TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

Williams founded her own firm, Serena Ventures, in 2014 and raised a $111 million inaugural fund this year to invest in “ founders with diverse points of view ,” she previously told The New York Times. When Serena Williams steps from away tennis, she’ll be walking into an arena as white as the one she just left.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

InstaDeep , a Tunis and London-based enterprise AI startup that creates decision-making systems for solving real-world problems, has raised $100 million in Series B financing led by Alpha Intelligence Capital and CDIB. InstaDeep was founded by Karim Beguir and Zohra Slim in 2014. Karim Beguir (InstaDeep CEO).

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Series A+ was led by Oriza Greenwillow Technology Fund, a venture capital fund set up jointly by Greenwillow Capital Management Pte Ltd, which is an MAS-licensed fund management company that is based in Singapore, and Oriza Holdings, an investment firm from China, Willowmore said in a statement.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Travel booking startup Hopper today announced that it closed a $96 million follow-on investment from Capital One, bringing the company’s total raised to $740 million. Travel app Hopper raises $96M from Capital One to double down on social commerce by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 5, 2021

What does it mean for venture capital and Startupland? Let’s examine the relationship between total venture capital investment and the 10 year Treasury in some detail. The y-axis tracks enture capital investment by year and the year of the data point resides in the reddish circle. In short, we should expect some cooling.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

Synthesis Capital , the one-year-old London-based food technology and alternative protein investor, closed its first fund with over $300 million in capital commitments. As with most technology, proof of concept happened first, and now the foodtech sector is about proof of status. and CIFF.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

Companies that defend APIs from outside attack have been particularly fruitful, lately, with startups such as Ghost Security and Corsha raising tens of millions of dollars in capital. ThreatX was co-founded in 2014 by Bret Settle and Andrius Useckas.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JULY 27, 2021

And our second Opportunity Fund, raised in 2014, has generated 7.3x Our 2014 Opportunity Fund has a higher cash on cash return but a lower IRR than our 2010 Opportunity Fund. Venture capital funds do not take down the entire capital commitment upfront. cash on cash but generated a 58.6% cash on cash but only 46.7%

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

Thrive Capital has reportedly committed $1 billion in fresh capital to payments giant Stripe as part of a new investment in the works that would value the fintech company at between $55 billion and $60 billion. Neither Stripe nor Thrive Capital commented on the rumors when contacted by TechCrunch. We’d love to hear from you.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 1, 2019

In 2014, I published a post called Do Startup Require Less Capital to Succeed than 10 Years Ago ? In the analysis, I created a metric, the return on invested capital (ROIC). In 2014 we saw increasing efficiencies over time, which was very exciting because it reaffirmed the efficiency of SaaS go-to-market. It was harder.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 20, 2023

Register Singapore-based private equity firms Capital Square Partners (CSP) and Basil Technology Partners (BTP) have publicly announced a partnership that seeks to build a leading regional technology investment platform. Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet?

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 27, 2024

billion from 10,000 individual investors since its founding in 2014, the firm has funded to date over 350 companies founded or led by women of its 1300+ current portfolio companies. They are sources of new capital, deal flow, and value-added services for portfolio companies. Having raised $1.3 Pitchbook reports that in 2022 U.S.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

Founded in 2010, Coupang is sometimes described as the Amazon of South Korea, but for years it has managed the impressive feat of achieving an even higher dollar retention rate than Amazon, according to a report by Goodwater Capital. Coupang consumer research by Goodwater Capital.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 13, 2023

million Series B growth financing led by ABS Capital Partners with participation from existing investors Claritas Health Ventures, as well as Healthworx, the innovation and investment arm of CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, PTX Capital, and Kapor Capital. Over that time, ABS Capital has invested more than $2.5

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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. The CEO is Guru Hariharan, who you might remember from retail analytics company Boomerang Commerce , a Startup Battlefield finalist in 2014.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

The company, founded by Mike LaVitola and Taylor Bloom in 2014, is reimagining the corner convenience store. Today’s new fundraise was led by D1 Capital Partners, which was joined by existing investors Monogram Capital, Imaginary, Almanac, Wittington, Fifth Wall, Beliade, Lerer Hippeau and Revolution.

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Dream It

MAY 14, 2020

The Baltimore-based startup graduated from Dreamit’s Healthtech program in 2014. Net Health is a portfolio company of The Carlyle Group, Level Equity, and Silversmith Capital Partners. was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Baltimore, Maryland, with a satellite office in Kansas City, Missouri. Tissue Analytics, Inc.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 3, 2014

2014 has been a great year for SaaS companies. Third, the average SaaS IPO in 2014 raised 4 rounds of capital. The 2014 Class of SaaS IPOs show there are many different ways of building a business. Veeva and Tableau have demonstrated exceptional capital efficiency. By my count, 9 of them will have gone public.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The new capital follows $7 million Series A funding raised in December 2020, bringing the company’s total funding to $49.5 million since being founded in 2014. Canapi Ventures led the latest round, and was joined by existing investors Fin VC and TTV Capital, which both led the Series A.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 18, 2022

Register Coins.ph , a Philippine-based fiat and crypto wallet services provider and Joffre Capital portfolio company, announced it has raised $30 million in its Series C funding round anchored by Ribbit Capital and participated by other strategic investors. Launched in 2014, Coins.ph The post Coins.ph

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

We’re thrilled to have him on TechCrunch Live this week, along with Chris Howard, founding partner at Fuel Capital, which invested in Convoy’s seed round. As you’ll hear, in 2014 and 2015, freight was ready for reinvention. Convoy launched at the right time, CEO Chris Howard told me.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 4, 2023

M&A secures the team greater financial certainty within a more established & better capitalized business. This change in the exit market parallels a surge in acquihires in 2014 when corporate development departments began to acquire seed-stage companies for talent rather than waiting for Series A businesses.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 18, 2014

This source of capital enabling companies to remain private longer and become larger before an IPO or sale. If the fundraising trends in Q1 continue for the year, VCs will raise twice as much capital in 2014 as 2013 ($36B vs $17B). Q2 will be an important bellwether to gauge the bullishness of the venture industry for 2014.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In 2014, more than 40% of U.S. Since launching the platform in 2014, Case and his teams have invested in 194 companies across 89 cities. In each of the past two years, at least $11 billion of Bay Area capital has been invested outside the three major ecosystems. seed- and early-stage venture dollars went to Bay Area startups.

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 15, 2024

Charting the Path to Success in Tech Investing: An Exclusive Interview with GoAhead Ventures’ Founding Trio GoAhead Ventures (“GoAhead”) is a Silicon Valley based venture capital firm founded by three Stanford graduates: Takeshi “TK” Mori, Clancey Stahr and Phil Brady (the “Managing Partners”). How did you break into tech investing?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Zeitview was founded in 2014 with the goal of bringing a new resource to businesses: the sky. After serving in the military, Burton did a short stint at Goldman Sachs and made the leap in 2014 to launch Zeitview. He claims to have personally flown the company’s first 100 or so drone missions. billion in 2022.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

Venture capital (VC) firm Lifeline Ventures today announced a fresh €150 million ($163 million) fund aimed at early-stage startups across Finland. For example, London’s Playfair Capital closed a $70 million pre-seed fund, while France’s Emblem and Ovni Capital each announced new €50 million ($54 million) funds.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 18, 2023

In November 2022, the “ Five-Year Startup Development Plan” was unveiled, leading to increased investments from venture capitalists, business corporations, and corporate venture capital entities (CVCs). recorded in 2014, according to research by the Beginning analytics firm. Furthermore, around 32.9%

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2023

The extended Series C, which saw participation investors including Congruent Ventures and Wellington Management (who co-led), Blue Earth Capital, Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners, Tao Capital Partners, XN, Sequoia Capital, GV, Range Ventures and Valor Equity Partners, brings AMP’s total raised to around $178 million.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

Existing backers Riverwood Capital, Viking Global Investors and Sunley House Capital also participated in the financing. In 2014, Riverwood Capital and Antonio Soares — who now serves as Dock’s CEO — bought out 100% of Conductor and essentially created the company that is Dock today.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2023

Along with increasing regulatory scrutiny and skeptical investors, capital deployment has pulled back significantly from the highs of 2021, which has left many young startups struggling to raise funds. This capital crunch is affecting the Bitcoin ecosystem as well. The crypto industry has not had a great run over the past year.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 1, 2023

Manafa is planning to launch a new set of products that tackles the quick access to financing and capital, and empowers small and medium enterprises to fuel their growth,” said Abdulaziz Al Adwani, founder and chief executive of Manafa Capital. The company is licensed by the Saudi Central Bank and the Saudi Capital Market Authority.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

Family office investments increased by 5x , and corporate venture investments rose 6x , thus opening new capital avenues for founders who found it difficult to raise capital. The number of accelerators has more than doubled since 2014 , while the number of accelerator-backed startups in the U.S. psychedelics or construction).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Yuriy Gankin, co-founder and chief science officer at Quantori, says the founders back up these claims with decades of experience in this market, including helping launch and build a company called GGA Software Services, which also focused on the life sciences market, and was acquired by EPAM in 2014.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

Insilico Medicine, a Hong Kong-based company that has been using artificial intelligence to discover new drugs since 2014, has completed a fresh round of funding. Alex Zhavoronkov, Insilico’s founder and CEO, also participated in the Series D round.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

JIC Venture Growth Investments led the Series E equity funding, with participation from Z Venture Capital , a venture investment arm of Z Holdings, Japan Post Capital and Salesforce Ventures. Founded in 2014, Zeals currently serves more than 400 enterprises, including Toyota dealerships, Shiseido and NTT Docomo.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

Accern , which uses AI to analyze online conversations around particular companies, trends, and industries, today announced that it raised $20 million in a Series B round led by Mighty Capital alongside Tribe Capital, Shasta Ventures, Gaingels and Fusion Fund and others. ” Accern has raised $20 million in capital to date.

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