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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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

Contestants pitch their legal product idea for a chance to win $5,000, tutoring, and more. The Baylor New Venture Competition is a business plan and elevator pitch competition for college students from around the globe. Student teams pitch and compete for more than $1.5 The competition has $50,000 in cash prizes.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

General Catalyst is widely recognized as one of the top venture capital firms, with portfolio companies that include Snap, Kayak, Airbnb, Stripe, HubSpot and GitLab. Boyce has been with General Catalyst since 2013, leading investments in companies like Ro, Macro, towerIQ and Atom. You really won’t want to miss it.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

A Thursday filing revealed that nearly two dozen investors have contributed money, including Sequoia Capital, Binance, and Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, who had $1 billion he wasn’t doing anything with at the moment. Pitch Deck Teardown: Momentum’s $5M seed pitch deck. Startups and VC. Image Credits: TechCrunch. Big Tech Inc.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Revolution provided the capital for the company’s Series C round in 2013 and continued to invest in subsequent rounds.). And last year, even though Black Americans are about 14% of the population, Black founders got less than 1% of venture capital.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2013

The venture capital game has become about branding yourself so you can get into a handful of hot deals." -- @Naval on stage with @Jason. — 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.

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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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Onevest

APRIL 30, 2015

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

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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. “As a former venture capitalist, I always tell founders that the most powerful tool they can employ while fundraising is a data-driven pitch.”

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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. Jim raised another venture fund as did I at Upfront Ventures.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Frankly, I think venture capital is that way, too. I had one of the biggest mental breakthroughs about what I want to do differently at GRP Partners in 2013. How does the world in Los Angeles intersect differently with venture capital? Board Meetings. Conferences. I get sucked up in “Do” mode.

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JANUARY 6, 2013

Time to get cracking on some new initiatives in 2013. The chances of getting money from someone who is hearing about you for the first time during the pitch process is extremely low. Ok, it's still resolution time, right? and I can't argue strenously enough for investing the time into a blog this year if you've started a company.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2021

The company’s pitch? Agassi’s company would go on to raise nearly $1 billion (back when that was considered a large sum of money) from some of the world’s top venture capital and growth equity firms. By 2013 it would be bankrupt and one of the many casualties of the first wave of cleantech investing.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2021

The idea for the app first came up in 2013, Miller said, when he and Gibson were students at Ohio University in Columbus. So we pitched the idea during a Startup Weekend competition: snapping like Snapchat but for rap. .” “We loved them for video, but saw there was nothing like them for creating music.

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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. He launched in 2013 a flexible rideshare financing company called Breeze that was purchased by Ford in 2016. Register here for free.

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Dream It

APRIL 23, 2019

In 2017, Medscape surveyed more than 14,000 physicians and found that 51% of them reported burnout, up from the 40% in 2013. Analyzing Voice as a Way to Diagnose and Track Disease Progression A growing body of evidence suggests that different aspects of voice like speech rate, pitch, and word repetition can serve as biomarkers.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

“I don’t know the exact math, but I hear it again and again: the top 2% of firms generate 98% of the returns in venture capital.” By 2009 had reduced to around $15 billion in capital from LPs. In 2013 it is expected to be around $35 billion. Compare the state of play in 2013 versus 15 years ago.

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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. “The venture capital market is racing ahead, foot on the gas, middle finger out the window, hair on fire.”

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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. He bought it in 2013 for $250 million, and the company has likely generated significant revenue and profits since then.

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TechCrunch

MAY 22, 2022

Reporting on startups and the venture world at a time like this is a series of contradictions. Then the next, I open my inbox to see pitches for nine-figure funding rounds (hello, SpotOn ) and the birth of new unicorns (looking at you, Unit ). Here we are today. Weekly News. Read them here. division.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

How contrarian hires and a pitch deck started Nubank’s $30 billion fintech empire. Founded in 2013 and based in São Paulo, Brazil, Nubank serves more than 34 million customers, making it Latin America’s largest neobank. “I How contrarian hires and a pitch deck started Nubank’s $30 billion fintech empire.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 14, 2021

In the first part of this EC-1, I’ll look at how Velez brought his skills and experience to bear on this market, how Nubank was founded in 2013, and how the team brought a Californian rather than Brazilian vibe to their first office on — no joke — California Street, in a neighborhood called Brooklin in the city of São Paulo.

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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

JULY 16, 2021

But then came Bitcoin and the crypto boom and — also in 2013 — the Snowden revelations, which ripped the veil off the NSA’s “collect it all” mantra, as Booz Allen Hamilton sub-contractor Ed risked it all to dump data on his own (and other) governments’ mass surveillance programs. . government.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

Nothing beats experience like experience, which is why we were happy to run a column written by Zach DeWitt, winner of the 2013 TechCrunch Meetup and Pitch-off. Image Credits: Carol Yepes (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. DeWitt, who became a VC after selling Drop, Inc. “In many ways, it’s like finding the right spouse.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2021

The data is based on a sample of 2,500 companies that have used AngelList to syndicate deals from 2013 through 2020. In the never-ending stream of venture capital funding rounds, from time to time, a group of startups working on the same problem will raise money nearly in unison. How to fundraise over Zoom more effectively.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

Jason Furtado and Stephan Richter founded Boston-based Shoobx in 2013, according to Crunchbase. Last valued at $12 billion, Deel is one of the buzziest fintechs around, and its decision to pick up Capbase reflects its intent to enter the equity management space. Investment giant Fidelity acquired Shoobx , marking its first buy in 7 years (!).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

According to Briter Bridges , another publication that tracks VC investments in Africa, only 3% of the total funding raised by startups in Africa since 2013 has gone to all-women co-founded teams. We spoke with six of them to share their fundraising experiences in a venture capital market that can be unfriendly toward women. .

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

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. Note that we did not write the descriptions below.

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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. On top of that, Proton’s technology pitch is very much in line with the European Union’s thinking on privacy, which has been encapsulated by regulation such as GDPR. said in a statement in June. In the U.K.,

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OurCrowd

MAY 20, 2022

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. PitchBook has ranked OurCrowd as Israel’s most active investor each year since we were founded in 2013, with investments in more than 330 portfolio companies. Top Tech News.

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JANUARY 31, 2021

If I wanted to launch something in the fitness space today in this pandemic world, how relevant would that Classpass discussion be, given that the company launched in 2013, not only pre-pandemic but obviously, pre-Classpass! Says the Fordham grad who got rejected from a Stanford MBA currently running a venture capital fund.)

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