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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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 2, 2023

207 Applications Approved for over $8 Million in Tax Credits to Support Investment in 28 Companies TRENTON, N.J. million in private investment as supported in 2023 by the New Jersey Angel Investor Tax Credit Program (ATC). million in tax credits, based on a percentage of eligible investment.

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Onevest

APRIL 30, 2015

But the data shows a rapidly growing trend in accredited investors investing together. Trending Investment Strategies Global investor surveys have shown that since the crises of the early 2000s more affluent and sophisticated investors are choosing to invest in partnership with each other. That means safety in investing.

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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. CEO Kothadiya was previously with [24]7.ai,

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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

MARCH 24, 2023

Venture capital funding in the region “dried up in the second half of 2022,” so he inquired about their current pace of dealmaking, which investment trends they’re watching and how founders can reach them. Fellow first drew notice in 2013 with a Kickstarter campaign to fund production of its Duo coffee maker.

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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. When I asked how new products fit into the larger goPuff brand and strategy, Ilishayev replied, “People, throughout our whole existence, have tried to put us into an industry: ‘Are you convenience?

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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. Why raise more money so soon?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

The investment, which, according to the company, was agreed on and structured in 2020, follows the $6.3 million raised in November 2020 and led by Toyota Tsusho investment fund Mobility 54. Enza Capital participated, alongside some unnamed angel investors. million in a Series A extension round. Image Credits: Tugende.

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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. Adopt a “hire slow, fire fast” mentality for your expansion strategy. Levin Bunz. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 25, 2022

Register Rabbit Care , Thailand’s leading marketplace for insurance and financial products , has raised an undisclosed amount in its Series C funding round led by Winter Capital. Rabbit Care was founded in 2013 and has since grown to become the top financial marketplace of its kind in Thailand.

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TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2021

People can think of us as the technical co-founder, responsible for driving and executing product strategy, design and the development of scalable products,” Dovetail co-founder Nick Frandsen told TechCrunch. As buy now, pay later startups keep raising capital, a dive into Klarna, Afterpay and Affirm’s earnings. “By

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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. Yoco’s strategy as the foremost card payments provider in South Africa lies in creating access and removing barriers to adopting digital financial services.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Jonathan Whittle, co-founder and partner, Quona Capital. Jason Brown, partner, Victory Park Capital. According to Melissa Guzy, co-founder and managing partner at Arbor Ventures, “a new entrant will need a significant amount of capital from the start for marketing and winning a position on the checkout page.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

We are also investing in other skilled talent like doctors and nurses, professionals that are critical in the work we do,” Rockson told TechCrunch. “??Bloom Other investors include Northstar, Social Capital, Novastar and TO Ventures. Other investors include Northstar, Social Capital, Novastar and TO Ventures.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 3, 2022

How to find your topic of expertize and capitalize on this to form the basis of your future channel. Strategies to help you monetize your audience. ?? If a strategy isn’t working then abandon it. In this insightful story you’ll learn: Without distribution channels your business will fail ?—?and It’s all about those true fans.

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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. Fast forward five years.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Indeed, the California-based company, founded in 2013 by Philip Ross and Sophia Wang, is among a hot trend of companies working with fungus and other plant-based materials to make fabrics for fashion. Meet retail’s new sustainability strategy: Personalization. To date, the company raised $187 million in total.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

is the head of Strategy for Esquire Digital and the editor of Today’s Esquire. The goal of this project is to standardize startup capitalization table data as well as make it far more accessible, transparent and portable. All equity holders have a general and legal interest in a company’s capitalization information. Contributor.

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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. Ayeni and the Helios Investment Partners team declined to comment on the VC firm’s overall fund size.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

A-Frame , a Los Angeles-based developer of personal care brands supported by celebrities, has raised $2 million in a new round of funding led by Initialized Capital. “We partner with the investment groups at the agencies,” said company founder and chief executive, Ari Bloom. “Hill is my co-founder.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Sourcegraph , a late stage startup that wants to bring the power of search to code, announced a $125 million Series D investment today on a $2.625 billion valuation, a 3x growth from its previous valuation in December 2020, according to the company. The company has now raised almost $225 million, according to Crunchbase data.

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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. quarter over quarter in Q2 2022, with overall investments reaching $20.2 billion valuation, down from the $4.6

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 1, 2015

The seed stage investment market feels like it’s changing quickly. These firms raised between $5 and $75M to invest in seed stage companies. In addition, VCs have been participating in the seed stage market as well, making 2013 a banner year for seed investment. Year Number Total Invested, $M Average Round Size, $k.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2021

Urbanbase, founded in 2013 by chief executive officer and a former architect Jinu Ha, has now raised $20 million (approximately 23 billion won) in total. billion in 2021, based on Strategy Analytics’ report. million (13 billion won) in a Series B+ round as it scales up. Existing investors did not join this round.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2020

While Sketchy’s strategy might seem odd, it’s actually well-known. To charge this growth and break into new content verticals, Sketchy is taking venture capital on for the first time in its seven-year history. For example, it uses a countryside kingdom to explain the coronavirus, or a salmon dinner to explain Salmonella. The story.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 12, 2022

Your own investment’s value may change because of a change in the value of the underlying asset and/or market preferences. However, few investors can directly impact the value of the underlying asset, except for private equity and venture capital investors with portfolio acceleration strategies. The HFRI Index returned 18.3%

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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

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

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. The opportunity that the company sees has really forced us to reallocate resources and strategy,” said Brown.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

“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.” According to FLAG Capital there are 100 active VCs (as defined by making at least $1 million in VC per quarter for 4 consecutive quarters). The industry is dying, except for the top 2%.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The funding is being led by Korelya Capital, a French VC fund backed by Korea’s Naver , with Accel, Insight Partners, 14W, GP Bullhound and Northzone — all previous backers of Wallapop — also participating. By 2016, Wallapop was merging with a rival, LetGo , as part of a bigger strategy to crack the U.S.

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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. Some are gone now, and some caught fire and the creators decided they wanted to grow into an investment firm, not just a fund. 2/ Financial Consideration s – When investment firms grow, so do fees.

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TechCrunch

JULY 9, 2021

Since its founding in 2013, NS1 has raised more than $100 million to build an engineering team and robust product portfolio that’s expanded to include DDI, which helps companies manage internal networks. “The venture capital market is racing ahead, foot on the gas, middle finger out the window, hair on fire.”

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

If you’re not taking this zone-out down time I’ll bet you’re not having enough strategic reflection on your job, your company, your strategy. Frankly, I think venture capital is that way, too. I had one of the biggest mental breakthroughs about what I want to do differently at GRP Partners in 2013.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

” I hear it when I visit LPs (the people who invest in VCs) all across the country, “Yeah, I haven’t been out there for a few years but I keep hearing that something is going on there.” Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

On Friday, January 13, investment giant BlackRock announced it was acquiring a minority stake in SMB 401(k) provider startup Human Interest. For one, as one source told me, BlackRock’s investment is a show of faith in the SMB 401(k) market — one where the firm hasn’t historically played. Consolidation everywhere. ” In other news.

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StartupNation

MARCH 23, 2021

Since 2012, there’s been little increase in venture capital going to women-founded businesses. In the third quarter of 2020, venture capital funding for female founders dropped to a three-year low. On season 11 of “Shark Tank,” she won a $750,000 investment from Lori Greiner and Mark Cuban. LaunchGood (Detroit).

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