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. Matt Murphy and Grace Ge, Menlo Ventures Which trends are you most excited about in construction robotics from an investing perspective? Is the market under-heated, overheated or just right?

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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. A CHF 1-2 million Series A or a CHF 5 million Series B investment is common. Ten years ago startups were unusual.

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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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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 8, 2025

An analysis of their investment patterns since 2020 doesn’t just reveal the accelerator’s strategy—it provides a map to the entire startup ecosystem’s next chapter. Crypto/web3 remains around 5% of investments. Cybersecurity and industrial/manufacturing are the two fastest growing categories.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 5, 2020

This year’s IWD falls on 8 March, 2020, and its focus is #eachforequality, which recognizes that equality is not a women’s issue—rather, it’s an economic issue. Venture funds would be crazy not to examine this possibility and in turn, invest heavily in women-led businesses. The Point 7 team.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 18, 2022

Between February 2020 and February 2022 in the US alone, the unemployment rate barely shifted from 5.7 Even for companies that have made great progress in diversifying their organizations, there is real risk of reverting to a former homogenous status quo, unless hiring strategies evolve. million to 6.3 million, respectively.

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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. New research looking into how U.K. population.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Whether it’s securing investment capital, marketing a concept, recruiting new talent or leaning on peers for support and advice, having a solid network can seriously work to your benefit. If there’s one thing we’ve learned in 2020, it’s that you really can’t be overprepared. Change your strategy. A passion for connection.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 18, 2021

I feel fortunate to have attended three high-level learning opportunities through EO: I attended EO with Harvard Business School Executive Education : Inspiring Entrepreneurial Strategy, with 95 other members from around the globe to develop groundbreaking strategies and skills in analyzing industry evolution that helped our businesses grow.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

If nothing else, the 2020 pandemic has shown everybody—particularly business owners and entrepreneurs—the value of being prepared and ready to pivot. We asked members of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization what they would have done differently knowing what they know now. . Andrea Grisdale, founder and CEO at IC Bellagio.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Their heightened interest is reflected not just in their demand for ESG reports but also in surging investment volumes. Data from the Global Sustainable Investment Alliance highlights a staggering 605% increase in Sustainably-Themed Investing in 2020 compared to 2016.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

“For a very long time, startups in New Zealand had been crying out for capital,” said Imche Fourie, co-founder and CEO of Outset Ventures, a deep tech incubator in Auckland that invests in seed and pre-seed science and engineering companies. Despite the pandemic, venture and early-stage investment in New Zealand is reaching record highs.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

billion in investments in the past two years alone. For example, when major airlines were bombarded with cancellation requests at the onset of the pandemic, RPA became essential to their customer service strategy. Gartner inquiries related to RPA increased over 1,000% during 2020 as companies continue to invest.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 7, 2021

We were in a growth year in 2020, with the most trips we had ever sold, excited about the new travelers we would meet. But in early March 2020, they were not yet common. On March 18, 2020 we launched our first virtual, interactive cooking class with my friend, Alain, who lives in Pistoia, Italy. Our revenue stopped.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 2, 2021

In 2020, innovators and investors were forced to stand still, and witness cracks, fractures and rubble in society in a way like never before. Blackboard Business Strategy Concept. EarlyBird’s new app lets families and friends ‘gift’ investments to children. The 2020 boom in climate tech SPACs.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The transaction announced Tuesday is part of a complex deal that includes Uber investing $75 million into Joby and an expanded partnership between the two companies. The $75 million investment comes in addition to a previously undisclosed $50 million investment made as part of Joby’s Series C financing round in January 2020 , Uber said.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

In January 2020, the pair made the fund official, with Aboyeji as general partner and Enegesi as limited partner. Simultaneously , they announced that the fund had invested $1.5 The idea for a syndicate fund would come in the following months as the pandemic disrupted investment activities worldwide.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

But two months into 2020, the pandemic did an excellent job of lowering expectations as investment activities from local and international investors slowed down. Venture capital investment in Africa predicted to reach a record high this year. It wasn’t a bad year, though. African startups nearly raised $1.5 billion and $2.8

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

For Greg Isenberg , a growth advisor to TikTok and former head of strategy at WeWork, entrepreneur homes are a signal of what the foreseeable future of building could look like. Michael Houck , a former product manager at Airbnb and Uber, rented a home in Tulum, Mexico in May 2020. — (@rocketshiphouse) October 13, 2020.

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 15, 2024

The four co-founders are continuing to pass major milestones with an acquisition strategy and timely funding since its launch in 2017 Drivers’ parking experiences around the country are now being enhanced through artificial intelligence, enabling them to readily come and go without checking out. The financing included $1.05

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Levin joined Heartcore Capital in 2019 from Global Founders Capital, the billion-dollar VC arm of Rocket Internet, where he was responsible for investments in Canva, Heyjobs, Instarem, Anyfin and others. Adopt a “hire slow, fire fast” mentality for your expansion strategy. Their websites in 2020 show starkly different outcomes.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2022

The seed round follows a $620,000 angel and pre-seed round BCM raised between 2016 and 2020, bringing its total funding to over $2.9 TC Insights , a data analytics consulting service, works on research, data and industry strategy on different projects. Last year, only $115 million was invested in digital media startups in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The latest funding gives the company $160 million in total investments, Carlos Altschul, N!CK’S Its direct-to-consumer business launched in 2020 and has remained at the top of the DTC ice cream delivery space since July, Altschul said. Between 2020 and 2021, N!CK’S CK’S CEO North America, told TechCrunch.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 16, 2021

from 2020 results of 8.5%. As income is slowly rising again, general retailers are making significant investments in their supply chains to ensure they have enough products to fulfill their customer’s demands. Once identified, you can replicate the strategy in other key sites and gain a greater understanding of your visitors.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

However, historically most private equity professionals were former investment bankers and other finance professionals. A BCG study of 121 investments found that operational improvement drives 48% of value creation in PE-backed companies. We discuss below all of the different ways you can work with the investment community.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 7, 2022

After the collective trauma that was 2020 and 2021, many of us are feeling burnt out, both creatively and mentally. You don’t have to ask for permission from a spouse or partner to make an investment in your business because your business money is not mixed up with personal money. Have you dreamed of starting a creative business?

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 12, 2020

USV has invested in the education sector for a bit more than ten years. We have focused on “direct to learner” businesses and have mostly avoided investing in companies that sell to the established education system. And yet this portfolio will generate close to a half a billion dollars of revenue in 2020.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The broad-brush goals for the strategy are to increase growth in startup investments; attract and retain talent; promote scalability; and inject innovation into the public sector so it can bolster and support Spain’s digital development. So it will be something of a milestone. Basically we have a set of internal objectives.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 30, 2020

percent in 2020, recent U.S. Census data shows that 67,160 applications were filed to set up new companies in the last week of May 2020. They offer better investment opportunities. That’s because, contrary to what you might think, recessions can be a good time to start a business or a side hustle.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Over the past couple of years, there’s been an overlap between tech and art, fueling a growing interest of movie, music and sports stars investing in tech startups. What’s pulling African music artists to tech investment? Europe and globally. . based and Africa-focused mobile payments company through Zagadat Capital.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

The two-year-old VC fund invests in B2B and API-first fintechs across Africa, Latin America and South Asia at pre-seed and seed stages. Rali_cap was first a collective before a fund, Hayden Simmons , the general partner who launched the firm in 2020, told TechCrunch in an interview. About 40% are based in the U.S.,

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StartupNation

JANUARY 6, 2021

billion (in 2020), up 32.4% How might you create a prolific content strategy which resonates with your audience at a higher level? Just as with Google and Pinterest, your content can still be found years after posting, so get creative and look for ways to include YouTube in your ongoing promotion strategy. year-over-year.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2022

In fact, the more a founder can push the questions back to the investor in a way that gives a better understanding of their business and investment strategy, the easier the rest of the conversation will be.”. “To ensure a timely process, you must be armed with a complete and bulletproof case for investing in your company. .”

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StartupNation

JANUARY 16, 2022

While sharing informative content can be an effective part of any branding strategy, some entrepreneurs have designed an entire business around it. . 2020’s canceled weddings, events, and vacations birthed new ways to manage special events and travel. . Tips, tricks, and reviews . Event and travel planning changes shape.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

In 2020, Glassdoor came out with a list of the top 25 U.S. In 2020, they were named one of the Best Places to Work in Financial Technology 2020, and the TAG FinTech ADVANCE program recognized Autobooks as one of the most innovative U.S. Guardhat is the maker of smart safety gear for workers, and they had a pretty big 2020.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

The funding proceeds from the new round will be used for further global expansion, business diversification, R&D, investment in advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning technology and recruiting team talent. in September and October 2020, respectively. million MAUs in 2020 and finally increased to 14.2

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

As of 2020, the clothing sector lost about $27 billion in annual sales due to counterfeits, an illicit trade that results in huge losses to both brands and buyers. DST Global Partners and Atinum Investment led the latest funding along with its existing backers SoftBank Ventures, Bass Investment and Y Combinator.

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