TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

Dan Lewis launched Convoy in 2015 into an established industry dominated by several legacy businesses. 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. Now worth $3.8

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

Drive Capital, Crosscut Ventures, Bonfire Ventures, Matchstick Ventures and HR Tech Investments LLC, a subsidiary of Recruit Holdings Co., With the latest investment, Minneapolis-based Branch has brought in a total of $58 million in equity funding since its 2015 inception.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

According to the company, it has raised US$144 million in an oversubscribed Series C+ equity round led by Japanese venture capital fund SoftBank Vision Fund 2 along with participation from new investors Rapyd Ventures, Vietnamese tech giant VNG Corporation, Indies Capital, Asia-based global investor EDBI, Ascend Vietnam Ventures, and K3 Ventures.

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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. Share on Twitter.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Boulder is quickly becoming a startup mecca on par with Silicon Valley — largely due to the Techstars accelerator, which has cultivated the city’s startup ecosystem. Brad Feld helped co-found the venture capital firm with one goal in mind: to help entrepreneurs. “We Boulder, Colorado.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Michael Seibel was chief executive of Y Combinator’s accelerator up until 2020, when the accelerator evolved from a more traditional partnership to no longer having multiple CEOs. YC says that no one else’s role at the accelerator has changed with today’s executive shakeup.

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HPA

MARCH 24, 2021

Lee Partners (THL), with participation from Qualcomm Ventures, Volvo Group Venture Capital AB and Zebra Technologies, as well as existing investors Hyde Park Angels , August Capital, CEAS Investments, Hyde Park Venture Partners and Bain Capital Ventures, bringing total capital raised to over $200 million.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

Partners Investment and Murex Partners co-led the new funding, with participation from Smilegate Investment, Quantum Ventures Korea , ABC Partners , Everrich Group, GS Group’s corporate venture capital firm GS Futures , We Ventures, Base Investment and Dunamu & Partners.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The week’s top investment deals from OurCrowd. Green light for cleantech investment. Green light for cleantech investment. Annual investment in cleantech increased tenfold from about $400 million a year to peak at $4.3 4: Cybersecurity and Pandemic-Accelerated Digital Transformations. Introductions. Read more here.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Microtraction , an early-stage venture capital firm based in Lagos, Nigeria, saw funding nearly quadruple for its portfolio. ” Badamosi, who returned to Nigeria from the UK in 2015, worked as the general manager for Starta Africa, an online community for African tech entrepreneurs. The introductory batch was all Nigerian.

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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. Mizuho Bank and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group also joined in its debt financing.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

As the demand for AI-powered apps grows, startups developing dedicated chips to accelerate AI workloads on-premises are reaping the benefits. A recent ZDNet piece reaffirms that the AI edge chip market is booming, fueled by “staggering” venture capital financing in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2021

MAX started out in 2015 as a delivery startup using motorcycles to fulfil customer orders before venturing into ride-hailing, and later into vehicle subscription and financing services – solutions it came up with based on the data from its first services. “It

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

It needs a couple of successful exits, which in turn drives angel investing as entrepreneurs growing increasingly wealthy look to help new founders building companies reach their own goals. It requires accelerators and incubators and coworking spaces to help nurture early ideas, and it needs VC firms investing across stages.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

With the recent funding, Atommerce plans to enhance artificial intelligence and machine learning technology for its platform and invest in digital therapeutics specialized in mental illness. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the company’s growth. Mental health startups are raising spirits and venture capital.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Italy’s ecosystem for tech venture capital and startups has been in development for years and has made decent strides in the last decade. Rome has more than 20 incubators/accelerators and many established VCs; because of its lower costs compared to other European cities, it’s become a major base for startups.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

with co-investment from OSF Ventures, Sony Innovation Fund, and Dreampact Ventures. The company was also a member of the 2016 Dreamit Ventures accelerator program and recently took first place at the 7th Annual Insight Product Development 2019 HealthTECH Startup Competition. The company also announced a $2.1

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Delivery has become one of the fastest growing verticals for robotics investments amid pandemic-related shutdowns. There’s been plenty of interest in the category over the years, but COVID-19 has accelerated interest on all sides of the equation. Among this category, however, Agility stands out — in more ways than one.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

Warehouse logistics one of the fastest growing verticals for robotics investments amid pandemic-related shutdowns. There’s been plenty of interest in the category over the years, but COVID-19 has accelerated interest on all sides of the equation. Among this category, however, Agility stands out — in more ways than one.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

million since its inception in 2015. The new valuation represents about 440%, or 5.4x, increase over Tridge’s postmoney valuation of $500 million in July 2021 when it raised $60 million in its Series C from Korean venture capital firm Forest Partners. With this investment, we will accelerate overseas expansion plans.”.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

ArcTern Ventures leads, joined by Ecosystem Integrity Fund, Northvolt, and existing investors Emeryville, CA (February 6, 2023) – Liminal , a battery manufacturing intelligence company, today announced a $17.5 This syndicate demonstrates significant and accelerating progress towards our goal of facilitating a clean energy future.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Breyer Capital, General Catalyst, Naval Ravikant and others also put money in the round, which brings B12’s total funding to $28.1 B12 co-founder and CEO Nitesh Banta is a former investor at General Catalyst — having worked at the firm from 2010 to 2015. The firm first invested in the company in 2016, leading its $12.4

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

from Seoul when she was a child and started a global accelerator in 2015. Claire Chang, general partner at igniteXL Ventures. Image Credits: igniteXL Ventures. Chang’s plan is to deploy capital into 30 new investments and keep some back for follow-on investments.

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Revolution

JUNE 15, 2023

Our partnership with CAVA began in 2015, when the Mediterranean fast-casual chain had just a dozen locations in D.C., CAVA’s founders had a vision to bring heritage, heart, health, and innovation to the fast-casual sector. Now their company is trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Maryland, and Virginia.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The event has accelerated the use of telemedicine, virtual care, and drug delivery, thus fuelling investor interest in the sector. Investment has also trickled down to Africa, with large checks going into growth-stage startups. It is the first investment made by the U.S.-based

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 1, 2014

Ringly , the most design savvy wearables company focused on fashionable women, recently graduated from the Highway1 Accelerator and I''m thrilled to see how beautiful their soon to be launched first product is. Why bother making any new investments at that point? Venture Capital & Technology' Seriously, though.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

More venture capital is flowing into meal delivery service companies as consumers seek out better-for-you food choices. That has attracted venture capitalists’ attention and led to some recent cash infusions, including Shef and WoodSpoon for homemade items, and Little Spoon and Serenity Kids in the baby food arena.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Truist — one of the nation’s largest financial institutions — has acquired Long Game , a 12-person fintech startup that has raised over $20 million in venture capital, executives have told TechCrunch exclusively. For one, Long Game participated in FIS’s Fintech Accelerator Program.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2013 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2014; Slack in 2015; took a break in 2016, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; and last year, 2017, was Coinbase. Here is the Google Doc where we tracked these.]

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 5, 2015

They''re a career accelerator, which is a pretty neat concept--doing what YC and Techstars do for startups, but for your career. Anyway, 2015 marks a couple of big career anniversaries for me. Now, the community is orders of magnitude larger and the number of investors who invest here has grown significantly.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The Series A funding is led by Runa Capital with Flashpoint Venture Capital and LAUNCHub Ventures also participating. The new funding will be skewed towards investing “heavily” in this hybrid work management offering, it says. which accounts for 45% of its customers, followed by circa 15% in the U.K.;

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

When Christian Lawless founded Conversion Capital in 2015, fintech was only starting to take off. In the years since Conversion was founded, fintech has essentially exploded — driven by a pandemic-induced, accelerated digital transformation on the part of financial services companies all over the world.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 21, 2024

However, as far as I know, the great majority of private capital raises for funds and companies are still not using general solicitation. However, because of the additional information burden we almost lost a few larger, more sophisticated investors that did not want to be bothered for a relatively small investment.”

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 26, 2018

Earlier this week, I wrote about the collapse in the number of seed investments. First, there are fewer seed investors participating in the market than in 2015, about 40% fewer. Second, many of the most active seed investors and institutional seed funds are investing in fewer companies. Why is this happening?

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