TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2022

In 2021, $330 billion in venture capital was deployed, and only 2% of that number went to companies founded only by women and 15.6% In my view, the correct statistic is about 18%, not 2% — as we should take into account deals that had mixed-gender founding teams. The rest is noise.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

Can Bitcoin find its practical use case as a currency in Latin America? Stephen Harper, the country’s prime minister from 2006 to 2015, famously quipped that the region suffered from “ a culture of defeatism.” venture capital. More posts by this contributor. Soon, the region’s hard-luck narrative stuck.

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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. It has an estimated 67 VC funds, with 18 of them started since 2015. Giuseppe Donvito , partner, P101 Ventures.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 17, 2023

Well, Sarah reports today the watch is likely to get its biggest software update since its 2015 debut. Hydrate or die-drate : Hydration brand Cure mixes new funding into its growth plans , Christine reports. Use code “DC” for a 15% discount on an annual subscription! for a new software update. You can sign up here. Big Tech Inc.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Sequoia, the top venture capital firm on the face of the earth, put in a growth round that valued the company at close to half a unicorn. I imagined a future Wing media arm with a TV channel, a venture capital fund… …and then it all came crashing down. Audrey Gelman was on the cover of Inc magazine, visibly pregnant.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

In November of 2015, I posted a tweet that declared Benchmark was interested in discovering Internet healthcare investments. Additionally, all of us that have been consumers of the U.S. So if Internet and mobile technologies can be used to change real estate or transportation, why not healthcare?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

While countries with currently unstable currencies like the naira are seeing immense usage, other regions using the CFA franc have sparse adoption. A region of more than 200 million people using the CFA franc, Francophone Africa is one of the most crypto-friendly markets in Africa. CoinShares Ventures and Anthemis Group led the round.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

Strapi , an open source content management system (CMS), today announced that it raised $31 million in Series B funding led by CRV with participation from Flex Capital, Index Ventures, and angel investors including former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman. Burgy, Georget, and Laurie published Strapi on GitHub in 2015.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2021

Rapchat , an app that lets people create music tracks — raps, as its name suggests, or something else — using a platform that crowdsources beats and lets people put vocals on top of them, has raised $2.3 “We were coming of age when everyone in college was using apps like Snapchat and Instagram,” he said.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Intelligent Implants uses wireless implantable electronics to stimulate, steer and monitor bone growth. Intelligent Implants is wading into the market to add a more tech-forward solution to the mix. The implant is then powered externally through induction, much like how your phone might use a wireless charging pad. It raised €4.5

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

So instead, Meyer, founder and CEO, created Ghost Financial to initially do two things: provide what he touts as “the first cash-back credit card for food and beverage inventory” and use data and technology to underwrite restaurant expansion loans and credit limits for the card. million pre-seed round to build engineering and marketing teams.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

Stream , which lets developers build chat and activity streams into apps and other services by way of a few lines of code, has raised $38 million, funding that it will be using to continue building out its existing business as well as to work on new features. Image Credits: Stream (opens in a new window).

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

Hivery , a startup that bills itself as an “optimization platform” for retailers, today announced that it raised $30 million in a Series B round led by Tiger Global, the embattled private equity firm, with participation from Blackbird Ventures, AS1 Growth Partners and OneVentures.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 10, 2023

In fundraising, this conversation can lead to the next meeting in a venture capitalist’s funnel. The standard venture funnel. Solution: develop more accurate mental models of how venture capital works and how humans make decisions under uncertainty. See the public memos by Bessemer Venture Partners.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

Today it’s announcing an oversubscribed sequel: The Series D raise clocks in at $312M (€262M) and will be used to keep stepping on the growth gas in the region. Some 6,000 clinicians are also now using its telehealth platform and software tools. (It Kry’s year-over-year growth in 2020 was 100% — meaning that the ~1.6M

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Juganu: Using light to chase away Covid-19. Hot-button issues in the US election. Investors around the world are focused on the US Presidential election. This second instalment of the SALT Talks: Pandemic Venture Investment Series, presented in partnership with OurCrowd, will take place on Wednesday, Nov. Healthcare.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Most frequently people use this phrase in association with personal technology devices (heart-monitors, exercise accessories, sleep monitors, etc) that allow consumers to take direct control of their health information. The subject of the “consumerization of healthcare” has been around for many years. If you were a U.S.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

In 2015, the world’s first and only flexible window screen was born. Interest was high, and I had a decision to make: would I go all-in on this new, potentially successful business venture, which would require quitting my job, leveraging every ounce of our family savings and investments, and taking on significant debt?

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

In particular, it helps venture-backed startups. Finally, the bill aims to build up Main Street by cutting red tape for small businesses by adjusting the reporting threshold for businesses that use subcontract labor from $600 to $1,000. What to know in DC It's easy to get mixed up in the alphabet soup of acronyms and weird names.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 24, 2011

When you're doing RSVPs, use a tool like Eventbrite that allows you to collect more information from each attendee--like what languages they develop in, how many years experience they have, current company, LinkedIn, blog, Twitter, etc. Public relations shouldn't just be used to source prospects or biz dev partners, but candidates as well.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Previous backers 83North, Highland Europe, Goldman Sachs Growth Equity, EQT Ventures and Vintage Investment Partners also followed on. Since launching with 10 restaurants in its home city in 2015, five years on Wolt has expanded to 23 countries and 120 cities, mostly in Europe but also including Japan and Israel.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

The team is in the process of creating a desktop-sized instrument that can automate the processes used to get genetic samples ready. The origin story of Volta’s instrument goes back to 2015, when Umapathi was working on his graduate thesis at MIT. It’s almost been neglected,” CEO and co-founder Udayan Umapathi told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

Since launching the venture firm Backstage Capital in 2015, Arlan Hamilton has invested millions in more than 195 companies led by underrepresented founders, from a duo taking on auto insurance to a team rethinking how we virtually learn.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

“Working on trustworthy AI for almost five years, I’ve constantly felt a mix of excitement and anxiety,” he told TechCrunch in an email interview. We then set out to find someone with the right mix of academic and industry AI experience to lead it.” flexibility that nonprofits lack. “Mozilla.ai

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Bessemer Venture Partners led the tranche with participation from Insight Partners, Kleiner Perkins, and S28 Capital, which brings Teleport’s total raised to $169 million. Doordash, Elastic, Nasdaq, Snowflake, and Square currently use Teleport, as well as Samsung, NASDAQ, and IBM. billion post-money valuation. ”

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2022

Other backers include Y Combinator, Soma Capital, Starling Ventures, Olive Tree Capital, Capital X and True Capital. Though demand was steady during his time with both companies from 2015 to 2020, this was different. But for Africa, we need to tweak it to fit the use case here. Flexport is its lead investor.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

venture capital to date (more on this in a separate post), unfortunately relegating billion-dollar exits as “ho-hum” events to the technology crowd. It’s been a few years now since BlackBerry made phones, and this represents its largest purchase to date (by a factor of 3) since its 2015 acquisition of Good Technology.

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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

AUGUST 26, 2022

Authy is a company Twilio acquired in 2015. Staying in Asia, Anna and Alex take the pulse on China’s venture capital scene. This is a TechCrunch+ story, but if you don’t have a subscription, use the Daily Crunch discount code “DC” for 15% off. Oh, and the number of customers affected is now over 160.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The creator economy loves merch which is great news for on-demand custom printing startups such as Latvia-based Printify — today it’s announcing a $45 million Series A round, led by Index Ventures, off the back of rising demand for its services. Others in the space include Printful , Gelato and Zazzle.).

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

This one caught my eye, however, and it is with great reluctance and grumpy-old-man-ness that I’m willing to leave the door ajar to the possibility that this may actually be a sensible use of the technology. Of course, we’re not talking about the time frames of a tent that you’re not using until your next camping trip.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

But a mix of stronger (and cheaper) competition, coupled with the rapid pace of technology development and the ongoing market slowdown , have left it spinning. By 2015, it was selling millions of mobile phones a month and generating around a couple of billions of dollars in revenues in a year. Moving ahead?

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David Teten VC

OCTOBER 31, 2024

We’re happy to share the latest in PEVCtech’s series profiling how investment managers are using AI, tech, and analytics to generate alpha. We’re fortunate to interview Victor Orlovski, Founder and Managing Partner of R136 Ventures. David Teten: Please give us an overview of your firm. We work with companies across the U.S.,

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