TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

I edited hundreds of stories in 2020, so choosing my favorites would be an exercise in futility. The VCs who founders love the most. Managing Editor Danny Crichton spearheaded the development of The TechCrunch List earlier this year to help seed-stage founders connect with VCs who write first checks. on Sunday, Dec.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

We recently invested in a team of co-founders who had voluntarily made their own vesting longer than four years. Their answer: “These days, with companies taking seven to 10 years to reach exit, it would make sense for founders to be on a similar schedule.” Sometimes it damages their startup irreparably.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

We’re just about two weeks away from launching TC Sessions: Space 2020 , our first focused foray into early-stage space startups and the essential satellite industries that support them. Here are five stellar reasons to attend TC Sessions: Space 2020. Fast Money for your startup. We’ll go you four better.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” Whether you’re in people ops, a founder or seeking a job in Silicon Valley, I would love to answer your questions in my next column.”. Sophie Alcorn.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Fundraising has never been easy, what are investors looking for in 2020? Created by DocSend It’s clear that 2020 has thrown a wrench in the gears of startup fundraising; conferences are canceled, meetings are virtual and spontaneous, in-person investor/founder meet-and-greets are almost completely nonexistent.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Regardless, the data set that came together felt worthy of sharing for its specificity and breadth — and so other startup founders can learn from how some of their peer group are performing. Bank digitization, O’Malley says, which has “been forced to happen rapidly and dramatically” in 2020.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2021

Fortunately, that didn’t happen, and he kept on climbing and gaining skills and single-handedly founded his own company, one which has reached Series B and raised $33 million, a significant amount of money for any startup, but particularly for a startup run by a Black founder.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

The Future Africa Fund kicked off in 2015 when Iyinoluwa Aboyeji and Nadayar Enegesi , co-founders of US-based and African-focused talent company Andela, wrote checks to African startups as angel investors. In January 2020, the pair made the fund official, with Aboyeji as general partner and Enegesi as limited partner.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

Edtech needs to reach beyond underfunded public school systems to become more sustainable, which is why more investors and founders are focusing on lifelong learning. Jan Lynn-Matern , founder and partner, Emerge Education (a leading edtech seed fund in Europe with portfolio companies like Aula, Unibuddy and BibliU).

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 10, 2019

We’re excited to announce the next iteration of Startup School. The 8-week course will launch on January 20, 2020, and you can sign up to participate here ! We were floored by the quality (and quantity) of founders who participated in Startup School 2019. Startup School 2019 stats: 41,777 founders participated.

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Since the beginning of modern venture capital investing — a relatively nascent asset class — the industry has been biased toward funding what it knows best: founders with familiar demographics (white, male) in familiar geographies (Silicon Valley). One event held by a few investors focused on Black founders is clearly not enough.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Public investors in 2020 also seem to have a deeper appreciation for the current revenue numbers and future growth opportunities for tech companies. The VC and founder winners in Airbnb’s IPO (EC). Wish files to go public with 100M monthly actives, $1.75B in 2020 revenue thus far. Will Zoom Apps be the next hot startup platform?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2021

What every startup founder should know about exits. A TechCrunch story captured the investment perspective, and an SOSV post went deeper into the companies’ category breakdown and founder profiles. But what can founders learn from the list about climate tech investors? Share on Twitter. Benjamin Joffe is a partner at HAX.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Sesie Bonsi is the founder and CEO of Bleu , a financial technology platform focused on enabling touchless payment experiences. But most venture-backed startups are “still overwhelmingly white, male, Ivy-League-educated and based in Silicon Valley,” according to a study conducted by RateMyInvestor and Diversity VC. Sesie Bonsi.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The latest Crunchbase numbers show that Black founders raised $187 million in Q3, a staggering decline from the nearly $1.1 Black founders raised just 0.12% of the $150.9 Within that, Black women raised 49% of all the capital allocated to Black founders in Q3, according to Crunchbase, pacing the number at around $91.63

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Late registration tickets are still available as are discounts for groups , students , active military/government employees and for early-stage space startup founders who want to give their startup extra visibility. Is your company interested in sponsoring TC Sessions: Space 2020?

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Jason Malki

APRIL 19, 2023

I had the pleasure of interviewing Mick Kalle Mickelborg, the founder of Wisdm and a computer scientist and technology entrepreneur at heart. At the age of 21, he started his first startup with his family, GOALS, aiming to help primarily young individuals set goals and achieve them. What motivated you to launch your startup?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 17, 2020

The four-year vesting schedule that the typical startup uses today is a problem waiting to happen. If one founder ends up quitting a year or two before the last cliff, they still own a large share of the cap table through many rounds to come. Most repeat founders I’ve talked to agree that four years is too short. How can I stay?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2023

Engineers at Polymath Robotics were working late Wednesday night on multiple projects when co-founder and CEO Stefan Seltz-Axmacher noticed chatter about Silicon Valley Bank in a YC founder WhatsApp group. Seltz-Axmacher, as well as hundreds of other founders, couldn’t have predicted what would transpire over the next 36 hours.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2021

Education, support and sage advice are arguably as essential to startup success as fundraising. Find all that — and connect with your early-founder community — at TC Early Stage 2021. Early-bird pricing: We offer two pass levels — Founder and Innovator. Plus, don’t miss the sweet discount when you buy a ticket for both events.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” Dear Sophie: Can founders get visas in 2021 through DACA or other means? What were the biggest immigration changes in 2020 affecting us?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2021

Foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley has announced that he is stepping back from his full-time role at the company. During the first seven years of the company, he was the startup’s Chief Executive Officer. He’ll remain on the Board of Directors as co-chair with Factual founder Gil Elbaz. Foursquare merges with Factual.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

In late 2020, a group of Stanford students banded together to create Stanford 2020, a venture fund solely to invest in their fellow classmates’ ventures. Given the school’s past in spinning out successful startup founders, it unsurprisingly had no trouble raising $1.5 During a downturn, the pitch seems more risky.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Founders must prepare for a lengthy economic downturn, a slower sales pipeline, extended fundraising timelines and a deeply disrupted workplace — circumstances no one was planning for at the start of 2020. What makes founders essential when fortifying a startup against unpredictable risks? Why founders matter.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The report, titled Europe and Israel’s Startup Founder Factories , was produced by VC firm Accel with heavy support from startup and VC data platform Dealroom. Unicorn founder factories: Cohort distribution Image Credits: Dealroom / Accel. Even failure isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Methodology. On location.

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Y Combinator

MARCH 30, 2021

We’ve been talking about the unique challenges facing women founders for years, but the pandemic was particularly hard for women looking to start their own companies. Last year, during Y Combinator’s Future Founders Conference , a16z’s Sonal Chokshi led a conversation on “Leveling the Playing Field” with Anu Hariharan, YC Continuity Partner.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 13, 2020

Alex starts off his post with this assertion: 2019 was the year when VCs and startup founders soured on paid acquisition. I am not sure if that is true, but if it is, it suggests a dramatic change in the startup playbook. Back in 2011, I wrote: He said “every company needs a marketing budget.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2023

As part of a memorandum of understanding that Microsoft has signed with the Indian Space Research Organization, the firm will also provide space tech startups with go-to-market support and help them become enterprise ready, it said. Indian space tech startups are having a moment.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Mike Myer is CEO and founder of Quiq , a startup building a new customer service platform that allows customers to interact with companies via text messaging as easily as they would with their friends. In 20 years of working for startups, I’ve never seen as many plot twists and turns as I have in the last several months.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

As 2020 fades into the rearview mirror of history (huzzah!), it’s time to map out strategies to transform your early-stage startup dream into reality. If there’s one thing every early founder needs it’s information, and you’ll find it in abundance at TechCrunch Early Stage 2021. I recommend going to Early Stage.

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 18, 2023

Today we’re excited to show you the reimagined YC Library — a new hub for the best videos, talks, essays, and more that Y Combinator creates for startup founders. Want all of the knowledge-packed Startup School videos we released last year? They're in there.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

We live in a world with a stereotypical representation of what a startup founder looks like, so it’s no wonder that a large portion of the population feels underrepresented. A Gender Gap Grader study shows that women represent 9 percent of developers in the startup ecosystem. Myth 1: Startup founders are young .

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

As the name implies, the new fund will focus on investing in women, as well as other historically excluded founders “of all ages, life stages, ethnicities and sexual orientations,” the company says. “Peanut’s StartHER fund opens the door to founders looking for that early funding.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

How did fashion marketplace Poshmark go from posting regular losses in 2019 to generating net income in 2020? CoinMarketCap reports that crypto market values have reached almost $659 billion; that figure was just $140 billion in March 2020. 2020 was a disaster, but the pandemic put security in the spotlight.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

Andreessen Horowitz’s recent hire of former Jordan Park Group Chief Investment Officer Michel Del Buono suggests the venture capital firm is getting into startup founder wealth management. Iconiq is managing over $80 billion , up from $23 billion in 2020, and its client list includes Mark Zuckerberg , Sheryl Sandberg and Jack Dorsey.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 26, 2023

Founded in 2020 by Ashutosh Shukla and Sandesh Shetty, Explico focuses on assessment using artificial intelligence and machine learning to help students identify their specific strengths and weaknesses to design a unique learning modular based on their individual needs.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2023

Sweden-based VC fund Pale Blue Dot bounced onto the scene in 2020 with a €53 million fund to help climate-focused startups. This one is valued at €93 million (approximately $101 million at today’s valuation), with the same thesis in mind: to support climate tech-oriented startups. Your investor has an investment thesis.

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