TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

With a drier than normal investment scene, founders are looking for more effective ways to reach the right VCs. To that end, over the past few weeks, thousands of founders have applied to land capital through a common app, but instead of hoping to land into a university, they’re hoping to land capital from top investors.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Register Philippines-based Nila Capita l is the country’s inaugural student venture fund, officially launching with new opportunities for Gen Z startup founders. Nila Capital is capping its funding at $10,000 per round. It aims to help young founders in a vast network of fellow Gen Z entrepreneurs.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 1, 2021

Calibrate’s Isabelle Kenyon raised $27 million via virtual meetings Here are her tips and tricks for rapid long-distance fundraising. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 25, 2024

The Angel Capital Association (ACA) Summit represents a beacon for black investors, founders, and high-growth startups. The summit offers an unparalleled opportunity for learning, networking, and investment discovery, specifically tailored to empower the black entrepreneurial ecosystem.

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Startup Blogpost

MARCH 10, 2023

From including your team in deductibles to researching specific exemptions, here are seven answers to the question, “What are your most helpful tax strategies that every startup founder needs to be aware of?” One strategy worth considering is an Interested Stockholder Tax Basis Adjustment (ISTBA).

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Onevest

APRIL 23, 2015

By Michael Whitehouse Investment rounds are an essential part of the startup investment journey. You will encounter them progressively as you negotiate a deal either with a startup founder, or as an investor looking to attract further capital to an existing organization. Photo credit: [link].

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Ann Lai joined Bullpen Capital in 2020 as a general partner and has invested in and advised more than 30 early- to late-stage companies. Among all the buzzwords startups use when pitching investors and in their marketing, “data-driven” is nearly at the top of the pile. But what does being data-driven really mean?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Without a doubt, a good, friendly introduction — ideally from a founder they’ve already invested in — is the best way to get on the radar of an investor. The VC might know their kids’ school teacher pretty well, for example, but the school teacher may not have a lot of startup or investing experience.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Prior to joining Sequoia, Chen worked at Emergence Capital and McKinsey. Dave Samuel, the co-founder of Freestyle.vc. An experienced executive, serial entrepreneur and internet pioneer in software and media, Dave Samuel is co-founder of Freestyle.vc. Lo Toney, the founding managing partner at Plexo Capital.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2022

is still the best place in the world for Black startup founders to raise money. It’s quite easy to harp on the dismal funding and often discriminatory treatment that Black founders receive in the U.S. It’s a spiral really — less wealth, less capital, fewer ideas that become unicorns.”. Despite, well, everything, the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

Navin Chaddha is managing partner at Mayfield , an inception and early-stage investor with more than 50 years of a people-first investing philosophy. What is happening to risk-taking in venture capital? Here are a few of my favorite tips for founders looking to raise capital and build a strong inception-stage company.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Register Over the last decade, the landscape of venture investing in the U.S. Team Asia Daily spoke to one such venture capitalist Jessie Wu , an early-stage investor at Upshot Ventures, in an exclusive interview, shedding light upon her investment journey while paving the way for upcoming startup founders and venture capital investors.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Register Venture investment is a high-stakes game that demands vision, persistence, and adaptability. Although venture capital is often viewed as a maze, there are those who have paved the way, making the journey smoother for others. Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2023

It took me a while, but I’m realizing that my startup love language is discussing any attempts to standardize the opaque and often informal world of venture capital. There are funds that invest entirely based on data. Or tools that help startups see all their financing options at the drop of a profile. Talking points.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

In late 2020, a group of Stanford students banded together to create Stanford 2020, a venture fund solely to invest in their fellow classmates’ ventures. Given the school’s past in spinning out successful startup founders, it unsurprisingly had no trouble raising $1.5 During a downturn, the pitch seems more risky.

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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. And web3 is all about the community.”.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2022

For years, Austin has made headlines as an evolving tech hub where startups, large companies and investors alike have flocked to set up a presence. But as 2022 closes, the Texas capital is in the news for a very different, tragic reason — being home to the sudden death of a startup founder at the hands of a police officer.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 24, 2023

Register Mark & Company, led by CEO Kyungpyo Hong, has announced the establishment and management of a new venture investment fund in partnership with Yoonmin Creative Investment Foundation, chaired by Minseop Sung. 1, launched in July 2021.

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 15, 2024

Charting the Path to Success in Tech Investing: An Exclusive Interview with GoAhead Ventures’ Founding Trio GoAhead Ventures (“GoAhead”) is a Silicon Valley based venture capital firm founded by three Stanford graduates: Takeshi “TK” Mori, Clancey Stahr and Phil Brady (the “Managing Partners”). How did you break into tech investing?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2023

Brynne leads the hot real estate startup out of Colombia, which reached unicorn status last year with a $200 million raise. As Brynne put it to me, startup founders manage uncertainty — uncertainty in the financial environment, uncertainty in debt lines, and geopolitical uncertainty. The topic is uncertainty.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2023

, but the investor suggested that the founder and his co-founder shouldn’t be taking a salary. The investor argued that the founders were “working for equity,” and that his investment shouldn’t go to the founding team. ” at the startup founders I advise. This is the No.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 3, 2021

In the wake of the murder of George Floyd and nationwide protests, venture capital firms are making newfound commitments to invest in, or at least evaluate, potential investments that are led by diverse founders. million donation-based fund intended to grow to $15 million to invest in “underserved” founders.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2021

Today the company announced a $100 million investment fund to encourage the most promising startups using the Zoom toolset to launch a business by giving them funding, while using that as a springboard to encourage other developers to take advantage of the tooling on the platform. The company plans to invest between $250,000 and $2.5

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TechCrunch

JULY 5, 2022

John Weaver is CEO of 22 Ventures , an angel firm that offers founders connections, entrepreneurial experience and a genuine concern for their well-being. For the first time in more than a year, venture capital funding saw a decline last quarter. This results in a hard-to-break cycle of poor investment terms.

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Startup Blogpost

OCTOBER 28, 2022

How do you determine if corporate venture capital is right for your startup? To help you determine if corporate venture capital is right for your startup, we asked startup founders, investors, and business leaders this question for their best pieces of advice. Be Sure You Have Similar Goals and Expectations.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

Peanut , the maker of a social networking app for women, is entering into the investing space with today’s launch of a microfund called StartHER. In particular, StartHER aims to tackle the difficulties specific groups have in raising their first capital — something typically referred to as the “friends and family round.”

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

With so many entrepreneurs and startup ventures seeking investment opportunities, it’s crucial that venture capitalists (VCs) create a list of criteria they want their potential investments to meet. As such, VCs have to consider a number of factors when choosing which companies or entrepreneurs in whom to invest.

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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. Indelible Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in B2B SaaS startups that can scale internationally.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MAY 16, 2021

Here’s some of the top business advice and a summary of the conversation: Arelene has invested in around 80 – 90 companies between her personal investments (50 – 60) and her investment fund (about 30). Mistakes Founders Make. Is Capitalism Bad? Bad Founder? Good Company?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2021

While some major global companies like Xero, Rocket Lab, LanzaTech and Seequent have shined a spotlight on New Zealand’s startup scene, the country historically hasn’t had access to much venture capital. That is, if the momentum that has led to more early-stage capital continues.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

Coral Capital , a Tokyo-based venture capital firm, announced today that it has closed its third fund, Coral Capital III, raising $128 million (14 billion yen). Coral Capital’s total assets under management (AUM) is now $275 million. LINE Ventures merges with YJ Capital, launches $271M fund.

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Ian Hathaway

JANUARY 6, 2020

Over the next eight years, Facebook would attract half a billion users and nearly $7 billion in venture capital investment, on its way to a May 2012 IPO that valued the company at more than $81 billion. Next, we see two tables showing average founder age by key geographies (top panel) or success outcome (bottom panel).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

In recent years, calling oneself a startup founder was certainly seen as a flex. For those who wielded that role or the coveted CEO position, you were likely to be placed on a pedestal or be viewed as a visionary, aided by a venture capital market that experienced an overextended bull run in the background.

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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

MAY 10, 2021

It is clear that Black, women, Latinx and LGBTQ+ startup founders face an uphill battle when it comes to getting a share of the VC investment pie in Silicon Valley. Being able to invest directly into companies that are building amazing solutions that just so happen to be founded by diverse people.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 4, 2021

What does data from the leading investors suggest Photo by National Cancer Institute on Unsplash The current context supports research-heavy startups, there is even a special term for them?—?the the ‘deep tech startup’ search query is reaching one peak after another on Google Trends. Investments in European deep tech grew from €0.7B

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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. The firm has deployed over $60 million in capital to 130 SaaS founders since launching in January 2020, according to Latka.

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