TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

He even ran the idea for the company by Houston prior to launching in 2013, who gave it his seal of approval, and the two companies have been partners for some time. Those workflows include creative, sales, client services or startups using DocSend to deliver proposals or pitch decks and track engagement.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

Ayeni has a similar function at Helios Digital Ventures: to spot and back disruptive startups in frontier markets, particularly in Africa and the Middle East. . “I’ll call it a mid-cap VC fund. Ayeni and the Helios Investment Partners team declined to comment on the VC firm’s overall fund size.

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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. A great VC will do so much more for you than just write a check. As many founders can attest, the startup journey can be lonely at times. In many ways, it’s like finding the right spouse.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2014

I think this is a Seriously great example of how this process works for at least one VC – Upfront Ventures. I first met Andrew Stalbow , the founder & CEO of Seriously in August of 2013. So I hope that offers you insights into how companies move through the VC system. He hit me from two very trusted sources.

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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. What do early-stage founders need to know to capture VC interest, and dollars, in a challenging market? In 2013, Monot co-founded Innovative Auctions, a high-stakes auction company. .

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

Iyer, a serial entrepreneur with two successful exits, spent the majority of last year honing in on his interest in web3 as a visiting partner at Pear VC and an instructor teaching a DeFi masterclass to over 2,000 students. The firm expects to make 40 to 50 investments in its first fund, writing checks between $250,000 to $500,000, it says.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Rigetti Computing , one of the most visible quantum hardware startups, today announced that it is going public through a merger with the Supernova Partners Acquisition Company II SPAC. According to CrunchBase, Rigetti has raised just under $200 million in VC capital since it was founded in 2013.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

What is a principal at a VC firm and how does it work at Upfront Ventures? ” Associates have different functions at different VCs. VC firm admin. VC firm policy or fund analysis. Helping be the VC “presence” at key events. inside insight into VC decision-making. Industry reviews.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. I have been researching this both to support Versatile VC ’s portfolio companies and also as part of research for my new book, To University and Beyond: Launch Your Career in High Gear. 1) Your school.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 6, 2023

It’s a non-consensus take in a world where VCs are being asked hard questions about their due diligence, but Khosla added that “it isn’t the VC’s job to sit on a board and vote…there’s a hard line you don’t cross, which is don’t make founders or management do things they don’t want to do by voting.”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

On Tuesday, Guo announced on Twitter and LinkedIn that she is stepping down from her position as a general partner at enterprise-focused Greylock Partners to continue investing in startups as she works to build something new. Guo joined Greylock in 2013 as the firm’s first woman partner and will now transition into the role of board partner.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

Amid a venture funding decline and dearth of IPO activity, startups have found a new way to occupy their time: buying other startups. The notion of startups acquiring other VC-backed companies is nothing new. The venture funding bull market of the last decade has created a barbell of startups.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Demo days at startup accelerators are a pretty big deal around here. These events aren’t just a chance to review the latest cohort of hopeful entrepreneurs — they also showcase the technology, products and services that will compete for VC and consumer attention over the next few years. That startup was DoorDash, by the way.

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Haystack

AUGUST 18, 2019

Despite that lack of experience, I am fortunate in that I have direct access to many of the greatest VC leaders and franchises for mentorship and guidance. Like VC platforms, these funds could potentially be either as price-insensitive and/or provide more value via portfolio and market insights than a typical seed fund can. Granted, 6.5

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 28, 2024

What drives the acquisition market of startups? Year Share Good Year 2012 18.4% - 2013 25.9% - 2014 65.5% Year Share Good Year 2012 18.4% - 2013 25.9% - 2014 65.5% However, as the VC industry has 10xed in the last decade, more large M&A will become essential to sustain great multiples for VCs. X 2021 43.8%

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

In December 2021, a vulnerability in a widely used logging library that had gone unfixed since 2013 caused a full-blown security meltdown. . Boston-based AppMap , going through TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield this week, wants to stop this bad code from ever making it into production. Image Credits: AppMap.

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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

San Francisco and Paris-based VC firm, Partech led the round. They began informally with handwritten contracts, but progressed into using technology to scale the solution from 2013 when it rebranded to Tugende. . African countries need ‘startup acts’ more than ever to support innovation. Image Credits: Tugende.

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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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

Ghanaian health tech startup mPharma is building a network of community pharmacies across Africa as it plans to be the go-to primary healthcare service provider for millions of people residing in the region. The startup’s other investors include U.K.’s Photo Credits: mPharma.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2013

We’re excited to continue to grow our investment professional staff and will continue to do so over the course of 2013 & 2014 with our new fund. He pinged me that he was thinking about joining a startup based in LA with the CEO in NYC and would I be willing to meet him and give him advice on this process. Jordan Hudson.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2021

Meet Lightyear , a new London-based startup coming out of stealth today. Mihkel Aamer , Lightyear’s other co-founder and CTO, was an engineering lead at Wise between 2013 and 2019. Wise’s Taavet Hinrikus and Teleport’s Sten Tamkivi partner in new investment firm — just don’t call it a VC fund.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

I had witnessed a number of early-stage tech startups in LA raise seed capital from the Bay Area and relocate. Throughout all of these years I was a full-time VC so Launchpad really came out of evenings and weekends for me. Adam had a full time startup and then was doing consulting (he later raised a VC fund).

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Angel Capital Association

AUGUST 13, 2021

Our Leadership Team started noticing something interesting around 2010: many of our customers were VC-backed startups. It made sense because a common playbook for consumer-facing startups was to build the product, prove PMF, raise capital from investors, and then deploy some/much/most of that capital in paid media to grow quickly.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 14, 2015

In November of 2013 Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures coined the term “ Unicorn Club ” as it relates to billion-dollar startup companies. ” The report also notes that 75% of mega financings are led by non-VCs. That could lead you to conclude that there’s more evidence that VC is being disrupted by outsiders.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 4, 2022

When venture capitalist Aileen Lee coined the term in 2013, there was a very good reason to call a privately held startup worth more than $1 billion a unicorn: There were only 39 of them. Through the first three quarters of 2021 alone, VC investment jumped by half year-over-year, from $166 billion in 2020 to $240 billion through Sept.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 15, 2017

Bloomberg published a post this weekend called San Francisco’s VC Boom is Over. The article pointed to the seeming collapse in the amount of venture capital raised by San Francisco startups relative to other regions. Note, the levels still exceed 2010-2013. Now it’s the Valley startups’ turn to raise.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Levin joined Heartcore Capital in 2019 from Global Founders Capital, the billion-dollar VC arm of Rocket Internet, where he was responsible for investments in Canva, Heyjobs, Instarem, Anyfin and others. In the early days of “on-demand everything,” a managed marketplace for cleaning services sounded like the next unicorn in the making.

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Angel Capital Association

OCTOBER 25, 2023

How is it possible that with Q2 of 2023 being the slowest quarter for funding in AngelLists history since they started recordkeeping in 2013, are people still interested in even playing the game? These assets are often owned by employees who were issued equity, VC funds that invested when a company was private, shareholder stakes, etc.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Once with Docracy, once with a super cool company launching in the first quarter of 2013.). In fact, one could say that the sagging stock price of Facebook and stories about lack of VC funding for consumer startups represents , in one microcosm, the story of Web 2.0:

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

Today Chasen announced that the service has received a nice little slice of VC backing to help the service (which has thus far been invite/password only) take the next step. And while March 2020 would have been the best time for a relaunch, March 2021 was pretty good, too. Andreessen Horowitz led the $7.5

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

A congruence of factors in India — notably, climate change policies, fuel costs and skyrocketing demand for e-commerce — has set up ideal conditions for startups like all-electric commercial vehicle startup EVage. based VC RedBlue Capital. Amazon has invested $6.5

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Happy new week, startup nerds! EDT, we are talking with Andrew Chan about why Gen Z VCs are trash, and at 12:00 p.m. Startups and VC. Olsen spent six years with Sequoia Capital in California before co-founding Drive Capital in Columbus, Ohio, in 2013. PDT, subscribe here. At 8:00 a.m. PDT / 11:00 a.m. Big Tech Inc.

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Gust

OCTOBER 19, 2014

I always advise software startups to file patents to protect their “secret sauce” from competitors, and to increase their valuation. The good news is that a patent can scare off or at least delay competitors, and as a “rule of thumb” patents can add up to $1M to your startup valuation for investors or M&A exits (merger and acquisition).

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

The median 2013 VC-backed tech IPO burned $33M and the average company burned $76M. The chart above shows the net income/burn rate of 2013 tech IPO by years since founding. In addition to the capital invested to become public, a startup must have cash on its balance sheet at IPO. On average, these now-public names kept 1.1

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Nicole Centeno founded the company in 2013. Heavily VC-backed salad chain Sweetgreen heads toward public markets. One of the companies that jumped into this category early was Splendid Spoon , a meal delivery service specializing in ready-made plant-based soups, bowls and smoothies. and the answer has been yes.”.

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