TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

As a partner at Wing Venture Capital, Zach Dewitt focuses on early-stage investments in transformative enterprise technologies. After winning the 2013 TechCrunch Meetup and Pitch-off , I decided to drop out of business school to pursue my startup full time. As many founders can attest, the startup journey can be lonely at times.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

how on Earth could the venture capital market stand still? One of the most common questions I’m asked by people intrigued by but also scared by venture capital and technology markets is some variant of, “Aren’t technology markets way overvalued? On the one hand, you’re over paying for every investment and valuations aren’t rational.

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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. THE ORIGIN I was the Founder & CEO of InboxDollars from 2000 to 2019.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

Chih-Han Yu, chief executive officer and co-founder of Appier Group Inc., Appier ’s initial public offering on the Tokyo Stock Exchange yesterday was a milestone not only for the company, but also Sequoia Capital India, one of its earliest investors. Photographer: Billy H.C. Kwok/Bloomberg via Getty Images.

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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. Thomas Rush. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 6, 2023

Serial entrepreneur and seasoned investor Vinod Khosla has some strong, contrarian advice for the venture capital industry: don’t sit on your founders’ boards. Khosla, who spoke onstage at the Upfront Summit in Los Angeles this week, spoke about the culture of capital. And that is difficult,” he said.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

Alternative investments are having a moment. Institutions have fueled a large part of this growth, investing at record pace into alternatives like crypto, private companies and real estate. Institutions have fueled a large part of this growth, investing at record pace into alternatives like crypto, private companies and real estate.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Speak , an English language learning platform with AI-powered features, today announced that it raised $27 million in a Series B funding round led by the OpenAI Startup Fund , with participation from Lachy Groom, Josh Buckley, Justin Mateen, Gokul Rajaram and Founders Fund. ” Image Credits: Speak.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners (UTEC) , a deep-tech investment firm, announced the first close of its fifth fund, which is expected to total 30 billion JPY (or about $275 million USD) by June 2021. UTEC’s deep-tech investments around the world. So far, 25 of its investments have exited.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Crowdfunding has become an increasingly popular way for companies to raise capital, and investors are taking notice. Groundfloor , the first real estate crowdfunding platform to gain regulatory approval, announced today that it raised its first round of institutional capital since 2015.

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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. Headquartered in Singapore, Transport Capital’s core expertise is in Real Assets and Private Capital Markets.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

Raising venture capital is rarely an easy lift for startups, but 2022 is turning out to be a more challenging year than we’ve seen for some time. 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.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Stacked , a web-based platform that provides passive investment tools for retail investors interested in crypto, just announced it raised a $35 million Series A co-led by Alameda Research , a crypto trading firm owned by FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried. Bybit and BitDAO partner Mirana Ventures co-led the round alongside Alameda.

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StartupNation

MARCH 23, 2021

.” That was Lori Coulter, CEO and co-founder of Summersalt, speaking at the State of the Midwest Startup Community 2020. There’s no denying that women have made many strides in closing the gender gap in tech, but those trends haven’t necessarily been true for female founders. Melissa Butler, Founder and CEO.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

Kenya-based fintech company 4G Capital , which provides unsecured credit to micro enterprises, has raised $18.5 Already, 4G Capital is conducting trials of its latest retail finance product dubbed Kuza, which allows clients to access goods from FMCG producers and distributors on credit. Image Credits: 4G Capital.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2022

We recently sat down with three VCs to figure out the best way to go about spinning up an investing network from scratch and negotiating the first term sheet. VCs are trying to invest in leaders, so they know there’s going to be a power dynamic here. Securing funding is a stressful endeavor, but it doesn’t have to be.

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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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Revolution

OCTOBER 4, 2022

At the turn of the 20th century, any number of American municipalities with similar access to talent, materials, investment, and transportation might have emerged as the beating heart of the automobile industry. Hill Street Studios/Getty Images There was never a guarantee that Detroit would become the Motor City.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Today, the Palo Alto-based company announced $12 million in Series A funding in a round led by Headline, with participation from Storm Ventures, Global Founder Capital, Zoom Apps Fund, Operator Partners, Industry Ventures and existing investors K9 Ventures, Dragon Capital and Twin Ventures.

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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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Founder Bounty

JANUARY 27, 2023

Andrew Wilkinson is the founder of MetaLab , a design agency based in Vancouver, and Flow.  Andrew started by buying some apartments, before moving on to investing in tech startups. Tiny Capital in 2018. In 2013 they shifted focus from starting businesses to buying them – which proved remarkably successful.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Founded by Sheel Mohnot and Jake Gibson in November of 2019, San Francisco-based Better Tomorrow Ventures ( BTV ) has allocated $150 million to invest in startups at the pre-seed and seed stages. It has also reserved $75 million for an opportunity fund for follow-on investments. It’s committed to three so far.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

The round was led by Tiger Global, with participation from returning investors like ICONIQ Growth, CapitalG, FirstMark Capital, Battery Ventures, Snowflake Ventures and Dawn Capital. Founded in 2013, Dataiku is used by data scientists, but also designed for business analysts and other people with less technical backgrounds.

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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2023

There’s no simple test to determine which aspiring founder can turn their idea into a billion-dollar business, but VCs who know which questions to ask can uncover the right mindset, says Sanjay Reddy, a co-founding partner at Unlock Venture Partners. Thanks very much for reading TC+, and have a great weekend.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2021

according to Ironhack co-founder Ariel Quiñones. Since its launch in 2013, the company has graduated more than 8,000 students, with a job placement rate of 89%, according to data collected as of July 2020. Over the next five years, 13 million jobs will be added to the tech industry in the U.S.,

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 25, 2023

Tomas is a business speaker and the founder of InCorp Vietnam (formerly Cekindo) , a market entry consulting firm that also provides business process outsourcing. Contributed to EO by Tomas Svoboda , an EO member from the Czech Republic in the Europe Bridge chapter.

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TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2021

Dovetail co-founders Ash Fogelberg and Nick Frandsen. Based in Sydney and Auckland, Dovetail is a full-service venture studio that works closely with founders who have a great idea, but may lack technical backgrounds. As buy now, pay later startups keep raising capital, a dive into Klarna, Afterpay and Affirm’s earnings. “By

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

with co-investment from OSF Ventures, Sony Innovation Fund, and Dreampact Ventures. This funding milestone, and the addition of Jeff to our team, will help us deliver on our vision to advance a new gold standard technology for ear health,” said PhotoniCare Co-founder & CEO Ryan Shelton. “We The company also announced a $2.1

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

New investors Greenoaks Capital and China’s Tencent co-led the round, which included participation from some existing backers as well. With the extension, the startup has now raised more than $700 million since its 2013 inception. Ribbit Capital led the first tranche of its Series E.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

Rafael Ilishayev and Yakir Gola, who serve as co-CEOs, founded the company in 2013 while they were students at Drexel University. The round comes from D1 Capital Partners, Fidelity Management and Research Company, Baillie Gifford, Eldridge, Reinvent Capital, Luxor Capital and SoftBank Vision Fund 1. delivery fee.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2020

As continentally confined Americans look for domestic vacation options that won’t expose them to too much risk of infection from the pandemic that’s still raging across the country, the RV rental company RVshare has raised more than $100 million to capitalize on its historic opportunity. billion in January 2020.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Founders who target emerging markets like Latin America and India may have a slightly easier time, but only if their products and services are clearly differentiated. Melissa Guzy, co-founder and managing partner, Arbor Ventures. Jonathan Whittle, co-founder and partner, Quona Capital.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 18, 2019

Very little time and effort is spent helping professional, full time investors raise capital for venture funds. Accelerators can be great, but they’re not giving companies enough money to achieve the kind of escape velocity needed to get on the radar of national Series A firms that will invest anywhere.

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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. Founders’ Co-op has grown along with Seattle.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

HoneyBook, which has built out a client experience and financial management platform for service-based small businesses and freelancers, announced today that it has raised $155 million in a Series D round led by Durable Capital Partners LP. With the latest round, HoneyBook has now raised $215 million since its 2013 inception.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2021

Alexa von Tobel, co-founder and managing partner of Inspired Capital, will be joining TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 taking place September 21-23 to help judge the startups competing in Startup Battlefield. After raising $75 million in venture capital and growing the service to 1.5 that highlights entrepreneurs.

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