TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

There are a lot of changes afoot for SpringTime Ventures as it looks to deploy its freshly closed second fund. The new pool of capital will be invested across startups in sectors including fintech, insurtech, healthcare, logistics and supply chain. Blomstedt saw an opportunity. The first fund was a slog to raise, he said.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 24, 2015

You thought media twitter was bad… You thought tech twitter was bad… — Hunter Walk (@hunterwalk) August 24, 2015. But I do have some insight into how this will affect venture markets. So why invest in that period of uncertainty unless it’s early-stage and thus valuation matters less. So, too, investments.

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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. ” While it doesn’t have a reseller network, KitaBeli works with delivery partners for last-mile deliveries, presenting the gig as an opportunity to earn extra money.

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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?

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

Would you like to work with private equity and venture capital funds? There are relatively few jobs directly inside private equity and venture capital funds, and those jobs are highly competitive. Venture capitalists often come from an operating background. Venture Capital. Asian Venture Capital Journal (free trial).

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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. Burns left Twitter in 2017 to join GV, formerly known as Google Ventures. Read on for a Q&A with Burns about her investment thesis, role change and plans as partner.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2016

At the Upfront Summit in early February, we had a chance to have many off-the-record conversations with Limited Partners (LPs) who fund Venture Capital (VC) funds about their views of the market. However, they have been sending VCs far more investment checks in the last ten years than they’ve gotten back as distributions.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Amit Anand is a founding partner of Jungle Ventures and an early pioneer and leader in the development of Southeast Asia’s venture capital industry. billion, about four times more than they did in 2015. This begs the question: Who exactly is investing in Southeast Asia? Venture capitalists. times to $8.2

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

we take for granted the ability to invest and trade in the stock market. For Mexico City-born Sergio Jiménez Amozurrutia, the fact that in his country of more than 120 million people, only a tiny fraction of the population have the ability to invest in the capital markets just didn’t seem right. Here in the U.S.,

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Andreessen Horowitz

JANUARY 23, 2024

Today the firm is over 500+ with 6 office locations, its operating value-add has raised the bar for all venture capitalists, and the firm continues to grow in vision and impact. He modeled how to work with integrity, competitiveness, curiosity and humility and I could not have picked a better venture investor to learn from.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

In fact, a new report from investment firm Golden Gate Ventures predicts a record number of exits will happen in the region over the next couple of years, thanks to factors like a maturing ecosystem, more secondary buyers and the emergence of SPACs. billion invested in 2020, according to a report by Cento Ventures and Tech In Asia.

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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. Brad Feld helped co-found the venture capital firm with one goal in mind: to help entrepreneurs. “We This presents out-of-towners with opportunities to connect with fellow startup leaders and potential investors.

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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 currently manages $88 million across five venture funds. . – September 3, 2020 – PhotoniCare, Inc.,

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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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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

million investment to help revolutionize healthcare efficiency worldwide. Goh Ventures, Big Pi Ventures, George Robinson, and the University of Oxford, participate. The investment enables Navenio to build upon its proven technology platform and demonstrated customer value to accelerate momentum in healthcare and beyond.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

That said, a paradigm shift of the broader venture landscape could be on the horizon. 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.

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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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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

JUNE 6, 2022

The funding — which closed in May — is being co-led by AirTree Ventures and Five Sigma, with SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Salesforce Ventures, Blue Cloud Ventures, Larsen Ventures, Scott Shleifer and John Curtius from Tiger Global, TEN13, M12 (Microsoft’s venture fund), Madrona Venture Group, SEEK and Y Combinator also participating.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Tive today announced that it raised $54 million in a Series B financing round led by AXA Venture Partners with participation from Sorenson Capital, Qualcomm Ventures, Fifth Wall, SJF Ventures and Floating Point Ventures, which CEO Krenar Komoni attributes to the company’s growth over the past year.

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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. million Series A led by Owl Ventures. Tinkergarten is one such company. Tinkergarten is one such company.

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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

MAY 11, 2021

Germany’s Endeit Capital participated as a co-investor, alongside existing investors Capnamic Ventures and coparion. 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.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Instrumental was launched by two former Apple mechanical engineers in 2015. ” They also give candidates an opportunity to provide a work sample to prove that they can do the job, regardless of their background or school, and they work hard to attract diverse candidates at the top of the funnel.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Italy’s ecosystem for tech venture capital and startups has been in development for years and has made decent strides in the last decade. In 2019, about 300 deals were venture-backed. billion investment plan, which includes its first cloud data center in the country. NTT data is investing in Calabria.

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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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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Creative professionals continue to look for ways to monetize their talents and knowledge through online education platforms like CLASS101 that bring stable incomes and improve opportunities. Ko and four other co-founders established CLASS101 in 2018, which was pivoted from a tutoring service platform that was founded in 2015, Ko said.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

From a diversity standpoint, the venture capital financing landscape remains incredibly imbalanced. 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.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

The round is led by Norwest Venture Partners with participation from existing investors Menlo Ventures and Sierra Ventures, and a group of angel investors. and moved to San Francisco in 2020, was co-founded by Andrew Butt and Denys Shortt in 2015 but launched fully in 2016. The company, which started in the U.K.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

A recent ZDNet piece reaffirms that the AI edge chip market is booming, fueled by “staggering” venture capital financing in the hundreds of millions of dollars. 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.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2021

Based in San Francisco and Ho Chi Minh City, ELSA announced today it has raised a $15 million Series B, led by VI (Vietnam Investments) Group and SIG. Other participants included returning investors Google’s AI-focused fund Gradient Ventures, SOSV and Monk’s Hill Ventures, along with Endeavor Catalyst and Globant Ventures.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

Three existing investors are putting more money on the table — Revaia , XAnge and Bpifrance’s Digital Ventures’ fund. Five other investors are joining Welcome to the Jungle’s cap table — blisce/ , Cipio Partners , Groupe ADP , Kostogri (Betclic CEO Nicolas Béraud’s investment company) and RAISE Sherpas.

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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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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2023

While its corporate name technically remains Elearningforce, the company transitioned to the LMS365 brand back in 2015, intended to reflect its focus on Microsoft. ” LMS365’s first external investment was led by New York-based Blue Cloud Ventures, with participation from Singapore’s Kamet Capital and existing shareholders.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The company has raised $80 million, a Series B led by Spectrum Equity, with previous backers Eight Roads, F-Prime Capital and Highgate Technology Ventures also participating. Founded in 2015, prior to this, OTA Insight had only raised $20 million. .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

TX Zhuo is the managing partner of Fika Ventures , focusing on fintech, enterprise software and marketplace opportunities. Colton Pace is an investor at Fika Ventures. He previously held roles investing at Vulcan Capital and Madrona Venture Labs. More posts by this contributor. Colton Pace. Contributor.

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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. Inherent conservatism of LPs.

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