TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

This week, I covered Zeta, a new startup working on joint finances for modern couples. Here’s what I learned : The success of Zeta hinges on the idea that people want to share their finances in an ongoing and meaningful way, and that the world of finance is ready to shift from individualism to collectivism earlier and louder.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

The Kauffman Foundation found 47% of US tech founders held degrees in STEM while 34% held degrees in business, finance, and accounting. Some of the greatest areas of innovation opportunity are at the intersection of sectors historically segregated , e.g., computational biology. Many universities (e.g., 5) Student-focused VCs.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The open finance startup announced today it has closed a $13 million Series B extension round led by SIG Venture Capital, with participation from CE Innovation Capital and returning investor PayU, the payments and fintech business of Prosus.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

Will the next company to raise $100M in financing just poach from decent seed-stage companies and pay triple the amount to lock up talent? The argument threaded through Fred’s posts above is that significant venture-scale opportunities for VCs existed outside the Bay Area. These questions have been rattling around my brain.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2022

However, for all their effort and importance to the tech ecosystem, raising significant venture capital seemed elusive to startups in Africa’s digital media landscape that rely on grants and personal funding to scale. million in seed funding to expand its audience and build new verticals.

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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

MARCH 11, 2021

However, according to PitchBook Data, since the beginning of 2016, companies with women founders have received only 4.4% of venture capital deals. Those companies have garnered only about 2% of all capital invested. In turn, investors are overwhelmed with poorly qualified opportunities.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Knife Capital , a South African venture capital firm, is raising a $50 million fund for startups looking to raise Series B financing. The first fund, known as Knife Capital Fund I or HBD Venture Capital, was a closed private equity fund managed by Eben van Heerden and Keet van Zyl. and Europe.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

Autochek said it will tap CoinAfrique’s regional customer base in Francophone Africa to accelerate its car financing services. CoinAfrique, whose team will join Autochek and help them run operations in the region, was founded in 2016 by Matthias Papet and Eric Genetre. “We over 2022-2027. TLcom and 4DX drive $13.1M

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

I recently survey more than 150 VC friends from all stages and geographies what they thought about the market by asking “Which of the following statements best describes your mood heading into 2016?” For every bear there’s somebody else thinking they have an opportunity. Remember the RIP Good Times by Sequoia ?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

In 2016, Andrew Hoag, formerly a senior manager at Verisign and a web project lead at NASA’s Ames Research Center, founded Teampay , a platform that attempts to automate the software purchasing process for companies. Today, Teampay has hundreds of customers and significant venture capital financing behind it.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

Despite venture capital growing as an asset class, alternative ways to raise are becoming increasingly popular to help founders maintain ownership and to access capital. The move was met with controversy at first, since venture capital funds have historically been raised behind closed doors. Don’t give up.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? Of course, one could rebut that by saying traditional VC is all about investing in outliers: Seth Levine analyzed data from Correlation Ventures (21,000 financings from 2004-2013) and writes that “a full 65% of financings fail to return 1x capital.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

When you do something well once in venture capital, you want to keep repeating it, and HOF Capital plans to double down on its strategy of focusing on pre-seed through Series A, now with a brand new $300 million fund, its second institutional early-stage fund. from Egypt 11 years ago. from Egypt 11 years ago.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Zappos also offers opportunities to learn about its company culture, which you can apply to your business. Brad Feld helped co-found the venture capital firm with one goal in mind: to help entrepreneurs. “We This presents out-of-towners with opportunities to connect with fellow startup leaders and potential investors.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The Series A funding is led by Runa Capital with Flashpoint Venture Capital and LAUNCHub Ventures also participating. The financing will be used to dial up OfficeRnD’s marketing with the aim of expanding market share, including by growing its partnerships. 15% in the EU; 15% in APAC and 10% elsewhere.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

“[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. Ojansuu and Hanhirova launched Happeo ’s first incarnation, “Universe,” in early 2016.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? Image Credits: Versatile Venture Capital (opens in a new window). Seth Levine analyzed data from Correlation Ventures (21,000 financings from 2004-2013) and writes that “a full 65% of financings fail to return 1x capital.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

Corporate management startup Ramp confirmed that it has secured $550 million in debt and $200 million in equity in a new financing that doubles its valuation to $8.1 Notably, Founders Fund led the latest equity financing, marking the firm’s fourth time leading a round for Ramp. It then raised $300 million at a $3.9

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

Founded in 2016, New York-based Petal offers two Visa credit card products aimed at underserved consumers with little to no credit history. Specifically, Petal offers “modern” Visa credit cards, along with a mobile app, designed to help people “responsibly” build credit and manage their finances. .

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

billion since its 2016 inception. Tiger Global, Spruce House, D1, SEA, Founders Fund, Ribbit Capital, SoftBank and others also participated in the latest financing. Put simply, Kavak is an online marketplace that aims to bring transparency, security and access to financing to the used car market.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

The San Francisco-based operations execution company raised $27 million in Series C financing, led by Golub Capital, to continue developing its application to automate operation procedures like tracking food safety, public health protocols and changing market conditions. The pandemic inadvertently helped us,” he added.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2022

Decentralized finance (DeFi) is one of the hottest, fastest-growing areas within crypto. The DeFi market is evolving rapidly, with companies spinning up increasingly complex financial products akin to those that have long taken hold in the traditional finance world. ”

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 20, 2019

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. I have been impressed by how these venture capitalists are accomplishing a major social impact goal…without even trying to. I contacted every RBI venture capital investor I could identify, and learned: .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

million in a Series A round led by Silicon Valley VC firm Ribbit Capital. Kaszek Ventures, QED Investors and Greenoaks Capital also participated in the financing, which brings the startup’s total raised to $36.7 This isn’t the first venture for Cora co-founders Igor Senra and Leo Mendes.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

Embedded finance will help fill the life insurance coverage gap. There’s latent demand for life insurance currently unaddressed by much of the financial services industry, and embedded finance can be the solution. Embedded finance will help fill the life insurance coverage gap. 5 predictions for the future of e-commerce.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

Founded in 2014, Blossom Finance was first intended for Muslim entrepreneurs in the United States. These factors are proving fertile ground for establishing and growing fintechs that focus exclusively on Islamic finance, offering products and services that follow shariah law. Meanwhile in Malaysia, where 61.3% out of its 33.6

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

The company, which came together in 2015 and launched its first product in 2016, was co-founded by Jacob Sills and Elijah Gwynn as they explored how to improve the criminal justice system. Longer term, however, the company sees a large opportunity in connecting its growing population of users to new services as they re-enter society.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

However, if you are trying to craft user policies about politics, consider this election-eve analysis from Taylor Hatmaker about how Facebook and Twitter have changed their approaches since 2016. Natasha scooped a series of Election Day filings from venture capital firms. How to start a VC fund without being rich already.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 30, 2018

That’s still OK given the IPO is more of a financing event than anything else, right? As 2019 rolls around, at some point (perhaps the fall), it will be too close to the next 2020 presidential election, such that Congress would likely prefer to have the voters express their will in 2020 than trying to interfere with the will of 2016 voters.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? Of course, one could rebut that by saying traditional VC is all about investing in outliers: Seth Levine analyzed data from Correlation Ventures (21,000 financings from 2004-2013) and writes that “a full 65% of financings fail to return 1x capital.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

Existing investor Contour Venture Partners led the financing, which brings the company’s total funding since its 2010 inception to $35 million. Major League Baseball and Elysian Park Ventures, the private investment arm of the ownership group of the Los Angeles Dodgers, also participated in the round. .

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! They will also be offered the opportunity to join a customized 6-month Google Developers Launchpad Accelerator program, including guidance from our nonprofit partner, DataKind, to jumpstart their work.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

participated in four of Scale’s financing rounds, which is all of them unless you include the funding from YC the company secured as part of a cohort in 2016. In fact, Levine wrote one of the company’s very first checks.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

However, most of them tend to go alone and are stuck with cutting checks in their local markets, which limits opportunities. After building and exiting multiple startups, some founders turn into angel investing to support startups and their ecosystems. Some MAGIC portfolio companies. Here’s a scenario.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

Other topics on our list for this year include exploring the opportunities and challenges for urban air companies and cities, the dual paths companies are taking to commercialize autonomous vehicle technology, cybersecurity, micromobility, self-driving trucks and autonomous delivery. Spoiler alert: Uber for X is no longer a differentiator.

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TechCrunch

JULY 31, 2022

During his two years at the firm, Salisbury went on to back the likes of now-decacorn Deel and Tally , two companies he had gotten to know through the Cambrian community he’s built up since 2016. Bell, a corporate finance attorney and a former White House policy advisor for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, in a press release.

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