Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Startups Are for Doers. But trust me when I say that my observations across many startups (and other companies, frankly) is that not enough time goes into thinking. Startups are filled with the stresses of the here and now and it’s hard to break out of this mold of focusing two feet in front of you. Board Meetings.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly. More on both trends later. Success begets success.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Funding of women-founded startups remains significantly lower than those that are gender-mixed While women entrepreneurs are making significant strides in startup formation, they continue to struggle to gain access to funding on par with men. venture firms allocated only 22% of their deals to female-founded startups.

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Dream It

JULY 31, 2019

The product should be live if we hope to raise capital. Being self-sustainable has given us a new perspective on startup funding, especially compared to what I experienced on my first accelerator run. Here are some truths about what accelerators can be for startups: A small filter. The plan-sort of worked.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Over the past couple of years, there’s been an overlap between tech and art, fueling a growing interest of movie, music and sports stars investing in tech startups. In 2014, Mr. Eazi launched Phonetrader, an online used phone marketplace backed by a now-defunct startup incubator, 440NG, which was run by two investment firms, L5Lab and 88mph.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

It’s that time of year, where I — as a committee of one judge, me — select one startup in the tech ecosystem that “broke out” and has the makings of an even larger outcome should things continue to go right. Here is the Google Doc where we tracked these.]

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

Amazon Web Services (AWS) today launched a new program, AWS Impact Accelerator , that will give up to $30 million to early-stage startups led by Black, Latino, LGBTQIA+ and women founders. From a diversity standpoint, the venture capital financing landscape remains incredibly imbalanced.

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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. Its long-term plan is to ??evolve

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

in total capital over five years, after it raised $4.3 million last year from New-York’s Riverside Acceleration Capital (RAC) and a syndicate of Australian investors. The advent of the startup, however, goes back to 2013, as Australian entrepreneur Dr. Lior Rauchberger sought a wireless presentation solution for a client.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Two years ago, the African tech ecosystem saw newfound attention from global players that translated to the continent’s best year of receiving venture capital. From varying sources, it is estimated up to $2 billion went into African tech startups in 2019. African startups nearly raised $1.5 It wasn’t a bad year, though.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

It had produced, and was poised to produce, an enormous number of technology startups, given its relatively small size. The moniker became so ubiquitous, both at home and abroad, that “Israel Startup Nation” is now the name of the country’s professional cycling team. 2020 was a record year for Israel’s security startup ecosystem.

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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

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

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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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. According to CrunchBase, Rigetti has raised just under $200 million in VC capital since it was founded in 2013.

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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2022

African startups raised between $4 billion to $5 billion in 2021, according to various reports. However, for all their effort and importance to the tech ecosystem, raising significant venture capital seemed elusive to startups in Africa’s digital media landscape that rely on grants and personal funding to scale.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

Note we are not including here most of the freebies offered by corporates for founders in general (as opposed to students in particular), which we list in Free Money from the Global 500 for Tech Startups. For a more detailed list for founders in general, not just students, see Startup contests and Startup grants.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

The goal of this project is to standardize startup capitalization table data as well as make it far more accessible, transparent and portable. For a variety of reasons (sometimes inexperience or bad advice) too many equity holders often find companies’ capitalization information to be opaque and not easily accessible.

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

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

Veteran investor Eric Satz realized this in 2013 when he first tried to deploy money from his IRA into private companies and was met with pushback from his financial advisor, who was concerned about the potential risks, Satz told TechCrunch in an interview. ibnAle is set to join the company’s board of directors.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

which leaves little room for startups hoping to join the fray. Jonathan Whittle, co-founder and partner, Quona Capital. Jason Brown, partner, Victory Park Capital. “At $100 million ARR, the startup is an undeniable success. Affirm, Afterpay and Klarna own 75% of the sector in the U.S.,

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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

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Matt Zeiler founded the New York-based company in 2013 focused on computer vision. Clarifai wants to bring artificial intelligence into the lives of developers, business operators and data scientists so they can automate and accelerate their model development. The latest round brings the company’s total funding raised to $100 million. “We

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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.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Soylent shakes up its executive team, naming Demir Vangelov as its new CEO Origins of a nutrition company Founded in 2013 in San Francisco by Rob Rhinehart, Soylent is focused on what it calls “complete nutrition,” developing a line of shakes, powders and bars meant to provide a daily dose of vitamins, minerals, fats, carbohydrates and protein.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In 2013, Irma Olguin Jr. Historically, female founders have received just 12% of venture capital investment for their businesses. The new cash will be used to support Bitwise’s expansion into Chicago and the growth of the startup’s other locations, Olguin told TechCrunch in an email interview.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

There is an unmet need of $260 billion to $320 billion for women-owned company funding, according to a 2013 study conducted by the International Finance Corporation. The ease with which men tap into multiple sources for capital explains why they start companies with almost twice the capital of women founders on average.

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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

startups raked last year. It’s identical to what’s happening in Africa: Less than 1% of all VC dollars went toward startups with one or more women founders last year, according to The Big Deal , which details investments in Africa. In 2021, 11 such startups achieved that feat, a record year for this group.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

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. In order to be a powerhouse and global leader in drop ship, Logicbroker wanted to accelerate product features, which meant going after some capital. “We

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? This would be easy to detect: among their portfolio companies, do startups with female founders outperform those without? This would be easy to detect: among their portfolio companies, do startups with female founders outperform those without?

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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

APRIL 15, 2021

A startup out of Berlin that’s built and grown a successful online language learning platform based around live teachers and virtual classrooms is announcing some funding today to continue expanding its business. The valuation is not being disclosed. New Jersey specifically) in an interview. This is very much by design, Shangkuan said.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

One Mexico City-based startup, Higo.io , is out to transform B2B payments for SMBs (small and medium-sized businesses) in Latin America, starting with its home country. And now the startup has raised $3.3 Corcuera is no stranger to running companies, having launched a housecleaning marketplace at the age of 23 in 2013.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? Image Credits: Versatile Venture Capital (opens in a new window). This would be easy to detect: among their portfolio companies, do startups with female founders outperform those without? Of course, this dataset is incomplete.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2014

I first met Andrew Stalbow , the founder & CEO of Seriously in August of 2013. On August 23rd, 2013 I had an email intro from my good friend and trusted source Jeff Berman who only sends me stuff when it is somebody he respects (ie a strong filter vs. those who send casual intros). He hit me from two very trusted sources.

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