TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

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. Black Coffee handles his deals through Flightmode Digital , a venture capital firm he set up in 2017, according to PitchBook.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

billion venture capital firm is entering the crypto market with a new $110 million fund dedicated to the sector that it will operate jointly with Ledger , a French startup focused on digital asset security, Cathay co-founder Dennis Barrier told TechCrunch.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 28, 2023

Indelible Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in B2B SaaS startups that can scale internationally. It was launched by President Barack Obama and the Prime Minister of Malaysia in 2014.) Currently our focus at Indelible Ventures is on B2B SAAS seed-stage startups that can scale internationally.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The broad-brush goals for the strategy are to increase growth in startup investments; attract and retain talent; promote scalability; and inject innovation into the public sector so it can bolster and support Spain’s digital development. “What we do is that work of coordination with all the ministries.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

Bosun Tijani talks strategy as CEO of Africa’s new largest tech hub. But before CcHub launched its $500,000 accelerator programme and Aboyeji founded Andela in 2014, Jason Njoku of iROKO had already begun to invest in startups.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2021

Funds II and III closed in 2014 and 2017, raising $135 million and $200 million, respectively. many VC firms do, Kaszek describes its investment strategy as providing more than capital, but also becoming partners with the founders of its portfolio companies.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

In a follow-up to a 2014 post about the rise of Big Data, enterprise reporter Ron Miller looks back at the intervening seven years and found that infrastructure, technology and data analysis tools “have all improved dramatically, but it’s by no means a problem solved.”. Brian Heater: Hardware startups should reconsider their media strategies.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

Other contributing factors include an over-reliance on venture capital funding for businesses that had yet to figure out a robust business model, while the broader economic downturn has forced companies to cut their costs and safeguard their remaining capital amidst a climate of inflation and rising interest rates. In the U.K.,

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Michael Johnson, President of the New Jersey Innovation Institute, addressed the crowd, identifying lessons he has learned through his far-ranging career as an innovator, and strategies that entrepreneurs can take to scale their unique businesses.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

In 2014, we were interested in the Indian market. As of 2014, India had mostly mobile internet, but it was slow and of poor quality. China’s EdTech market sector provides stable venture capital flows. However, our first attempts were unsuccessful. Only 15 of 250 million Internet users had a decent internet connection.

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WSJ - The Accelerators

JUNE 18, 2015

Sometimes what looks like the “perfect” deal comes along — for example, the seemingly ideal match of Trunk Club, the online men’s clothing service, with Nordstrom in a $350 million acquisition in 2014. Or, hoping to sell at the peak can leave a company stranded when an unfortunate turn in the market comes along. Follow @WSJstartup.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

We don’t lay claim to being the only VC to change or think about the future or to having the only or best strategy. Investing early in the lifecycle of a startups history where we can have the biggest impact on strategy & team development and deliver the highest returns if we are successful.

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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). VIRAL is an excellent tool used by many.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

The startup targeted working professionals in cities, and raised only around $11 million in known venture capital. Mixer/Beam Interactive (2014-2020). ScaleFactor (2014-2020). Still, even venture capital couldn’t make vending machines work well enough. Total Raised: $520,000. Image Credits: Microsoft.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

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. But a strategy isn’t based on hope. Image: Author Startups are supposed to be about an innate drive to change the world. But not for me. It’s Peloton for the gym.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

February 2014 seems so long ago. But the Biden administration has taken a stronger interest in antitrust legislation, and that could directly impact Redmond’s long-term expansion strategy.

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OurCrowd

MAY 5, 2019

According to Forbes, there have been 19 to 33 venture-backed investment rounds in the country annually since 2014, and an overall yearly increase in total funding. . Portfolio Management Associate at OurCrowd, Israel’s most active venture capital firm. Still, investment has been steady. About the Author.

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StartupNation

MARCH 23, 2021

Since 2012, there’s been little increase in venture capital going to women-founded businesses. In the third quarter of 2020, venture capital funding for female founders dropped to a three-year low. She’s also the founder and CEO of Middle Third, a boutique consultancy focused on mobility strategy.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

Carcoforo, who with Varia’s appointment becomes the chief data and growth officer, co-founded the agtech with Nicole Galletta (head of innovation), Patrick Wanjohi (chief technical officer) and Bernard Maingi (chief commercial officer) in 2014. Novastar Ventures becomes $200M African VC fund after $108M raise.

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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. The biggest difference from experience is that in bad markets people without venture capital experience or strategies are the first to the exit. Price matters.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

As Latin America attracts record-breaking venture capital totals, education technology startups in the region are given new opportunities to grow. Coderhouse , founded in 2014 by Christian Patiño, is a platform for LatAm professionals to take live, online cohort-based courses in topics such as data, coding, design and marketing.

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Revolution

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

While a few iconic brands including Uber, Airbnb, and Square emerged successfully from the last downturn, most venture-backed companies struggled during this period, and many ended up pursuing M&A strategies. Do these include detailed organizational design and hiring strategies?

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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 3, 2021

While Duolingo never wanted to look like other edtech companies, as we saw with its product strategy in part two, it turns out that evolving from college pizza vibes meant that it would have to take a page from its peers. When a startup chooses to raise venture capital, it sets itself on a heavily-prescribed course.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 29, 2023

It was with this belief that Wu launched Fujin Tree – Taiwanese Cuisine & Champagne in late 2014 in Taipei, aiming to debunk the stereotype that Taiwanese food is limited to braised pork rice and bubble tea. He shared with us three strategies any local restaurant brand should adopt when expanding into an overseas market.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

But unlike the others, Juven is not a venture capital fund; the evergreen investment company is a spinoff from Goldman Sachs’ Africa principal team responsible for making several high-growth investments in the tech scene since 2014. Juven founder Jules Frebault led the Africa team, the Special Situations Group.

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Gust

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) October 7, 2014. I think an easier definition is “first institutional capital” which is what most A-round VCs think about what their personal funding strategies are. Invested Interests cap table venture capital' They want to be early and first. Reblogged via [link].

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

As startups and venture capital grow in tandem, fundraising has gone from a formal affair on Sand Hill Road to a process that can happen anywhere from Twitter to Zoom. Notably, the company has not fundraised since 2014, a year in which it attracted just under $82 million at a valuation of $355 million, per PitchBook data.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

Since founding the company in 2014, Collin has raised more than $138 million in venture capital funding, including a $65 million Series D round last month. Deidre Paknad is the CEO and co-founder of WorkBoard, a strategy execution platform that ranked No.162

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

The startup ecosystem in Africa has until now been dominated by Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa and Egypt (‘the Big 4’), countries that continue to receive the bulk of venture capital and other forms of investment. In December, Tugende, an asset financier with operations in Kenya secured $17 million debt investment after closing a $3.6

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TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2021

Founded in 2014, Dovetail’s success stories include Afterpay , the Melbourne-headquartered unicorn that is one of the highest-profile players in the buy now, play later space, along with Klarna and Affirm. Dovetail helps them build companies from the ground up, preparing them for growth and more funding.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

However, Tiger Global limited its activity in Africa from 2009 to 2014. And the bets from Tiger Global — and other investors such as Goldman Sachs, which backed Jumia in 2014, and Kinnevik AB, a Swedish firm that invested in IROKO and Konga — was that they would become big winners in the next 10 years.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 17, 2019

In this article, Manny shares his strategy for a smooth business exit plan. And if you’re planning to scale with venture capital, you’d better be ready to set aside the next three to seven years of your life to be head-down in the business. A version of this article appeared in Fast Company. Hoping to get acquired?

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 21, 2017

Venture capitalists have financed many of those businesses. Over that 20 year period, annual SaaS investment has increased 20x, peaking in 2014 at $7B. Those venture dollars have financed a panoply of competition. Most businesses are competing with the same strategies as their competition. Today, that figure is 5000.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

a member of the Progressive Insurance group, led its latest financing, which included participation from existing backers Valar Ventures, Upper90, Contour Venture Partners, Citi Ventures, Third Prime and Parkwood, as well as new investors Gaingels and ALIVE. . Progressive Investment Company Inc.,

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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

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Founded in 2014, ACV’s portfolio now has over 120 investments in Indonesia and the rest of Southeast Asia. Our fund plays on a successful strategy we’ve continued to refine to be early-stage focused,” said Li. For example, it helps fintech companies work with banks or access capital they can use for lending.

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