Revolution

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In the process of finding, funding, and supporting startups that will transform their markets, investors can get caught up in KPIs, ROI, and other three-letter success indicators. A founder’s wellness can have a ripple effect, influencing everything from team morale to investor confidence. Founders are not machines.

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Revolution

MAY 5, 2023

But once investors fully realized the capital intensity and long time horizons of these technologies, they began to pull back — particularly at the later stage. The impact of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) will be transformative and reveal whether meaningful government investment can really move the needle when it comes to emissions.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Register JALA Tech, a leading Indonesian startup company, has succesfully secured massive funding from multiple investors. Indonesian Startup Company JALA Tech Raises Millions of USD in Series A Funding On November 28, JALA Tech’s official social media revealed the company has secured funding in millions of USD.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2023

Its latest round of funding, a $100 million Series C, attracted a laundry list of notable investors. To date, Humane has raised $230 million from existing and previous investors, including Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff. 7 investors reveal what’s hot in fintech in Q1 2023 Money coins in a pile. Kyle investigates.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

It is also the case that a number of VC firms and growth investors are raising their own SPACs. I like the small VC firm model, a close and long standing relationship with our investors (called LPs), and the rhythm of raising funds and sending the money back again and again. It will be revealing to all of us in time.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The Editor of Asia Tech Daily had the privilege of sitting down with a seasoned investor, Vadim Shpak , who has not only witnessed the industry’s evolution but has also played a pivotal role in shaping it. “Immersing oneself as an investor in a venture fund and learning directly from seasoned professionals is highly beneficial.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Roam , which bills itself as a “cloud HQ” for distributed, remote companies, today emerged from stealth with $30 million in Series A funding led by IVP with participation from undisclosed angel investors. Lerman declined to reveal financials, including revenue figures, when asked. and abroad, CEO Howard Lerman said.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 2, 2022

Charting sales efficiency by year of IPO would be revealing if this is the case: good idea for a future post.). In addition, along the way, investors and founders began to explore more capital intensive businesses: direct-to-consumer ecommerce, semiconductor companies, real estate ownership, multi-year software development.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In the ten speeches that constitute the book, Mr. Munger reveals his frameworks for life. In one of the speeches, he chides investors for spending too much time on the macro and not enough on human pyschology & incentives of individuals. The book contains his for investing.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2021

Buzzy live voice chat app Clubhouse has confirmed that it has raised new funding – without revealing how much – in a Series B round led by Andreessen Horowitz through the firm’s partner Andrew Chen. The app was reported to be raising at a $1 billion valuation in a report from The Information that landed just before this confirmation.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2021

New investor Georgian and existing investors Illuminate Ventures and GingerBread Capital also participated. Contentstack , a startup that offers a headless content management system (or a “content experience platform” in marketing-speak), today announced that it has raised a $57.5 million Series B round.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 10, 2022

Stealing a page from Michael Mauboussin’s Expectations Investing , company value contains information about investors' expectations for a company. Naturally, comparing data companies' valuations to the market should reveal investors' aspirations for the data sector relative to the market writ large.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 28, 2023

Register In a significant move to bolster the local startup ecosystem, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) revealed that the Philippine Startup Venture Fund (SVF) now stands at about P8 billion (around $143 million). Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2021

One of the most revealing bits of its story? Luckily, the S-1 reveals that its earlier decisions led to sharp revenue growth at the company. Unless public-market investors are concerned that the edtech market’s growth is mostly behind it. The vast majority of Duolingo’s revenue comes from subscriptions. Duolingo has raised $183.3

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 3, 2023

Upgrading its existing licenses, HashKey now has the green light to provide services to retail investors in the city. This license will enable HashKey’s trading platform to broaden its business scope, extending its services from professional investors to retail users.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2023

Even as Y Combinator reveals the latest startups in its cohort for this winter , we have poor news for founders: the global venture capital market shrank in Q1 2023, and it would have been even worse if it were not for a few mega deals, according to Crunchbase (disclosure: my former employer) and PitchBook reports.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 23, 2024

This was due to investors pivoting to early-stage companies, causing U.S. The numbers reveal the steep funding drop-off for fintech startups. While the funding decline adversely impacted fintech startups, the U.S. gained a larger share of the sector with 41% of 2023 deals, the highest since 2016.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2022

More diverse investors in the U.S. More investors are investing in nontraditional businesses. More institutional investors are providing ticket sizes from $100,000 to $500,000 in the idea stage, more opportunities to build a founder network, and more investors that have already invested in Black founders in the past.”.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The inaugural funding round, which concluded successfully last Wednesday, attracted the support of over 30 investors who enthusiastically joined the initiative. With a primary focus on nurturing early-stage Web3, startups will play a key role, especially in those rooted in Asia and Hong Kong.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2023

Fungible managed to raise over $300 million in venture capital prior to the Microsoft acquisition from investors including Softbank’s Vision Fund and Norwest Venture Partners. In August, after a rumored failed sale to Meta, the company revealed that it had laid off staff and was scaling back its product portfolio.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

New investors Greenoaks Capital and China’s Tencent co-led the round, which included participation from some existing backers as well. The Series E was oversubscribed with investors who got in and “some who could not join,” according to Braga. But we have been constantly overachieving on the forecast that we shared with our investors.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 19, 2023

The global offering will include about 10% of the shares for investors based in Hong Kong , while the remaining shares will be offered internationally. At present, Adicon has attracted significant investment from five cornerstone investors who will acquire shares worth $37.17 million shares, priced at HK$12.32

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2022

The right questions to ask investors when fundraising in a down market. “In fact, the more a founder can push the questions back to the investor in a way that gives a better understanding of their business and investment strategy, the easier the rest of the conversation will be.” Weird robotics breakthroughs? I love ’em so!

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2023

Since SVB was the bank of choice for so many startups, Natasha Mascarenhas and Alex Wilhelm spoke to several investors (on and off the record) to find out how they’re advising their portfolio companies. Becker was doing damage control after SVB announced plans to sell $1.25 “Simply reducing costs in lieu of growth will not work.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

This is the question facing late-stage software investors today. Value-oriented investors may opt for company 4. Of that $329b, $253b (77%) originated from the wallets of non-traditional investors: hedge funds, crossovers, private equity, sovereign wealth, and mutual funds. Which investment will generate the greatest return?

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Baichuan revealed on its WeChat account that this recent financing round succeeded an initial $50 million angel round. Nonetheless, investors have raised a cautionary flag, anticipating an impending consolidation in the industry due to mounting cost and profitability pressures.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 5, 2021

Mean round sizes and deal counts when plotted against the 10 year yield also reveal rectangular hyperbolas. When the cost of capital is low and yields on cash are small, investors seek greater risk to attain a return. This is why all investors' eyes are trained on inflation and Treasury yields. There are arguments on both hands.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2023

In retrospect, investors and observers started to acknowledge that a market in which due diligence often got sidelined wasn’t healthy. This fact alone could indicate that we’re in a market that’s correcting back to 2020 levels, but breaking down the data reveals a more concerning picture.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

In a blog post that TechCrunch saw before publication, Madrona investor and Ally backer S. Rapid growth in 2020 reveals OKR software market’s untapped potential. Rapid growth in 2020 reveals OKR software market’s untapped potential. It’s the sort of growth that venture investors want to own a piece of.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2023

As its name suggests, San Francisco-based Capbase claims it can update a company’s cap table in real time as it issues shares, signs contracts and raise money from investors. The company declines to reveal current numbers saying only that it continues to grow its ARR month over month “at a very strong clip.”).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2023

Inovia Capital led the round and was joined by new investors, including Shopify president Harley Finkelstein; Ancestry.com CEO Deb Liu; Allen Shim, former CFO of Slack; Golden State Warriors CFO Josh Proctor; Substack CEO Chris Best; Confluent CTO Neha Narkhede; Mike Lee, co-founder of MyFitnessPal; Hyphen Capital; EDC and Plaza Ventures.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

also included Fidelity Management and Research Company, Amazon’s Climate Pledge Fund, Coatue and D1 Capital Partners as well as several other existing and new investors. Just months after that reveal, Rivian announced a $700 million funding round led by Amazon. Rowe Price Associates Inc., Rivian is now valued at $27.6

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Blackstone, which is also an investor in Byju’s, owned about 38% of Aakash prior to the acquisition. Earlier this month, the Indian startup revealed its financial accounts for the year ending in March 2021 , after a prolonged delay. Byju’s said it clocked a revenue of $305.6 million and widened its losses to $577.4

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 25, 2023

Sources cited by Reuters reveal that VNG had initially entered a preliminary agreement with NASDAQ in 2017 to explore the possibilities of an IPO. Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet?

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

This investment came from a seed funding round by various investors, including AppWorks, 500 Global, January Capital, Spiral Ventures, and Saison Capital. Along with the good news, Inflow revealed that the startup company’s revenue has improved over 15 times.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Nothing hasn’t revealed the names this round, though the Series A was led by GV and featured a number of private investors, including Tony Fadell, Casey Neistat, Kevin Lin and Steve Huffman. We look forward to working alongside Qualcomm Technologies and our strategic investors to achieve Nothing’s next phase of growth.”.

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NZ Entrepreneur

MAY 2, 2023

She talks about her amazing branding including how investors didn’t like it, launching the company two days after a Covid lockdown (and how it ended up being a good thing) and why she made the choice to move back to Taranaki after more than 10 years away. It’s an incredible story. This one has it all!

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