TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

The first quarter of 2022 brought a historically huge sum of investment for global startups, with the three-month period outclassing any quarter in 2018, 2019, and 2020, according to CB Insights data. But despite the fact that Q1 2022 posted historically elevated results, venture capital investment decelerated from Q4 2021 levels.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Regular readers of The Exchange will recall that we last dug into overall wellness venture capital investment in August , noting that it was mental health startups inside the vertical that were seeing the most impressive results. The state of mental health venture investing. So this morning we’re going to dig into it.

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StartupNation

MAY 18, 2021

W h en many people think of how the business sector relates to startup companies and the venture funding that invests in them, the perception is that this part of the economy is irrelevant and doesn’t impact the average person’s life. In addition, angels are more diverse than venture capitalists.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

Venture capitalists went hard in 2021. Data collected from a number of sources indicates that last year set venture capital records around the world. Today’s startup boom, from a venture capital perspective, is a wide-ranging and incredibly expensive enterprise. A record year ‘round the world.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2021

It’s no surprise that the venture capital market was incredibly active in the United States during the first quarter of 2021, but precisely how strong has only recently become clear. According to a report from PitchBook , venture capitalists unleashed a wave of capital in the first three months of the year.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

And, with that warning, I offer to you, the big stories in the startup and investing ecosystem of 2018, written in ascending order of importance and magnitude…. 6/ Venture Capital In Expansion Phase. Technology is, like water, flowing and seeping into nearly every sector and eventually into most of the global economy.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The venture capital market has skewed later and larger in recent quarters, something you might have felt in the rapid recent pace of new unicorn formation. That number was up from 92 in 2019 and 66 in 2018. Venture capital in Europe during Q4 2020 set a record for dollars invested , some $14.3 So was January.

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DECEMBER 16, 2019

This year we dove headfirst into the rise of corporate venture capital, the changing nature of venture capital education, and the important task of startup ecosystem building. In 2018, we saw this trend reach new heights with more corporate venture capital (CVC) funds than ever.

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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 seed funding The post Feedback Ventures Invests, Elevates Soho.com.au to over $20 million.

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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. This move is expected to reinforce Jungle Ventures’ foothold in the healthcare sector across Southeast Asia and India.

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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. The introduction of these two new funds, each worth $150 million, brings Toyota Ventures’ total assets under management to over $500 million.

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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. At Wayra, we’ve adapted our strategy a number of times to ensure that we evolve as the startup ecosystem does.

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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. How quickly is corporate venture capital investment accelerating?

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Register Blockchain Founders Fund , an early stage Web3 Venture capital fund based in Singapore , has announced the final close of its Fund II at $75 million. Since the fund’s launch in 2018, BFF has had the privilege to partner with some of the most innovative startups in Web3 landscape and has made significant investments.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

Early-stage venture fund New Stack Ventures just raised $42.6 million for its second fund aimed at injecting capital into founders that don’t come from the educational pedigree or location that we typically see with entrepreneurs. NM: From the beginning, the venture capital industry has chronically lacked innovation.

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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. It was a great place to live and work, and I believed that over time, it would be a growing venture opportunity.”.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 20, 2023

Register Southeast Asia-focused venture capital firm Go-Ventures has successfully concluded the final close of its second flagship fund, raising a total of $240 million. As part of the announcement, the company has rebranded itself as Argor Capital Management.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

Conductive Ventures raised a $200 million Fund III to continue its focus on investing in founders where other venture capital firms did not see the potential. You might remember our profile of the firm back in 2018 when it officially launched with a $100 million enterprise fund.

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OurCrowd

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Volvo Group Venture Capital AB has announced a new investment in a leading company in the field of measurable safety for driver assistance and autonomous vehicles. Foretellix Ltd was founded in 2018 by a team of verification and validation pioneers whose mission is to make automated driving systems safe and efficient.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Aramco Ventures, a subsidiary of Saudi Aramco (2222. Bruce Niven, Executive MD, Strategic Venturing at Aramco Ventures, shared his thoughts on the new collaboration. REDEX Group, established in 2018, is one of the early players in the (RECs) sector in Asia.

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StartupNation

APRIL 26, 2021

Smith discuss the 2021 Midwest Venture Showcase , a partnership between the Midwest Growth Capital Symposium (MGCS) and InvestMidwest , which will showcase 57 companies actively seeking funding to an audience of top-tier investors, entrepreneurs, researchers and business executives. The virtual event runs April 27 to 28, 2021.

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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. Andelman : The L.A.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

When Christopher Male’s son was diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in 2018, the long-time investor found himself in unfamiliar territory. “At The fund’s mission is to “revolutionize the status quo for diagnosing treating and living with autism through a venture-capital model.”

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 20, 2015

I think I’m at the expert stage of venture capital and I mean in the Wardley sense. What do I know about venture? April 30th, 2018. the more money you give a startup the faster they grow. The longer I do this the more humbled I become. I’m not totally sure.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 14, 2023

About Stage 2 Capital The first go-to-market venture capital firm, Stage 2 Capital, combines capital and GTM execution expertise, leveraging its elite LP base of 300+ senior executives from unicorns and Fortune 500 firms to help portfolio companies scale revenue and accelerate growth.

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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

AUGUST 5, 2023

.” Sure, one could argue — rightly so — that this deal is a little outside the venture market, considering Flipkart has been majorly owned by Walmart since 2018.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

There’s no question that we are in the middle of a long-running and accelerating venture bull market. The venture alphabet soup of “A, B, C rounds” suggests it’s all the same, just one after the other, but it is not. In fact, the venture bull market affects different stages very differently.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2023

First, a little context: Substack’s first known external capital came in January 2018 via the Y Combinator startup accelerator. Perhaps Substack can grow just fine without venture dollars by Alex Wilhelm originally published on TechCrunch The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

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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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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In 2024, I expect most of these figures to revert to the mean - not the peaks of 2020-2021, but more akin to 2018. The public valuation environment & pace of venture capital investments mirror those years better than others. In almost every category, the time between rounds is also at decade highs.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 2, 2023

Register China has announced the extension of favorable taxation policies for venture capital firms and individual angel investors investing in tech startups. By extending these tax incentives, China aims to encourage more venture capital funding and individual investments in the tech startup sector.

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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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Source Link

APRIL 14, 2021

However, women – and especially minority women – often face institutional and systemic challenges including obtaining funding for their ventures, which can make the climb to the top slower and more difficult. Despite the growth in women-owned businesses, venture capital is still funneled to mostly male-owned businesses.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2022

If you thought that the recent venture capital market was tough, let me tell you about 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020. That means that 2022’s venture capital story has largely been written. With the first week of December under our belts, we’re not too far away from the end of the year.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

IgniteXL Ventures, a fund founded by general partner Claire Chang, closed on its first fund of $10 million aimed at backing diverse early-stage founders in the beauty and wellness industry. Chang formed igniteXL in 2018 and started fundraising over a year ago. Claire Chang, general partner at igniteXL Ventures.

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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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