TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

Conductive Ventures raised a $200 million Fund III to continue its focus on investing in founders where other venture capital firms did not see the potential. Carey Lai and Paul Yeh started the firm in 2017 after Lai had been with IVP and Yeh with Kleiner Perkins. Then he met Lai.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 10, 2023

Stories, Slides, and Data Primary data set of public 3-minute pitches and 2-minute Q&As I have spent more than a decade coaching thousands of people on how to tell stories. Halfway through the journey, I realized that something was fundamentally off in how founders tell them and how investors receive them. Who is the founder?

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

On June 1, 2022, our crew is hosting an extended TechCrunch Live episode with Columbus investors, founders and business leaders. There’s even a pitch-off, and we’re looking for Columbus-area startups to apply and pitch. Register for the virtual event here , and apply for the pitch-off here. in 2017 for $1.4

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Probably a correlation here with why there was more venture funding for golf tech than women’s fertility until very recently…. Look, socialists hate venture capital, and venture capitalists hate unions. But building new tech to try to address major problems in a large category (Labor) requires $.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 7, 2017

You need to recruit an amazing team, and ideally, have co-founders you trust and respect. Many entrepreneurs confide that raising capital is their hardest task. They delay and delay any approach to the capital markets for as long as possible. Tyler’s practice focuses on emerging company and venture capital transactions.

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2022

On June 1, 2022, the TechCrunch Live crew is hosting an extended TechCrunch Live episode with Columbus investors, founders and business leaders. There’s even a pitch-off with Columbus-area startups. Investment into the city startups started picking up around 2017 and really peaked in 2021. in 2017 for $1.4 Why Columbus?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 14, 2021

Extra Crunch Live is all about helping founders build better venture-backed businesses. Naturally, we do this by having candid conversations with founders and their investors. Nichols is a former Kauffman Fellow and Investment Director at Intel Capital. REGISTER HERE FOR FREE! ET/noon PT.

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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

JUNE 10, 2022

Felix Williams is the founder and managing director of Lagomaj Capital. TechCrunch sat down with Williams to learn more about how he got into venture capital, and his plans for the future. When did you first become interested in venture capital? While growing up, I had no idea what venture capital was.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Dig into the pitches yourself, as there’s never a bad time to check out some super-early-stage startups.” Commercializing deep tech startups: A practical guide for founders and investors. I have a hard time envisioning all of the hurdles deep tech founders must overcome before they can land their first paying customer.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 16, 2021

Extra Crunch Live is all about helping founders build better venture-backed businesses. Naturally, we do this by having candid conversations with founders and their investors. Nichols is a former Kauffman Fellow and Investment Director at Intel Capital. REGISTER HERE FOR FREE! ET/noon PT.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2023

You don’t need to move to San Francisco to launch a startup, but working here does have some advantages: moderate weather, natural beauty, great food, and sure, the world’s largest concentration of venture capital. Median liquid wealth for a Black family in the U.S.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

2) National Black MBA Association Scale-Up Pitch Challenge. The National Black MBA Association Scale-Up Pitch Challenge is another great source of funding for minority start-ups. It is also a competition that provides the opportunity for start-ups to grow and has been doing so since 2017. 19) Harlem Capital Partners.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2021

Extra Crunch Live is all about helping founders build better venture-backed businesses. Naturally, we do this by having candid conversations with founders and their investors. Nichols is a former Kauffman Fellow and Investment Director at Intel Capital. REGISTER HERE FOR FREE! ET/noon PT.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

Extra Crunch Live is all about helping founders build better venture-backed businesses. Naturally, we do this by having candid conversations with founders and their investors. Nichols is a former Kauffman Fellow and Investment Director at Intel Capital. REGISTER HERE FOR FREE! ET/noon PT.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

The VCs who founders love the most. Managing Editor Danny Crichton spearheaded the development of The TechCrunch List earlier this year to help seed-stage founders connect with VCs who write first checks. ” The VCs who founders love the most. Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Sebastian Siemiatkowski, the co-founder and CEO of Klarna — the Swedish fintech “buy now, pay later” sensation that is currently Europe’s most valuable private tech company — is dismissive of the suggestion that non U.S. Pitch perfect, you might think. companies should relocate to Silicon Valley if they really want to grow.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Loughlin led Ironclad’s Series A deal back in 2017, making it one of his first Series A deals after returning to Accel. Not only will we peel back the curtain on how this investor/founder relationship works, but we’ll also hear from these two tech leaders on their thoughts around bigger enterprise trends in the ecosystem.

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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. In 2017, the two officially incorporated the company. ” Using Happeo’s editing tools to build an intranet portal. .”

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Revolution

MAY 21, 2019

Meet the five winning founders from Rise of the Rest 8.0 At the end of each tour day, we hosted a pitch competition where a local startup received a $100,000 investment from Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund. Exploring new ideas and methodologies to challenge the existing paradigm is exciting to me as a founder.

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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. Pilot’s pitch is about more than just software.

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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.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

In 2017, Ironclad founder and CEO Jason Boehmig was looking to raise a Series A. Many praised RelateIQ, a company founded by Steve Loughlin who had sold it to Salesforce for $390 million and was brand new to venture at the time. Episode breakdown: The pitch — 2:30. Pitch deck teardown — 35:00.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

Greenlight , the fintech company that pitches parents on kid-friendly bank accounts, has raised $260 million in a Series D funding round that nearly doubles its valuation to $2.3 There’s Kard, Step, Till Financial and Current pitching similar businesses in the U.S. billion valuation. Notably, a16z also led Current’s raise).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2022

For many first-time founders, determining the size of the market in which they hope to compete is one of their biggest challenges. I haven’t launched a successful startup, but I have helped write several pitch decks. Bruno Vieira Costa, founder and CEO, Abstra. David Hsu, founder and CEO, Retool.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

But this is something that French startup Edda is looking to fix, with a platform aimed at helping investors, analysts, chief financial officers (CFOs), and even company founders get the insights they need, and the tools that make working collaboratively on deals just that little bit easier. Investors invest.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . 3) Raise capital. Point Nine Capital uses Qwilr to create modern, mobile-native collateral. Tribe Capital has developed A Quantitative Approach to Product Market Fit. .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

What founders really want to know is: what are investors looking for right now ? Each respondent was kind enough to let us know how they want to be pitched, and for grins, one shared an example of a cold e-mail that worked,” she writes. Christina Melas-Kyriazi, partner, Bain Capital Ventures. Ethan Choi, partner, Accel.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Luckily for us, we’re going to have a candid conversation with both parties in the relationship between Ironclad CEO and co-founder Jason Boehmig and his investor and board member Accel partner Steve Loughlin. Loughlin led Ironclad’s Series A deal back in 2017, making it one of his first Series A deals after returning to Accel.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Around 7,000 tech workers have joined the ranks of the Armed Forces or Territorial Defense Only last month, OneUkraine sprang up from a host of major European tech founders and investors, who plan to provide sustainable humanitarian relief for the Ukrainian people. Fuelfinance Their pitch: “We do your spreadsheets, graphs, and automation.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Today, Haje is particularly psyched that he was able to talk the TechCrunch Plus team into letting him publish one of his Pitch Deck Teardowns without the paywall. TechCrunch+ is our membership program, which helps founders and startup teams get ahead. PDT, subscribe here. billion valuation looks like, it’s your lucky day.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC?

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . 3) Raise capital. Point Nine Capital uses Qwilr to create modern, mobile-native collateral. ” The site connects founders and investors by playing multiplayer games.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Founders : Before beU delivery, Hao Zheng, who leads the team as chief executive, was the founder and CEO of Yooul, a social networking app in China. Founders : Ahmed Ismail, a second-time founder who has worked for Goldman Sachs and Barclays, is the CEO. Website : [link]. Robert Nyangate is the company’s CTO.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. 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.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

A strong sales organization is the tip of the spear for every SaaS startup, but because so few founders have meaningful experience in this arena, they don’t know how to set their teams up for success. MoCap money tap : Haje is back with another Pitch Deck Teardown, this time of Rokoko’s $3 million strategic extension deck.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Sebastian Siemiatkowski, the co-founder and CEO of Klarna — the Swedish fintech “buy now, pay later” sensation that is currently Europe’s most valuable private tech company — is dismissive of the suggestion that non U.S. Pitch perfect, you might think. companies should relocate to Silicon Valley if they really want to grow.

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