Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

In the VC insider baseball world a discussion has gone on about “VC platforms” over the past 5 or so years. While firms define platforms differently, let’s just say they are the services that a VC offers outside of investment capital and partner time on boards or providing intros.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2022

It’s now raised $16 million in new funds led by Founders Fund, the San Francisco-based VC, whose portfolio boasts names such as Airbnb, Spotify and SpaceX. It was founded in 2016 in Riga, Latvia by two brothers, Mikus Opelts and Madars Opelts, and is headquartered in London, U.K.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

million in 2016, it was one of the largest disclosed rounds at that stage in Nigeria. . Just a month into 2021, Egyptian fintech startup Cassbana raised a $1 million pre-seed investment led by VC firm Disruptech in a bid to drive expansion within the country. A recurring theme: Serial founders. ” .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

. “This problem is especially acute in Africa because it’s particularly nascent, but this platform is designed for founders across emerging markets. Whereas with Pariti, founders get the needed information or resources that are immediately relevant to helping them get to the next stage of the business. A three-way marketplace.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

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. Are you ready for the coming wave of VC down rounds? She recommends that other founders do the same. More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

CEO and co-founder Alex Wang credits their success since founding, which includes raising over $277 million and achieving break-even status in terms of revenue, to early support from investors including Accel’s Dan Levine. In fact, Levine wrote one of the company’s very first checks. Knowing when to bend the rules.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 20, 2019

A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. In addition, their portfolios look far more diverse than VC industry norms. Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Image Credits: Co-founders Gloria Lin and Joel Poloney / Bonnie Rae Mills Photography. Last week I wrote about two startups that had female co-founders and CEOs and I was so impressed with them both. This is also at least the fourth construction tech company I’ve written about in the past year with a female co-founder.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

The firm, which, according to Ayeni, spun out from a conversation between himself and Helios Investment Partners’ founders, has backed one startup already: Egyptian payments company Paymob. “I’ll call it a mid-cap VC fund. Ayeni and the Helios Investment Partners team declined to comment on the VC firm’s overall fund size.

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Jason Malki

AUGUST 3, 2023

Since 2018, he is investing with an emerging tech VC focused on web3 and managing early-stage deal flow. Currently he is mentoring founders at Santa Clara University and the Blockchain Founders Group on fundraising, go-to-market and scaling strategies. The most exciting part is shaping the future by supporting great founders.

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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. The firm actively seeks out underrepresented founders from undercapitalized geographies to tackle underserved problems.

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Jason Malki

AUGUST 1, 2023

I had the pleasure of interviewing Timothy Chen, the General Partner of Essence VC , which is an early stage developer + infrastructure focused fund. After exiting Hyperpilot to Cloudera, like many other exited founders I started to angel invest into other founders I already know or met during my own founder journey.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

“My work with startups and the ecosystem began in 2016 when I founded Startupmedia to help startups and the ecosystem tell their stories and school myself in starting/scaling businesses. In the early stages, it’s really all about the founder/founding team.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

The company, which uses a combination of computer vision and machine learning to create a system that can quickly and accurately inspect vehicles, has raised $100 million in a Series D funding round led by Hanaco VC, a venture capital firm based in New York and Tel Aviv. Existing investors GM Ventures, CarMax, W.R. Berkley Corporation, F.I.T.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2023

Honeycomb was founded in 2016 by two former Facebook engineers to create a new way of looking at application monitoring based on the internal tooling they had seen at Facebook. Today the company announced a $50 million investment, a large sum in today’s tightening VC landscape.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Linda Greub Contributor Share on Twitter Linda Greub is the co-founder and managing partner of Avestria Ventures. But when you’re running a VC firm, especially as an emerging manager, how do you know which investors and limited partners (LPs) to target? But that image is only one part of venture capital.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The First Cheque program plans to leverage the expertise of experienced founders from Jungle Ventures’ current and former portfolio startups. The firm secured $100 million for its second fund in 2016 and then raised $240 million for its third fund in 2019. billion in follow-on capital raised.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 17, 2023

Register Singapore-based venture capital firm Jungle Ventures has announced its merger with HealthXCapital , an early-stage VC firm specializing in healthcare investments. This momentum continued as they raised $100 million for their second fund in 2016, followed by a substantial $240 million for their third fund in 2019.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

When they were ready to scale their commercial operations in 2016, Udesh Jadanansing and his team decided to raise a seed round. Instead, the investor and the founder agree on a total amount to be repaid and a minimum percentage of monthly revenue to be paid back every month, rather than a minimum amount due.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

This new fund triples the firm’s assets under management and will enable the pair to invest in another 25 to 30 companies, with 50% reserved for follow-in funding, Lemann, co-founder and managing partner, told TechCrunch. We have directly diversified access to deal flow, and a large majority of our deal flow is female founders,” Lemann added.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Austin made headlines in 2021 for being “the place” for startup founders and venture capitalists alike to set up shop. TechCrunch Live is a free weekly event featuring investors, founders, and startups with the goal of helping entrepreneurs build better venture-backed businesses. It’s a city of unicorns and tech giants. Register here.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

Founder and CEO Prince Boakye Boampong started the company in 2019. Before Dash, Boampong was the co-founder of OMG Digital, a YC-backed Ghanaian media startup he started alongside Jesse Ghansah — the current CEO of Float — in 2016. . Other investors in the round include Global Founders Capital and 4DX Ventures.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

What is interesting about the companies in this cohort is that they are predominantly led or co-founded by women as all startups except Kandua have a female founder. For example, founders in our previous cohort were all male. We are consciously making an effort to support as many women founders as we can going forward.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

Before becoming a VC firm, Savannah Fund started as an accelerator program in Kenya. However , in 2016, Savannah transitioned into venture capital investing, focusing on seed and Series A stages within $25,000 to $500,000 checks. We’re proud to partner with WeFi to further expand and encourage female founders on the continent.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 4, 2022

It’s 2022 and already local VCs, angel investors, startup founders, incubators and accelerators, and more are pushing hard to make their startups go. It’s a VC-backed startup whose mission is to connect people looking to hire in-home chore, help from local young people ready to serve. WJR Business Beat Transcript.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

Existing investors Base10 Partners and Gradient Ventures (Google’s AI-focused VC) also participated. Launched in 2016, Chili Piper’s software for B2B revenue teams is designed to convert leads into attended meetings. This brings the company’s total financing to $54 million. So all the way until 2019 we bootstrapped.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Neal has seen this industry from just about every angle — as a teacher, advisor, investor and repeat co-founder. In 2011 he co-founded what is often referred to as the “first coding bootcamp,” with The Starter League, acquired by New York’s Fullstack Academy in 2016.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2020

After moving on to a bubble-era company that no longer exists, Nash tried his hand at VC for the first time, joining Atlas Venture as an associate. A little more than four years later, in 2016, Wealthfront’s original CEO and founder, Andy Rachleff, reclaimed the role. But Nash didn’t disappear from the scene.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

Founded in 2016, Roami sprung from King-Geovanis’s belief that travelers should not be forced to choose between two flawed options: cramped and expensive hotel rooms or inconsistent and unpredictable vacation rentals. . The company used to be called Sextant Stays, and focuses on short-term rentals with apartment-style units.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

When an accident on a building site resulted in the death of their friend, the founders of Safesight were inspired to launch the platform to digitize safety programs for construction. million from industrial technology venture capital firms, led by Brick and Mortar Ventures and Builders VC. To date, it has raised $20.5

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2021

Indy VC firm Sixty8 Capital launches $20M fund aimed at underrepresented founders. Brent Leary, founder and principal analyst at CRM Essentials, says that it’s a smart move to take advantage of the changing events landscape and that this acquisition helps make Cisco a serious player in this space.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The company was founded in 2016 by Femi Kuti , Opeyemi Olumekun and Matthew Mayaki. In 2015, the three co-founders launched Kangpe, a telemedicine-focused startup in Nigeria with a “doctor in your pocket” slogan. year-over-year revenue growth from 2016. Image Credits: Reliance Health. It is the first investment made by the U.S.-based

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Other notable players in the space include Ÿnsect , a Paris-based startup that has received substantial VC-backing for bug farms , while U.K.-based On top of that, InnovaFood creates organic fertilizers out of insect poop to boost plant and crop growth. Growth industry.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2022

Matias Lonardi, co-founder and CEO of Treggo, started the company with Nicolas Torchio and Joaquin Wagner in 2016. So the founder group decided to bootstrap the company and did so for four years. The company also has a collaboration with Mercado Libre’s Flex Shipping to allow products to be received in as soon as one hour.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Startup founders from all over the world applied to what has been described as the most competitive batch in TechCrunch history. Green has built her career as a VC by becoming an expert within the fields in which she invests, beginning in the consumer space and expanding to health and wellness, durable supply chains and more.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

At first glance, one might think that the WeWork rival, which had raised about $560 million since its 2016 inception, was another casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic. . Virgin Mobile co-founder Amol Sarva and former VC Edward Shenderovich founded Knotel, essentially reversing the WeWork model.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

And then there are those that do want to raise VC money but don’t want to use it for specific things. Former Goldman Sachs investment banker Marc Helwani founded i80 in 2016 after investing in early-stage New York-based fintechs in 2014-2015 via his VC fund, Avenue A Ventures. At that time, it was still relatively new.

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