Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Something happened in the past 7 years in the startup and venture capital world that I hadn’t experienced since the late 90’s — we all began praying to the God of Valuation. How might our next phase of the journey seem brighter, even with more uncertain days for startups and capital markets? What happened? There was no money train.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2020

James Sutcliffe is the founder and CEO of The Founding Network , a collaboration platform for high-growth founders. If I were to pick one thing that unites the global tech scene in terms of culture I would point to the respect and reverence accorded to startup founders. A similar study conducted in 2015 by Dr. Michael A.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The risks of evolving markets add to the immense responsibility founders feel for their company and employees. Further, 65% of high potential startups fail due to interpersonal issues in the cofounder partnership. Here are five reasons entrepreneur therapy can improve startup culture and founder performance: 1.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

As the Latin American startup scene has matured, founders and executives of multi-billion dollar companies in the region have started to move on to new ventures. One of its co-founders is Ariel Lambrecht, who also helped start mobility startup 99, Brazil’s first unicorn.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

There is an unprecedented amount of information or knowledge that is now freely available to guide founders (e.g., the free YC Startup School courses). Digital communities and social platforms such as Twitter, Signal NFX, YC’s co-founder matching, and Slack communities (e.g.,

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HPA

MARCH 22, 2024

Since HPA led Packback’s Seed Round in 2015 , the company has empowered over 1.5M Packback has been a foundational startup in building Chicago’s startup ecosystem. “We’re grateful to have found a partner with a shared passion for education and deep empathy for the experience of the educators we support.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

These professionals often receive inquiries from founders, equity investment firms and venture capitalists looking for ways to save on or avoid capital gains taxes on future business sales. This change was made permanent by the Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes Act of 2015, signed into law on December 18, 2015.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2020

LeafLink is today announcing it raised a $40 million Series C financing round, led by Founders Fund with participation from Thrive Capital, Nosara Capital and Lerer Hippeau. This financing round is Founder Fund’s largest technology investment in the cannabis space. “The U.S.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Indian startup FreshToHome, which sells fresh fish and meat to consumers in the South Asian market and the Middle East region, has courted a new backer: Amazon. Amazon, through its India-focused Smbhav Venture Fund , has led a $104 million Series D financing round in the Bengaluru-headquartered startup, the two said Tuesday.

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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 leads $77M round for healthy meal startup Freshly. Nestlé USA just announced that it has acquired Freshly for $1.5

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 11, 2023

Register Vietnamese edtech startup MindX has announced raising $15 million in a series B funding round, led by education-focused private equity fund Kaizenvest, to continue its mission of nurturing and empowering Vietnamese innovators through technology.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Surprisingly, however, in spite of the fact that we’re still very much in the throes of a global pandemic, 2021 hasn’t been punctuated by as many high-profile losses in the startup world as the year prior. This is a major sputtering in what has been an otherwise remarkable year for robotic startups. Chanje (2015-2021).

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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. But which lesser known startup sectors are starting to raise venture dollars? Where are founders finding unique opportunities to innovate? Email startups raised 22% less.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

Founded in 2015, the Boston-based startup started making waves a few years back as a spinout of MIT mechanical engineering students. The startup notes, “our Spyce restaurants will stay open at this time.” ” Sweetgreen plans to eventually incorporate Spyce’s technology into its restaurants. “We

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

Sendy , a Kenyan logistics startup that enabled retailers to purchase FMCGs directly from manufacturers, among other services, is shutting down its operations and exploring a sale of its assets, TechCrunch has learned. Kenyan logistics startup Sendy raises $20M round backed by Toyota Furthermore, the pool of potential buyers is small.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Even in a non-hell year, running a successful startup is a tremendous lift. It’s not a fun task, but it seems worthwhile to commemorate the startups that have closed up shop over the past 12 months. The startup even returned some of its $75.5 We’ve put this list together for several years now. Atrium (2017-2020).

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Funding of women-founded startups remains significantly lower than those that are gender-mixed While women entrepreneurs are making significant strides in startup formation, they continue to struggle to gain access to funding on par with men. venture firms allocated only 22% of their deals to female-founded startups.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

All of the 40 companies’ 92 founders were male. based founders, 35 were white* American; four were white immigrant/first generation, from France, Ukraine, Russia and Iran; and four were Indian immigrant/first generation. Of the 19 Western Europe/Israel-based founders, all were white. Of the 43 U.S.-based

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Nigerian mobility tech startup Metro Africa Xpress Inc. ( The startup told TechCrunch that it will use the funding to enter Ghana and Egypt by the end of the first quarter of 2022, and other additional markets in Francophone, East and Southern Africa by the close of the same year. Chinedu Azodoh is the startup’s other co-founder.

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

At the DEMO conference, Danielle Morrill, the founder and CEO of Mattermark presented an impressive statistic. Seed, Series A, Series B and Later Stage startups employ 1M people, up from 650,000 just six months ago, according to Mattermark’s data sources. Mattermark’s employment statistics proxy the startup formation rate.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

Paris-originated VC Breega wasn’t enormously well known in the VC world (it only closed its first fund in 2015) until, perhaps, it started attracting attention with its second €110 million seed fund, just under a year go. Ben Stanway, founder and co-CEO of Moneybox says this “acted like an extension of our own team.”.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2022

Doing so ascribes all the fundraising success and the leadership work underpinning it to the founders who are men, effectively propagating gender bias. Of 4,375 deals, 3,659 disclosed founder identities, and 895 were either women-led or led by individuals of both genders.). (Of The rest is noise. compared to 1.4x compared to 1.4x

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Over the past couple of years, there’s been an overlap between tech and art, fueling a growing interest of movie, music and sports stars investing in tech startups. Mr. Eazi (founder of Empawa Africa and investor in PawaPay). According to him, powering artists and people in the creative space should be done in a startup/VC manner.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2022

An ambitious Chinese startup wants a slice of the flourishing global work automation market. Guanchun Wang, Laiye’s founder and CEO, saw the “value of artificial intelligence” in the years he worked at Baidu’s smart speaker department after his film discovery startup was sold to the Chinese search engine giant.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Spain’s government has agreed on the details of a draft startup law — passing the baton to the parliament to debate and potentially amend the plan ahead of a vote to turn it into actual law. Startups will also be able to use an online portal to make business declarations and access benefits, per the release.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Investment has also trickled down to Africa, with large checks going into growth-stage startups. In 2015, the three co-founders launched Kangpe, a telemedicine-focused startup in Nigeria with a “doctor in your pocket” slogan. The six-year-old startup said it has averaged a 3.5x Image Credits: Reliance Health.

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Y Combinator

APRIL 17, 2024

Visiting Group Partners help advise founders during the batch by sharing their own experiences and lessons learned building companies. Andrew Miklas Andrew is the co-founder and former CTO of PagerDuty (S10), a digital operations platform used by thousands of businesses to coordinate their responses to mission-critical issues.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Cryptocurrency pioneer and early Bitcoin thought-leader Diana Biggs has joined Swiss-based startup Valour , which lets investors easily buy digital assets through their bank or broker. ” Johan Wattenström, the founder of Valour, said: “Diana is the perfect candidate to lead the company through this next phase of growth and expansion.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Pula , a Kenyan insurtech startup that specialises in digital and agricultural insurance to derisk millions of smallholder farmers across Africa, has closed a Series A investment of $6 million. So the startup instead partners with banks. Pula is solving this problem by using technology and data. Image Credits: Pula.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

The startup plans to expand into 16 states within Nigeria as it moves to grow beyond Lagos, the economic hub of the West African country. Drugstoc was founded in 2015 by Opara and Yehia, but its history dates back to 2010 when the duo founded Integra Health, a hospital management company based on Yehia’s master’s degree project.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Why were there only two Midwest startups on LinkedIn’s list of the top 50 startups on the rise? Cameo, based in Chicago (as well as remotely ), and Seamless.AI, based in Columbus , are really awesome startups, and we were so happy to see them on the list. We just think LinkedIn missed a couple more major Midwest players.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

As the demand for AI-powered apps grows, startups developing dedicated chips to accelerate AI workloads on-premises are reaping the benefits. He has a deep history of investing in deep tech startups that have gone on to disrupt industries across AI, data, semiconductors, among others.” After emerging from stealth in 2019, Sima.ai

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propel(x)

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

It is important to consider doing something similar if you are thinking about investing in a startup. Legal and corporate due diligence , which involves a detailed investigation on the startup, the founders, contracts, corporate structure, product, compliance, contracts, offering, and more. What is due diligence?

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 1, 2023

I want to focus this post on the macro environment for tech, startups, web3, and climate because that is where my head is at right now. With that macro view in mind, what would that mean for tech, startups, and web3? Startups are going to have a tough year in 2023.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2021

Alexa von Tobel, co-founder and managing partner of Inspired Capital, will be joining TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 taking place September 21-23 to help judge the startups competing in Startup Battlefield. million users, LearnVest was acquired by Northwestern Mutual in May 2015 for $250 million. that highlights entrepreneurs.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

Existing backer Redpoint eventures , which first put money in Olist in 2015, also participated in the latest round. With this latest infusion, Olist has now raised more than $126 million since its 2015 inception. This round is reportedly its last before the company plans to go public, according to Bloomberg.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

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. Endeit Capital plans to boost European B-stage startups with its new €250M growth fund.

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