Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

How to Build a Multi-Million Dollar per Month Startup in Public w/ Nathan Barry | ConvertKit Founder Image of Nathan Barry Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. The company is 100% bootstrapped and Nathan has revealed every bit of his companies finances publicly since it was founded in 2013.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Workday announced this afternoon that it intends to acquire VNDLY , a Mason, OH startup that helps companies manage external workforce personnel for $510 million. VNDLY is based in Mason, Ohio, and it marks the latest exit for a Midwest startup. billion in 2013 and Cisco buying Ann Arbor, MI-based Duo for $2.35 billion in 2018.

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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. The financing marks the company’s first ever institutional funding. Endeavor Catalyst also participated in the financing. Will once-bootstrapped startups turn to venture during a watershed moment?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

And the loosening of federal monetary policies, particularly in the US, has pushed more dollars into the venture ecosystems at every stage of financing. What Has Changed in Financing? Today you have funders focused exclusively on “Day 0” startups or ones that aren’t even created yet. Of course we can’t.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 6, 2022

Based in Singapore, TC Ventures will focus on startups offering compelling solutions for transportation’s two mega challenges: decarbonisation and digitalisation. Established in 2013, Transport Capital is an investment management and financial advisory company focused on maritime and aviation.

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Onevest

APRIL 30, 2015

This is something that we have experience at 1000 Angels , the private investor network that connects startups with investors. In a report on startup investing and “How the Rich Invest” Forbes notes that the Angel Capital Association counted more than 330 active angel groups in North America as of 2013. Invest in startups.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2022

I’ll be publishing this every Sunday, so in between posts, be sure to listen to the Equity podcast and hear Alex Wilhelm , Natasha Mascarenhas and me riff on all things startups! 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.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Register The startup ecosystem, including Pangyo Techno Valley, is rapidly aligning with the ESG (Environment, Social, and Governance) trend. For instance, South Korea’s Ministry of Economy and Finance, in collaboration with related agencies, introduced the K-ESG guidelines in 2021.

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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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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

In the latest chunky funding round out of Europe, UK-based email security startup, Tessian , has closed $65 million in Series C funding. The latest financing brings Tessian’s total raised to-date to $120M+, and values the company at $500M, it said today. Email security startup Tessian raises $13M led by Balderton and Accel.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

Outdoor cooking industry leader and famed kettle-grill-maker Weber has acquired June, the smart cooking startup founded in 2013 by Matt Van Horn and Nikhil Bhogal. Weber had already teamed up with June, with the startup providing the technology and expertise behind its Weber Connect smart grilling platform.

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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? There was no money train.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Back in August during Y Combinator’s two-day demo extravaganza , TechCrunch noted a number of startups from India that stood out from the batch. Seeing so many India-focused startups in the mix wasn’t a fluke. After a somewhat average start to the year, Indian startups saw their venture capital investment fall to just $1.5

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

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. The startup, which saw a pandemic-related boost in business, crossed $100 million in annual revenue run rate earlier this year.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2023

Investment giant Fidelity announced today that it has acquired Shoobx, a venture-backed fintech startup, for an undisclosed amount. Jason Furtado and Stephan Richter founded Boston-based Shoobx in 2013, according to Crunchbase. Atlas Ventures is also a backer, according to the Wall Street Journal.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Last year was record-breaking for African startups. But similarly to years past, the total amount raised by African startups varies among different reports. But similarly to years past, the total amount raised by African startups varies among different reports. How many deals and how much did African startups raise?

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 10, 2023

This makes eFishery the first startup in the global aquaculture industry to attain a valuation of over $1 billion. Founded in 2013, the startup introduced an affordable and efficient technology solution for fish and shrimp farmers in the Indonesian aquaculture industry.

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TechCrunch

JULY 8, 2021

Investors involved in the merger have committed $415 million in PIPE financing. Created in 2013, the company originally wanted to create a mainstream bitcoin payment platform. We never thought of ourselves as a bitcoin startup. According to Circle, the deal should value the company at $4.5

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Sigmoid , a startup helping firms in the U.S., and Europe comb through their data and derive better insights from it, has raised $12 million in a new financing round following a strong year of growth, it said Thursday. About 80% of the startup’s current workforce is in India, with rest spread over the U.S.,

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 22, 2018

And in 2013, the Series B median surpassed the 2009 Series C median. Many founders have aspired to “skip” a round of financing. The truth is - in today’s market - the median startup is doing that already. In 2009, the median post Series C startup counted $20.8M How do you skip a round of financing?

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Gust

MARCH 11, 2014

According to analysis by my partner Jamie Davidson on typical periods between financings peaks around 9 months so the follow on rates for Series Bs should be accurate up until the 2011 class, which gives these startups more than 2 years to raise their B. Originally posted by Tomasz Tunguz on his blog, www.tomtunguz.com.

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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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Gust

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Equity-based crowdfunding (that is, providing regular people with the opportunity to purchase stock in private companies) will not be legal in the US until the first quarter of 2013 at the earliest. It is also incredibly difficult to be successful, and will likely be very challenging to finance.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Founded by Sheel Mohnot and Jake Gibson in November of 2019, San Francisco-based Better Tomorrow Ventures ( BTV ) has allocated $150 million to invest in startups at the pre-seed and seed stages. The personal finance company went public last year. It has also reserved $75 million for an opportunity fund for follow-on investments.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2023

Do you have control over your finances, both personal and business?” “How There are a ton of barriers to launching a startup, but impostor syndrome need not be one of them. Fellow first drew notice in 2013 with a Kickstarter campaign to fund production of its Duo coffee maker. Chip on the shoulder?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Founded in 2013 by Alloysius Attah and Emmanuel Owusu Addai , Farmerline works through agro-dealers, who are usually the first point of knowledge for farmers, in ensuring access to high-quality supplies, including fertilizer and seeds. It also uses that data to determine the amount of business expansion credit to give to agro-dealers.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

It still lists Oda among its portfolio companies on its site (as part of Vision Fund 2), although it’s not noted as an investor in Oda’s newest financing. Oda, the Norwegian grocery delivery startup, raises a fresh $151M, but at a lowered valuation of $353M by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch.

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A Smart Bear

JANUARY 4, 2018

The Silicon Valley-oriented technology press outlets don’t cover us because we’re not in San Francisco, even though we’re more successful than most of the startups they cover. This week we closed $250M in financing from Silver Lake , the premier technology private equity firm. Every day, 5% of the entire online world (roughly 3.5

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

The products are currently under development, however, the plan is to also lend to bigger businesses in the agri-value chain, as the company expands its reach from micro-sellers, who have been their target market since launch in 2013. Fintechs in Africa continue to overshadow all other startups in funding gained.

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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. It’s incredible to look back at how far our startup ecosystem has come in that time.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The most important event, however, is not necessarily the reversal of a shrinking public market but the fact that startups are issuing stocks for the first time, a dramatic change for a market previously dominated by industries like commodities and utilities. Growth versus value: Revert the shrinking market and internet companies.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

I’ll be publishing this every Sunday, so in between posts, be sure to listen to the Equity podcast and hear Alex Wilhelm , Natasha Mascarenhas and me riff on all things startups! The competition between corporate spend management startups is heating up. sign up here. Here in the U.S., billion in October. rather than “Can I PayPal you?”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

People may not consider the IFC in the same breath as more typical VCs like SoftBank, Sequoia, Index Ventures or Andreessen Horowitz, but it’s a significant player when it comes to backing startups around the world. Since launching in 2013, it has picked up more than 50 million customers and more than 1.5 valuation. .

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Angel Capital Association

APRIL 30, 2023

Y Combinator, a leading incubator, invented the original (pre-money) SAFE (Simple Agreement for Future Equity) in 2013 to provide an easy, fast and cheap way to fund the dozens of startups comprising a Y/C batch. SAFEs remain prevalent for incubator and earliest stage startup hub deals, stages typically prior to major angel investing.

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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. Mohnot previously served as vice president of business development at Groupon after a startup he founded, FeeFighters, was acquired by the company in 2012.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

After winning the 2013 TechCrunch Meetup and Pitch-off , I decided to drop out of business school to pursue my startup full time. As many founders can attest, the startup journey can be lonely at times. As a partner at Wing Venture Capital, Zach Dewitt focuses on early-stage investments in transformative enterprise technologies.

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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. The $200 million from Wellington bring the New York-based startup’s total raised to roughly $600 million. There’s signs VC investments in AI startups are cooling.

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