TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Workday helps companies manage finance and human resources tasks, and VNDLY fits nicely into the latter category providing them with software to manage contractors, a service that should come in handy at a time where it’s increasingly difficult to fill full time job openings. billion in 2018.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2023

Do you have control over your finances, both personal and business?” “How Fellow first drew notice in 2013 with a Kickstarter campaign to fund production of its Duo coffee maker. Chip on the shoulder? How do you communicate your message to investors, coworkers, potential partners, etc.?”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

MycoWorks , a company making a fungal-based biomaterial that can replace leather, brought in a fresh round of funding — $125 million in Series C financing — to fund a production plant for scaling the manufacture of its flagship product Reishi. Meet retail’s new sustainability strategy: Personalization.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Almost no financings, many VCs and tech startups cratered for the second time in less than a decade following the dot com bursting. WHEN OUR INDUSTRY CHANGED — THE ERA OF THE UNICORN Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures first coined the term Unicorn in 2013, ironically to signal that very few companies ever achieved a $1 billion valuation.

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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. Founders’ Co-op has grown along with Seattle.

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Angel Capital Association

AUGUST 13, 2021

Ultimately, we chose not to pursue this model as part of our corporate strategy. Even though we decided not to pursue this model at InboxDollars, I continued to think about it and eventually decided to start angel investing as a personal hobby in 2013. MY 2013 ANSWER TO “WHY?” Side note: I rarely play the “What If?”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

Since launching in 2013, it has picked up more than 50 million customers and more than 1.5 That strategy has also grown over time to include services for under-represented groups in these under-represented markets. million drivers in 40 countries, including 400,000 drivers in 70 cities on the African continent.

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Onevest

APRIL 30, 2015

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. Just 2% of startup financing actually comes from venture capital firms.

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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. ” Dataiku, which launched in Paris in 2013, competes with a number of companies for dominance in the AI and big data analytics space. billion valuation, down from the $4.6

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

The financing raised comprises $30 million in equity and $5 million in debt from CitiBank, bringing the total amount raised by mPharma to $65 million. mPharma has also in recent months embarked on a diversification, partnerships and expansion strategies to grow the company.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2021

In the very near future, we’re going to continue to evolve our platform away from automating strategies and giving people this easy investment platform into actually offering structured products like risk-adjusted portfolios and giving curated investment advice to individuals based on their risk tolerance,” Birch said.

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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. This market downturn also affects startups, big and small, as their finances and valuations take a beating.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

Some ultra-wealthy investors have made a windfall investing in alternatives using tax-advantaged accounts, a strategy billionaire Peter Thiel used to grow his Roth individual retirement account from $2,000 to $5 billion in 20 years, tax-free, ProPublica reported last year. .

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

When Cowboy Ventures’ Aileen Lee coined the term “unicorn” in 2013, startups valued at $1 billion were rare creatures: there were just 39 of them at the time. The age of the centaur: $100M ARR is the new cloud valuation milestone. Image Credits: itsabreeze photography (opens in a new window) / Getty Images.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2022

During the recording, Garg also made many shocking – and incriminating – statements such as admitting the company had “pissed away” $200 million of the $250 million it made last year and that he had lacked discipline when it came to Better’s hiring strategy at the onset of the pandemic. Bain Capital just led its $65 million Series B.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2020

While Sketchy’s strategy might seem odd, it’s actually well-known. Today, some of those shares were sold in a secondary transaction Reach Capital, which now accounts for $3 million of the financing. For example, it uses a countryside kingdom to explain the coronavirus, or a salmon dinner to explain Salmonella. The story.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

is the head of Strategy for Esquire Digital and the editor of Today’s Esquire. When I imagine what this project could become in the next couple of years, I think back to late 2013, when Y Combinator announced the SAFE (simple agreement for future equity). Aron Solomon. Contributor. Aron Solomon, J.D., More posts by this contributor.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

I started out as a lawyer, corporate finance lawyer, for about two and a half years. A lot of the things that we ultimately did when I was running Global Payments from 2013 to 2023, a lot of things that we ultimately did were not even like a glint in my eye back in 2009, 2010 when I was just thinking about coming over.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 14, 2021

As we saw in parts 1 and 2 of this EC-1 , by mid-2013, Nubank CEO David Velez had most of what he needed to get started. That restriction required the team to develop an inventive product strategy to find a foothold in the market while they waited for a license directly from the country’s president.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

Jason Furtado and Stephan Richter founded Boston-based Shoobx in 2013, according to Crunchbase. I talked with Dean Henry, EVP of global commercial services for Amex, and Colleen Taylor, president of merchant services, US at Amex, and they gave me some insight into the strategy behind the buy. I did, too.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 1, 2015

In addition, VCs have been participating in the seed stage market as well, making 2013 a banner year for seed investment. 2013 1531 1255 820. And consequently, investors have seen successes and failures, both of which inform their investment strategy. Startups raised 132% more in seed rounds than in 2012. But what of 2014?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 11, 2018

The strategy of 2008 serves as a pivotal lesson of our 15-year life. … 2013: The achievement of a long-term goal can be accomplished with clear metrics, a path and a team who is aligned and focused. Bonus lesson: Mistakes are the fertile ground of innovation! We grew our customer count 30% in 2009. You can read them here.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

Founded in 2013 and based in São Paulo, Brazil, Nubank serves more than 34 million customers, making it Latin America’s largest neobank. How to identify unicorn founders when they’re still early-stage. How contrarian hires and a pitch deck started Nubank’s $30 billion fintech empire. Image Credits: Nigel Sussman.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

And somebody who isn’t thinking necessarily thinking about how to maximize their ownership in your next round of financing. We also sat down and talked about what the big challenges for 2013-2016 would be for the company and we are in the fortunate position of our major issue being how to handle growth. Experience. Relationships.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

billion 2013 figure) have been massive financings at Honest Company ($70mm), JustFab ($85mm), ZipRecruiter ($63mm) and lord only knows how much SnapChat has actually accumulated. 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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Jason Malki

JANUARY 7, 2023

I had the pleasure of interviewing Andrew Buehler, a Chicago native turned NYC transplant in 2013. My experience to date lends itself to corporate finance, strategy and business development. When you are building a new business on your own, you have to become everything: legal, accounting, marketing, sales, strategy, PR, etc.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

To help the finance sector meet those demands, an Amsterdam-based startup called Fourthline has built a set of AI-based solutions to help with identity verification, help businesses comply with anti-money laundering rules and more.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

Existing backers Underscore, True Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, and Greenspring also participated in the financing, along with additional investors including Brewer Lane. And in today’s environment, carriers using “old” communication strategies will likely see a negative impact on performance, Ritter believes.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2022

Founded in 2013 (or 2014 depending on the source), the Chicago-based company has raised over $82 million in funding over its lifetime from investors such as FinTech Collective and Oak HC/FT , according to Crunchbase. billion in an all-stock deal that was a reflection of its continued push into consumer finance.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

It’s nearly impossible to get a services company financed by VCs. They have created two internal technology “products&# and wanted to figure out how they could turn their services business into a product business that could be financed. You’re a small fish. This team is talented. They wanted advice.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 15, 2021

He has raised venture capital for his startups, helped hundreds of founders craft their pitch decks and fundraising strategy, and invested as a business angel. When I built my first pitch deck in 2013, I had no clue what to include. We asked him how founders can create the perfect pitch deck for their company. Follow a known structure.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

While one might wonder what the parallels between food delivery and housing might be beyond fulfilling consumers’ needs, CEO Doherty said the rental market in 2021 looks a lot like the food delivery market in 2013. “In Census, that represents roughly 10% of renters in the greater Austin metro,” Maurais said.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

One measure of CincyTech’s overall impact is that in 2013, its portfolio companies represent 80% of total seed and early stage capital invested in Southwest Ohio. We started investing the fund in April 2012 and by early 2013 had closed our fund to new investors. I was instantly intrigued. None of us are derivatives of Silicon Valley.

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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. Data show that men were four times as likely as women to access equity financing from angel investors or VCs (14.4% Women entrepreneurs and fundraising.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

The agency — which has spun out the likes of Nigerian artiste Joeboy and Ghanaian artiste Kwesi Arthur — now has its tentacles spread in marketing, distribution, publishing, management and finance services for independent artists and record labels.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

The only non-fintech deals were Andela and TradeDepot (although the latter has an embedded finance play). A report by Briter Bridges from the middle of this year looked at 1,100+ companies to have received VC money between 2013 and May 2021 (pegged at $20 million or less). A handful of local acquisitions and a monumental exit.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

The report added that this was the highest number it had recorded since it began tracking relocation trends in 2013. Europe’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation ( SFDR ) came into force just last year with a mission to enhance transparency in sustainable investments. said in a statement in June.

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