TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

In 2016, we set out to develop a rigorous methodology for tracking progress on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in venture capital, and to measure and benchmark those data through our biennial VC Human Capital Survey. To begin with, as an industry, venture capital can only improve what we measure. Assessing inclusion remains a challenge.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2023

Many feared that the bull market had pushed valuations to unsustainable heights and would result in a windfall of startup down rounds and cash burn, which would have a negative impact on VC fund performance. A recent PitchBook report looked into fund performance across VC funds at all stages regardless of maturity.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2023

billion, and in 2018, they raised basically zero dollars out of around $2.8 Data visualization by Miranda Halpern , created with Flourish VC funding to Black web3 founders popped last year, bucking trends by Dominic-Madori Davis originally published on TechCrunch web3 startups received $16.5 billion that year). million and $4.5

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Qwick today announced that it raised $40 million in a Series B financing round led by Tritium Partners, with participation by current investors Album VC, Kickstart, Desert Angels and Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund. Qwick raises VC money to match gig workers with hospitality jobs by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

The dynamics that play into this forecast, aside from the impact of COVID, include a youthful population (the youngest globally), rising smartphone adoption and internet penetration that has led to a burgeoning tech ecosystem backed by local and international VC dollars. from 2010 to 2019. and Latin America’s 2.8%. “By

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StartupNation

JULY 28, 2021

It would be reasonable to assume that VC funding would drop in 2020, especially during the uncertainty of the pandemic. Only about 12% of decision makers at VC firms are women, and of all the partners at these firms, only 2.4% Alternatives to VC funding for female founders. at its all-time high. . However, U.S.

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FundersClub

OCTOBER 17, 2018

We'd like to congratulate FundersClub portfolio companies on their ongoing progress, as well as to welcome aboard their new VC investor partners. Selected recent FundersClub portfolio company follow-on rounds: GitLab announced its $100M Series D, led by ICONIQ, and minting it a new $B portfolio company.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

This represents nearly four-fold growth over a year ago when its portfolio raised $6 million (and just $3 million in 2018). 2019 saw the local VC firm invest in six companies. From the outside in, startups see Microtraction and other early-stage VC firms like Ventures Platform as a means to that end.

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FundersClub

JANUARY 15, 2019

We'd like to congratulate FundersClub portfolio companies on their ongoing progress, as well as to welcome aboard their new VC investor partners. Selected recent FundersClub portfolio company follow-on rounds: Coinbase announced its $300M Series E, led by Tiger Global, at a pre-money of $8B.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The two continents enjoyed more venture capital investment into their local startups than in some time, underscoring that strong VC results the United States saw in the third quarter were not a fluke, but part of a broader trend. Asia’s result was its best since at least Q4 2018, as far back as our dataset goes.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

I’m over-paying for every check I write into the VC ecosystem and valuations are being pushed up to absurd levels and many of these valuations and companies won’t hold in the long term. However, to be a great VC you have to hold two conflicting ideas in your head at the same time. Where are Things Headed for VC in 2031?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2022

That deal is quite different from what most VC funds will take on, but we believed it to be critical to the advancement of a better food system, and we pursued it. That $63 million sale took place in 2018.) Unlike some other funds, we do not consider ourselves an Impact or ESG fund. Why did you open an office in Austin? Louis well.

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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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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 26, 2020

2018 and 2019 exceeded the heady days of 2000 in terms of dollars deployed. Second, as competition has intensified, VC funds have invested in platforms (we call it founder experience at Redpoint). This supply/demand shift that provides founders more leverage in conversations has catalyzed some innovation in venture.

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FundersClub

JULY 20, 2018

We'd like to congratulate FundersClub portfolio companies on their ongoing progress, as well as to welcome aboard their new VC investor partners.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

I didn’t have that many connections when it came to the VC industry,” Jalanbo recalls. “So The strategy worked and Jalanbo ended up raising $5 million for its first fund, Valia Ventures , in 2018. So he set up an SPV (special purpose vehicle) to invest in the company. So I decided I would do something a little bit different.”.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

In October 2018, private-market money valued Coinbase at around $8 billion. “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? Paying $115B for Stripe or $77B for Coinbase might be quite rational.

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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.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

According to a PitchBook report released this month, VCs have steadily increased their positions in generative AI, from $408 million in 2018 to $4.8 million in 2018. The surge in interest from early-stage VC companies alone is staggering, with a total of $2.2 billion in VC funding. billion in 2021 to $4.5

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

The startup has gone through Snap’s Yellow accelerator , an in-house effort from the social media company that began in 2018. The funding caps off a busy 12 months for Brightly. As part of the program Snap invests $150,000 in each Yellow startup for an equity stake.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2023

A music industry veteran of 10 years, Rodriguez was introduced to the tech world after he helped build an art program for the gener8tor, a startup accelerator based in Madison, Wisconsin, in 2018. He’s now part of a rarified club: In any given year, less than 5% of all venture capital funding goes to Latino founders.

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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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TechCrunch

JUNE 27, 2022

Silicon Valley investor Peter Relan, who helped incubate the company in 2018 (he also helped get Discord off the ground and served on its board until 2020), likens it to a “fully autonomous” call service center.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2023

A music industry veteran of 10 years, Rodriguez was introduced to the tech world after he helped build an art program for the gener8tor, a startup accelerator based in Madison, Wisconsin, in 2018. He’s now part of a rarified club: In any given year, less than 5% of all venture capital funding goes to Latino founders.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2020

After moving on to a bubble-era company that no longer exists, Nash tried his hand at VC for the first time, joining Atlas Venture as an associate. Fintech VC keeps getting later, larger and more expensive. Nash is also riding a very big wave.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

From 2018 to 2021, investments in the AV sector across the U.S. In 2022, these companies attracted $7 billion in investments, defying the broader slowdown in VC investment by growing 15% over the previous year. Image Credits: F-Prime Capital VC excitement for hardware businesses is higher than ever In the U.S.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Meanwhile, Microsoft invested an undisclosed amount in Grab in 2018 and has invested $100 million in Indonesian e-commerce firm Bukalapak. In Q1 2021, Southeast Asian startups raised $6 billion, according to DealStreetAsia, positioning 2021 as another record year for VC investment in the region. Regional VC investment grew 5.2

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

Grocery tech is attracting VC activity for a few reasons: For one, grocery retail is such a large market — a $1 trillion industry that is poised to grow 3% each year for the next eight years, according to Grandview Research. Bagging capital and expanding footprints.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In its previous funding round, a Series B led by Nexus Venture Partners in April 2018, MoveinSync successfully raised $8 million. The company’s other investors include Inventus Capital Partners , Saama Capital, Qualcomm Ventures , and Athera Venture Partners.

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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

APRIL 7, 2022

Champ Suthipongchai is a co-founder and general partner at Creative Ventures , a method-driven deep tech VC firm investing in startups that address the impact of increasing labor shortages, rising healthcare costs and the climate crisis. More posts by this contributor. How do your companies move beyond the pilot stage?”.

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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. female entrepreneurs face in accessing VC funding versus male counterparts.

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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

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.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2022

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. Today, Brighteye Ventures published its Half Year European Edtech Funding report , built around Dealroom’s data. billion raised in 2021.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 24, 2022

million in a recent funding round led by South Asia Tech, a growth-stage VC fund that is focused on logistics and e-commerce startups in the region. Other participants in the funding round were State-run VC fund Startup Bangladesh, investors from Bangladesh Angels Network (BAN), and existing backers, including Accelerating Asia.

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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. US VC investment falls from $275b in 2022 to $200b in 2023 & sustains at about $200-220b in 2024 as LP interest in venture attenuates after the euphoria in 2020 & 2021.

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