TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2021

Perhaps that’s why Sixty8 Capital , a firm based in Indianapolis, Indiana, smack dab in the middle of the country, has chosen to launch a new $20 million fund aimed at providing early stage funding for underrepresented founders. Indy-based High Alpha Capital launches new $110M fund. So that is why we launched Sixty8.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

It’s a massive jump from the company’s last raise — a $30 million round in October 2016 that included capital from Battery Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Ribbit Capital. At the time of that 2016 raise, Cross River told us that it originated more than $2.4 There were ebbs and flows,” he said.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 5, 2022

In 2016, I was looking for my next big thing after 25 years of operating a marketing business. MyEO DX attracts EO members who are looking to transform or reinvent their business strategies or overall engagement with entrepreneurship. Here’s what Alan shared: Why did you champion the MyEO DealExchange premier group?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Today, “we’re seeing the value of low, mid and high-multiples SaaS companies each find a comfortable trading range after a bull run since early 2016, albeit one with caveats,” he writes. Choices and constraints: How DTC companies decide which strategy to follow. The value of software revenue may have finally stopped rising.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

Bobby Franklin is the president and CEO of the National Venture Capital Association and previously served as an executive vice president for the CTIA – The Wireless Association. A new foreign investment bill will impact venture capital and the US startup ecosystem. Let’s be clear: The venture capital industry has lacked diversity.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 24, 2023

The fund will allocate at least 50% of its capital to support early-stage companies operating for less than three years as part of its investment strategy. MegaStudy, the anchor investor, is a prominent venture capital firm that has consistently demonstrated a keen interest in fostering innovation and supporting emerging businesses.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 23, 2023

Register Malaysian recommerce platform, CompAsia , has secured series A funding in a round led by Gobi Partners , a Pan-Asian venture capital firm. Since its inception in 2016, CompAsia has evolved into a comprehensive solution that enables customers to trade in or acquire electronic devices and offers financing options.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 25, 2016

My father keeps a copy of Michael Porter’s Competitive Strategy on his bookshelf. An imposing dark gray tome, Competitive Strategy is a business classic. For startups entering a period of increased capital cost, the wisdom of Porter’s Five Forces is more important to consider now than they have been in the past few years.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 31, 2024

But, in October 2016, Twitter discontinued the app because they were struggling to monetize the platform. In September 2016, Bytedance launched TikTok in China, which does essentially the same thing Vine did. In the real world, complex, long-term strategies take time to figure out, implement, and generate results. The result?

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

Venture capital (VC) firm Lifeline Ventures today announced a fresh €150 million ($163 million) fund aimed at early-stage startups across Finland. billion for a majority stake in 2016. billion for a majority stake in 2016. billion all-stock deal two years ago; and gaming giant Supercell , which Tencent doled out $8.6

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Register Established in 2016 and headquartered in New York, SoGal Ventures is a venture capital firm dedicated to early-stage investments in diverse founding teams, operating in both the United States and Asia. They often are very hardworking, capital efficient, and insightful on the problem to solve.”

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 21, 2024

Additional participating investors include Sage Hill Investors, Audeo Capital, and BlueIO. Additional participating investors include Sage Hill Investors, Audeo Capital, and BlueIO. Since its launch in 2016, the company has been on a remarkable growth trajectory and achieved many industry milestones.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

Notably, two of the main investors are not venture capital firms but instead are two large tech companies: Latin American e-commerce giant Mercado Libre and San Francisco-based software developer Globant. The raise brings Digital House’s total funding raised to more than $80 million since its 2016 inception.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

LiveOak Venture Partners raised its largest fund to date, $210 million for Fund III, which will enable the Austin-based, early-stage venture capital firm to double down on Texas founders. More than $90 billion was invested into Texas-based companies since 2016, according to Crunchbase data. In 2021, $14.2

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 15, 2022

The Series B extension financing round was anchored by SIG Venture Capital and backed by CE Innovation Capital and PayU, the payments and fintech business of Prosus. In a statement, the startup said it the fresh capital will enable it to continue building out a leadership team and to invest in product and technology development.

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StartupNation

AUGUST 5, 2021

In 2016, Dell Technologies commissioned our first Digital Transformation Index (DT Index) study to assess the digital maturity of businesses around the globe. But only 21% say they treat data as capital and prioritize its use across the business today. The Perception Paradox. Clearly, there’s a disconnect here.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The funding round was also backed by existing investors including Blackbird Ventures, Main Sequence Ventures, Clean Energy Finance Corporation, Skip Capital, Uniseed, SpringCapital, Malcolm and Lucy Turnbull, and others. Since launch in 2016, Morse Micro has focused on long-range, low-power wireless connectivity.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2022

million in Series C funding led by Baird Capital’s Venture Team with participation from Spring Lake Equity Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, Menlo Ventures, High Alpha and Coupa, an infusion that brings the startup’s total raised to date to $64 million. Zylo today announced that it raised $31.5

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2022

Toyosaki, who also headed up marketing at Bitcoin.com, told TechCrunch in an interview that many of the strategies available to crypto derivatives traders today are fairly risky, a motivating factor behind why she founded Cega, which she says is the first-ever DeFi exotic derivatives protocol.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2023

Launched in 2017 by Shashank Bijapur, Madhav Bhagat and Rohith Salim, the company today closed a $26 million Series A funding round led by Premji Invest, which also had participation from Prosus Ventures, 021 Capital, Arkam Ventures, Riverwalk Fund and 100x Entrepreneur Fund. SpotDraft’s management dashboard. and the Middle East.

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Dream It

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Erika Norwood, the Executive Director of Gray Matters Charitable Foundation (GMCF), which funded MPOWER’s social impact strategy, lauded the report and noted its connection to the foundation’s own mission to support education leading to a more purposeful life for 100 million women by 2036.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

All major existing backers — such as Stripe, D1 Capital Partners, Iconiq Capital, Thrive Capital, Redpoint Ventures, Coatue Management, Iconiq, Altimeter, Stripe, Lux Capital, Vista Public Strategies, Spark Capital and Definition Capital — also participated in the latest equity financing, which brings Ramp’s total raised to $1.37

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2021

When co-founders Songe LaRon and Dave Salvant first began barbershop tech platform Squire in 2016, they leaned in: The duo bought a barbershop in New York City’s Chelsea neighborhood to see firsthand how the business worked. Ultimately, its decision to bring on more capital is so it can expand in the U.K.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

HubHaus (2016-2020). The startup targeted working professionals in cities, and raised only around $11 million in known venture capital. The service had its roots in the software giant’s acquisition of Beam Interactive shortly after the startup won TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield in 2016. The Outline (2016-2020).

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Ellen DeGeneres, Portia de Rossi, Shaun White and Shawn Mendes are the new backers, who came in through a strategic round of funding alongside PLUS Capital to bring the Seattle-based company’s total funding to $60 million since the company’s inception in 2016. That is the strategy shift from B2B to a movement for our community.”.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2021

Rob Olson is a partner and head of data strategy at M13 , a venture engine focused on investing in the core technologies that are going to drive and change consumer behavior over the next decade. About 70% of the companies in our dataset exited between 2016-2019, including notable IPOs like Spotify, Zoom, Uber and Peloton. Contributor.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JUNE 7, 2019

Ashna Mahepal, founder of Young Help Suriname (YHS) , is a member of the YLAI Network and 2016 YLAI Fellow. In 2016, when she was selected as a YLAI Fellow, Ashna was able to further develop her ideas, and her YLAI Reverse Exchange became a great success that grew her confidence for undertaking international projects.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

The Exchange was curious about the impact of the Chinese government’s actions on the venture capital market. The Japanese teleco, conglomerate and investing powerhouse has been deploying capital at a rapid pace in recent weeks. Is SoftBank early to its decision to shake up its investing strategy, missing Chinese deals for some time?

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2022

The company raised $26 million in Series B funding, Zededa today announced, contributed by a range of investors including Coast Range Capital, Lux Capital, Energize Ventures, Almaz Capital, Porsche Ventures, Chevron Technology Ventures, Juniper Networks, Rockwell Automation, Samsung Next and EDF North America Ventures.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

He said the move is a “direct response to the systemic racial inequities in access to capital for Black and brown entrepreneurs” and aimed at addressing “the racial wealth gap.”. “I NJEDA CEO Tim Sullivan said based on research conducted by the state, that New Jersey is the first state in the nation to develop this type of fund.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 19, 2021

Nathan Beckord is CEO of Foundersuite.com , a software platform for raising capital and managing investors that has helped entrepreneurs raise over $2 billion since 2016. Christine Tao runs Sounding Board , a business founded in 2016 that offers executive coaching services to leaders at major companies like Kraft and Heinz.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Wallapop has confirmed that the funding is coming at a valuation of €690 million ($840 million) — a significant jump on the $570 million valuations sources close to the company gave us in 2016. By 2016, Wallapop was merging with a rival, LetGo , as part of a bigger strategy to crack the U.S.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

It’s not a tech company this time — Awoyemi co-founded online jobs site Jobberman (which was acquired by ROAM Africa in 2016) and Whogohost, a bootstrapped hosting platform — but instead, a venture studio: Fast Forward Venture Studio. Fast Forward acts as the company’s co-founder.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 10, 2016

For all the talk about late stage rounds, megarounds and unicorns, early stage startups are benefitting disproportionately from near-record years of venture capital investment. On average, 25% more early stage startups raise capital in the last five years compared to 1995-2000. That figure is up from 18% in 2005.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

Participants included ARM IoT Capital, WI Harper and Marubun Corporation, who will each serve as strategic investors. Based in Taipei, Taiwan, eYs3D was spun out of Etron , a fabless IC and system-in-package (SiP) design firm, in 2016. It will use its new funding to build its embedded chip business in new markets.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

Then in 2016, it launched Roadrunner Financial, a wholly owned-and-operated lender, so that it could offer full spectrum lending, “expand access to credit and speed up transactions through digitization and automation.” “We are growing dramatically because we make transactions faster and simpler to close for consumers and dealerships,” Guss said. “We

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The Singapore-based startup announced today it has raised a $12 million Series A led by Sequoia Capital India, with participation from Trail Mix Ventures and Alteria Capital. The round also included returning investors Nordic Eye Venture Capital and Motion Ventures. million in seed funding.

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