TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2021

The fourth quarter of 2020 was as busy as you imagined, with super late-stage startups reaching new valuation thresholds at a record pace, and total venture capital funding in the United States recording its second-best result of all time. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The venture capital scene in Africa has consistently grown, with an influx of capital from local and international investors reaching unprecedented heights in recent years. Did African startups raise $496M, $1B or $2B in 2019? It was expected that these figures would increase in 2020. For 2020, the number dropped to $1.43

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Dream It

APRIL 12, 2020

During our recent Dreamit Kickoff week, Bullpen Capital Founder and General Partner Paul Martino ( @ahpah ) spoke with our Spring 2020 cohort about the state of the VC ecosystem in the current economic crisis. Will a financial crisis affect how venture funds deploy capital? Startups should know how VCs work. startup) per month.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

European entrepreneurs who want to launch startups could do worse than Switzerland. According to official estimates, the number of new Swiss startups has skyrocketed by 700% since 1996. Native startups will need 25,000 Swiss Francs to open an LLC and 50,000 more to incorporate. Ten years ago startups were unusual.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2022

India’s Decentro , the Y Combinator-backed startup that helps companies enter the fintech market by deploying its APIs, has raised $4.7 “Whenever a fintech startup or a company wants to launch a new product in the market, it takes them a minimum of a few months to launch. million in a Series A round.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 26, 2021

Did you now that Q4 of 2020 saw the greatest number of startup companies being launched than ever before in our country’s history? To help you figure out what business to start, we’re sharing some incredibly valuable insights from Tomasz Tunguz, director of the Redpoint venture capital firm. Good morning, Paul.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The startup economy is alive and well during the pandemic. USV TEAM POSTS: Albert Wenger — Oct 10, 2020 Innovation Upends Extrapolation: Urbanization. Valuations continue to rise. And exits have been very robust. If this was a student coming home with a report card, it would be straight As.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2020

For all of the investors preaching that augmented reality technology will likely be the successor to the modern smartphone, today, most venture capitalists are still quite wary to back AR plays. Tipatat Chennavasin, The Venture Reality Fund. Brianne Kimmel, Work Life Ventures. Jacob Mullins, Shasta Ventures.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Earlier this week I asked startups to share their Q3 growth metrics and whether they were performing ahead or behind of their yearly goals. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Naturally, the startups that reached out were the companies doing the best. Lots of companies responded. Q3 performance. Q3 performance.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

In February 2020, as the world was shutting down, and as businesses downsized on account of the Covid pandemic, John Kamara was busy establishing another new startup Adanian Labs in Nairobi, Kenya’s capital. And so, swimming against the tides, he set up the venture studio in partnership with co-founders Irene Kiwia and Bendon Murgor.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

As a turbulent week in the capital world, we’re taking a look at something a bit slower moving: venture capital trends in Africa during 2020. The Exchange has long explored quarterly and yearly data regarding the North American , European and Asian venture capital markets , along with data on particular startup categories.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

I edited hundreds of stories in 2020, so choosing my favorites would be an exercise in futility. But, speaking as someone who’s worked at several startups, Extra Crunch stories contain actionable information you can use to build a company and/or look smart in meetings — and that’s worth something. David Eichler, TCV.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

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. Venture funding does remain elusive , but here are some tricks for startup founders to hack the system. hit nearly $1.8

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

New data indicates that startups are laying off more staff. That said, the pace of layoffs is modest compared with the early-2020 economic correction. As COVID locked down many nations for the first time, the global economy shuddered and startups were left to deal with an immensely changed world effectively overnight.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Booz Allen Hamilton, the Virginia-based, defense-focused IT consulting firm, today announced the launch of a corporate venture capital arm, Booz Allen Ventures, that will initially put $100 million toward “strategic” defensive and offensive technologies. In the U.S.,

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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. More than 380 funding deals were made into Austin startups in 2021 , amounting to $4.9

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

Upstart tech companies delivering their product or service via an API raised mammoth amounts of capital during the final year of the 2021-era startup boom. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. The venture group recently compiled the last of its 2022 information , sharing the data with TechCrunch+ ahead of its publication.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

of all venture capital allocated, a figure that stands at 1.9% It has long been a worry that, as the venture market slows, the most marginalized groups would be pushed aside as investors retreat to old networks and deals that feel most familiar to them from the founders they don’t hesitate to trust. Last year, women raised around 2.4%

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2021

Once overlooked, agritech startups are beginning to have a moment in India. Prosus Ventures, formerly known as Naspers Ventures, led Patna and Gurgaon-based startup’s Series C financing round. Agritech startup DeHaat raises $12M to reach more farmers in India.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

based Susa Ventures led this latest tranche of investment. Other investors include TLcom Capital (the sole investor from its $1 million pre-seed round in 2020), newly joined Accenture Ventures and some angel investors. So far, these regulators appear not to be concerned with the activities of API fintech infrastructure startups.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

Wrapping our look at how the venture capital asset class invested in 2020, today we’re taking a peek at Europe’s impressive year, and Asia’s slightly less invigorating set of results. (We’re More money and fewer rounds meant larger rounds, often going to the late and super-late stage startups in the market.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Join a global community of brilliant visionaries, makers and investors on December 16-17 for TC Sessions: Space 2020 , an online conference dedicated to moving beyond the confines of this world through innovative tech and to creating stellar startup opportunities. military and VCs determined to finance pioneering space startups.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

A spate of startups focused on mental health recently made enough noise as a group that they caught the eye of the Equity podcast crew. But in preparation, I reached out to CB Insights for new data on the mental health startup space that they were kind enough to supply. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

The future of technology is determined by a handful of venture capitalists. The world’s 10 leading venture capital firms have, together, invested over $150 billion in technology startups. There is a startling lack of diversity within the venture capital sector. We all live in a world shaped by venture capital.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The Netherlands’ ecosystem has been flourishing; more than $85 million was invested in regional startups in 2019 alone. Plenty of good funding rounds, a highly skilled workforce and a strong entrepreneurial culture have given Amsterdam a booming startup ecosystem. According to a study by KPMG and and NL Times , startups raised $591.2

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Building tech startups takes cash — and lots of it. But when you’re talking space startups, you’re talking galactic-level money. If space is your jam, you’re going to need financial help, and you’ll learn where and how to access it at TC Sessions Space 2020 (December 16-17). Come learn how to join us.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The coronavirus pandemic disproportionately reduced venture capital funding for female founders last year, despite a greater boom in fundraising thanks to megafunds and the advent of Zoom investing. But the gender gap in startup fundraising is closing slightly, new PitchBook data shows. Rising investment in female-founded startups.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

It seems that every internet company and their dog have at least one venture capital (VC) arm under their wing, with the likes of Google Ventures (now GV), Microsoft Ventures (now M12), Salesforce Ventures , Twilio Ventures , and Zoom Ventures all serving their corporate namesakes potential cash cows via hundreds of equity investments.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

Class, an edtech startup that integrates exclusively with Zoom to make remote teaching more elegant, has raised $12.25 The round brings Salesforce Ventures, Sound Ventures and Super Bowl champion Tom Brady onto its capital table. It’s not the only startup that is trying to reinvent Zoom University.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Fintech has been a key startup story in recent quarters, with leading players in the genre raising titanic rounds at eye-popping valuations. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. But, notably, the number of the smaller venture rounds, those marked seed or angel, grew by 20% compared to Q2 2020.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

But there’s one question that many startups and investors are hoping will get answered sooner rather than later: What happens to venture debt? SVB was one of the larger, if not the largest, providers of venture debt to U.S.-based based startups. said Ali Hamed, general partner at Crossbeam. “Our

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2022

On September 28, LinkedIn released its Top Startups list, which is its self-described annual ranking of 50 emerging U.S. Drilling down, I learned that among the seven fintech startups that made the list, there are 125+ open roles. But the Palo Alto–based company was among the startups that was hit very hard by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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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. You’ll learn where and how to access the funds to fuel your dreams and launch your startup. Is your company interested in sponsoring TC Sessions: Space 2020?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Ready to blast off and join thousands of attendees around the world at TC Sessions: Space 2020 on December 16-17? Fast Money — SMC Space Ventures, AFWERX and Space Force Accelerators. Join us for a pitch feedback session open to all startups exhibiting at TC Sessions: Space 2020 moderated by TechCrunch staff.

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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. Then COVID-19 arrived and scrambled the venture and startup scene, creating a risk-off environment during the end of Q1 and the start of Q2 2020. What the data show.

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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. Space expo.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

NextView Ventures, a Boston-based venture capital fund, has raised an $89.6 The NextView Ventures team did not immediately respond to request for comment. The fund, which has offices in New York as well as Boston, invests in consumer and software-as-a-service enterprise startups at the pre-seed and seed stage.

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