TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

Builders VC led the round, which included participation from Celtic, Newfund and Wish co-founder Danny Zhang. Stella Wu, who formerly worked as a growth product manager at Wish, got firsthand experience of the pain points related to the process when she bought her own house in 2017. “I

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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. How to strategically manage your startup advisor’s compensation. VCs and university endowments should partner to make venture more diverse.

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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. “Middle-stage startups today still look rather expensive,” he writes.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Kathy Hannun is president and co-founder of Dandelion Energy. In May 2017, Kathy launched Dandelion as an independent startup. I closed two major rounds of funding for my geothermal energy startup, Dandelion Energy, while pregnant. That same summer, in 2017, I became pregnant. Kathy Hannun. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

CEO Omri Mor and CTO Tom Harel founded Routable in 2017 after previously working at marketplaces and recognizing the need for better internal tools for scaling business payments. The Series B comes just over eight months after Routable came out of stealth with a $12 million Series A.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Global startup funding has soared this year, but a number of exits and large funding rounds are drawing new attention to India’s startup ecosystem. Image Credits: Carol Yepes (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. Image Credits: VallarieE (opens in a new window) / Getty Images.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Which form of venture debt should your startup go for? Startup founders have more options than in years past when it comes to fundraising, thanks in large part to a surplus of liquidity. Besides traditional VC, crowdfunding, venture banks and venture debt funds are all viable options. Let’s talk about it.”.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

billion the week it was supposed to go public in 2017. The fact the numbers are the same was not lost on Bansal, and in fact the Cisco deal closed at the end of March in 2017, almost exactly five years ago. As an experienced startup founder, Bansal has given a lot of thought about how to build a diverse and inclusive company.

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StartupNation

AUGUST 17, 2021

All of this needs to happen for a startup to become viable. But in the hyper-growth markets where Andreeson’s venture capital firm invests, it rarely does. According to a study of 350 failed tech startups, 70% of those that made it past the earliest stages failed within 20 months. Of those: . million each) . It’s software.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

Harvard Business School grad Cameron Johnson is a former institutional real estate investor and Greystar exec turned startup founder who realized that very often, “renters would try to rent the model apartment.”. So in 2017, he came up with the idea of Nickson , a Dallas-based startup that fully furnishes apartments on demand.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The Melbourne-based startup announced today it has raised $10 million AUD (about $7.3 million USD) in seed funding led by AirTree Ventures, which wrote Delegate Connect the biggest seed check in the fund’s history so far. It also plans to open a United States-based office soon.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

The world’s second largest internet market has delivered 43 startups in the new batch, another record figure in the history of the storied venture firm. For comparison, the W20 batch had 25 Indian startups, up from 14 in S20, 12 each in S19 and W19 and one each in W16, S15, and W15.). “YC

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Alex Wilhelm hears from one startup founder who has taken a bit of an alternative approach to building a SaaS company. Here’s more: Now north of $200 million in revenue, [ Nextiva ] is a quiet giant and, notably, has not taken venture capital funding along its path to scale. How to bootstrap to $200m+ in revenue.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

As an Iron Man fan, I am particularly excited that Sealed is backed by Robert Downey Jr’s Footprint Coalition Venture and Fifth Wall. . blockchain infrastructure startup Alchemy had closed on a $200 million Series C extension that valued the company at $10.2 Image Credits: Northspyre CEO and co-founder William Sankey / LinkedIn.

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FundersClub

JULY 6, 2017

" Mentat launches Mentat Junction , a technology-driven outplacement service to help startup founders during a reduction in force on ProductHunt. " Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures outlines how as the world becomes more globalized, we can do business more easily across time zones in " Working Across Many Time Zones.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

Even though IEP has been available since 2017, the previous administration had unsuccessfully tried to eliminate it. Only recently did the Department of Homeland Security withdraw the proposal to rescind the IEP program, which has been available since 2017, and the the Biden administration announced it would fully implement it.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The issue of women startup founders not receiving equitable venture funding is a shortfall of the West: It’s here, everywhere in the U.S., of all venture capital, according to PitchBook data. of all venture capital, according to PitchBook data. of venture dollars allocated to all-female U.S.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

By now you probably know that we’re hosting two TC Early Stage events this year — one on April 1-2 and another on July 8-9 — each with its own set of topics, speakers and content — both designed to help nascent startup founders build a better, more successful business. You’re just beginning to build your startup — what could go wrong?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Despite their varied backgrounds, each panelist agreed that it’s important for founders who aren’t from privilege or wealth to understand and accept that systemic bias is real. When Feinzaig was fundraising in 2017, “I expected that it would be hard. But I also expected that it would be fair,” she said.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

As often as the ‘R’ word is bandied about in tech, a survey of 450 early-stage founders found that only 12% plan to hire fewer workers and 6% have laid people off. “The data is proving that early-stage founders are seeing a more gradual approach to the downturn,” said January Ventures founding partner Jen Neundorfer.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

It’s very, very intertwined with our whole journey because my co-founders of Pilot were all folks that I met at MIT in undergrad. We’d all studied computer science together and this is actually the third venture for the 3 of us. So the first startup was technology that could apply software updates without rebooting.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

With margins shrinking at the company, in February 2017, Mathur left and was not replaced. Some former executives believe that Micromax’s founders could have handled the situation better if they had given a free hand to others coming on board. Micromax eventually sunset its global business operations. Moving ahead?

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