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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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 1, 2013

In 2012, I started my second company--a venture capital firm called B rooklyn Bridge Ventures. It's not optimal, and it's not sustainable. Size for its own sake, in many ways, doesn't have a place in this world of efficiency and sustainability. That doesn't seem like a sustainable way to run a business or a life.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 6, 2022

Register Transport Capital , a globally-recognised investment management and advisory firm focused on the maritime and aviation industries, has launched its new venture capital arm named TC Ventures. Headquartered in Singapore, Transport Capital’s core expertise is in Real Assets and Private Capital Markets.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 28, 2024

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 2015 20.1% - 2016 43.0% X 2019 23.4% - 2020 61.1% X 2021 43.8% X 2021 43.8%

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

That’s where government, national labs, universities, angel investors and venture capital come in. To tackle the crisis, capital must flood in and even more so than in the past few encouraging years, during which climate tech VC investment increased 40x between 2013 and 2019. Invent and firm up new technologies.

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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. Before the IFC, Wale led venture capital early-stage investments for Orange in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

In 2013, he flirted with an idea for a platform that could help people pay for songs on their phones. It’s an ecosystem that keeps feeding itself and growing to the point where it’s sustainable.”. Black Coffee handles his deals through Flightmode Digital , a venture capital firm he set up in 2017, according to PitchBook.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

A $6 million venture capital infusion is helping Planetarians , a San Francisco–based company creating whole cuts of plant-based protein, move to its next phase of commercial production. Aleh Manchuliantsau and chef Max Barnthouse founded Planetarians in 2013 as a nutritional drink company.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2020

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. Today, some of those shares were sold in a secondary transaction Reach Capital, which now accounts for $3 million of the financing. The story. We’ve always been there and been growing.”.

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StartupNation

MARCH 23, 2021

Since 2012, there’s been little increase in venture capital going to women-founded businesses. In the third quarter of 2020, venture capital funding for female founders dropped to a three-year low. And in 2020, we actually saw a backward trend for female founders that’s preventing some really great breakthroughs.

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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

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. .” The company keeps track of carbon footprints through a partnership with Sustainability-as-a-Service company ecolytiq.

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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. You never know where a hit will come from, which is why these events capture our attention.

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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 We Warned You!

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

It raised a $10 million fund to create a self-sustaining job training service with a really interesting business model. 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. DeWitt, who became a VC after selling Drop, Inc.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

Commenting in a statement, Will Wolf of Polychain Capital, said: “We’re incredibly excited to partner with the Nym team to further their mission of bringing robust, sustainable and permissionless privacy infrastructure to all Internet users. government. And the internet was too slow to do a mixnet. Who’s funding privacy tech?

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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.

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

First, the sheer intensity of the competition for effective AdWord inventory reduces the likelihood of a sustainably high ROI. In 2013, we are in the midst of a critical platform transition from the browser-based Internet to mobile applications platforms like iOS and Android. Second, ad spending does not provide leverage.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

IA Ventures, which led DigitalOcean’s seed round, according to Crunchbase , paid just $0.26 per share back in the 2012-2013 time frame. Andreessen Horowitz is going to do very well, having led the company’s Series A at a per-share price of just more than $2. That’s going to convert well.

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