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

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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Founder Bounty

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Starting on a Shoestring Budget Blakely started Spanx with just $5,000 of her savings and no outside investment. By 2012, Blakely was named the youngest self-made female billionaire by Forbes , and in 2013, she was featured on Time magazine’s list of the world’s most influential people.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

Then I went into banking, specifically investment banking in the early ’90s. 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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Gust

OCTOBER 29, 2014

” If we’re talking about the US and you are NOT at the Accredited level ($1 million in investable assets, or $200,000 annual income), then for the moment you are actually not allowed to invest in privately held startups (emerging public companies, of course, you can buy on the stock market like everyone else.).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

Cross-border investments. Data from FDI Markets * , the Financial Times’ cross-border investment monitoring service, indicates that London has attracted the highest number of foreign direct investments ( FDI ) into tech from international companies for the past few years, ahead of Singapore, Dubai, and New York.

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A Smart Bear

JANUARY 4, 2018

Of course a nice chunk is primary capital, i.e. for the company balance sheet, to invest in growth initiatives, security and quality, and advancing our existing strategic priorities through acceleration and de-risking. The majority of the funds pay back our early investors who believed in us enough to trust us with their money.

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Startup Blogpost

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Drew Sherman , Director of Marketing and Communications, Carvaygo It is Cheaper and More Efficient Than Traditional PR With PR, a startup will likely compete for a spot in the media with many other competitors who are bidding their pitches to the media outlet. A lot of marketing is similarly short-term in its benefits.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 17, 2014

— Charlie O''Donnell (@ceonyc) March 9, 2013. Whether she got better at pitching or the tides turned in the hardware space in general, I''m excited that some investors eventually did step up--and when they did, the seed round became oversubscribed, totalling $1.8 @danielaperdomo That is serious!

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

You can see Zach James & Rich Raddon who are standing next to a demo table pitching a small, yet-to-be-funded company called MovieClips – now the powerhouse ZEFR. Throughout 2012 & 2013 we funded many companies and then pulled together a second fund. We decided on the latter. Jamie did, too! What next for Launchpad?

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

From 2003-2022 the River Valley Investors operated as a traditional angel group, investing in nearly 100 startups. For posterity, here are some of the more recent investments… 2022 Hubly Surgical Hubly Surgical has an advanced drill, complete with auto-stop and visual feedback, to make medical drilling safe across underserved settings.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Here’s just one example from Y Combinator’s Summer 2013 Demo Day: Positioning itself as the “FedEx of today,” it hopes to provide a logistics framework that goes beyond food and can be used for any type of on-demand order. Lightspeed’s Gaurav Gupta and Grafana’s Raj Dutt discuss pitch decks, pricing and how to nail the narrative.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 18, 2022

For example, prime minister of the UK (1979 – 1990) Margaret Thatcher died in 2013. Your best bet is to prepare a pitch deck with your proposal, start with some icebreaker questions and discuss mutually beneficial terms, which make saying “yes” a no-brainer. Make sure words or letters don’t jumble up to form a new or irrelevant word.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

We can’t check out every investing outfit’s demo day. Pear, a seed-stage venture firm founded in 2013, has an impressive track record when it comes to identifying promising companies from their earliest stages — including DoorDash, Gusto, Aurora Solar, Vanta, Branch Metrics and Guardant Health. ” Valar Labs.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

In addition to the usual story roundup, I’ve asked a small cross section of investors a simple question with a complex answer: How will the SVB events impact robotics investing and startups? Of course, many — or even most — of the firms investing in those companies have strong presences in the South Bay and/or SF.

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StartupNation

MARCH 10, 2021

They plan to use these investments to help grow their team and scale their product. Just recently, BrandXR received funding deals in the Entrepreneur Elevator Pitch competition. Their mission was recognized at the a2Tech360 event, where they won the Social Impact Pitch Competition. Learn more about working at Dynamo Metrics.

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OurCrowd

MAY 20, 2022

Top carmaker invests in Connected Energy. OurCrowd is investing in this Series B round alongside energy, banking and equipment manufacturing giants. 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 Mo re. Learn More.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2021

A separate measure, of total value of paid-in investment, revealed 1.67x returns for other hubs versus 1.60x in the main Silicon Valley and Bay Area tech cities. The data is based on a sample of 2,500 companies that have used AngelList to syndicate deals from 2013 through 2020. per year on syndicated deals elsewhere versus 17.5%

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

— Brian Alvey (@brianalvey) November 10, 2013. Dennis and Naveen had pitched just about every investor you could think of and came up with a whopping zero term sheets. My story as a "picker" really starts with two deals I didn''t even invest in. Not exactly what you call a "hot deal". Not hot at all. Make quick decisions.

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Onevest

APRIL 30, 2015

But the data shows a rapidly growing trend in accredited investors investing together. 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. That means safety in investing.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2022

For decades, there were several blocks where angels and VC partners camped out at café tables, taking pitches between lattes. Not a complete deck, but an embellished elevator pitch meant to whet investors’ appetites before you serve them the full meal. How to make a teaser trailer for your startup pitch. Start here.

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Angel Capital Association

AUGUST 13, 2021

I’m sharing my thought process because perhaps it will nudge some of you to angel invest too! I consider myself a furiously curious person, and angel investing is one of the most rewarding ways I’ve experienced to satisfy this curiosity. MY 2013 ANSWER TO “WHY?” As my portfolio has grown, so has my answer to this question.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2023

Anyone who can confidently answer the 20 questions in this post is ready to pitch an investor, IMO. Venture capital funding in the region “dried up in the second half of 2022,” so he inquired about their current pace of dealmaking, which investment trends they’re watching and how founders can reach them.

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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

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Boyce has been with General Catalyst since 2013, leading investments in companies like Ro, Macro, towerIQ and Atom. He also supported some big deals, including investments in Giphy, Jet.com and Circle. You really won’t want to miss it.

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Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

How much is it worth investing in cultivating and enforcing an IP portfolio ? How much is it worth investing in international IP protection, if at all? Starting with the first point, in general, IP assets of demonstrable value that are relevant to the startup’s business can only help when pitching investors. By 2013, the U.S.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

406 Ventures since 2007 and investing as a partner since 2013. Lastly, the event concludes with a pitch-off with three Boston-area startups. It’s a critical topic: Startups are not made in a vacuum and often benefit from a frothy local community of like-minded companies and entrepreneurs. Hear from Oort and.406

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2021

The company’s pitch? By 2013 it would be bankrupt and one of the many casualties of the first wave of cleantech investing. By 2013 it would be bankrupt and one of the many casualties of the first wave of cleantech investing. “You don’t have to invest an insane amount of money to put them in.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Upadhyay pitches the algorithm as a time saver, but it should be noted that these sorts of models have the potential to amplify bias in the hiring process. million — comes amid a flurry of venture capital investments in HR tech platforms spurred by pandemic-era challenges. Civitas Learning acquired Hoot.me

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2016

Once your life shifts from pitching outbound to defending against inbound, however, you have to ruthlessly say “no” as your default. From 2007-2009 and again from 2012-2013, I said yes to way too many “cool” things. Invest in a start-up that five of my friends were in?

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TechCrunch

JULY 9, 2021

Since its founding in 2013, NS1 has raised more than $100 million to build an engineering team and robust product portfolio that’s expanded to include DDI, which helps companies manage internal networks. When you’ve invested a lot of time and energy in a project, it can be difficult to decide to shelve it — or worse, kill it.

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Y Combinator

MARCH 30, 2021

Anu started her career as a software engineer for Qualcomm, before joining BCG’s Private Equity Practice in New York City, and finally becoming an investment partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where she worked with portfolio companies like Airbnb, Instacard, Udacity, and Medium. This was 2013, 2014. Probably not.

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OkDork

DECEMBER 9, 2022

These are some of the milestones that helped make—and almost break—Amazon along the way: Jeff had a feeling that the internet was going to be very popular, so he pitched the idea of starting an online bookstore to his boss. His parents invested $300,000 to help Amazon get started. Revenue Stream #2: The Washington Post.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

In 2013, I set up shop in my garage and started experimenting with different frame materials and designs. We needed to build our set and props and ship them to California, and I had to prepare a pitch and appear before the Sharks, all in a matter of weeks. Or would I stay comfortable with my current successful career? It’s not.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

On Friday, January 13, investment giant BlackRock announced it was acquiring a minority stake in SMB 401(k) provider startup Human Interest. For one, as one source told me, BlackRock’s investment is a show of faith in the SMB 401(k) market — one where the firm hasn’t historically played. Consolidation everywhere. ” In other news.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

The session starts with networking and pitch practice submissions and then moves onto an interview with Holt and Bennett at noon, followed by the TCL Pitch Practice at 12:30 pm PT. Elemental Energy, IBI Group, Active Impact Investments and Pacific Reach. Register here for free. Meanwhile in the land of shared micromobility.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

based investment firm founded by AOL co-founder CEO Steve Case and former AOL senior exec Ted Leonsis, is raising $500 million for its fourth fund, shows a new SEC filing. The outfit is also investing out of more than one fund at a time. Revolution , the Washington, D.C.-based Some of that has happened, for sure.

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