepreneurial finance: There are many more entrepreneurs than there are investors, with the result that only one company out of every 400 that seeks venture funding actually receives it. Use Gust to research funding sources.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing? V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog.

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Haystack

APRIL 10, 2018

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. As evidenced by today’s investor panel which included managers who focus on pre-seed, or traditional seed, or larger VC funds that can go from seed all the way to growth. Some press showed up, too.

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OurCrowd

APRIL 27, 2021

But even these blistering, back-to-back IPO s only underscored the gulf between public investors, who saw their opening-day shares double in value, and private shareholders who had been able to participate in the companies’ earlier funding rounds and enjoyed logarithmic returns. trillion raised in public offerings.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing? V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog.

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OurCrowd

MAY 23, 2021

Nexa3D raises $55M for faster 3D printing. Explorium raises $75M Series C. Earned wage access provider DailyPay raises $500M. The World Economic Forum says SqUID’s technological power and its ability to climb and work within existing infrastructures puts it in a unique category of its own: an “Autonomous Climbing Robot.”

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 19, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. raised money from VCs and 7.7% raised from angels. Where else can fast-growing companies get funding? A new category of VCs have emerged offering a hybrid between VC and RBI, which we call “Flexible VC”. . Funder Category.

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