TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

As the technology industry retrenches and venture capital firms tighten their standards, savvy founders should consider this counterintuitive question: Even if my vision is compelling enough to secure funding, should I take it? Would it have been better for many of them to have not taken excessive levels of venture capital in the first place?

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Angel Capital Association

OCTOBER 12, 2023

At the Angel Capital Association, we believe that a diverse, equitable and inclusive entrepreneurial environment makes for a more competitive and more resilient economy. If you would like more information or to engage with the Angel Capital Association DEI Task Force, please reach out.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Manufacturers face a dizzying array of potential problems around the products they produce, and it’s challenging to track down issues. Enter Axion Ray , an early-stage startup that is using machine learning to track these issues in unstructured data to build a picture of potential problems before they get out of hand. Today’s $7.5

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

With this, the Japanese government now allows startups the flexibility to secure capital using crypto assets in addition to conventional stocks. Although the right to issue stablecoins remains limited to regulated institutions, such as banks and remittance service providers, the crypto industry has warmly received this change.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2023

One of the quieter conversations in venture capital has only grown louder, in my DMs and interviews, over the past few months: The known bias in venture capital has been a branding issue for some of the emerging, diverse fund managers just now splashing onto the scene. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here.

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Founders Coop

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

At the time, each senior leader was required to write a monthly letter to the two of them, outlining their activities but also raising issues or posing questions about the business that only the founders could address. We already know we’re outliers in the blue-shirts-and-khakis world of venture capital.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The venture capital industry doesn’t have the best track record when you’re talking about ethics. Like most professions involving power and wealth, venture capital also sometimes attracts people for whom doing the right thing isn’t a concern. ” Logan Allin, founder and managing partner at Fin Capital, agreed.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2023

of all venture capital funds in any given year, and grant programs like what Fearless built were created to fill that funding gap. How venture capital is allocated to Black founders has always been a civil rights issue, just one river feeding the ocean of persistent economic segregation.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

It’s also easy to see why the San Francisco-based startup is gaining even more traction during the pandemic and resulting supply chain issues. Activate Capital led the round, which also featured Accel, Bill Gates, G2 Venture Partners, Standard Industries, Angeleno Group, Cross Creek, The Westly Group and William Blair Merchant Bank. “We

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 20, 2023

Register Investment firm Heritas Capital has announced the successful first close of Asia Impact First Fund (AIFF) with $20 million in total commitment. DBS’ anchor investment in the AIFF is a reflection of its commitment to support social enterprises that are tackling pertinent social and environmental issues in Asia.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 25, 2023

Register Venture capital firm Goodwater has concluded its latest funding round, raising $1 billion in capital commitments for its fifth early-stage and third opportunity-style funds. Most of the capital, 60%, will be allocated to early- and seed-stage startups. With this successful raise, the firm now manages $3.3

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

As companies gather ever-growing sets of data, finding issues with that data that could impact the viability of a machine learning model becomes increasingly important. Anomalo is putting machine learning to work to help solve the data viability issue automatically.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2023

For female VCs, bias is a branding issue by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch To put it simply: More women in venture means that bias and strategic branding are increasingly relevant for a larger fraction of check-writers.

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propel(x)

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

This is where capitalization tables, or “cap tables” as they are commonly known, come in. A cap table is simply a record of all stock already issued or available and identifies all stockholders and how much they own. These shares are known as Issued Shares. divided by 8m Issued Shares) at that time. What is a cap table?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

In a time when most VCs are acting more cautiously and placing focus on companies with a quick path to profitability, Countdown Capital is instead going all in on hard-to-build, capital-intensive bets. Malik said that apart from deploying pre-seed capital, the firm will be focused on helping its portfolio companies hire talent.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

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. In 2019, a report showed that 72% of surveyed entrepreneurs self-reported mental health issues, according to Forbes.

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StartupNation

AUGUST 27, 2021

It’s an issue every entrepreneur and new business must face: raising capital for your business. While capital can come in many forms — debt or equity, private or institutional — this article focuses on raising equity capital. Receiving funding is an exciting time for your business.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2022

In addition to issuing equity as a form of incentive alignment for employees, as a typical startup would, crypto companies often also issue tokens that represent ownership. The startup announced today that it has raised $5 million in seed funding led by Dragonfly Capital Partners.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

million in seed funding, capital it will use to further develop its technology and expand its operations in Europe and in the U.S. Skyqraft says the system can process high volumes of image data and is able to detect equipment issues “rapidly and with high accuracy”. Image Credits: Skyqraft.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 21, 2024

How can influencers raise capital for companies or funds, without running afoul of restrictions on “general solicitation”? The 2012 bipartisan JOBS Act was supposed to empower funds and individuals to raise capital more openly: to publicly advertise their track record and what they’re selling, just like almost every other industry.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Okash and Opesa are some of tens other loan apps that were found to charge exorbitant interest rates and to have exploitative terms – like issuing 30-day loans instead of the 60 days stipulated by Google Play Store policies.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2021

Finch Capital , the early-stage fintech VC with a presence in London and Amsterdam, is acquiring Wirecard Turkey, a subsidiary of Wirecard, the disgraced fintech out of Germany. In 2014, it was wholly acquired by Wirecard Issuing & Acquiring Gmbh, which is a subsidiary of Wirecard AG.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2021

The world of venture capital investing is a relatively small one, and relationship-based to boot. The company, founded by Samir Kaji and Hana Yang in February 2021, is developing an approach to venture capital fund investing that provides a way for investors of any size to participate. Enter Allocate.

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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. The tool, started by pre-seed firm Afore Capital, is based on Common App, which sends one application to multiple colleges and universities. Talking points. Chat soon, N.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

While he was at Uber, company CEO and co-founder Leland Takamine says that he observed this workflow where an app was put out in the world, a company set up tooling to monitor the app and then worked to fix the problem as users reported issues or the monitoring software picked them up. The product goes into beta today.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

Daily Crunch: ‘Network issue’ causes cloud outage that takes down multiple Microsoft services for 4+ hours by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch It’s that time again : Rebecca has some details on what we might expect to see in Tesla’s Q4 earnings.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2017

Recently Upfront Ventures published its outlook for the technology startup world and venture capital overall titled it “ WTF Happened to Winter ?” We are now publishing some of the VC survey data the report used and the results are clear — it’s a great time to be a startup raising venture capital.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 1, 2024

As we enter 2024, the capital markets have found their footing and are moving higher. That is good news for the innovation economy because healthy capital markets are a necessary support system. However, optimistic capital markets are necessary but not sufficient for a healthy innovation economy. Let’s start with litigation.

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Jason Malki

OCTOBER 24, 2023

I had the pleasure of interviewing Triet Nguyen (pronounced like Trent but without the N), Senior Associate at Render Capital. Born in Vietnam and raised in Texas, he recently relocated to Louisville, Kentucky, upon joining Render Capital earlier this year. Breaking into venture capital has been a remarkable and challenging journey.

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TechCrunch

MAY 1, 2023

Ann Lai , a general partner at Bullpen Capital , has been fired from the firm, she says. Lai helped raise Bullpen Capital’s most recent fund, a $145 million investment vehicle , the first investment vehicle in which she was named an equal partner. Lacy believes Lai’s experience is emblematic of a larger issue within Silicon Valley.

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Jason Malki

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Mighty Oaks Capital Partners’ Gbenga Olomola Sleeps and Wakes Working with Global Startups and Funds I had the pleasure of interviewing Gbenga Olomola, Founder & Group/CEO of Mighty Oaks Group. Gbenga Olomola’s expertise spans equity capital markets, debt capital markets, M&A, and business acquisition, among other areas.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2023

As a startup founder, you really need to understand how venture capital works One caveat: That doesn’t mean founders should pay themselves way above market rates. When you raise funding, you issue more shares and dilute yourself. Telling founders not to take a salary is wonderfully counterproductive on so many levels.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 8, 2012

What people wind up voting on has little to do with most of the words and positions being covered, because most people don't understand the finer points of each infinitely complex and nuanced issue. It has to do with more fundamental issues that probably stretch back decades. We see the world as black and white.

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Angel Capital Association

OCTOBER 4, 2023

For Immediate Release Alexandria, VA (October 4, 2023) – The Angel Capital Association (ACA) has received an $123k award from the National Science Foundation’s Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships (TIPs) designed to catalyze private investment in the Deep Tech Sector. Visit us online at angelcapitalassociation.org.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 1, 2014

We all have our inherent biases and what I am not arguing here is that the venture capital world is a fair playing field for anyone. I repeat: I AM NOT ARGUING THAT VENTURE CAPITAL IS FAIR TO ANYONE. We really don''t know, because we''re missing some critical information: HOW MANY WOMEN ARE SEEKING VENTURE CAPITAL?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2021

Meet Soda , a data monitoring platform that is going to help you discover issues with your data processing setup. But what happens if there’s an issue in your data workflows? When you spot that issue, an important part of your business might be affected. But that only covers a small part of what is considered data issues.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Regular readers of The Exchange will recall that we last dug into overall wellness venture capital investment in August , noting that it was mental health startups inside the vertical that were seeing the most impressive results. million to help with college-age mental health issues and Joon Care announced $3.5

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