TechCrunch

JANUARY 3, 2022

Ribbit Capital, a venture firm best known for its fintech investments, has raised $1.15 billion in new capital in what appears to be a close of its seventh fund, according to a filing with the U.S. The new fund, dubbed Ribbit Capital VII LP, is believed to be the final close of the fund. billion as well.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 21, 2024

How can influencers raise capital for companies or funds, without running afoul of restrictions on “general solicitation”? The 2012 bipartisan JOBS Act was supposed to empower funds and individuals to raise capital more openly: to publicly advertise their track record and what they’re selling, just like almost every other industry.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

Raising venture capital is rarely an easy lift for startups, but 2022 is turning out to be a more challenging year than we’ve seen for some time. As venture capital continues its slowdown after an aggressive 2020 and record-breaking 2021 , it’s clear that early-stage founders looking for their first dollars will require a new approach.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 17, 2023

Register Singapore-based venture capital firm Jungle Ventures has announced its merger with HealthXCapital , an early-stage VC firm specializing in healthcare investments. HealthXCapital’s maiden fund of $20 million, launched in 2018, has had Jungle Ventures as a limited partner.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

million in a Series A round led by Silicon Valley VC firm Ribbit Capital. Kaszek Ventures, QED Investors and Greenoaks Capital also participated in the financing, which brings the startup’s total raised to $36.7 Cora , a São Paulo-based technology-enabled lender to small-and-medium-sized businesses, has raised $26.7

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2014

We’ve been dying to tell you all for a while that we had raised a new venture capital fund and of course given SEC filing requirements the story was somewhat already scooped by the always-in-the-know Dan Primack a few weeks ago. Our last fund we raised was in 2012 and we began investing it in April of 2012.

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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. ” “Where we invest, there was not a lot of capital yesterday. Midwest generates a lot of wealth and is home to myriad huge corporations.

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500

MARCH 26, 2020

When I moved to San Francisco in 2012, I was working on my fourth startup and looking to join an accelerator. But from a young age, going against the grain was in my DNA. It’s what led me to San Francisco, and, ultimately, what drew me to 500 Startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

LiveOak Venture Partners raised its largest fund to date, $210 million for Fund III, which will enable the Austin-based, early-stage venture capital firm to double down on Texas founders. Srinivasan and Venu Shamapant started the firm in 2012, and its first two funds both raised $105 million. In 2021, $14.2

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2022

” Seemingly, the recipe for a successful venture-backed company became very cookie-cutter: Raise capital every 18 months; invest heavily in go-to-market; grow revenue at a “standard” rate that triples in year one, triples again in year two, and then doubles thereafter. Image Credits: Neotribe Ventures.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

In the last couple of years, a large group of “Gen Z VCs” have come to the forefront of what one might consider “hip” venture capital investing. There’s a drastic difference in views and experiences between someone born in 1997 and someone born in 2012. ” Web3 received $27 billion last year alone.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

It won’t be the last venture group to pull back from an expansion of its traditional investing remit. During the COVID-19 pandemic’s first years, the pace at which venture capital firms could raise money expanded. venture capitalists saw their capital inflows more than double from $23.5 billion in 2016.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2023

Many, like Calendly, passed through Atlanta Tech Village, which has served as an incubator for the city’s talent ecosystem since it was founded in 2012 by David Cummings. The venture capital opportunity in the South is better than it’s ever been,” Lisa Calhoun, a general partner at Valor Ventures, told TechCrunch+ last year. “A

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Despite shrinking investment into startups in 2022, venture capital funds of all sizes are still being raised. However, not many of these are led by solo general partners (GPs), and although that trend is on the rise, even fewer are led by women or people who don’t come from venture capital, Anna writes.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The latest demo day marks its tenth year after SparkLabs launched its accelerator program in December 2012. The accelerator has backed more than 270 startups since its inception in 2012, co-founder and partner of SparkLabs Eugene Kim told TechCrunch. . SparkLabs launches $50M fund for promising early-stage startups in Korea.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

Dorm Room Fund is an American venture capital firm run by students that invests in student founders in the US and Canada using a $20,000 SAFE. The firm has made 326 investments since 2012. Front Row Ventures “is a Canada-based, university-focused venture capital firm operating on more than 20 campuses in Canada.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The funding round was anchored by Singapore’s Insignia Ventures Partners. Konvy was launched in 2012 by Chinese entrepreneur QingGui Huang, who had previously managed fashion e-commerce platforms in China. Previously, Konvy had raised seed funding from Alpha Founders Capital and ECG Ventures Capital.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

Regardless of where one sits in the broader tech and venture world, Coinbase storming north of a $100 billion valuation during its first day of trading was the biggest startup happening of the year. We’ll wrap by considering what impact Coinbase’s direct listing will have, if any, on non-crypto fintech venture capital investing.

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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. billion for Haun Ventures’ debut crypto fund. Sources confirmed to Axios that Guo is planning to launch her own fund. In March, Kathryn Haun (formerly Andreessen Horowitz) raised $1.5

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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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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2016

GOAT just announced it raised $5 million in venture capital led by our friends at Matrix Partners. GOAT (“Greatest of All Time) is a sneakerhead marketplace that is en fuego, but we led the company’s last financing round in 2012 (yes, four years ago) when they were an application for letting people join group dinners.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

AppWorks , the Taipei-based venture capital firm focused on Taiwan and Southeast Asia, announced today it has closed its oversubscribed third fund, raising $150 million. Founded in 2009, AppWorks started its accelerator program before launching a $11 million debut fund in 2012. for the other funds.

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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. Lindel is no stranger to thorny venture capital issues — he was arguably amongst the most successful LPs of his generation.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

Savannah Fund , a pan-African venture capital firm, today announced a $25 million fund as it looks to back more early-stage startups on the continent. Since launching in 2012, Savannah Fund — led by Mbwana Alliy and Paul Bragiel — has backed more than 30 startups.

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Hunter Walk

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Originally backed by venture capital, in 2021 Daniel worked with TPG , a large private equity firm, to make them the majority investor. HW: Greenhouse, which powers the hiring process from sourcing to onboarding for thousands of companies, will soon be a teenager, having been founded in 2012.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 23, 2021

2012: Facebook. Rather than burn dictating when to raise capital, founders elect to raise when inbound interest arrives, or immediately before launching to sell the dream rather than the metrics, or at other strategic inflection points. Founders have access to more capital, faster, and more consistently than they ever have.

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2022

Columbus Unicorns with Olive and Drive Capital (3:00 p.m. Olive is a homegrown Columbus unicorn; hear from the CEO and lead investor how the company was built and raised $850+ million since its founding in 2012. Chris Olsen , Drive Capital Founding Partner. Raising startup capital (3:30 p.m. TechCrunch Live in Columbus!

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 11, 2023

billion in follow-on capital raised. First, Cheque@Jungle takes a pioneering approach to early-stage investments with a unique capital allocation structure, ensuring that startups can access appropriately sized funding while minimizing early-stage equity dilution. Over the years, it has consistently grown in size and impact.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Procore and Autodesk are two examples of ventures in the construction space that went from startup to publicly traded companies today worth $6.2 To help them along, one construction tech-focused venture capital firm is eager to fund a new generation of startups in the space. billion and $40.5 billion , respectively.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

The new valuation represents about 440%, or 5.4x, increase over Tridge’s postmoney valuation of $500 million in July 2021 when it raised $60 million in its Series C from Korean venture capital firm Forest Partners. Its previous backers include SoftBank Ventures Asia and Activant Capital. and Europe.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

The Mountain View-based business, founded in 2012, was last valued at $2.4 GSV, a venture capital firm that exclusively backs edtech companies, had its largest position of its first fund in Coursera. The company has been talking to underwriters since last year, but tomorrow could mark its first legal step in the process to IPO.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Selected companies get four minutes to present their company (with a pitch deck), and they’ll answer six minutes of questions from venture capitalists from Rise of the Rest Seed Fund at Revolution and Initialized Capital. Columbus Unicorns with Olive and Drive Capital (3:00 pm EDT). General Partner, Initialized Capital.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

After graduating from Harvard with a degree in philosophy, Tavel was a consultant at The Kerden Group and then vice president at Bessemer Venture Partners. She joined Pinterest in 2012 as one of the company’s first 35 employees after co-leading the Series A investment while at Bessemer.

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StartupNation

MARCH 23, 2021

Since 2012, there’s been little increase in venture capital going to women-founded businesses. In the third quarter of 2020, venture capital funding for female founders dropped to a three-year low. In the third quarter of 2020, venture capital funding for female founders dropped to a three-year low.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

Columbus Unicorns with Olive and Drive Capital (3:00 pm EDT). Olive is a homegrown Columbus unicorn; hear from the CEO and lead investor how the company was built and raised $856 million since its founding in 2012. Chris Olsen , Drive Capital Founding Partner. Raising startup capital (3:30 pm EDT). Sean Lane , Olive CEO.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

Venture capital (VC) firm Lifeline Ventures today announced a fresh €150 million ($163 million) fund aimed at early-stage startups across Finland. For example, London’s Playfair Capital closed a $70 million pre-seed fund, while France’s Emblem and Ovni Capital each announced new €50 million ($54 million) funds.

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