TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

The funding brings the total investment to date for Portland, Oregon-based Sila to $20 million. CEO Karkal has a long history in the fintech space, co-founding Simple, an app unifying various accounts into one accessible bank card, in 2009. It was acquired by BBVA in 2014 for $117 million and shuttered earlier this year.

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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. How fintech and serial founders drove African pre-seed investing to new heights in 2020.

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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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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Today, Muck Rack is making another kind of connection, with investors: it’s raised $180 million in what it’s describing as its first outside funding, having been bootstrapped since being founded back in 2009. Founders Gregory Galant (the CEO) and Lee Semel (the CTO) will continue to control the company post the deal.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Newly appointed CEO Bart Omlo says that the proceeds from Kontent’s first external investment will be put toward expanding the company’s marketing and sales teams, opening a new office in New York and supporting product development. This represents a potential switching opportunity to modern CMS solutions.”

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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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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 11, 2014

For example, VCs may invest larger sums than angel investors. The imprimatur of a VC’s investment in a company might help convince potential customers and recruits. So I’ve tried to answer the complex question using Crunchbase data from 2009 to today. But some might argue their money brings potential signaling risk.

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

The Series A Crunch or Silicon Valley’s Financial Cliff, there’s a lot of talk about the challenge seed stage companies facing insurmountable odds raising Series A investment - PandoDaily’s analysis pegs the odds at 20% based on anecdotal data. Observed seed investment data indicates the outlook is stable, if not optimistic.

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Don Dodge

APRIL 6, 2015

Angel investing in tech startups is a gut wrenching and risky business. Most of them lose, but sometimes you invest in a “unicorn” and make 100 times your money or even more. But if you invest smartly, and spread your risk over a large portfolio, the winners will pay for all the losers and return a nice overall profit.

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Unvalidated Learnings

JUNE 8, 2017

This was the typical chicken and egg problem that any new format faces: it cannot grow unless consumers are equipped to use it, but consumers don’t want to invest in expensive equipment until they know there is enough available content to justify it. They therefore started by giving away a simple desktop-based MP3 encoder. Sounds familiar?

incumbents

This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 3, 2014

If nothing else, it serves as a good reminder that every thing you do now is an investment in the future. In 2009, I was introduced to Havi Hoffman. Stephen is an interesting dude who builds things and wants to enable other people to learn to build things, too. She was working as a developer evangelist at Yahoo!

disruption

This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 2, 2016

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. So you just want these unprofitable companies paying rent in your space, but I'm the one footing the bill with my investment? 5) Don't be an island.

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StartupNation

MARCH 10, 2021

Founded in 2009, Duo Security has grown into one of the top tech companies in the Midwest—and the country. They plan to use these investments to help grow their team and scale their product. Check out the top companies to watch in Ann Arbor—and yes, they’re hiring! The 2021 best Ann Arbor tech companies. Duo Security. Atomic Object.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

We had Farb Nivi , who is the founder & CEO of Grockit , a website that enables online group learning. And the broader question of whether VC’s will continue to invest in the Twitter ecosystem. Founded in 2009 in Los Angeles by Michelle Crames. He’s also candid, humble and helpful. Estimated 15mm downloads to date.

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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. I am pleased to announce that we have just raised $7.2B This marks an important milestone for us.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

i2E made a concept investment through the OCAST Technology Business Finance Program (which iThryv repaid) early in the company’s life, and then in June of 2009, we invested again from the Oklahoma Seed Capital Fund (OSCF). With COVID, the entire transaction was conducted virtually and flawlessly.) And so we are grateful.

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Revolution

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

According to PitchBook , VC investments were down 30% in Q2 2022 compared with 2021, and IPOs hit a 50-year low. The process starts slowly, but as the chart below shows, venture-backed M&A plummeted during the recessionary period, when venture investing also slowed.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Blackrock, GIC, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Birla MF are among the investors who financed the anchor round, Paytm said in a filing with a local exchange. With Wednesday’s investment, Paytm has now secured nearly half of the $2.45 billion capital it is looking to raise from the IPO.

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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. Smartwatches are enabling people and their doctors to track their health and fitness. Startups raised $342.2 billion in venture capital in 2021 and $70.7

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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. By doing so, it allows more efficient and effective protection against attacks, as the system can continuously learn and adapt to new threats.

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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. in a single database.

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

For example, you may decide to invest in a franchise and enjoy the benefits that come with being a franchisee in an industry with brand name recognition. I was watching my division, MyCorporation, being negatively affected as less and less was invested in our marketing. About a month later in 2009, Intuit called me.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

million Series B investment today led by 01 Advisors, with participation from Index Ventures and Zoom Apps Fund. The company records and transcribes each interview, which is conducted over Zoom, enabling the interviewer to concentrate solely on the candidate, and not on taking notes or other tasks.

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Founders Coop

MAY 14, 2019

In 2009, in a national effort to improve quality and lower costs, the Federal government launched a huge incentive program to drive the adoption of Electronic Medical Records (EMRs), spending an estimated $40 billion over the past decade to implement this data-gathering technology in hospitals across the country.

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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. Rsquare has invested in a Vietnamese proptech startup Propzy in 2020 and an Indonesian proptech company Mamikos in 2019. It has 354 employees as of October.

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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

AUGUST 2, 2022

Savana was founded in 2009 by Sanchez, who previously served as the president of the international division of FIS. The] turnkey, end-to-end platform is pre-configured with hundreds of APIs enabled.” Deloitte reported last week that fintech investment decreased to $52.9 billion in H1 2022, down 24% from $69.6

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 5, 2018

It was such a blast that I did it again in 2009. My ask was a US$200,000 investment for 10 percent of the company. Finally, I countered with a different structure, offering to repay his investment by sharing half the profits up to his US$200,000 investment, and then a 10 percent partnership. How Hire Santa Started.

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OurCrowd

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Top investment opportunities Startup of the Week: InsideTracker, optimizing human performance Going beyond ESG investing Laly David: Excited about FoodTech FT: OurCrowd leading Israel’s private sector in Gulf investments Join us online Dec. Invest Now. Going beyond ESG investing. Read more here. Read more here.

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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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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

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. CVS Care Clinic Price Schedule: Benchmark Healthcare Investments. Our venture capital firm, Benchmark, has made four investments consistent with the “customer-first” theme.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

Limited Partners or LPs (the people who invest into VC funds) have taken notice as 2014 is by all accounts the busiest year for LPs since the Great Recession began. pre-money valuation you certainly would want to exercise your right to continue investing if you had prorata rights. and the bigger funds can’t get in directly.

VC

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

We remain confident in the long-term trend that software enables and the value accrued to disruptive startups; we also recognized that in a strong market it is important to ring the cash register and this doesn’t come without a concentrated effort to do so. The answer is: not much.

ventures

This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 22, 2016

Now, that number will grow to $350k and the firm will be able to do a small amount of follow on investment. They're the ones working on the companies that were a struggle to get people to invest in--so much so that you'll question your own judgement a lot when you're the first yes. 3) Have a consistent focus.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Derek Zanutto is a general partner at CapitalG , Alphabet’s independent growth fund, where he invests in data, security and SaaS-based enterprise software. Our team wanted to invest in the company on behalf of my private equity firm, but was utterly daunted by its “eye-popping” $1 billion valuation.

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HPA

OCTOBER 9, 2020

YCharts , a cloud-based investment analytics and communications platform for registered investment advisors, broker-dealers and asset managers, prepares for its next stage of growth with the acquisition by LLR Partners. LLR invests in several industries, with a focus on technology, healthcare and services businesses.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

I saw a need for a company that could reclaim the home as a place to live, build community and celebrate our lives—not just as a short-term investment. It was 2009 and the housing market had just collapsed. Enabling our agents to be themselves has been a key to our success.

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