Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

You transition from “startup” to real business and it turns out that having an entire team be efficient is more important than that boundless energy but destructive nature of constantly changing direction from the CEO. Great startups have budgets. We brought in Cynthia Stephens to head up finance at Invoca.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

Some are more for fun, and the financing options for those types of buys — such as motorcycles and ATVs — are more limited. The company, which offers “instant” financing for large recreational purchases, boasts impressive financials in a startup world whose inhabitants are mostly unprofitable.

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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

MAY 11, 2022

Recurring revenue as an asset class is a relatively new concept, and made more popular by startups such as Pipe , which has built a marketplace connecting investors to companies with businesses that have predictable, recurring revenues. To date, the startup has raised a total of $25.5 million Series A funding round for Crowdz.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

Japanese startup ispace has raised $46 million in a fresh round of Series C funding as it looks to complete three lunar lander missions in three years. The first mission, which ispace aims to conduct in the latter half of 2022, is being furnished by earlier financing. Ispace’s total funding now stands at $195.5

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 27, 2014

We both are concerned about non-traditional capital entering the late stages and the impact that may have in the next downturn in the economy to the startups who merely trying to optimize for short-term valuation maximization. Startup Lessons' Here is the video of the presentation that I gave that preceded our debate. And we ended.

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A Smart Bear

JANUARY 4, 2018

The Silicon Valley-oriented technology press outlets don’t cover us because we’re not in San Francisco, even though we’re more successful than most of the startups they cover. This week we closed $250M in financing from Silver Lake , the premier technology private equity firm. Every day, 5% of the entire online world (roughly 3.5

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 7, 2019

You can take the time to prioritize your finances and see how healthy the business is. He and partner Steve Denny launched the business in 2014 to perform business valuations, help people buy and sell companies, and provide exit planning and consulting.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

The reality is you must be great at HR, PR, finance AND product. In a startup this is a mistake. This is especially true in a booming market (like 2014) where PR firms can charge premiums and be super selective about whom they work with. But for you as a startup you need to have a point-of-view on topics.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Kenya’s Victoria Commercial Bank offered $3 million debt financing, $1 million of which is mezzanine financing – a debt that can be turned into equity. MoKo was founded in 2014, initially as Watervale Investment Limited, an entity that sought to fix raw material supply issues for furniture manufacturers.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2021

Staffbase , which provides an intranet-style internal communications platform for companies, has raised a $145 million (€122 million) financing round led by General Atlantic, a growth equity firm. Existing investors Insight Partners and e.ventures also participated in the round.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

The Future Africa Fund kicked off in 2015 when Iyinoluwa Aboyeji and Nadayar Enegesi , co-founders of US-based and African-focused talent company Andela, wrote checks to African startups as angel investors. This is because most of the capital in Africa for promising startups is typically distributed among many investors.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Over the past couple of years, there’s been an overlap between tech and art, fueling a growing interest of movie, music and sports stars investing in tech startups. In 2014, Mr. Eazi launched Phonetrader, an online used phone marketplace backed by a now-defunct startup incubator, 440NG, which was run by two investment firms, L5Lab and 88mph.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2022

FlapKap , using its revenue-based financing platform (RBF), is helping these stores solve the growth-destructive challenges emerging online stores encounter when trying to meet customer demands. and witnessed the rise of revenue-based financing platforms in the country and the West, including Clearco and Wayflyer.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

Over time you start to figure out who you customers are and how to sell to them or how to get them to adopt your products if you’re a consumer-oriented startup. And I’ve also been convinced that it can be quite useful to have another startup company CEO on your board. As You Start to Mature. Experience. Relationships.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 20, 2020

In 2014, Greg contributed a chapter to Verne Harnish’s book, Scaling Up on how to improve profits though labor efficiency. Greg is currently the organization’s partner-in-charge of their Huntsville, Alabama office. In 2020, Greg will release his newest book, Simple Numbers 2.0: Rules for Smart Scaling.

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Your startup idea is your golden child – and it should be. Work in finance. 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

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

To meet that demand, Seattle-based Knock – one startup that has developed tools to give property management companies a competitive edge – has raised $20 million in a growth funding round led by Fifth Wall Ventures. hire across product, engineering, sales, marketing, customer success, finance and human resources divisions.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

London-based Divido , a white-label platform for retail finance that integrates with e-commerce platforms (but can also support omni-channel) so retailers can offer consumers a “buy now, pay later” option at the point of sale, has bagged a $30 million Series B to fund international expansion. Making sense of Klarna.

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Ian Hathaway

JANUARY 6, 2020

businesses that were started during a recent eight-year period (2007-2014). Census Bureau allowed the researchers to get an accurate and comprehensive view of all business startup activity in America. This restricted-use dataset at the U.S. And yes, it’s true there are more outliers (i.e.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

a nonprofit dedicated to fostering the growth of startups and entrepreneurs in Oklahoma, is proud to announce surpassing the $100 million mark in total investments. These investments, collectively over $100 million, have provided vital early capital to help startups throughout the state to thrive. i2E, Inc., About i2E, Inc.

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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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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

We live in a world with a stereotypical representation of what a startup founder looks like, so it’s no wonder that a large portion of the population feels underrepresented. A Gender Gap Grader study shows that women represent 9 percent of developers in the startup ecosystem. Here are four startup myths that hold innovation back.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

SiCepat , an end-to-end logistics startup in Indonesia, announced today it has raised a $170 million Series B funding round. Founded in 2014 to provide last-mile deliveries for small merchants, the company has since expanded to serve large e-commerce platforms, too. million round.

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Gust

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Cautionary note: No competent VC is actually fooled when you show up after raising $6M in seed financing and say you’re now raising an A! Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) October 7, 2014. 5 million was always the classic definition of an A-round between the late nineties (crazy financings aside) and say 2007.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

Many people will write the history on why Ring became an enormously successful company and why it became a real-world unicorn in a world when many startups are anointed that merely on paper. We first met Jamie when had had a startup called Simulscribe, which transcribed voicemail so you could read your messages rather than listen to them.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

Africa’s fintech space has gained proper attention over the past few years in investments but it is not news that startups still battle with offering high-quality products. Since its inception , the Google for Startups Accelerator alumnus claims to have led Africa’s fintech sector in some global firsts from the continent.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Now many Detroit startups are on the fast track to growth. Whether it’s new funding, expansions or IPOs, it’s been an eventful year in Detroit startups. Here are the top Detroit startups and tech companies to watch in 2022. Small Detroit startups to watch in 2022. Next year is looking even better. Apply now to Autobooks.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

million in a Series E round of funding, as well as $50 million in debt financing. Existing backer Accomplice led the equity financing, which the company described as “an inside round” that propelled FreshBooks to unicorn status with a valuation of “over $1 billion.” . 1Password first became a unicorn in 2019.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 1, 2023

In a statement, Manafa said it will use the fresh funds to accelerate its growth in Saudi Arabia and expand its offering with the launch of several products and financing solutions in addition to double the number of investors on its platform. Established in 2014, Wa’ed Ventures manages a portfolio of more than 40 start-ups.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

It’s that time of year, where I — as a committee of one judge, me — select one startup in the tech ecosystem that “broke out” and has the makings of an even larger outcome should things continue to go right. It’s entirely possible the trend lifts these companies in due time, as well.

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NZ Entrepreneur

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Auckland-based startup Niesh, which has developed a student discount platform, is on a rapid growth trajectory and has had to decide if it should grow locally, or prioritise opportunities overseas. We are sharing common objectives to support startups and contribute to GDP. It didn’t work. “We

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 29, 2022

In 2014, Prayank Swaroop made a pitch to the storied venture firm Accel, where he worked as an associate, about future marketplaces in India. At the time, Flipkart and Snapdeal were the only two e-commerce startups in India that had shown a semblance of scale. Swaroop’s presentation from 2014. Image credits: Accel).

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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

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

In July of last year, Skydio announced its $100 million Series C financing , and also debuted the X2, its first dedicated enterprise drone. Autonomous drone startup Skydio raises $100 million and launches the X2 commercial drone. Skydio’s debut drone, the R1, received a lot of accolades and praise for its autonomous capabilities.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

a startup focused on in-home care for older adults, after selling chat service Meebo to Google for about $100 million in 2012. An Ex-Googler Launches An In-Home Care Startup Called Honor And Raises $20 Million. Perceptive Advisors led the debt financing with a “significant” commitment from Ares Management funds.

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