TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

Plus, you get to hear feedback from some of the smartest folks in the industry, thus learning how to absolutely crush it at your next pitch meeting with a VC. Those startups will pitch their products/businesses to a pair of expert VC judges, who will then give their live feedback. Register here for free! Register here for free!

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 17, 2020

Then I found out that the creators of this new game had received venture capital funding and were going to turn it into a business. I met the founders and was happy for them. It comes with the territory in VC. Crypto was helpful for me back in 2013 and 2014 when I was going through one of those periods. Then I woke up.

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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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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

MAY 26, 2022

Wale Ayeni , one of Africa’s well-known investors, has a new role as the head of Helios Digital Ventures, the venture capital strategy of private equity firm Helios Investment Partners, TechCrunch has learned. “I’ll call it a mid-cap VC fund. It’s not early, and it’s not quite growth.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

According to CrunchBase, Rigetti has raised just under $200 million in VC capital since it was founded in 2013. “In the next decade one Rigetti quantum computer could be more powerful than today’s entire global cloud,” said Rigetti Computing CEO and founder Chad Rigetti.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2014

I think this is a Seriously great example of how this process works for at least one VC – Upfront Ventures. I first met Andrew Stalbow , the founder & CEO of Seriously in August of 2013. and Petri was co-founder and head of creative at Remedy Entertainment that launched the hit PC games Max Payne and Alan Wake.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Levin joined Heartcore Capital in 2019 from Global Founders Capital, the billion-dollar VC arm of Rocket Internet, where he was responsible for investments in Canva, Heyjobs, Instarem, Anyfin and others. As a founder, it’s your job to manage financial and operational risks. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

In this piece , I spotlighted what influenced this venture capital growth — which, at the time, was pegged at a little over $4 billion. The Big Deal tracks funding rounds from $100,000 and above from startups operating in Africa with their headquarters on the continent or HQ outside Africa but with founders from Africa.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

But VC is like congress. “I don’t know the exact math, but I hear it again and again: the top 2% of firms generate 98% of the returns in venture capital.” As you can see from the chart their data suggests there are about $25 billion of VC distributions per year in the US. Their data looks at tech VCs.

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Haystack

AUGUST 18, 2019

Despite that lack of experience, I am fortunate in that I have direct access to many of the greatest VC leaders and franchises for mentorship and guidance. They’ve all accepted that this is a new world of capital abundance and that the pistons driving the global economy are technology and network effects. Granted, 6.5

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

Sarah Guo is the latest woman to depart their position at a venture capital firm with plans to launch one of their own. Guo joined Greylock in 2013 as the firm’s first woman partner and will now transition into the role of board partner. Sources confirmed to Axios that Guo is planning to launch her own fund.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

More venture capital is flowing into meal delivery service companies as consumers seek out better-for-you food choices. Nicole Centeno founded the company in 2013. Heavily VC-backed salad chain Sweetgreen heads toward public markets. Oh, and it recently secured $12 million in Series B funding. and the answer has been yes.”.

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Angel Capital Association

AUGUST 13, 2021

THE ORIGIN I was the Founder & CEO of InboxDollars from 2000 to 2019. Our Leadership Team started noticing something interesting around 2010: many of our customers were VC-backed startups. MY 2013 ANSWER TO “WHY?” My angel investing hobby was making me a better Founder, CEO, and business leader.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Houston and DocSend co-founder and CEO Russ Heddleston have known each for other years, and have an established relationship. He even ran the idea for the company by Houston prior to launching in 2013, who gave it his seal of approval, and the two companies have been partners for some time.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

The new funding, mPharma co-founder and CEO Gregory Rockson told TechCrunch, will be used to build the startup’s data infrastructure, triple its talent pool over the next three years and support expansion plans in its current and new markets. Other investors include Northstar, Social Capital, Novastar and TO Ventures.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 28, 2024

Year Share Good Year 2012 18.4% - 2013 25.9% - 2014 65.5% Year Share Good Year 2012 18.4% - 2013 25.9% - 2014 65.5% However, as the VC industry has 10xed in the last decade, more large M&A will become essential to sustain great multiples for VCs. X 2015 20.1% - 2016 43.0% X 2019 23.4% - 2020 61.1% X 2021 43.8%

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

I had witnessed a number of early-stage tech startups in LA raise seed capital from the Bay Area and relocate. Throughout all of these years I was a full-time VC so Launchpad really came out of evenings and weekends for me. Adam had a full time startup and then was doing consulting (he later raised a VC fund). And Jamie hers.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

EDT, we are talking with Andrew Chan about why Gen Z VCs are trash, and at 12:00 p.m. EDT, we’re talking with M13 partner Anna Barber about what today’s founders can learn from the dot-com bubble bursting. Startups and VC. TechCrunch+ is our membership program, which helps founders and startup teams get ahead.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

The venture capital game has become about branding yourself so you can get into a handful of hot deals." -- @Naval on stage with @Jason. — Brian Alvey (@brianalvey) November 10, 2013. This feels like a West Coast mentality, because deals seem to feel "hot" more often out there--I believe because of founder pedigree.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Dataiku is the latest well-financed startup to suffer from macroeconomic headwinds, raising new capital at a significantly reduced valuation. There’s signs VC investments in AI startups are cooling. The company today announced that it raised $200 million in a Series F round led by Wellington Management at a $3.7

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

Corcuera is no stranger to running companies, having launched a housecleaning marketplace at the age of 23 in 2013. As is often the case for founders, it was during the process of growing that company that Corcuera realized how painful and time consuming it was for businesses to manage their payables and receivables.

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FundersClub

JUNE 12, 2017

Being an effective founder means questioning current paradigms, asking ‘Is there a better way to do this—and am I the person to do it?’ That line of questioning led Mittal and co-founder Boris Silver to build FundersClub in the way they did. ” In the end, venture capital is driven by capitalism.

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Angel Capital Association

OCTOBER 25, 2023

by Ali Moiz , Founder & CEO at SandHill Markets Throughout the years, trends in markets have come and gone. How is it possible that with Q2 of 2023 being the slowest quarter for funding in AngelLists history since they started recordkeeping in 2013, are people still interested in even playing the game? What are they?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Existing backers Viola FinTech, MassMutual Ventures, Nationwide, Hearst Ventures and Moneta VC also put money in the round, as well as new investors Viola Growth and Fort Ross Ventures. With the new financing, Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Insurify has now raised a total of $128 million since its 2013 inception.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

These events aren’t just a chance to review the latest cohort of hopeful entrepreneurs — they also showcase the technology, products and services that will compete for VC and consumer attention over the next few years. I covered one demo day in person, spending most of my time backstage where founder teams practiced their pitches.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. Most experienced VCs won’t push you to give up founder control at this stage of the business nor should they. Founder’s perspective. You’ll get empathy. Experience.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Surely not I, when my family moved here in 2013. Meanwhile, Silicon Hills News (operated by the very talented Laura Lorek) reported that Austin-based insurtech Decent is “shutting down all of its operations to just a core team,” which was confirmed in a blog post published by Nick Soman, the company’s founder and CEO.

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Haystack

JANUARY 12, 2020

Rather, this short blog is filled only with my own observations from being in the middle of the evolving seed market since 2013. There are also newer angels and new funds created almost weekly, so raising more capital as a seed fund can be a weapon to win deals. Seed funds often co-lead deal with another fund they enjoy working with.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 12, 2022

Alpha is a zero-sum game ”, according to Bridgewater founder Ray Dalio. However, few investors can directly impact the value of the underlying asset, except for private equity and venture capital investors with portfolio acceleration strategies. For example, activist hedge funds, and most private equity and VC funds.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. Both are massively funding other LA tech companies through what Fred Wilson once defined as “recycled capital.”

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Haystack

JUNE 29, 2018

Whether it’s angling for multi-billion dollar franchises in faraway places like India, or competing for a small startup in Boston — the gloves are off and founders in the right position stand to benefit.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2022

First off, 3-year-old one-click checkout startup Fast announced it was shutting down after struggling to raise more capital to keep operations running. The London-based company, its CEO and co-founder Dev Subrata told me, started out as a customer engagement platform in 2013. “We Bain Capital just led its $65 million Series B.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

Early-stage founders, usually first-timers, often tie themselves in knots as they try to project the qualities they hope investors are seeking. How to identify unicorn founders when they’re still early-stage. What, exactly, are investors looking for? Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 15, 2017

Bloomberg published a post this weekend called San Francisco’s VC Boom is Over. The article pointed to the seeming collapse in the amount of venture capital raised by San Francisco startups relative to other regions. Note, the levels still exceed 2010-2013. The market is cyclical for both investors and founders.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 14, 2014

And as DeCambre points out, so far through 2014, the ten largest startup financings have yielded about twice as much capital as the ten largest IPOs. To paraphrase Mark’s question, can startups raise just as much capital in the private markets as in the public market, without the hassle of public market regulation?

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2021

Fortunately, that didn’t happen, and he kept on climbing and gaining skills and single-handedly founded his own company, one which has reached Series B and raised $33 million, a significant amount of money for any startup, but particularly for a startup run by a Black founder. It was eventually acquired by Virgin Mobile.

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