Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Sam also had a vision as early as 2012 about how MakeSpace would be a large employer of middle-income jobs: The company would hire employees rather than just have contractors and he would lead the effort to ensure they had opportunities for growth and benefits for their families. If I could close with some advice for startups and boards ….

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

Exotel said on Tuesday it has raised $40 million in a financing round, just three months after securing $35 million in funding, as the Bangalore-based startup demonstrates growth for its full-stack customer engagement platform in emerging markets. Steadview Capital led the startup’s Series D round. Others in the sector too got similar scares.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Just earlier this week, Pigment — which provides better forecasting tools to finance teams that have been muddling through with Excel — raised $73 million.). 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

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Still, Sheel Mohnot, who was formerly a general partner at the fintech fund of 500 Startups, and Jake Gibson, co-founder of personal finance startup NerdWallet, were a little taken aback by investor interest in their fintech-focused early-stage venture firm, Better Tomorrow Ventures , or BTV. And all we do is fintech.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

But getting farmers on board has never been easy, Goslinga told TechCrunch. However, it wasn’t until two years later that Njeru joined fulltime as he had a six-year engagement with Deloitte South Africa from 2012 as a consultant actuary. As part of the new fundraise, TLcom’s senior partner Omobola Johnson will join Pula’s board.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2023

It plays a pivotal role in supporting and financing Britain’s startups. SVB UK secured a UK banking license in 2012 but became a UK Standalone bank in August 2022 and has 700 full-time employees). Up until Friday morning, there was no obvious threat to the UK operation from the fallout happening in the US.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

Does the traditional VC financing model make sense for all companies? Lighter Capital is a RBI VC which has provided over $100 million in growth capital to over 250 companies since 2012. 2018 also had the fewest number of angel-led financing rounds since before 2010. Absolutely not.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Highlighting the investor interest in the segment, SirionLabs announced that it closed an $85 million Series D financing round led by Partners Group with participation from existing investors Sequoia Capital and Tiger Global.

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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

MAY 19, 2022

The last several months, however, have seen the IPO market virtually shut down alongside a massive drop in technology stocks across the board and a wider downturn in tech investing overall, even in much smaller, earlier-stage startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

She found non-traditional financing. Without this money she wouldn’t have been able to finance operations. Sam is the managing director of Launchpad LA and we were about to pick our 2012 class of entrepreneurs. I’m told she just signed with one who will be on-boarded soon. But Tracy did what entrepreneurs do.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

June 19th, 2012. June 17th, 2012. And if you’re a startup CFO, finance lead, bean counter, or presentation slide deck preparer, then you should read this book. Bolten does a really good job on why, what, and how to present numbers, just as in his subtitle, so people will understand you. June 13th, 2012.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

4/ The Big Winners: Cylance raised around ~$280M in financing, with large equity stakeholders being Khosla Ventures, Fairhaven, and Blackstone. 1/ A Pre-Seed Reminder: According to Crunchbase, PlanGrid was founded and went through Y Combinator in 2012. AutoDesk Acquires PlanGrid For $875M.

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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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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

Since 2017 we’ve managed $3 million in revenue-based financing, which helps cash-strapped technology companies grow. No board seats or personal guarantees. According to John Borchers, Co-founder, Decathlon is the largest revenue-based financing investor in the US. “ You qualify if you have $5k+ MRR. Bigfoot Capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2016

Defy teaches them personal finance like how to keep a checking account, the difference between debt and equity, what cashflow is and so forth. Catherine (Cat) Hoke founded the program in 2010 and launched the business plan competition in 2012. You can read more about her here but let me give you my take.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

A week after the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase staged a direct listing, much of the focus remains on the wealth that the listing generated for executives at the company, its board members, and its private investors. GT: It was 2012. TC: What year was that when you wrote that first check to Coinbase [on behalf of Y Combinator]?

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

So, for example, when I first started here back in 2012, there was a ton of energy being put towards building a network of executive relationships that is now somewhat more about sustaining those relationships. I’ve been on the board of Commit Foundation now for probably about 7 or 8 years. How is that set up?

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 30, 2021

Gusto launched in 2012 to tackle this opportunity, and more. When a new hire joins, employees can post welcome messages on Gusto’s internal message board. Helping employees optimize their finances. And in the past few years, the company has been making meaningful investments to help employees with their personal finances.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

He was also the first investor in Misfits Market, serves on the board at Atom Finance and is a managing partner at Pareto Holdings , based in Miami, where Lando now lives. Joining him on Goody are Even.com tech lead Mark Bao and Lee Linden , who notably sold his prior gifting startup Karma Gifts to Facebook back in 2012.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 5, 2023

So when my co founder William and I first founded Plaid, we had this vision that we wanted to create, tools to help consumers better analyze their finances. This was in 2012, and we were based in New York City. And in 2012, if you’ll remember, that was when they kicked all the Zuccotti Park protestors outta Zuccotti Park.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2021

Accel led Socure’s latest financing, which included participation from existing backers C ommerce Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, Flint Capital, Citi Ventures, Wells Fargo Strategic Capital, Synchrony, Sorenson, Two Sigma Ventures and others. . Accel partner Amit Jhawar will join Socure’s board as part of the funding round.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

HomeLight , which operates a real estate technology platform, announced today that it has secured $100 million in a Series D round of funding and $263 million in debt financing. The financings bring the San Francisco-based company’s total raised since its 2012 inception to $530 million.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

In 2012 Upfront Ventures raised its 4th venture capital fund – this one was $200 million. We started investing the fund in April 2012 and by early 2013 had closed our fund to new investors. Fly out to CA, NY, BOS and tell investors that you’ll willing to do the majority of board meetings there.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

There is an unmet need of $260 billion to $320 billion for women-owned company funding, according to a 2013 study conducted by the International Finance Corporation. Data show that men were four times as likely as women to access equity financing from angel investors or VCs (14.4% Women entrepreneurs and fundraising. against 3.6%).

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

million financing into the ultra-high-resolution 3D printing company that can print finely enough to aid in semiconductor and display manufacturing. . 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. AH: Absolutely.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2020

He joined Accel as a venture partner in July and he’s going to join Lydia’s board of directors. They had just released their mobile app in April of 2012,” Jhawar told me in a phone interview. Jhawar joined payments company Braintree in 2011 as COO and CFO. Shortly after, Braintree acquired peer-to-peer payment app Venmo.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

Kelly Chen, DCVC: Robotics startups have an additional layer to their banking relationship, typically tying equipment financing and other debt structures to banking. While we anticipate the VC fundraising environment will become more cautious across the board, we don’t see robotics being uniquely impacted.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

Word travels at light speed amongst this small network of people who all know each other and even though they’re rivals they also sit on boards together and many probably went to business school together. The Invoca board and Mark gathered and discussed how our process was going. Great companies get financed.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Was Paul Graham right in his “high resolution” financing post? This has worked very well in the 2009-2012 time frame because the tech market has boomed in this period. So Investor A might have bought 20% of your company in 2012 and in 2013 with no addition money invested suddenly owns 40% of your company.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

The platform, which has customers like Airtel, Ezee Money, Housing Finance Company of Kenya (HF Group), enables borderless banking and payments across apps and social media platforms. Ajua, formerly mSurvey , was founded in 2012 by Kenfield Griffith. “Imagine if we knew what drove consumer habits for businesses.

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Angel Capital Association

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

The pinnacle was getting to form the Venture College” at Boise State in 2012, teaching students across disciplines the skills needed to successfully launch their own business,” he said. He has also served as a member of the finance committee for the Idaho Technology Council and a board member of Tech Connect.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 18, 2020

In 2012, Dr. Chris Hagen was working in the engineering group at Oregon State University and received a seedling award from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy (ARPA-E) within the Department of Energy (DOE). The following September in 2014 the company received a $3.6

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Greater governance role for limited partner Boards of Advisors. FIGURE 17: NUMBER OF COMPANIES ANNOUNCING NEW FINANCING ROUNDS Source: Crunchbase In 2022 the demand for capital outstripped the supply and this gap worsened as the year progressed. By Q4, for every dollar of available capital there were 1.4x

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

On June 18, Aswath Damodaran , a finance professor at NYU’s Stern School of Business, published an article on FiveThirtyEight titled “ Uber Isn’t Worth $17 Billion. As the Series A investor and board member at Uber, I was quite intrigued when I heard that there was a FiveThirtyEight article specifically focused on the company.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

Today, one of the startups that has been building low-code finance tools is announcing funding to tap into that trend and expand its business. Low-code and no-code tools have been a huge hit with enterprises keen to give their operations more of a tech boost, but often lack the resources to handle more complex integrations.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 6, 2021

I published a scoop earlier this week that Coursera is filing to go public soon, which would be one of the first debuts that will let us see how an education company’s finances changed, and accelerated, amid the pandemic’s impact on remote learning. Square buys majority of Tidal, adds Jay-Z to its board in bid to shake up the artist economy.

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