TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Yin Wu has co-founded several companies since graduating from Stanford in 2011, including a computer vision company called Double Labs that sold to Microsoft, where she stayed on for a couple of years as a software engineer. YW: We’re a team of seven and have four people on the team who are former Y Combinator founders.

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Hunter Walk

JUNE 26, 2023

Chris Neumann (of Canada’s Panache Ventures ) checks these boxes so I asked him to come on my blog (currently less consistent, hopefully still the other two) for Five Questions. Hunter Walk: So why venture capital, why early stage, and why Canada? After DataHero was acquired, I felt like it was time to try something new.

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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. Janine Sickmeyer, Overlooked Ventures.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

Business writer Gordon Pitts pinpoints 2011 as the game-changing year for the Atlantic startup scene. In his book “Unicorn in the Woods: How East Coast Geeks and Dreamers are Changing the Game , ” Pitts recounts how in March 2011 Salesforce purchased New Brunswick-based social media monitoring company Radian6 for approximately $300 million.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

Medicai founder Mircea Popa’s journey in healthcare started in 2011 when, with a friend of his, he co-founded a company that is now called SkinVision, a skin cancer screening app that detects melanoma (skin cancer) through ML algorithms applied on images taken with smartphones. million), among others. SkinVision reached 1.2

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The way that engineering teams are led, managed and tied to the business is still the same as it was 20 years ago,” Andrew Lau, co-founder and CEO of Jellyfish, told TechCrunch. “It’s billion in 2011. Jellyfish believes this can be done by giving software engineering leaders the data and insights they need to do that.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Initialized Capital founder Garry Tan will become president and CEO of Y Combinator next year, the two organizations announced today. Tan will be taking over the role from Geoff Ralston, who has been with YC since 2011. Tan, however, will continue to serve as founder and partner at Initialized – a $3.2

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

The MaC Venture Capital founding managing partner hadn’t actually seen Wonderschool’s original pitch deck before investing in the remote education startup. He was a part of an organization that was helping to bring more diverse founders in touch with investors,” says Nichols. We started to build a casual relationship then.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

We’re diving right back in next week with another installment in season two of Extra Crunch Live , our regular interview series with startup founders, venture capitalists, and other leaders from the technology community. Das as invested in companies like MuleSoft ( sold for $6.5 This is going to be a good one.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2021

Long before SoftBank launched its $2 billion Innovation Fund in Latin America, and before Andreessen Horowitz began actively investing in the region , Sao Paulo-based Kaszek has been putting money into promising startups since 2011, helping spawn nine unicorns along the way. for Fund I to 2.6 for Fund IV.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Monique Villa is an investor at Mucker Capital , an early-stage VC fund investing in startups across the U.S. She is also the co-founder of Build In SE , a community of founders, funders and ecosystem partners committed to company building in the Southeast (#BuildInSE). and Canada. More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

The new capital infusion gives Miro $476 million in total funding since the company was founded in 2011 by Andrey Khusid and Oleg Shardin. Andrey Khusid, co-founder and CEO of Miro. Iconiq Growth is back for the Series C round and is joined by Accel, Atlassian, Dragoneer, GIC, Salesforce Ventures and TCV.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Union Square Ventures (USV) has been one of the most successful venture capital firms of the past 10–15 years and continues to be a leader in our industry. This followed the firms founder Don Valentine handing leadership early to Mike Moritz and Doug Leone who then entrusted Jim Goetz. And so it goes.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

Tech founders and investors are already being attracted by the $369bn on offer under the US Inflation Reduction Act for technology startups. And in a survey by industry body Coadec of more than 250 UK founders, the majority said the cuts made the UK significantly less attractive. Tech Nation has long been embedded in the U.K.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2020

You might not know yet of XYZ Venture Capital , a four-year-old, San Francisco-based seed-stage venture firm, but many veterans of Palantir are surely aware of it. In fact, the founder of XYZ, Ross Fubini, says his firm wrote Anduril its first check. Then, like a lot of founders, he started writing checks.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2022

“What’s crazy to me is that some of these companies are still in the seed stage backed by very large firms who dabbled at this stage,” said Elizabeth Yin, a general partner and co-founder at pre-seed-focused Hustle Fund. Christine Chang, head of corporate development and ventures, Tribal. Dear Sophie, I’ve been on an H-1B since 2011.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

By 2011 the market had started to change dramatically. We formed a partnership with some of our favorite early stage investors and friends including Jim Andelman at Rincon Ventures and Peter Lee at Baroda. We announced Fund I in 2011. And Jim & I went on to raise several more venture capital funds in our day jobs.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

There is an unprecedented amount of information or knowledge that is now freely available to guide founders (e.g., Digital communities and social platforms such as Twitter, Signal NFX, YC’s co-founder matching, and Slack communities (e.g., Angel investments in 2022 equaled those from 2006 to 2011 combined. Peer groups.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

million in a Series C funding round co-led by Closed Loop Partners’ Leadership Fund and Piper Sandler Merchant Banking with participation from MissionOG, Harbert Growth, Grotech Ventures, Lavrock Ventures and Point Field Partners.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Golden Gate Ventures, a venture capital firm established in 2011, has carved an indelible mark on Southeast Asia’s startup ecosystem. Rooted in Silicon Valley expertise with dedication to Southeast Asia, the firm has supported numerous audacious founders and companies toward success.

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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. Some have built reputations for adding phenomenal value, being staunch allies of founders as startups scale and helping them source expertise or resources through their networks. Angels are increasingly everywhere.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

On October 21, 2011 at 10:20 a.m. Many first-time founders think they know where to look first to save money or how to pivot, but as the saying goes, no plan ever survives first contact with the enemy. Investors still expect “healthy growth” Why founders need to secure 24+ months of runway. I joined more than 8.5

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Launched in 2016, Seneca Learning did not previously take on venture capital backing, according to Crunchbase. Felix Ohswald, CEO and co-founder of GoStudent, said: “The United Kingdom is one of GoStudent’s core regions, and we aim to become the market leader. with 7 million students on it. 1 global school.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Toronto, Ontario-based OMERS Ventures is the VC arm of OMERS, the pension plan for Ontario’s municipal employees. Founded in 2011, the firm presently has about $1.6 An Entrepreneur-in-Residence program that would serve as an incubator for founders to prepare them to launch their new software companies. . Barrett said.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

When Zola Electric was launched in 2011 by Erica Mackey, Xavier Helgesen and Joshua Pierce, the company provided solar home solutions to off-grid rural communities in Tanzania. The debt financing features top energy lenders FMO and SunFunder, two firms known to provide debt capital to solar companies in emerging markets.

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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. If you’re a startup founder ready to gain the tools you need to get to the next level, check out the EO Accelerator program. What prompted you to write Boom ? was in trouble.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

In 2011, the Nigerian government launched a financial inclusion initiative and set a target to include 80% of the country’s adult population. Liberia is another country where we are gearing up to set operations.”

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2016

My partner Greg Bettinelli (worth following on Twitter) was recently named by The LA Business Journal as the “ Top deal maker in Los Angeles in Venture Capital.” And Greg has had the most influence on Upfront Ventures’ strategy since he joined. ” Numero uno. I was nowhere to be found.

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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, founders haven’t quit their jobs at this stage. Surging Growth: This period started in 2011, where Groupon crossed the 1 billion mark.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 19, 2012

3/15/2011 – All in on Facebook, “Your Trusted Social Media Marketing Company” Social Media Platform. 7/19/2011 – Same page, but Wayback Machine stops crawling pages. 8/15/2011 – The day that Buddy Media became a software company? 8/31/2010 – Same thing.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2021

When we started in 2011, there was an existing model that was Rocket Internet. We liked the entrepreneurship spirit but we didn’t like the philosophy,” co-founder and CEO Thibaud Elzière told me. When eFounders come up with a new project, they act as a sort of third co-founder. The startup studio tries to find a CEO and a CTO.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

In 2011, the company expanded to build themes for online stores. Everyone is saying this is a bad idea and you can’t compete with Amazon,” recalls Matt Mullenweg, Automattic’s founder and CEO. WooCommerce logo. Image Credits: Wikimedia. Even at the board level, we honestly asked if we should even be doing this.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

The startup targeted working professionals in cities, and raised only around $11 million in known venture capital. Goldstein and Reddit co-founder Steve Huffman, was one of the first travel aggregation platforms on the market. Still, even venture capital couldn’t make vending machines work well enough.

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Revolution

APRIL 4, 2019

By Ted Leonsis, Founder and Partner, Revolution Growth I joined the Revolution team as a cofounder of the Revolution Growth fund in 2011 and our goal was, and still is, to make investments in great businesses that give customers more choice, convenience and control in their lives.

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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. Not only will we peel back the curtain on how this investor/founder relationship works, but we’ll also hear from these two tech leaders on their thoughts around bigger enterprise trends in the ecosystem. Make a friend!

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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. That raise came after a $40 million Series B in April 2019 co-led by Stripe and Index Ventures that valued the company at $355 million.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

Rather than selling their goods on existing marketplaces (such as Mercado Libre, the Brazilian equivalent of Amazon), many merchants and entrepreneurs are opting to start and grow their own online businesses, according to Nuvemshop co-founder and CEO Santiago Sosa. Nuvemshop co-founder and CEO Santiago Sosa; Image courtesy of Nuvemshop.

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