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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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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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A Smart Bear

JANUARY 4, 2018

The Silicon Valley-oriented technology press outlets don’t cover us because we’re not in San Francisco, even though we’re more successful than most of the startups they cover. I’m sure people said similar things to Heather when she joined as our CEO. We have never been in a stronger position.

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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. Today you have funders focused exclusively on “Day 0” startups or ones that aren’t even created yet.

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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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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

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

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Ascend Money , the Thailand-based fintech startup behind TrueMoney, an e-wallet service, announced today it has raised a $150 million Series C round at a valuation of $1.5 Indonesian investment platform Ajaib gets $25 million Series A led by Horizons Venture and Alpha JWC. Ascend Money considers going public after hitting $1.5

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Rigetti Computing , one of the most visible quantum hardware startups, today announced that it is going public through a merger with the Supernova Partners Acquisition Company II SPAC. Ampere Computing, which is mostly known for its Arm-based servers, is also making a direct investment. Currently, its systems scale to 80 qubits.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Register The startup ecosystem, including Pangyo Techno Valley, is rapidly aligning with the ESG (Environment, Social, and Governance) trend. Their heightened interest is reflected not just in their demand for ESG reports but also in surging investment volumes.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

With the extension, the startup has now raised more than $700 million since its 2013 inception. To that end, e arlier this month, the startup acquired Atta Franchising, a 7-year-old São Paulo-based independent real estate mortgage broker. Brazilian proptech startup QuintoAndar lands $300M at a $4B valuation.

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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. Co-founder and CEO Florian Douetteau told TechCrunch at the time Dataiku Online is focused on getting more startups and SMBs onto the platform. Enterprise AI 2.0:

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

Geopagos , a payments infrastructure startup based in Buenos Aires, has raised $35 million in a round led by Riverwood Capital. 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.

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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. Starting a new business as a student is daunting. Right here.

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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. . While it’s raised plenty of capital in the past few years, the startup isn’t planning its exit just yet.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Cabana, another startup, launched by a former Lime executive , is merging the RV rental market with hotels. As Americans look to escape, this peer-to-peer RV rental startup is happy to accommodate them. Founded in 2013, RVshare connects RV owners with people who want to rent an RV. billion in January 2020.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Sigmoid , a startup helping firms in the U.S., Sequoia Capital India led the San Francisco-headquartered startup’s Series B funding, which included some secondary shares purchase, the two said. The investment giant, which unveiled $2.85 billion funds earlier this year for India and Southeast Asia , has invested $19.3

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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. It’s incredible to look back at how far our startup ecosystem has come in that time. Fast forward five years.

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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.,

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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

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

At the same time, the company announced it has acquired Vamp , a release orchestration startup that should fit nicely in the CircleCI platform. Today’s round comes a little over a year since the late stage startup announced a $100 million Series E , and brings the total raised to over $315 million, according to the company.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Demo days at startup accelerators are a pretty big deal around here. Here’s just one example from Y Combinator’s Summer 2013 Demo Day: Positioning itself as the “FedEx of today,” it hopes to provide a logistics framework that goes beyond food and can be used for any type of on-demand order. Omnitron Sensors.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

Perhaps that explains why Camunda , a Berlin startup that makes open source process automation software, announced an €82 million Series B today. When combined with the $28 million A investment from December 2018, it brings the total raised to approximately $126 million. Camunda is not your typical startup.

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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. The goal of this project is to standardize startup capitalization table data as well as make it far more accessible, transparent and portable. More posts by this contributor.

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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

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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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.

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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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StartupNation

MARCH 10, 2021

So it’s no wonder why Ann Arbor tech companies and startups are thriving. Founded by two of the top female founders in the Midwest , Workit Health is a health startup that’s providing digital tools for people recovering from addiction. They’re a mission-driven startup that’s using technology to help save lives. million in 2020.

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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

MARCH 18, 2021

based startup that offers a “headless” e-commerce platform to make it easier for developers to build better online shopping experiences, has raised $2.5 Saleor , a Poland and U.S.-based million in seed funding. The round is led by Berlin’s Cherry Ventures , with participation from various angels.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

Today, a startup called ChannelEngine , which helps retailers connect with and sell through more than 200 marketplaces, is announcing a growth round of funding to continue building out its business amid strong demand. As the use of e-commerce continues to accelerate, retailers and brands have to meet consumers where and how they shop.

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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

JANUARY 27, 2022

Yet, fittingly, when it came time to join Google full time, he turned down the offer to build an edtech startup — one that would help young professionals like him create continuous, daily structured learning but without it feeling like a chore. A simple learning flow for Parthean consists of a trigger, recommendation and outcome.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2021

That startup promised to revolutionize the nascent electric vehicle market and make range anxiety a thing of the past. By 2013 it would be bankrupt and one of the many casualties of the first wave of cleantech investing. “We can use the side storage to accelerate the development of swapping stations,” de Souza said.

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 2, 2014

Cooley, a top tier startup law firm, reported this trend in their valuation quarterly report , which tracks these figures where they are counsel to either investors or founders. 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. As for the question, why now?

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