Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 21, 2024

a16z crypto is a venture capital fund that has been investing in crypto and web3 startups — across all stages — since 2013.

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TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2021

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. million USD) fund that will be used for seed, Series A and Series B rounds in 15 of the most promising companies that have gone through its venture studio program.

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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

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. billion for Haun Ventures’ debut crypto fund.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Early-stage fintech-focused venture firm Better Tomorrow Ventures has raised $225 million for its second fund — triple the amount it raised for its debut fund that closed in September of 2020. BTV is a venture firm that boasts two successful fintech founders as its partners. It’s committed to three so far.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 4, 2023

a16z crypto is a venture capital fund that has been investing in crypto and web3 startups — across all stages — since 2013.

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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

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. “These are heavy RegTech lifts.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2021

These included Blue Horizon , CPT Capital , EF , Fifty Years , Hemisphere Ventures and Horizons Ventures. That pattern tracks well with data from PwC, which found that 2,700 unique investors had backed 1,200 startups in its State of Climate Tech 2020 report covering the 2013-2019 period.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Something happened in the past 7 years in the startup and venture capital world that I hadn’t experienced since the late 90’s — we all began praying to the God of Valuation. How might our next phase of the journey seem brighter, even with more uncertain days for startups and capital markets? What happened? It’s just a market.

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Dream It

JULY 31, 2019

The product should be live if we hope to raise capital. A program to get your company 'accelerated'- selling faster, moving faster, which does not necessarily translate to capital. 4- Any startup can raise venture capital I've also seen a misconception on business types, versus their ability to raise venture capital.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

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. Anand met them in 2013, soon after their pivot to big data and marketing, and Sequoia Capital India invested in Appier’s Series A a few months later.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

From a diversity standpoint, the venture capital financing landscape remains incredibly imbalanced. of total venture capital invested, according to Crunchbase. The current system capitalizes women and minority founders at 80% less than businesses overall. One report found that minority tech startups in the U.S.

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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. Tiger Global just closed one of the biggest venture funds ever, with $6.7 Enterprise AI 2.0:

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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. Crypto was helpful for me back in 2013 and 2014 when I was going through one of those periods. It was as fun to play it as it was to play Turntable back in the day. Then I woke up.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The silver lining to the horrors wrought by Covid is that the pandemic opened the venture capital community’s eyes to the world of opportunity beyond the traditional tech startup hubs of California, New York, and Massachusetts. In 2013, Indianapolis-based ExactTarget was acquired by Salesforce for $2.5

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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. Zach DeWitt. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

Now, the blockchain aficionado who got his start in trading Bitcoin in 2013 is joining the ranks of a growing group of solo GPs raising venture funds built on their own name and reputation. Iyer has raised $20 million in what he says was an oversubscribed round for his inaugural fund, Canonical Capital, he told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Between 2010 and 2015, Evernote raised hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital from investors including Sequoia, Meritech Capital and Japanese media company Nikkei. In 2013, Evernote was reportedly valued at nearly a billion dollars.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Rowe Price, Bessemer Venture Partners, Franklin Templeton and In-Q-Tel. According to CrunchBase, Rigetti has raised just under $200 million in VC capital since it was founded in 2013. .” The transaction values Rigetti at about $1.5 Supernova’s Michael Clifton will join the Rigetti board after the transaction closes.

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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. Tech Market Analysis Upfront Ventures' But I’m guessing the narrative is similar elsewhere. And Seriously. Watch this space. (as

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 4, 2023

US venture-backed M&A fell from $34.6b M&A secures the team greater financial certainty within a more established & better capitalized business. During the 2013-2014, median acquisition prices increased by 50% in less than a year, from $36m to $54m. in Q4 2021 to a paltry $2.1b in Q4 2022.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Figma is somewhat of a classic startup and venture capital success story. Following a seed round back in 2013, Figma attracted regular external investments through a mid-2021 Series E worth $200 million that valued the software upstart at around $10 billion, per Crunchbase data.

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Founder Bounty

JANUARY 27, 2023

Tiny Capital in 2018. In 2006, Andrew Wilkinson dropped out of Ryerson and immediately launched into his first venture, MetaLab. In 2013 they shifted focus from starting businesses to buying them – which proved remarkably successful. His latest acquisition? " The billionaire has been quite a student in his time.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2020

million, led by Blossom Capital. Also participating was New York-based FirstMark Capital and Frst , as well as angel investors including Paul Melchiorre, former CEO of business planning giant Anaplan, and David Clarke, the ex-CTO of Workday, another business planning incumbent.

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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. Last summer, the San Francisco-based company announced a $30 million Series B round.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Or more simply, the company aims to solve SMBs’ working capital needs through its credit and payments offerings. Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP) led Fundbox’s Series D financing, which brings the company’s total equity raised to $410 million since its 2013 inception. billion in working capital, the executive added.

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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

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. The firm’s first check size is about $500,000 to $5 million, and it also usually provides follow-on capital.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Frances Schwiep, partner, Two Sigma Ventures. Melissa Guzy, co-founder and managing partner, Arbor Ventures. Jonathan Whittle, co-founder and partner, Quona Capital. Jason Brown, partner, Victory Park Capital. Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription.

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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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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. Olist’s founder was in our San Francisco accelerator program, and in his next round of funding turned to Flavio, who was then president of Walmart.com in Brazil.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

Iterative , an open-source startup that is building an enterprise AI platform to help companies operationalize their models, today announced that it has raised a $20 million Series A round led by 468 Capital and Mesosphere co-founder Florian Leibert. He noted that the industry has changed quite a bit since then. ”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

The round was co-led by DCM Ventures, Lavender Hill Capital and returning investor PERSOL Holdings. As part of the investment, Lavender Hill Capital founding partner Xiaoyin Zhang and DCM Ventures general partner Ramon Zeng, will join Glints’ board. This brings Glints’ total raised so far to $80 million.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

General Catalyst is widely recognized as one of the top venture capital firms, with portfolio companies that include Snap, Kayak, Airbnb, Stripe, HubSpot and GitLab. Boyce has been with General Catalyst since 2013, leading investments in companies like Ro, Macro, towerIQ and Atom. You really won’t want to miss it.

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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

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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. That has attracted venture capitalists’ attention and led to some recent cash infusions, including Shef and WoodSpoon for homemade items, and Little Spoon and Serenity Kids in the baby food arena.

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