TechCrunch

DECEMBER 24, 2020

But the expected comeuppance of high-burn, high-growth startups fueled by cheap capital provided by venture capitalists raising ever-larger funds , failed to arrive. Venture capital as an asset class has survived the pandemic’s stress test. The American seed market in 2020. Instead, the very opposite came to pass.

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Revolution

JULY 22, 2021

Today, we are pleased to announce our seed investment in Anduin , a software company improving invoicing, accelerating collections, and modernizing payments for owners and executives in professional services, such as accounting. The situation was only amplified during the economic downturn of 2020.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2021

TechCrunch has covered Acceleprise several times over the years, including a look at its mid-2020 accelerator startup batch from its three accelerators. And befitting its new name, the company is now more than merely a collection of software-focused accelerators. The new seed vehicle totals $13.2 Why is it so much bigger?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

The Family co-founder and CEO Alice Zagury announced in a blog post that the French startup accelerator is suing Oussama Ammar for multiple claims — breach of trust, forgery and use of forgery. According to her, other people working for The Family have asked several times to see documents that proved that investments went through.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

We conducted the survey at the tail end of Q3 2020. Respondents in the first group were “not exploring or investing” — in other words, “we don’t care about this right now.” Technologies in the third group, “investing or piloting,” may represent the sweet spot for startups. Virtual reality.

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Revolution

APRIL 6, 2021

By Revolution Ventures Managing Partner David Golden and VP Alex Shtarkman As voracious consumers of podcasting content, we could not be more excited to announce our investment in Indianapolis-based Casted , a company reinventing the traditional digital content marketing playbook. Stay tuned! [1]

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

William Kilmer is managing partner with C5 Capital , a venture capital fund investing in the secure data ecosystem. Just when we thought things couldn’t get worse in 2020, we received the news on the SolarWinds hack and its impact on more than 18,000 businesses and potentially dozens of U.S. William Kilmer. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2021

People have been discussing the importance of expanding opportunities for women in venture capital and startup entrepreneurship for decades. All-female teams have an especially tough time raising capital compared to all-male teams, underscoring the disparity. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. What the data show.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Investment in fintech is surging back following a brief but notable drop during the COVID pandemic. As a result, countries worldwide are seeing a large influx of capital for fintech ventures, and both investment totals and deal counts in the fintech space are increasing rapidly. Singapore’s fintech investment surges forward.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2020

TC Sessions: Space 2020 starts tomorrow, December 16, and we’re here to point out just some of the events, presentations and fireside chats waiting for you on day one. From Space Rock Returns to Financial Returns – An Investor Panel: Some investors spend a lot of their time looking to the stars for the next venture capital opportunity.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Despite the growth in awarded venture capital (VC) funds, a staggering disparity remains between the amount of total VC funds invested in entrepreneurs and the portion of those funds invested in ventures founded and/or led by women—particularly women of color. I am no stranger to this gender gap within the VC space.

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StartupNation

MAY 26, 2021

On today’s Business Beat, Jeff talks about how Michigan leads the nation in the biggest increase in venture capital investing and how venture capital is furthering innovation in our state. Venture capital is the type of capital used to invest in companies, startup companies, and fuel their growth.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

million Series C that Austin-based The Zebra raised in February of 2020. Existing backers Weatherford Capital and Accel also participated in the funding event. Previous backers also include Silverton Partners, Ballast Point Ventures, Daher Capital, Floodgate Fund, The Zebra CEO Keith Melnick, KDT and others. .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

billion in 2020 and is poised to reach $1 trillion by 2026. Consumer interest for this space is also attracting capital. Stein plans to use the capital to expand the company’s team of 30 to be around 40 by the end of 2022. which led Purely Elizabeth’s initial investment. which led Purely Elizabeth’s initial investment.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

But in recent years, corporate docs are being drawn up in English to facilitate communication both inside Switzerland’s various language regions and foreign capital, and investment documentation is modeled after the U.S. Today, pitch competitions, incubators, accelerators, VCs and angel groups proliferate. More than 50%?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Growth Partners with participation from Active Capital and other unnamed investors. Incredibly, prior to the investment, ProsperOps had only raised around $800,000. “This investment allows us to expand the scope of the work we perform for our customers and continue growing our engineering and sales teams.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Venture capital activity in Europe and Asia saw a strong return to form in Q3, data indicates. 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.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

Black Innovation Alliance and Village Capital today announced Resource, a national initiative aimed at boosting the efforts of entrepreneur support organizations (ESOs) led by, and focused on, founders of color. Resource aims to give local accelerators and incubators support in the form of training and community.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

Prior to this round, the company brought in $250 million in Series D funding in May 2020. The new funding will accelerate the rollout of those systems, as well as co-create another 10 supply networks with retail and supply partnerships by the end of the year.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 1, 2021

It helps me invest and advise the companies we are invested in. Like our investing, I will get some of these right and some wrong. As I wrote yesterday , I think the trends that were accelerated in 2020 will not reverse in 2021, although the slope of the adoption curves will likely flatten a fair bit.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

APRIL 1, 2020

April 1, 2020. iMCI), recently led an $11.535 million go-to-market investment in Oklahoma City-based Linear Health Sciences. The investment comes on the heels of continued successes for the Orchid SRV, the company’s flagship medical device designed to reduce accidental IV catheter dislodgement in a novel way. 405) 813-2403.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

Would you like to work with private equity and venture capital funds? There are relatively few jobs directly inside private equity and venture capital funds, and those jobs are highly competitive. However, historically most private equity professionals were former investment bankers and other finance professionals. Thomson One.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

With the new cash, which brings ThreatX’s total raised to $52 million, CEO Gene Fay tells TechCrunch that ThreatX will “accelerate” investments in platform development while scaling sales and marketing initiatives. ThreatX was co-founded in 2014 by Bret Settle and Andrius Useckas.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

Drive Capital, Crosscut Ventures, Bonfire Ventures, Matchstick Ventures and HR Tech Investments LLC, a subsidiary of Recruit Holdings Co., With the latest investment, Minneapolis-based Branch has brought in a total of $58 million in equity funding since its 2015 inception. 7 VCs look into the future of fintech.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

in total capital over five years, after it raised $4.3 million last year from New-York’s Riverside Acceleration Capital (RAC) and a syndicate of Australian investors. billion from 2020 to 2025 , 46% of which will originate from North America. This latest round sees Vivi reach $24.3

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The company grew 15x in 2020, and to keep that momentum going, MilkRun raised $6 million in Series A funding. Spark Capital led the investment and was joined by existing investors Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund, Social Impact Capital and Congruent VC. Hacking lettuce for taste and profit.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2021

NerdWallet is pursuing a traditional IPO, meaning that it will raise primary capital in its public debut. ” The rest will go to running and growing the company, or what lawyers like to call “general corporate purposes, including working capital, operating expenses and capital expenditures.” million in 2020.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 9, 2022

Register Indian AgriTech starup Otipy has recently raised US$32 million in Series B funding round led by WestBridge Capital along with participation from existing investors SIG and Omidyar Network India. About Otipy Founded by Varun Khurana in 2020, Otipy is a part of Crofarm Agriproducts Pvt. million funding.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

As the pandemic took hold in 2020, companies accelerated their move to cloud services. It did not share an exact valuation, only saying that it exceeded $1 billion, which you would expect on such a hefty investment. As for Sutter Hill, investor Mike Speiser sees Lacework as one of his firm’s critical investments.

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HPA

MARCH 21, 2024

HPA is excited to announce our investment in Fuel Me ’s $18M Series A Round , which was co-led by Pritzker Group Venture Capital and Tribeca Venture Partners and includes co-investors Bessemer Venture Partners, Interplay Venture Capital, and FJ Labs. and global energy markets,” said Carlo Passacantando, Founder and CEO.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2021

On Tuesday, DeHaat , an online platform that offers full-stack agricultural services to farmers, said it has raised $30 million in a new financing round as the Indian firm looks to maintain its accelerated growth despite the pandemic. Dexter Capital was the advisor for this funding round.).

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Yates and Hill, based in the Bay Area, launched Promoted in 2020 and were part of Y Combinator’s recent summer cohort. In addition to the accelerator, major investors in the capital infusion include Interlace Ventures and Rebel Fund. We will end up raising additional capital for scaling up the team.”.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

We are also continuing to invest in our route optimization software, which just helps districts get more efficient and greener,” Joanna McFarland, CEO and co-founder, told TechCrunch. “By By reducing overall fleet size, we play a significant role in the overall acceleration of the electrification of the entire yellow bus network.”. “By

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 14, 2023

AnswerGPT will set the bar for how support teams find answers for their customers,” said Stage 2 Capital Co-Founder, Jay Po. Aakrit and Anthony founded AptEdge in 2020 after a successful exit of AppDynamics to Cisco for $4B. By connecting these two worlds, we’re accelerating the clean energy transition.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Nestcoin , a company founded last November that builds, operates, and invests in web3 applications, wants to be pivotal in this transition and has raised $6.45 billion between July 2020 and June 2021, per research by New-York based research firm Chainalysis. A part of the funds will also go into investing in web3 projects.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

The report, which included analysis from McKinsey & Company, says its assertions are backed by an acceleration in strong market fundamentals and the impact of the pandemic. million jobs due to Google’s $1 billion investment in the continent. The continent’s investment story. Image Credits: Crunchbase/Endeavor.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

Savannah Fund , a pan-African venture capital firm, today announced a $25 million fund as it looks to back more early-stage startups on the continent. Some of its well-known investments include South African car subscription company, FlexClub; Kenyan on-demand logistics company, Sendy; and Nigerian fintech company, Lidya.

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