TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

Kukua , a Nairobi- and London-based educational entertainment company and the creators of “ Super Sema ,” the first African animated superhero franchise, has raised $6 million in its latest round of investment. Other investors include EchoVC, firstminute Capital and Auxxo Female Catalyst. Until “Black Panther.” The company raised $2.5

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Amsterdam has tech industry “schools” such as Growth Tribe , The Talent Institute and THNK for educational courses, as well as accelerators like Rockstart, Startupbootcamp and Fashion for Good. Adyen launched in 2006, and in June 2018, it was listed as one of Europe’s largest tech IPOs with a value of €7 billion.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

But when you’re running a VC firm, especially as an emerging manager, how do you know which investors and limited partners (LPs) to target? For example, Juul, a male-founded e-cigarette company, received $10 billion more in funding in 2018 than female-founded companies received collectively that year.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Starta VC led the round and was joined by Liqvest.com, Mission Gate and a group of individual investors like Bas Godska, general partner at Acrobator Ventures. Since 2018, CEO Bortnikova said that YouTravel.Me We understood that and built a community and educational product for them on how to build and scale their business.”.

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Jason Malki

AUGUST 3, 2023

Since 2018, he is investing with an emerging tech VC focused on web3 and managing early-stage deal flow. I started educating myself about investing back in 2016 and joined a VC in the web3 vertical to manage deal flow from sourcing to deploying.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Mr Yum , a Melbourne-based mobile ordering and payments platform that was founded in 2018, announced today it has raised a $65 million USD Series A round, led by Tiger Global. Obviously QR codes are now commonplace and the past couple of years has saved us years of consumer education and any hesitation around them.”.

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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

JANUARY 19, 2022

By combining clinical services with software and design, Mantra Health aims to improve the mental health of more than 20 million university and college students through partnerships with higher education institutions and health insurance plans. The startup was founded in 2018 by Ed Gaussen, Matt Kennedy and Dr. Ravi Shah.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

million seed in 2018 and $15 million Series A last year , and now the company has a blockbuster Series B to announce today. With the funding, Buhrdorf said that the company will continue to expand those banking services, and also add more educational materials for entrepreneurs learning about how to operate and grow their businesses.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Homeowners, Lim said, use the cash to do a variety of things — such as conducting home renovations, starting a small business, funding a child’s education or saving for retirement. “We It’s like [an investor] making a VC investment into the home,” Lim said. “We He first backed the company in 2018.

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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. Jomayra Herrera, principal, Cowboy Ventures (a generalist fund with portfolio companies Hone and Guild Education).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Oh, and if you want to hear me talk about everything from “The Good and Ugly Sides of Fintech, What Great Journalism Really Means, & Why Startups Represent Hope,” check out this episode of the Fintech Leaders podcast I recently recorded with VC Miguel Armaza. VCs clamor to fund real estate investing startups.

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StartupNation

MARCH 23, 2021

Last year was a big year for these leaders—even if the VC funding numbers don’t show it—and we’re excited to see what these entrepreneurs do in 2021. She founded TransTech Social Enterprises , based in Chicago , to provide education, support and tech jobs for trans people. Angelica Ross is working to change that.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

But founder Matthew Joseph Martin soon realized that the startup, backed by investors like Boost VC and Tim Draper, was serving a relatively niche market in the States. Founded in 2018, Hijra has raised $30 million in equity from investors like Quona Capital, Golden Gate Ventures and EV Growth. was educating investors.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

A combination of university talent pipelines, top-rated quality of life, growing startup ecosystem, and growing VC funding has Tree Town topping lists as one of the best places to start a tech company or find a top tech job. After raising $10.3 Amesite creates AI-driven, intuitive workforce training programs.

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David Teten VC

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

But I would hope that a reasonably competent founder could easily educate herself about what information an investor wants with some basic research. ” Of course, YC companies typically have very strong decks and get meetings easily with top VC firms. Top 40 Best Startup Pitch Decks Of 2018 Which You Should ‘Steal’ From.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

Overall, of the 50 VC firms and three startup accelerators analyzed by Amnesty International, we found that almost all of them lacked adequate human rights due diligence policies and processes. Despite gains, gender diversity in VC funding struggled in 2020. In 2018, all-female founding teams received just 2.2% of all U.S.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Jan Lynn-Matern, Emerge Education. In 2018, B2B marketplaces saw an estimated $680 billion in sales, but that figure is expected to reach $3.6 Education = knowledge transfer + social + signaling. For starters: he’s never had an opportunity to pitch at a VC firm where there was another Black person in the room.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Furthermore, women founders receive less than 3% of all VC dollars. Data show that men were four times as likely as women to access equity financing from angel investors or VCs (14.4% Data from Women in VC show that only 5.6% VC firms are women-led and only 4.9% of VC partners in the U.S. against 3.6%).

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

HANGZHOU, CHINA – JULY 31: An employee uses face recognition system on a self-service check-out machine to pay for her meals in a canteen at the headquarters of Alibaba Group on July 31, 2018 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province of China. If you didn’t make $1B this week, you are not doing VC right. Image Credits: Bryce Durbin.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

Moysle , a mobile device management platform for Apple devices, today announced that it raised $196 million in a Series B funding round led by In sight Partners with participation from StepStone Group and previous investors including Elephant and Album VC. A pivot came in 2015, when Mosyle raised $1 million to enter the U.S. ”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

million for its second fund aimed at injecting capital into founders that don’t come from the educational pedigree or location that we typically see with entrepreneurs. New Stack raised its first fund of $6 million in 2018 and has since gone on to add 38 companies to its portfolio, including Hologram, Cybrary, Fairmarkit and Tovala.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

More from Alex Wilhelm : DoorDash has grown incredibly rapidly, scaling its revenues from $291 million in 2018 to $885 million in 2019. Here’s more, from his guest column for Extra Crunch this week: Earlier this year, we launched Solitaired , a casual gaming platform that ties card games to educational experiences and brain training.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

The company is organized as a public-benefit corporation and was founded in September 2018 and first launched a year later. That company focused on dating abuse and domestic violence education for high school and later college students. “We I started my first company when I was 15,” Eddy, who is CEO, said.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

The problem of data fragmentation and slow response to crises affects other sectors outside healthcare, such as education, food security and climate change. million Series A in 2018 — also plans to triple its geographical footprint over the next 2 years with a significant focus on expanding its presence across Africa.

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TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2021

There was also the decision to spin out Qualtrics, the company his predecessor acquired for $8 billion in 2018. Despite gains, gender diversity in VC funding struggled in 2020. Despite gains, gender diversity in VC funding struggled in 2020. While it makes sense to make this move now, investors weren’t happy with the news.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

(co-written with Katherine Boe Heuck , a MBA candidate at MIT Sloan (class of 2022); past intern at Versatile VC ; and a current intern at Metaprop NYC.). We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.” For funds with an overall return of 3-5x, which is what VC funds aim for, the overall return was 4.6x

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

(co-written with Katherine Boe Heuck , a MBA candidate at MIT Sloan (class of 2022); past intern at Versatile VC ; and a current intern at Metaprop NYC.). We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.” Why are all of the VC home runs from white men, or Asian men in Asia, plus a few Asian men in the U.S.?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

Israel’s heady mix of questioning culture, tradition of national military service, higher education, the widespread use of English, appetite for risk and team spirit makes for a fertile place for fast-moving companies to appear. In December 2018 that figure was $230 million, in 2019 it was just under $200 million. billion, from $6.51

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Same as VC funds are deeply acquainted with Silicon Valley, tech investors cannot ignore this hub of innovation that has produced global market leading companies and serial entrepreneurs. The cliche VC answer: strong team, big market. This is how we have successfully created a strong familial culture at our VC.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

David Teten is founder of Versatile VC and writes periodically at teten.com and @dteten. 15 steps to fundraising a new VC or private equity fund. Katherine Boe Heuck is a MBA candidate at MIT Sloan (class of 2022), a past intern at Versatile VC and a current intern at Metaprop NYC. David Teten. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

In late 2018, the company raised $75 million Series C from Sequoia, arguably the top VC firm in the world. After being largely ignored by Valley investors (the biggest checks in her seed, Series A, and Series B came from men on the East Coast), she finally found support from the VC elite. VC David Sacks tweeted “??

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2021

The round is led by sector-focused VC fund Owl Ventures. The platform, which launched back in 2018 and has amassed a user-base of more than 1.5 The platform, which launched back in 2018 and has amassed a user-base of more than 1.5 ” There are unlikely to be quality issues with verified educator/publisher content.

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