TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

This undisclosed investment is Google’s third from the $50 million Africa Investment Fund targeted at the continent’s early- and growth-stage startups, which the company CEO Sundar Pichai announced last October. The fund is part of Google’s plan to invest $1 billion in “tech-led initiatives” over the next five years.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

From 13–19 November 2017, we’ll share exclusive content designed to inspire and inform every entrepreneur—whether you’re in start-up mode or you’re a battle-scarred founder. “Connecting Women Entrepreneurs and the Investment Community,” Carine Schneider & Kalika Yap.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 3, 2024

After my job salary was cut on February 10, 2017, I had to quickly figure out a solution for success. Despite having zero business background, I started my first company on April 16, 2017. Keep making bigger investments into smaller rooms, where the people in those rooms are making bigger impacts. They live in full abundance.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

Influential entrepreneurs like Paul Graham and Naval Ravikant always preach the need for startups to have founders-turned-investors on their cap table. As Ravikant puts it, “founders want to know that the people they are taking money from have first-hand experience.” . MAGIC Fund has 12 founders who act as general partners.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The investment is the largest-ever Series A round for the region, and it values Wave at $1.7 Four big-name backers jointly led the round — Sequoia Heritage, a private investment fund and a subsidiary of Sequoia; Founders Fund; payments upstart Stripe; and Ribbit Capital. Wave , a U.S. Both were Series C rounds.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 22, 2022

Register Finhay , Vietnam’s premier digital investment platform , has secured $25 million in its Series B funding round co-led by Openspace Ventures and VIG. We believe a massive opportunity exists in Vietnam, which has an enterprising population hungry for the chance to invest smartly. With more than 2.7

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 19, 2022

intends to use the funding to investment in technology and scale its business operations and teams in the United States, India and the Middle East. It was also the first investment for Sorin Investments, an early-stage tech fund founded by private equity veteran Sanjay Nayar, Former Chairman of KKR India. Uniqus Consultech Inc.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Titan , a startup that is building a retail investment management platform aimed at millennials, has closed on $12.5 A bevy of other investors put money in the round, including Sound Ventures (actor Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary’s VC firm), Scribble VC, Y Combinator, South Park Commons, Instagram founder Mike Krieger, Lee Fixel and others. .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2023

The investors approached them, according to company CEO and founder Isaac Evans. Image Credits: Semgrep Evans said when the company launched in 2017, he had this vision of doing something like this and set out to build it, but they were having trouble building something specifically for developers.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Its flagship product, MotionWise, is a software safety platform that allows data to flow between a car’s different control systems, and ensures they work safely, securely and in real time without interfering with each other, according to Georg Kopetz, CEO and co-founder of TTTech Auto. .

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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. The Kauffman Foundation found 47% of US tech founders held degrees in STEM while 34% held degrees in business, finance, and accounting. 1) Freebies for Student Tech Founders. Right here.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Founded in Estonia and now headquartered in New York, the company has taken a majority investment from U.S. Another Atomico investment, Klarna, also achieved so-called “decacorn” status with a valuation of $10.6 enterprise software focused private equity firm Vista Equity Partners.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2023

Risk factors Prewave founders Harald Nitschinger and Lisa Smith Image Credits : Prewave Founded out of Vienna in 2017 by Harald Nitschinger and Lisa Smith, Prewave touts itself as a holistic supply chain risk platform that spans “every phase of the risk lifecycle,” through identifying, analyzing, mitigating, and reporting these risks.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Ian Swanson, the co-founder and CEO, said that the capital will be put toward product development and customer outreach as Protect AI emerges from stealth. Ahmed became acquainted with Swanson while working at Swanson’s last startup, DataScience.com, which was acquired by Oracle in 2017. ” Protect AI lands a $13.5M

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Syfe founder Dhruv Arora. Investment apps in Southeast Asia are attracting a lot of funding, and now some are raising fast follow-on rounds, too. The latest round’s lead investor is Valar Ventures, which also led Syfe’s Series A, marking the fintech-focused venture capital firm’s first investment in an Asian startup.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

OCTOBER 15, 2020

I wrote yesterday , about the quarterly numbers for VC investing activity: If this was a student coming home with a report card, it would be straight As. Firms invested a total of $434 million in Q3—the lowest figure since the second quarter of 2017, according to PitchBook data. I will give myself an F for that.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Burns left Twitter in 2017 to join GV, formerly known as Google Ventures. Read on for a Q&A with Burns about her investment thesis, role change and plans as partner. Any anecdotes for how out of network founders grabbed your attention? Her hope has now been met with recognition. And that was the beginning.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2023

Chroma , a startup working to build a new type of audiovisual entertainment specifically for mobile devices, is now adding a Twitter co-founder to its board. In 2017, Stone publicly announced he was returning to Twitter to lead strategic vision, brand, and culture, where he remained until 2021. million in seed funding (5.1 Chroma did.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Most recently, Tencent invested in FJ Dynamics, a Chinese startup selling agricultural automation solutions such as smart tractors and rice transplanters as well as unmanned vehicles for ports and factories to clients around the world. Founded in 2017, FJ Dynamics has links to several big-name corporations in China.

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TechCrunch

JULY 18, 2022

Matt Cohen, founder and managing partner of Ripple Ventures , was the founding investor of Turnstyle Solutions, which was acquired by Yelp in 2017. With the economic downturn and associated uncertainty, startup founders at every stage have been rushing to shore up their balance sheets and extend runways. Matt Cohen. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The last few quarters did not play out as as expected for venture capitalists or entrepreneurs; instead of a pandemic-fueled recession that cauterized the flow of private investment into startups, the economic shifts brought on by COVID-19 have given many companies a tailwind. A VC rebound. In the third quarter, things turned around.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance. For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. Alternative Capital. “

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Smart Hustle Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Congrats to Alice , the first platform powered by AI that works as a personal business adviser to small business owners, for securing its series A investment found. Smart Hustle covered Alice here , in 2017. Terms of the financing have not been disclosed.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2023

Much hope remains after the crypto winter almost froze the sector: the Luna crash , the bankruptcy of Celsius and the arrest of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried for alleged fraud. Bubble had to pop,” People of Crypto co-founder Simone Berry said. “It Pryce Adade-Yebesi , the co-founder of Utopia Labs, agreed. billion and $4.2

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2021

Three-time co-founders Waseem Daher, Jeff Arnold, and Jessica McKellar formed Pilot with the mission of affordably providing back office services to startups and SMBs. The latest financing brings the company’s total funding raised to over $158 million since its 2017 inception. QuickBooks, it seems, just doesn’t always cut it.

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FundersClub

JUNE 15, 2017

technology startup founders and how that affects the gender diversity of the employees they hire in " The 2017 US Startup Team Gender Diversity Study. " Founder and Operator Thoughts. What are the most common mistakes you have seen growth stage founders make? Want to invest in the best startups?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Seedstars Africa Ventures , the pan-African early-stage fund for startups, has appointed Bruce Nsereko-Lule as its new general partner, to help it deploy more capital and provide the much-needed technical support for founders across the continent. He had previously worked as an investment banker in the U.K.

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FundersClub

JUNE 1, 2017

" Boris Silver of FundersClub shares his key takeaways about the digital currency/token space from the inaugural Token Summit in NYC in " My 6 Takeaways from Token Summit 2017. " Founder and Operator Thoughts. Want to invest in the best startups? Not a subscriber to FC weekly? Click here to subscribe.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Especially if you’re a first-time founder (but even if you’re an experienced serial entrepreneur), it can be hard to spot the potential pitfalls that might lead you astray before you even really get rolling. When you’re just starting out building your company, there’s obviously a lot that can go wrong.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

With that in mind, we reached out to founders, investors and executives in the city to get an inside look at the state of the current tech startup ecosystem. The tech investment scene was characterized as being strong in software and life sciences, but sometimes too conservative or risk-averse. Toyah Warnock , co-founder, Lane 44.

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

We named this summit after a report we wrote with Pitchbook at the end of 2021 to explore the impact of the pandemic on investment patterns. marking its highest level since 2017. Consequently, the Bay Area experienced a surge, capturing over one-third of all early-stage venture funding in the U.S.,

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 15, 2017

The slowing of venture investment more broadly across the US serves as a backdrop to San Francisco’s particularly strong correction. The market is cyclical for both investors and founders. If we compare San Francisco to the Valley by round, Series Bs and Series Ds have increased markedly in the valley in 2017.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

“At a time when startups are facing a challenging funding environment, it is more critical than ever to provide a platform for founders to attract investment and scale their innovative solutions,” said Selma Bueno, Global Head of the Morgan Stanley Inclusive Ventures Group. Of the 23 current cohort members, 12 are U.S.

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HPA

MAY 5, 2023

We are thrilled to lead this investment in Bloomfilter. MVP is investing in fast-growing companies building AI solutions for business process automation. We are excited to partner with MVP and others to make this vision a reality,” said Andrew Wolfe, co-founder and co-CEO of Bloomfilter.

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FundersClub

JULY 13, 2017

Christopher Steiner of FundersClub draws from his own, and other founders' experiences, to offer some guidelines on how to best put together a work from home program in " Working From Home Can Be Productive Perk, But It's Best Done With Some Rules. " Founder and Operator Thoughts. " Investor Thoughts.

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FundersClub

JUNE 8, 2017

" Dustin Rosen of Wonder Ventures shares three key elements of micro-traction that founders can demonstrate to create funding momentum before meaningful revenue or customer growth in " What to Do When “Seed” Investors Ask to See More Traction. " Founder and Operator Thoughts. " Snap Inc.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

The Cassie robot captured the internet’s imagination ( ours included ) when it debuted in 2017 through a series of Oregon State University YouTube videos. Playground Global, an early-stage investment firm based in Palo Alto, discovered the robot the way most of us did – watching cool videos online. “We From lab to launch.

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