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. I figured out LPs have set a criteria, and I didn’t fit into that: I don’t come from an investment banking background and don’t look like a typical VC.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 14, 2018

Managers of VC funds typically want to grow their business aggressively, just like the founders we back. But, we normally have a clear ceiling on how high we can grow AUM, before hitting practical limits to deploying capital within the traditional VC model. . I suggest there are a number of ways to scale a VC fund.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

She worked for 5 years as a VC at Battery Ventures and co-headed M&A at IAC working with Barry Diller. 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. I promise you, he really said this out loud.) So why now?

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 5, 2015

Anyway, 2015 marks a couple of big career anniversaries for me. You can''t rise up as fast taking a job at a VC firm in NYC the same way you could 10 years ago--and you can''t get that USV job as easily as you could. Who''s the VC that everyone *isn''t* trying to network with. I had something VC firms were interested in.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 20, 2015

VC funding. We love capital efficiency until we love land grabs until we abhor over funding until we get huge payouts and ring the bell for more funding until we attract every non-VC on the planet to invest in startups until it crashes and we start the cycle all over again none the wiser. I see it in many young pups. Same as I felt.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

VC/PE firm Insight Partners. 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. ParcelLab last raised an undisclosed Series B in October 2019.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 21, 2024

My Partner Winter Mead, Founder & CEO of Coolwater Capital , the accelerator for emerging VC fund managers, said: “Fewer than 5 of the 180 emerging managers we’ve worked with are raising via 506c, in order to get in front of more retail LPs, who are generally already following the GP, e.g., through the GP’s newsletter or community.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2021

GoDaddy led the round as a strategic partner and was joined by OurCrowd and existing investors Pitango Growth, Mangrove Capital Partners, Armat Group, Disruptive VC and Whip Media founder Richard Rosenblatt. Tailor Brands has now raised a total of $70 million since its inception in 2015.

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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. When I first started in VC more than 10 years ago, I was told never to invest in a company building on top of another company’s platform. Contributor. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor. Colton Pace.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

See How to negotiate a partner role at a VC or private equity firm.) At Versatile VC , we’ve used all these models. Thank you to my co-author for this essay, Paulina Symala, a Consultant at Oliver Wyman and a past intern of Versatile VC. annually between 2015 and 2020, its market size topping $1.3B Expert Networks.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2023

Today the company announced a $50 million investment, a large sum in today’s tightening VC landscape. But it just means that it’s an opportunity to do more of what we have already been doing, which is helping engineering teams do more with less,” she said.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

In total, JUMO has raised more than $200 million in equity and debt rounds from backers such as Brook Asset Management, Finnfund, Proparco, Leapfrog and Goldman Sachs since founder and CEO Andrew Watkins-Ball launched the company in 2015. South African fintech startup Jumo raises second $50M+ VC round.

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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. A normal VC fund raises a new fund every three years if they are strong performers. That’s money that fuels our startup ecosystems.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2021

And now, the company has raised $9 million in a Series B led by SignalFire and with participation from existing backer Builders VC to help it continue its momentum. . For Sophinos and Kannah, founding CourseKey was more than just a business opportunity. This is a massive market and massive business opportunity,” Sophinos said.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

A marketplace that let tourists make same-day bookings for tours, events and activities, the app expanded around the world after launching in 2015. Headout plans to hire more than 150 employees around the world and is also looking for opportunities to acqui-hire travel and entertainment startups. . Then COVID-19 hit.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

After selling the food at markets in Brooklyn, she hooked up with wholesale to supply Fresh Direct with her products, and that rolled out nationally in 2015. Heavily VC-backed salad chain Sweetgreen heads toward public markets. and the answer has been yes.”. Overall, it has been growing at an average of 100% year over year.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

” Reuveni founded Gloat in 2015 alongside Amichai Schreiber and Danny Shteinberg. In cases where a worker falls short of requirements, the platform provides guidance on what they need to learn as well as part-time and shadowing opportunities. Gloat is also benefitting from a general rise in VC funding for HR tech startups.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2023

The money from VCs reported here, part of a tender offer, is separate to that. VC firms including Tiger Global, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive and K2 Global picking up new shares, according to documents seen by TechCrunch. A source tells us Founders Fund is also investing.

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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. If markets come back quickly then you’ll see a return to normal 2015 funding timeframes (which I can tell you are much quicker than in times past). And if that’s what he meant he was right.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2021

million Series A investment from VC firms and strategic investment from Google, Nedbank and Toyota Tsusho Corporation (TTC). Devin de Vries, Chris King and Dave New started the company in 2015. The extension round is coming a year after WhereIsMyTransport received a $7.5

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 26, 2022

Every milestone was an opportunity to tell the biggest possible story. We originally filed to go public in March of 2014, and didn’t actually become a public company until January of 2015. I thought maybe Glossier would be another opportunity for that type of story — either in beauty specifically, or e-commerce more broadly.

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2021

Paul, Minnesota-based startup to $25 million since its 2015 inception. Rather than at the point of sale, Upsie gives consumers an opportunity to purchase a warranty for a product via its website or mobile app after the transaction has taken place. Fintech startups set VC records as the 2021 fundraising market continues to impress.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2022

As managing partner at Class 5 Global, a San-Fransisco venture fund that has backed startups like Careem and Meliuz, Oudjidane was central to the VC’s efforts in assessing investment opportunities across emerging markets. We think the right way to build a business is to go after the largest opportunity first. So why Sudan? “We

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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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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2021

However, a fter his experience using N26 while visiting a friend in Berlin in 2015, his eyes opened to the possibilities of digital banking in Egypt. And for me, I was kind of like waiting for this to happen in Egypt, or if not, I thought I’ll tap into the opportunity someday,” he told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Great Question’s seed round came from investors including Funders Club, January Capital, Nomo VC and Twenty-Two Ventures. Before founding Great Question, PJ Murray and Ned Dwyer sold their last startup , web developer marketplace Elto, to GoDaddy in 2015. We would talk to customers, but it wasn’t structured or consistent.”.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

Throughout all of these years I was a full-time VC so Launchpad really came out of evenings and weekends for me. Adam had a full time startup and then was doing consulting (he later raised a VC fund). We have some announcements set for 2015. We plan to continue working with our good friends Jim & Peter on this.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

But when it comes to cross border payments and international fund transfers generally, banks have had far fewer choices, and to industry veteran Gary Palmer, that spelled opportunity. Palmer then went on to co-found Adaptive Payments, which sold to Mastercard in 2015. FIS bought eFunds in 2007 for about $1.8

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

Stephen Harper, the country’s prime minister from 2006 to 2015, famously quipped that the region suffered from “ a culture of defeatism.” VC firms have taken notice: notable investors in Atlantic Canadian startups include Breakthrough Energy Ventures , a fund supported by Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

In 2015, the emergence of fintechs such as Flutterwave and Paystack changed the game for online businesses in Africa by making it easier to integrate payments into customer interfaces without building those features from the ground up or merging with tacky foreign software. Treasury Prime raises $20M to scale its banking-as-a-service biz.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2023

123 Baby Box is also working with them to launch new products through its boxes as well as advertising opportunities. Bahadur said the company’s closest competitor is baby subscription box company Lovevery, which has raised $126 million in venture-backed funding since it was founded in 2015.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 4, 2021

American universities, however, decreased their reliance on full-time tenured or tenure-track staff, from 45% in 1975 to 29% in 2015. For instance, an increasing volume of genomics data coming out from large governmental projects creates an opportunity for biotech enthusiasts to launch startups. . % link] only US investors selected.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

Some platforms, like Roll20 and Fantasy Grounds , have seized on this opportunity to provide online video collaboration platforms for playing games like D&D, strategy titles, and many others of the general tabletop type.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2022

In 2015, Rex Salisbury was working as a software engineer at now-defunct mortgage startup Sindeo where he built out the back end for fully automated online mortgage pre-approval. Salisbury is not the only accidental VC in the fintech space. His work caught the attention of venture firm Andreessen Horowitz.

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Only 11% of VC partners are women , and as a whole, women angel investors have only reached 22%. In 2015, the Bank of Montreal’s Wealth Institute said that “Women currently control 51 percent, or $14 trillion, of personal wealth in the U.S. The stats for women in investing are somewhat bleak.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

According to Statista, the average enterprise uses 110 software-as-a-service apps today, up from eight in 2015. “[With Gapps,] co-founder Antero Hanhirova and I saw a big opportunity to help enterprise companies in the Nordics with their cloud transformation,” Ojansuu told TechCrunch in a recent interview.

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