Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 13, 2015

Earlier this week, we examined the trends in the major categories of startup investment including eCommerce, Software, Social Networking and Education. Where are founders finding unique opportunities to innovate? Semiconductor investment fell 31% per year. Space travel startups look to conquer the final frontier.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

That told him there was an opportunity for a data-driven financing tool for these types of restaurants. If you’re wondering where you’ve heard Meyer’s name, you may remember him from 2015 when he was building Fresco News , a crowdsourced network for breaking news, or as co-founder of Homebound , where he is still an advisor.

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Onevest

APRIL 16, 2015

By Tim Houghten Startup investing may be right for the many individuals in the U.S., Why invest in startups offline or online via platforms like 1000 Angels ? What role should startup investing play in your financial plan? What’s the smartest way to embrace this type of investment? if it is done well.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

Existing backer Bain Capital led the extension, with participation from previous investors such as Access Ventures, CLSA Capital Partners Lending Ark Asia, D3 Jubilee Partners, 500 Global, Kakao Investment, TBT Partners and IBX Partners. That means the outfit’s requirement capital is around $1.5 million (75.9

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2016

At the Upfront Summit in early February, we had a chance to have many off-the-record conversations with Limited Partners (LPs) who fund Venture Capital (VC) funds about their views of the market. However, they have been sending VCs far more investment checks in the last ten years than they’ve gotten back as distributions.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

Company founder and CEO Peter Sobotta founded ReturnLogic in 2015 after a long career in reverse logistics. The new capital gives ReturnLogic a total of $11.5 This is why increased investment for technical upgrades is flowing into this area of the supply chain,” Saran said. Now it is ready to expand and took in $8.5

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

In any job you either find leadership opportunities for your best people BEFORE they ask or other people start asking them to become leaders somewhere else. Venture capital is about backing the leaders of tomorrow who imagine the world as it should be and aren’t constrained by what it is today. So why now? So What Does All This Mean?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Amit Anand is a founding partner of Jungle Ventures and an early pioneer and leader in the development of Southeast Asia’s venture capital industry. billion, about four times more than they did in 2015. This begs the question: Who exactly is investing in Southeast Asia? Regional VC investment grew 5.2 Venture capitalists.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

we take for granted the ability to invest and trade in the stock market. For Mexico City-born Sergio Jiménez Amozurrutia, the fact that in his country of more than 120 million people, only a tiny fraction of the population have the ability to invest in the capital markets just didn’t seem right. Here in the U.S.,

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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 Join the event here.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 30, 2020

In 2015, then-Twitter product manager Terri Burns penned a piece about staying optimistic despite the sexism and racism that exists expansively within tech. Read on for a Q&A with Burns about her investment thesis, role change and plans as partner. TechCrunch: Before you were in venture, you held product roles at Venmo and Twitter.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Zappos also offers opportunities to learn about its company culture, which you can apply to your business. Brad Feld helped co-found the venture capital firm with one goal in mind: to help entrepreneurs. “We This presents out-of-towners with opportunities to connect with fellow startup leaders and potential investors.

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Andreessen Horowitz

JANUARY 23, 2024

And I am grateful for the entire partnership, especially Marc and Ben, for giving me the opportunity of a lifetime when they promoted me to be General Partner , ending the firm’s long standing rule of 9 years to only hire general partners who had been CEO’s or founders. Kobold Metals – My first deal as a general partner.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

Angel investments in 2022 equaled those from 2006 to 2011 combined. Family office investments increased by 5x , and corporate venture investments rose 6x , thus opening new capital avenues for founders who found it difficult to raise capital. Crowdfunding witnessed a 2.4x growth from 2020 to 2021.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 23, 2021

Real winners use failure as a learning opportunity. Most of the time the world around me appalled me, especially with regards to climate change, and yet, there would always be times when the optimistic would reign in and believe that these problems were an opportunity for my generation to solve.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

from Seoul when she was a child and started a global accelerator in 2015. This is a $5 trillion market opportunity that is hugely overlooked,” she told TechCrunch. The fund’s first close was in February 2020, but she had to stop when the global pandemic hit, and start deploying the capital into the portfolio.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Founded in 2015, Freshly is a New York City-based startup that offers healthy meals delivered to your home in weekly orders, which can then be prepared in a few minutes in your microwave or oven. Nestlé USA just announced that it has acquired Freshly for $1.5 food market and further positions Nestlé to win in the future.”

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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., That commitment to culture has overwhelmingly paid off, with pillars like above-standard wages and ample career opportunities translating into less churn, more continuity, and a galvanized team. Maryland, and Virginia.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

Germany’s Endeit Capital participated as a co-investor, alongside existing investors Capnamic Ventures and coparion. Founded in 2015 by Tobias Buxhoidt (CEO), Julian Krenge (CTO) and Anton Eder (COO), the startup has managed to bag such customers as Lidl, to which it provides automated personalized shipping messages.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

with co-investment from OSF Ventures, Sony Innovation Fund, and Dreampact Ventures. PhotoniCare has developed a patented imaging platform that provides growth opportunities beyond otology (study of the ear). iMCI) is a private, for profit investment and fund management company operating as a wholly owned subsidiary of i2E, Inc.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

For Mike Salguero, CEO and co-founder at ButcherBox , the problem and opportunity in the extraordinarily broken space of meat production and distribution simply could not be ignored. He hired an intern and launched a Kickstarter campaign in September of 2015, a decision made out of a desperation to never raise money again.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The round, which marks Fidelity’s first investment in an African company, also saw the participation from fintech giant Visa and London-based investment management firm Kingsway Capital. The founder says JUMO is focused on making it easier for capital providers to reach new customers at affordable prices.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

The investment was led by Ed Brakeman, a senior managing director at Bain Capital and Hans den Bieman, founder and ex-CEO of Mowi, one of the largest salmon businesses globally. Joseph Rehmann founded Victory Farms in 2015. They concluded that a unique opportunity to rebuild the fish value chain from scratch existed.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

From a diversity standpoint, the venture capital financing landscape remains incredibly imbalanced. Since 2015, Black and Latinx founders — who have fewer funding routes available to them to begin with — have raised just 2.4% of total venture capital invested, according to Crunchbase.

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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. EdgeQ , Kneron , and Hailo are among the dozens of upstarts vying for customers, the last of which nabbed $136 million in October as it doubles down on new opportunities.

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Onevest

MAY 12, 2015

Let’s explore: Curation focused startups and businesses in 2015 Curated startups and investment opportunities Curated investors The State of Curation in 2015 The get rich quick crew quickly carved out a tragic pitfall for amateur online entrepreneurs. Curation is critical for investors seeking investment opportunities.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Initialized Capital founder Garry Tan will become president and CEO of Y Combinator next year, the two organizations announced today. Thus entrepreneur is no stranger to early-stage investing – nor the famed accelerator to which he will soon run. Since inception, my goal has always been for Initialized to outlive its founders.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

When Brian Schiff, Sam Krut and Jacob Cooper founded the company in 2015, they were still undergraduates at Cornell University and it was initially an Uber-like social transportation app to help people find rides on college campuses where the transportation giant wasn’t operating. The funding round he refers to is $6.5

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Creative professionals continue to look for ways to monetize their talents and knowledge through online education platforms like CLASS101 that bring stable incomes and improve opportunities. Ko and four other co-founders established CLASS101 in 2018, which was pivoted from a tutoring service platform that was founded in 2015, Ko said.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

Existing backers Accel, ALLVP, Clocktower and new investor Mantis Venture Capital (founded by The Chainsmokers) also put money in the Series B. There is a growing number of them globally, including Scalable Capital, Bitpanda and Trade Republic in Europe. We want Flink to be the easiest way to invest, save and use your money.” .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The company has raised $80 million, a Series B led by Spectrum Equity, with previous backers Eight Roads, F-Prime Capital and Highgate Technology Ventures also participating. Founded in 2015, prior to this, OTA Insight had only raised $20 million. .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

This latest fund allows SpringTime managing partners Matt Blomstedt and Rich Maloy to ditch their consulting work to focus on investing full-time, and actually get paid for doing so, overcoming a financial hurdle that plagues many first-time fund managers but isn’t spoken about often. Blomstedt saw an opportunity.

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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. Milan tends to attract the lion’s share of VC funding — in 2019, startups located there received €311 million, according to NGP Capital. NTT data is investing in Calabria.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

Gloat , an internal marketplace for corporate talent, today announced that it raised $90 million in a Series D round led by Generation Investment Management, bringing the startup’s total raised to $192 million. ” Reuveni founded Gloat in 2015 alongside Amichai Schreiber and Danny Shteinberg. Vice President Al Gore.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The Seattle-based startup said Thursday it has raised $150 million from institutional investors including Morgan Stanley’s Counterpoint Global Fund, Fidelity Management & Research Company, TPG’s global impact investing platform The Rise Fund and funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates.

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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. After selling the food at markets in Brooklyn, she hooked up with wholesale to supply Fresh Direct with her products, and that rolled out nationally in 2015. Both Torch and Ohanian invested in previous rounds.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2023

Updated to note that the Microsoft investment closed in January. VC firms including Tiger Global, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive and K2 Global picking up new shares, according to documents seen by TechCrunch. A source tells us Founders Fund is also investing. The plan was to make this investment public next week.

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