AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

Register Wavemaker Impact , Southeast Asia’s first climatetech venture builder , has announced the first close of its debut fund to drive decarbonization in the region at scale. The climatetech venture builder also has the support of EDB New Ventures, the venture-building arm of the Singapore Economic Development Board.

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Dream It

APRIL 26, 2019

In late-March, the United Kingdom's Huawei Cyber Security Centre Oversight Board reported that the company had not fixed critical security flaws in its products, even after promising to patch specific issues back in 2012. Qualcomm Ventures led an $18 million strategic round of funding in industrial IoT security platform CyberX.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

One of the ways that those pots of cash are being invested is through venture capital, which means the money flows to the coasts — New York, Boston, Silicon Valley. ” The team’s first program was in Milwaukee in 2012, and for a while they alternated running annual programs in Milwaukee and Madison. Lather, rinse, repeat.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Without further ado, here are the five judges who will pick the 2021 Startup Battlefield winner: Kirsten Green is the founder and managing partner of Forerunner Ventures, a San Francisco-based VC firm she formed in 2010. She is also on the board of Nordstrom and previously served on the boards of Dollar Shave Club and Bonobos.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Beyond co-founding Initialized, which raised a $700 million fund (its sixth) last year and has over $1 billion in known assets under management, Tan was also co-founder of YC-backed blog platform Posterous, which was acquired by Twitter in 2012. YC itself says it was founded in 2005 as “an antidote to the classic venture capital firm.”

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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. Even still, it’s hard to completely extract bias from any financial deal, particularly one as tangly as this — the two companies have shared investors including GSV, Firework Ventures and Album VC.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

They met and bonded over both having type 1 diabetes — Westermann was diagnosed over 25 years ago — and started the MySugr app for diabetes self-management in 2012 ( they won a TC pitch-off back in 2011 ). Chou O’Keefe has been investing in healthcare her entire VC career, and sat on the board of Livongo for four years.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Camber Creek and Storm Ventures co-led the financing, which brings the Toronto-based startup’s total raised to more than CAD$35 million. 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.

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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

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Austin-based Found was incubated at Atomic , a San Francisco-based venture studio in the spring of 2020. Earlier this year, it raised $24 million in a Series A round led by GV (formerly Google Ventures) and Atomic, with participation from Define Ventures. She said she backed Found because its mission resonated with her. .

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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

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

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Lightspeed Venture Partners, and partner Gaurav Gupta to be specific, led both the startup’s Series A and Series B rounds. 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.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

What’s notable here is that Vilnius, Lithuania-based Nord has been bootstrapped for the last 10 years (it was founded in 2012), a state that doesn’t seem to have held back its growth. Ragnarsson is joining the board with this round. This round values the startup at $1.6

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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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

Exotel, which counts Blume Ventures and IIFL Asset Management among its backers, has raised about $100 million in a mix of debt and equity rounds in the last 12 months. The company had to double down on ensuring that they were well above board and procured whatever licenses it needed. Steadview Capital led the startup’s Series D round.

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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. The raise comes after Pula closed $1 million in seed investment from Rocher Participations with support from Accion Venture Lab, Omidyar Network and several angel investors in 2018. .

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Among those testifying were ACA Board Member and the Founder & Managing Partner, Investors of Color Network Eli Velasquez as well as David Olivencia , CEO & Co-Founder, Angeles Investors. The purpose of this hearing was to examine policies designed to expand investor access to our private markets.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Lightspeed Venture Partners, and partner Gaurav Gupta to be specific, led both the startup’s Series A and Series B rounds. 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.

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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

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

CrossCut Ventures, ManchesterStory and Western Technology Investments co-led the investment, which brings its total raised to $15.3 There’s Metromile, which launched its personalized pay-per-mile auto insurance in 2012. Just Insure , a pay-per-mile insurance technology company, has raised $8 million in a funding round. .

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

He came to work in our offices at Upfront Ventures as an EIR and immediately began building software to improve how storage was picked up, photographed, scanned and routed to a warehouse. If I could close with some advice for startups and boards …. Sam’s enthusiasm was infectious and his plans were bold. Startups are like families.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

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. We settled on Venture Partner as is now being reported and also picked up here. Community builders.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The trend is no flash in the pan, say the cofounders of a new, early-stage venture firm called Patron. He also logged two years with Andreessen Horowitz beginning in 2012.) A month later, “Axie Infinity” itself announced funding from the firm. They also shared a bit of their roadmap. TC: You met at Riot Games.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

Thank you to Tasha for helping to keep me sane by managing the onslaught of meeting requests, board meetings and constant change. I’m thankful to the associates at Upfront Ventures for helping me to evaluate our new opportunities and for helping me be prepared for issues with our portfolio companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2016

On September 10th of this year I spent an entire day in California State Prison with people who had committed felonies and worked with them on business plans to help them create legal enterprise upon their release as part of Defy Ventures 6-month training program. Defy Ventures graduates have a 3.2% And they didn’t want pity.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Other major investors include SeedStep Angels, Square Deal Ventures, CloudLeaf, and other investors from Oklahoma and the West Coast. Students launched venture. Our history with MaxQ began when they competed in the 2012 Governor’s Cup (now the Love’s Entrepreneur’s Cup), Oklahoma’s statewide collegiate business plan competition.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

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. Partech is doubling the size of its African venture fund to $143 million. This brings Tugende’s total Series A financing to $9.9

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Agrawal’s newest venture is SirionLabs , which comines AI technologies like natural language processing to import and organize contracts, negotiations, and contract review. “In 2012, myself and Claude Marais, the ex-global head of outsourcing in General Motors, began to brainstorm and envision SirionLabs.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

venture capital to date (more on this in a separate post), unfortunately relegating billion-dollar exits as “ho-hum” events to the technology crowd. 4/ The Big Winners: Cylance raised around ~$280M in financing, with large equity stakeholders being Khosla Ventures, Fairhaven, and Blackstone. 1/ Cash Is King: The $1.4B

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Over the years, the company managed to raise $12 million, including a $10 million Series A led by GV (Google Ventures) back in 2017. Dark Sky (2012-2021). Per Axios , the shutdown was a result of disappointing product sales and a high burn rate, despite the fact that Pearl Automation had raised $50 million in venture capital funding.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

She hasn’t raised any venture capital. 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. She did her first tech startup after the age of 30. Tracy built her company, Recycled Media , out of necessity.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. I believe that Revenue-Based Investing (“RBI”) VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem. Venture debt investors , who typically use a structure like this sample term sheet teardown.

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Y Combinator

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

She founded nVision Medical in 2012 after her own healthcare scare. After raising $17M in venture funding, completing several clinical trials and obtaining FDA clearance, nVision was purchased by Boston Scientific for $275M in April of 2018. He is still very involved in the success of Algolia as Board Director. He has a Ph.D.

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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. One early investor who sold some of those shares is Garry Tan of the venture firm Initialized Capital.

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