Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

And, with that warning, I offer to you, the big stories in the startup and investing ecosystem of 2018, written in ascending order of importance and magnitude…. In 2017, Softbank rounds caught folks’ attention. The fear of them investing in a competitor is real. 6/ Venture Capital In Expansion Phase.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The Series B funding was led by KB Investment, according to Seoul Robotics. According to Seoul Robotics CEO Hanbin Lee, the LV5 CTRL TWR uses an automatic transmission and connectivity built into vehicles to maneuver them autonomously without requiring hardware. It is also not possible to mix and match sensor, which we come in.”.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

Today, a company that believes it can improve how agents work within them using AI is announcing a big round of funding. could bring into that mix a sweetener for would-be customers, in the form of intelligence that can be applied to voice-only interactions and those taking place over chat. Observe.ai Observe.AI

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

government’s National Security Strategic Investment Fund (NSSIF), and a host of additional investors. Use-cases may include accelerating new drug discoveries, or powering the vast amount of data processing required for AI applications. quantum computing company Quantum Motion has raised £42 million ($50.5

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

Fetch launched its operations in Dallas in February of 2017 with the goal of solving “the package problem” for apartment communities. By the end of 2017, the SaaS company was servicing approximately 2,000 apartments in the Dallas area. Fetch works with a mix of W2 employees as well as 1099 contractors to fulfill their service.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 29, 2018

A successful entrepreneur, businessman and EO Bahrain member, Suhail Algosaibi had long thought about how he could use his position and his company—FALAK Consulting—to make real, radical and sustainable change in his corner of the world. We hardly invent any new technologies and don’t invest enough in research and development,” Suhail says.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

The evidence is mixed on this, but in the software industry particularly, remote work exacerbated many of the challenges that employees already faced. Seventy-five percent said the time they spend on specific tasks is time wasted, suggesting it could be put to more strategic use.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The Netherlands’ ecosystem has been flourishing; more than $85 million was invested in regional startups in 2019 alone. In 2020, the venture industry continued to invest in startups, despite the COVID-19 crisis. What trends are you most excited about investing in, generally? What’s your latest, most exciting investment?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

Swaminathan and Daniel Mazzella co-founded TaskHuman in 2017, with the goal of connecting users with specialists on topics related to their personal and professional lives. Swaminathan was previously a program and logistics manager at Dell and VP of software solutions at SanDisk, while Mazzella was a system admin at Stamps.com.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Most investors reject the opportunity to invest and being told “no” hurts. However, if you want to increase the chance that you will successfully close a round in late 2017, try the following 10 step approach: Prepare a concise investor deck that tells the story of your business in bite-size chunks. We understand.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2021

million in 2017 and its first Series B round in April 2020, from backers that included South Korea-based Shinsegae Information & Communication, Woomi Construction, SL Investment, KDB Capital, Shinhan Capital, Enlight Ventures, CKD Venture Capital, and Breeze Investment, Ha said. The company had raised Series A funding of $1.8

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

But, speaking as someone who’s worked at several startups, Extra Crunch stories contain actionable information you can use to build a company and/or look smart in meetings — and that’s worth something. Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. ” The VCs who founders love the most.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Indeed, the Italian Ministry of Economic Development and the Italian Trade & Investment Agency in London have even been known to fund Italian entrepreneurs abroad to help them gain more experience. billion investment plan, which includes its first cloud data center in the country. NTT data is investing in Calabria.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Section 1202 of the Internal Revenue code allows individuals to invest in small businesses. This stock must be held for at least five years to exclude the gains and is designed to incentivize small business investments. It reinstates three business deductions that were cut in the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

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Haystack

JANUARY 2, 2020

used to be around 5 years. used to be around 5 years. For those firms which have a strong foundation and history of returns, one could argue they’ve earned the right to judge the investment climate and march forward. I only learned about this as a concept maybe in 2017. Today, it’s rare to find a 5-year fund.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

The investors we polled felt startups in the region will continue to do so with tailwinds from global investments and partnerships. A few years ago, it also sucked because of the infrastructure that couldn’t handle a few thousand users at the same time, or because you couldn’t use it from mobile. I’d pick CeFi over banks any day.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

and yes, I’m intentionally not throwing DAOs or web3 in the mix here as just doesn’t yet deserve implied parity). Lot of people I’ve known for many years certainly aren’t returning emails the way they used to. You led TechStars Chicago for two years (2017–2019) and have been connected to the local scene there for a quite a while.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

At Versatile VC, we particularly like investing in “dual-PhD” problems, at the intersection of multiple domains. We use Asana at Versatile VC for managing tasks and projects with other collaborators in our teams. Use their software for interactive data visualization and modern business intelligence.

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TechCrunch

MAY 1, 2021

Back in July of 2017, I wrote a piece noting that their aggregate value had reached the $3 trillion mark. This time we’ll hear from Accel’s John Locke regarding his investments in The Zebra — which recently raised even more capital — and the insurtech space more broadly. trillion, Microsoft $1.88 trillion, Amazon $1.76

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

I don’t have much to say about this since anyone who follows the most basic tenets of society and uses logic understands it is wrong and ridiculous. My one thought: perhaps, it’s time for us all to put our grown-up pants on and stop normalizing this kind of behavior. It has sat vacant since 2017.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

CEO Muddu Sudhakar said the new cash will be put toward market expansion and supporting Aisera’s go-to-market strategy, in addition to investing in the company’s product development, R&D, sales and marketing initiatives. Sudhakar founded Aisera in 2017 alongside Christos Tryfonas, a longtime colleague. upselling).

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

In 2021, one-third of all unicorns created were fintech companies: investor FOMO, increased use of digital payments, BNPL, and other financial services created a gravitational field that attracted more than one out of every five dollars VCs invested last year. Munish Varma, managing partner, SoftBank Investment Advisers.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 10, 2023

One such portfolio can consist of 20–40 investments. The number and size of investments matters — because eventually the returns on them are known to form a power law distribution. The top quartile of VCs invest in outliers, the median doesn’t. The data is for Slush 100 2015–2017. It’s been used in the Hobbit and Dune.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

Can Bitcoin find its practical use case as a currency in Latin America? Verafin would appear to be following suit: in the press release announcing the acquisition , Nasdaq committed to keeping the company’s headquarters in Newfoundland, investing in the local university and contributing to the development of the local ecosystem.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 28, 2019

And, with that warning, I offer to you what I believe to be the big, consequential forces driving trends in the startup and investing ecosystem of 2019, written in ascending order of importance and magnitude…. If you’d like to read previous posts on Looking Back on 2018 or 2017 , I’ve linked to them by clicking on the year.].

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

I’d be lying if I told you that every week was an embarrassment of riches here at Actuator HQ (a one-bedroom in a Queens office managed by a mischievous lionhead rabbit mix), but I’ve thus far been happy with the flow of news. I asked a few investors, “How will the SVB events impact robotics investing and startups?”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

Use discount code BELFAST to save 25% off an annual or two-year Extra Crunch membership. The tech investment scene was characterized as being strong in software and life sciences, but sometimes too conservative or risk-averse. markets gives us advantages that we would be foolish to waste.”. What’s their focus? What does it lack?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

But if this 2017-founded Finnish startup, Solar Foods , has its way fermentation could have a very special place in the future of human food too. The product, a single cell protein it’s branding Solein, is essentially an edible bacteria; a single cell microbe grown using gas fermentation. So the promise looks immense. (As

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Revolution

MAY 21, 2019

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. Atomos is building the railroad of space using high-powered electric propulsion space tugs to move satellites to any orbit beyond low Earth orbit. What does your company do?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Pan and another colleague, Youhan Sun, who used to lead planning and control for Pony’s trucking business in the U.S., The company has been testing its AVs on public roads in California since 2017. Many experts in the industry agree it makes more sense to train different models for different use cases.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. LG continued pushing envelopes — albeit to mixed effect. Fuel Capital General Partner Leah Solivan joined us at TechCrunch Early Stage 2021 to explain how to avoid early mistakes in building your startup. Walter Thompson. Senior Editor, TechCrunch.

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Y Combinator

JULY 24, 2020

US retail (which includes categories such as gifts, home goods, groceries, pharmacy goods, apparel, and cosmetics) generated $3.3 trillion of revenue in 2017 2. Faire’s subset of target retail verticals generated $671 billion of revenue in 2017 4. Independent retailers accounted for $752 billion (or 23%) of that.

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TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2021

How to attract large investors to your direct investing platform. Many fintech startups have tried to become a market-maker between investors and investment opportunities. How to attract large investors to your direct investing platform. Within 24 hours, tens of thousands of people had used it. Thanks for reading!

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

That only changed in 2019, when it decided to incur losses in favor of investing millions trying to conquer the U.S. Siemiatkowski also shares what’s next for the company as it ventures further into the world of retail banking after gaining a bank license in 2017. market, choosing New York and L.A. Siemiatkowski left undeterred.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 22, 2018

4) The diverse background of the founder is not the main reason why most diverse founders get turned down for investment. Clearly he assumed that he was using some kind of username, and that it was a gang reference of some sort--like, "Young Blood" as in the bloods and the crips or something to that affect. Ducks head.]

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OurCrowd

MAY 5, 2019

And it’s no wonder: between August 2017 and August 2018, dollar sales of these alternative protein products grew 23%, according to Nielsen data. . Finding soy milk used to be a chore and milk alternatives captured less than 1% of the market a decade ago. Still, investment has been steady. It’s not all about burgers either.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 8, 2019

In the first of a three part series on early stage business investment, we asked serial entrepreneur and investor Josh Comrie what three key things New Zealand entrepreneurs must get better at when it comes to seeking angel investment. I made my first investment in the stock market when I was 12 years old.

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