TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2023

COSS is accelerating In general, the trends in commercial open source (COSS) are encouraging. From 2010 to today, the number of GitHub users has exploded from 500,000 to 103 million. Even though productivity in this industry is much higher than in many others, this number is only a fraction of other big markets like finance or retail.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

The new financing also makes Trendyol Turkey’s first decacorn, and among the highest-valued private tech companies in Europe. Founded in 2010, Trendyol ranks as Turkey’s largest e-commerce company, serving more than 30 million shoppers and delivering more than 1 million packages per day. The deal marks SoftBank’s first in the country.

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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

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Today, B12 , a startup that is focused on helping those smaller professional service organizations such as law and accounting firms or mortgage brokerages more easily accept online payments and build a digital presence in general, announced it has raised $15.7 million in funding led by Tola Capital. . ” Image Credits: B12.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

For startups choosing a platform, a decision looms: Build or buy? Enrollment in private Medicare has doubled from 2010 to 2020 and is expected to accelerate further over the next 10 years. Share on Twitter. TX Zhuo is the managing partner of Fika Ventures , focusing on fintech, enterprise software and marketplace opportunities.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

I’ll be publishing this every Sunday, so in between posts, be sure to listen to the Equity podcast and hear Alex Wilhelm , Natasha Mascarenhas and me riff on all things startups! And corporate spend startup Ramp told TC exclusively it is branching out in the travel space. Welcome to my new weekly fintech focused column. sign up here.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Zenoti, a 10-year-old startup that develops services for the spa and salon industry , is the latest entrant to the coveted unicorn list. The startup has raised about $251 million to date. The startup’s platform allows customers to pay directly from a mobile app after their appointment.

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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. The mini game renaissance.

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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. From 2020 to 2021, it grew 2x faster than global startup funding, it said. and Latin America’s 2.8%. Sectoral transformation.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

Moreover, only 11% of finance executives say their organization has modernized systems to the point where they can easily incorporate new digital technologies, according to Deloitte. Many of Savana’s competitors have experts in finance among their ranks, too. “Today’s consumers prefer digital-only banking.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

The New York-based company got its start in 2010 by founder and CEO Chris Ashenden and is the result of his journey to find out why he continued to feel bad. As a result, this new financing will be deployed into everything from awareness to establishing new relationships with new partners to supply chain.

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Feedough

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

But in some cases, like Groupon, startups cross the $1 billion mark in just their initial years. Several startups, including Amazon and Facebook, saw their metrics shot up dramatically to form the shape of a hockey stick. Not every startup see such hockey stick growth. Such growth isn’t new. Let’s find out.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 28, 2013

YCombinator had a great run from 2007 through early 2009 investing at a time when there weren''t nearly as many seed funds and accelerators as there are now. My own track record as a VC across First Round Capital and Brooklyn Bridge Ventures actually starts in January of 2010, *after* the Airbnb class of Winter 2009. That''s 25%.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Along with founding multiple angel investment networks and venture funds, my experience in the world of VC has allowed me to work with hundreds of global companies to inject millions of dollars of capital into the startup ecosystem. I’ve created 15 funds in the last year alone. .

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

However, historically most private equity professionals were former investment bankers and other finance professionals. connects startups to experts in building new businesses. Particularly relevant is Startups.com , which help tech startups identify consultants with relevant domain expertise.

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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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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. Not coincidentally, they also serve as training grounds for some of the world’s most successful startup founders.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

The company announced it invested $450 million into Wisk, a startup trying to develop and commercialize electric, self-flying air taxis. The company launched in 2010 as Zee Aero and then merged with Kitty Hawk Corporation. Gopuff , the delivery startup, is reportedly working with banks including Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

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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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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 30, 2022

A hedge fund that was previously successful executing boring but stable yielding arbitrage strategies decided to strap on leverage to accelerate returns, and paid the price. Back in the 2010’s, trading happened over Bloomberg chat. The collapse of 3AC in and of itself is unremarkable.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Spain is preparing to push forward with pro-startup legislation, having recently unveiled a big and bold transformation plan with the headline goal, by 2030, of turning the country into ‘Spain Entrepreneurial Nation’, as the slightly clumsy English translation has it. So that’s our job.” France and Germany.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

I have been close to the tech & startup sectors for more than 20 years and I can’t think of a period in which I felt more optimistic about the innovation and value creation I see in front of us. The number of startups being created has increased by an order of magnitude. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin! The Exit Problem.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Freddy Mallet, SonarSource’s second cofounder, was a project architect at E-Trade and CTO at agtech startup Hortis. 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.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The IRA contains several major programs that aim to accelerate building electrification  —  the replacing of residential fossil fuel machines with electric equivalents. The funding in the IRA for buildings is likely to catalyze the replacement of fossil fuel machines in buildings and accelerate the adoption of fully electric alternatives.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

It’s that time of year, where I — as a committee of one judge, me — select one startup in the tech ecosystem that “broke out” and has the makings of an even larger outcome should things continue to go right. It’s entirely possible the trend lifts these companies in due time, as well.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Nevertheless, if you share too much in your funding process or meet too many VCs expect a certain amount of your ideas to spread around the startup community. The following was available: “I kept hearing about startups that raised VC funding, but which hadn’t filed Form Ds (nor issued a press release). We spoke briefly about why.

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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.

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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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Angel Capital Association

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Banking, insurance, financing, leasing, investing, or similar businesses. Ensuring Compliance Mike Schulte, senior analyst at Great North Labs, had this to add: “QSBS is a very powerful tax benefit that incentivizes private investment into startups. This 100% exclusion, unlike many other tax breaks, is permanent.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Local investors tend to invest 50% to 90% of their fund into local startups, “but we do look at deal flow in all Nordic countries,” said one. Are there startups that you wish you would see in the industry but don’t? Which areas are either oversaturated or would be too hard to compete in at this point for a new startup?

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

When we launched in 2010, I saw a white space: a burgeoning NY tech ecosystem, but only one angel group regularly writing checks. It is accelerating the inclusion of the unbanked and underbanked population into a formal, secure economy. I quickly recruited a board of experienced hands. Goldman Sachs bought Clarity for ~$100m. .

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

When we launched in 2010, I saw a white space: a burgeoning NY tech ecosystem, but only one angel group regularly writing checks. It is accelerating the inclusion of the unbanked and underbanked population into a formal, secure economy. I quickly recruited a board of experienced hands. Goldman Sachs bought Clarity for ~$100m. .

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