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. As you’ll hear, in 2014 and 2015, freight was ready for reinvention.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 8, 2015

In the last six months, VCs have invested more than $57B according to Mattermark data , which puts 2015 on pace to exceed 2000 as the year the most venture capital will be deployed, ever. Sectors receiving an increasing amount of investment include biotechnology, financial technology, healthcare, and social networking.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 25, 2024

Dr. Ramanathan is the Founding Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer of Black Star Fund , an early-stage venture capital fund. In May, Dr. Ramanathan will join the ACA Summit of Angel Investing , three days of quality content, interactive discussions and vibrant networking to elevate your angel investing experience.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The newly acquired funds are expected to be used for network expansion, infrastructure enhancements, and sorting and warehouse capabilities reinforcement. Established in 2015, J&T Express has steadily grown its presence in the logistics sector. J&T Express, with backing from investors like Chinese tech giant Tencent , U.S.-based

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

Network effects have evolved, moving away from the traditional physical spaces to digital ones. 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. the free YC Startup School courses).

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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. Each year, starting in mid-2012 through mid-2015, these sectors have grown their investment dollars by more than 145%, according to Mattermark data.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Sagi Eliyahu co-founded Tonkean in 2015 and has since raised money from some top investors, including Joanne Chen from Foundation Capital. Eliyahu started Tonkean in 2015 as a no-code development platform. The company raised its seed round in 2019, adding Foundation Capital GP Joanne Chen to its board of directors.

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HPA

JUNE 29, 2021

The Series E financing was led by Bain Capital Ventures, with participation from Hyde Park Angels, SoftBank, Menlo Ventures, Hyde Park Venture Partners and Silicon Valley Bank. ShipBob , the leading cloud-based ecommerce logistics platform, announced $200 million in funding at over $1B valuation. We look forward to the continued growth ahead.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

AUGUST 25, 2020

In 2015, she was able to merge these two passions together to create her company, Beleaf. The YLAI Network team spoke with her to discuss the success of her business, the challenges she has faced, and what she has in store for the future. Advice for Network members. By Angie Garozzo. Whatever idea you have, go for it.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 25, 2021

Inspired by her inclusive mission, the YLAI Network team asked her a few questions about how she advocates for and empowers members of her community and how she recommends you become an agent of change. Can you discuss your path to entrepreneurship? What is the mission of Masshii? . government.

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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

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Fintech-focused investor Tonic Private Equity led the Series G round along with returning backers, including Korea Development Bank (KDB), Altos Ventures, Goodwater Capital, Greyhound Capital, Aspex Management, Bond Capital, and DUMAC. Korea Investment & Securities participated in the latest funding as well. million (229.3

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

The report also pinpoints other metrics such as fixed and mobile broadband connections and mobile cellular network coverage. These markets make up 32% of Africa’s population, 51% of the continent’s mobile network connections, 50% of its professional developers and 51% of its GDP. The continent’s investment story.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 5, 2015

Anyway, 2015 marks a couple of big career anniversaries for me. Who''s the VC that everyone *isn''t* trying to network with. I was down to the last few weeks of capital at my startup, after almost two years of work. They don''t measure skills, network, and the changing nature of the ecosystem around you.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Helped merge company with Seedling – on track to do $20 million combined revenue in 2015 – will now become Chairman). As a result we need somebody well networked into these communities already. Her network from her educational institutions alone has friends in all of the top tech, media & banking institutions.

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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. This funding will allow the Kenyan-based company to expand its business into Rwanda, DRC and Tanzania.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

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. These include burnishing your communication and networking skills. now the parent company of TechCrunch — acquired in 2015.

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HPA

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Hyde Park Angels has been an investor in ShipBob since the Series A, and other previous investors include Menlo Ventures , Bain Capital Ventures , Hyde Park Venture Partners and Y Combinator. This round of funding will enable ShipBob to expand its software program, increase its customer base and scale its global fulfillment network.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

from Seoul when she was a child and started a global accelerator in 2015. 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. Chang’s plan is to deploy capital into 30 new investments and keep some back for follow-on investments.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

This branchless banking model extends financial services to the last mile via a network of agents. Aruwa Capital Management led the equity-and-debt round, with participation from HAVAÍC and AAIC. Aruwa Capital Management led the equity-and-debt round, with participation from HAVAÍC and AAIC. million pre-Series A investment.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2021

Baffle was founded in 2015 to help thwart the increasing threats to enterprise assets in public and private clouds. Securing IT infrastructure — networks, devices, databases, lakes and warehouses — is never complete.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

Lilt , a provider of AI-powered business translation software, today announced that it raised $55 million in a Series C round led by Four Rivers, joined by new investors Sorenson Capital, CLEAR Ventures and Wipro Ventures. San Francisco, Calfornia-based Lilt was co-founded by Green and John DeNero in 2015. million.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The new pool of capital will be invested across startups in sectors including fintech, insurtech, healthcare, logistics and supply chain. Blomstedt told TechCrunch that he originally got the idea for SpringTime after moving to Colorado in 2015 after a career in the energy business in Texas. The above two examples back that up.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2022

Existing investors, including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital India, Salesforce Ventures , 3One4 Capital and SCB 10X also participated in the round, which pushes Darwinbox’s all-time raise to over $110 million and values it at over $1 billion, the six-year-old startup said. Image Credits: Darwinbox.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

The financing included participation from new investor Crosslink Capital and existing backers NewView Capital, Glynn Capital, U.S. Venture Partners, Wing Venture Capital, Uncork Capital, Slow Capital, Susa Ventures and others. . million since its 2015 inception.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Prosus Ventures and Lugard Road Capital are co-leading the round, with previous investors Slack Fund and Acequia Capital also participating. Prosus Ventures and Lugard Road Capital are co-leading the round, with previous investors Slack Fund and Acequia Capital also participating.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

David Perry and Jason Goldberg co-founded the company in 2015 and built a cross-store selling and influencer commerce platform that is used by more than 7 million influencers and 30,000 brands, like Blendjet, Arizona Iced Tea and Chubbies Shorts. It will be used to grow Carro’s team of 50 employees, product development and network expansion.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Since being founded in 2015, the company has amassed a customer list that includes AppFolio, HotDoc, Pitch, Kumospace and Teamflow, and its customers report seeing up to 80% fewer video call errors after using Daily, Kwindla Hultman Kramer, co-founder and CEO of Daily, told TechCrunch via email. video chat API service. Image Credits: Daily.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

The round was led by Pan-African early-stage venture capital firm, TLcom Capital , with participation from nonprofit Women’s World Banking. The raise comes after Pula closed $1 million in seed investment from Rocher Participations with support from Accion Venture Lab, Omidyar Network and several angel investors in 2018. .

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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. Its main marketing channels thus far have been social media marketing and the use of game ad networks.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Existing investors Durable Capital Partners LP and Vulcan Capital also participated in the round. That changed in 2015, after Rad Power founder and CEO Mike Radenbaugh teamed up with friend Ty Collins and relaunched as a direct-to-consumer business. Rowe Price Associates. The funding round — the largest of a U.S.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 25, 2022

With a focus on SME Banking, Bank Index is a privately-owned national Bank with a strong nation-wide footprint of 53 offices networks in major commercial areas across Jabodetabek, Java, Sumatra, Bali and Batam. The company has facilitated more than S$3 billion in working capital through more than 5 million MSME loan transactions.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Initialized Capital was venture capitalist Garry Tan’s answer to a need first highlighted by Y Combinator. As a partner at the accelerator from 2010 to 2015, Tan spent time working with companies to better understand what they needed from investors after they graduated. “I Today, Initialized Capital manages over $3.2

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Wasabi launched just a few years ago, in 2015. L2 Point Management led with participation from Cedar Pine and return investors Fidelity Management & Research Company and Forestay Capital. ” Friend and Flowers joined forces in 2015 to start Wasabi, when Friend was still the CEO of cloud backup company Carbonite. .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

Amazon launched AWS Private 5G so companies can build their own 4G networks…for now, Paul writes. This is something that has been in the works since late 2021 , and the company said eventually there will be capabilities for 5G networks. The study found that Facebook lost like half of its users aged 13–17 since 2015, Amanda reports.

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

PV Grows A collaborative network dedicated to enhancing the ecological and economic sustainability and vitality of the Pioneer Valley food system. Netshield Harden your network and cover your assets with ironclad network access control and vulnerability. management. Convenient Cards Convenient Cards, Inc.

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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. So he began the process of raising capital for his own venture firm, Cambrian Ventures. Now, it will be able to provide investment capital, as well. .

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