TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

Steve Sloane is a partner at Menlo Ventures where he invests in inflection-stage companies. Derek Xiao is an investor at Menlo Ventures focused on soon-to-be breakout companies at the inflection stage. Image Credits: Menlo Ventures. The story repeats as enablers follow disruptors across each category of supply chain business.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 26, 2023

The capital commitments represent a significant increase from the firm’s previous venture and growth funds and demonstrate continued support from limited partners of Greycroft’s model of investing in startups across the entire venture lifecycle from seed to exit. “We

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Public stocks, bonds, private equity, real estate, venture capital, etc. And within each category, there are so many different investment opportunities. In venture capital, there were something like 30,000 companies that raised venture capital in 2019. How do you make sense out of all of that opportunity?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

We are clearly the creators of this category and the leaders in it. When we came out with this, with the vector database category, nobody knew what the hell we’re talking about. And so it’s very easy to bet on the leader of a category that is already formed,” Liberty told TechCrunch.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In almost every category, the time between rounds is also at decade highs. The public valuation environment & pace of venture capital investments mirror those years better than others. The time between rounds has also lengthened - something all of Startupland felt throughout 2023.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Over the past several years, the field of fintech infrastructure has exploded with venture capital investment and entrepreneurial attention.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

This category is very dog-dominated — dog owners spend, on average, $1,480 per year, while an average of $902 is spent annually by cat owners; therefore, there are a lot of dog-focused products, including food. “It However, we’re still really alone in bringing fresh food to the category and to cat parents.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 22, 2020

When I started in venture capital, one of the questions I learned to ask very early on was competition. Let’s say you’re creating a category. Let’s say you’re creating a category. How do you do this when creating a new category? In effect, they pool their capital to create the category.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

As 2020 comes to a long-awaited end, a series of filings indicate that venture capitalists are ending the year with fresh money. If you’ve been paying attention to news this past year, it’s clear that much of venture capital isn’t just surviving 2020 – it’s flourishing through it.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 18, 2024

For the 2024 Innovation Challenge, CharmHealth will accept proposals in the following categories: Hardware Accelerated AI, Generative AI, Tech Led Innovations, Mobile Health Apps, Healthcare Accessibility, and Social Change Solutions. 23-25, 2024, in Washington, D.C. .

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 3, 2023

Register Hypd , the Indian tech platform that enables content creators to monetize their influence, has successfully raised $4 million in a pre-series A funding round led by Orios Venture Partners. The startup plans to use the funds to accelerate creator acquisition, expand into more categories, and grow its team and product.

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TechCrunch

MAY 1, 2023

million from investors, including Human Capital and MaC Venture Capital, last year. Instead, Love launches first as a wellness marketplace that features an initial 200 curated products, like supplements, health testing kits and essential oils, among categories including reducing stress and gut health. Love previously raised $7.5

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

” The company aims to address a lot of different categories of business risk, with the ultimate goal of increasing resilience for the companies it works with. “At the heart of it, we are building a new category. “And as a result, we see that as an emerging new compliant-by-design category. . government.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2022

is a really apt term is I’m just naming certain categories of software that I know well, but I fail to see a future where all of those [categories], given the advances in compute and data and algorithms, don’t get more intelligent. Visual generation is not an existing software category. The reason I think that software 3.0

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 18, 2024

With AI and ChatAI driving a new economy, venture platform 25madison announced it is partnering with Apollo, the publicly traded alternative investment manager, to create an enterprise software venture studio called 25m Evolve. Focus is on providing enterprises with AI-native applications to respond to changing the digital landscape.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 18, 2024

Focus is on providing enterprises with AI-native applications to respond to changing digital landscape With AI and ChatAI driving a new economy, venture platform 25madison announced it is partnering with the alternative investment manager Apollo to create an enterprise software venture studio called 25m Evolve. Department of Defense.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

Lightspeed Venture Partners also invested in the new financing round, which is $75 million in equity and $75 million in debt. “The time it takes for D2C brands to go from 0 – 100Cr (about $13 million) in revenue has more than halved over the past few years,” said Harsha Kumar, partner at Lightspeed Venture, in a statement. “We

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

Now, we also went into gaming and then ‘close by’ categories, while some markets went a little bit outside of consumer electronics to become a good place for sustainable consumption.” Meanwhile, the new financing round was led by Cathay Innovation with participation from Moore Strategic Ventures, Gandel Invest and Antler.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The program has two distinct courses: The “Train” Track: Tailored for entrepreneurs prepared to launch with viable business plans, this track involves a 3-month venture-building program where participants receive a monthly stipend of $1,500 SGD.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

While venture funding in fintech slowed last year, companies in the space were still the top recipient of venture dollars worldwide. In fact, storied venture firms Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) invested more in fintech than any other category in 2022.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

Vessel Capital , a web3 venture fund, has emerged from stealth with $55 million in assets under management to invest in infrastructure and applications, the firm exclusively told TechCrunch. On a high level, we really wanted to build a new type of venture fund,” Uddin said. “A

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

The companies that took their first venture capital during the craze decided to join forces with other well-capitalized competitors. To give TechCrunch+ readers a better understanding of what education investors are looking for today, seven leading venture capitalists in the category answered a series of questions about the sector’s future.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

The 10 speakers — in each category — who receive the most votes will present their topics at the show. You pick the sessions you want at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 Specifically, you help decide which of the 17 roundtable discussions and 15 breakout sessions will earn a spot on the Disrupt agenda.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2023

In the heat of 2021’s record-setting venture market, you couldn’t avoid the growing noise from the burgeoning web3 sector. Yes, venture as a whole had a quieter year overall in 2022, but the lack of web3 deals stood out particularly because the sector entered the year with so much momentum. Trust me, I tried.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The company is the second venture in the realm of “functional soda” for co-founders Ben Goodwin and David Lester, who have worked together for nearly a decade. The two built the functional soda category, Lester told TechCrunch via email, and Olipop now accounts for two-thirds of the niche’s revenue today.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The round was co-lead by Perfect Hexagon Commodity & Investment Bank and Ascendo Ventures, with participation from the corporate venture arms of PChome, KKday and Wistron. For example, both SoftBank-backed Klook and PickTime now also offer local bookings for many categories that overlap with FunNow.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

Now it is paving the way to foray into the wealth management category. Existing investors Sequoia Capital, Blume Ventures, Beenext, DSP Group, Arkam Ventures, WEH Ventures and HDFC Bank also participated in the new round, which brings its total to-date raise to over $65 million.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

That’s in addition to one-on-one mentorship time, events and activities plus “collaboration opportunities” with other Betaworks cohort ventures. The program isn’t quite an accelerator; Betaworks describes it like a “camp.” “The AI stack hasn’t been fully defined yet,” Borthwick said.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2023

But venture capital investment into this category slowed down significantly starting in the second half of 2022: going from 42 rounds worth $336 million in Q2 2022, to only 19 rounds worth $110.2 Venture rounds and younger startups form only part of the picture, though. million in Q3 2022.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

Led by Prime Movers Lab, the round also features Prologis Ventures, Quiet Capital, Lemnos Labs, Creative Ventures, Ahoy Capital, Compound, FundersClub and Mark Cuban. The company says it currently works with 100 companies across a wide spectrum of categories, from warehouse fulfillment and manufacturing to delivery and transportation.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The venture capital industry is built on signals. The startup, launching publicly today, is building a rating system for the venture capital industry. It then creates a heat map, using the same provided dataset, that shows, at a quick glance, a firm’s strengths and weaknesses in said categories. But who rates the ratings?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

A lot of no-code products fall into this category. As a startup founder, you really need to understand how venture capital works. The red flags fall into three categories: Your company is 100% dependent on another product or company. So do you have a company or merely a feature?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

Reliance Retail has led a $240 million funding round in Google-backed hyperlocal delivery startup Dunzo as the largest Indian retail chain expands to the instant commerce space, a category that has made inroads in the South Asian market in recent quarters. Reliance Retail is investing $200 million in the round for a 25.8%

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

Last year, the competition attracted startups from 87 countries, and one third of the XTC 2020 finalists raised more than $167M combined in venture investment since being selected. The Category winners and the Special Awards winners will make it to the Global Finals stage. . Powering the Future Through Transformative Tech.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

The latest funding, which totals $550,000, includes backing by Flyer One Ventures, Geek Ventures, Vesna Capital and Imaguru and will go toward an international expansion that will make the product available in multiple foreign languages. Users can also search for, change or remove any breakdown element and add new categories.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The venture collaborates with global companies and institutions to establish a production platform for full-cycle gene therapy development. Rznomics (CEO Lee Sung-wook) is a representative bio venture in Pangyo Techno Valley that focuses on RNA-based bio new drug development.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

However, recent data indicates that startups in the creator-focused market are raising fewer venture capital rounds, limiting total investment in the technology category. Not every creator economy startup is built for creators. What’s going on?

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