TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

500 Global’s Christine Tsai shares her 2022 VC predictions. 2021 was a year like no other when it came to venture investment, and this year is poised to tread a similar path, writes 500 Global’s CEO and co-founder, Christine Tsai. 500 Global’s Christine Tsai shares her 2022 VC predictions.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 28, 2023

Register Startup founders are often too focused on the amount of money they can get from an investor that they mostly fail to see the value that other investors have to offer to grow their businesses further. Indelible Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in B2B SaaS startups that can scale internationally.

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Founders Coop

JANUARY 11, 2023

Aviel and I are both self-taught VCs: the parts of the job we learned as founders and operators of our own companies covered just a fraction of what it means to be effective money managers, fundraisers, board members and trusted partners within the tight-knit community of professional investors. The implications of this are many.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Miguel Fernandez is CEO and co-founder of Capchase , which provides non-dilutive financing to SaaS and comparable recurring-revenue companies. Use alternative financing to fuel VC-level growth without diluting ownership. But in recent years, more options have become available to founders. More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

Coral Capital , a Tokyo-based venture capital firm, announced today that it has closed its third fund, Coral Capital III, raising $128 million (14 billion yen). Coral Capital’s total assets under management (AUM) is now $275 million. LINE Ventures merges with YJ Capital, launches $271M fund.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2020

Thousands of startup founders will resume the trek around Silicon Valley VC offices, once the vaccines arrive. But we’ll remember 2020 as the year that venture truly joined the cloud. Image Credits: Brighteye Ventures. How to price your SaaS product for a bottoms-up growth strategy. Extra Crunch.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Last quarter, UiPath grew its revenue by 39%, so “the company fits neatly into the high-growth SaaS bucket,” wrote Ron and Alex Wilhelm. What most startup founders get wrong about financial projections. The pressures facing first-time founders are enormous. ” Thanks very much for reading TC+ this week!

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

In late 2020, a group of Stanford students banded together to create Stanford 2020, a venture fund solely to invest in their fellow classmates’ ventures. Given the school’s past in spinning out successful startup founders, it unsurprisingly had no trouble raising $1.5 During a downturn, the pitch seems more risky.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2011

But last week I noticed a blog post by a woman, Tara Tiger Brown, that asked the question, “ Why Aren’t More Women Commenting on VC Blog Posts? She has a quote from literally every major VC from whom you’d want to hear. And many of the best women founders. ” [it's short, you should read it].

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Startups/VC. Alloy indicates that SaaS still has a home there! Language learning app EWA raises first external capital : Want to know how to raise outside cash? Advice and strategy for early-stage sex tech startup founders. Advice and strategy for early-stage sex tech startup founders.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The second slide further rounds out the level-setting for what the company does: “Vori is a vertical SaaS solution for local and regional supermarket chains.” One of the most important things you have to show VC investors is whether the company is “venture scale.” Clear market size.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

According to Mike Asem , a partner at the Midwest-focused M25 venture capital shop, the new terms help Y Combinator, but come with “tradeoffs” for the group and founders themselves. We’ll examine the impact that the new deal may have on startup founders, both experienced and not.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. The reason is that no VC wants to see the venture debt provider get burned if you become bankrupt.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

managing director, The Lithuanian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association. Andrius Milinavicius , founder, Baltic Sandbox. Gabriele Poteliunaite , associate, Change Ventures. managing director, The Lithuanian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association. Practica Capital). Rokas Tamoši?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Austin made headlines in 2021 for being “the place” for startup founders and venture capitalists alike to set up shop. That’s why TechCrunch has chosen to shine a spotlight on the city with a special episode of TechCrunch Live centered on the growing startup scene in Austin, Texas. Austin wasn’t an overnight success.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 13, 2022

Magnus Grimeland, founder of the early-stage VC firm Antler, lays out some of the key principles to keep in mind. ” VCs and AI-powered investment tools : Do VCs want AI-powered tools to help them figure out where to put their money? You can still get the ball rolling.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

.” That might work inside mature companies, but early-stage founders who are presenting themselves to investors must be more specific. In an interview with Natasha Mascarenhas, B2B stealth startup founder Akshaya Dinesh recounted the time her team was rejected by an accelerator because they hadn’t yet picked a CEO.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Why one successful early-stage VC firm is getting into SPACs now. SPACs are an exciting development for any type of investor, public or private, Amish Jani of FirstMark Capital tells Connie Loizos. SaaS continues to boom with Databricks funding, Segment acquisition. Image Credits: FirstMark. billion this week. Around TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Alex Wilhelm uses his weekday column The Exchange to keep a close eye on “private companies, public markets and the gray space in between,” but one effort stood out: An overview of six API-based startups that were “raising capital in rapid-fire fashion” when many companies were trying to find their COVID-19 footing.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2022

She then decided to drop out of school and focus on the company, which was becoming a service startup founders would use. Investors include MaC Venture Capital, Seabed VC, Soma Capital, Fearless Fund, Liquid2 Ventures, Slope Agency and Thumbtack founder Jonathan Swanson.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 13, 2021

How Monica and Joe Priced Their New SaaS Business Product and Decided their Optimal Pricing Why customers buy based on the perceived worth that the price represents to them, and how you should price to get your fair share of that value. That’s what the VC guy, Albert, told me was the benchmark for saas companies like us.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 16, 2021

Building the right team for a billion-dollar startup. During a seed-funding round, a founder needs to convince a venture capital investor on a vision. For a long time, “revenue” seemed to be a taboo word in the startup world. Still, revenue modeling remains a challenge for founders. Image Credits: Ureeka.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2022

Pre-pandemic, VCs were notoriously reluctant to invest in education-related companies. Today, edtech startups are seeing higher average deal sizes, more seed and pre-seed funding from non-VC investors, and an influx of generalists. Here’s how far VCs have lowered revenue expectations for seed through Series B.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

And this is something that London-based generalist VC firm Playfair Capital knows all about, given its focus on backing super young startups that have yet to make much of a ripple in their respective industries. So founders need more to be able to live comfortably while they build their company.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Startups and VC. And in only partially AI news: Putting Austin under the loupe : Mary Ann reports how a fatal police shooting of a startup founder puts Austin’s diversity problem in the spotlight. Avoid 3 common sales mistakes startups make during a downturn. based AI firm Exyn, Manish reports.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2020

While several marketplace unicorns prepare IPOs, a VC digs into the data (EC). Alex Wilhelm hears from one startup founder who has taken a bit of an alternative approach to building a SaaS company. Chatting with CEO and co-founder Tomas Gorny, I got to dig a little under the skin of the company’s history.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

“As an investor in these startups, it’s your duty to help the startup get to that point in the shortest possible amount of time,” he writes. . “As an investor in these startups, it’s your duty to help the startup get to that point in the shortest possible amount of time,” he writes.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

The Nordic countries make up just 4% of Europe’s total population, but they account for a significant amount of venture capital investment. That said, Norway’s VC community has been somewhat dormant for a while. Our portfolio is heavy on SaaS, which has weathered things well. Dignio (SaaS/medtech).

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