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The Breakout Tech Company Of 2018

Haystack

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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This serial founder is taking on Carta with cap table management software she says is better for founders

TechCrunch

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. Carta was just valued at $1.7 billion by Andreessen Horowitz, in a deal some see as rich.

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Ed Zimmerman: The Growing Scarcity of Series B Venture Rounds

WSJ - The Accelerators

For instance, as I’ve previously written , “In 2011, only 28% of Europe’s venture-backed tech deals were seed stage… [but] in 2013 and 2014, roughly half of all European tech venture deals were seed stage.” So more of these companies march into the wide mouth of the funnel. Because the U.S.

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Call center automation software vendor Replicant raises $78M

TechCrunch

Prior to Replicant, Abraham — who joined eBay in 2011 via the company’s acquisition of Milo.com — did stints as a software engineer at Atomic and smart device company Leeo. ” To date, Replicant has raised $110 million in venture capital.

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What the midterm madness means for startups

TechCrunch

The antitrust bills, if passed, could significantly restrict the ability of Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and other tech incumbents to acquire and punish rivals to boost their own products and services. lost its perfect AAA credit rating from Standard & Poor in August 2011, prompting the stock market to plunge more than 5%.

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Nelo joins the BNPL rush, with $20M in new funding and the Mexican market in its sights

TechCrunch

On a personal level, having lived in Mexico over the past year (and previously having lived in LatAm in 2011), Schwiep told me that it has been “wild” to witness the market for digital commerce essentially transforming overnight. . “I Nelo raises $3M to grow ‘buy now, pay later’ in Mexico.

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The Decline of New SaaS Company Formation

Tomasz Tunguz

In 2011-2013, about 1450 software companies were founded each year on average. This is counterintuitive considering the broader venture capital backdrop of near record venture investment in software. The rate of new software company formation seems to have declined materially in the past few years.

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