TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

TechCrunch is excited to announce the six companies pitching in person and onstage at TC Sessions Mobility 2022. Hailing from around the United States and the globe, founders will pitch on the main stage, for four minutes, followed by an intense Q&A with our expert panel of judges. Startups pitching on the main stage.

pitching 76

pitching energy startup consulting 76

Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 13, 2016

ME/ “When we started out in 2010, we were the definition of bootstrapping entrepreneurs. What we lacked in capital we more than made up for in determination. A lot of people think that all you need is an idea and capital to make it as an entrepreneur, but it’s so much more than that.

culture 130

culture entrepreneurship peer-to-peer energy 130

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

. “The invoicing company” “When they started, they didn’t position themselves so much as a startup or as a tech company,” recalls Skype founder Niklas Zennström, whose venture capital firm Atomico would eventually become a Klarna investor in 2012. Pitch perfect, you might think.

investing 82

investing investment media mix-use 82

American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 24, 2024

Pitching for Success and Growth. The cohort is made possible thanks to a Capital Readiness Program grant from the Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA). Rutgers University’s Center for Urban Entrepreneurship & Economic Development is excited and honored to partner with NMSDC on their Capital Readiness Program.

economic development 52

economic development peer-to-peer entrepreneurship economic growth 52

This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 11, 2016

I know that white males get a majority of the venture capital funding. Yes, straight white males are getting most of the funding, but they're also most of the pitches. Back in late 2010, when I was at a previous fund, I saw Chantel Waterbury of chloe + isabel run the table on a $3.25mm seed round--on a Powerpoint.

pitching 285

pitching finance financing entrepreneurship 285

Jason Malki

APRIL 17, 2023

I began putting together a pitch deck and came to two important realizations. They have a single SPV with a low per unit cost and the whole thing is structured as 3-month pitch competition. The mantra for the 2010’s was that health companies needed to become tech companies before tech companies become health companies.

health 52

health startup innovation pitching 52

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

About a year and a half ago, I wrote that New York needed more dedicated early stage capital. First Round Capital makes 11 new investments in NYC, hires me to be here fulltime, and announces a new NYC office in Union Square. NYC Seed announces a summer incubator for 2010 that includes 20k investments. Here’s how it works.

incubation 191

incubation venture capital pitching capital 191

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. .

venture capital 52

venture capital VC capital ventures 52

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. .

venture capital 40

venture capital VC capital ventures 40

A Smart Bear

JANUARY 4, 2018

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. This week we closed $250M in financing from Silver Lake , the premier technology private equity firm.

investing 175

investing investment leadership culture 175

TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2021

After listening to others pitch me a few different job opportunities while still at Google in 2008, it became clear to me that I would make a better decision if I could fully explore the larger landscape of new companies emerging in Silicon Valley. More posts by this contributor. Building A Diverse Board Makes Sense For Startups.

board 98

board pitching funders opportunity 98

TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

But Ojansuu says that his view was shaped by his experiences working with customers at Gapps, a Finland-based Google Workspace reseller he helped to co-found in 2010. . Inkef Capital, Maki.vc, and Vendep Capital also participated in the Series B.). ” Using Happeo’s editing tools to build an intranet portal.

angel investing 98

angel investing venture capital capital development 98

Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 24, 2021

1) Don’t hoard your idea, share it freely The 2010 drama, the Social Network , depicted every entrepreneur’s worst fears. I was vaguely searching for capital and didn’t even know what a deck was. He agreed on the spot to provide the seed capital to build WhereFor (the predecessor to WhereTo). I found that the opposite is true.

startup 106

startup entrepreneurship advice capital 106

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

This morning marked the kickoff of VC firm 500 Global’s Fall 2022 Demo Day, which saw over a dozen startups give their best pitches to prospective investors — and customers. million in capital to date and claims to have customers including Shu Uemura, in which L’Oréal owns a majority stake. It’s demo day season.

accelerator 88

accelerator health advice hospitality 88

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.

angel investing 69

angel investing investing investment leadership 69

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

We could do more in 2010 with more VC investment; the doubling assumes only ratable increase in marketing spend to achieve profitability. Otherwise, what incentive exists for the VC to put in more capital or to have the founders earn money. The net effect for [my company] for example is we are now doing reasonably well.

founder 329

founder VC advice pitching 329

TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

We’ll kick off mobility month with a TechCrunch Live event focused on building a better mobility fintech startup featuring Rachel Holt of Construct Capital and Caribou CEO Kevin Bennett. In 2010, he sold his retail eCommerce business, Giftback. TC Live, which is free, will be live-streamed beginning 11:30 a.m. SWTCH Energy Inc.

transportation 89

transportation micromobility pitching ventures 89

This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 16, 2014

If all my deals came as intros from trusted connections that I know for years versus at founder pitch events that''s interesting data. If you meet someone at a pitch event, they''ve already got a company and they''re looking to close as quickly as possible. In fact, that''s what I tend to do--at least, what I say that I do.

VC 418

VC pitching networking venture capital 418

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

This is part of my series on Understanding Venture Capital. Unfortunately over the period of 2000-2010 the VC industry hasn’t performed well and therefore the number of funds going forward is likely to reduce greatly. – That’s a tough question that as of 2010 is a hard to know for certain.

VC 269

VC venture capital investing investment 269

This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 12, 2010

Kudos to Joyent for just being generally aware of what was going on in the startup scene—they came through on the self-serve sponsorship page without even being pitched. Once we got started with the pitches, one thing was immediately obvious—and pleasantly surprising. Looking forward to doing at least two more of these in 2010!

pitching 210

pitching venture capital ventures technology 210

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

We raised a seed round of capital in 1999 and our first venture capital round was the first week of March 2000 (e.g. We were now set to close at $46 million in new capital. We found a way to get a round of venture capital closed after all of this. I stopped doing conferences, traveling or pitching to VCs.

entrepreneurs 308

entrepreneurs advice real estate venture capital 308

Dream It

APRIL 12, 2020

Paul Martino, General Partner at Bullpen Capital. During our recent Dreamit Kickoff week, Bullpen Capital Founder and General Partner Paul Martino ( @ahpah ) spoke with our Spring 2020 cohort about the state of the VC ecosystem in the current economic crisis. Will a financial crisis affect how venture funds deploy capital?

ventures 334

ventures startup capital board 334

This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 18, 2010

RSVP: [link] 6:30PM Ultra Light Legal Series: January 2010 The Ultra Light Roundtable features a set of short talks on related topics of interest to entrepreneurs and business owners. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. RSVP: [link] 6:00PM Fashion 2.0: Startups Showcase Fashion 2.0 RSVP: [link].

communities 150

communities innovation pitching venture capital 150

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2010

This is part of a series that I’ve been working on called Understanding Venture Capital. So if a fund was raised in 2006 and the next fund was raised in 2010 it’s possible that they have two funds that “cross over&# at the same time. Tags: Pitching VCs Raising Venture Capital VC Industry.

investing 226

investing investment VC venture capital 226

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

The San Francisco events will be run by Chris Sacca (of Lowercase Capital ) and Kevin Rose of Digg. Marco Zappacosta served up an cogent, business focused and nicely demo’d pitch of their product. They walked through 4 minutes of PowerPoint garble (of a 5 minute pitch) before unveiling a beautifully designed UI.

education 254

education pitching VC media 254

TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

In fact, Heddleston worked for Dropbox as a summer in intern in 2010. Those workflows include creative, sales, client services or startups using DocSend to deliver proposals or pitch decks and track engagement. Houston and DocSend co-founder and CEO Russ Heddleston have known each for other years, and have an established relationship.

startup 139

startup disruption pitching VC 139

Gust

OCTOBER 12, 2011

During the summer of 2010, I developed a workshop, A New ACEF Valuation Workshop for Angels and Entrepreneurs. See the 2010 data reported here: Current Pre-money Valuations of Pre-revenue Companies. See the 2010 data reported here: Current Pre-money Valuations of Pre-revenue Companies. million to $2.1 million to $2.7

investing 125

investing investment networking ventures 125

David Teten VC

APRIL 13, 2021

Empirically, few small emerging investment managers hire placement agents, particularly in venture capital. Greycroft in 2010 also had an experienced team, but didn’t either. Private equity/venture capital managers have a much longer duration than most any other fund type. No historical relationship. . Opaque industry.

peer-to-peer 98

peer-to-peer venture capital VC networking 98

David Teten VC

APRIL 13, 2021

Empirically, few small emerging investment managers hire placement agents, particularly in venture capital. Greycroft in 2010 also had an experienced team, but didn’t either. I’ve worked with a significant number of placement agents and other capital-raising intermediaries of multiple types. million venture fund.

peer-to-peer 45

peer-to-peer venture capital VC networking 45

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 14, 2010

If you want to raise venture capital more easily the advice could be quite practical and counter-intuitive. It is 2010. Many companies that are raising B or C venture capital rounds right now raised their initial money in 2005-2008. That means that they likely raised money at a particularly high price relative to 2010 prices.

venture capital 289

venture capital capital ventures advice 289

This is going to be BIG.

MAY 5, 2023

It will also be my last venture capital deal. Venture capital is a pretty opaque industry and if I can shed some light on what it’s like to do this, or to decide to stop doing it, I’m happy to help. I’ve decided that this is long enough for me—especially given the fact that when you’re in venture capital, you don’t just stop.

ventures 545

ventures investing investment VC 545

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

When Chantel Waterbury came to pitch me back in August of 2010 for chloe + isabel , she started off the conversation with a simple description--that there were four other companies in her space each doing over a hundred million dollars of revenue and that, in total, they still made up a small percentage of the overall market.

pitching 300

pitching startup entrepreneurs opportunity 300

This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 10, 2017

As it turns out, from 2010-2016 inclusive, 75% of my deals are done in the second half of the year. A few years ago, when I was at First Round Capital, we had our largest month of the year in August. Obviously, those weren't new pitches, but it shows we were still working. What's the reason for that? I have a few theories.

VC 262

VC pitching capital founder 262

Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 13, 2022

In the 2000s, when capital was scarcer, founders & VCs would derive round size by debating the quantum of money required to achieve Series B milestones. When capital is scarce, it’s rationed. In the 2010s, US venture capital grew 40x in 10 years. In 2021, employment costs per capital increased to roughly $200k.

finance 129

finance financing pitching venture capital 129

Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 17, 2022

You won’t find statistics detailing their rise in PitchBook or Crunchbase, but “reopening the last round” or “raising a round extension” precede pitches Startupland today. Across financing rounds, dilution from capital has fallen by 30-50% in that decade. to 12%; and Series C from 18% to 11%.

finance 144

finance financing pitching VC 144

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The app and the company behind it have been helping people enjoy better wine since 2010, and now the startup has raised $155 million with its Series D round – a sum over twice as large as all of its previous funding to date. “I can look at my slide, from when I pitched this 10 years ago,” he told me.

pitching 117

pitching capital startup founder 117

TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

This is not shocking due to the amount of venture capital being pumped into the sector. However, Cross River was not only an early recipient of fintech funding, getting $30 million back in 2016, but has been profitable since 2010. How to make a teaser trailer for your startup pitch. Image Credits: Paolo Farinella / Getty Images.

finance 83

finance financing pitching venture capital 83