TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Linda Greub Contributor Share on Twitter Linda Greub is the co-founder and managing partner of Avestria Ventures. When most people think of venture capitalists, they often think of investors, the people writing checks to fund startups. But that image is only one part of venture capital.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 25, 2023

This development follows the successful debut of Vietnam-based electric car manufacturer VinFast in the US earlier this month, where VinFast’s shares experienced significant gains. VNG, established in 2004 and acclaimed as Vietnam’s pioneer tech unicorn, has experienced remarkable growth since its inception.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 27, 2022

I later moved to Denver, Colorado, and have worked in the world of banking and real estate as a partner and co-CEO of a company called Legacy Management Group since 2004. Since relocating to America, I have independently invested in several other business ventures outside of my full-time job. How to Achieve Startup Success from Day 1.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Still, startups and creators often lag behind with patenting. Read on to find out what the benefits of patenting are and why it adds value to any venture. One of the reasons why startups don’t patent is simply because they don’t know they can. Startups should register their patents once they can afford to. In the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

As the recipients of less than 1% of venture capital raise, institutionalized systems are visibly at play. When you think about the intersection of venture capital and technology, and specifically how it works — it is being led from an engineering perspective. I was in college from 2000 to 2004.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

A startup that wants to democratize data in the enterprise? Using the service’s tools, developers can easily turn any SQL database into an API to power their apps — or use the service’s no-code tools to build apps that way, too. “We remain exclusively focused on the developer as our ideal customer profile.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2021

One startup out of Boston, Knox Financial , aims to help people identify and manage residential rentals with its algorithm-based platform, and it’s raised a $10 million Series A to help it further that goal. Boston-based G20 Ventures led the round, which included participation from Greycroft, Pillar VC, 2LVC, and Gaingels. .

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Specifically, GraphWear is developing a skin-surface-level wearable made of graphene (more on this material later). The round was led by Mayfield, with participation from MissionBio Capital, Builders VC and VSC Ventures. Graphene is a single-atom thin carbon sheet. Still, the U.K.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

Founded in 2018, Volta Labs is a startup spun out of MIT’s media lab focusing on creating a programmable approach to DNA sample prep. In 2013, Illumina acquired Advanced Liquid Logic, a company founded in 2004 that had already been working on applying digital microfluidics to prep work for Next Generation DNA sequencing.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 20, 2021

Venture funds are joining the rush to renewable energy—and it’s not a passing fad • Government subsidies will help, but inno vative companies and business logic will drive growth. In 2019, venture and private equity investment in cleantech was estimated between $9 and $16 billion, up from less than $500 million in 2013. By OURCROWD.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 6, 2014

Because GoPro is the first sizable consumer hardware IPO in eons and because the startup world has a blossoming hardware segment, I thought it would be interesting to compare and contrast a top consumer hardware startup with the benchmarks of public SaaS companies using GoPro’s S-1. I have three goals with this analysis.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Salyer served as a member of the Council Finance Committee, Council Economic Development Committee, and as chairman of the Council Social Services Committee. She served as the first woman president of the Rotary Club of Oklahoma City, (2003/2004), one of the largest Rotary Club in the world. Meg retired from the Council April 8, 2019.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

I never implied that startups are all great and job hoppers are all at fault. Most of what I learned about operating startups I learned from the really tough years at my first company from 2001-2003. That is when no customers wanted to work with Internet startups because we as an industry had burned so many customers.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Do you think Red Sox fans would have rather had nicer guy than Manny Ramirez in 2004, or would they rather have had his 130 RBI? You're going to hire developers on your team that aren't very social. You'll have salespeople who are simply doing it for the money and for the competition--not because they believe in the startup vision.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

From 2004 to 2014, the average payments for coinsurance rose 107% from $117 to $242. Our venture capital firm, Benchmark, has made four investments consistent with the “customer-first” theme. Coninsurance plans require the patient to pay a percentage (usually 10-30%) of the healthcare costs up to the deductible limit.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

And over those many years, the company did pretty much everything wrong, if you ask the venture capitalists. Automattic’s founder, Matt Mullenweg, was barely of American legal drinking age (21) when he began building, at a time when venture capitalists wanted “adult supervision” at their companies. What to do?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Now, the company has a new name, Supplant, and $24 million in venture capital financing to start commercializing its low-cost sugar substitute made from the waste materials of other plants. 10 startups that caught our eye from day 1 of YC Demo Day S18. The bitter history of the sweetest ingredient. Photo by Luis Ascui/Getty Images).

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 30, 2023

In addition to his rich experiences working in the venture capital (VC) and private equity (PE) sectors, Joseph has also sharpened his investment acumen through his multiple years in the audit and stock-broking industry before deciding to finally launch his cross-border investment firm, Kairous Capital , in 2015. Make no mistake, however!

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OurCrowd

MARCH 6, 2021

Tmura: Startup options help those in need. The FDA has granted De Novo Marketing Authorization for the breakthrough Hominis robotic surgery system developed by Memic – a notable first. In 2004, PayPal co-founder Elon Musk took what appeared to be a huge and perhaps reckless gamble. Introductions. 1,000 high-tech jobs.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

African startups: We’d love for you to apply to Startup Battlefield 200 , and we’ve also opened our sale on Expo+ passes. Startups and VC Plexamp, the music player from Plex, now works with ChatGPT for playlist creation , reports Sarah. PDT, subscribe here. Christine and Haje The TechCrunch Top 3 What’s the password?

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Good luck getting me to move to any startup city in a state run by people who deny climate change, seek to thwart democracy through voter suppression, and that sees proper oversight of vital infrastructure as a financial burden too great to bother with.

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