TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

In 2011, the company launched its first core banking product targeting microfinance institutions. Nigeria is becoming Africa’s unofficial tech capital. CardinalStone Capital Advisers , a Lagos-based investment firm, led the Series A investment. Other investors include V8 Capital , Constant Capital and Itanna Capital Ventures.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Acadian Ventures , an early-stage venture capital firm, announced its 2024 Future of Work 100, an annual list of venture-backed startups impacting how work gets done in the future. Those recognized in this year’s list have raised a cumulative $30 billion in venture capital financing, with a total valuation of over $140 billion.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Had I begun this tradition earlier, for those wondering, it would’ve been Airbnb in 2012, and Uber in 2011.). 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!

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Register MessageGears, a customer engagement platform for big consumer brands, has announced the completion of a $62 million growth financing round. With the new funds, MessageGears now has investments totaling to $80 million since its founding in 2011. Remember Me. No account yet?

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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. Surging Growth: This period started in 2011, where Groupon crossed the 1 billion mark.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

As part of the financing, Vista Equity is taking a minority stake in the company. The round follows $25 million in financing from CIBC Innovation Banking last September, and brings Vena’s total raised since its 2011 inception to over $363 million.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

She launched Silicon Hills News in 2011. He didn’t raise any capital for Chaotic Moon. He launched his latest venture, Strangeworks in 2018 and raised $4 million in seed stage capital. In addition, he created Ecliptic Capital, a $100 million evergreen investment fund that could grow to $150 million by the end of the year.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

A leading financial advisor in the entertainment and sports industries, Roman focuses his holistic service model on creating and maintaining efficiencies within his clients’ finances. In 2011 he founded Legacy Private Client Group, where he built a platform that facilitated holistic solutions.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Embedded finance connects services like payment processing with everyday activities like grabbing a coffee before unlocking an e-scooter. According to the entrepreneurs and investors reporter Natasha Mascarenhas spoke to, this deal “shows the strength of edtech’s capital options as the pandemic continues.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

For example, Leading Edge Capital closed on nearly $2 billion for its sixth fund, Base10 Partners brought in $460 million for its third fund, Founders Fund secured $5 billion for two funds, Freestyle raised $130 million for its sixth fund and the list goes on and on. That’s new.”. Image Credits: Overlooked Ventures.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Via TechCrunch by Arman Tabatabai: Venture capital has been flooding the various subverticals under the robotics umbrella in recent years, and the construction space is one of the largest beneficiaries. From 2007 to 2011, during which the Great Recession of 2008-09 took place, the construction industry lost approximately 2 million workers.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! Founded by technology entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel in 2011, the Thiel Fellowship is a two-year program for young people [under 22] who want to build new things. From 100% loss capital (e.g.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In November 2011, David Rosenblatt took over as CEO and has been scaling the company ever since. Poshmark was founded by Manish Chandra in 2011. Julie Wainwright founded The Real Real in 2011. Rover.com (*) in Seattle, which was founded by Greg Gottesman and Aaron Easterly in 2011, is the leading player in this market.

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Y Combinator

JULY 24, 2020

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. The most common example of this phenomenon is in the books category.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

Released in 2011, “Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle” was a book that laid claim to the idea that Israel was an unusual type of country. It wasn’t long before venture capital firms started up and major tech companies like Microsoft, Google and Samsung had R&D centers and accelerators located in the country.

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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. People referred to them as the invoicing company.”. billion and $10.65

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 25, 2021

She co-founded the Portland Seed Fund in 2011, but also serves as the Director of Portland State University’s Center for Entrepreneurship and manager of the Portland State University Business Accelerator, allowing her to monitor prospective and existing portfolio companies that originate from the university. He received his Ph.D.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

And the loosening of federal monetary policies, particularly in the US, has pushed more dollars into the venture ecosystems at every stage of financing. how on Earth could the venture capital market stand still? What Has Changed in Financing? The market today would barely be recognizable by a time traveler from 2011.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Rachel Holt, co-founder and general partner, Construct Capital. HubStop introduced usage-based pricing in 2011 to boost its retention rate, then near 70%. Shawn Carolan, partner, Menlo Ventures. Dave Clark, partner, Expa. Abhijit Ganguly, senior manager, Goodyear Ventures. David Lawee, founder and general partner, CapitalG.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! Founded by technology entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel in 2011, the Thiel Fellowship is a two-year program for young people [under 22] who want to build new things. From 100% loss capital (e.g.

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Impact Hub

MARCH 16, 2022

Built on the results of the 2011 Social Business Initiative and the 2016 Start-up and Scale-up Initiative , and preceded by extensive dialogue with stakeholders and civil society, the Action Plan proposes 38 concrete measures to be implemented in a nine-years horizon, between 2021-2030.

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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. People referred to them as the invoicing company.”. billion and $10.65

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

If 2011 & 2012 look like 2010 then the current crop of angel investments will look great. But if 2011 & 2012 look more like 2008-2009 than 2010 then one of the most important skills of angel investors will be whether they can get their companies financed (or ramen profitable, but this is harder to sustain over a long period of time).

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

I had witnessed a number of early-stage tech startups in LA raise seed capital from the Bay Area and relocate. It was 2009 and it was terribly difficult to get any financing (if you can remember a time like that!) By 2011 the market had started to change dramatically. We announced Fund I in 2011. And Jamie hers.

accelerator

TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2022

In 2021, $330 billion in venture capital was deployed, and only 2% of that number went to companies founded only by women and 15.6% If our ultimate objective is to understand the current state of opportunity and its expansion over time, we need to, in the words of John Doerr , measure what matters : representation in early-stage financing.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 22, 2019

In 2011, I heard a speech by Mark Zandi [chief economist of Moody’s Analytics] revealing that entrepreneurship in the U.S. We have consolidated entrepreneurial ecosystems (and capital) to just a few cities and we have made it increasingly difficult for women and minorities to start businesses. What prompted you to write Boom ?

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Gust

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Here are the trends in venture capital financings from 2006 through 2010 – the number of seed stage deals funded and total investment by region in millions of dollars. . And, according to MoneyTree© for the first three quarters of 2011, the average invested in NYC Metro seed stage VC deals was even less. All Seed-VC.

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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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Gust

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Last week , we gave some attention to the “why” behind convertible note financing for early stage startups. As with so many subjects in law and finance, mastering the jargon is half the battle. This may seem like a no-brainer now that you understand the basic structure of a convertible debt financing.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

If 2011 & 2012 look like 2010 then the current crop of angel investors will look great. First Round Capital & True Ventures seem to spend as much time cultivated relationships with “second round capital” as they do entrepreneurs. So where are we now? It’s hard to say. And the best early-stage investors know this.

angel investing

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Existing investors IVP, Revolution Growth and Lowercase Capital also joined the round that brings Tala’s total funding raised to a little over $360 million. However , unlike the last financing round where Tala raised $100 million debt financing in addition to its $110 million Series D, the microlender only raised equity this time.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

Mack Kolarich is the VP of analytics at Assure and has extensive expertise in private capital and startup investing. One kernel of optimism for founders to bear in mind is that the state of “earliest-stage” capital has improved significantly over the last decade, with more angel investors and more venture funds than ever before.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

The increase might not turn heads in a world of $90+ billion valuations, but Lavingia thinks the new rules could revitalize a path to raising capital for venture capitalists and founders alike. But today marks what Lavingia views as a long-term shift in how Gumroad raises capital. Despite this guardrail, commitments aren’t capital.

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Gust

AUGUST 22, 2012

The risk-reward tradeoff in finance should hold true in developing and unstable regions as well. Distributed teams can work across multiple countries in ways that make the most efficient use of human capital. Silicon Arabia has engineers in Russia as well as Egypt.)

entrepreneurship

TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

Inovia Capital and Lion Capital co-led the new growth round, which included participation from Acrew DCF, Thayer Ventures and Full In Partners, as well as existing backers Telstra Ventures and Bee Partners. The financing brings Snapcommerce’s total raised since its 2016 inception to over $100 million.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The company helps businesses communicate with their customers via mobile messaging platforms and today is announcing that it has raised $91 million in a new financing round. and of course, that listing hasn’t materialized yet considering its new private capital round.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2021

San Francisco-headquartered Gupshup has raised $100 million in its Series F financing round from Tiger Global Management, which valued the 15-year-old startup at $1.4 Gupshup , which has raised $150 million to date and concluded its Series E round in 2011, says each month its clients send over 6 billion messages.

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