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Great Question gets $2.5M seed round to make customer research easier

TechCrunch

Great Question’s seed round came from investors including Funders Club, January Capital, Nomo VC and Twenty-Two Ventures. Before founding Great Question, PJ Murray and Ned Dwyer sold their last startup , web developer marketplace Elto, to GoDaddy in 2015. We would talk to customers, but it wasn’t structured or consistent.”.

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TravelPerk’s breakout Business Platform gains $104M led by Softbank Vision Fund 2

American Entrepreneurship

TravelPerk was co-founded in 2015 by a highly seasoned entrepreneurial innovation team. With booking volumes approaching $2 billion and employees now over 1200, the latest lead funder Softbank has come on board with participation from existing investors, Kinnevik and Felix Capital.

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Case Study: The Dan River Region Ecosystem Development

Ecosystem Builder Hub

A small planning grant from DRF in 2015 brought many service providers together. We are also grateful for the flexibility from our funder in terms of adjusting to change in strategy to address challenges related to COVID-19,” Eva adds. We try not to operate in isolation and always explore new ideas and opportunities. Challenges.

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Silicon Valley is a surprisingly clubby ecosystem: FC's Alex Mittal

FundersClub

So how is Funders Club different than other VCs? So right around 2015, or so, 16, is when Ethereum, another digital currency, really started emerging. You talk about like finding or seeing some of the problems and inefficiencies and solving them, how is it different? Sure, so I'll start with like some of the similarities.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten VC

Jonathan Bragdon , CEO, describes Capacity as “a team of founders-turned-funders making non-dilutive, founder-aligned investments of $50-$300k in post-startup, post-revenue businesses planning to 2X revenues in 12-24 months. In 2015, they invested $1m (out of OATV Fund III) in 8 companie s as a pilot. —– Indie.vc

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten VC

Jonathan Bragdon , CEO, describes Capacity as “a team of founders-turned-funders making non-dilutive, founder-aligned investments of $50-$300k in post-startup, post-revenue businesses planning to 2X revenues in 12-24 months. In 2015, they invested $1m (out of OATV Fund III) in 8 companie s as a pilot. —– Indie.vc

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Data obscures positive trends in VC dollars reaching women-founded startups

TechCrunch

Specifically, we need to be tracking as metrics: (i) the number of first institutional round venture deals, (ii) the demographics of the founders of those companies and (iii) the composition of the funders on an annual cohort basis. for women founders and the overall first-financing market, respectively, for 2015-2020.². compared to 1.4x

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