AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 28, 2023

Register Startup founders are often too focused on the amount of money they can get from an investor that they mostly fail to see the value that other investors have to offer to grow their businesses further. Sharon Lou, venture partner at Indelible Ventures , considers this as one of the top mistakes that founders commit when raising funds.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 29, 2023

What connects these two brands is that they were both elevated to overseas success by the same person, Fujin Tree Group Founder Jay Wu. Founded in 2014, they are an early-stage venture capital firm that’s active in both the US and Asia, with a total AUM of 400 million USD. I knew it might be a huge opportunity.”

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

I started in 2007 with a thesis that my primary investment decision would be about the team (70%) and only afterward about the market opportunity (30%). But they are also a tax on your time with portfolio companies, looking for new investments, running your shop and honestly they are a tax on your family life. Co-founder discontent.

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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. The new fund will offer approximately 15-20 investments, diversified by sector, stage, and region over the span of 12 to 18 months. Having raised $1.3

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Paul G. Silva

MAY 29, 2020

In 2014 the great Steve Blank gave the startup world its first widely-respected quantitative assessment system: the Investment Readiness Level (IRL). A few years later Village Capital took the IRL to the next level, creating the Venture Investment and ReAdiness Level (VIRAL).

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Dream It

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Diversity, gender equity, and financial inclusion have been central to our business model from the start,” said Manu Smadja, MPOWER’s CEO and co-founder. “We Since 2014, it has received close to $1B in loan application volume on its platform. It is the only student lender in the world that leverages both overseas and U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2021

Thomas Rush is founder of Bootstrapp and Head of Investment Platform at ConsenSys Mesh. Revenue-based investing ( RBI), also known as revenue-based financing, or revenue-share investing, 1 is a natural next step for the private equity and early-stage venture investment industry. Thomas Rush. Contributor.

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StartupNation

MARCH 23, 2021

” That was Lori Coulter, CEO and co-founder of Summersalt, speaking at the State of the Midwest Startup Community 2020. There’s no denying that women have made many strides in closing the gender gap in tech, but those trends haven’t necessarily been true for female founders. Melissa Butler, Founder and CEO.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

Smart founders use this extra resource to their advantage. Most associates need some entrepreneurial experience before actually making investments. Jordan joined us a couple of years ago from Fox Filmed Entertainment where he worked in corporate strategy and he previously had worked for GCA Savvian in investment banking.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

In 2014, Young and Cavins invested their life savings into Outdoorsy, sold their homes and jumped into an Airstream Eddie Bauer trailer. The following interview, part of an ongoing series with founders who are building transportation companies, has been edited for length and clarity. . Why not open it up to RVs?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

There was also a lot of talk around Tornado Cash as the two founders behind the crypto mixer were charged on Wednesday by U.S. This week in web3 Two founders behind crypto mixer Tornado Cash charged by U.S. Erik previously worked on Wall Street as a VP for AIG investments and was a co-founder and consultant of other startups.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The investment is the largest-ever Series A round for the region, and it values Wave at $1.7 Four big-name backers jointly led the round — Sequoia Heritage, a private investment fund and a subsidiary of Sequoia; Founders Fund; payments upstart Stripe; and Ribbit Capital. Wave , a U.S. Both were Series C rounds.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

New York-based Endeavor is a global community of “high-impact” founders across almost 40 underserved markets in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. million jobs due to Google’s $1 billion investment in the continent. The continent’s investment story. This is compared to 37%, 70% and 66% in the U.S.,

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Y Combinator

MARCH 15, 2024

 Effective at the end of the w24 batch, I will return to my original role of YC Group Partner and will be able to once again devote all of my time to inspiring, investing, and mentoring early-stage YC startups.  I’ve  I find myself most drawn to the challenges they face building companies during this new wave of AI.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2022

To help take things to the next level, Relay has also announced it has raised $5 million in a seed funding round led by Khosla Ventures, which also invested in Timeful back in 2014 , with participation from Neo, BoxGroup, SV Angel, and a handful of angels.

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Ian Hathaway

JANUARY 6, 2020

Over the next eight years, Facebook would attract half a billion users and nearly $7 billion in venture capital investment, on its way to a May 2012 IPO that valued the company at more than $81 billion. businesses that were started during a recent eight-year period (2007-2014). This restricted-use dataset at the U.S.

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 28, 2021

On November 17, we are hosting our second Aspiring Founders Forum for women who aspire to become a startup founder. The Aspiring Founders Forum is an evolution of Y Combinator’s Female Founders Conference. Since 2014, the Female Founders Conference has helped women who want to start and run their own startups.

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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. The Japanese investment conglomerate has dramatically ramped up its investing in the region, and so have a number of other global investors.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2023

Engineers at Polymath Robotics were working late Wednesday night on multiple projects when co-founder and CEO Stefan Seltz-Axmacher noticed chatter about Silicon Valley Bank in a YC founder WhatsApp group. Seltz-Axmacher, as well as hundreds of other founders, couldn’t have predicted what would transpire over the next 36 hours.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JANUARY 16, 2022

Founders ‘bootstrap’ Crossroads LED into an industry leader. The company has always invested a significant percentage of the business assets in research and development. ‘That was our start in 2014,’ Dana said. Founders ‘bootstrap’ Crossroads LED into an industry leader. By Scott Meacham.

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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. Thrive Capital is believed to be leading the new investment in Stripe. Want more fintech news in your inbox? Sign up here.

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Dream It

MAY 14, 2020

The Baltimore-based startup graduated from Dreamit’s Healthtech program in 2014. Silversmith invested additional equity to support the acquisition of Tissue Analytics. was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Baltimore, Maryland, with a satellite office in Kansas City, Missouri. Tissue Analytics, Inc. Tissue Analytics, Inc.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

The Austin-based firm recently secured $145 million in its own debt and equity financing to help B2B SaaS founders grow their businesses without diluting ownership. The firm has deployed over $60 million in capital to 130 SaaS founders since launching in January 2020, according to Latka. million post-money valuation in 2014. “I

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 3, 2014

2014 has been a great year for SaaS companies. I’ve plotted the median share price by round below: If the same patterns hold true for New Relic and Hortonworks, then the last investors in those businesses should see positive returns from their investments. Third, the average SaaS IPO in 2014 raised 4 rounds of capital.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 4, 2021

Investments in European deep tech grew from €0.7B boom, a startup is born… And if you take a long view of their [founders] career, they’re missing out on the depth of things, experience, and authenticity of experience that I think informs the most interesting category-defining companies out there.” founders?—?challenges

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 25, 2023

Founded in 2014 by industry veterans Chi-Hua Chien and Eric Kim, Goodwater is the largest venture capital fund focused on consumer tech investments. We appreciate the support and trust placed in us by our Limited Partners,” Chi-Hua Chien, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, stated in a recent release. billion in assets.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In 2014, more than 40% of U.S. VC investment, according to “Beyond Silicon Valley,” a new report co-produced by venture firm Revolution and PitchBook. Since launching the platform in 2014, Case and his teams have invested in 194 companies across 89 cities. But that was a long time ago.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2023

In 2014, the startup almost ran out of cash. Later, it scrambled with its product offerings after its marquee service struggled to make inroads, Zelto founder and chief executive Ankit Oberoi told TechCrunch in an interview. And when we almost ran out of cash in 2014, we were forced to become frugal and profitable.”

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 19, 2023

Notifi founder and CEO Paul Kim falls in the latter camp. “Some believe that everything has to be decentralized and Web3-native from the get-go. Focusing on seed stage investments, Cherubic aims to be the first institutional investor of the next iconic company and back founders who dare to dream big and change the world.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 28, 2021

Contributed by Julia L F Goldstein, the founder of JLFG Communications , which helps businesses share their world-changing ideas through clear and concise content. Here’s the difference: A hobby or side hustle involves a discretionary investment of time and money. Entrepreneurs, however, usually call themselves founders or CEOs.

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Revolution

JULY 26, 2021

Our Investment in Sila, the Portland-based Startup Founded by a Fintech Pioneer. Today we’re excited to announce a $13M investment in Sila , a fintech platform developing payments infrastructure for software developers to quickly and inexpensively add regulatory-compliant payment capabilities into their products.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Sopoong , a social impact-focused VC, intends to support environmentally minded tech founders in South Korea and Southeast Asia, while building a bridge between Korean conglomerates and startups in the sector. If participating fellows succeed in founding a startup, Sopoong could make a seed investment, Han said.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

There is an unprecedented amount of information or knowledge that is now freely available to guide founders (e.g., Digital communities and social platforms such as Twitter, Signal NFX, YC’s co-founder matching, and Slack communities (e.g., Angel investments in 2022 equaled those from 2006 to 2011 combined.

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Y Combinator

MAY 11, 2023

Every batch, we invite founders to advise YC companies as Visiting Group Partners. Emmett Shear Emmett was co-founder and CEO of Twitch , where millions of people come together live every day to chat, interact, and make their own entertainment together. In 2014, Twitch Inc.

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Gust

MARCH 21, 2016

With startup growth up 61% since 2014 and more investment programs emerging, it can be overwhelming for founders to know just where to jump in. As the most startup-friendly accelerator on the planet, MassChallenge has helped 835 startup companies around the world, who have raised over $1.1 We have seen startups at.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

Founded in 2009, Helsinki-based Lifeline Ventures has invested in around 115 companies to date, with more than a dozen exits to its name including activity-tracking app Moves , which Facebook acquired back in 2014; food delivery company Wolt, which DoorDash snapped up in a $8.1 billion for a majority stake in 2016.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Founded by Sheel Mohnot and Jake Gibson in November of 2019, San Francisco-based Better Tomorrow Ventures ( BTV ) has allocated $150 million to invest in startups at the pre-seed and seed stages. It has also reserved $75 million for an opportunity fund for follow-on investments. It’s committed to three so far.

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