TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

There are a lot of changes afoot for SpringTime Ventures as it looks to deploy its freshly closed second fund. Blomstedt told TechCrunch that he originally got the idea for SpringTime after moving to Colorado in 2015 after a career in the energy business in Texas. The above two examples back that up.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

But today comes news of funding for a startup building a social network for what is probably one of the least digital business sectors of all: independent, small-hold farmers in the developing world. The funding, an extension to the company’s 2019 Series A , is being led by Octopus Ventures. million users. million members.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2022

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) led Kindred’s seed raise which included participation from Bessemer Venture Partners, Caffeinated Capital and angel investors such as Elad Gil, Opendoor CEO and co-founder Eric Wu, ClassPass founder Payal Kadakia, Clubhouse co-founder and CTO Rohan Seth and Adena Hefets, co-founder and CEO, Divvy Homes. .

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 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 have an operations background. Venture capital. Asian Venture Capital Journal (free trial).

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

DCJ and Yadea will jointly invest $50 million in an operating company to develop new two-wheel vehicles with their own branding that use the Gogoro Network, including its batteries, drivetrains, controllers and other components. Luke said this means once the joint venture expands beyond Hangzhou, it will be able to grow quickly.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

In 2015, there were approximately 3.5 The challenge was the driving force behind Ordr, a startup focused on network-level device security. But despite broader economic headwinds, there’s an abundance of venture capital to go around in cybersecurity. billion internet of things (IoT) devices in use.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 8, 2015

In the last six months, VCs have invested more than $57B according to Mattermark data , which puts 2015 on pace to exceed 2000 as the year the most venture capital will be deployed, ever. Which sectors are benefitting from all these venture dollars?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Over the past month a colleague ( Chang Xu ) and I sifted through data on the venture capital industry (as we do every year) and made a bunch of calls to VCs and LPs to confirm our hypotheses. As a result of the IPO window shifting we saw a massive inflow of public-market capital into the latest stages of venture.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 25, 2024

Dr. Ramanathan is the Founding Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer of Black Star Fund , an early-stage venture capital fund. In May, Dr. Ramanathan will join the ACA Summit of Angel Investing , three days of quality content, interactive discussions and vibrant networking to elevate your angel investing experience.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The newly acquired funds are expected to be used for network expansion, infrastructure enhancements, and sorting and warehouse capabilities reinforcement. Established in 2015, J&T Express has steadily grown its presence in the logistics sector. J&T Express, with backing from investors like Chinese tech giant Tencent , U.S.-based

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

After years of trying to persuade Kara Nortman to become a partner at Upfront Ventures I can officially announce now that she’s joined us effective immediately. Investment experience (5 years a VC at Battery Ventures). As a result we need somebody well networked into these communities already.

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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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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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Sagi Eliyahu co-founded Tonkean in 2015 and has since raised money from some top investors, including Joanne Chen from Foundation Capital. Eliyahu started Tonkean in 2015 as a no-code development platform. Raviraj Jain, partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, invested in the company’s Series A and joined the board in April 2020.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

That said, a paradigm shift of the broader venture landscape could be on the horizon. Network effects have evolved, moving away from the traditional physical spaces to digital ones. has nearly quadrupled in the same time period (investments from 2005 to 2015 and total investments through 2021 ). Crowdfunding witnessed a 2.4x

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HPA

JUNE 29, 2021

The Series E financing was led by Bain Capital Ventures, with participation from Hyde Park Angels, SoftBank, Menlo Ventures, Hyde Park Venture Partners and Silicon Valley Bank. ShipBob , the leading cloud-based ecommerce logistics platform, announced $200 million in funding at over $1B valuation.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

On top of his demanding work of technology repairs, Janeel has made the time to discover new ways to help others as a radio personality and program director at Dominion Radio since 2015 with his program IT Talks. Janeel’s latest venture is The Big Ask podcast, where he speaks about leadership and entrepreneurship. government.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

Dan Lewis launched Convoy in 2015 into an established industry dominated by several legacy businesses. As you’ll hear, in 2014 and 2015, freight was ready for reinvention. It’s free, and attendees have the opportunity to ask guests questions, participate in Pitch Practice and network with other attendees. Now worth $3.8

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Nickelodeon under Herb was the top-rated network in cable for 10 straight years. He was also Vice Chairman of MTV Networks and oversaw adult brands Spike and TV Land. 30% of all real income growth in 2005–2015 was from Latinos (U.S. home ownership in 2015 (NAHREP). His son then went on to raise more than $1.1

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 5, 2015

Anyway, 2015 marks a couple of big career anniversaries for me. Ten years ago, in 2005, I started working for Union Square Ventures as their first analyst. I reiterated the notion of risk taking when giving career advice the other day and how when I joined Union Square Ventures, it wasn''t the USV it was now.

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HPA

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Hyde Park Angels has been an investor in ShipBob since the Series A, and other previous investors include Menlo Ventures , Bain Capital Ventures , Hyde Park Venture Partners and Y Combinator. This Series D financing was led by SoftBank Vision Fund. The post ShipBob Raises $68M in Series D appeared first on HPA.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 8, 2017

I also invest in a really wide range of opportunities, so many of them don't look like you're typical venture deals. At the end of 2015, I backed a husband and wife team expecting their third kid to build a network of outdoor kids classes--not an Uber for kids classes, Classpass for kids classes or Airbnb for kids classes.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Amazon, through its India-focused Smbhav Venture Fund , has led a $104 million Series D financing round in the Bengaluru-headquartered startup, the two said Tuesday. This is the largest check that the $250 million Smbhav Venture Fund has written so far. The new round takes FreshToHome’s all-time raise to over $250 million.

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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

MAY 5, 2021

Founded in 2015, Lynk has raised a total of $30 million in funding, including a $24 million round announced in January that was led by Brewer Lane Ventures and MassMutual Ventures, with participation from the Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

This round was led by Monk’s Hill Ventures, with participation from returning seed investors Iterative, XA Network and iSeed Ventures. CoderSchool raised a seed round led by TRIVE Ventures in 2018. CoderSchool, a Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam-based online coding school startup, announced today $2.6

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2022

Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV) — an investor known for backing firms such as Netflix, Meta, Spotify and Airbnb — led the Hyderabad-headquartered startup’s $72 million Series D funding. Chaitanya Peddi, Jayant Paleti and Rohit Chennamaneni (l-r) co-founded Darwinbox in late 2015. Image Credits: Darwinbox.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Goh Ventures, Big Pi Ventures, George Robinson, and the University of Oxford, participate. Find out more: navenio.com About Navenio Navenio was spun out of the University of Oxford in 2015 and has an established team of more than 60 people which continues to grow.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 30, 2023

In addition to his rich experiences working in the venture capital (VC) and private equity (PE) sectors, Joseph has also sharpened his investment acumen through his multiple years in the audit and stock-broking industry before deciding to finally launch his cross-border investment firm, Kairous Capital , in 2015.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

David Perry and Jason Goldberg co-founded the company in 2015 and built a cross-store selling and influencer commerce platform that is used by more than 7 million influencers and 30,000 brands, like Blendjet, Arizona Iced Tea and Chubbies Shorts. It will be used to grow Carro’s team of 50 employees, product development and network expansion.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Fintech-focused investor Tonic Private Equity led the Series G round along with returning backers, including Korea Development Bank (KDB), Altos Ventures, Goodwater Capital, Greyhound Capital, Aspex Management, Bond Capital, and DUMAC. The Seoul-based company had about 1,900 employees as of August. . billion won) and $175.8 million (229.3

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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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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. TechCrunch: Before you were in venture, you held product roles at Venmo and Twitter.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Truist — one of the nation’s largest financial institutions — has acquired Long Game , a 12-person fintech startup that has raised over $20 million in venture capital, executives have told TechCrunch exclusively. Its main marketing channels thus far have been social media marketing and the use of game ad networks.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The funding was led by Corner Ventures, with participation from Udi Angel, Vertex Ventures, and Yuval Tal, founder and president of Payoneer. Cymbio, a B2B dropship automation platform, is planning to use the new funding to grow its global footprint by establishing an office in Europe and expanding its team in the US.

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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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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. million round raised in May 2020.

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