Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 22, 2017

It’s wonderful to see the expansion of venture capital across these geographies and especially at very healthy growth rates. A 50% growth rate sustained over 6 years implies 11x growth in venture capital investment during the period. This chart illustrates the depth of the capital pool available to startups.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

He is founder of Arowana , a B Corporation which invests in, operates, and grows sustainable companies. Both circumstances will manifest within the same company, often more than once in the journey of building it at pace into a sustainable enterprise. To be a 10X entrepreneur, you have to capitalize on both peaks and troughs.

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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 He started paying attention to the new generation of modern e-commerce companies showing up over the past five years. Now it is ready to expand and took in $8.5

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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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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

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. As an industry we’re not always as good as we could be about our own “creative destruction” to create the tomorrow of venture capital.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

The round was lead by Amazon Smbhav Venture Fund and was also participated by existing investors like Iron Pillar; Investcorp or the Investment Corporation of Dubai, which is the principal investment arm of the Government of Dubai; and Ascent Capital, among others. Government’s development finance institution – DFC.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

Pepea will target early-stage businesses that have been in existence for one to five years, and are generating revenues but yet to raise capital. On the other hand, Oxfam Novib, launched its first investment fund in 1996, and has since 2015, provided SMEs with access to finance through its Impact SME Development (iSME) program.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Some public tech companies sustain growth through internal efforts, but many use their cash reserves to acquire fast-growing startups. These public market cash reserves total $430B or so across the top 250 or so public tech companies, a massive war chest that will fuel startup M&A in 2015. The public market prizes growth.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

The round was led by an unnamed party, but round participants included Accel, Lakestar, HV Capital, Project A and Scania. Digital freight forwarder Forto raises another $50M in round led by Inven Capital. Sennder , a large digital road freight forwarder based out of Germany, has raised $160 million in Series D financing.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 23, 2021

A team of two young men who shared my passion for a sustainable future. By March 2015, I had stopped attending college and had started going to other colleges and industries, asking them to install solar. Arrogance is the highway to Doom Back in 2015, we were working ourselves to the brim.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

The new round from Cowen Sustainable Investments (CSI), labeled a Series B, follows the company reaching profitability in April 2020 and gives Quip more than $160 million in total funding since the company was founded in 2015. The company showcased its service at TechCrunch Disrupt NY’s Startup Alley in 2015.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

Enter Assent Compliance — a Canadian company focused on supply chain sustainability management. Interestingly, Assent was bootstrapped for the first five years of its life — from 2010 to 2015. For manufacturers in particular, managing intricate supply chains can be particularly challenging.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Register India’s SaaS-based logistics management platform Shipsy has secured US$25 million funding in its Series B financing round led by Z3 Partners and A91 Partners along with participation from Sequoia Capital India’s Surge. About Shipsy Shipsy was founded in 2015 by Soham Chokshi, Dhruv Agrawal, and Himanshu Gupta.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

” Both the firms raised capital in their most recent rounds at over $2.5 Image credits: Tiger Global “Returns on capital in India have sucked historically. “As a result, returns on capital for investors like us have been below average … way below. billion valuation. That compares to mid-30s in the U.S.

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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

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.

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Angel Capital Association

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Back to top The History of the ACA's Public Policy Efforts The Angel Capital Association was a nascent organization in 2009-2010 when Congress developed the bipartisan Dodd-Frank Act in response to the fallout of the great recession. This letter emphasized how important patents are to startup companies.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

million Series A2 funding round, led by climate tech fund ArcTern Ventures , joined by new investors Northvolt and Ecosystem Integrity Fund , and with continued support from Chrysalix Venture Capital , Good Growth Capital , University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners , Volta Energy Technologies , Impact Science Ventures , and Helios Climate Ventures.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Small businesses are the backbone of Southeast Asia’s economy, but many struggle to secure working capital loans because they don’t have traditional credit records or collateral, say the founders of Funding Societies. The company was founded in 2015 by Kelvin Teo and Reynold Wijaya after they met in Harvard Business School.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Existing investors, including co-founder of Facebook Dustin Moskovitz, Peter Thiel’s Mithril Capital and notable sustainable tech investor Capricorn Investment Group also participated in the round. Round-leader Altman has been involved in the company as an investor and chairman since 2015. And then what do you do?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Armed with an idea for how to do things differently, the company ran a Kickstarter campaign back in 2015, which drew the attention of its first thousand customers. His first company was CustomMade.com, which raised $30 million in venture capital from First Round Capital, Google and Atlas Ventures in a series of funding rounds.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

Venture capital firms continue to raise new funds, at what seems like lightning speed. The firm invests in companies working on issues of livability, sustainability or economic vitality and often have a lot of regulatory and political challenges. billion earlier this year. in half a year. VMG Catalyst. Even more new funds.

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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. When Goslinga met Njeru in 2008, she worked for Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture (SFSA). Co-CEOs with agricultural backgrounds. The pair both act as co-CEOs.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

It has raised nearly $1 billion since its 2015 inception and was valued at $2.5 Its backers include institutions such as Lone Pine Capital, Warburg Pincus and The Rise Fund, as well as U2’s Bono and NBA player Russell Westbrook. and “Economic conditions necessitate an added focus on capital preservation.

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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

JULY 19, 2022

. “We are convinced that startups will continue to be key in providing the innovation required to finally bring the digital world to the real world, and that they will help produce industrial goods in a sustainable manner and thus strengthen supply chains and tackle climate change.”. We did our first investment in January 2015.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

In June 2015, Duolingo raised a $45 million Series D round led by Laela Sturdy of Google Capital ( later rebranded CapitalG ), valuing the company at $470 million. She said to me, ‘Look, it worked for you to continue getting bigger and bigger checks from venture capital,’” von Ahn said. “‘But

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2021

He soon set up his own investment fund, Challenjers Capital , convinced that the next big tech opportunity in China was in tech’s application to everyday consumer products. China doesn’t need any more good platforms,” Tang told his team in an internal email in 2015, “but it does need good products.” Other investors noticed as well.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 28, 2024

X 2015 20.1% - 2016 43.0% X 2022 24.9% - 2023 46.2% - 2024 55.4% - The relatively constant drumbeat of smaller acquisitions provides liquidity essential for the venture capital ecosystem, both for venture capital firms to recycle and reinvest and also for founders to generate significant outcomes and potentially try again.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

Click Travel, which is based in Birmingham, was founded all the way back in 1999 — and appears to have raised relatively little venture capital over the years, per Crunchbase. It has also attracted a large amount of external investment (totalling just under $300M) over its shorter run (founded in 2015).

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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. 2015 Waterdog We’re disrupting the traditional channel model by fundamentally changing the way the partner and reseller relationship works. Convenient Cards Convenient Cards, Inc.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

Gearset , a tooling provider for Salesforce software, today announced that it raised $55 million in a funding tranche led by Silversmith Capital Partners.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

Giving EV batteries a second life for sustainability and profit. Battery Resourcers was founded in 2015 after being spun out from Massachusetts’ Worcester Polytechnic Institute. The company has previously received support from the National Science Foundation and the U.S.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Whether or not he actually said it, “buy land, they ain’t making any more of it,” is one of Mark Twain’s best quotes on capitalism. billion, a 4x increase from 2015. Meet retail’s new sustainability strategy: Personalization. Meet retail’s new sustainability strategy: Personalization.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Starting in 2015, IndieBio has provided resources to founders solving complex challenges with biotech, from fake meat to sustainability. As part of the accelerator, each participating company receives $250,000 in capital, numerous other services and access to lab space. Leaving the $3.2

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2023

VCs to recommerce startups: Let’s pop some tags Image Credits: Kinga Krzeminska (opens in a new window) / Getty Images Thanks in large part to Gen Z’s interest in sustainable shopping, recommerce is soaring to new heights, and VCs are looking for the come up.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Perhaps the first year of the pandemic was simply the final straw for so many companies that were already treading water — or maybe an influx of capital sources has kept heads above water. Chanje (2015-2021). Katerra (2015-2021). Loon (2015-2021). Image Credits: Chanje. Total raised: $2 billion.

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