Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2017

I am so proud and humbled to be able to formally announce that Upfront Ventures has raised its 6th venture capital fund in the past 21 years. A huge thank you to all of the Limited Partners who have entrusted us with your capital, time and reputations. This brings our combined funds under management to nearly $2 billion.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

In February of 2017, Susan Fowler’s description of the pervasive cultural issues at Uber, after the company’s abject failure to address her sexual harassment complaints properly, finally broke through in a way that garnered the tech community’s appropriate attention. It makes me want to quit venture capital entirely.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2022

The tech industry loves generalizations — and don’t worry, I enjoy my fair share too — but as the downturn continues to play out, it’s increasingly important to think about the structural changes that may be forming in the venture capital landscape. Instead, venture firms cut costs in quieter ways.

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Revolution

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In 2017, we partnered with iconic leaders in American business to turn the thesis we developed on the road — that great companies can start and scale anywhere when given a chance — into an investment vehicle. Founder-market-geography fit is one of those factors.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Collectively , they have raised over $100 million in venture capital. SafeBoda has rarely announced any of its funding rounds since its inception in 2017, but people who know the company’s dealings say it has raised over $20 million. Google sets up $50M fund to invest in African startups.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. You could also live in a local “hacker house” for community support, e.g., Edyfi , The Garden , or Womxn Ignite. 4) Student-focused founder communities. Right here. school of engineering).

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 10, 2023

Register Venture capital platform Antler has recently unveiled its Antler ONDC , an Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC)-focused venture platform in India. The platform aims to facilitate their journey by offering a curated community that encourages collaboration with experts, operators, and prominent network participants.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Pan-African focused venture capital firms Samurai Incubate Africa, Future Africa and Consonance Investment Managers led the round. Individual investors like Stephen Pagliuca, the chairman of Bain Capital and Justin Kan of Twitch also participated. Today, the company is announcing that it has raised $2.7

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TechCrunch

JUNE 14, 2021

In 2017, when Campos was in her early 20s, she learned to program and created a system to help manage her mental health. We also want to include a community inside our application.”. He first met Campos when she was participating in an accelerator program in 2017, and then again recently. Plus, Yana is an amazing product.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Sota Kimura, co-founder and CEO of SmartRyde, founded SmartRyde in 2017 after he experienced trouble getting a taxi from the airport to the hotel when he traveled abroad, Kimura told TechCrunch. It will also use the funding for global expansion, Kimura said.

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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. She created the SoGal community in LA, one of the largest global networks for women entrepreneurs and investors.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

Ancient8 , Vietnam’s blockchain gaming guild, develops a community and software platform to enable everyone to play P2E (play-to-earn) games and build the metaverse while earning rewards. “We Ancient8 announced today it has raised a $4 million seed financing led by Dragonfly Capital , Pantera Capital and Hashed.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

So a sincere hope of mine in building Frank isn’t that we’re right, it’s that we can be part of growing an ecosystem or community of folks building tools specifically for worker power (LaborTech). HW: Frank is venture backed. Look, socialists hate venture capital, and venture capitalists hate unions.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Monique Villa is an investor at Mucker Capital , an early-stage VC fund investing in startups across the U.S. She is also the co-founder of Build In SE , a community of founders, funders and ecosystem partners committed to company building in the Southeast (#BuildInSE). and Canada. More posts by this contributor. And yet, here we are.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Intudo founding partners Patrick Yip and Eddy Chan launched the firm in June 2017 as the first Indonesia-only venture capital firm, with a debut fund of $10 million. One-third of the deals from Intudo’s first two funds were sourced from universities and the tech community in the United States. Series B round.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Microtraction , an early-stage venture capital firm based in Lagos, Nigeria, saw funding nearly quadruple for its portfolio. ” Badamosi, who returned to Nigeria from the UK in 2015, worked as the general manager for Starta Africa, an online community for African tech entrepreneurs.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

In today’s challenging venture capital environment, we are proud to welcome our largest cohort of groundbreaking startups to the Inclusive Ventures Lab and are eager to support them as they scale their innovations and work to build a better world,” said Selma Bueno, Global Head of the Morgan Stanley Inclusive Ventures Group.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

It is also a competition that provides the opportunity for start-ups to grow and has been doing so since 2017. These funds are given to both community groups and individual artists in film, theatre, and dance. 11) Community Development Financial Institutions Fund. 19) Harlem Capital Partners. Website: [link].

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2022

Venture capitalists and founders across all fundraising stages spoke to current investment strategies when it comes to investing in this cohort of startups. These structures were popular in the 2017-2018 [Initial Coin Offering] days and have become less prevalent today.”. And web3 is all about the community.”.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

HoneyBee has also secured a $100 million debt facility from CIM, an institutional impact investment manager that provides debt capital for innovation that lends to underserved communities. . Lim teamed up with Benny Yiu and Max Zschoch in 2017 to build HoneyBee with that goal in mind. “We

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Truist — one of the nation’s largest financial institutions — has acquired Long Game , a 12-person fintech startup that has raised over $20 million in venture capital, executives have told TechCrunch exclusively. million raise in 2017. As of June 2021, Charlotte, N.C.-based TechCrunch covered the startup’s $6.6

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2021

Technology to address disasters and resilience is a key area of venture capital investment these days , and now another startup in the space is proving that there is widespread interest in this growing market. Data was the new oil, until the oil caught fire. The company was founded in 2015. The rise of (societal) resilience tech.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

Gutter Capital , a New York venture capital firm, closed on $25 million in capital commitments for its first fund to invest in pre-seed and seed stage companies focused on affordability, economic mobility and climate change. It was way harder than venture capital as a founder,” Teran told TechCrunch. “I

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TechCrunch

JULY 4, 2022

The platform announced today it has raised $10 million in Series A funding led by Singaporean venture capital firm Jungle Ventures and Mumbai-based Dream Capital. million since it was founded in 2017 (it launched in India in 2020). Returning investors 9Unicorns, iSeed, Crescent and Riverwalk also participated.

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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

JULY 11, 2021

Dovetail began working with Afterpay in 2017, when the company had less than 40 employees. companies, but its venture studio is currently focused on Australasian startups, with plans to expand into North America in the future. “We Early-stage venture firm The Fund launches in Australia. We’re looking for ideas.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2018

Upfront Ventures has a deep-seated commitment to equality in funding & building diverse teams across all ethnicities, nationalities and genders. Thank you to Hamet Watt for being such a positive leader in the African American community?—?I I can’t wait to see the businesses you launch with your new foundry.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

Fetch Package , a last-mile package delivery company for apartment communities, has raised $50 million in a Series C round of funding and closed on a $10 million venture debt facility. Michael Patton founded Fetch in May 2016 after being frustrated by having packages lost at the apartment community in which he was living. . “I

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2021

Tiger Global Management led the latest investment, which also included participation from ICONIQ Capital and D1 Capital Partners. With the latest capital infusion, Side’s total raised since its 2017 inception now totals over $250 million. Matrix Partners, Sapphire Ventures, Trinity Ventures and 8VC led its earlier rounds.

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Revolution

MAY 21, 2019

We foster an open and inclusive environment and we want to hear about new business ideas and ways in which we can grow as a community. When a business concept can thrive in an area that is not capital rich, it’s likely that this is a resilient idea, driven by resilient people. Diversity is welcomed and encouraged here in Orlando.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

After working as a software engineer, Qureshi caught the “crypto bug” in 2017, he joked. There is a lot of excitement in the crypto community and among investors around play-to-earn gaming, decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) infrastructure, and web3 developer tooling, Qureshi said. million.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

At the recent Creative Technologist conference organized by venture capital fund Baukunst , Salguero shared that the company has seen $600 million worth of revenue without taking a penny of external investment and talked about some of the lessons he learned along the way. . From there, the company has continued to grow. A rocky start.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 29, 2021

Fred Dust (voted top 10 most innovative person by Fast Company in 2017 and former Global Managing Director of design giant IDEO) will be talking all things about “What’s Around the Corner.” We appreciate the support of our EH community and would love to see you there alongside the 500+ already confirmed guests.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

PenguinFaceplant.gif : Club Penguin was shut down in 2017 , but fans rebooted it — without authorization from Disney. And, speaking of “communities, Tinder launched a new feature called “Festival Mode” that enables users to connect with each other before a big concert or, you guessed it, a festival. Big Tech Inc.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2021

Mighty Networks , a platform designed to give creators and brands a dedicated place to start and grow communities, has closed on $50 million in a Series B funding round led by Owl Ventures. The investment brings Palo Alto-based Mighty Networks’ total raised since its 2017 inception to $67 million. .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

But when Shuttlers launched in 2017, it did not have a functional mobile application. Instead, the company ran an unconventional online model using Slack, email and WhatsApp to communicate with its customers. Via its ridesharing platform, Shuttlers provides companies with better mobility options for their employees. .

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

The new financing gives Little Spoon $73 million in total funding since it was founded in 2017 by Lisa Barnett, Ben Lewis, Michelle Muller and Angela Vranich. We are laser-focused on developing new products, investing in the community, building out more capacity and bolstering operations.”.

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