David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

One of the first decisions we had to make in setting up our new VC fund, Versatile Venture Capital , was our CRM and marketing technology infrastructure. . Investors [and founders] will follow a power-curve, like any other data set. Linkedin : Versatile Venture Capital / David Teten personal.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

His startup, College Cash , allows brands to petition users to create photo and video marketing content highlighting their product or service, with the wrinkle being that content creators are paid by the brands in the form of credits that go directly toward paying down their student loan debt. Demetrius Curry, CEO of College Cash.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Register Singapore-based venture capital firm Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia and India (VVSEAI) has successfully concluded its fifth funding round, raising $541 million. More than 35 percent of startups in VVSEAI Fund IV boasted at least one woman founder.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 31, 2023

Register Indonesian digital bank Superbank , supported by Grab, Singtel, and Emtek Group, is collaborating with Singapore’s Genesis Alternative Ventures to offer a financing package of $40 million for startups in Indonesia. This initiative will primarily focus on startups in the series B and series C funding stages.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

At TechCrunch Disrupt, Houseparty founder Ben Rubin emphasized decentralization as Web3’s central feature. In conversation with reporter Taylor Hatmaker, Rubin said NFTs show that individuals can benefit from Web3 adoption, while decentralized finance and cryptocurrency trading are more commercialized forms. In today’s Web 2.0,

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Artem Ventures led the investment charge, with contributions from MSW Ventures and the ScaleUp Founders Fund. In addition to its successful funding round, MADCash has appointed Musyrifah Malek as a co-founder, a strategic move attributed to her extensive legal expertise. ” Nuraizah said.

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

Revolution Chairman & CEO, Steve Case and Mitch Landrieu The conversation: A fireside chat with White House Infrastructure Coordinator and former Mayor of New Orleans, Mitch Landrieu The takeaways: Creating an environment where startups thrive pays off in ways that courting existing corporations doesn’t. Infrastructure touches everything.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

At our mid-year offsite our partnership at Upfront Ventures was discussing what the future of venture capital and the startup ecosystem looked like. But it will be patiently deployed, waiting for a cohort of founders who aren’t artificially clinging to 2021 valuation metrics. What is a VC To Do?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

To put it mildly, the meteoric collapse of Silicon Valley Bank has been a historic time of confusion for everyone the startup ecosystem touches. Niko Bonatsos, MD, General Catalyst While many founders and VCs have shared similar experiences as they try to navigate this confusion, the future ahead is even hazier.

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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

Austin’s venture capital scene has been hot for years now, but a pair of local investment firms just closed on new funds aimed at injecting more capital into startups in Austin and elsewhere. 6 VCs talk the future of Austin’s exploding startup ecosystem. Keri Findley, founder of Tacora.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

Its proximity to London has meant that it is a good alternative for founders looking for a more affordable stay while letting them tap the capital’s financial resources. Key emerging startups from Bristol include Graphcore, Open Bionics, Ultraleap, Immersive Labs and Five AI. Pete Read , CEO and founder, Persona Education.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) last week sent ripples in startup ecosystems around the world, and it is emerging that millions of dollars held by African startups and venture capital funds at the bank were at stake, until the U.S. Federal Reserve acted to save the day. Sad to see them go down.

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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 1: Startup founders are young .

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The battle to win Startup Battlefield began long before TechCrunch Disrupt kicked off Tuesday. Startup founders from all over the world applied to what has been described as the most competitive batch in TechCrunch history.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2021

We believe that in order to increase diversity in the startup ecosystem, one thing that we must do is increase diversity — whether it be in regard to gender, race or geography — amongst angel investors,” said Hustle Fund co-founder and general partner Elizabeth Yin. To more people like Colorado-based Penn. “

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 8, 2023

The fund targets companies with ambitious mindsets, strong product-market fit, and remarkable growth potential, offering scale-up capital from Series A and beyond. By empowering thousands of founders to launch and scale companies that tackle pressing global challenges, we move society forward and ensure a better future,” added Magnus.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Paulo is the co-founder of Vale do Dendê (Dende Valley) and AFAR Ventures , a global diversity and inclusion creative and consulting agency that identifies opportunities for multinational brands, corporations and investors in emerging markets. Paulo Rogério Nunes. Contributor. Tara Sabre Collier. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Startups and VC. Meta Platforms is looking at India’s burgeoning startup ecosystem as it bolsters its bet on the metaverse. million to serve underbanked communities with its embedded finance platform, Jagmeet reports. TechCrunch+ is our membership program, which helps founders and startup teams get ahead.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Those exits are providing returns, which investors are putting into other early-stage New Zealand startups to keep the ecosystem healthy and churning. Elevating Kiwi startups into scale stage. Elevate Acting CEO James Pinner.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

So far, 2021 seems like a golden era for raising startup funding, but deep tech startups still face challenges, as few VCs have the patience or risk appetite to experiment — or wait for their investment to show returns. Rad Power Bikes founder Mike Radenbaugh on fueling the e-bike revolution. economic impact,” he writes.

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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 1: Startup founders are young .

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The $90 million figure was raised across two rounds: a $60 million Series C co-led by SVB Capital (a subsidiary of Silicon Valley Bank) and Ribbit Capital that values the company at $550 million, and a previously unannounced $30 million Series B1 led by Redpoint Ventures. Insurtech is hot on both sides of the Atlantic.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

I'm ecstatic to announce that Brooklyn Bridge Ventures has just completed a first close of $3.5 The funding was anchored by a major commitment from Two Sigma Ventures, the private venture investment affiliate of Two Sigma Investments. million of limited partner commitments--a huge and exciting first step.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

Since he began angel investing in 2014, Soyombo has invested in 33 startups, including Stripe-owned Paystack , PiggyVest, and TeamApt. Today, the investor is announcing the launch of Voltron Capital , a Pan-African venture capital firm he co-founded with Abe Choi , a U.S.-based Abe Choi (Co-founder, Voltron).

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Founder, and former President and CEO. Salyer served as a member of the Council Finance Committee, Council Economic Development Committee, and as chairman of the Council Social Services Committee. How did you get into the accounting and finance staffing industry? Q&A with Meg Salyer. of Accel Financial Staffing. Get started!

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 1, 2021

Joe wasn’t sure how to share the news with Monica, his company co-founder. For Monica and Joe it’s a matter of extending the runway to keep the company onboard, and get enough commercial momentum to advance their next round of financing. How did they get us into that situation? - he asked himself.

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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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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

Since its inception, Eterneva has seen triple-digit growth in sales — including in 2020, when it more than doubled its revenue, according to CEO and co-founder Adelle Archer. Archer and co-founder Garrett Ozar launched Eterneva in the first quarter of 2017 after working together at BigCommerce. “I

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Inside Plaid’s plans to build a new, global finance network. Smart growth tactics can put account-based marketing within reach for startups and SMBs. Global startup funding has soared this year, but a number of exits and large funding rounds are drawing new attention to India’s startup ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

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. Demo days are a showcase for tech media, but does this performative Silicon Valley tradition still benefit founders and investors? You can sign up here.).

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Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Much of this can trickle down into the startup ecosystem. TechCrunch’s Kate Clark has done a round-up of the largest “private VC” rounds of 2018, and there’s a whole other list for just $100M+ financings led by Softbank’s Vision Fund. Getting capital in the earliest stages continues to get easier.

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Not coincidentally, they also serve as training grounds for some of the world’s most successful startup founders. Although we haven’t been on the inside at Techstars for several years, we grew up with the program and have watched with growing dismay as it drifted away from its original focus on founders.

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2021

Laura González-Estéfani is the founder and CEO of TheVentureCity , an international, operator-led venture acceleration model designed to make the global entrepreneurial ecosystem more diverse, international and accessible to fair capital. Laura González-Estéfani. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 26, 2022

From Box to Glossier, and Comms to Venture Capital, Ashley Mayer Is Carving a Pretty Unique Path. But for the first time since abandoning my law school plan A, my mandate was clear: I needed to work at a startup. I had gone to high school with the founders in the Seattle area, and we had recently reconnected. Enter Box.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly. In the last full year where we have data LA attracted $1.5

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The area is home to a number of investors, successful tech founders and an eager local government. We spoke to the following investors: Alexandra Wilkis Wilson, co-founder and managing partner, Clerisy. Mark Volchek, founding partner, Las Olas Venture Capital. Parekh, managing partner, Secocha Ventures.

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