TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2021

Bezos Expeditions — Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ personal investment fund — and Whale Rock Capital joined the round, adding $40 million to a $60 million raise led by Sequoia about one month prior. But it chose not to raise so much capital. . Pilot CEO Waseem Daher tears down his company’s $60M Series C pitch deck.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Loughlin was an entrepreneur before he was an investor, founding RelateIQ (an Accel-backed company) in 2011. Then, it’s time for the Pitch Deck Teardown. On each episode of Extra Crunch Live, we take a look at pitch decks submitted by the audience and our experienced guests give their live feedback.

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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.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2020

However, I understand the round values GoCardless at just over $970 million, meaning that the 2011-founded fintech is perhaps best described as a soonicorn (presuming these things are important to you). According to The Telegraph newspaper , this gives the company much coveted unicorn status.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Leslie Crowe, talent partner at Bain Capital Ventures, says founders who prepare a communication plan and “opt to be generous where you can” can do right by former employees and keep the trust of those who remain. But when Uber rolled out service in San Francisco in 2011, it really transformed the way people got around.

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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. To capitalize on this excellent growth opportunity, some entrepreneurs tend to make significant changes in a model that has been working reasonably well for them.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

2007, 2011) and for the hottest of companies and in bad markets for fund raising (2003, 2008) prices test the bottom end of the range. Prices have definitely gone up in 2011 as depicted in the anecdotal chart below. To any prospective investor you look like you’ve failed even before your first pitch.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Loughlin was an entrepreneur before he was an investor, founding RelateIQ (an Accel-backed company) in 2011. Then, it’s time for the pitch deck teardown. Felicis’ Aydin Senkut and Guideline’s Kevin Busque on the value of simple pitch decks.

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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%. Felicis’ Aydin Senkut and Guideline’s Kevin Busque on the value of simple pitch decks. Shawn Carolan, partner, Menlo Ventures. Dave Clark, partner, Expa.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

I obviously don’t have a crystal ball so the economy could fare better than my gut, but here’s why I’m cautious for some time in 2010 or early 2011: Why is the future still so unpredictable? Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice VC Industry startup technology vc venture capital.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

As I write this, days after the 2012 presidential election, I’m probably not alone in feeling relieved that the political jeering and soapboxing that reached a feverish pitch during the seemingly endless campaign season has finally subsided. Granted most startups will never become another Apple or Google.

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Haystack

APRIL 10, 2018

Earlier today, the folks from Afore Capital hosted their inaugural “Pre-Seed Summit” in San Francisco. About 150 people showed up, a healthy mix of founders, seed-stage investors and big fund VCs, and a bunch of LPs of various sizes. Some press showed up, too.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

This is part of my series on Understanding Venture Capital. I saw it myself in 1999-2002 when it was hard to charge for my product because all of my competitors raised large rounds of capital and were giving away their products free fueled by large VC rounds. A lot will depend on how exits go in 2010/2011.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

And in January I saw that digital music overtook physical media for the first time in 2011, something I expected since 1998. Power Pitches. If you’re doing investment pitches, you should read this book. If you’re doing a pitch I’m going to see, I want you to have read this book. Power Pitches.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2021

But back in 2011, no one knew this startup would see such meteoric success. The episode also featured the Extra Crunch Live Pitch-Off, where audience members pitched their products to Bennett and Narang and received live feedback. Toast has raised more than $900 billion and is reportedly valued at over $5 billion.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Felicis Ventures’ Aydin Senkut and Guideline’s Kevin Busque showed us how valuable a simple pitch deck can be. Next week, we’ll sit down with Bain Capital Ventures’ Matt Harris and Justworks’ Isaac Oats. Sarah Kunst (Cleo Capital) + Julia Collins (Planet FWD). Every single Wednesday at 12 p.m.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

with $15 million to Prove It The venture capital world has started firing up a few cylinders again and looking for businesses that it believes will help us all succeed in ways that resonate with new ways of working as we begin to return to work. Bevy is Emerging as a Leader in Software for Building Virtual Communities?—?with

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

Showing that there’s real investor enthusiasm for identity management platforms, Saviynt , which enables companies to secure apps, data and infrastructure in a single platform, today announced that it raised $205 million in debt from AB Private Credit Investors’ Tech Capital Solutions group. from last year’s $1.3

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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! Future Labs Flash Pitch. “For 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.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2011

If you want a very quick primer on all the stuff nobody ever tells you about raising venture capital check out this video where Mark Jeffrey & I break it down on This Week in VC. Do you really still need a Powerpoint deck in 2011? A summary of what we discussed is below: Not 100% in order of the video, but close.

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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. Pitch perfect, you might think. billion and $10.65

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 22, 2022

The structural problems of the EU monetary union came into focus in a big way from 2009–2011, when a number of European countries struggled to pay off the massive debts they had accrued over the preceding decades. Usually, whatever trade or investment idea Goldy is pitching is a sign you should do the exact opposite.

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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! Future Labs Flash Pitch. “For 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.

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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. Pitch perfect, you might think. billion and $10.65

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

18 months ago 25% of all pitches to me were ideas for how to build products around Twitter’s API. Close shop to try and control monetization and you can only rely on your own internal innovation machine & capital. Twitter seems to have become a bit allergic to third-party developers (or maybe vice-versa).

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

By 2011, the number of subscribers worldwide had surpassed 5 Billion and cellular communication had become an unprecedented technological revolution.” ( article via @trengriffin ). Based on this legendary mistake, AT&T decided there was not much future to these toys.

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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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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Frankly, raising capital to work on this problem is and was privilege. Look, socialists hate venture capital, and venture capitalists hate unions. LLH: When starting Belly in 2011, yeah, we were tracking something like 15 companies in the Loyalty space. How many times did you get called a socialist? LLH: It’s been interesting.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

He points specifically to FedRAMP, the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program created in 2011 as a way to ensure the security of cloud services used by the U.S. ” It’s a persuasive pitch. ” It’s a persuasive pitch. It seems to have worked, too. million to date.

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