TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

During the pandemic, we’ve charted the massive growth across all sectors of robotics, and while VC money is slowing for nearly every startup category, robotics investments continue at a pace not seen before 2020. Amazon’s huge bet on robotics dates back to its 2012 acquisition of Kiva Systems. Education FIRST .

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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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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

I spent my days meeting companies, figuring out what areas of the market interested me and trying to get a sense for how VCs thought about fair valuations. I thought about things I never had to as an entrepreneur: check size, ownership percentage, deal stage, portfolio construction and risk. But I guess you could say the same about VC.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

I’ve primarily been an entrepreneur for the majority of my career. I really didn’t think about a fund prior to my co-founder, HanJoo Lee, bringing up the idea of launching a “YC of Korea”back in 2012. As an entrepreneur, a couple of my startups were too early in the market, so this is something I think about. Persistence is key.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2022

Pre-pandemic, VCs were notoriously reluctant to invest in education-related companies. Today, edtech startups are seeing higher average deal sizes, more seed and pre-seed funding from non-VC investors, and an influx of generalists. Image Credits: Bet_Noire (opens in a new window) / Getty Images.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2013

It''s more often the case that founders are repeat entrepreneurs on the west coast. While I believe that personal branding is important for everyone, especially entrepreneurs and investors, I''m really bothered by the credence people put into a deal being "hot", especially given my own personal experience with "hotness".

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

It’s why the first company I ever invested in as a VC – Invoca – just announced a $20 million funding by Accel Partners. Some quick data that I pulled from EmailisNotDead.com (mid 2012). Higher education. The first investment I ever made as a VC was in a company now called Invoca. There are 2.9

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

World-class education including Caltech, USC and UCLA. For me Silicon Beach doesn’t quite encapsulate the wonderful, dynamic, creative, large, thriving community that is the 13 million proud Angelinos any more than Silicon Alley captures the bustling 2012 community of New York City. Don’t you think?

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FundersClub

JUNE 12, 2017

They seek a VC model where dogma is less of a drag on the enterprise, and investment discovery can come from a wide network of smaller investors—mini LPs, in a way. Founders needn’t have revenue to draw VC investment, but they do need some way to show that they’ve validated the model. These are angels and VCs.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2016

Defy Ventures is a program that aims to educate people in prison to become better humans upon graduation. I know because I went back a second time with 75 or so tech executives and VCs and my inbox is flooded this morning. Catherine (Cat) Hoke founded the program in 2010 and launched the business plan competition in 2012.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

In five years, respondents said the city and country will continue to generate and attract great tech startups, but also tech talent and entrepreneurs. We seek to have our investor landscape as diverse as possible, so we are working toward gender equality in VC and other important diversity causes to accomplish that. Rokas Tamoši?

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

Investing internationally, the firm went from a de facto family office to a multi-LP VC firm. Arno Held (AH): E very time I introduce AM Ventures, I say we are engineers by education, entrepreneurs by passion, and venture capitalists by accident. Somehow we just ended up in VC. What are you looking to invest in?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Women entrepreneurs and fundraising. Furthermore, women founders receive less than 3% of all VC dollars. Data show that men were four times as likely as women to access equity financing from angel investors or VCs (14.4% Data from Women in VC show that only 5.6% VC firms are women-led and only 4.9% against 3.6%).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2022

Mimi Aboubaker is an entrepreneur and writer. From 2012-2016, this number hovered around 20% and, in the mid- to late 2010s, the number was in the mid-teens. Mimi Aboubaker. Contributor. Share on Twitter. In 2021, $330 billion in venture capital was deployed, and only 2% of that number went to companies founded only by women and 15.6%

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MARCH 25, 2013

Back in 2006, when I started working on putting together some community groups for entrepreneurs and tech people, I looked for a better name to reference this collection of people. Three companies from the Studiomates community-- Sherpaa , Tinybop , and Editorially --received VC dollars in 2012. 55 Washington Street.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

Sean Lane co-founded Olive in 2012, and signed on Chris Olsen from Drive Capital as the company’s first investors. Darrell, Jordan and Claire got into how she landed on a B2B model for Aunt Flow and the importance of free, accessible period products — which is something she often has to educate prospective investors or customers on.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

In contrast to America, he points out how Sweden is among the most successful societies in the world from a social mobility perspective — referencing its free education and free health care, which sets up as many people as possible for success. “We didn’t have a lot of money,” he tells me. .

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Y Combinator

MAY 22, 2019

These people who never had the opportunity to start a store came onto our platform and became entrepreneurs for the first time, because we do not need them to invest any money in working capital or setting up an offline shop. Almost everyone who is using the app today has become an entrepreneur because of us. I can tell you anecdotes.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

In contrast to America, he points out how Sweden is among the most successful societies in the world from a social mobility perspective — referencing its free education and free health care, which sets up as many people as possible for success. “We didn’t have a lot of money,” he tells me. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

That said, Norway’s VC community has been somewhat dormant for a while. Not a bad thing, but as a result, there are few “hungry” tech entrepreneurs. Our team has been involved and invested in crypto since 2012, so we’ve been excited about the industry for a long time. and the cryptocurrency exchange MiraiEx.

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