TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

Olumide Soyombo is one of the well-known active angel investors in Nigeria tech startups and Africa at large. Since he began angel investing in 2014, Soyombo has invested in 33 startups, including Stripe-owned Paystack , PiggyVest, and TeamApt. Non-traditional startup founder to an angel investor.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

This may seem like a great time to launch a SaaS startup, but the landscape is crowded with well-designed applications that promise “blazingly fast and delightfully simple” experiences, according to seed-stage investor John Chen of Fika Ventures. Telehealth startup Doximity filed to go public earlier today.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

When much of the shopping shifted online during the global pandemic, startups developing software and other products to aid the transition began to garner attention from venture capital firms. Startup Battlefield Company Boomerang Commerce. reported this month that $51 billion of venture capital was invested into U.S.

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Your startup idea is your golden child – and it should be. The top 5 mistakes founders make right before burning their startup to the ground: Waiting too long to launch. Just like trying to build too many features at launch, waiting on the perfect cofounder is another one-way ticket to startup purgatory.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

In March 2019, SoftBank Group International made headlines when it announced the SoftBank Innovation Fund, which started out with a $2 billion commitment to invest in tech startups in Latin America. In fact, venture capitalists poured an estimated $6.2 billion into Latin American startups in the first half of 2021.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

In a 2021 survey from The Conference Board focused specifically on the service industry, 80% of respondents said they were having a hard time finding qualified workers. ” WizeHire was founded in 2014 by Upadhyay and Jay Niblick. Last year, venture investors funneled more than $12.3 Image Credits: WizeHire.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Founder and CEO Thomas Pays started Ozow in 2014 to drive financial inclusion through open banking. African startups join global funding boom as fintech shines. It’s an honour to bring on board Tencent, Endeavor Catalyst and Endeavor Harvest Fund.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Surprisingly, however, in spite of the fact that we’re still very much in the throes of a global pandemic, 2021 hasn’t been punctuated by as many high-profile losses in the startup world as the year prior. This is a major sputtering in what has been an otherwise remarkable year for robotic startups. Pearl Automation (2014-2021).

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 17, 2019

I’m not sure when I first knew the startup I invested in last year was doomed. Along the way, I’ve learned that a “successful exit” for a startup—that critical moment when the founding team and investors decide to get a return out of the business—will be different for everyone. Uplevel your board and exec team.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

The Series E was led by Insight Partners , the venture capital firm known for its ScaleUp program to help tech companies accelerate their growth. Founded in Sydney in 2014, the company is now expanding into Southeast Asian and Western European markets.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2022

Existing investors participating in the round included Rally Ventures, Parade Ventures and Vitalize Ventures. Zingtree was founded in 2014 to make business information actionable for teams so that agents could quickly make decisions during complex service calls.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

I often advise startup companies not to try and pin all of your brand equity into an announcement. Simply – we believe it’s hypocritical to sit with tech startups every day and talk about the need to innovate while ourselves making no major changes. who is talking about putting in up to $30 million in our startup.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2022

Suleyman is now putting that intuition to good use on the venture capital side. After previously investing in companies alongside Greylock partner Reid Hoffman, Suleyman made the full leap to join Greylock as a venture partner. Prior to that, he co-founded and led DeepMind, an AI company acquired by Google in 2014.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 13, 2022

whereas in 2014 around 71% of teens used Facebook, the study says in 2022 that number has dropped down to 32%. Kyle Wiggers takes a look at the concept, and why not all VCs are on board with it. other stuff. million investors losing $5 billion collectively.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Luckily for us, we’re going to have a candid conversation with both parties in the relationship between Ironclad CEO and cofounder Jason Boehmig and his investor and board member Accel partner Steve Loughlin. The company was acquired by Salesforce in 2014 for $390 million and later became Salesforce IQ.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

The Portland, Oregon-based company, which has its tech team in New Zealand, began developing its SaaS customer experience management tools in 2014 for businesses that rely on humans, co-founder and CEO Aaron Ward told TechCrunch. Five Elms’ Ryan Mandl is joining AskNicely’s board as part of the funding. Aaron Ward, CEO, AskNicely.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

He launched BlocPower in 2014 with the goal of replacing fossil fuel-burning heating and cooling systems with cleaner, more efficient electric air source heat pumps, water heaters and solar panels. “So we had a $2 million contract with the Department of Energy that my startup won in a competitive process.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

In a deeply researched report for TechCrunch+ , reporter Christine Hall examined the state of the cell-cultured meat industry and identified many of the startups innovating in the sector, along with the challenges they face when it comes to ramping up production and getting regulators and consumers on their side. “It

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The participation of lead investors in this round, TLcom Capital and Partech Africa (both control large pan-African funds), bodes well for that plan, said the chief executive, adding that having both investors on board means his company has backers “ready to go the long haul.”. And that’s what keeps us going.”.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2022

It was during Coucha’s time at Kijamii, a digital agency upstart he launched in 2014 that conducted projects for Fortune 500 companies, that the CEO noticed late payment and access to working capital issues businesses, including his, faced.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The startup launched its first product, Bridgit Field, in March 2014. The company plans to use its new capital mostly toward building out its team, product development and doubling down on its go-to-market strategy. In 2019, it brought its second product, Bridgit Bench, to market.

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2021

The startup has 15,000 customers and 20 million subscribers across 180 countries on its platform. billion in transactions since its 2014 inception. Overall, we saw a 91% subscriber growth in 2020 across the board in all categories of subscriptions,” O’Connor told TechCrunch. “We All B2B startups are in the payments business.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Polly, a SaaS technology startup aiming to “transform” the mortgage capital markets, announced today that it has raised $37 million in a Series B funding round led by Menlo Ventures. The latest financing brings the San Francisco-based startup’s total funding raised to $50 million. The need certainly seems to be there.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Luckily for us, we’re going to have a candid conversation with both parties in the relationship between Ironclad CEO and co-founder Jason Boehmig and his investor and board member Accel partner Steve Loughlin. The company was acquired by Salesforce in 2014 for $390 million and later became Salesforce IQ.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Grafana Labs has raised upward of $75 million since it launched in 2014. Lightspeed Venture Partners, and partner Gaurav Gupta to be specific, led both the startup’s Series A and Series B rounds. He sits on the board of the last three companies in that list.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

I was having dinner with a friend last night and we were chatting about venture capital and a bit about what I’ve learned. But if you’re a concentrated investor who takes board seats then you know the hard bit starts the day after. It’s hard enough being an investor in the roller-coaster life that is startups.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Finding the right balance between keeping costs in check and not underinvesting can mean doing things more slowly than your board would like. Homejoy expanded internationally in 2014 in a rush to squash a new German competitor Helpling. As a founder, it’s your job to manage financial and operational risks.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Grafana Labs has raised upward of $75 million since it launched in 2014. Lightspeed Venture Partners, and partner Gaurav Gupta to be specific, led both the startup’s Series A and Series B rounds. He sits on the board of the last three companies in that list.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

Haney joined TechCrunch’s Chain Reaction podcast this week to talk about her latest venture, Try Your Best (TYB). The startup uses blockchain technology to help brands build customer loyalty without having to rely on buying up pricey ads on third-party social media platforms, Haney explained.

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 26, 2022

From Box to Glossier, and Comms to Venture Capital, Ashley Mayer Is Carving a Pretty Unique Path. Hunter Walk: Ok, so we first met when you were leading comms at enterprise software company Box, a startup you joined when they were still pretty early and stayed at until post-IPO. First, congrats! Enter Box.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2021

Lower is also something that is kind of rare these days in the startup world: profitable. We were immediately intrigued because Ohio-based Lower echoes both of these themes,” said Accel partner John Locke, who led the firm’s investment in Lower and is taking a seat on the company’s board as part of the investment.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

Founded in 2014, Blossom Finance was first intended for Muslim entrepreneurs in the United States. But founder Matthew Joseph Martin soon realized that the startup, backed by investors like Boost VC and Tim Draper, was serving a relatively niche market in the States. Indonesia emerged as the best choice. enabling people to buy Bitcoin.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2022

Clara Bullrich is co-founder of TheVentureCity , and has participated in more than 50 NFT and cryptocurrency deals and is on the board of Liquid Meta, a decentralized finance infrastructure and technology company. The first NFT was created in 2014 and was sold only last year.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 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! At the height of the dot.com boom in the first quarter of 2000, the bank had invested in a record 53 startups. Welcome to my weekly fintech-focused column.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

But as Weiss steps down from her current role and prepares for maternity leave, her success and subsequently typical choice to become her company’s board chairperson has been co-opted as the end of the “girlboss” era. allocate 98% of their funding to startups helmed by men. What even is a ”girlboss” anymore? I was born in Vietnam.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 22, 2023

Pivoting back to its music roots Wu explains how OurSong’s background in blockchain goes back to its founding, when the startup offered collectible ‘Song Cards’. ” Getting artists back on board with NFTs The first challenge for the startup was bringing musicians onboard to the Remix NFT model. Music was the answer.”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 4, 2021

Opting for a debt round can take you from Series A startup to Series B unicorn. Opting for a debt round can take you from Series A startup to Series B unicorn. The news this week that e-commerce marketplace Etsy will buy Depop, a startup that provides a secondhand e-commerce marketplace, for more than $1.6 Depop purchase.

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