TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Bybit and BitDAO partner Mirana Ventures co-led the round alongside Alameda. Fidelity International Strategic Ventures , DRW Venture Capital , Alumni Ventures , and Jump Capital also participated. . The Chicago-based company, which launched in April 2020, raised a $1 million seed round in September 2020.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2020

While Sketchy’s strategy might seem odd, it’s actually well-known. To charge this growth and break into new content verticals, Sketchy is taking venture capital on for the first time in its seven-year history. For example, it uses a countryside kingdom to explain the coronavirus, or a salmon dinner to explain Salmonella.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2022

Those hints included the revelation that the startup had generated just $600,000 in revenue for all of 2021 despite raising $120 million in venture capital earlier in the year (in a round led by Stripe) and rumors that the company was having trouble raising more funds, and as a result, might be seeking a buyer.

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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

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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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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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. And somebody who isn’t thinking necessarily thinking about how to maximize their ownership in your next round of financing. In the Early Days. Experience. Relationships. Founder’s perspective.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. 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.

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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

JUNE 8, 2014

Changes in the Software World & in Venture Capital. But notably you had the following changes: Horizontally scalable computing & storage systems, which meant you required less capital up front for hardware. Venture Capital. And then the world changed. Changes in the Startup Ecosystem. We have invested $17.3

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

Emergence Capital led the Series B round, which brings Hi Marley’s total raised since its 2017 inception to $41.7 Existing backers Underscore, True Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, and Greenspring also participated in the financing, along with additional investors including Brewer Lane.

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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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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. Venture capital investment in Africa predicted to reach a record high this year. These predictions weren’t entirely off the mark.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

This thinking is largely driven by the venture capital industry (and subsequently Wall Street) who are in search of high margin, highly scalable businesses. It’s nearly impossible to get a services company financed by VCs. Often in this strategy you end up giving them the product for free and bill them only services fees.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Maximilian Fleitmann , an Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) member primarily based in Rhine-Ruhr, Germany, is the CEO of BaseTemplates and Partner at Richmond View Ventures. 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.

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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. For now, we’re going to still stay at a collective. It’s going to be a gradual process.”.

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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. In the U.K.,

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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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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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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

This transformation has already led to an increased number of startup failures, a growing venture capital reset2 and 210,000 tech sector layoffs since the start of 2022. 2 A (temporary) venture capital reset? By Q4, for every dollar of available capital there were 1.4x

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OurCrowd

MARCH 6, 2021

Future Family is the first company to bring together financing, technology, and concierge care in an easy-to-use online platform. The finance will be used to add new products to its platform, such as bill payments, insurance, savings, and credit and loan services. It’s a great hiring strategy and retention tactic.”.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? Of course, one could rebut that by saying traditional VC is all about investing in outliers: Seth Levine analyzed data from Correlation Ventures (21,000 financings from 2004-2013) and writes that “a full 65% of financings fail to return 1x capital.

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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). Seth Levine analyzed data from Correlation Ventures (21,000 financings from 2004-2013) and writes that “a full 65% of financings fail to return 1x capital.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2022

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. BCM was founded by Seyi Taylor and Bankole Oluwafemi in 2013.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? Of course, one could rebut that by saying traditional VC is all about investing in outliers: Seth Levine analyzed data from Correlation Ventures (21,000 financings from 2004-2013) and writes that “a full 65% of financings fail to return 1x capital.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

The financing included a senior convertible note provided by funds and accounts managed by BlackRock Financial Management and a concurrent equity raise with institutional and strategic investors such as bp ventures, Riverstone Holdings, Octave Ventures, Gly Capital Management, Blue Bear Capital and Daishin Private Equity.

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OurCrowd

MAY 20, 2022

We will be working over the next 6-12 months on starting to implement our strategy to build some traction in the US with OEM partners over there.” A PitchBook survey of Israel’s venture investments by deal count over the past five years confirms OurCrowd as the country’s most active startup investor. Learn More. Top Tech News.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2022

We’ll discuss general pitching strategies and talk about what he’s looking for at the moment before we take questions from the audience, so please click here to set a reminder so you can join the conversation. April 5 Twitter Space: “How to Pitch Me” with Arvind Gupta. On Tuesday, April 5 at 2:30 p.m.

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