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

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Data from a variety of sources collated by TechCrunch shows that early-stage female founders have been disproportionately hurt by the pandemic’s impact. As The Exchange reported, “Asia’s result was its best since at least Q4 2018, as far back as our dataset goes. But, while that’s a fortuitous narrative, it’s not the full story.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

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 billion in funding that had gone to all founders up until that point in 2020. . billion venture dollars invested between 2018 and 2019. of the total $87.3

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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.

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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

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. billion, the company says.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

how on Earth could the venture capital market stand still? One of the most common questions I’m asked by people intrigued by but also scared by venture capital and technology markets is some variant of, “Aren’t technology markets way overvalued? two founders in a garage?—?(HP Of course we can’t. dot-com bonanza.

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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. Then there was the venture pullback amid an economic downturn. Bubble had to pop,” People of Crypto co-founder Simone Berry said. “It billion and $4.2

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Across all stages, companies were seeing higher post-money valuations, anywhere from about 40% at the earliest stages to over 200% in the growth stages in the 2018 to 2022 period, compared to 2012 to 2018. Put another way, over the last three years, a company could raise the same amount of capital for less dilution.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JANUARY 29, 2020

Tamara Isch, a 2018 YLAI Fellow and a co-founder and COO of EcX Labs, has been breaking boundaries in her country, in her field of work, and in the world. Finding a female mentor with the same background was difficult, as was procuring venture capital funds in a male-dominated field. By Elise Kemp.

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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. I believe that Revenue-Based Investing (“RBI”) VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem. 2018 also had the fewest number of angel-led financing rounds since before 2010.

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

led by Founder & CEO Jonathan Webb ?—?rang rang the opening bell on the NASDAQ stock exchange, signifying the start of their new chapter in life as a public traded company after successfully completing a merger with Novus Capital Corporation. On February 1st, the AppHarvest team?—?led and should?—?be

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

There is a growing body of articles about the important issue of the lack of investment dollars flowing to Black women founders. For anyone following venture news, this data should not be new: Fortune reported that while the numbers have tripled since 2018, Black women still only receive 0.27% of all venture dollars in the U.S.;

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

All of this impresses upon us that every indicator in startup funding points up and to the right: Venture firms have more dry powder, deal sizes are growing rapidly, valuations are soaring and investment terms are more founder-friendly than ever. And all that is indeed happening. The biggest impact appears to be in the late stage.

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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

JULY 14, 2022

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. ” In practice, it’ll fund key areas like regenerative land use, oceans, transportation and the circular economy. .”

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 17, 2023

Register When starting a company, founders often underestimate the amount of time and energy required to fundraise. In an interview with AsiaTechDaily, Koh emphasises the importance of founders taking an active role in the fundraising process. Another common mistake founders make when raising capital is mishandling equity.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

Propel Venture Partners and Accel led the investment for Truora, which valued the company at $75 million post-money. . Founded in August 2018, Truora was originally focused on background checks for gigster platforms. Today, Truora has over 400 clients in nine countries across Latin America.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2020

YW: I left Microsoft in 2018 and started Pulley a year later. Many founders are increasingly thinking about choosing with companies, like Pulley, that better align with their values. YW: We’re a team of seven and have four people on the team who are former Y Combinator founders. We have not pulled anyone out of Carta yet.

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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. million in funding — $15 million of which was raised in a Series A led by Menlo Ventures and $3.4 Women in Fintech.

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Source Link

APRIL 14, 2021

From Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley, a former slave who ran a prosperous dressmaking business that eventually led to her designing and sewing dresses for Mary Todd Lincoln, to Anne Wojcicki, founder of genetic testing and analysis firm 23andMe, women have proved they have what it takes to reach the top of the entrepreneurial mountain.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Linda Greub Contributor Share on Twitter Linda Greub is the co-founder and managing partner of Avestria Ventures. When most people think of venture capitalists, they often think of investors, the people writing checks to fund startups. But that image is only one part of venture capital.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

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. And today, the startup has emerged from stealth and announced it has raised $4 million in a seed funding round led by Founders Fund at a $20 million post-money valuation.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

The Austin-based firm recently secured $145 million in its own debt and equity financing to help B2B SaaS founders grow their businesses without diluting ownership. The firm has deployed over $60 million in capital to 130 SaaS founders since launching in January 2020, according to Latka. Enter Founderpath. So, how does it work?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2021

Toyota AI Ventures, Toyota’s standalone venture capital fund, has dropped the “AI” and is reborn as, simply, Toyota Ventures. Toyota Ventures has been an invaluable partner for Boxbot since they invested in our seed round in 2018,” said Austin Oehlerking, co-founder and CEO of Boxbot, in a statement.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

’s Tech Nation found in 2018 that about 26% of Belfast’s workforce was employed in tech, and it is among cities in the country with the highest growth potential for 2021. With that in mind, we reached out to founders, investors and executives in the city to get an inside look at the state of the current tech startup ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

Corporate venture capital investments (CVCs) now represent more than a fifth of global venture. The bigger slice of the funding pie comes as founders have to navigate a more uncertain capital landscape.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Register Singapore-based food and agritech startup Glife Technologies announced Wednesday that it raised $3 million in its Series A1 funding round led by venture capital investor Tin Men Capital. Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? It raised $4.96

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 17, 2023

Register Singapore-based venture capital firm Jungle Ventures has announced its merger with HealthXCapital , an early-stage VC firm specializing in healthcare investments. HealthXCapital’s maiden fund of $20 million, launched in 2018, has had Jungle Ventures as a limited partner.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In 2018, he and Akintola Adesanmi — who was no stranger to how rent worked in Nigeria and also desired to effect change — brainstormed Spleet , a platform that partners with apartment owners to list their properties and offers renters options to pay rent monthly, quarterly and biannually. Nigerian proptech Spleet gets $2.6M

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In 2018, Y Combinator released its first mega list of the top companies valued at $150 million or more that have gone through the accelerator. Thus, the original list of 101 companies has ballooned to 267 as of February 2022 ( YC list isn’t exhaustive; some founders opt out of being listed ). have joined this desirable list.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

Former investment banker Khaled Jalanbo was working with emerging artists when he encountered an entrepreneur who pointed out the similarities between working with artists and startup founders. The strategy worked and Jalanbo ended up raising $5 million for its first fund, Valia Ventures , in 2018.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Register Soho.com.au , an AI-powered real estate discovery app, has secured a $750,000 equity investment from Singapore-based proptech venture capital firm Feedback Ventures. Established in 2018, Soho.com.au Established in 2018, Soho.com.au This funding round has propelled the valuation of Soho.com.au

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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. Why Latin American venture capital is breaking records this year.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Tech in Asia (TIA) founder and CEO Willis Wee, expressed his optimism regarding the acquisition by SPH Media, emphasizing the strategic advantages it offers. Willis Wee, the founder of TIA, also serves as its CEO. Notably, Tech in Asia started its funding journey, securing $6.6

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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

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Then in 2018, Walter went live with a new company — Blast. With that venture, he aimed to challenge traditional banking yet again by bringing personalized financial tools to gamers. The pair wanted to simplify investing for the millions that have trouble getting started or continuing to invest.

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