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. LPs Still Believe Strongly in Venture Capital as a Diverse Source of Returns. That’s money that fuels our startup ecosystems.

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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

MAY 10, 2022

The fresh funds, led by SoftBank Ventures Asia , bring Seadronix’s the total round up to $8.3 ” The startup was founded in December 2015 by three founders: Park, Donghun Kim (co-CTO) and Hankeun Kim (co-CTO). The company just secured a $5.8

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Supply chain disruptions — triggered by factors including demand surges, high transportation costs and pandemic-related lockdowns — are expected to continue well into next year, experts predict. Companies are experiencing the brunt of the impact, with 36% of small businesses responding to a 2021 U.S. Last year saw $11.3

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

When Alloy was founded in 2015, its mission was to help banks and fintechs make better identity and risk decisions using its single API service and SaaS offering. . But over the past few years, Alloy has helped to lead a transformation in the degree of trust in disruptive fintech and partnerships.” billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

The round also includes previous investors Kickstart Fund, Cervin Ventures, New Ground Ventures, Bloomberg Beta and new entrants Peninsula Ventures & Forward VC. Founded in 2015, CloudApp aims to help teams share information faster through instantly shareable videos, gifs and screenshots.

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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. He has a deep history of investing in deep tech startups that have gone on to disrupt industries across AI, data, semiconductors, among others.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2022

That wasn’t a massive secret — Green has historically been quite public about his investments, like SmileDirectClub — but until this morning at TechCrunch Disrupt, he hadn’t previously named his go-to investing partners. Calacanis is an angel investor in various tech startups, including the mindfulness app Calm.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 8, 2017

I also invest in a really wide range of opportunities, so many of them don't look like you're typical venture deals. At the end of 2015, I backed a husband and wife team expecting their third kid to build a network of outdoor kids classes--not an Uber for kids classes, Classpass for kids classes or Airbnb for kids classes.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

As venture capital totals grow in Latin America , the region is about to see its leading champion go public. Per Crunchbase data , QED put capital into Nubank’s 2014 Series A, 2015 Series B, 2016 Series D and 2018 Series E, though there may be more dollars in play that we cannot see.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Previous backers in the company include Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Zeev Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Group 11. billion since its 2015 inception — about $780 million of which was secured during the pandemic. With the latest round, the company has raised a total of $1.3

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Taing founded Bokksu in 2015 and launched a Japanese snack subscription service in 2016. The funding was led by Valor Siren Ventures , with participation from Company Ventures , St. We are thrilled to partner with Bokksu as they scale their business,” said Jon Shulkin, partner and fund manager of Valor Siren Ventures. “In

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

Supply chain disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine is driving increased costs of goods and services, affecting not only the industrial sector (e.g., million since its inception in 2015. Its previous backers include SoftBank Ventures Asia and Activant Capital. and Europe.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The battle to win Startup Battlefield began long before TechCrunch Disrupt kicked off Tuesday. Without further ado, here are the five judges who will pick the 2021 Startup Battlefield winner: Kirsten Green is the founder and managing partner of Forerunner Ventures, a San Francisco-based VC firm she formed in 2010.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2020

After several failed startup attempts and nine years spent building Nuvemshop into Latin America’s answer to Shopify, the four co-founders of the company have managed to raise $30 million in venture capital funding as they look to expand their business. and managing director at Qualcomm Ventures Latin America.

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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., The Series B round comes on the back of its rapid growth. billion in sales by 2025 , from 9.9 billion in 2018.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Investors include Schoeller Holdings (the parent company behind Columbia Shipmanagement), Vineta Ventures, A-Round Capital, Flagship Founders and industry veterans Clasen Rickmers, managing partner at The Asian Spirit Steamship Company, and Justus Kniffka, managing director and CEO at shipping company Hanseatic Lloyd.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The venture capital scene in Africa has consistently grown, with an influx of capital from local and international investors reaching unprecedented heights in recent years. billion while Disrupt Africa, $496 million for the same year. of the total African VC funding counted by Disrupt Africa. Behind the numbers. billion in 2019.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

That’s why cyber-risk quantification (CRQ) “has slowly grown from a nice-to-have to become the foundation for addressing the most critical concerns about a business’ cybersecurity posture,” writes John Chambers, founder and CEO of JC2 Ventures. 2023 will be the year of cyber-risk quantification. Image Credits: ButcherBox.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

In a survey conducted long before the pandemic began (in 2015), large companies — those with revenues in the range of $500 to more than $1 billion — pegged variability as the top challenge that they faced. Forecasting, also known as demand variability, has long been a hurdle for businesses reliant on the global supply chain.

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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

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Sequoia Capital India, Insight Partners and Insignia Ventures Partners co-led the Series B round. Arriyan, Luqman Sungkar and Ginanjar Ibnu Solikhin co-founded the company in 2015 while studying at University of Indonesia. The funding brings Flip’s total capital raised to $65million. .

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 15, 2018

At Cross Culture Ventures we take a thematic approach to investing that we have coined 'cultural investing' - the impact of the convergence of global popular culture and consumer behavior on technology and innovation. We started to invest out of our inaugural fund, Cross Culture Ventures I in April 2015. Last words.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Electric bike sales boomed in 2020, a phenomenon driven by the COVID-19 pandemic and the disruption it delivered consumers’ daily lives. 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.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

By 2017, Duolingo would boast having 200 million users, which was double von Ahn’s goal when he first launched to the public on the TechCrunch Disrupt stage. 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.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

Flink , a Mexico City-based neobroker, has raised $57 million in a Series B round of funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. Existing backers Accel, ALLVP, Clocktower and new investor Mantis Venture Capital (founded by The Chainsmokers) also put money in the Series B.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

Participating investors in Thepeer’s seed round include RaliCap, Timon Capital, BYLD Ventures, Musha Ventures, Sunu and Uncovered Fund. to 573 , from 491 in 2019, according to local publication Disrupt Africa. African fintechs Chipper Cash and Stitch invested too. Last year, the number of African fintechs increased 17.3%

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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 Inbar spent about two decades building clean energy businesses before joining ArcTern. Visit liminalinsights.com for more information.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Fitbit was started in a previous startup era, raised about $65M in venture capital, went public in 2015, and reached heights of over a $4B market cap. 1/ High End And Low End Disruption – Fitbit ended up owning nearly one quarter of the wearables market.

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2021

million in a Series A round led by True Ventures. . Paul, Minnesota-based startup to $25 million since its 2015 inception. Puneet Agarwal, partner at True Ventures, says his firm doubled down on its investment in Upsie after witnessing its solid growth over the years. Upsie , a consumer warranty startup, has raised $18.2

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2023

Image Credits: Wellthy Jurist-Rosner founded Wellthy in 2015 (the startup actually launched as a Battlefield contestant at TechCrunch Disrupt that year ) to help others like herself who were juggling work and caregiving. During that time, she also held a full-time job as a marketing manager at Microsoft.

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TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2023

. — Mary Ann and Christine Busy, busy, busy It was a busy week in startup and venture lands, and the fintech space was no exception. In the venture world, I reported on Peter Ackerson’s departure from Fin Capital earlier this year and the fact that he has since started a new venture firm called Audere Capital.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Ripple: Disrupting the non-dairy milk market – Forbes. As Globes reports , our co-investors include Accelmed Partners, Alpha Capital, Maverick Ventures Israel, Mivtach Shamir, Dr. Judith Richter and Dr. Kobi Richter, David and Daniel Arison, and Mark Siegel, an executive at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and XPRIZE Foundation.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

This is a Series C and it’s being led by Balderton Capital out of London, with participation from Jerusalem Venture Partners, a previous backer. It’s raised around $103 million to date with other investors including Sound Ventures, Cisco and MizMaa. based out of New York and Chicago — has been around for a while.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

China’s efforts have been ongoing since around 2015, when the Edward Snowden revelations prompted anxiety over the extent of U.S. A disruptive technology like quantum computing will have massive industrial implications. Most promising European startups have a tendency not to grow on the continent due to inadequate venture capital.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Shop-Ware has been waiting for a year like 2020 since 2015. The startup, which sells software to neighborhood automotive shops to digitize their operations, had struggled to capture capital from venture firms. By 2015, she had a product and an incorporated company.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Ultimately, Atrium’s failure shows how difficult and unprofitable it could be to disrupt a traditional and complicated system. The startup targeted working professionals in cities, and raised only around $11 million in known venture capital. Periscope (2015-2020). Starsky Robotics (2015-2020). The Outline (2016-2020).

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