TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

Interestingly, Assent was bootstrapped for the first five years of its life — from 2010 to 2015. Assent enables deep insight and rapid transparency to help ensure products are made with environmental and human rights standards necessary to compete — and win — in markets of the future.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

When I first started in VC more than 10 years ago, I was told never to invest in a company building on top of another company’s platform. I am sure many of you recall Facebook shutting down its API access back in 2015, or the uproar Apple caused when it decided to change the commission it was charging app developers in 2020.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2015

As a VC (especially based in LA), I see hundreds of video apps. The backend services to enable scrolling, click-and-watch, scroll forward with minimal buffering, etc. Imagine if your friends could all contribute the Burning Man 2015 album and create a group story. Mark Suster (@msuster) April 23, 2015. is non trivial.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2021

For some context, Sagan is no stranger to the startup world, having co-founded and served as managing partner of Arc Labs, an early-stage credit fund focused on lending to technology-enabled businesses. VC is highly dilutive and should be used for ROI activities such as hiring engineers and building great teams,” Sagan told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

At first, Effy wasn’t a tech-enabled startup. In 2015, Effy acquired Quelle énergie , a VC-backed startup that could calculate how much money you would save by isolating your roof, changing your windows and more. “Our story starts 15 years ago,” founder and CEO Frédéric Utzmann told me. “We

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

Does the traditional VC financing model make sense for all companies? VC Josh Kopelman makes the analogy of jet fuel vs. motorcycle fuel. VCs sell jet fuel which works well for jets; motorcycles are more common but need a different type of fuel. . Absolutely not. So what is Revenue Based Investing? He said, . “[W]e

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

Stephen Harper, the country’s prime minister from 2006 to 2015, famously quipped that the region suffered from “ a culture of defeatism.” VC firms have taken notice: notable investors in Atlantic Canadian startups include Breakthrough Energy Ventures , a fund supported by Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

billion last year — up 153% year-over-year in terms of global VC deal value — and include a range of outfits, from payments companies to digital banks to corporate spend players. billion in loans for companies like Affirm and Upstart in 2015 alone. Cross River Bank gets unconventional validation with a $28M VC round.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

More layoffs : Patreon, a company that enables content creators to offer monthly payment subscriptions to customers, confirmed that it let go of five people from its security team. Startups and VC. EDT, we’re talking with M13 partner Anna Barber about what today’s founders can learn from the dot-com bubble bursting.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Noteworthy, Gophr’s co-founder and CEO, Seb Robert, tells me the 2015-founded company reached monthly net profitability around 3 years ago and was net profitable for the whole of last year. The company had previously raised £1 million in two rounds, including £500,000 from publicly-listed Auctus Alternative Investments.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

Then, Latka got a cold email from some VCs and ended up raising $2 million at a $10.5 I got really diluted and sold the company in 2015,” he said. “It “I bootstrapped it to like a million bucks in ARR,” he recalls. million post-money valuation in 2014. “I It was a terrible sale — at less than 1x ARR.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

In total, it has raised $409 million since being founded back in 2015. VC firm General Catalyst, a new investor in the business, along with existing backer Kinnevik. “TravelPerk Events enables remote and hybrid teams to connect in real life,” runs its marketing spiel for the tool. “As

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

TechCrunch has been covering the demo days of the seed-stage venture firm Pear VC since 2015. Its platform aims to enable businesses to host meetings and events in some of the world’s most unique venues. There we are in the front row in 2016 , surrounded by investors, typing away.). Founded in: 2020. HQ: Barcelona, Spain.

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 26, 2022

Better Place was building the charging infrastructure to enable mass adoption of electric vehicles; it was led by a charismatic CEO, raised gobs of capital before that was the norm, and later imploded spectacularly. We originally filed to go public in March of 2014, and didn’t actually become a public company until January of 2015.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2021

However, a fter his experience using N26 while visiting a friend in Berlin in 2015, his eyes opened to the possibilities of digital banking in Egypt. Like any digital bank globally, Telda enables customers to create a free account to send and receive money. Image Credits: Telda.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2021

In a four-part series, he explores the origins and operations of Bowery Farming, a profitable startup that has raised almost $500 million since 2015 to create new tech and facilities that raise leafy greens sold in nearly 900 markets. Heavily VC-backed salad chain Sweetgreen heads toward public markets. Any advice? Eager Entrepreneur.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

So you’re interested in raising capital from a Revenue-Based Investor VC. Which VCs are comfortable using this approach? This structure offers some of the benefits of traditional equity VC, without some of the negatives of equity VC. Investment Criteria: B2B SaaS or tech-enabled services with proven, recurring contracts.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

The increase is driven both by larger seed round sizes enabling companies to raise later, hence more MRR, and also the greater expectations in the fundraising market given larger check sizes sought by founders. 2014 and 2015 were two of the largest VC investment years in the last 20. Second, unit economics matter.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2023

How can fintech startups outlast the VC winter? When we started out in 2015, we were primarily providing back office payment infrastructure for banks and needed an apt team, hence the name TeamApt. Peter Hazlehurst, co-founder and CEO of BaaS startup Synctera , shares his thoughts in this TC+ article here.

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Onevest

MARCH 19, 2015

The SEC seems quite okay with postponing finalization until October 2015. Otherwise called the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, the legislation modifies a series of laws that enable startups to seek funds using methods that have been illegal since FDR's Securities Act of 1933. Accredited investors are only 1% of the US population.

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FundersClub

JUNE 12, 2017

They seek a VC model where dogma is less of a drag on the enterprise, and investment discovery can come from a wide network of smaller investors—mini LPs, in a way. Founders needn’t have revenue to draw VC investment, but they do need some way to show that they’ve validated the model. These are angels and VCs.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 14, 2022

In announcing its latest financing, the company said it has had more than 400,000 users since its 2015 inception and more than $3 billion in funding across an ever-evolving suite of investment products. In June of 2021, I covered Yieldstreet’s $100 million Series C at “near unicorn” status. And elsewhere.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 6, 2015

US VC backed startups in 1998 grew revenue 63% per year on average. Withthe two venture backed IPOs though August 1, 2015, the trend shows no signs of abatement. First, the acquisition channels startups use to acquire customers address many more potential customers and enable far more cost effective marketing than twenty years ago.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Also participating in the funding round: H&M Group, Virgin Group, plus the founders of Transferwise, Vinted, Squarespace, RedHat, and entertainment industry investors including Will Smith’s Dreamers VC and at least one other person who Printify has asked us not to name for unspecified legal reasons.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

This sees Elevio’s own VC investors exit, and Elevio’s founders and employees incentivised as part of the Dixa family, according to Dixa co-founder and CEO, Mads Fosselius. The deal is said to be worth around $15 million, in a combination of cash and Dixa shares.

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Don Dodge

APRIL 6, 2015

None of the local VC firms invested. from Sequoia Capital and have gone on to raise over $1 Billion from VC investors. Dropbox is expected to IPO in 2015 at a valuation exceeding $10 Billion. Classic VC funding is a well-understood model. They got their initial funding of $1.2M What we're doing is very different.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

2021 saw phenomenal returns for our industry and it topped off more than a decade of unprecedented VC growth. That was a question I had been asked by LPs in 2015 when we began our Early Growth program. In our best-performing companies we often write follow-on checks totaling up to $10–15 million out of our early-stage fund.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 13, 2019

Using the proliferation of newly GPS-enabled mobile devices to enable taxi hailing and beat out stagnant incumbent providers was always going to be a big win for consumers. It provided a better service than existing cabs were going to be able to do for at least several years—cutting out lots of unnecessary overhead in the system.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

“China doesn’t need any more good platforms,” Tang told his team in 2015, “but it does need good products.”. Leveraging China’s robust distribution network, lighting-fast manufacturing capabilities and a vast pool of data that enables holistic digitization, Genki Forest sells more than 30% of its products online.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

Investing internationally, the firm went from a de facto family office to a multi-LP VC firm. Somehow we just ended up in VC. Back when we started, around 2012, there was a lack of VC investors who [were] willing to invest very early stage in hardware technology, particularly in 3D printing. Today we are a team of 10 people.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2022

Egyptian fintech Paymob , which enables merchants to accept digital payments online and in-store, announced today it has raised $50 million in Series B funding. “Our mission is that we want to help the merchants grow,” explained Shawky, who launched the Cairo-based fintech in 2015 with Alain El Hajj and Mostafa Menessy.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Former Atomico and SoftBank VC Carolina Brochado has joined EQT to help build its new growth fund. Since launching with 10 restaurants in its home city in 2015, five years on Wolt has expanded to 23 countries and 120 cities, mostly in Europe but also including Japan and Israel.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2021

An additional $15 million was raised from the same investors led by Dubai-based VC firm Global Ventures. “ Their market opportunity is also huge; Egypt’s transformation to a cashless society is being enabled by the unique products Paymob has built.” million Series A round. In July 2020, Paymob raised $3.5

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

The company confirmed to TechCrunch that it has raised a $6 million bridge round led by pan-African VC firm CRE Ventures. Ademola Adesina and Anu Adasolum have been at the helm of Rensource since the company started in 2015; Adesina as founder and CEO and Adasolum, COO.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

For IndieBio, a science and biotech accelerator run by VC firm SOSV, this unprecedented year offered high stakes and new challenges. Starting in 2015, IndieBio has provided resources to founders solving complex challenges with biotech, from fake meat to sustainability.

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