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. LPs Still Believe Strongly in Venture Capital as a Diverse Source of Returns. That’s money that fuels our startup ecosystems.

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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. Venture capitalists. billion in 2015, as we can see in the table below. Regional VC investment grew 5.2

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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

But which lesser known startup sectors are starting to raise venture dollars? Where are founders finding unique opportunities to innovate? 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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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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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

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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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

JUNE 8, 2022

It highlights important events in the continent’s tech ecosystem until this point, compares its journey with other emerging markets and provides guidance into the opportunities within various sectors. And though they are inclined to follow the money, Endeavor wants them to look beyond usual market opportunities and map out exit pathways.

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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

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

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

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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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.

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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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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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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. We are excited to partner with CoderSchool to provide both opportunity and access to the millions of aspiring students in Vietnam.”.

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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

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

AUGUST 15, 2023

That said, a paradigm shift of the broader venture landscape could be on the horizon. 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. Crowdfunding witnessed a 2.4x growth from 2020 to 2021.

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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

JANUARY 25, 2023

Three existing investors are putting more money on the table — Revaia , XAnge and Bpifrance’s Digital Ventures’ fund. As Welcome to the Jungle originally started with tech startups, there are still a lot of highly-skilled job opportunities on the platform. There are already more than 300 people working for Welcome to the Jungle. “It’s

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Revolution

JUNE 15, 2023

Our partnership with CAVA began in 2015, when the Mediterranean fast-casual chain had just a dozen locations in D.C., That commitment to culture has overwhelmingly paid off, with pillars like above-standard wages and ample career opportunities translating into less churn, more continuity, and a galvanized team. Maryland, and Virginia.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

The fresh funds, led by SoftBank Ventures Asia , bring Seadronix’s the total round up to $8.3 ” The startup was founded in December 2015 by three founders: Park, Donghun Kim (co-CTO) and Hankeun Kim (co-CTO). Oceans of opportunity: surveying 2020’s seafaring startup potential. The company just secured a $5.8

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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

JANUARY 31, 2021

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. Founded in 2015, ELSA, which stands for English Language Speech Assistant, now claims more than 13 million users.

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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

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

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

When Brian Schiff, Sam Krut and Jacob Cooper founded the company in 2015, they were still undergraduates at Cornell University and it was initially an Uber-like social transportation app to help people find rides on college campuses where the transportation giant wasn’t operating. The funding round he refers to is $6.5

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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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StartupNation

AUGUST 4, 2021

Detroit’s future is in the hands of young, dynamic doers who embrace the opportunity to achieve their personal goals and contribute to the greater good of the local community. One such rising star in our region is 31-year-old Cory Tincher, a senior associate at Detroit Venture Partners. His story is both exhilarating and exemplary.

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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

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Aileen Lee, founder and managing partner of Cowboy Ventures, led a $2 million seed round in 2015 before Guild Education even had a real product. Carlson and her co-founder, Brittany Stich, had been running educational classes on their own while in school at Stanford and saw a massive, scalable opportunity.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The fintech, which claims to be the region’s largest SME digital financing platform, uses alternative forms of credit-scoring and has disbursed more than $2 billion in financing to MSMEs since it launched in 2015. The company was founded in 2015 by Kelvin Teo and Reynold Wijaya after they met in Harvard Business School.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The round was led by Unusual Ventures, with Unusual’s John Vrionis joining the board. While Arrikto has stayed off the radar since it launched out of Athens, Greece in 2015, the founding team of Venetsanopoulos and CTO Vangelis Koukis already managed to get a number of large enterprises to adopt its platform.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

She led product, marketing and revenue and was on the executive team that eventually sold PoF to Match Group for $575 million in 2015. million in funding, led by Kindred Ventures and Coelius Capital, with participation by Golden Ventures, Garage Capital, Panache Ventures and N49P. Thus far, Snack has received $3.5

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2023

I’m excited to host a TechCrunch Live event with Persona co-founder and CEO Rick Song, one of the early movers in the space, about how his company identified ID management as an opportunity. Rick Song co-founded Persona with Charles Yeh in 2015, and according to PitchBook, the company’s valuation is $1.5

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