Haystack

JUNE 1, 2018

Talk to any Bay Area VC in the last 24 hours, and the talk of the town among investors is universal : “ What do you think of the SV Angel news? ” Depending on your point of view, it is the perfect trigger for a conversation about the state of the Bay Area’s investment market.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The new VC arm, called Stronghold Capital, has already invested in companies including Sam Bankman-Fried’s Alameda Research and funds including Precursor Ventures and Backstage Capital, both of which have a track record of backing underrepresented founders. It has raised $3.3 billion, the company says.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

MarketForce , the retail B2B and end-to-end distribution platform founded in Kenya, has raised $40 million in Series A funding for its merchant inventory financing and expansion across Africa. MarketForce plans more partnerships to bring on board other services for merchants like insurance, savings and investment.

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StartupNation

JULY 28, 2021

In 2019, venture capital investment into U.S. It would be reasonable to assume that VC funding would drop in 2020, especially during the uncertainty of the pandemic. It would be reasonable to assume that VC funding would drop in 2020, especially during the uncertainty of the pandemic. at its all-time high. . However, U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Yet as we enter February 2017 the VC funding markets are booming, Snap, Inc has filed for its IPO, AppDynamics was just purchased for $3.7 But the reality is that “global warming” massively blunted the effects of winter and my prognosis for VC fundings of entrepreneurs in 2017–2018 is now very sunny indeed.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 26, 2020

Then these firms raised larger funds to invest in LBOs, but they diversified, too. The competitive dynamics in the market where access to invest is more valuable than capital. 2018 and 2019 exceeded the heady days of 2000 in terms of dollars deployed. 2018 and 2019 exceeded the heady days of 2000 in terms of dollars deployed.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Titan , a startup that is building a retail investment management platform aimed at millennials, has closed on $12.5 million in a Series A round led by VC heavyweight General Catalyst. We came from two different backgrounds with respect to investing,” Percoco recalled. “He Titan algorithmically invests for you.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2022

In an interview with TechCrunch, Hambrecht spoke about Haus’s transition from buzzy VC-backed startup to a business currently up for sale, as-is or in parts. Because the company was unable to fundraise from traditional VC, it took on debt financing and began looking for private equity and strategic partners.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 4, 2023

MoveinSync’s Strategic Funding Round This financing round is intended not only for growth but also to provide an opportunity for some of its early investors to partially exit. In its previous funding round, a Series B led by Nexus Venture Partners in April 2018, MoveinSync successfully raised $8 million.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

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. It also invested in Brazilian social grocery commerce company Favo , which raised a $26.5 million Series A last October.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

Sequoia Capital and Bain Ventures are among the high-profile investors that have backed the venture firm Kearny Jackson’s second fund, the early-stage focused firm said Wednesday as it gears up to invest in more startups. It has also roped in Sunil Chhaya , formerly a VC at Menlo Ventures, as a co-GP.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Tunde Balogun co-founded the startup, formerly RentSmallSmall, with Naomi Olaghere and Pidah Tnadah in 2018 after returning to Nigeria from the U.K. For tenants, it’s the comfort of managing their finances better by paying monthly rent and the respite that comes with not transacting with housing agents that SmallSmall provides.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

Startups and VC. Enterprise software is still big business : Sure, VCs want to fund crypto exchanges and whatnot, but the work of building software for large companies is still ticking along. Tiger and Insight Partners led the investment, giving the AI workload orchestrator a huge capital base from which to grow. Big Tech Inc.

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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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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 31, 2023

PE becomes an important buyer of companies growing 10-25%, as it did in 2018, driven by lower debt costs. The BTC ETF drives a resurgence in interest in web3 financing. In the last two years, M&A has totaled about $49b & it surges to above $60b driven by AI acquisitions.

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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.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

The venture capital boom of 2021 was not built from merely traditional VC money. And amid all the noise, record-setting totals, and rapid-fire dealmaking, corporate venture investors were busy, investing gobs of parent-company cash into far-smaller concerns. How quickly is corporate venture capital investment accelerating?

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

The company’s flagship product, Home Equity Investment, is designed to allow homeowners to get cash in exchange for a certain percentage of future appreciation of their home. The way it works is that Point first evaluates the finances of applicants and makes a provisional offer. Its average investment is around $100,000.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Transportation editor Kirsten Korosec reached out to 10 investors to learn more “about the state of mobility, which trends they’re most excited about and what they’re looking for in their next investments.” In October 2018, private-market money valued Coinbase at around $8 billion. Shawn Carolan, partner, Menlo Ventures.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

It was while working with the accelerator that she noticed a gap in funding between angel and seed, observing the frustration female founders felt with the lack of female VCs and with male investors who were not experienced in investing in the beauty and wellness industry. Claire Chang, general partner at igniteXL Ventures.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The round, which marks Fidelity’s first investment in an African company, also saw the participation from fintech giant Visa and London-based investment management firm Kingsway Capital. It is also coming a year after raising $55 million in a similar unnamed financing round.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2020

During his one year spent with the outfit, Fubini says, he wrote seed checks into the digital care company Omada Health , the optimization platform Optimizely ( acquired this fall), and LendUp, the payday loan company that was split into two businesses back in 2018. It has insure-tech investments, like the brokerage Newfront Insurance.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

Companies that have high recurring revenue and visibility into future performance — such as SaaS startups — in particular can benefit from debt financings, Alex points out. . Once Founderpath has visibility into a startup’s finances, the company can receive an offer “in under 2 to 3 minutes,” Latka says. Enter Founderpath.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Newmark’s purchase of Knotel’s assets is an effort to recoup some of its investment, according to Pasternak. Virgin Mobile co-founder Amol Sarva and former VC Edward Shenderovich founded Knotel, essentially reversing the WeWork model. Knotel raises $25M to expand its “headquarters as a service” approach to office space.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

And since its launch in 2018, MaxAB has connected suppliers with over 150,000 unique traditional retailers in this food and grocery supply chain across Egypt and Casablanca, Morocco, delivering over 2.5 Silver Lake invested through its Long-Term Capital strategy with Mubadala Investment Company. For MaxAB, that’s its sweet spot.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

Arzooo, an Indian startup that is attempting to bring the “best of e-commerce” to physical stores, has raised $70 million in a new financing round as it looks to scale its retail platform across the South Asian market. SBI Investment and Trifecta Leaders Fund led the Bengaluru-headquartered startup’s Series B funding.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2023

On Friday, PitchBook’s Q1 2023 B2B fintech investment report showed that investment into enterprise fintech was $11.8 And compared to the shrinking of quarter-to-quarter investments for the rest of 2022, the $11.8 That founder wrote me a note saying that while at Anthemis, “Farhan was the first VC to believe in” his company.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

In 2018, Carbon , a Nigerian fintech startup, made its financials public for the first time. At the time, the German investment outfit was a founding shareholder in the African-based unicorn. At the time, the German investment outfit was a founding shareholder in the African-based unicorn. billion (~$241.35 from FY2019.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2022

The report primarily focuses on investment activity in Europe but is contextualized with what we are seeing in other markets. Global VC funding into edtech startups totaled $6.5 At the same time, the number of early-stage rounds, categorized as deals under $15 million, has fallen fairly consistently since a peak in H1 2018.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 30, 2022

The three-day trade mission, organised by Enterprise Ireland, the Irish government’s trade and innovation agency, and the largest VC in Europe (by deal count), builds on the EU-Singapore Free Trade Agreement and aims to strengthen ties between the Irish and Singaporean business communities.

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Haystack

OCTOBER 13, 2019

” Then at the end of 2017, the same worry about 2018; rinse and repeat last year, looking toward 2019. Yet, looking back, not much changed — there’s more money than every in the early-stage ecosystem, bigger financing rounds, large private pre-IPO growth rounds, and much more.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

This week, I covered Zeta, a new startup working on joint finances for modern couples. Here’s what I learned : The success of Zeta hinges on the idea that people want to share their finances in an ongoing and meaningful way, and that the world of finance is ready to shift from individualism to collectivism earlier and louder.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

Today’s evidence of the trend: Dragonfly Capital, a crypto-centered investment firm, closed its third venture fund for $650 million, the firm’s managing partner, Haseeb Qureshi, told TechCrunch. Dragonfly plans to focus its investments across all stages of blockchain and crypto-native companies, protocols, and tokens. “We

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

-based Susa Ventures led this latest tranche of investment. million in two rounds and the company will use the investment to expand its data infrastructure across Nigeria. . Before starting Okra with Peterside, she worked with JP Morgan, Fidelity Investments and Daimler Mercedes Benz. In total, Okra has raised $4.5

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

Background Capital , Defy Partners , Maple VC and Greg Waldorf — the first investor at Trulia — also participated in the financing, which brings Aalto’s total raised to $17.3 million since its 2018 inception. Aalto’s online marketplace, which launched in April of this year, directly connects homeowners to buyers.

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2022

Bonfire Ventures , a Los Angeles venture capital firm, invests in seed-stage business-to-business software companies and aims to change the odds so that more than the average 33% of companies in this sector make it to Series A. The third managing director, Brett Queener, joined in 2018 after a career at Salesforce and Siebel Systems.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

million that was raised in a seed round led by Brick & Mortar Ventures and First Round Capital – to advance on its effort to “reimagine construction finance.” Accel and Lightrock India co-led the Bengaluru-headquartered startup’s Series C financing round, reports Manish Singh, our man on the ground in the country. Love to see it!

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