TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Ex-Rovio CEO Mikael Hed also invested and joins as board chairman. Founded in 2011 by 3D designer Marius Kalytis (now COO), CGTrader has become a significant 3D content provider — it even claims to be the world’s largest. 3D model provider CGTrader has raised $9.5

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Founders like to create companies around what they know, and Frank Westermann and Anton Kittelberger know diabetes. They met and bonded over both having type 1 diabetes — Westermann was diagnosed over 25 years ago — and started the MySugr app for diabetes self-management in 2012 ( they won a TC pitch-off back in 2011 ). through 2027.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

BitSight, a startup that assesses the likelihood that an organization will be breached , has received a $250 million investment from credit rating giant Moody’s, and acquired Israeli cyber risk assessment startup VisibleRisk for an undisclosed sum. The investment values BitSight at $2.4

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 7, 2015

” I found myself nodding through all of it with quotes like, “Seed investing is the status symbol of Silicon Valley,” said Sam Altman. I myself coined the term ENIFA (everyone now is a f **g angel) in 2011 but it didn’t stick as well as the term Unicorn did. If anything it felt like a public service to founders to me.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 12, 2016

Because I didn't get a screaming yes across the board, I sat on the deal, asking more people, trying to be peripherally helpful, but not jumping in and taking a risk. I even punted on the fundraising by adding them to the Open Angel Forum in February, 2011, giving everyone else an opportunity to do the deal, without leading it myself.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The new investment values Tala north of $800 million, according to a source close to the company. In 2011, Shivani Siroya founded Tala after leaving her job as an investment banking analyst. “And The founder and CEO emphasized that the new product offerings will help customers “use, save, protect and grow their money better.”.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Luckily for us, we’re going to have a candid conversation with both parties in the relationship between Ironclad CEO and cofounder Jason Boehmig and his investor and board member Accel partner Steve Loughlin. Loughlin was an entrepreneur before he was an investor, founding RelateIQ (an Accel-backed company) in 2011.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Companies sometime run out of cash in the midst of success, and often find that sources of loans or investment are not freely flowing at the moment of need. There are only a few Uber or AirBnB investments to point to – where the street value of the company may ultimately validate that amount of investment.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 25, 2021

By: Sarah Dickey, ACA Membership Director The programming team for ACA 2021 - The Summit of Angel Investing is full of experienced, respected angel investors and ecosystem providers, and they are hard at work creating a virtual experience that will change the way you think about angel investing.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

Today the company announced its first outside investment. Octopus Deploy was launched after founder and chief executive officer Paul Stovell observed that many software teams were able to set up continuous integration (CI) servers, but struggled to achieve full continuous deployment (CD). By the next year, it had reached profitability.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Yet it’s already managing $3 billion in assets through a process that founder Mitchell Green half-kiddingly refers to as “rinse and repeat.” ” That’s true even with two partners: Brian Neider, who first crossed paths with Green at Bessemer, and Nimay Mehta, who joined the firm in 2011.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Luckily for us, we’re going to have a candid conversation with both parties in the relationship between Ironclad CEO and co-founder Jason Boehmig and his investor and board member Accel partner Steve Loughlin. Loughlin was an entrepreneur before he was an investor, founding RelateIQ (an Accel-backed company) in 2011.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

Before launching Goodwater, co-founder Eric Kim was managing director at Maverick, an early investor in Coupang, and served on the company’s board from 2011 to 2017. This is due in large part to Coupang’s heavy investment in logistics. Coupang consumer research by Goodwater Capital.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

CEO and co-founder Eugene Danilkis said it will be using the money to expand deeper in the 50 markets where it is already active, as well as focus more on specific regions like South America and Asia. The funding gives Mambu a post-money valuation of €1.7 billion (just over $2 billion at today’s rates), the company has confirmed.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Transportation editor Kirsten Korosec reached out to 10 investors to learn more “about the state of mobility, which trends they’re most excited about and what they’re looking for in their next investments.” ” Here’s who she interviewed: Clara Brenner, co-founder and managing partner, Urban Innovation Fund.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2013

first world problems and all] But I did feel like 2012 was particularly tough for me having closed out 2011 losing a close family member and dealing with cancer with both family members and close friends. After all, you’d have to be a really big baby to complain about being a VC. Some responded very well and are in recovery.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

A week after the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase staged a direct listing, much of the focus remains on the wealth that the listing generated for executives at the company, its board members, and its private investors. He does direct [investing] now, too. But he’d been trying to invest with Y Combinator for many years.,

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Founded in November 2007 in New York City by Alexis Maybank and Kevin Ryan (co-founder of DoubleClick); CEO is Susan Lyne (ex-CEO Marta Stewart Living Omnimedia) Revenue estimates: $50mm in 2008; $170mm in 2009 (versus budget of $150mm); $450mm forecasted for 2010. CEO hinted to WSJ that it may go public in early 2011.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

Invested Interests. And in January I saw that digital music overtook physical media for the first time in 2011, something I expected since 1998. Investment and startups problem : we all want disruptive and game-changing businesses. Tim Berry , Founder, Palo Alto Software. Invested Interests. Invested Interests.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

However, 2018 has other ideas, with the most money ever invested in U.S. Originally built as the leading CAD software company, AutoDesk has smartly leveraged its brand and stock appreciation to place chess pieces like PlanGrid on the board in new and extremely large markets, such as construction. 1/ Cash Is King: The $1.4B

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 30, 2021

When Gusto founders Josh, Tomer, and Eddie came together in 2011, they saw an unmet need in small business payroll. Upon digging deeper, the founders realized that incumbent providers were overly complex, and more manual than necessary. When a new hire joins, employees can post welcome messages on Gusto’s internal message board.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Brian Rothenberg Contributor Share on Twitter Brian Rothenberg is a partner at Defy , a two-time former founder and growth executive. More posts by this contributor 5 factors that can make or break a startup’s growth journey From 2011 to 2021, Facebook’s average revenue per user (ARPU) shot up at a nearly exponential rate.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

In marketing materials founders often refer to their customer base as a “community”, but there’s a huge gap between having customers and creating a community. they could invest in entrepreneurial communities and the best founders would then bring in new founders. It’s no wonder they’ve both performed so well.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Founders Gregory Galant (the CEO) and Lee Semel (the CTO) will continue to control the company post the deal. We’re thrilled to partner with SGE to support our rapid growth and continue to define the role of PRM in the SaaS ecosystem,” said Gregory Galant, co-founder and CEO of Muck Rack, in a statement.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Lydia first raised $45 million in January 2020 — Tencent led that investment. While Lydia wouldn’t discuss the valuation of the round, its co-founder and CEO gave me a hint. Interestingly, Amit Jhawar is heading this investment for Accel. Jhawar joined payments company Braintree in 2011 as COO and CFO.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

The interview was wide ranging and discussed everything from USVs investment thesis over the past 10 years to what some emerging themes are around blockchain and artificial intelligence. And honestly it was the single biggest roadblock at Upfront when we raised out fourth fund in 2011. We have a very similar philosophy to Fred.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 3, 2013

The timing of the announcement of this investment couldn’t have been timed more perfectly if we tried. I started announcing my Twitter thesis back in 2011 (still serves as a useful read today). And before that you might enjoy this longer analysis on why I invested in DataSift in the first place , which was written 2.5

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

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StartupNation

APRIL 20, 2021

Since I first invested in his prior company back in 2011, we’ve shared meals and wine, successes and frustrations. “At I met Greg in the spring of 2011 when he approached me to invest in his new idea. Greg and his wife, Nikki, are dear friends of ours, so I’ve had a front-row seat to his incredible ascent.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 9, 2024

The data revolution in partnerships Sarah Wang: That’s incredibly exciting and definitely part of our investment thesis in investing in Crossbeam. Bob’s founder history Sarah Wang: Yeah, I could not agree more. This is a little bit of moving away from the book directly: Bob, you’re a three-time founder.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

If you’re a founder in the robotics space — hardware or software side — you can apply here. Previously she was chair of the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Interactive Computing in the College of Computing, as well as founder and director of the Human-Automation Systems Lab. Who will you be pitching to?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

While $1 million of that total is reserved for AngelList co-founder Naval Ravikant and Basecamp founder Jason Fried, the remaining $5 million is being raised with a twist: anyone willing to fork over at least $100 bucks can invest in the round. million the year prior. The SAFE’s cap is placed at a present-day 3.5x Background.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

We also discussed where YC’s investing capital comes from and whether, given the market slowdown, YC will be changing its terms to reflect that slowdown. And I’ve been an employee at YC since 2011. And I love working with founders. You have the Continuity Fund [for later-stage investments]. It’s weird.

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Angel Capital Association

OCTOBER 17, 2023

In 2011, under the leadership of Public Policy Chairman Dan Rosen (Seattle, Washington), ACA decided to engage Washington, DC counsel to navigate public policy on Capitol Hill, the executive branch and the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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