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 As a result, in January I approached Garry Tan about transitioning out of my leadership role.  After

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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 event will be online, and whether you are curious about launching your own startup or are in the early stages of building one, you’ll walk away with the knowledge to define your own path.

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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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Though some businesses may never be truly sustainable, a venture firm in Seoul argues that emerging climate-tech startups will help big manufacturers do better overall. The early-stage VC had already set up five social impact funds and backed 81 startups since 2020, after Han acquired the firm in December 2019.

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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. Myth 1: Startup founders are young .

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 1, 2014

On average, founders retain 30-33% more equity than 4 years ago through those first two rounds of institutional investment. The graphs are broken out by last Series of investment (A, B, C and D) and show the equity compensation trends of CEOs, VP of Engineering and VP of Product. The chart above shows the trends in four graphs.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 4, 2022

How the Midwest Startup and Tech Scene Boomed in 2021. It’s 2022 and already local VCs, angel investors, startup founders, incubators and accelerators, and more are pushing hard to make their startups go. Now this company raised over $40 million in funding since they launched in 2014. Good morning, Paul!

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

If you’ve been watching the recent wave of shows on disgraced startups (from Theranos to WeWork), you might be under the impression that startup founders have no sense of responsibility. Why does it matter if founders tell investors that they might take an exit before their company reaches IPO scale?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Andrew has been investing in startups at Sequoia since 2014. Then guests will provide feedback on the pitch: Is the information presented in a logical format, does the founder speak with authority, and what’s missing from the pitch? TCL’s mission is still to help founders build better venture-backed businesses.

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Revolution

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

According to PitchBook , VC investments were down 30% in Q2 2022 compared with 2021, and IPOs hit a 50-year low. The process starts slowly, but as the chart below shows, venture-backed M&A plummeted during the recessionary period, when venture investing also slowed.

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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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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%. Aclima co-founder Davida Herzl wants everyone to be able to answer that question, and sat down with Jordan and Darrell on this week’s Found podcast to explain her mission. other stuff. ” Image Credits: Haus.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Creating space for in-person connections has long been at the center of our Rise of the Rest place-based philosophy and investment thesis. In a continuing effort to help shift the venture capital funding geographic imbalance in our country, since 2014 our team has traveled to 38 cities to meet entrepreneurs where they are.

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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. Myth 1: Startup founders are young .

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 22, 2019

A number of local governments have also implemented programs to help startups. If you’re a startup founder ready to gain the tools you need to get to the next level, check out the EO Accelerator program. Learn more and apply for the program. What happens when the entrepreneurial spirit and sense of innovation diminish?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. otherwise I prefer to invest less and risk less). it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

Noosphere sold its interest in Firefly after it came under scrutiny from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. Casey Handmer: Professionally, the life of a founder is never dull. The heavy-lift rocket has been under development since 2014. (H/T TechCrunch: What are you working on? . Weekly listening.

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Y Combinator

MARCH 30, 2021

We’ve been talking about the unique challenges facing women founders for years, but the pandemic was particularly hard for women looking to start their own companies. Last year, during Y Combinator’s Future Founders Conference , a16z’s Sonal Chokshi led a conversation on “Leveling the Playing Field” with Anu Hariharan, YC Continuity Partner.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Image: Author Startups are supposed to be about an innate drive to change the world. That was my mindset in 2014 as my co-founder Lee Silverstone and I started Gymtrack, a startup that lets gym members automatically track their workouts. EquipFit still wants to invest. If you want to invest now, great.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 1, 2022

As a co-founder, I never imagined that my employees would have to work under bombing raids or flee our city on a bike. We were considering attracting investments and expanding quickly and widely. This organization needs funding, and we’re doing everything we can to attract foreign investments. Kids are very vulnerable today.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Dame was founded in 2014 by CEO Alexandra Fine, who initially wanted to be a sex therapist. The investment is led by Amboy Street Ventures with participation from Listen Ventures, Flybridge, Echo and Forest Road Company. Advice and strategy for early-stage sex tech startup founders.

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Jason Malki

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

What motivated you to launch your startup? In 2014, my elderly great aunt was forced out of her apartment in Istanbul in an effort to build a new shopping mall in its place. If you had to share, “words of wisdom,” with a Founder who’s about to start their own startup, what would they be? Thank you so much for joining us!

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

February 2014 seems so long ago. Dear Sophie, As a first-time, early-stage startup founder, I find it difficult to compete against other startups on compensation. Fledgling Founder. Dear Sophie: How can early-stage startups compete for talent? Which insurtech startups are set to thrive?

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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. Simultaneously , they announced that the fund had invested $1.5 million across 19 African companies.

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Y Combinator

MAY 22, 2019

41:10 – How has the Indian startup ecosystem evolved? 43:30 – Can foreigners come to India and start a startup? 44:35 – Best advice for aspiring Indian founders. 45:45 – After Meesho, what’s the most exciting startup in India? Vidit is co-founder and CEO of Meesho.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Female-founded venture firms have shown strong support for female-founded startups accounting for 28% of their deal counts from 2016 to October 2021 in startups with at least one female founder. venture firms allocated only 22% of their deals to female-founded startups. In contrast, male-only founded U.S.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

Early-stage investments inherently have a higher risk of failing, but these risks also come with potentially higher rewards — getting in at the ground floor of a startup’s journey gives VCs more negotiation clout. But we tend to invest where there’s very little in the way of traction.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

Gumroad , a startup that helps creators sell their work, is raising $6 million at a $100 million valuation. Now, investors and founders can raise up to $5 million per year from crowdfunding, up from $1.07 If this works, startup founders will start to be able to go direct more frequently,” Lavingia said. revenue multiple.

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