TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

As part of the transaction , Vangelov told TechCrunch that he will join Starco’s board and is getting shares in the new company, while himself and Soylent’s shareholders will become the largest single voting block in Starco. He and the board chose to partner with Starco Brands. Also, you need capital to do so.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

The climatetech venture builder also has the support of EDB New Ventures, the venture-building arm of the Singapore Economic Development Board. This partnership combines Wavemaker Impact’s strong venture-building expertise and extensive founder networks with EDB’s access to sustainability-focused corporates and insights on climate needs.

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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. YC itself says it was founded in 2005 as “an antidote to the classic venture capital firm.” Tan will be taking over the role from Geoff Ralston, who has been with YC since 2011.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

Sarah Guo is the latest woman to depart their position at a venture capital firm with plans to launch one of their own. Guo joined Greylock in 2013 as the firm’s first woman partner and will now transition into the role of board partner. She also is a board director at Mystery and 0x Labs.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Green, who has collected a series of accolades, including being honored in Time’s 100 Most Influential People and named a Top 20 Venture Capitalists by The New York Times, currently serves as a board member on several portfolio companies, including Glossier, Faire, Hims-Hers, Curated, Ritual and Modern Fertility.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Cincinnati, like many startup communities in the US over the past 5 years, has revitalized important regions in its urban core, created accelerators, built co-working facilities, pooled together angel capital, attracted VCs, involved educational institutions and solicited the help of important corporations in a more cohesive ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2021

Historically, Socure has been focused on the financial services industry, but it plans to use its new capital to further expand into “every consumer-facing vertical” including online gaming, healthcare, telco, e-commerce and on-demand services. Accel partner Amit Jhawar will join Socure’s board as part of the funding round.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The co-founder added that the startup is “well-capitalized” but the financial market uncertainty was a factor in these changes. Since its 2012 inception, Chime has raised a total of $2.3 Digital bank Chime is cutting costs across the board – including 12% of staff by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

How the Accredited Investor Definition Unfairly Limits Investment Access for the Non-wealthy and the Need for Reform * WATCH THE HEARING NOW, BEGINNING AT MIN 10 * Early this morning, the Subcommittee on Capital Markets held a hearing entitled “Sophistication or Discrimination? 2022), available at FY22 OASB Annual Report (sec.gov) 4 Id.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2023

We’ve been seeing layoffs and cost-cutting measures across the board as companies look to shore up their balance sheets. The social media company had raised a down round in 2009 before it went public in 2012 at a $104 billion valuation. Unfortunately for startups, it seems these down rounds are here to stay. .”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Nine Four Ventures also put money in the round, along with existing backers BDC Capital’s Women in Technology Venture Fund, StandUp Ventures, Sands Capital and Vanedge Capital. The company plans to use its new capital mostly toward building out its team, product development and doubling down on its go-to-market strategy.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 30, 2022

Register Kickstart Ventures , one of the most active venture capital firms in the Philippines, celebrates its 10th anniversary with a renewed commitment to invest in startups across the Philippines, and in major innovation hubs in Southeast Asia and beyond. on its first year.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 27, 2022

He solely represented himself as the CEO of Learn In, while Degreed’s board of directors represented the other side. I was closer and more involved in operations than the rest of the directors but it was in a board member capacity,” he added. Its total known capital raised to date is $182 million.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

A survey of women from 350 tech startups reinforced this: 72% of women respondents said that they faced difficulty attaining financial capital when they were starting their businesses and nearly 80% of them had to rely on personal funding. Even more interesting, another study argues that women make better board directors than men.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

Steadview Capital led the startup’s Series D round. “The importance of having effective communication strategy is increasing over time and Exotel executed this successfully by powering communication to almost all internet unicorns in India,” said Puneet Kumar, managing director at Steadview Capital, in a statement.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

At every entrepreneur event I through between 2008-2012 I invite Hamet because he was a great mentor for entrepreneurs. Hamet started his career in Venture Capital working for the first post-apartheid VC fund in South Africa. So he has the exact same ratio of time available per board as any full-time partner at Upfront does.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

The outfit just closed its debut fund with $75 million in capital commitments, exceeding their original $60 million target, and even one of their earliest investors, Michael Kim of Cendana Capital, expresses surprise. Mohnot sold a company, FeeFinders, to Groupon 2012]. And all we do is fintech.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

Enza Capital participated, alongside some unnamed angel investors. Michael Wilkerson founded Tugende in 2012. Once boda boda riders get on board, they can double their take-home profit from $5 per day to $10 per day after becoming owners, the CEO claims. This brings Tugende’s total Series A financing to $9.9

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

During that process, she was battling Stage 3 breast cancer — doing drafts of the S-1 from a chemo chair and sending it to the board the morning of her double mastectomy. Today, Found has 130 employees, including its coaching staff, and a large part of its capital will go toward expanding its headcount.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

As a board member, I’ve seen everything from product releases to crucial GTM (go-to-market) changes slip because of billing complexity, even at deeply technical companies with excellent engineers. “As billion in 2012. Casado also noted that he has seen firsthand how the problem can impact software companies. . “As

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

The round was led by Pan-African early-stage venture capital firm, TLcom Capital , with participation from nonprofit Women’s World Banking. But getting farmers on board has never been easy, Goslinga told TechCrunch. As part of the new fundraise, TLcom’s senior partner Omobola Johnson will join Pula’s board.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

He also logged two years with Andreessen Horowitz beginning in 2012.) They shared the many individuals who make up Patron’s new LP base, including a handful of investors from Andreessen Horowitz, along with Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures, Garry Tan of Initialized Capital, and Hans Tung of GGV Capital.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

Yesterday, the ride-sharing company Lyft said its two co-founders, John Zimmer and Logan Green, are stepping down from managing the company’s day-to-day operations, though they are retaining their board seats. IPO, suggests that if anything, Lyft’s trajectory might make shareholders even less nervous about dual-stock structures.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As a startup in this phase you often raise capital, get press, hire staff and everything feels possible. Given that there will be short-term losses with each customer we add (due to CAC and on-boarding), ironically, growing too quickly could also place stress on the business) How many cities do we want to serve?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The company has raised $80 million, a Series B led by Spectrum Equity, with previous backers Eight Roads, F-Prime Capital and Highgate Technology Ventures also participating. Steve LeSieur, an MD at Spectrum Equity who is joining the board with this round, said that bigger market potential is one big reason his firm invested now.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

Back when we started, around 2012, there was a lack of VC investors who [were] willing to invest very early stage in hardware technology, particularly in 3D printing. Today, we are a technology-focused venture capital firm that can provide a gigantic ecosystem. I’m the rookie with only 15 years in this business. AH: Absolutely.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 6, 2021

Square buys majority of Tidal, adds Jay-Z to its board in bid to shake up the artist economy. As part of this transaction, Tidal owner Jay-Z got a board seat with Square, triggering conversations about the future of musical NFTs. If there’s anyone you think we need to interview for the episode, DM me names.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Now Nord Security , the startup behind one of the bigger paid VPN providers, NordVPN , is announcing significant funding at a “unicorn” valuation to build out both its consumer and enterprise business lines to capitalize on that growth. Ragnarsson is joining the board with this round. This round values the startup at $1.6

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

He sits on the board of the last three companies in that list. Dutt also founded and led Voxel, a cloud-hosting startup that was acquired by Internap for $30 million in 2012. Matt Harris (Bain Capital Ventures) + Isaac Oates (Justworks) — February 24. Steve Loughlin (Accel) + Jason Boehmig (Ironclad) — February 17.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Return backer Zeev Ventures led the equity round, which also included participation from Group 11, Stereo Capital, Menlo Ventures and Lydia Jett of the SoftBank Vision Fund. The financings bring the San Francisco-based company’s total raised since its 2012 inception to $530 million.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Shrestha came on board in 2012 as the head of customer success. The firm has 250 customers including FedEx, Major League Baseball, Bain Capital and Biogen. CEO and co-founder Arun Shrestha has a deep background in technology including working with Okta from its early days.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2016

years at Upfront has been both a pleasure and also has taught me a lot about venture capital. Kevin joined Upfront in 2012 as an Associate. We also look for a cultural fit with Upfront, which includes the gravitas to deal with executives and founders at the startups we back as well as the other board members.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2023

Additionally, a group of VCs released the following statement, which reads: “SVB-UK is a trusted and valued partner of the entire innovation ecosystem powering founders and the venture capital industry. SVB UK secured a UK banking license in 2012 but became a UK Standalone bank in August 2022 and has 700 full-time employees).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Innovium is selling for around the price that Facebook paid for Instagram in 2012, a deal that at the time was so large that it dominated technology headlines around the world. But with so much capital available today, private valuations are soaring and mega deals abound. Regardless, a billion-dollar exit is a billion-dollar exit.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

There’s Metromile, which launched its personalized pay-per-mile auto insurance in 2012. It is more fair, affordable and customized across the board, and unique because the company offers customers rates that are actually reflective of their driving, which rewards safe drivers with lower insurance premiums,” he said.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 17, 2012

One day if you’re lucky you’ll be big enough to work with recruiters to hire senior members of your team or your board. And in it he profiles the work of Coach Campbell who was once on the boards of both Google & Apple. VENTURE CAPITAL. And finally that brings me to obvious topic of venture capital.

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MARCH 12, 2013

It was perfect timing since in 2012 GRP raised its fourth fund bringing our total assets managed to nearly $1 billion. Like any firm we of course invest in the San Francisco Bay Area where 33% of my personal boards are. Community builders. Open & transparent. Approachable. And Greg was a perfect match for all of these.

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