TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

From varying sources, it is estimated up to $2 billion went into African tech startups in 2019. In the end, information from the likes of Maxime Bayen and Briter Bridges made 2019 numbers look like child’s play. In Africa, the first two unicorns were Jumia (in 2016) and fintech giant Interswitch (in 2019).

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Here’s what I said: In your career in tech and VC, how has your focus on ESG responsibility changed over time? Numerous thoughtful people are worried about how technological disruption will destroy jobs. The classical economist response is that technological disruption also creates new jobs, e.g., “video game designer”.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

This morning , Alex Wilhelm examined Q4 VC totals for Europe, which had its lowest deal count since Q1 2019, despite a record $14.3 Asia’s VC industry, which saw $25.2 That’s 2020 VC around the world in a nutshell.” ” How VCs invested in Asia and Europe in 2020. billion in investments.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 18, 2021

(co-written with Stephane Nasser , co-founder of OpenVC , an open-source initiative to collect and analyze all VC theses.). VCs love to talk investment theses: on Twitter, Medium, Clubhouse, at conferences. 36 theses pulled directly from US VC websites by David Teten and Sam Sabin , co-founder, Hireblue. . Technical founders .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

Toni Eliasz is the program manager of the Disruptive Technologies for Development Program (DT4D) that supports the innovation and adoption of technology-driven solutions in World Bank Group operations. Toni Eliasz. Contributor. Share on Twitter. A glimpse into Singapore’s current startup ecosystem.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 18, 2021

(co-written with Stephane Nasser , co-founder of OpenVC , an open-source initiative to collect and analyze all VC theses.). VCs love to talk investment theses: on Twitter, Medium, Clubhouse, at conferences. 36 theses pulled directly from US VC websites by David Teten and Sam Sabin , co-founder, Hireblue. . Technical founders .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

million in a Series A round led by Silicon Valley VC firm Ribbit Capital. Kaszek Ventures, QED Investors and Greenoaks Capital also participated in the financing, which brings the startup’s total raised to $36.7 million since its 2019 inception. Meanwhile, the number of new small businesses in the country continues to grow.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Here’s what I said: In your career in tech and VC, how has your focus on ESG responsibility changed over time? Numerous thoughtful people are worried about how technological disruption will destroy jobs. The classical economist response is that technological disruption also creates new jobs, e.g., “video game designer”.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

2021 saw phenomenal returns for our industry and it topped off more than a decade of unprecedented VC growth. The Upfront VII and Growth teams are made up of 10 partners: 6 leading investment activities & 4 supporting portfolio companies including Talent, Marketing, Finance & Operations.

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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

OCTOBER 12, 2022

If you’re joining us at Disrupt next week, here’s an incentive for turning up early — we’re recording our podcasts live onstage, and you can be in the audience ! Startups and VC. Back in 2019, Microsoft launched Dapr, an open source project that aimed to make it easier for developers to build microservices on top of Kubernetes.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

A-round venture capital firms will almost certainly make it a requirement that they get a board seat upon financing. Further, if you don’t trust that VC to serve on your board then why would you take money from them in the first place? This is the norm and unless you have a hugely competitive round it’s not worth fighting. Not really.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

The idea for a syndicate fund would come in the following months as the pandemic disrupted investment activities worldwide. In 2019, Nigeria accounted for more than 53% of the diaspora remittances to the African continent. Simultaneously , they announced that the fund had invested $1.5 million across 19 African companies.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

Merchants also struggle to access finance to perform cross-border trade in the continent. In 2019, Membere-Otaji finally launched the company with CTO Tobi Amusan after securing a $100,000 pre-seed investment from Oui Capital , a pan-African VC firm. In Africa, chartering vessels and processing ocean freight can be challenging.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

The influence of logistical operations on products leads to various problems for operators, from inconsistent pricing, which stems from a fragmented supply and demand market, to paper documentation and little or no access to financing. Google’s Africa Investment Fund makes first investment in Uganda’s SafeBoda.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

In March 2019, SoftBank Group International made headlines when it announced the SoftBank Innovation Fund, which started out with a $2 billion commitment to invest in tech startups in Latin America. He joined the investment team of Redpoint eVentures, a LatAm-based early-stage VC fund, in June 2014. A lot has changed since then.

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2021

The financing brings the total raised for the St. A large group of investors participated in the round, including Concrete Rose VC, Avanta Ventures, Kapor Capital, Samsung Next, Massive, Backstage Capital, Awesome People Ventures, Draft Ventures, Matchstick Ventures, M25, Silicon Valley Bank and Uncommon VC, among others.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

Then in 2019, the state of technology was such that Li and co-founders Daniel Chen and Jeremy Huang could create data extraction capabilities through the use of artificial intelligence-driven software. Joining Credit Suisse in the Series A were existing investors Nexus Venture Partners, Uncorrelated Ventures and Hack VC.

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TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2023

The circumstances around his departure remain fuzzy, but one source speculated that tension arose between Ackerson and Fin founding partner Logan Allin over some of the goings-on at alternative financing startup Pipe last year. More details here. government. surge in revenue to $285.7

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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. Since its launch in January 2019, the startup has slowly been expanding its marketplace geographically.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

In 2019, InstaDeep raised an $8.5 Tunisia, due to its inhibiting government policies, is an unfriendly place to operate any startup or access venture capital — excluding InstaDeep, Tunisian startups raised $17 million last year, according to a report by VC firm Partech. That was crazy.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

Embedded finance — where financial services companies and others bring in different kinds of fintech technology by way of APIs to enhance their own offerings with more data and functionality — remains a growing opportunity, both to help fuel new business and to help incumbents get up to speed with their disruptors.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

If you read Reid Hoffman’s important book, “ Blitzscaling ” you’ll realize that in some markets that are large, global and being disruptive sometimes being first to global scale can be more important than short-term unit economics. Having ridden some of the future models I can tell you they are nothing short of stunning.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

He launched Volpe in 2019 primarily with SoftBank’s backing. We like sectors that are prone for disruption in Latin America and that require local customization,” Maciel said. Given the stage of the vc/growth industry in Latin America, we believe it is better to be a generalist.”. Reider formerly invested at Warburg Pincus.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

From an investor’s perspective, 2022 witnessed a sudden market reversal from an extreme equity seller’s market to an equity buyer’s market, causing dislocations throughout angel, VC, and startup ecosystems. It is unclear if VCs will agree to these terms, but LPs believe they now have more leverage. Smaller VC fundraises?

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Angel Capital Association

AUGUST 13, 2021

THE ORIGIN I was the Founder & CEO of InboxDollars from 2000 to 2019. Our Leadership Team started noticing something interesting around 2010: many of our customers were VC-backed startups. In 2019, InboxDollars was acquired by Prodege, LLC , parent company of Swagbucks, MyPoints, ShopAtHome and Upromise. and Canada.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Besides my experience, I read and talk about diversity in tech every day, so when I was offered a chance to speak to three founders from underrepresented groups at TechCrunch Disrupt, I was eager for the opportunity. It’s easier to raise and harder to spend these days, because there’s such a high demand for talent,” Dua said.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

At Qumra, we get excited about companies that disrupt traditional industries while doing good and improving quality of life. Our portfolio includes some great examples such as Fiverr that has disrupted the labor market by unlocking the global talent pool, or Talkspace, which is providing access to therapy to all. More than 50%?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2021

Seraphim Capital, a space-focused VC firm whose most relevant venture is probably synthetic aperture satellite startup Iceye, matched the grant funds, and with subsequent grant the total money raised is in excess of the $5M target (the extra is set aside in a convertible note). . ” They’re going to need every penny.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

In 2019, 2TM Group became the first company in the world to tokenize public debt assets. Crypto is taking advantage of this trend, which is also on display for other asset classes, such as VC and private equity,” Dagnoni said. SoftBank has been active in Latin America as of late.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

That was three times more than the association recorded in fiscal year 2019. Mauricio and I had this bold vision of backing as many disruptive entrepreneurs as we could, and leveraging our previous backgrounds and experiences.”. Venture capital continues to flow into Latin America at a staggering rate.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Last November, we surveyed 13 of the top robotics-focused VCs to find out which areas of robotics are exciting them most going into 2020. In 2019 alone, the robotics space saw roughly 600 venture-backed fundraising rounds, while construction companies successfully raised roughly 200 venture rounds.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

If you’re a founder who finds yourself in a meeting with a VC, try to remember two things: You’re the smartest person in the room. A VC shares 5 things no one told you about pitching VCs. More recently, the number of technology companies listed in the country has swelled to at least 16, up from just four in 2019.”.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 10, 2023

The drop off rate depends on each fund’s specific selection and rejection criteria, brand, team size, deal flow quality, volume, and the stage in a VC fund’s life cycle. Or are they just going through the motions to please a VC? One good way to do it is to write an investment memo from the perspective of the VC you’re pitching.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

The Series B round of funding is being led by Draper Esprit, with Earlybird, Gapminder Ventures, Launchub and OTB Ventures (which all participated in its Series A in December 2019 ) also participating. There are other backers in the round that are not being disclosed at this time, the startup added.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2021

co-led the round, with 20VC, Reinventure, Tidal Ventures, APEX Capital and Mantis (the VC fund started by music act The Chainsmokers) also participating. ” The year was 2019, and the timing turned out to be fortuitous. That traction has also caught the attention of some high-profile investors.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Michigan is now the state with the highest growth in VC investment. They were founded in 2020 and have solid VC backing, recently raising $2 million, raising their total funding to $4.4 Formerly PrivacyCheck, Hush is a VC-backed digital privacy startup founded by Detroit boomerang Mykolas Rambus. Apply now to Rivet.

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