TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2022

” Seemingly, the recipe for a successful venture-backed company became very cookie-cutter: Raise capital every 18 months; invest heavily in go-to-market; grow revenue at a “standard” rate that triples in year one, triples again in year two, and then doubles thereafter. ” essentially became a test of intelligence.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Register Ficus Capital has announced that it invested $400,000 in Assemblr , a Bandung-based start-up that is focused on helping users to create AR content via its web-based platform. Assemblr is Ficus Capital’s first investment outside of Malaysia. Remember Me. No account yet? Mavcap is the fund’s anchor investor.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

It’s been a 12-year journey for Purely Elizabeth founder Elizabeth Stein, and based on her plans for the company’s next phase, she is just getting started. Consumer interest for this space is also attracting capital. Stein plans to use the capital to expand the company’s team of 30 to be around 40 by the end of 2022.

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DECEMBER 16, 2019

The idea of being a founder has never been so popular around the world, so how is that going to change industries and entire regions? This year we dove headfirst into the rise of corporate venture capital, the changing nature of venture capital education, and the important task of startup ecosystem building.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

Lara Lemann and Monica Saggioro of Sao Paulo–based MAYA Capital take a regional approach to investing, and their strategy is paying off. The investors raised $40 million for their first fund after starting the firm in 2018 and have now closed on $100 million in capital commitments for MAYA’s second fund. Women make up just 2.4%

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

VC has been invested over the past decade according to race, gender and educational background makes for grim reading — with all-ethnic teams and female entrepreneurs receiving just a fraction of available funding versus all-white teams and male founders. It found that all-ethnic teams received an average of just 1.7% population.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

They started Searchlight in 2018 to develop technology that uses behavioral reference data and prescriptive analytics to give employers a more 360-degree view of a potential candidate’s strengths and weaknesses that might not appear on a resume or come out during an interview. million seed round in 2019. million seed round in 2019.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Startups are raising fresh capital amidst a pandemic — and then raising again ( and again ). Data from a variety of sources collated by TechCrunch shows that early-stage female founders have been disproportionately hurt by the pandemic’s impact. The startup rebound is omnipresent around Silicon Valley. A VC rebound.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

“A lot of founders mix up raising money with making money.” ” This quote, which Career Karma founder Ruben Harris mentioned off-hand on a phone call with me, has been on my mind for months. In return for an investment between $10,000 to $50,000, founders have to pay up to 2% of their revenue over four years.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

Sanjay Aggarwal Contributor Share on Twitter Sanjay Aggarwal is a venture partner at F-Prime Capital focused on frontier technology investment opportunities. From 2018 to 2021, investments in the AV sector across the U.S. Image Credits: F-Prime Capital VC excitement for hardware businesses is higher than ever In the U.S.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

He said the move is a “direct response to the systemic racial inequities in access to capital for Black and brown entrepreneurs” and aimed at addressing “the racial wealth gap.”. “I It’s a known fact that the number of venture dollars flowing to Black and Latinx founders is dismally low. 31, Black and Latinx founders had raised $2.3

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

Champ Suthipongchai is a co-founder and general partner at Creative Ventures , a method-driven deep tech VC firm investing in startups that address the impact of increasing labor shortages, rising healthcare costs and the climate crisis. Champ Suthipongchai. Contributor. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

The Family co-founder and CEO Alice Zagury announced in a blog post that the French startup accelerator is suing Oussama Ammar for multiple claims — breach of trust, forgery and use of forgery. Capital talked with one of the company’s lawyers, Elsa Sammari. In 2018, Ammar was given a four-month suspended sentence for a separate case.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Andy Stinnes , general partner at Cloud Apps Capital Partners , leads early-stage investments in cloud businesses and serves as active board member and adviser, offering operational support for portfolio companies based on his 20+ years in executive roles in business software. Andy Stinnes. Contributor. Share on Twitter. More on that below.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Payments infrastructure company Stronghold has launched a venture capital arm to deploy $100 million of its balance sheet capital in startups and funds in three core strategies — underrepresented founders, fintech, and web3, CEO Tammy Camp told TechCrunch in an interview. It has raised $3.3 billion, the company says.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The Pune-based company is also the latest startup to raise funding in this area, bringing in $12 million in Series A funding in a round co-led by Elevation Capital and General Catalyst. The new funding gives Loop Health a total of $14 million in funding since it was founded in 2018, Mayank Kale, co-founder and CEO, told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The company is the second venture in the realm of “functional soda” for co-founders Ben Goodwin and David Lester, who have worked together for nearly a decade. million in funding since 2018, according to Crunchbase data, Olipop announced $30 million in Series B funding on a $200 million valuation. After raising some $13.5

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

After going over four years without raising any capital, coding class platform Codecademy has raised a new tranche of money: a $40 million Series D round led by Owl Ventures, with participation from Prosus and Union Square Ventures. That figure is on track with Codecademy’s normal growth trajectory, which has been doubling since 2018.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Image Credits: Co-founders Gloria Lin and Joel Poloney / Bonnie Rae Mills Photography. Last week I wrote about two startups that had female co-founders and CEOs and I was so impressed with them both. This is also at least the fourth construction tech company I’ve written about in the past year with a female co-founder.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 14, 2023

We’re excited to close this round and get back to expanding and servicing our rapidly growing customer base behind the rollout AnswerGPT TM – the leading customer care solution,” said Aakrit Prasad, CEO and co-founder of AptEdge. AptEdge’s contextual answer engine understands all the knowledge across the support team’s workflows.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

Systemiq Capital , a backer of early-stage climate tech startups, says it has secured $70 million to kick off its second fund. The London-based VC aims to raise as much as $130 million more; that would mark quite a step up for the firm, which says it has funneled $30 million into 19 startups since 2018.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The company was co-founded by CEO Shiv Gettu, a former real estate consultant, and president Kendrick Bradley, a former Boeing and SpaceX engineer who left his job in 2018 to work at a property management company. Today, the company, which adds artificial intelligence to sales engagement, exited its beta phase with $6.7

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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

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Venture capital continues to flow into Latin America at a staggering rate. H Twenty Capital (H20) co-founders Daniel Lloreda and Mauricio Porras recall getting into the region in 2018, a time Lloreda considered pretty early to be the investment space. Why Latin American venture capital is breaking records this year.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Keeping a small sales business afloat in Latin America can involve long bus trips to find new products, lack of working capital and payment difficulties. Prior to starting ZAX, CEO Ballardie was founder of eÓtica, a glasses e-commerce company that merged with Lema21 in 2018.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

AtoB’s integrated financial platform is like Stripe for transportation, says Harshita Arora, co-founder of AtoB. Two years later, she founded the app Crypto Price Tracker, which became an App Store hit and was acquired by Redwood City Ventures in 2018. Tarcyznski says Contrary’s ethos is to invest in people, not businesses.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Niiro started MilkRun , a subscription service delivering weekly grocery staples sourced from small, local farms, in 2018 after becoming a small farmer herself in Portland, Oregon. Spark Capital led the investment and was joined by existing investors Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund, Social Impact Capital and Congruent VC.

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StartupNation

MARCH 23, 2021

.” That was Lori Coulter, CEO and co-founder of Summersalt, speaking at the State of the Midwest Startup Community 2020. There’s no denying that women have made many strides in closing the gender gap in tech, but those trends haven’t necessarily been true for female founders. Melissa Butler, Founder and CEO.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2021

Johannesburg-based investment company Founders Factory Africa (FFA) today announced a partnership with Small Foundation that will see it select 18 agritech startups for an acceleration and incubation program. This is a change from when the company launched in 2018. Founders Factory Africa and Netcare to fund 35 health-tech startups.

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StartupNation

JULY 28, 2021

In 2019, venture capital investment into U.S. So, while it comes as no surprise that 2019 was also a record year for female founders securing these dollars, many would be shocked to learn this funding amounted to a mere 3.4% are female founders who have the true authority to control investment decisions. at its all-time high. .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

Indeed, the country is most popular as a tourist destination, and given that tourism accounted for about 20% of its GDP in 2018 , to an extent, its pre-pandemic focus was mostly on growing its share of the international tourism market. Julien Coustaury , partner, Fil Rouge Capital. Vedran Tolic , founder & CBO, Q agency.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

Global venture capital firms are pouring money into the semiconductor startups developing the next generation of chips. Sunghyun Park , a former quant developer at Morgan Stanley in New York, launched artificial intelligence semiconductor startup Rebellions with four co-founders to enter this red-hot industry in 2020.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

Data collected from a number of sources indicates that last year set venture capital records around the world. Today’s startup boom, from a venture capital perspective, is a wide-ranging and incredibly expensive enterprise. market retain much of their historical heft. The top-line figures are astounding.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2022

million in Series A funding from a group of investors including First Round Capital, Golden Ventures and Chandaria Family Holdings. Laura McGee, co-founder and CEO, started the company in 2018 after doing diversity and inclusion consulting for corporate clients and the government that led her to do a lot of CEO roundtables.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

Founded in August 2018, Truora was originally focused on background checks for gigster platforms. In 2018 and 2019, its biggest customers were ride-hailing companies, and with the pandemic, the company saw an increase in e-commerce and marketplace customers. . “We Eventually, it also wants to expand further in Brazil.

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StartupNation

MAY 18, 2021

Related: From Our Founder: New Legislation Makes Equity Crowdfunding the Go-To Source for Startup Funding. And following the momentum created by angel funding at the startup and seed stages, venture capital is the critical funding that drives the growth of these startups as they mature. How significant is venture capital funding?

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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. Though RBI will displace some traditional equity VC, its much bigger impact will be to expand the pool of capital available for early-stage entrepreneurs. . So what is Revenue Based Investing?

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