Startup Grind

AUGUST 13, 2018

Given the success of her investments she was on the 2017 Midas List of top 100 venture capitalists. Pitch your startup for an opportunity to meet with Floodgate. Pitch your startup for an opportunity to meet with Floodgate. Prior to co-founding Floodgate , she worked at Charles River Ventures and McKinsey and Company.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2022

It wasn’t unusual for founders to take calls mid-pitch or check their messages when it was my turn to ask questions. In 2021, we invested more than we did in 2017-2020 combined. Both cities have a growing tech scene that is not yet saturated with VC firms, and each has different focuses at the core of their startup ecosystems.

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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. I have been researching this both to support Versatile VC ’s portfolio companies and also as part of research for my new book, To University and Beyond: Launch Your Career in High Gear. 1) Your school.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Ross Lipson co-founded Dutchie in 2017 and has since led the company to a multibillion-dollar valuation on top of raising $600 million. And Casa Verde Capital investor Karan Wadhera has been with the company since the beginning, writing the company’s seed round and investing in several later stage VC rounds too. PDT/2:30 p.m.

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Startup Catalyst

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

In November 2017 we delivered our first Investor Mission, heading to San Francisco for an intensive week meeting with angels, VCs, corporate venture programs, accelerators, startups, pitch events, and dinners. The mission was led by Steve Baxter, an investor on Shark Tank and the current Queensland Chief Entrepreneur.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 21, 2017

A post shared by Charlie O'Donnell (@ceonyc) on Dec 20, 2017 at 8:06am PST When you're Ample Hills Creamery , the #1 rated ice cream shop in the country you can pretty much throw everything you've been told about fundraising out the window. Would we pitch Series A players? Board meetings at @amplehills are dangerous.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2023

Last year, VCs flowed approximately $6 billion to resale platforms, according to Brian Schwarzbach, an investor with Cathay Innovation. In a post for TC+, he explores three recommerce areas that are attracting VC interest and shares “some food for thought for founders building startups in this (re)emerging space.”

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 6, 2018

As a VC with scores of startups in our portfolio we have ringside seats to many, many fund raising processes plus I had to raise money across about 5 different rounds of capital as an entrepreneur so I’ve developed some thought on the process that I hope can be helpful to some of you before you start.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

Mike Greene founded Hi Marley in 2017 and has since raised $41.75 Hear how the company — which was designed as an SMS texting platform — is finding product market fit as the insurance landscape rapidly changes, and how Underscore VC Lily Lyman provides support for the company. PDT followed by the TCL Pitch Practice at 12:30 p.m.

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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.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

Carey Lai and Paul Yeh started the firm in 2017 after Lai had been with IVP and Yeh with Kleiner Perkins. One of the great things is we can really look at the pitch that we want, and then decide when to swing,” Lai said. “We We don’t have to swing at every single pitch. Then he met Lai.

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Startup Catalyst

AUGUST 11, 2017

Patrick Weeden from Scout Aerial giving his pitch. . After the pitches, the team at SOSA kindly hosted a full member lunch in our honour, giving us a chance to mix with the local startups and corporate partners. Everyone then broke for their own private meetings for the afternoon.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

The number of POS terminals in Nigeria grew from 150,000 in 2017 to 543,000 in April 2021, according to Statista. million Series A round led by Lagos-based VC fund Zrosk Investment Management. That pitch remains unchanged and after three years in operation, ZirooPay has grown immensely.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JULY 17, 2019

In 2017, just 2.2% Last year, the largest VC deal cut by a team of female founders was Moda Operandi’s $165 million Series G, contrasting starkly with the largest round of their male counterparts: WeWork’s Series G at $3 billion.”. Find the Right Investors - don’t throw your pitch to just anybody.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

Mike Greene founded Hi Marley in 2017 and has since raised $41.75 Hear how the company — which was designed as an SMS texting platform — is finding product market fit as the insurance landscape rapidly changes, and how Underscore VC Lily Lyman provides support for the company. PDT followed by the TCL Pitch Practice at 12:30 p.m.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

They met and bonded over both having type 1 diabetes — Westermann was diagnosed over 25 years ago — and started the MySugr app for diabetes self-management in 2012 ( they won a TC pitch-off back in 2011 ). from Austria to introduce MySugr stateside before the company was acquired by Roche for $100 million in 2017.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

” Founded in 2017 by Professors John Morton and Simon Benjamin from UCL and Oxford University respectively, Quantum Motion is setting out to create “scalable quantum computers” through new quantum computing architectures that are compatible with established silicon processing. .

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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. Startups and VC. To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 12, 2020

It’s been incredibly difficult for both professional and personal reasons—and if I hadn’t met my wife Aja in late 2017, this would have all been a pretty dismal time, to be honest. I was there for the first Etsy VC pitch meeting in a Fort Greene apartment. I’ve had to start muting libertarian VC Twitter.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

These events aren’t just a chance to review the latest cohort of hopeful entrepreneurs — they also showcase the technology, products and services that will compete for VC and consumer attention over the next few years. I covered one demo day in person, spending most of my time backstage where founder teams practiced their pitches.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

million in pre-seed funding from 500 Startups; “The Lean Startup” author, Eric Ries; VC firms Village Global and Metaplanet; and 20+ angel investors (including CEOs of “popular” but undisclosed companies). So a pitch-by-robot might be all too easy to ignore. which is not our focus,” Vadrevu also suggests.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Casual mobile games have reached a fever pitch of interest with consumers, and so too with investors, who are rushing to back the biggest and most promising startups building these quick hits of engagement and diversion. The funding puts the London-based startup’s valuation at $1.4

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 24, 2019

As an EO Vancouver member, he was the 2017 Entrepreneurs’ Organization Global Citizen of the Year Award. . How do you compete against those VC-backed behemoths in Silicon Valley? Written for EO by Manny Padda an entrepreneur, angel investor and philanthropist who won the 2016 Canadian Angel of the Year Award.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Former Lightspeed partner Amy Wu made waves this year when she left the VC firm to lead startup investments out of a new $2 billion fund at Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto powerhouse FTX. TechCrunch Crypto Pitch-Off. Bringing Crypto to the Crowds. with Amy Wu (FTX). Is Crypto Regulation Ready? A Non-Fungible Empire.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Startups and VC. MoCap money tap : Haje is back with another Pitch Deck Teardown, this time of Rokoko’s $3 million strategic extension deck. : Travel is back and with it news that TripActions was making a possible play for an initial public offering, which would value the company at $12 billion, Mary Ann reports. An IPO at last!

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

In a guest post for Extra Crunch, seed-stage VC Ann Miura-Ko shared some of what she’s learned about “the magic of product-market fit,” which she termed “ the defining quality of an early-stage startup.” on Sunday, Dec. Image Credits: Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group. “Actually, nobody does.”

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Since its 2017 inception, Mos has opened access to a pool of over $160 billion in financial aid to the more than 400,000 students within its community. The round, led by Tiger Global with participation from Sequoia, Lux Capital, Emerson Collective, Plural VC and more, came together in less than 24 hours, Yahyaoui noted.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Edda was founded initially as Kushim VC back in 2017 , but the company has just completed its official rebranded to Edda, while it has also announced $5.8 So Edda already has some competition beyond dusty-old spreadsheets, but what it’s pitching is an all-singing, all-dancing tool covering all bases. Investors invest.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Former Lightspeed partner Amy Wu made waves this year when she left the VC firm to lead startup investments out of a new $2 billion fund at Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto powerhouse FTX. TechCrunch Crypto Pitch-Off. Bringing Crypto to the Crowds. with Amy Wu (FTX). Is Crypto Regulation Ready? A Non-Fungible Empire.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Former Lightspeed partner Amy Wu made waves this year when she left the VC firm to lead startup investments out of a new $2 billion fund at Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto powerhouse FTX. TechCrunch Crypto Pitch-Off. Bringing Crypto to the Crowds. with Amy Wu (FTX). Is Crypto Regulation Ready? A Non-Fungible Empire.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Ukraine’s startup ecosystem was thriving before the war and making great progress, with Ukrainian startups raising $832 Million in VC funding in 2021. VC Funding was steadily growing before the war and there are more than 50 VC firms continuing to operating in the country. Secured seed finding from SMRK VC.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

In 2017, the two officially incorporated the company. ” Ojansuu says — for what it’s worth — that the sales pitch convinced Rajeev Suri, the former CEO of Nokia, to make his first-ever angel investment in a Finnish company. ” Using Happeo’s editing tools to build an intranet portal.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

And it just closed on $15 million in a Series A funding round led by proptech-focused VC firm Fifth Wall to grow its business. The California legislature changed laws in 2017 to make it easier to build accessory dwelling units (ADUs). That company said it is focused on innovation in construction with a 3D-printed method.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

At that time, most VC activity was dominated by the now-defunct Austin Ventures and Sevin Rosen Funds. ATX will be the first midcontinent VC to have top decile performance two funds in a row,” he told TechCrunch. “It It is a true reflection of the vibrancy in the Texas ecosystem and having an operator approach at early-stage VC.”.

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2022

We’re also doing a pitch-off with Columbus-area startups. You might remember that Cloud Cam was one of Amazon’s first home security devices in 2017 — that is until it acquired both Ring and Blink within a year later. Startups and VC. PDT, subscribe here. Oh hey and happy Tuesday, the very last day of May 2022!

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