TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

SoftBank Group first invested in Iyuno Media Group through SoftBank Ventures Asia , its venture capital arm, in 2018. SoftBank Vision 2 will join Lee and investors Altor, Shamrock Capital Advisors and SoftBank Ventures Asia Corporation on Iyuno-SDI Group’s board of directors. Streaming services face their real test in 2021.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

This could become possible with the latest venture from entertainment entrepreneur Devo Harris, a Grammy winner and longtime business collaborator of artists like Kanye West and John Legend. But the startup is already selling its product to subscribers, offering it an income stream at an early stage.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2023

startup that connects users with a registered dietitian (RD) via telehealth and helps them get their consultations covered by health insurance. The startup’s CEO, Aidan Dewar, told TechCrunch that “94% of our patients are fully covered by insurance and pay nothing out of pocket. Enter Nourish , a U.S.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

Another relatively new company delivering data analytics to retailers is Black Crow AI , which today announced that it raised $25 million in a Series A round led by Imaginary Ventures, with participation from existing investors Primary Venture Partners, Bloomberg Beta, Interlock Partners and Vast Ventures.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

The creative community has been a ripe target for startups building tools and services to serve their interests and needs as they transition from their traditionally offline practices into a digital present and future. Another is the startup’s focus on e-learning. billion valuation. billion valuation. Image Credits: Domestika.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

It’s far from the only teletherapy company looking to capitalize on a boom in venture capital investment in mental health startups , but it’s operating in a hyper-specific sphere: therapy for kids. . Should startups build or buy telehealth infrastructure? Those range from unicorns like TalkSpace to other startups. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

New and existing investors who participated include DST Global, Early Capital Berrywood, Green Visor Capital, Greycroft Capital, Insight Ventures, PayPal, Salesforce Ventures, Tiger Management, Worldpay FIS 9yards Capital. . Rising African venture investment powers fintech, clean tech bets in 2020.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

Most companies don’t announce their first venture investment after almost 20 years in the business, nor do they announce that round is the equivalent of a good startup’s entire private fundraising history. He says that the company started back in 2002 as a plug-in for PowerPoint. billion investment on a $3.75

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2023

It’s impossible to plan for everything that can go wrong while building a startup. ” Mentors and advisers come in handy, but startups move at breakneck speed. .” ” Mentors and advisers come in handy, but startups move at breakneck speed. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 3, 2014

Last week, we analyzed the fund raising history of billion dollar SaaS companies and determined SaaS startups are raising nearly twice as much capital as 16 years ago before going public. Given that trend, I wondered if there is there any truth to the idea that startups today require less capital than before to succeed.

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WSJ - The Accelerators

JULY 2, 2015

ED ZIMMERMAN : The funnel for venture funding isn’t cylindrical — it’s shape follows a more Darwinian conical path, as many seed stage companies march into the cone’s wide entrance and far fewer make it to the cone’s narrow end. The graphic follows those startups until April 2014.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 6, 2021

As friends, they quickly sensed the potential for partnership, and in 2010 joined forces and merged their groups to build what is now a nationally-recognized angel network, Launchpad Venture Group. In addition to his role at Seraf, Ham is the Chairman of New England’s largest angel group, Launchpad Venture Group.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

This is part of my series on Understanding Venture Capital. If the VC your talking to raised its last fund in 2002 then they likely don’t have much fire power for new investments. You can ask around to startup lawyers and other entrepreneurs who know these things.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. In any given year there are about 50 venture-backed companies or so that are bought for $100 million or more. That happened a lot in 2002 and again in 2008.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Startup after Iron Planet? (6:00 Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. In 2002 after exiting his second company he was attracted to the variety of being a VC. What gets you interested in a startup? (16:35-19:35). 6:00 – 7:30).

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 23, 2014

Eric demonstrated a unique passion for startups and entrepreneurship from an early age. After graduating from Stanford in mathematical and computer science when he was just 19, Eric joined the newly-formed enterprise software company Loudcloud (which became Opsware in 2002). He stayed briefly at HP as a vice president.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The Past (1985-2002). Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. Next began the era of “spam-based&# networks of which Plaxo (founded in 2002) was the king.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

The company counts Microsoft and Salesforce (prolific strategic investors in the startup world) among its partners and sometime customers today — as well as acquisition offers from enterprise resource planning companies due to its traction and presence in the market.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 21, 2009

On the third Wednesday of every month I co-chair a meeting called the SoCal VCA (venture capital alliance), which represents participants from all of the top venture capital firms in Southern California as well as prominent members of the Tech Coast Angels (TCA). 2009 has been the worst year for M&A in a decade.

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Angel Capital Association

OCTOBER 30, 2023

There is a limited number of exemptions primarily for larger companies, not startups. The CTA will have far-reaching implications for startups and early-stage companies. The CTA mostly impacts startups and small businesses. xi) Venture capital fund adviser. See the attached appendix. Exemptions. 80a–1 et seq.)

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propel(x)

JULY 11, 2022

Written by : Regina Beach Propel(x) curated a list of five startup-led tech trends in the 21st century that transformed industries. This list primarily looks at deep tech sectors, with many of the mentioned startups having grown into household names and multibillion-dollar companies today. Startups raised $342.2

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 13, 2014

The startup acquisition market is poised to have its best year in nearly a decade. If acquirers maintain the same pace from the first nine months of the year through Q4, more than 450 venture-backed startups will have been acquired, generating more than $25B in proceeds. Let’s dig a bit deeper into each one of them.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Rex Salisbury, founding partner of Cambrian Ventures and formerly on the fintech investment team at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), believes that early-stage fintech founders, particularly at the pre-seed and seed stages, “are the big winners in the current job market and are pulling in top talent that would have been inaccessible 6 months ago.

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OurCrowd

MAY 11, 2020

Historically, venture investing right after major market downturns – such as after the Internet bubble burst in 2000-2002, and after the financial crisis of 2007-2009 — has proved lucrative because you’re buying at a discount. That’s a very good entry point for new venture investors. Watch the latest from OurCrowd.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 7, 2023

Register The once futuristic scene of iris recognition for identification, seen in the 2002 film Minority Report, has become a reality in 2023. I’ve spent a significant part of my life dedicated to a single job, and this experience has also benefited me in this venture. ” placed undue pressure on the team members.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The Past (1985-2002). If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. Next began the era of “spam-based&# networks of which Plaxo (founded in 2002) was the king. Murdoch seethed at these “startups&# getting rich off the back of MySpace.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

TechCrunch Europe ran an article in November of last year that European startups need to work as hard as those in Silicon Valley and I echoed the sentiment in my post about the need for entrepreneurs to be maniacal about their businesses if one wants to work in the hyper competitive tech world. Tags: Start-up Advice Startup Advice.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

A lot has changed since Iyuno was started in 2002 by executive chairman David Lee while he was an undergraduate in Seoul. Iyuno Media Group is one of the largest media localization companies, and works with clients including Netflix, Apple iTunes, DreamWorks, HBO and Entertainment One.

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Gust

MAY 24, 2012

As a quick review, most startups begin life as corporations with a single class of equity securities, referred to as Common Stock , issued to founders, employees, and outside service providers. Options and warrants, when issued, are also typically exercisable for shares of Common Stock.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

He’s the founder of BeamUP , a startup emerging from stealth that uses data to cut down design times and manage a facility’s systems over their lifecycle. Nate Meir, for one, a partner at StageOne Ventures, expressed confidence in BeamUP’s trajectory. BeamUP provides a glimpse at building layouts.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 18, 2015

In the Innovator’s Dilemma for SaaS Startups , I outlined the path of many software companies, which disrupt incumbents by first serving the small-to-medium business and then move up-market by transitioning to serve larger enterprises with outbound sales teams. The pyramid above describes the Traditional Model.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Today Factual announced that it raised $25 million from Andreessen Horowitz & Index Ventures. During my second startup we never considered using cloud computer processing for our real-time processes but we did run some batch processes there. Let me explain. Processing. Think about it. Management.

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