TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

between 2009 and 2019 — providing data on 3,784 entrepreneurs who started 2,002 companies over this period. of the venture capital investments made at seed, early and late-stage over this decade. The report , by the not-for-profit community interest company Extend Ventures , looked at how VC has been invested in the U.K.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

A month later, the startup closed a $500,000 pre-seed investment from early-stage investors like Lateral Capital , Ventures Platform , Golden Palm Investments and Rally Cap. The startup also joins 39 other African startups per YC data which have passed through the accelerator since 2009.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

“Boston Materials is a high-performance materials company enabling manufacturers of industrial and consumer products to break through their design trade-offs with new materials. It is produced from 100% reclaimed carbon fiber, enabling new, high-volume, energy-efficient products that have a low carbon footprint.”

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Founded by leading bioinformatics professors at Stanford University, the company enables scientists and researchers to perform high-throughput sequence analysis quickly and easily. We are one of the fastest growing game and kid sites in 2009, according to comScore. We are also one of the stickiest sites on the internet.

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Y Combinator

JULY 24, 2020

Faire has modernized this process, enabling retailers to discover thousands of brands, purchase products online, get free returns on new orders, and finance their working capital. On the other side of the marketplace, Faire enables brands to find new customers, manage their existing customer base, and reduce their risk of non-payment.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Every workman has a great quantity of his own work to dispose of beyond what he himself has occasion for; and every other workman being exactly in the same situation, he is enabled to exchange a great quantity of his own goods for a great quantity, or, what comes to the same thing, for the price of a great quantity of theirs.

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

If our assumption about the data quality is correct, then it’s reasonable to conclude that the volume of seed investment has either remained constant or slowed since 2009. Ultimately, the health of the fund raising market is determined by how much capital VCs and angels can raise to invest. And so would the forces of capitalism.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 11, 2014

So I’ve tried to answer the complex question using Crunchbase data from 2009 to today. A longer runway enables startups to experiment more, and ideally become larger, more attractive investments for Series A investors. The imprimatur of a VC’s investment in a company might help convince potential customers and recruits.

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Don Dodge

APRIL 6, 2015

I remember the Demo Day in 2007 where DropBox presented to about 30 Boston area Angels and Venture Capital investors. from Sequoia Capital and have gone on to raise over $1 Billion from VC investors. You will present in front of hundreds of the most successful Angel investors and Venture Capital investors.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 2, 2016

Venture capital firms, on the other hand, draw people in. When I was camping out in the Ace Hotel back in 2009 before First Round had an office, I took meetings with 3-5 people a day, 4-5 days a week, for 7 months. In a place like New York, many real estate families are major investors in venture capital funds.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

This was really a fun week at TWiVC because we decided to have an entrepreneur come and talk about raising capital rather than having a VC come on. We had Farb Nivi , who is the founder & CEO of Grockit , a website that enables online group learning. Raised angel money from Rob Lord, Reid Hoffman, Benchmark Capital and others.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 3, 2014

In 2009, I was introduced to Havi Hoffman. Techcrunch Disrupt is where I met Steve and Jared from GroupMe and what led to me backing the company when I was with First Round Capital. Stephen is an interesting dude who builds things and wants to enable other people to learn to build things, too.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 16, 2024

When Marc and I started the firm in 2009, the conventional wisdom in Venture Capital was that in any given year, only 15 companies would ever generate $100M in revenue and those 15 companies would drive almost all of VC returns. Venture Capital firms configured themselves to address a market of 15 important companies.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

In the venture capital industry, “unicorn” is a term used to describe a privately held startup company with a company valuation of over $1 billion. Alkami, which provides cloud-based digital banking solutions for banks and credit unions, raised subsequent rounds of growth capital. Now major names in venture capital are involved.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

A portion of the capital — $10 million — was debt, while the rest was a Series A equity tranche led by Georgian Capital Partners. Savana was founded in 2009 by Sanchez, who previously served as the president of the international division of FIS. . million in capital. ” To date, Savana has raised $54.2

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 31, 2018

The September 2009 storm was the most devastating typhoon to hit Manila since 1970. When floodwaters devastated the city, many families were relocated from urban Manila—specifically from a section of the city called Marikina, the shoe capital of the Philippines—to rural farmland. million people. How Cobblers Became Farmers.

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Revolution

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

When deal-making slows, VC dollars typically favor the perceived market leader, starving other venture-backed businesses in the same space of capital. Many of the actions that make your company a desirable acquisition target will also enable you to better weather economic uncertainty.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The groundwork was Aadhaar (“foundation” in Hindi), a nationwide database established by the government in 2009 to enable digital identity verification. This helped with fraud and enabled smooth KYC compliance. India today: Regulation enables innovation At present, the revolution is in full swing.

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propel(x)

JULY 11, 2022

Because of the time and investment needed to bring deep tech solutions to market, many startups require significant and sustained capital to get up and running. billion in venture capital in 2021 and $70.7 Smartwatches are enabling people and their doctors to track their health and fitness. Startups raised $342.2

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

billion capital it is looking to raise from the IPO. A successful listing would enable Paytm to attain the title of the biggest IPO in India, surpassing a record $2.07 Paytm launched in 2009 to help users easily make digital payments from their phones and top up credit.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 31, 2023

The usage of AI and machine learning enables the analysis and interpretation of a large amount of data, providing insights and recommendations that would not be possible through manual efforts alone. The lead investor, East Ventures , is a pioneering and leading sector-agnostic venture capital firm.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

By way of example, back in 2009, a neurosurgeon in Canada used a VR-based simulator to carry out a dry-run of a real brain tumor surgery in what was thought to be a world’s first at the time. However, among the industries that have long embraced VR are medicine and healthcare.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

Founded in 2009, Strava has emerged as one of the preeminent activity tracking services, proving particularly popular in the cycling and running fraternities which use the Strava app to plot routes, converse with fellow athletes, and record all their action for posterity via GPS. . Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

A Seoul-based proptech startup called Rsquare built a data-driven platform to digitize the process, enabling tenants to compare multiple properties and find an office. million Series B funding from Yahoo Japan Capital and SoftBank Ventures Asia.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 8, 2021

The 2009-founded startup has raised more than $290 million to date over its decade+ run but describes itself as just at the beginning of a journey to make a dent in the massive and growing market for temporary work, expecting demand to keep stepping up as more sectors and processes go digital in the coming years.

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OurCrowd

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Founded in 2009 by top scientists in the fields of aging, genetics and biology from Harvard, MIT and Tufts, InsideTracker is a truly personalized nutrition and performance system, aiming to help people optimize their bodies from the inside out. The supply of available workers in tech hasn’t grown as fast as the capital coming in.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

healthcare system does not operate as a free marketplace with the type of open-competition that we often associate with capitalism. In 2015, 46 percent of workers were enrolled in a plan with an annual deductible of $1,000 or more, up from 38 percent in 2013 and 22 percent in 2009. Despite widespread belief to the contrary, the U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

There has been much discussion in the past few years of the changing structure of the venture capital industry. The rise of alternative sources of capital (crowd funding and the like). 15 years ago we were at the peak of Internet hype with the launch of many over-capitalized businesses with a market size & opportunity was limited.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

We believe this consistency in leadership and intuition for where the markets were going in the heady days of 2019–2021 helped us to stay sane in a world that momentarily seemed to have lost its mind and since we have new capital to deploy in the years ahead perhaps I can offer some insights into where we think value will be derived.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 22, 2016

There are some things I learned about running a first fund over and above finding great companies that I think are important for new managers to keep in mind: 1) Venture capital will be humbling. It takes so long to hone your craft in venture capital that, for me, I could never be successful changing up what I do all the time.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2014

I first met Nick Halstead in 2009 when he was running a company called Tweetmeme (the predecessor to DataSift) who had invented the Retweet button and actually helped Twitter develop its early API. That enabled us to bring Rob Bailey on board as the CEO and it was the best decision we could have made at the time.

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HPA

OCTOBER 9, 2020

HPA first invested in YCharts in 2010 and has been investing alongside capital partners I2a, REV Venture Partners and Morningstar over the last decade. Founded in 2009, YCharts has become a powerful, customizable tool that helps analyze securities, build portfolios and communicate investment opportunities.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Cross-border commerce company Zonos raised $69 million in a Series A, led by Silversmith Capital Partners, to continue building its APIs that auto classify goods and calculate an accurate total landed cost on international transactions. Businesses can’t know all of a country’s laws,” Reid added. Our mission is to create trust in global trade.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Fast-forward a few years, and growth funds, defined as investments into companies that have achieved product-market fit and are primed to scale with further capital, have become significant forces in the tech ecosystem. Zoom out 50 years and you’ll often find capital markets have a tendency to repeat themselves.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 17, 2014

This supposedly “electronic” network enables people to transfer funds from one bank account to another. In July of 2009, the UK instituted a new network known as Faster Payment Service with same day settlement to replace their equivalent of ACH. Many blame Dodd-Frank and the consolidation post 2009 for the loss of free checking.

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 26, 2022

From Box to Glossier, and Comms to Venture Capital, Ashley Mayer Is Carving a Pretty Unique Path. Better Place was building the charging infrastructure to enable mass adoption of electric vehicles; it was led by a charismatic CEO, raised gobs of capital before that was the norm, and later imploded spectacularly.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 18, 2014

In addition to looking at gross numbers, let’s compare the growth rates from 2009 to 2013 of each of these buckets. more common in 2013 as 2009 and $75-100M rounds have doubled during this time frame. There is more capital flowing through the ecosystem than four years ago. 30M-$50M and $150-$200M rounds rounds are 1.5x

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