Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

why the hell has seed financing declined so much in the past 3 years?? And this era ushered in by Amazon changed everything from the age of founders to the skill sets required to the structure of the VC industry and even to the layout of cities (yes, I would proclaim that boldly that Amazon AWS affected city development).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

Tapping personal savings or invoking the friends and family plan are signature hallmarks of fledgling startup finance. Eventually though, the majority of early-stage founders will leave their bootstrapping days behind and turn to institutional investors for the capital infusion they need to grow.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2021

The financing comes barely three months after Orum announced a $21 million Series A, and brings its total raised to over $82 million. For example, the financing includes investors such as the Neythri Features Fund, a group of South Asian women investing in the next generation of female founders and diverse teams.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Operating experience (Helped run parts of CitySearch & UrbanSpoon, tons of product management experience, Board of Hatch Labs which helped spawn Tinder). Helped merge company with Seedling – on track to do $20 million combined revenue in 2015 – will now become Chairman).

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Startup founders from all over the world applied to what has been described as the most competitive batch in TechCrunch history. She is also on the board of Nordstrom and previously served on the boards of Dollar Shave Club and Bonobos. Jim Lanzone was named earlier this month as the next CEO of Yahoo Inc.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

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. “The appointment of Lip-Bu Tan as the newest member of Sima.ai’s board of directors is a strategic milestone for the company. . “I founded Sima.ai

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

s founder and CEO, told me. It’s been a few years since we dug into what the company was doing , but to bring you up to speed, it was founded in 2015 and offers over 10,000 locally sourced and hard-to-find Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Filipino, Indian and Latin offerings for customers. s board of directors.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Founded by Rose Goslinga and Thomas Njeru in 2015, Pula delivers agricultural insurance and digital products to help smallholder farmers navigate climate risks, improve their farming practices and bolster their incomes over time. But getting farmers on board has never been easy, Goslinga told TechCrunch. Image Credits: Pula.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

Thepeer isn’t a pure fintech play; it sits at the intersection of data and finance. After we launched our first product [Send], we went back to the drawing board because there were things we needed to get right. African fintechs Chipper Cash and Stitch invested too. In that process, we discovered more consumer and business problems.”.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Kaiyo , an online marketplace for secondhand furniture, says it has helped the impact by keeping nearly three million pounds out of landfills since its launch in 2015. . Furniture is one of the largest waste categories in the U.S., Loveseat gets comfy with new funding to expand its returned home goods marketplace.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

He teamed up with Eddie Lim and Eoin Matthews to start Point in 2015 prior to joining a16z. Rampell is on the company’s board, but is not involved in the day-to-day operations of the company. The way it works is that Point first evaluates the finances of applicants and makes a provisional offer. So, what exactly does Point do?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Founded in 2015, prior to this, OTA Insight had only raised $20 million. Just earlier this week, Pigment — which provides better forecasting tools to finance teams that have been muddling through with Excel — raised $73 million.).

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2021

The financing comes barely three months after Orum announced a $21 Series A, and brings its total raised to over $82 million. For example, the financing includes investors such as the Neythri Features Fund, a group of South Asian women investing in the next generation of female founders and diverse teams.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Returning backer Telescope Partners led the financing, which also included participation from new investor Blackstone. Meanwhile, it partners with lodging providers (better known as hotels), who benefit from gaining access to more “high-value” business travelers, according to founder and CEO Elia Wallen. billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2022

In 2015, Rex Salisbury was working as a software engineer at now-defunct mortgage startup Sindeo where he built out the back end for fully automated online mortgage pre-approval. His goal with Cambrian was to cultivate a community focused on founders and builders in fintech. . I wanted to meet these people.”.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

Rather than the standard fundraising round, however, GreyOrange has opted for growth financing, largely backed by Mithril Capital Management, with support from BlackRock. “We chose a mix of equity and debt financing as the most effective structure for our growth plans and serving our customers. .

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

million Series A in 2019, its founders were in their early 20s and so passionate about their startup that they each dropped out of their respective schools to focus on growing the business. When Kleiner Perkins led Stord’s $12.4 Previous backers include BoxGroup, Susa Ventures, Dynamo, Revolution and Rise of the Rest Seed Fund, among others.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Co-founder of Owned Outcomes Krupa Srinivas explores the value of fear in an entrepreneur’s journey as she describes partnering with a US healthcare intermediary to solve the problem of cataloguing hospital supplies. In 2015, one of the largest healthcare intermediaries in the country presented us these challenges.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 30, 2023

Register Joseph Lee has a strong track record in the finance industry throughout his career to date. Between 2006 and 2015, I joined one of the leading Islamic banks in the world, Kuwait Finance House, as the pioneering team to set up its Private Equity Division in Asia.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Groundfloor , the first real estate crowdfunding platform to gain regulatory approval, announced today that it raised its first round of institutional capital since 2015. Groundfloor co-founders Brian Dally and Nick Bhargava Image Credits: Groundfloor.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2023

billion in common stock to shore up its finances after the bank acknowledged that a reduced pace of deal-making and “elevated client cash burn pressuring balance of fund flows” were impacting its performance. Becker was doing damage control after SVB announced plans to sell $1.25 Will there be fewer because of all of the layoffs?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

In 2015, founder and CEO Daniel Yu launched Sokowatch in Kenya as an asset-light platform and a marketplace for distributing fast-moving consumer goods from suppliers to retailers. But Wasoko chose not to go down that route; instead, it is financing its BNPL option from its balance sheet. “We

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Founders Coop

AUGUST 7, 2018

It has been 10 years since we created Founders’ Co-op to provide first-check support to the best founding teams in the Pacific Northwest, and this month I started recruiting for the 10th Techstars Seattle class (that program will kick off in 1Q19). Founders’ Co-op has grown along with Seattle. Fast forward five years.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 25, 2021

Angela sits on the boards of the Angel Capital Association, Crowd Supply and TIE Oregon. Event Vice Chair Marcia Dawood, Mindshift Capital As a passionate board member of ACA and a venture partner within Mindshift Capital, Marcia evaluates and mentors startup companies with a clear emphasis on women-led businesses.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

A lot has changed in the markets since then, so this feels like a good outcome for the startup, which was founded by Paul Sawaya and Roger Lee in 2015. The company also said that president Tim Mayopoulos will step down from his role in the first quarter and remain as a board member. ” In other news. .” I did, too.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2021

Lynk co-founder and chief executive officer Peggy Choi. “At the core of it, the search is a people search based on what you know, and not just where you work, to put it very simply,” co-founder and chief executive officer Peggy Choi told TechCrunch. . Founded in 2015, Lynk has now raised a total of $30 million.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

BlocPower founder Donnel Baird grew up in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn in the 1980s. That includes over $50 million from Goldman Sachs to help back the company’s green building financing, as well a $30 million investment from Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund. Donnel Baird, CEO and founder at BlocPower.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

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. For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. Bigfoot Capital.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 9, 2022

During KSGC 2021, Khenda got introduced to prominent Korean businessman Dong Hoon Shin, who eventually joined the company’s advisory board. ” said Aykan Ekici, co-founder of Khenda. Secondly, none of this would have been possible without Soobin, our intern with KSGC,” said Fabien Martin, Co-founder, of Founders Lair.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The company was launched in 2015 by Oluwatomi Ayorinde and Damilola Ayorinde as MobileForms, a data collection agent network. commission per transaction its partners make across all boards. With this model, CrowdForce claims to have the largest liquidity among Nigerian agent banking networks, leveraging more than ?1.7

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

“Think of the kind of things you’d tell a store associate helping you find the right gifts to purchase for your family,” says Ben Parr, president and co-founder of Octane AI. Cowboy Ventures led a $2 million seed round in 2015 while the founders were just starting their entrepreneurial journey. “[We billion. “It

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 18, 2020

This week, MedRhythms was awarded the prestigious Luis Villalobos Award for Life Sciences, which recognizes the most ingenious and innovative idea recently financed by members of the Angel Capital Association (ACA.) The company is now advancing its hardware and software solution through the FDA approval process. “As

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

It’s been a few years now since BlackBerry made phones, and this represents its largest purchase to date (by a factor of 3) since its 2015 acquisition of Good Technology. 4/ The Big Winners: Cylance raised around ~$280M in financing, with large equity stakeholders being Khosla Ventures, Fairhaven, and Blackstone.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 14, 2018

Managers of VC funds typically want to grow their business aggressively, just like the founders we back. Among the sites we have found most helpful with practical guides for founders: Biztree , First Search , Foundersuite , Goodwin Founders Workbench , Guides.co , Inc.com , and StartupRocket. .

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 26, 2022

I had gone to high school with the founders in the Seattle area, and we had recently reconnected. My boss, Jen Grant , was an incredible manager, and Aaron Levie, the co-founder and CEO, was a fantastic partner on all things communications. I tried to get hired at Better Place and failed. Enter Box. They gave me a shot.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

Most founders have a strong sense of what they’re trying to achieve. They hire their initial co-founders and early employees and everybody has a sense of “mission.” We tend to stick by founders in tough times and often roll up our sleeves in the darkest hours. A Sense of Purpose. Team Building.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

A week after the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase staged a direct listing, much of the focus remains on the wealth that the listing generated for executives at the company, its board members, and its private investors. And once that got up and running in 2015, that’s when I decided to spin out. It was in super great shape.

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