Dream It

JANUARY 13, 2021

In this Dreamit Dose, associates Alana Hill and I, Elliot Levy , offer five things we wish founders knew after screening over 1,000 startups in the last year. Alana suggests that before speaking to an associate, you gain a basic understanding of the fund’s focus and stages they invest in. What does good prep look like?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Sometimes that’s venture capital generally (like last year’s conversation with Reid Hoffman ) and sometimes it’s in a space where I’ve invested (like mobility and city innovation with Bird’s Travis VanderZanden , one of our portfolio founders.) definitely a big and expensive promotional bet for a “startup”. “We

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Last year, OpenAI announced the OpenAI Startup Fund , a tranche through which it and its partners, including Microsoft, are investing in early-stage AI companies tackling major problems. But today, the OpenAI Startup Fund revealed that it led a $23.5 But today, the OpenAI Startup Fund revealed that it led a $23.5

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

What’s behind those price tags, and what’s a less expensive approach to finding the perfect name for your company? But there are at least three reasons to invest in getting it right: The right name can give you a leg up. Related: 5 Company Naming Mistakes that Can Kill Your Startup. Why would anyone pay so much?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2023

You don’t need to move to San Francisco to launch a startup, but working here does have some advantages: moderate weather, natural beauty, great food, and sure, the world’s largest concentration of venture capital. ” Thanks very much for reading. Have a great weekend! Median liquid wealth for a Black family in the U.S.

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Revolution

APRIL 6, 2021

By Revolution Ventures Managing Partner David Golden and VP Alex Shtarkman As voracious consumers of podcasting content, we could not be more excited to announce our investment in Indianapolis-based Casted , a company reinventing the traditional digital content marketing playbook. Stay tuned! [1]

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The New York City startup started by measuring traditional TV viewing, using webcams to determine whether viewers were actually paying attention to the ads. So instead of relying on tags, TVision has built up a panel of connected TV watchers. “There’s no good currency, per se, in the industry.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2023

Brian Schwarzbach Contributor Brian Schwarzbach is an SF-based investor with Cathay Innovation, a global venture capital firm investing across North America, Europe, Asia and Africa. He focuses on early-stage investments in commerce, marketplaces and consumer. Recommerce is a concept as old as trade itself.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The startup, which has offices in Amsterdam and North Macedonia, now works with over 20 clients, including Depop, Otrium and Minto. Over the past three years, it has tagged more than 250 million images and says its increased conversions for its retail customers by 10% on average. million USD) from South Central Ventures.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Today the Hong Kong and Malaysia-headquartered startup announced it has raised $23 million in Series B funding to scale its team and product. The platform includes a collaborative team inbox used by multiple agents, and features like smart routing, canned responses, data tagging and analytics.

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Paul G. Silva

MARCH 27, 2020

This is the checklist / boil down of the techniques listed in the pior 3 posts in the “Startup Pitching” series. One rehearsed presenter – Pick one person to deliver your presentation, don’t tag team your pitches. Set your objective – Your objective is to get another date, not marriage/investment.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

Playbook, a startup that describes itself as a “creative file manager for designers” where “Pinterest meets Dropbox ,” has raised $18 million in a Series A funding round led by Bain Capital Ventures. CEO Jessica Ko was inspired to start the company after her experiences as a designer at Google and Opendoor.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

The bulk of the investment is equity, but there’s some debt — Goswami wouldn’t give a ratio or percentage. It only records the metadata or tags about data, and keeps that information in customer-specified and -owned locations. ” More than a few organizations seem to be persuaded. .

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

I’m very interested in the tech stack of private equity/VC firms , both to improve the efficiency of Versatile VC and also as a focus area for our investing. If you can, I recommend join HubSpot for Startups , which offers generous discounts. We looked for systems which used tagging as their core data model, instead of categorization.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

One of the areas they’re investing in is upskilling, which aims to teach employees new skills in departments with which they’re unfamiliar. For example, Walmart announced in 2021 that it would invest nearly $1 billion over the next five years to provide its employees with access to higher education and training.

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 26, 2018

If you have an ecommerce or B2C product you should be investing in using paid social advertising and influencer marketing strategies to gain brand awareness, traffic or sales. With just a tap on the tag, an Instagram follower can easily navigate to a product web page and purchase the product—all from within Instagram.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Searching the titles, descriptions and tags of videos was always easy enough, requiring no more than a basic algorithm. There’s also Reminiz , a French computer vision startup that claims to be able to index any type of video and add tags to both recorded and live-streamed content.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

He would be — he’s the co-founder of Lang.ai , a startup developing a platform that automatically tags customer conversations to resolve service issues ostensibly more quickly. ” Lang isn’t alone in using AI to auto-tag customer service messages. “Automation in customer support is not new.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Wealthfront, which raised just north of $200 million while private, per Crunchbase data , is one of a few wealth management services that grew on the back of offering automatic investing tools to consumers. Wealthfront raises $75 million to help millennials invest.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2020

A startup hailing from far-flung Iceland is emerging as one of the key players in the race to distribute one of the key coronavirus vaccines around the world. The Controlant platform involves screen-based IoT tags, which link to GSM networks and then feed into web and mobile apps.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

I worked for an institutional investor that invested in both venture capital funds and later stage growth deals. They raise larger and larger funds, for example, after building up a track record of successful angel investments. What about as a startup? When I first started in venture capital, back in 2001, I used to fund funds.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

In an effort to help his son, Male immersed himself in the topic and found what he described as an “incredibly fragmented and polarized community and marketplace, inadequate, antiquated solutions with hefty price tags and long wait lines.”. So far, AIF has invested in seven early-stage companies. The need is there.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

When startup founders think of mergers and acquisitions (M&A), we tend to think of “Mad Men”-esque processes, involving dramatic office reshuffling and expensive rebranding. In fact, since the beginning of 2021, of 530 startup acquisitions, more than half were startups buying other startups.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

Startups and VC Greycroft, the self-styled “seed-to-growth” venture capital firm, today announced the closing of over $1 billion in capital commitments across new funds, Kyle reports. s TympaHealth sounds out $23 million to expand its hearing diagnostics startup, Ingrid reports. Jagmeet has more. You can sign up here. Big Tech Inc.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2021

French startup Georges — or Georges.tech — is raising a new round of funding of $42.4 The startup has been building an accounting automation application for freelancers and small companies. Uzan previously invested in Indy when he was at Alven and he’s following up with Singular. In 2020, the startup has tripled its revenue.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Stripe would become the first or second most valuable startup in the world at those prices, depending on how you count. Which is odd, because Stripe is a huge concern that could be worth twelve-figures, provided that gets that $100 billion price tag. Mental health-focused startup Sesh raised money this week from Polaris Partners.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

In particular, the partnership with Visa landed Bloom as the first Sudanese startup to get admitted into Visa’s Fintech Fast Track program, Tage reports. Startups and VC. OnlySims : A first for OnlyFans, the platform invests in U.K. million seed investment. million seed investment. In 2020, the U.S.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Chooch.ai , a startup that hopes to bring computer vision more broadly to companies to help them identify and tag elements at high speed, announced a $20 million Series A today. Today’s investment brings the total raised to $25.8 Today’s investment brings the total raised to $25.8 Datasaur snags $3.9M

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

billion worth of Silk Road crypto, Binance said it would buy FTX, then backed out , causing Sequoia to write off its entire FTX investment. Startups and VC. Insuring the doggie : Mike reports how pet insurance startups chase the market as pet ownership booms among Gen Z and Millennials. We’re still waiting for that answer.

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Ian Hathaway

JULY 10, 2020

This approach overvalues goods and services with a price tag — which in turn make up a country’s gross domestic product, the driver of public policy. In my upcoming book, The Startup Community Way , which will be on shelves July 28, my co-author Brad Feld and I dedicate an entire chapter to this phenomenon—we call it The Measurement Trap.

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David Teten VC

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

We are a community for family offices, private equity funds, and VCs focused on using technology and analytics to make better investments in private companies. In roughly descending order of impact, I suggest: Invest in funds. If you invest, the fund will be evangelizing you to their portfolio and community for the next 5-10 years.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

Last week, Paystand — a blockchain-enabled B2B payments startup — announced it had acquired Mexican fintech Yaydoo — creating a new unicorn in the resulting new entity. Given a large number of startups will not generate a profit near and are cash-flow negative in the near term, they will have to raise more capital in a difficult environment.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

This morning Airbase , a startup in the corporate spend space, announced that it is working with Amex on a pilot that will see its service offered to certain customers of the credit giant. So, from our perspective of startup tracking, the news matters.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

The sweeping infrastructure package put forward today by President Joe Biden comes with a price tag of roughly $2 trillion (and hefty tax hikes) but gives startups and the broader tech industry about $1 trillion worth of reasons to support it. ” Climate resiliency . Given the steady drumbeat of climate disasters that hit the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

The Hong Kong-based startup was founded by Andy Lee and Tony Sun, who used to work together at Mapbox, as a cap table software provider. Once all the wallets are tagged, Sprout will have a token cap table ready just as it has done for equity ownership. Tokens can better incentivize startup employees than equity.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2021

The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. A reminder regarding why we dwell on the exit market for unicorns: We care because the value of late-stage startups when they reach a liquidity point helps set valuation comps for myriad smaller startups. This means we can do some unpacking and thinking.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The company, which spun out from the startup lending company Avant in January of this year, has already inked deals with Banco P opular, HSBC, Regions Bank and TD Bank to power their digital banking services and offer products like point-of-sale lending to compete with challenger banks like Chime and lenders like Affirm or Klarna. .”

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