TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

General Atlantic, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Princeville Capital and sovereign wealth funds, ADQ (UAE) and Qatar Investment Authority co-led the round. . The new financing also makes Trendyol Turkey’s first decacorn, and among the highest-valued private tech companies in Europe. The deal marks SoftBank’s first in the country.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

500 Global, formerly branded under 500 Startups , has an accelerator that competes with YC. Unlike YC, 500 Global has geographic-specific accelerator programs, similar to Techstars, with focus on areas like Aichi, Japan, Cambodia, and Alberta, Canada. The moonshots. Rosetta’s AI algorithm “sees” which attributes (e.g.,

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

The company launched in 2010 as Zee Aero and then merged with Kitty Hawk Corporation. This new capital will be used to fund the development of the company’s sixth-generation electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. Previous investors Target Global, 468 Capital and Earlybird Venture Capital also participated.

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Angel Capital Association

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Banking, insurance, financing, leasing, investing, or similar businesses. Great North has doubled down on the value of hands-on experience and relationships to accelerate startup growth in the Upper Midwest. This 100% exclusion, unlike many other tax breaks, is permanent. The stock must be in a C-Corporation.)

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

million in funding led by Tola Capital. . Breyer Capital, General Catalyst, Naval Ravikant and others also put money in the round, which brings B12’s total funding to $28.1 B12 co-founder and CEO Nitesh Banta is a former investor at General Catalyst — having worked at the firm from 2010 to 2015.

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A Smart Bear

JANUARY 4, 2018

This week we closed $250M in financing from Silver Lake , the premier technology private equity firm. Of course a nice chunk is primary capital, i.e. for the company balance sheet, to invest in growth initiatives, security and quality, and advancing our existing strategic priorities through acceleration and de-risking.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

The financing follows a $131 million Series C raise led by Warburg Pincus, which remains the company’s largest shareholder. Interestingly, Assent was bootstrapped for the first five years of its life — from 2010 to 2015. ” Canada’s startup market booms alongside hot global VC investment. It’s an enormous market.”.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Cocos Technologies, a China-based game engine provider that has been around since 2010, just announced it has picked up $50 million in a Series B funding round in a bid to work on development and move beyond games. It’s also making forays into non-game scenarios like online education and autonomous driving. The mini game renaissance.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 28, 2013

However, in this moment, I think one''s career in venture capital depends on changing your perspective. If you are a venture capital investor and you''re not preparing yourself to succeed in a more diverse ecosystem of entrepreneurs, you''re just going to get left behind. Venture Capital & Technology' Stop--AND think.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

million that was raised in a seed round led by Brick & Mortar Ventures and First Round Capital – to advance on its effort to “reimagine construction finance.” Accel and Lightrock India co-led the Bengaluru-headquartered startup’s Series C financing round, reports Manish Singh, our man on the ground in the country.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Blue Future Partners, a venture capital fund of funds, recently interviewed me on ESG in venture capital. When we launched in 2010, I saw a white space: a burgeoning NY tech ecosystem, but only one angel group regularly writing checks. I quickly recruited a board of experienced hands. Goldman Sachs bought Clarity for ~$100m. .

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

venture capital deals, a spike in mega-financings where it’s common to see not only $100M private rounds, but companies that raise two or three types of financings like this in the same calendar year! Revenue acceleration is, too. 5/ The Enduring Allure Of Platform Potential: Revenue is important.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

The report, which included analysis from McKinsey & Company, says its assertions are backed by an acceleration in strong market fundamentals and the impact of the pandemic. from 2010 to 2019. The market size of Africa’s digital economy is massive and, if projections go as planned, should top $712 billion by 2050.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

How is it possible that an over $5 trillion industry growing at more than 6% cannot seem to attract investment capital? Enrollment in private Medicare has doubled from 2010 to 2020 and is expected to accelerate further over the next 10 years. These companies collectively raised >$10b. Rick Zullo, Feb 23, 2022.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Blue Future Partners, a venture capital fund of funds, recently interviewed me on ESG in venture capital. When we launched in 2010, I saw a white space: a burgeoning NY tech ecosystem, but only one angel group regularly writing checks. I quickly recruited a board of experienced hands. Goldman Sachs bought Clarity for ~$100m. .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The Bellevue, Washington-headquartered SaaS startup has raised $160 million in its Series D financing round that valued it at “well past $1 billion,” said Sudheer Koneru, founder and chief executive of Zenoti, in an interview with TechCrunch earlier this week. Zenoti’s platform combines both the ERP and CRM tools.

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Feedough

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

But, still, every startup, especially those seeking angel and venture capital funding, are conditioned to project this growth curve – because investors love it. Usually, entrepreneurs use bootstrapping to finance their expenses. Today, disruption is rather slow-paced. Not every startup see such hockey stick growth.

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Angel Capital Association

AUGUST 13, 2021

Our Leadership Team started noticing something interesting around 2010: many of our customers were VC-backed startups. It made sense because a common playbook for consumer-facing startups was to build the product, prove PMF, raise capital from investors, and then deploy some/much/most of that capital in paid media to grow quickly.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

Yoon founded a seed fund, Forest Ventures focusing in automotive sector and was an investment director at SAIC capital, one of the leaders in China’s automotive industry. “Gabriel is the Director of Innovation, focused on mobility and energy, for Elemental Excelerator, a climatetech accelerator founded in 2009 in Hawaii.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. Often times when companies raise “bridge” financing (this is money from internal investors. I think this episode is worth watching ( video is here ) but as always I’ll try to summarize for anybody short on time.

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

tl;dr + Techstars was once one of the world’s leading accelerator programs, but has steadily been eclipsed by Y combinator. Just two years later, in 2009, we worked out a deal to create the Techstars Seattle program, with our first program running in 2010.

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Y Combinator

JULY 24, 2020

COVID-19 has accelerated the digitization of commerce globally. require payment financing, invoicing/approvals, inventory management) and requirements differ from vertical to vertical. As a result, B2B buyers are looking for online platforms to help with the discovery, purchase, and financing of new products.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 30, 2022

In this piece, I’ll be using the Three Arrows Capital (3AC) saga as a lens through which we can better understand the true insights that should be gleaned from the current bear market. Back in the 2010’s, trading happened over Bloomberg chat. The collapse of 3AC in and of itself is unremarkable.

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Founders Coop

MAY 18, 2020

Every single function that is staffed by a senior leader and their supporting team in later stages — from product, engineering, sales, marketing, finance, operations, and customer success, to taking out the trash and resetting the WiFi router — is 100% on the shoulders of you and your co-founders. It’s Your Company.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 11, 2021

Toptal was co-founded by CEO Taso Du Val in 2010, and since then it has grown to become one of the world’s most popular on-demand talent networks. The company matches skilled tech personnel like engineers, software developers, designers, finance experts and product managers to clients across the globe.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

If you want to see the future of financial services regulation, look to the UK The foundation: UK’s banking market and infrastructure In 2010, the UK was dominated by a small handful of large banks. You can’t get a license without capital to absorb potential losses and be financially sound. or the rest of Europe.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

In 2010, SonarSource’s open source project hit a milestone of over 2,000 downloads per month. The startup sought to capitalize on its success with View, a commercial plugin for project portfolio management. ” Accelerating momentum. More time is spent on innovation and solving difficult problems for the organization.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Hence the parallel goal of tackling a variety of gaps (territorial, gender, socio-economic, generational and so on) that might otherwise be exacerbated by a more single-minded rush to accelerate the size of the digital sector. We accelerate also that path — into innovative entrepreneurship system. “First is investment.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

The Nordic countries make up just 4% of Europe’s total population, but they account for a significant amount of venture capital investment. One investors we spoke to said Norway is “becoming a major hub, with scale-ups and international capital incoming much faster these days.” Kjetil Holmefjord , partner, StartupLab.

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