TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

On June 1 our crew is hosting three hours of panels, talks and pitches with founders, investors and startups from Columbus, Ohio. This extended event is designed to highlight the growing startup ecosystem emerging from America’s midwest. Register for the virtual event here , and apply for the pitch-off here.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 31, 2023

With an impressive 60% of startups hailing from outside South Korea, COMEUP 2023 , embraces its 2023 theme, “We Move the World,” underlining its commitment to continuous innovation and nurturing the global startup ecosystem.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 6, 2024

For Founders Make It Make Sense Venture capital is where innovation meets investment. Founders seeking to tap into this rare mix of reach, influence, and capital must navigate this terrain with an immense amount of intention and foresight.

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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

JUNE 10, 2022

Felix Williams is the founder and managing director of Lagomaj Capital. While younger than the typical investor, Williams believes his youth affords him the ability to offer a fresh perspective on tech and problems that startups are trying to solve. When did you first become interested in venture capital? Louis well.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 2, 2023

Allison Baum Gates Contributor Share on Twitter Allison Baum Gates is a general partner at early-stage venture capital fund SemperVirens, and the author of Breaking into Venture. I spent the better part of my first five years in venture capital on a plane (mostly in middle seats in economy, to be exact).

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

A number of individuals also participated, including partners from First Round Capital and Wilson Sonsini, Wiley and Allison Cerilli, David Rose, Tom Wisniewski, Chad Stoller, and Ramesh Haridas, among others. VCs pitch for money, too. VCs pitch for money, too. It's the black box of the startup world.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

This Space is not a forum for pitching an article — if you’d like to submit your post for consideration, please email guestcolumns@techcrunch.com. Ask @YourProtagonist tomorrow, October 19 at 3 pm PT/ 6 pm ET during our Q&A (but please save your pitches to send over via email!) — TechCrunch (@TechCrunch) October 18, 2021.

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StartupNation

AUGUST 4, 2021

The role involved working closely with Gilbert, who owns the Cleveland Cavaliers, and a colleague to analyze and pitch what they felt were the best trades the professional basketball team could possibly make to improve their odds of winning. . Related: Detroit’s Monica Wheat Strengthens Startup Ecosystem with Equality and Inclusion.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2023

For venture capitalists, the pandemic has been a tumultuous ride. Tony Wu, a partner at Northern Light Venture Capital, a China-focused VC firm with $4.5 billion assets under management, calls 2022 the “toughest” in his 15 years of investing in Chinese startups. Image Credits: Getty Images. solar manufacturing gets a $2.5

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

We live in a world with a stereotypical representation of what a startup founder looks like, so it’s no wonder that a large portion of the population feels underrepresented. A Gender Gap Grader study shows that women represent 9 percent of developers in the startup ecosystem. Myth 4: Startup founders are white.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2022

If you’ve read anything about pitching your company, you’ve probably come across advice that says that you need a warm introduction to an investor. But if you don’t regularly attend barbecues at the Sonoma mansions of venture capitalists, don’t worry — access isn’t the only way to raise money.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Horizon Capital , an investment firm based out of Kyiv, is in the process of raising a $250 million fund that it plans to use to back tech startups in the country and neighboring Moldova. The startup ecosystem in Ukraine is, arguably, in an even more precarious state when considering all of the above.

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Revolution

MAY 21, 2019

At the end of each tour day, we hosted a pitch competition where a local startup received a $100,000 investment from Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund. For the pitch competitions in Orlando, Tampa Bay, Miami, and Puerto Rico, innovative startups based within a 100-mile radius of a tour stop were invited to apply.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In my current position as executive director of PRSTRT’s accelerator, parallel18 , I’ve been inviting VCs to visit us and bridge the gap between business and capital. Investors can get a feel for founder personalities, hear soft pitches and share connections, ideas and commonalities that don’t naturally come up over Zoom.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

There are plenty of reasons why Vilnius, Lithuania’s capital city, has an increasingly visible startup sector. But what are the locals excited about on the ground? , managing director, The Lithuanian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association. Gabriele Poteliunaite , associate, Change Ventures.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

With venture investors committing to funding Black and minority founders, alongside the growing availability of government-backed proposals, such as New Jersey allocating $10 million to a seed fund for Black and Latinx startups , can we expect to see fundamental change? These discussions then bring further biases to the surface.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Boulder is quickly becoming a startup mecca on par with Silicon Valley — largely due to the Techstars accelerator, which has cultivated the city’s startup ecosystem. Brad Feld helped co-found the venture capital firm with one goal in mind: to help entrepreneurs. “We

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Today, there’s a wall of new exciting things to look at…including, among other things, an opportunity Neesha has for you if you’re running a space startup: Apply to pitch onstage at TC Sessions: Space 2022 ! Cold outreach with a warm touch: Here’s the fast pitch we emailed to investors. That was yesterday. wonders Alex.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Further insights from our 2020 Pitch Deck Interest metrics also indicate that the experience in the seed round is amplified in an unprecedented market environment. As CEO of DocSend, this data on The Funding Divide was important to capture and share with the startup ecosystem to help create awareness for underrepresented founders.

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TechCrunch

JULY 9, 2021

Startups have never had it so good. “The venture capital market is racing ahead, foot on the gas, middle finger out the window, hair on fire.” Pakistan’s growing tech ecosystem is finally taking off. startup ecosystem,” they write. 5 fundraising imperatives for robotics startups.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

billion across 412 deals in 2021, more than double the amount of capital invested in 2020, according to PitchBook data. Today, Austin is more than just the capital of Texas. For years it was known primarily for its software scene — in addition to being the live music capital of the world. VCs invested over $5.5

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Startups and VC It’s been a pretty slow day on the news front today — I think everyone has a case of the Fridays today. Here’s a few of the stories worth taking a closer look at, though: Ka-ching : Catherine reports that Sequoia Capital Southeast Asia backs cross-border payments startup Tazapay. Becca and Ron wonder.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

We live in a world with a stereotypical representation of what a startup founder looks like, so it’s no wonder that a large portion of the population feels underrepresented. A Gender Gap Grader study shows that women represent 9 percent of developers in the startup ecosystem. Myth 4: Startup founders are white.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2022

Weirdly, this seems underrated in the startup ecosystem. Granted, they are more successful at raising capital, but that’s more of a self-fulfilling prophecy than anything else.” This post isn’t about young founders.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Accelerators, incubators, entrepreneurship training programs and workshops, co-working spaces, maker spaces, universities, pitch events and competitions, networking events and meetups, venture capital firms, angel investors, government and other civic programs, and mentors. What kind of information should you look for?

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2022

Here’s the agenda , and these are the companies that are pitching at the event. Oh, and with a title like OK, don’t fear: the long shots are still getting venture funding , you just know you’re in for a treat with today’s episode of the Equity podcast. In any case, tomorrow is the big day! TC Sessions: Robotics is finally upon us!

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

So, in keeping with our mission, we present to you today a list of Ukrainian tech companies and initiatives you can support, the products you can use, and the startups which you – if you’re an investor – can look at funding. Ahrefs claims to have become a $100 million company in annual revenue without venture capital.

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

This post is an attempt to unpack the changes we observed both during and after our time with Techstars, to draw out potentially useful lessons about how things might have gone differently. ——— In the Beginning: Champions of the Local Startup Ecosystem Techstars launched its first program in Boulder in 2007.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

It will be all hands on deck today and tomorrow as we listen to startups pitch at the YC Demo Day, so look out for a deluge of stories over the next two days. Other goings-on across the startup ecosystem: Pinecone is building a database system especially for data scientists and just raised $28 million to add some growth rings.

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Don Dodge

APRIL 6, 2015

I remember the Demo Day in 2007 where DropBox presented to about 30 Boston area Angels and Venture Capital investors. from Sequoia Capital and have gone on to raise over $1 Billion from VC investors. Two years earlier I saw another Boston based startup called Carbonite pitch a similar cloud backup solution to investors.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 4, 2024

My previous startup was bootstrapped, easy, fast, and 100% control. Giving the same pitch, sending the same email, and answering the same questions over and over again. First, raising investment won’t solve any issues that a startup has, even if that issue is that we’re running out of money. Refresh again. Still nothing.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Mark Volchek, founding partner, Las Olas Venture Capital. Parekh, managing partner, Secocha Ventures. We are excited to invest in fast-growing consumer and techsumer companies doing over $10 million in revenue, are quickly scaling and need growth capital. Where do you see Miami’s startup scene five years from now?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2021

” Katai also shared his impressions of Romania’s startup ecosystem, suggestions for maintaining top-of-mind status with customers, and reinforced the often-overlooked need to continually repurpose content to grab mindshare. Latin America’s increasingly dynamic venture capital scene has been making headlines of late.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

Previously, we introduced the concept of flexible VC : structures that allow founders to access immediate risk capital while preserving exit and ownership optionality. Capacity Capital. Chattanooga, TN-based Capacity Capital was launched in 2020 with a primary focus on the southeastern U.S. Compensation-based.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 30, 2022

Register Kickstart Ventures , one of the most active venture capital firms in the Philippines, celebrates its 10th anniversary with a renewed commitment to invest in startups across the Philippines, and in major innovation hubs in Southeast Asia and beyond. on its first year.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? In our previous essay, we introduced the concept of Flexible VC : structures which allow founders to access immediate risk capital while preserving exit and ownership optionality. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

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