Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

So if you want to be a content producer and want to make money you can develop content for global “niches” of watchers who might like: Japanese Anime, South Korean drama, Bollywood productions, reality TV on any topic – fashion, cooking, travel. I first wanted to invest in this trend by backing a company called Filmaka.

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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.” No less than Fred Wilson has credited Carlota’s work with having a major influence on his investment strategy at USV.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Notably, Speak is the third startup in which OpenAI, the AI lab closely aligned with Microsoft, has publicly invested through its fund — the others being Descript and Mem. Zwick came from the edtech industry — he sold his first startup, the flashcard app Flashcards+, to Chegg in 2013 after dropping out of Harvard.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2013 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2014; Slack in 2015; took a break in 2016, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; and last year, 2017, was Coinbase. 5/ The Enduring Allure Of Platform Potential: Revenue is important.

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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

JULY 6, 2022

Annie Case, a partner at Kleiner Perkins, focuses on investments in consumer, healthcare and marketplaces. Before joining Reach, Herrera served as a principal at Cowboy Ventures, where she focused on investing in consumer internet and marketplace companies. She helped lead investments in companies like Contra and Landing. .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Jordan-based mobile game publisher TamatemGames announced today it has raised $11 million in a Series B led by KRAFTON , a South Korean game developer behind PUBG, marking its first investment in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). This investment is aligned with our efforts to strengthen our commitment to the startup ecosystem.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Their heightened interest is reflected not just in their demand for ESG reports but also in surging investment volumes. Data from the Global Sustainable Investment Alliance highlights a staggering 605% increase in Sustainably-Themed Investing in 2020 compared to 2016.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

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. Matt Zeiler founded the New York-based company in 2013 focused on computer vision. Clarifai raises $30M to give developers visual search capabilities.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

At Versatile VC, we particularly like investing in “dual-PhD” problems, at the intersection of multiple domains. This program provides $1,000 in AWS Cloud credits, $350 in Developer Support credits, and other guidance. We’re making $50k investments in idea/R&D-stage teams that want to work outside of school in the fall.”.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

of total venture capital invested, according to Crunchbase. saw almost no progress in venture capital funding from 2013 to 2020. From a diversity standpoint, the venture capital financing landscape remains incredibly imbalanced. The current system capitalizes women and minority founders at 80% less than businesses overall.

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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. What’s pulling African music artists to tech investment? Europe and globally. . based and Africa-focused mobile payments company through Zagadat Capital.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 13, 2023

Companies in the 1st Pangyo Techno Valley and the 2nd Pangyo Techno Valley (Image = Besucses) A decade ago, in November 2013, Gyeonggi-do initiated the ‘Industry-Academy Research Center’ (currently known as Pangyo Techno Valley Startup Campus), an R&D center in Pangyo Techno Valley.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In 2013, Irma Olguin Jr. Then — to boost the hiring pipeline for Geekwise graduates, and under a newly formed parent company called Bitwise Industries — they launched Shift3 Technologies, a software development house that creates managed services for Salesforce, DocuSign and various other software-as-a-service apps.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

Last year alone it invested $22 billion in companies, it said. For example, it has also invested money into CurrencyCloud , Remitly , CompareAsiaGroup and Kreditech , among others. For example, it has also invested money into CurrencyCloud , Remitly , CompareAsiaGroup and Kreditech , among others.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

with co-investment from OSF Ventures, Sony Innovation Fund, and Dreampact Ventures. Most recently, Mr. Hydar served as Vice President of Sales at Kent Imaging where he led product launches to commercialization and developed strategic partnership agreements to expand company awareness and market presence. About PhotoniCare.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

With the latest round, HoneyBook has now raised $215 million since its 2013 inception. The company plans to use its new capital toward continued product development and to “dramatically” boost its 103-person headcount across its New York and Tel Aviv offices. So that’s just a few of the things we plan to invest in.”.

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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. October 2, 2023) – The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) announced today that 28 emerging New Jersey technology businesses benefitted from $63.2

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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 The idea is that the platform does the back-end heavy lifting so that developers can focus on the front end where most of the value is created for users.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2022

BCM was founded by Seyi Taylor and Bankole Oluwafemi in 2013. Last year, only $115 million was invested in digital media startups in the U.S. Aladekomo said this new investment helps BCM invest significantly in its technology and optimize publications’ websites. But not long ago, in the mid-2010s, U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2023

The company announced today that Twitter and Medium co-founder Biz Stone, previously an angel investor in Chroma alongside Pinterest’s founders, will join the company’s board of directors to contribute his expertise in areas like design, product development, filmmaking, and scaling brands. Chroma had previously raised 1.6

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

But it’s been hard to argue against this position in the last 10 years, as the country powered ahead, famously producing ground-breaking startups like Waze, which was eventually picked up by Google for more than $1 billion in 2013. A significant event came with acquisition by AOL of the the ICQ messaging system developed by Mirabilis.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The fresh funding was led by JMI Equity , marking JMI’s first investment in Australia, with participation from previous backers including Tiger Global and EVP, as well as several strategic investors and family office groups.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

In light of Women’s History Month, we’re taking a look at the status of gender diversity in investment portfolios because women remain underrepresented in the field of entrepreneurship. Undeniably, companies managed by effective women leaders are set to provide a lucrative return on investment. Women entrepreneurs and fundraising.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 22, 2024

million funding round led by an investment from First Trust Capital Partners with participation from FCA Venture Partners, Create Health Ventures, Impact Engine, 450 Ventures, LDH Ventures II/Launchpad Digital Health, MassMutual Ventures, Capstar Partners and Wanxiang Healthcare Investments.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

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. Geopagos , a payments infrastructure startup based in Buenos Aires, has raised $35 million in a round led by Riverwood Capital.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Logicbroker , a Connecticut-based e-commerce company focused on cloud fulfillment, secured a $135 million growth round from K1 Investment Management. 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.

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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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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

We never worked like the lion’s share of startups when you invest $ 1,000,000 that pays off after 10 years. In our small team, there was a clear division of roles: marketing, sales, and development. He knew this CMS and was considering the development based on this platform. And it was enough for us. A dream salary for students!

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OurCrowd

JUNE 27, 2022

OurCrowd First Israeli Company to Partner With the Singapore Economic Development Board in the Global Innovation Alliance (GIA) Programme. Yakir Machluf, OurCrowd’s newly appointed Head of Business Development said, “The partnership with EDB is the direct evolution of OurCrowd’s long standing relationships in Singapore and the entire region.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

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. On the bright side, founding teams counting both women and men as members raised 17% of VC investments in Africa in 2021.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

In addition to sharing direct advice for fintech founders, the investors talked about managing fraud and default risk, BNPL’s growing popularity as a point-of-sale option, and what kinds of investment opportunities they’re looking for. The age of the centaur: $100M ARR is the new cloud valuation milestone.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

Hezarkhani’s early energy brought him to Carnegie Mellon, where he studied electrical and computer engineering, and Google, where he spent time on developer programs and Google for Education. The startup also recently graduated from the Pear accelerator , a program put together by the 2013-founded seed-stage venture firm.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Developers create a standard algorithm for compressing and decompressing video, a codec, which can easily be distributed and run on common computing platforms. 265, for instance, was introduced in 2013, but years afterwards its predecessor, H.264, This is stuff like MPEG-2, H.264, 264, and that sort of thing.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The best use of our resources isn’t to fight someone (in our head or on the market) but rather to invest in growth, creation, and development. Companies from the same market can share technologies, like Ford and GM did in 2013 with the transmission , consult each other, or lend a hand when there’s a supply shortage.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 20, 2021

Venture investment in renewables has soared as global investment in energy transition more than doubled from $235 billion in 2010 to $501 billion in 2020, according to Bloomberg NEF. In 2019, venture and private equity investment in cleantech was estimated between $9 and $16 billion, up from less than $500 million in 2013.

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