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. Where are founders finding unique opportunities to innovate? Semiconductor investment fell 31% per year. Space travel startups look to conquer the final frontier.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Zappos also offers opportunities to learn about its company culture, which you can apply to your business. This presents out-of-towners with opportunities to connect with fellow startup leaders and potential investors. The post The Four Cities Every Startup Should Invest in Visiting appeared first on THE BLOG.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

with co-investment from OSF Ventures, Sony Innovation Fund, and Dreampact Ventures. PhotoniCare has developed a patented imaging platform that provides growth opportunities beyond otology (study of the ear). iMCI) is a private, for profit investment and fund management company operating as a wholly owned subsidiary of i2E, Inc.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

In any job you either find leadership opportunities for your best people BEFORE they ask or other people start asking them to become leaders somewhere else. The core of the investing job of course is investing dollars into startup companies and helping as a mentor, advisor and board member on the companies in which you’ve invested.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 31, 2020

With this in mind, ThrivingDollars has been addressing the need for financial literacy in Jamaica by simplifying and disseminating quality financial education that covers key topics such as budgeting, saving, debt management, and elimination, investing, insurance, and retirement and estate planning.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

billion, about four times more than they did in 2015. This begs the question: Who exactly is investing in Southeast Asia? Alibaba has backed Akulaku, M-Pay (eMonkey), DANA, Wave Money and Mynt (GCash), while Tencent has invested in Voyager Innovations (PayMaya), SHAREit, iflix, Ookbee and Sanook. Regional VC investment grew 5.2

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

AUGUST 18, 2020

Invest in yourself, and your hard work will blossom.”. In the time since TransWave’s beginnings, Neish has made sure to focus on setting up roles of ‘ambassadors’ to support the work of the organization and provide more opportunities for the local community. “I TransWave has come a long way since its formation in 2015.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 11, 2023

Private Property swiftly emerged as the most frequented “for sale by owner” property site in Africa, attracting external investment, orchestrating numerous acquisitions, and scaling with remarkable speed. In 2015, WeThinkCode , a software development training academy with a purpose, was born.

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Andreessen Horowitz

JANUARY 23, 2024

And I am grateful for the entire partnership, especially Marc and Ben, for giving me the opportunity of a lifetime when they promoted me to be General Partner , ending the firm’s long standing rule of 9 years to only hire general partners who had been CEO’s or founders. Kobold Metals – My first deal as a general partner.

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Haystack

APRIL 10, 2018

. “Pre-Seed” is somewhat of a controversial term in the investing world, triggering reactions questions its validity, its effectiveness, and even its contribution. Ask 101 seed investors for their definition of “pre-seed” or the various phases in seed and you’ll get 101 answers.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

Dan Lewis launched Convoy in 2015 into an established industry dominated by several legacy businesses. We’re thrilled to have him on TechCrunch Live this week, along with Chris Howard, founding partner at Fuel Capital, which invested in Convoy’s seed round. As you’ll hear, in 2014 and 2015, freight was ready for reinvention.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 23, 2021

Real winners use failure as a learning opportunity. Most of the time the world around me appalled me, especially with regards to climate change, and yet, there would always be times when the optimistic would reign in and believe that these problems were an opportunity for my generation to solve.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

million investment to help revolutionize healthcare efficiency worldwide. The investment enables Navenio to build upon its proven technology platform and demonstrated customer value to accelerate momentum in healthcare and beyond. The round was led by Oxford Science Enterprises, and saw Navenio’s existing investors, including G.K.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

from Seoul when she was a child and started a global accelerator in 2015. This is a $5 trillion market opportunity that is hugely overlooked,” she told TechCrunch. Chang’s plan is to deploy capital into 30 new investments and keep some back for follow-on investments. Chang is an angel investor who moved to the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2023

But is it possible for a smaller open source project to find its way into this land of commercial opportunity? And investments in open source products have almost tripled from 58 deals in 2015 to 144 deals in 2021. Judging from these numbers, investments and star dynamics, COSS is in a sweet spot at the moment.

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TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2022

Founded out of Berlin in 2015, Wefox sells various insurance products through a combination of in-house and external brokers, bypassing the direct-to-consumer model of insurtech competitors which include rival German startup Getsafe. This represents a 50% increase on last year’s $3 billion valuation at its Series C round.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Since 2015, HAX started investing in more industrial & health startups and today make up 90% of our new investments,” HAX partner Garrett Winther told TechCrunch. It will be interesting to see what sort of incentives the local governments can offer to help keep them there to avoid the allure of nearby NYC.

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Onevest

MAY 12, 2015

Let’s explore: Curation focused startups and businesses in 2015 Curated startups and investment opportunities Curated investors The State of Curation in 2015 The get rich quick crew quickly carved out a tragic pitfall for amateur online entrepreneurs. Curation is critical for investors seeking investment opportunities.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The 2nd Pangyo Techno Valley was constructed by Korea Land and Housing Corporation (LH) and Gyeonggi Housing and Urban Corporation (GH) on the sites of Siheung-dong and Geumto-dong, Sujeong-gu, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, with the industrial complex plan approved in November 2015.

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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. They concluded that a unique opportunity to rebuild the fish value chain from scratch existed.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2023

Updated to note that the Microsoft investment closed in January. A source tells us Founders Fund is also investing. This is separate to a big investment from Microsoft announced earlier this year , a person familiar with the development told TechCrunch, which closed in January.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

Angel investments in 2022 equaled those from 2006 to 2011 combined. Family office investments increased by 5x , and corporate venture investments rose 6x , thus opening new capital avenues for founders who found it difficult to raise capital. Crowdfunding witnessed a 2.4x growth from 2020 to 2021.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

Gloat , an internal marketplace for corporate talent, today announced that it raised $90 million in a Series D round led by Generation Investment Management, bringing the startup’s total raised to $192 million. ” Reuveni founded Gloat in 2015 alongside Amichai Schreiber and Danny Shteinberg. Vice President Al Gore.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 21, 2024

However, because of the additional information burden we almost lost a few larger, more sophisticated investors that did not want to be bothered for a relatively small investment.” While pursuing my legal career, I began investing behind some of my clients and worked hard to build a small LP base. Read the full letter here.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

For Mike Salguero, CEO and co-founder at ButcherBox , the problem and opportunity in the extraordinarily broken space of meat production and distribution simply could not be ignored. He hired an intern and launched a Kickstarter campaign in September of 2015, a decision made out of a desperation to never raise money again.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 12, 2016

Finalists are invited to pitch their business ideas to a panel of investors for a chance at investment. Investment offers and cash prizes will be announced during an awards banquet at the end of the competition, in which Medal of Honor recipient Kyle Carpenter will deliver a keynote address. Photo caption: Jim Murphy, a former U.S.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

EdgeQ , Kneron , and Hailo are among the dozens of upstarts vying for customers, the last of which nabbed $136 million in October as it doubles down on new opportunities. He has a deep history of investing in deep tech startups that have gone on to disrupt industries across AI, data, semiconductors, among others.” “Sima.ai

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Founded in 2015, prior to this, OTA Insight had only raised $20 million. “One of the unique things about the hotel and hospitality industry is that generally tech providers focus a lot of their energy on the larger chains, because that’s where they believe the opportunity is,” he said.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 20, 2022

Dave’s note: This is a reprint of a 2015 insight that seems to have struck a chord with investors and entrepreneurs. Also, if things go south, they are more likely to remember that you weren’t pushy and that you gave them three or more separate opportunities to say no. The problem, of course, comes if the business fails.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 8, 2017

I send out a monthly mailer of deals that I'm investing in that I'm looking for co-investors for. Because I'm investing so early, a lot of times these companies are not only pre-revenue, but they might also be pre-product. Tinkergarten is one such company. Tinkergarten is one such company.

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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. T]eam members will be able to focus more on preparation and hospitality moments, while having the opportunity to work with state-of-the-art technology,” the company writes.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

Enter LiquidStack , a company that’s spinning out from the cryptocurrency hardware technology developer Bitfury Group with a $10 million investment. The company, which was formerly known as Allied Control Limited, restructured as a commercial operating company headquartered in the Netherlands with commercial operations in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The round, which marks Fidelity’s first investment in an African company, also saw the participation from fintech giant Visa and London-based investment management firm Kingsway Capital. Rising African venture investment powers fintech, clean tech bets in 2020. So far, JUMO has served loans worth over $3.5

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

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The Bangalore-based startup’s Series B was led by London-headquartered private equity firm Apis Partners (which invested through its Growth Fund II), with participation from existing investors Y Combinator and Smilegate Investments. The new round brings the startup’s to-date raise to $42 million.

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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. Identifying opportunities to further connect with people and build a better, stronger relationship is a key differentiator.”

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 15, 2018

Prior to co-founding CCV, Marlon was an investment director at Intel Capital where he completed his Kauffman Fellowship. 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.

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