500

MARCH 18, 2020

I first met Flavio in 2013, when he co-invested alongside 500 Startups in Olist, one of Brazil’s largest online marketplaces–which recently raised a Series C round. He became instrumental in building Olist’s name.

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A Smart Bear

JANUARY 4, 2018

Of course a nice chunk is primary capital, i.e. for the company balance sheet, to invest in growth initiatives, security and quality, and advancing our existing strategic priorities through acceleration and de-risking. The majority of the funds pay back our early investors who believed in us enough to trust us with their money.

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Angel Capital Association

AUGUST 13, 2021

I’m sharing my thought process because perhaps it will nudge some of you to angel invest too! I consider myself a furiously curious person, and angel investing is one of the most rewarding ways I’ve experienced to satisfy this curiosity. MY 2013 ANSWER TO “WHY?” As my portfolio has grown, so has my answer to this question.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 6, 2022

Register Transport Capital , a globally-recognised investment management and advisory firm focused on the maritime and aviation industries, has launched its new venture capital arm named TC Ventures. Established in 2013, Transport Capital is an investment management and financial advisory company focused on maritime and aviation.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2021

Thomas Rush is founder of Bootstrapp and Head of Investment Platform at ConsenSys Mesh. Revenue-based investing ( RBI), also known as revenue-based financing, or revenue-share investing, 1 is a natural next step for the private equity and early-stage venture investment industry. Share on Twitter.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The world around us is being disrupted by the acceleration of technology into more industries and more consumer applications. On the one hand, you’re over paying for every investment and valuations aren’t rational. That used to be called A-round investing. Society is reorienting to a new post-pandemic norm?—?even of the fund.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2022

In a letter to employees that was posted on Plaid’s website, CEO and co-founder Zach Perret said the company saw a rapid increase in usage by its existing customers, a large number of new customers and “substantial revenue acceleration” during COVID. As such, the company “hired aggressively” to meet customer demand and invest in new products.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

billion and the company expects to receive about $458 million in cash, including a $100 million PIPE (private investment in public equity) deal subscribed to by a group of investors including T. Ampere Computing, which is mostly known for its Arm-based servers, is also making a direct investment.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 18, 2019

To care about this issue, you have to believe one thing—that the presence of full time, professional investors in an ecosystem catalyzes funding rounds better than a collection of part time angels, accelerators, and/or government entities that usually don’t lead deals. I first met Daniela Perdomo , goTenna’s founder, at SXSW.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Their heightened interest is reflected not just in their demand for ESG reports but also in surging investment volumes. Data from the Global Sustainable Investment Alliance highlights a staggering 605% increase in Sustainably-Themed Investing in 2020 compared to 2016.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

Founded in 2013, Dataiku is used by data scientists, but also designed for business analysts and other people with less technical backgrounds. The acceleration of B2B AI innovation has begun. New investors included Insight Partners, Eurazeo, Lightrock and Olivier Pomel, the chief executive of Datadog. Enterprise AI 2.0:

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

With the extension, the startup has now raised more than $700 million since its 2013 inception. QuintoAndar, he said, is open to acquiring more companies that it believes can either help it accelerate in a particular way or add something it had not yet thought about. São Paulo-based QuintoAndar is now valued at $5.1

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JUNE 18, 2019

When USV invested in Coinbase in early 2013, our rationale was that digital currencies and digital assets (like Bitcoin and beyond) were a breakthrough technology, similar to TCP/IP, HTTP and SMTP. To be clear, we view this as both an ecosystem investment and a financial investment. This has proven to be true.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Founded in 2013, RVshare connects RV owners with people who want to rent an RV. Since 2013, the company has amassed a network of more than 100,000 recreational vehicles or trailers, ranging from deluxe motorhomes to camper vans to trailer attachments. The investment in RVshare is actually the tenth commitment from the fund.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

with co-investment from OSF Ventures, Sony Innovation Fund, and Dreampact Ventures. The company was also a member of the 2016 Dreamit Ventures accelerator program and recently took first place at the 7th Annual Insight Product Development 2019 HealthTECH Startup Competition. . – September 3, 2020 – PhotoniCare, Inc., About PhotoniCare.

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Founders Coop

AUGUST 7, 2018

With Aviel’s announcement last week, and a new website up at Founder’s Co-op reflecting our new partnership, I thought it was a good time to revisit the themes from my 2013 keynote at the Geekwire Awards: Turtles and Flywheels. Seattle in 2013 was a different place. BILLION).

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Corelight, a San Francisco-based startup that claims to offer the industry’s first open network detection and response (NDR) platform, has raised $75 million in Series D investment led by Energy Impact Partners. . million Series A in July 2017.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

Since launching in 2013, South African fintech Yoco has positioned itself as the go-to platform to access offline payments among merchants in the country. “But the pandemic, which had a devastating effect on so many businesses that relied on in-person trade, accelerated the need for businesses to accept payments online.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The investment giant, which unveiled $2.85 billion funds earlier this year for India and Southeast Asia , has invested $19.3 Founded in 2013 by IIT alumni Lokesh Anand, Mayur Rustagi and Rahul Kumar Singh, Sigmoid offers analytics and AI solutions to companies around the globe. It works largely with Fortune 500 corporations.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. At Versatile VC, we particularly like investing in “dual-PhD” problems, at the intersection of multiple domains. 3) Accelerators. Starting a new business as a student is daunting. Right here.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Practice ignition , an Australia-based client engagement and commerce platform for professional service businesses, has raised $50 million (65 million AUD) in a Series C round to accelerate its growth and expand globally. It brings the startup’s total raised to $75 million, said Guy Pearson, CEO and founder of Practice Ignition.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

Today’s investment brings the total raised to $225 million, according to the company. The company was founded in 2013, and has been able to evolve the notion of personalization since then in a significant way. As the company’s growth has accelerated, so has the hiring.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Logicbroker , a Connecticut-based e-commerce company focused on cloud fulfillment, secured a $135 million growth round from K1 Investment Management. He founded Logicbroker in 2010, his third startup, and hadn’t raised much in the way of venture capital since 2013, just under $2 million, to get to profitability, Zamani said.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

Like so many kinds of automation, Rose says that he has seen things accelerate during the pandemic as software development teams look for ways to eliminate manual processes as they moved to work from home. Vamp launched in 2013 in Amsterdam and raised around €3 million, according to Crunchbase data.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2021

Founded in 2013, Oktopost has only ever registered an $800,000 early-stage funding, and has run on revenues and profit ever since. Today that changes with a growth funding round of a $20 million minority investment from London-based growth equity firm Expedition Growth Capital.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Ascend Money will use the proceeds to grow its e-wallet application – TrueMoney Wallet – and expand its digital financial services ranging from digital lending and digital investment to cross border remittances in Southeast Asia. Indonesian investment platform Ajaib gets $25 million Series A led by Horizons Venture and Alpha JWC.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

When combined with the $28 million A investment from December 2018, it brings the total raised to approximately $126 million. What’s attracting this level of investment says Jakob Freund, co-founder and CEO at Camunda is the company is solving a problem that goes beyond pure automation. Camunda is not your typical startup.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 6, 2023

SignalFire, based in San Francisco, led the Series A2 investment with additional participation from Ten Eleven Ventures. We’re 100 percent focused on creating surprisingly simple customer sign-in journeys and this new investment will accelerate our strategy and the opportunity ahead of us.” That’s why we built Strivacity.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

With the latest round, HoneyBook has now raised $215 million since its 2013 inception. We’re seeing so much demand for additional services and products, so we definitely want to invest and create better ways for our members to present themselves online,” Alon told TechCrunch. So that’s just a few of the things we plan to invest in.”.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Nicole Centeno founded the company in 2013. Both Torch and Ohanian invested in previous rounds. Just to show how mighty the small team actually is, for every dollar invested in Splendid Spoon in recent years, the company generated $15 in revenue, Densborn added. Now, 85% of Americans are actually trying to eat healthier.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

He has taught entrepreneurship at McGill University and the University of Pennsylvania, and was the founder of LegalX, a legal technology accelerator. So making this information clear and easily accessible is a service to equity holders and can also encourage more investment, especially from less experienced investors.

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Haystack

AUGUST 18, 2019

years of investing in the seed stage, I have never seen activity levels like I’m seeing today. Making angel investments, raising small seed funds. who have over decades built up a big book of business, large teams of analysts and researchers, and most critically data models to make investment inferences. In short, in my 6.5

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

Saleor says the injection of capital will be invested in further developing Saleor‘s headless e-commerce platform, including a soon-to-launch cloud product and GraphQL API for front-end engineers. Contentful raises $80M Series E round for its headless CMS.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2013

It’s the first EIR that we’ve had in the years that I’ve been with the firm and I hope will be the start of our investment in this program. We’re excited to continue to grow our investment professional staff and will continue to do so over the course of 2013 & 2014 with our new fund. I know Sam.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

Founded in 2013, the Argentinian startup serves as a white label infrastructure software provider, with the aim of giving businesses the ability to launch financial services. The pandemic accelerated the use of digital payment solutions globally, but especially in Latin America, noted Núñez Castro.

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 2, 2014

It may be that the first wave of big-seed-round-startups, who raised in 2012 and 2013 are maturing 12 to 18 months later. Perhaps investment size is remaining constant but valuations have increased and investors are satisfied with less ownership. As for the question, why now? There are a few possible reasons for this.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

Then I went into banking, specifically investment banking in the early ’90s. A lot of the things that we ultimately did when I was running Global Payments from 2013 to 2023, a lot of things that we ultimately did were not even like a glint in my eye back in 2009, 2010 when I was just thinking about coming over.

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