TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Monique Villa is an investor at Mucker Capital , an early-stage VC fund investing in startups across the U.S. With offices in LA, Austin and Nashville — and investments all over North America, we are seeing a marked increase in receptivity to an idea we had over a decade ago to invest across the U.S. Monique Villa.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Take the story of luggage startup Away’s CEO Steph Korey. Don’t get me wrong--the mental and emotional well-being of startup employees is a serious issue. In late 2018, the company raised $75 million Series C from Sequoia, arguably the top VC firm in the world. It’s male founder friendly. It probably fall somewhere in between.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

Multi-asset social investment network and Robinhood competitor eToro has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Gatsby — a fintech startup which also aimed to go head to head against Robinhood — for $50 million in a cash and common stock deal. That’s up from 10 million at the end of 2018, 12.3 Scaling our U.S.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The EU will invest €13.5 The experts are predicting the Ukrainian economy will bounce back and that the investment made today will bring dividends for years to come. Ukrainian startups are the horse to bet on The Ukrainian startup ecosystem has developed rapidly in the past few years. Need more convincing?

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Register The Southeast Asian fintech startup has been a dynamic landscape, with countries like China, India, Singapore, and Indonesia emerging as fintech hubs, each with unique strengths and focus areas. With the new investment, Bunker will invest capital in its innovation and expand regional operations.

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Revolution

MAY 4, 2022

Convening with CEO and co-founder Ryan Simonetti By Steve Murray and Patrick Conroy , Partners at Revolution Growth Convene’s London location at 22 Bishopsgate In 2018, Revolution Growth led an investment in Convene , an emerging leader in flexible work, meetings and events, and premium venues.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Yes, VC / Startup Funding is up Massively If you look at how much VC firms have raised from Limited Partners (LPs) over the past 2 decades you’ll see that we’ve returned to a level that we haven’t seen since 1999. Taken together these “mega rounds” represent nearly half of the funding in 2018. More on that later. trillion in value.

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Dream It

APRIL 26, 2019

What We’re Reading Developments in The Security Industry Verkada , a physical security startup that helps schools, gyms, municipalities, and corporations manage their security camera systems, reached a $540 million valuation in 3 years. Read how this startup set itself apart in a crowded market. million in funding.

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

I am at once proud of and awed by Jonathan, whose dual-track passion for the future of food and the future of Appalachia has brought him to tears more than once since we first invested in early 2018. Having the opportunity to learn from the founders you back is by far one of the most rewarding parts of being a venture capital investor.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

Zeni , a Palo Alto fintech company providing real-time financial services data to venture-backed startups, raised $34 million in Series B funding led by Elevation Capital. The new investment comes just five months after Zeni announced $13.5 I believe we have the opportunity to build a large company. Zeni fits with that.”.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

It highlights important events in the continent’s tech ecosystem until this point, compares its journey with other emerging markets and provides guidance into the opportunities within various sectors. And though they are inclined to follow the money, Endeavor wants them to look beyond usual market opportunities and map out exit pathways.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The investment is the largest-ever Series A round for the region, and it values Wave at $1.7 Four big-name backers jointly led the round — Sequoia Heritage, a private investment fund and a subsidiary of Sequoia; Founders Fund; payments upstart Stripe; and Ribbit Capital. Wave , a U.S. ” Going up against incumbents.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

This week, I covered Zeta, a new startup working on joint finances for modern couples. Other startups have taken notice too, entering the world of multiplayer fintech, a term that categorizes socially focused and consumer-friendly financial services. Data on startups is dreadful. techcrunch.com. Sign up here.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Delve into his story as it unfolds with lessons from filmmaking, startup ventures, and the fascinating world of technology innovations and investing. This gave me a front-row seat to the world of tech/innovation, and I began making some personal angel investments along the way.”

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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. New research looking into how U.K. population. In the U.K.,

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Mixpanel was a hot startup in 2014 when it nabbed a $65 million Series B on an $865 million valuation, a sizable B round and valuation for those days. Today, seven years after that announcement, the company finally has a C round, a $200 million investment on a $1.05 billion valuation from Bain Capital Tech Opportunities.

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propel(x)

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

It is important to consider doing something similar if you are thinking about investing in a startup. Before committing to an investment, it is important to understand what you are buying and what you are getting into. On the angel investing platform, this component is called Broker Review. What is due diligence?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 17, 2018

As a startup entrepreneur who is actively growing his business, Peter recently attended the inaugural MyEO Deal Exchange Conference in Denver, Colorado, where he pitched Table and Desk in EO’s first DX Angel-Shark Experience and received a US$250,000 investment in his company. .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

Investments began flooding into robotics around this time. Slowed investments have been compounded by continued economic woes and the recent bank collapses have further shaken confidence. What role have the pandemic, slowing economy and recent bank crisis had on your investments? The simplest example is autonomous vehicles.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

Snap’s in-house Yellow accelerator program, which invests in startups, has debuted its fifth batch of investments. The company invests $150,000 in each Yellow startup for an equity stake as part of the accelerator program, which first launched in 2018.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

The brothers had dreams of finding their own financial freedom through investing in real estate, but didn’t have enough individual capital to go into business alone. “On One deal led to another, Smith said, and the wealth the group created eventually gave him the financial freedom to launch his own company, Tribevest, in 2018.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Concreit , a company that wants to open real estate investing to a broader group of people, announced today that it has closed $6 million in a seed funding round led by Matrix Partners. . Today, most investors can open a Concreit account and make their first investment in just minutes on their mobile device, the company claims.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before joining Paystack in 2018, Hassan co-founded OyaPay, a payments startup the year before. After leaving the Stripe-owned company in 2019, he launched a data startup called Voyance where Singh, who had already exited one of his products — Transferpay.ng , an offline payments startup — was a software engineer.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Teacher departures are a loss for public schools, but an opportunity for startups racing to win a share of the changing teacher economy. The startups all have different versions of the same pitch: they can offer teachers more money, and flexibility, than the status quo. Gig economy powered by startups.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Taeillo , a Lagos-based startup innovating around these issues relating to time, quality and cost via its online furniture e-commerce store, has raised $2.5 The investment will also help scale its “Pay with Flexi” product, where shoppers can buy furniture and pay in installments; over 200 people have used it.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

Luisa Rubio Arribas is the head of Wayra X , Telefónica’s digital innovation hub offering funding, connections and expertise to mass-market-ready B2C startups. Corporate venture capital investments (CVCs) now represent more than a fifth of global venture. Corporate investment arms have gotten stronger. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Founded in Estonia and now headquartered in New York, the company has taken a majority investment from U.S. Another Atomico investment, Klarna, also achieved so-called “decacorn” status with a valuation of $10.6 enterprise software focused private equity firm Vista Equity Partners.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

In March, two Nigerian startups, Treepz ( formerly Plentywaka ) and TalentQL got into the Techstars Toronto accelerator program alongside eight other companies. The program , held virtually , provided these startups with funding ($100,000 convertible note and $20,000 stipend), mentorship and access to its network.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

Austin’s venture capital scene has been hot for years now, but a pair of local investment firms just closed on new funds aimed at injecting more capital into startups in Austin and elsewhere. More than 380 funding deals were made into Austin startups in 2021 , amounting to $4.9 Keri Findley, founder of Tacora.

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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 We came from two different backgrounds with respect to investing,” Percoco recalled. “He I’m the exact opposite and couldn’t invest myself until after Goldman Sachs, where I went to work after Penn.”.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

At Versatile VC, we particularly like investing in “dual-PhD” problems, at the intersection of multiple domains. Some of the greatest areas of innovation opportunity are at the intersection of sectors historically segregated , e.g., computational biology. Many universities (e.g., The competition has prizes totaling $115,000.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Just over $15 billion went into startups in 2021 , according to LAVCA. Brazil and Mexico continue to lead as regions where many startups are getting funding, but as LAVCA’s statistics show, some of that investor love is being spread around to other countries like Colombia, Argentina and Chile. million Series A last October.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

In February 2020, as the world was shutting down, and as businesses downsized on account of the Covid pandemic, John Kamara was busy establishing another new startup Adanian Labs in Nairobi, Kenya’s capital. We stay the course with startups and make sure they become successful businesses — We de-risk them from failure,” said Kiwia.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

Aurora Innovation, the autonomous vehicle startup that acquired Uber’s self-driving unit in December, is going public via a merger with special purpose acquisition company Reinvent Technology Partners Y. Autonomous vehicle startup Aurora in final talks to merge with Reid Hoffman’s newest SPAC. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.,

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2020

BigID has been on the investment fast track, raising $94 million over three rounds that started in January 2018. Today, that investment train kept rolling as the company announced a $70 million Series D on a valuation of $1 billion. BigID is attracting this kind of investment by building a security and privacy platform.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

The proliferation of fintech services across Africa remains in full swing as investors remain bullish about the opportunities that abound in the sector. New York-based private investment firm Avenir Growth Capital and U.S. hedge fund and investment firm Tiger Global led the Series C round. Launched in 2016 as a Nigerian and U.S.-based

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 31, 2023

Founded in 2018, Venti Technologies develops highly flexible and industrial-grade precision technology that enables rapid deployment and best-in-class safety and operational efficiency for customers. LG Technology Ventures was established in 2018 in Silicon Valley and manages over $500 million of fund assets.

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