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.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

The announcement of the raise comes about six weeks after the consumer fintech startup said it was shelving its plans for its $2.2 Acorns’ SPAC listing depicts a consumer fintech business with a SaaSy revenue mix. billion SPAC with Pioneer Merger Corp. in favor of an eventual traditional IPO. ” .

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

Note we are not including here most of the freebies offered by corporates for founders in general (as opposed to students in particular), which we list in Free Money from the Global 500 for Tech Startups. We use Asana at Versatile VC for managing tasks and projects with other collaborators in our teams. Grand prize is $25,000.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2013

Creating awareness for your brand and products is one of the lifebloods of technology startups yet in a world where so many companies are being created it becomes difficult to rise above the noise. Let me be sure to use me some Luma Partners. A journalist has a visual chart they can use. They’re different. More strategic.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 16, 2021

By its nature, sales is one of the most social faces of a business, so it’s no surprise that there are tools being built for sales teams that are tapping into some of the most interesting dynamics of the world of social networking, and that the startups that are doing this most successfully are making a killing.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

Typically in M&A, all-cash offers are more common when the acquirer dwarfs the target in terms of market cap; otherwise, M&A usually involves stock in the mix, which leads us to believe Cylance wouldn’t have accepted anything but cash — which makes sense given the company was reportedly booking $130M/year with 3,500 customers.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. But to answer the actual question “Is there something going on in LA?”

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. RBI structures have been used for many years in natural resource exploration, entertainment, real estate, and pharmaceuticals.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Now, a Spanish startup called Penpot — which is taking a new approach to design collaboration through an open source platform that brings designers and developers into the mix simultaneously — says that it’s been seeing a huge amount of adoption since the Figma deal.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

OneTrust , a late stage privacy platform startup, announced it was adding ethics and compliance to the mix this morning by acquiring Convercent, a company that was built to help build more ethical organizations. Convercent can also use data to help surface bad behavior before it’s been reported.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2022

Spurred to meet the need, software engineer Nir Livneh founded Equalum , a startup providing software that integrates with existing infrastructure to process and transform data, including streaming data. Army and led the product management team at Quest Software (which was acquired by Dell in 2012). He also co-founded S.E.T.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2020

In many countries, startups can receive tax credits for their R&D work and related employee cost, but as with all things bureaucracy, that’s often a slow and onerous task. aims to make this process far easier, by using a mix of AI and tax experts. and Canada claim their R&D tax credits. and Canada, but the U.K.,

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Who are the best search partners to use, and let then letting you and that search firm run with the execution. 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.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2022

In my view, the correct statistic is about 18%, not 2% — as we should take into account deals that had mixed-gender founding teams. To put the number in context, women-founded companies have accounted for around 24% of annual first-financing deals that we know had mixed-gender teams since 2017. The rest is noise.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2022

With her new startup, Granitt — with Sandvik as its principal — aims to help at-risk people, like journalists and activists but also politicians, lawyers, refugees and human rights defenders, from threats they face doing their work. When The New York Times was hacked by China in 2012, that was phishing.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

That’s why so much of our robotics coverage revolves around startups and venture funding. I’d be lying if I told you that every week was an embarrassment of riches here at Actuator HQ (a one-bedroom in a Queens office managed by a mischievous lionhead rabbit mix), but I’ve thus far been happy with the flow of news. More M&A?

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Y Combinator

MARCH 22, 2023

It seemed obvious then that software that talks to other software would be critical for building world-changing startups. One of the best companies at connecting APIs is Zapier, which went through the YC Summer 2012 batch. Ultimately we are using LLMs to make APIs easier to use for both humans and other LLMs!

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

“The invoicing company” “When they started, they didn’t position themselves so much as a startup or as a tech company,” recalls Skype founder Niklas Zennström, whose venture capital firm Atomico would eventually become a Klarna investor in 2012. This is the classic mistake that you do as a startup.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2023

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Wakefield had just exited two startups he’d helped to co-launch, including Mailgun (which was acquired by Rackspace in 2012), while Kontsevoy — a fellow Mailgun co-founder — was coming off a tenure as director of product at Rackspace. ”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

“The invoicing company” “When they started, they didn’t position themselves so much as a startup or as a tech company,” recalls Skype founder Niklas Zennström, whose venture capital firm Atomico would eventually become a Klarna investor in 2012. This is the classic mistake that you do as a startup.”

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

In in the early 90′s I was in my early 20′s and I programmed on mainframe computers using COBOL, CICS and DB2. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. Murdoch seethed at these “startups&# getting rich off the back of MySpace.

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OurCrowd

MAY 5, 2019

The company is the first venture-backed ‘meat alternative’ startup to go public. Startups creating plant-based proteins are upending the meat industry by appealing to vegans and omnivores alike, while dramatically cutting energy, water and greenhouse gas emissions. Meatless patties don’t taste like cardboard anymore. .

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Y Combinator

JULY 24, 2020

In contrast, the number of independent bookstores in the US increased 49% from 1,600 stores in 2009 to 2,500 stores in 2018 6. million in 2012 to 1.55 3) De-densification: Data from the Brookings Institution suggest that migration in the US had already been shifting to the suburbs before COVID.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Co-founder and CEO Melanie Perkins and her team started working on Canva in 2012, and launched the product in 2013. To be clear, designers still use Canva to lay out components they’ve designed in other products, such as Figma and Sketch, and Canva actually plays nicely with a variety of design software products.

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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. This Series B includes a mix of financial investors along with strategic backers that speak to who already integrates with Genesis’ tools on their own platforms.

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propel(x)

MARCH 2, 2017

Two years later I spun out NanOasis, my first startup. We had a good 4 year run with this company and built up some valuable intellectual property, which we sold to another company in 2012. Then, I basically had a one year startup hiatus where I was trying to figure out what to do next. on the materials generated by a lead.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Local investors tend to invest 50% to 90% of their fund into local startups, “but we do look at deal flow in all Nordic countries,” said one. Use discount code HALLO to save 25% off a 1-year Extra Crunch membership. Are there startups that you wish you would see in the industry but don’t? and Nomono. E-commerce. More than 50%?

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