Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 26, 2020

Nathan Heller published an article called Is Venture Capital Worth the Risk? It’s a well-researched critique of the venture industry. If you have ideas for how to improve venture capital for founders, please tweet me or send me an email with the link above. First, venture capital has become much bigger.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

Despite a pandemic that sparked a global recession, 2020 was still a record year for venture capital investments into American startups. According to data shared by PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association, investors poured $156.2 venture capital market in 2020 was hot, it was not newly so.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

Does the traditional VC financing model make sense for all companies? VC Josh Kopelman makes the analogy of jet fuel vs. motorcycle fuel. VCs sell jet fuel which works well for jets; motorcycles are more common but need a different type of fuel. . Absolutely not. So what is Revenue Based Investing?

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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

The venture capital boom of 2021 was not built from merely traditional VC money. A host of other capital sources played a role in the global trend , from new methods of disbursing angel and seed capital to crossover funds pouring into late-stage startups. Sounds good? Let’s get into the data.

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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

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

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

DECEMBER 15, 2020

You might not know yet of XYZ Venture Capital , a four-year-old, San Francisco-based seed-stage venture firm, but many veterans of Palantir are surely aware of it. In fact, the founder of XYZ, Ross Fubini, says his firm wrote Anduril its first check. Hamilton says she realized over time that “we’re kindred spirits.”

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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

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

In October 2018, private-market money valued Coinbase at around $8 billion. and Khosla Ventures Acquisition Co. “You have to wonder if every VC worth a damn in the future will have their own raft of SPAC offerings,” says Alex. Why do SaaS companies with usage-based pricing grow faster? I, II and III.

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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. Less than 33% raise an A and only 50% raise any follow-on capital.

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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 10, 2022

Venture capital continues to flow into Latin America at a staggering rate. Venture firms in those countries are also raising funds; for example, this month, Colombia-based Marathon Ventures announced its first fund of $26 million. VCs say there are more startup opportunities to chase in Latin America.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

To date, Dragonfly has invested in almost 60 companies through its previous funds launched in 2018 and 2021 for $100 million and $225 million, respectively. But Dragonfly will continue to invest in those areas, as well as decentralized finance, smart contracts, NFTs, the metaverse, and other sectors in the crypto ecosystem, he said. “If

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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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Haystack

APRIL 27, 2018

” — Micah Rosenbloom of Founder Collective, April 2018. Lots of VC firms will cross-check various databases Crunchbase, Pitchbook, and Mattermark, etc. Lots of VC firms will cross-check various databases Crunchbase, Pitchbook, and Mattermark, etc.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

The bootstrapped company — which didn’t receive outside capital until 2018 — depended on original AI research that Beguir published , which led to the startup being discovered by specialized clients who later became partners and investors, such as DeepMind, Google and its future acquirer BioNTech. That was crazy.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

All Raise hires new CEO : A nonprofit focused on “increasing diversity within venture capital deals and decision-makers” per our reporting, All Raise now has a new boss. The venture result : The tough market is starting to show up in venture capital results, early data indicates. Startups and VC.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Point says that last year, it received over $1 billion in new capital commitments from real estate and mortgage-backed securities (MBS) investors. The way it works is that Point first evaluates the finances of applicants and makes a provisional offer. The executive likened the process to a venture capitalist backing a startup.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Harry Stebbings, the podcaster-turned-VC, is stepping down as a partner of Stride.VC, the London-based venture capital firm he co-founded with Fred Destin, formerly of Accel. From Twenty Minute VC to 20VC, Harry Stebbings launches a micro VC off the back of his popular podcast.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

The world’s 10 leading venture capital firms have, together, invested over $150 billion in technology startups. The venture capitalists who run these firms decide which startups today will develop the new platforms and technologies that will shape our lives tomorrow. We all live in a world shaped by venture capital.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2023

About a year ago, it seemed like myself and other colleagues were writing story after story about spend management companies raising tranches of venture capital — remember Mary Ann’s roundup story from basically this same time last year? Anyway, I have since learned that Farhan has branched out to start his own firm, LTV Capital.

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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. Chang formed igniteXL in 2018 and started fundraising over a year ago.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2022

Today, Brighteye Ventures published its Half Year European Edtech Funding report , built around Dealroom’s data. 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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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

Founded in 2014, Blossom Finance was first intended for Muslim entrepreneurs in the United States. 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. Meanwhile in Malaysia, where 61.3% out of its 33.6

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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

APRIL 19, 2022

So in 2018, Ko left Opendoor to set about solving the problem she was tired of dealing with by creating file storage for modern design workflows and processes. Ko declined to reveal at which valuation this round was raised but did say it was a “preemptive” financing. The process wasted time and money, in her view.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Leasy, a startup that offers automobile financing to ride-hailing drivers in Latin America via a subscription model, has secured $2 million in equity and $15 million in debt. They founded Leasy in 2018 with the mission to help people who would like to earn incomes as ride-hailing drivers be able to afford cars, thus earning a steady income.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

million in funding — $15 million of which was raised in a Series A led by Menlo Ventures and $3.4 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.” Love to see it! ” Funding across the globe.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2022

Those hints included the revelation that the startup had generated just $600,000 in revenue for all of 2021 despite raising $120 million in venture capital earlier in the year (in a round led by Stripe) and rumors that the company was having trouble raising more funds, and as a result, might be seeking a buyer.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The debt financing features top energy lenders FMO and SunFunder, two firms known to provide debt capital to solar companies in emerging markets. “This group brings more than just capital to the equation. In addition, this current round comes after Zola’s Series D equity round of $55 million in 2018.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

QED Investors, Wellington Management, Susa Ventures, Founders Fund, First American Financial, Prudence Holdings, Crossover VC, Intersect Capital, Gaingels and Oberndorf Ventures also participated in the financing. The San Francisco-based company declined to reveal at what valuation its Series C was raised.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

– APRIL 22, 2018: A statue of Albert Gallatin, a former U.S. Embedded finance connects services like payment processing with everyday activities like grabbing a coffee before unlocking an e-scooter. Multi Colored Bling Bling Dollar Sign Shape Bokeh Backdrop on Dark Background, Finance Concept. WASHINGTON, D.C.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

The B2B payments space has been on fire for a while, and the COVID-19 pandemic has only fueled mass adoption of digitizing finances. based investors including Homebrew (which led the round), Susa Ventures, Haystack and J Ventures. Higo launched its SaaS platform last November. And now the startup has raised $3.3

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

Startups and VC In a major blow to shared micromobility companies, Paris has voted to ban rental e-scooters from its streets, Rebecca reports. Many in the industry fear that the move in Paris, where free-floating scooters initially took off in 2018, will have ripple effects in other cities. Carly has more. Who are ya? :

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

According to one report, transactions in these venues generated around $680 billion in 2018, but that figure is predicted to reach $3.6 The COVID-19 pandemic is helping startups that innovate in areas like payments, financing, insurance and compliance. Is there anything lurking in its recent financings that public investors won’t like?

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