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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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Was Paul Graham right in his “high resolution” financing post? In fact, most early investor work hard to help their startups get to the next level so it makes no sense for the angel investor and founders to be at odds. Convertible debt WITH a cap is stupid for founders. Some thoughts on raising angel money.

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Ian Hathaway

JANUARY 6, 2020

Over the next eight years, Facebook would attract half a billion users and nearly $7 billion in venture capital investment, on its way to a May 2012 IPO that valued the company at more than $81 billion. Below is the average founder age along these dimensions: All companies (with at least one employee): 42 years Fastest growing 0.1%

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

In 2012, Girls Who Code launched, teaching girls computer programming. Sparked by a pair of scissors, some pantyhose and a party where founder, Sara Blakely , wanted to look her best, Spanx officially began production in 2000 and changed women’s fashion and fit forever. Boys outnumbered girls by a wide margin.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

Conductive Ventures raised a $200 million Fund III to continue its focus on investing in founders where other venture capital firms did not see the potential. Today, Conductive has 24 companies in its portfolio and boasts that over 50% of them are based outside the Bay Area and two-thirds of the founders are immigrants or minorities.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Serial fintech entrepreneur Walter Cruttenden founded Acorns with his son, Jeff, in 2012 with the goal of helping low- and middle-income households invest and save responsibly. The pair wanted to simplify investing for the millions that have trouble getting started or continuing to invest.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2016

With a massive increase in companies created and a huge number of sources one trend that we witnessed from 2012–2015 was the rise of the undisciplined round. Angels / seed often wanted to exit early and late-stage wanted more ownership than founders would sell so secondary transactions were common. I Leaderless Rounds.

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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. Seriously, this happens.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Chris Dixon made the point that he thinks investors should look for the founders to have the domain knowledge rather than them having domain knowledge themselves. But I prefer a certain naive optimism in founders but I can’t see that this extends to angel investors. So where are we now? It’s hard to say.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

Either way, the gridlock that is now the US congress will prevent any real economic responses and it seems likely that this political malaise will last beyond the 2012 election as the Republicans look to make big gains in the 2010 mid-term elections. Either won’t bode well for angels if they’re also hurting on non tech investments.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

billion 2013 figure) have been massive financings at Honest Company ($70mm), JustFab ($85mm), ZipRecruiter ($63mm) and lord only knows how much SnapChat has actually accumulated. Around $400 billion of imports & exports pass through the LA ports each year, which set the national high-water mark in 2012.

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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. She runs a 501c3 (non profit).

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Ximena Aleman is co-founder and chief business development officer at Prometeo , an open banking platform that serves Latin America. Year-in, year-out, the gender gap in venture capital investment continues to be a problem women founders face. VC went to startups with at least one woman on the founder team.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

Since launching in 2012, Savannah Fund — led by Mbwana Alliy and Paul Bragiel — has backed more than 30 startups. It has secured a first close led by International Finance Corporation (IFC) with participation from the Women’s Finance Initiative (WeFi). Mbwana Ally (Managing Partner, Savannah Fund).

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

Investors sat with the founder & CEO, Jason Spievak, and asked him what he wanted to do about the future. 2012-2015 were boom times in tech startups as prices were always moving up leading to FOMO leading to higher than normal multiples driven by a massive entry of new investors in the market. Great companies get financed.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Had I begun this tradition earlier, for those wondering, it would’ve been Airbnb in 2012, and Uber in 2011.). venture capital deals, a spike in mega-financings where it’s common to see not only $100M private rounds, but companies that raise two or three types of financings like this in the same calendar year!

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

Since its 2012 inception, Acorns has raised just over $500 million from investors, such as private equity firm TPG, BlackRock, Greycroft, Owl Rock (a division of Blue Owl), Senator Investment Group, Torch Capital, Industry Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Galaxy Digital, Headline and Kevin Durant and Rich Kleiman’s Thirty Five Ventures.

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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. . Which neobanks will rise or fall?

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

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. What do early-stage founders need to know to capture VC interest, and dollars, in a challenging market?

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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

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

BTV is a venture firm that boasts two successful fintech founders as its partners. The personal finance company went public last year. Mohnot previously served as vice president of business development at Groupon after a startup he founded, FeeFighters, was acquired by the company in 2012.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

Kaszek Ventures, QED Investors and Greenoaks Capital also participated in the financing, which brings the startup’s total raised to $36.7 This isn’t the first venture for Cora co-founders Igor Senra and Leo Mendes. Cora co-founders Léo Mendes and Igor Senra; Image courtesy of Cora. “The million since its 2019 inception.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Sebastian Siemiatkowski, the co-founder and CEO of Klarna — the Swedish fintech “buy now, pay later” sensation that is currently Europe’s most valuable private tech company — is dismissive of the suggestion that non U.S. companies should relocate to Silicon Valley if they really want to grow. Siemiatkowski left undeterred.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

Founded in 2012, Chicago-based Avant started out primarily as an online lender targeting “underserved consumers,” but is evolving into digital banking with this acquisition. Since its inception in 2012, Avant has connected more than 1.5 Avant, notes Paris, uses thousands of AI-driven data points to determine credit risk.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

The financing marks the company’s first ever institutional funding. If they win, we win,” said Sebastián Núñez Castro, CEO and co-founder of Geopagos. He returned to Argentina and explained the idea to a few of his colleagues, who also were fascinated and became his co-founders.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

The San Francisco-based operations execution company raised $27 million in Series C financing, led by Golub Capital, to continue developing its application to automate operation procedures like tracking food safety, public health protocols and changing market conditions.

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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. SM: We have founders of fintech unicorns.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Existing backers Owl Ventures, Emerson Collective, Uncork Capital, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and Tao Capital Partners also participated in the financing, which brings the Boston-based company’s total raised since its 2012 inception to $105 million.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 27, 2022

Blake started Degreed in 2012 to give individuals a platform to turn to for open access educational content. Learn In, meanwhile, launched in April 2020 with a little over $3 million in seed financing. “I was closer and more involved in operations than the rest of the directors but it was in a board member capacity,” he added.

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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.). We are very excited about the response from our customers to our latest products and innovations,” said Gino Engels, OTA Insight’s co-founder and CCO.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2021

Today it announced financing totalling €750 million (around $895 million at today’s rates), money that it will be using to continue expanding its business — specifically, for acquisitions; to launch in new markets in Europe, Latin America and Asia; and to build out the suite of services that it provides to businesses.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

Amsterdam-based challenger bank Bunq has been self-funded by its founder and CEO Ali Niknam for several years. Bunq founder Ali Niknam is also participating in the round — he’s investing $29.5 million (€25 million) while Pollen Street Capital is financing the rest of the round. He poured $116.6 million (€98.7

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 13, 2021

The financing came nearly three years after Kiddom’s Series B, a $15 million round led by Owl. Founded in 2012, Kiddom was able to raise millions without revenue or a clear business model. The startup didn’t just raise money, it finally learned how to make some. At our Series B, we were definitely not making money,” Manjee said.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

The latest funding, led by South Korean private equity firm DSAsset, brings Tridge’s total financing to $111.7 Brazil, Turkey, India, Vietnam, Australia, Tanzania, the Netherlands, and Canada,” Hoshik Shin, founder and CEO of Tridge, told TechCrunch. Tridge said Thursday it has secured $37.2 million since its inception in 2015.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

Vise today announced a $65 million Series C financing round led by Ribbit Capital, with participation from existing investors, including Sequoia. The startup launched on the Disrupt Startup Battlefield stage in 2019 and has since raised upwards of $125 million. Fong hails from Dropbox, where he served as VP of Infrastructure Engineering.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

StepStone Group (which recently acquired Greenspring Capital) led the $102 million equity round and Victory Park Capital led the $100 million debt financing. With the latest financing, Kueski has now raised over $300 million in equity and debt capital. Since 2012, the company has granted nearly 5 million loans online.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 6, 2021

However, as a company progresses and the team grows, there comes a time when a founder needs to carve out dedicated roles. Singer Jay-Z performs before US President Barack Obama speaks at a campaign rally in Columbus, Ohio, on November 5, 2012. Product manager might be one of the most grey roles within a startup.

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