This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 21, 2017

When Ample Hills first raised $4 million in 2015, people asked if it was a seed round. What we found is that while most of the people turned down the invite, most of the people who showed up invested. They may want a lower valuation as a kind of risk premium for investing in you. Did that seed make this round our Series A?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 30, 2020

In 2015, then-Twitter product manager Terri Burns penned a piece about staying optimistic despite the sexism and racism that exists expansively within tech. Read on for a Q&A with Burns about her investment thesis, role change and plans as partner. Any anecdotes for how out of network founders grabbed your attention?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

The report also pinpoints other metrics such as fixed and mobile broadband connections and mobile cellular network coverage. These markets make up 32% of Africa’s population, 51% of the continent’s mobile network connections, 50% of its professional developers and 51% of its GDP. The continent’s investment story.

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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. Each year, starting in mid-2012 through mid-2015, these sectors have grown their investment dollars by more than 145%, according to Mattermark data.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2021

Creative use of the country’s networked manufacturing and logistics hubs make mass production both cheap and easy. He soon set up his own investment fund, Challenjers Capital , convinced that the next big tech opportunity in China was in tech’s application to everyday consumer products. Other investors noticed as well.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 18, 2023

LTD , one of the largest security integration companies in the world, according to Forbes Global 2000 , has made a primary equity investment of $192 million in the two companies, $100M in Eagle Eye Networks and $92M in Brivo. Eagle Eye Networks and Brivo are independent companies majority owned by Dean Drako.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Investment experience (5 years a VC at Battery Ventures). Helped merge company with Seedling – on track to do $20 million combined revenue in 2015 – will now become Chairman). For starters we’re an LA-based venture fund who invests nationally (and sometimes internationally, but less so).

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The week’s top investment deals from OurCrowd. Green light for cleantech investment. Green light for cleantech investment. Annual investment in cleantech increased tenfold from about $400 million a year to peak at $4.3 SALT Talks: Pandemic Venture Investment Series, Episode 1. Joining the AI healthcare revolution.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2021

Lynk announced today that its “knowledge-as-a-service” platform will be integrated into UBS ’ investment process. The startup has offices in New York, Hong Kong, Singapore, Mumbai, Shanghai and Toronto, and serves about 200 enterprise clients, including Fortune 500 corporations, investment firms and government agencies.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

However, historically most private equity professionals were former investment bankers and other finance professionals. A BCG study of 121 investments found that operational improvement drives 48% of value creation in PE-backed companies. We discuss below all of the different ways you can work with the investment community.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2013 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2014; Slack in 2015; took a break in 2016, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; and last year, 2017, was Coinbase. 5/ The Enduring Allure Of Platform Potential: Revenue is important.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2015

Mark Suster (@msuster) March 14, 2015. I’m rooting for Meerkat to succeed as an independent network. The group of people I might communicate with in a network like this might be different than the people with whom I interact on Twitter and in general I like to see new products and new companies emerge. Exciting time.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

The Future Africa Fund kicked off in 2015 when Iyinoluwa Aboyeji and Nadayar Enegesi , co-founders of US-based and African-focused talent company Andela, wrote checks to African startups as angel investors. Simultaneously , they announced that the fund had invested $1.5 million across 19 African companies.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The Moderne Ventures team of founder Constance Freedman and partner Liza Benson built a track record of top-tier returns with its novel approach to venture investing. The early-stage investment fund’s vertical specialties span real estate, finance, insurance, and sustainability.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

The round was led by Gojek’s investment arm Go Ventures, with participation from returning investors AC Ventures and East Ventures. Its new funding will be used to expand KitaBeli’s operations in Java, growing its logistics network and developing its mobile app. Indonesian logistics startup SiCepat raises $170 million Series B.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

Network effects have evolved, moving away from the traditional physical spaces to digital ones. Angel investments in 2022 equaled those from 2006 to 2011 combined. has nearly quadrupled in the same time period (investments from 2005 to 2015 and total investments through 2021 ). the free YC Startup School courses).

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Startup Catalyst

OCTOBER 10, 2018

2015 Youth Mission. Youth Cohort 2015. Startup Community cohort (2017). Israel cohort (2017). who went on 14 missions …. Investor cohort (2017). Female Founders cohort (2017). …to to 7 locations. 129 participants were fully sponsored…. Youth Cohort 2016. …of of which 80 were youth mission participants. 4 years in relationships.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Since being founded in 2015, the company has amassed a customer list that includes AppFolio, HotDoc, Pitch, Kumospace and Teamflow, and its customers report seeing up to 80% fewer video call errors after using Daily, Kwindla Hultman Kramer, co-founder and CEO of Daily, told TechCrunch via email. HIPAA legislation in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The round is the first sizable funding that Oslo-based, but very distributed, Superside has raised — it was founded as Konsus back in 2015 and had picked up only $5.5 The plan will be to expand that network in earnest in the coming months.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

Since 2015, Black and Latinx founders — who have fewer funding routes available to them to begin with — have raised just 2.4% of total venture capital invested, according to Crunchbase. From a diversity standpoint, the venture capital financing landscape remains incredibly imbalanced.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2022

Lewis and Grant Goodale co-founded Convoy in 2015 , and since then, have brought on a series of high-profile investors. To date, the company has raised almost $1 billion to scale its platform, which connects the fragmented network of shippers, carriers and brokers across the United States. TechCrunch+ is having a Memorial Day sale.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Founded in 2015, Long Game has built a gamified finance mobile app that aims to help people “save, learn and engage” with their finances. Its main marketing channels thus far have been social media marketing and the use of game ad networks. She also became acquainted with the company through personal networks.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

The funding proceeds from the new round will be used for further global expansion, business diversification, R&D, investment in advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning technology and recruiting team talent. Danggeun Market, the South Korean secondhand marketplace app, raises $33 million Series C.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

. “[Our annual recurring revenue is] $29 million and projected to $50 million before the end of the year,” Komoni told TechCrunch via email, adding that the latest investment values Tive at $300 million (post-money). ” Tracking real-time shipments. ” Toward differentiation. Last year saw $11.3

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

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? III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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Startup Catalyst

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Tex Andersen (2015) became CTO of Talentvine , a Brisbane tech startup that makes outsourced recruitment affordable, transparent and simple. Matthew Brown (2015) left a role at one of the big 4 consulting firms to join Maxwell Plus , a medical tech startup rethinking the way we detect and diagnose disease (and are doing pretty well ).

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Security operations teams face a daunting task these days, fending off malicious hackers and their increasingly sophisticated approaches to cracking into networks. Guggenheim Investments is leading the round, with JVP and Kindred Capital also contributing. It’s time for security teams to embrace security data lakes.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

Coro — a startup building an all-in-one cybersecurity platform aimed at mid-market companies, with functions to monitor devices, users, email, networks, data and apps and remediate any malicious activity — has raised $60 million, funding it plans to use to continue doubling down on this particular gap in the market.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2023

General Atlantic led the first tranche of the investment. PhonePe, to be sure, is a clear leader in the the mobile payments market on UPI, a network built by a coalition of retail banks in India. ” PhonePe was founded in 2015 and within a year was acquired by e-commerce giant Flipkart. billion in late 2020.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

AUGUST 14, 2020

In doing this work, there has been a significant amount of investment of both funds and time in moving entrepreneurship activities forward. We have extremely talented people in our entrepreneurship support network, but as with all collaborative efforts, partnerships can also bring their own set of challenges.

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Y Combinator

MAY 6, 2020

Beyond the social networks we already know and use, we are finding new ways to integrate social into our online lives. When Pinduoduo launched in 2015, there was little room for a new commerce platform in China. But unlike Daily Check-In, Price Chop incentivizes users to share Pinduoduo with their social network. Card Program.

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FundersClub

JUNE 12, 2017

Venture capital investing offers different challenges than those associated with tech entrepreneurship, but Alex Mittal, co-founder and CEO of FundersClub, approached the sphere of venture capital the same way he did as a tech founder previously: is there a better way to do this? So we're not perfect, in other words. Makes sense.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Green has built her career as a VC by becoming an expert within the fields in which she invests, beginning in the consumer space and expanding to health and wellness, durable supply chains and more. She joined Pinterest in 2012 as one of the company’s first 35 employees after co-leading the Series A investment while at Bessemer.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

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? III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Spiers New Technologies (SNT) became an i2E client company in 2015. i2E’s Accelerate OK fund invested $500,000 in a Series A round of $2.0 million in August 2015. Cox Mobility describes the deal as a foundational investment in Cox’s new global EV (electric vehicle) battery service network. SNT founder Dirk Spiers.

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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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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

We strive to give them tools to succeed with our support programs and a strong network of 16,500 people throughout 59 countries. Today we would like to shine some light on our thriving network and showcase five game-changers who foster and maintain a positive impact by creating innovative ventures amidst a global pandemic.

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