American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

But progress is being made as seen in the rising number of women-led venture funds that focus on funding women entrepreneurs. In addition, Crunchbase reports that w omen-founded venture firms in the U.S. venture firms allocated only 22% of their deals to female-founded startups. billion of total venture capital.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

Raising venture capital is rarely an easy lift for startups, but 2022 is turning out to be a more challenging year than we’ve seen for some time. As venture capital continues its slowdown after an aggressive 2020 and record-breaking 2021 , it’s clear that early-stage founders looking for their first dollars will require a new approach.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 3, 2021

In the wake of the murder of George Floyd and nationwide protests, venture capital firms are making newfound commitments to invest in, or at least evaluate, potential investments that are led by diverse founders. ” It is important to note in this statement that this is not just a moral imperative, but an economic one, as well.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

OCTOBER 15, 2020

I wrote yesterday , about the quarterly numbers for VC investing activity: If this was a student coming home with a report card, it would be straight As. I have not seen the data to back that up but if it is true, that is also a failing grade for the VC sector. It feels like positive change is happening.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

New Zealand, a country of just under 5 million people, has historically flown under the radar of venture capitalism. Despite the pandemic, venture and early-stage investment in New Zealand is reaching record highs. In 2020, VC investments totaled NZD $127.2 billion, from Q1 2020 to Q4 2021.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

He leads the group’s venture capital fund, Seedstars International, which invests in seed-stage startups across emerging markets. Even after the unprecedented year that we had in 2020, the VC markets picked up in 2021 and founders raised 157% more capital in the second quarter of 2021 compared to the previous year. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

The dynamics that play into this forecast, aside from the impact of COVID, include a youthful population (the youngest globally), rising smartphone adoption and internet penetration that has led to a burgeoning tech ecosystem backed by local and international VC dollars. million jobs due to Google’s $1 billion investment in the continent.

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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

DECEMBER 19, 2022

For Black founders, who have rarely received more than 1% of total venture capital invested in startups, 2022 wasn’t kind, and 2023 doesn’t look promising given how things are going. 3 Black founders predict little will change in VC in 2023 by Dominic-Madori Davis originally published on TechCrunch.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Via TechCrunch by Arman Tabatabai: Venture capital has been flooding the various subverticals under the robotics umbrella in recent years, and the construction space is one of the largest beneficiaries. 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.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Two years ago, the African tech ecosystem saw newfound attention from global players that translated to the continent’s best year of receiving venture capital. But two months into 2020, the pandemic did an excellent job of lowering expectations as investment activities from local and international investors slowed down.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2022

However, for all their effort and importance to the tech ecosystem, raising significant venture capital seemed elusive to startups in Africa’s digital media landscape that rely on grants and personal funding to scale. million in seed funding to expand its audience and build new verticals.

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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. Now, two years later, the leader of that club, Steph Mui, is trying to replicate that playbook in the form of a venture-backed startup, and solo entrepreneurship.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic might have upended the global economy, but according to Meagan Crawford at Spacefund and Chris Moran with Lockheed Martin Ventures, it didn’t dampen investment in space startups. Crawford and Moran both agreed that interest and investment in space will increase as more startups have successful exits.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 31, 2023

Register Indonesian digital bank Superbank , supported by Grab, Singtel, and Emtek Group, is collaborating with Singapore’s Genesis Alternative Ventures to offer a financing package of $40 million for startups in Indonesia. Genesis recently closed an $80 million fund, heralding it as the region’s pioneering venture debt fund.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

Brett Calhoun Contributor Share on Twitter Brett Calhoun is the managing director and general partner at Redbud VC. Amid these turbulent times, the VC accelerator industry has emerged as a stalwart player. Amid these turbulent times, the VC accelerator industry has emerged as a stalwart player. growth from 2020 to 2021.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

Rali_cap , an early-stage venture capital firm focused on emerging markets fintech, has launched a $30 million fund. Last month, the firm, formerly known as Rally Cap Ventures, reached its first close of $20 million (its initial target) before increasing the fund size, signaling a strong LP appetite.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

billion in the same period of 2020. That is 226% growth in 2020 thus far… How high-quality is DoorDash’s revenue? In the first three quarters of 2019, the company had gross margins of 39.9%, and in the same period of 2020 the figure rose to 53.1%, a huge improvement for the consumer consumable delivery confab. TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

is the latest startup to grab some venture capital dollars as the travel industry gets back on its feet amid the global pandemic. Starta VC led the round and was joined by Liqvest.com, Mission Gate and a group of individual investors like Bas Godska, general partner at Acrobator Ventures. YouTravel.Me Today YouTravel.Me

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2022

This is quite an impressive figure for an offering only launched in November 2020 and goes to show how ubiquitous Pix has become in the country. Brazilian instant payment system Pix ended 2021 having powered more than 8 billion transactions, according to statistics from the country’s Central Bank.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Before Jay-Z (Shawn Carter) co-founded Marcy Ventures in 2018, he was involved with other businesses such as the legacy entertainment company Roc Nation and champagne brand Armand de Brignac. According to him, powering artists and people in the creative space should be done in a startup/VC manner.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2022

The astonishingly fast raise was led by previous lead investor Insight Partners, and comes just weeks after the New York-based venture capital firm raised over $20 billion for its twelfth flagship fund. Island, founded in 2020, created a security-focused browser for enterprise users based on Chromium.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Other investors involved in the round include Partech, Picus Capital, Tencent Exploration, Africa Healthcare Master Fund, P1 Ventures, Laerdal Million Lives Fund and M3 Inc. This investment is coming two years after the company’s $6 million Series A in January 2020.

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Hunter Walk

DECEMBER 11, 2023

I *think* Daniel and I met at a VC happy hour many years ago. Originally backed by venture capital, in 2021 Daniel worked with TPG , a large private equity firm, to make them the majority investor. Originally backed by venture capital, in 2021 Daniel worked with TPG , a large private equity firm, to make them the majority investor.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Here’s one key response, from Brianne Kimmel of Work Life Ventures, on Extra Crunch : Most investors I chat with seem to be long-term bullish on AR, but are reticent to invest in an explicitly AR-focused startup today. Announcing the agenda for TC Sessions: Space 2020. Rocket Lab’s Peter Beck is coming to TC Sessions: Space 2020.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Michigan is now the state with the highest growth in VC investment. million seed round , led by Hyde Park Venture Partners with participation from Whitecap Venture Partners, DVP, Grand Ventures and ID Ventures. In 2020, TIME listed Guardhat’s smart hat as one of the best inventions of the year. FutureBank.

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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. Their websites in 2020 show starkly different outcomes. Image Credits: Homejoy/Helpling. Where should you internationalize?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2020

This latest tranche of funding is being co-led by new investor Eurazeo Growth and Dawn Capital, with PayPal Ventures, HMI Capital, Heartcore, ABN AMRO Ventures, Poste Italiane and BNP Paribas’ venture arm, Opera Tech Ventures, also participating. Rapyd remains VC-backed and was last valued at $1.3

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Linda Greub Contributor Share on Twitter Linda Greub is the co-founder and managing partner of Avestria Ventures. When most people think of venture capitalists, they often think of investors, the people writing checks to fund startups. But that image is only one part of venture capital.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Austin made headlines in 2021 for being “the place” for startup founders and venture capitalists alike to set up shop. VCs invested over $5.5 billion across 412 deals in 2021, more than double the amount of capital invested in 2020, according to PitchBook data. And the numbers are there to back it up.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 24, 2021

This week, Bill Taranto, president of Merck’s Global Health Innovation Fund, wrote a TechCrunch+ article that explored six digital health trends his corporate VC fund is tracking as we enter 2022. billion in VC, “dwarfing the previous record of $14.6 billion set in 2020,” writes Taranto. Capital is a commodity.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

raised more money from venture capitalists in 2021 than ever. But according to data from PitchBook, less than 2% of VC funding went to all-women-founded teams in 2021. On the bright side, founding teams counting both women and men as members raised 17% of VC investments in Africa in 2021. Women-founded companies in the U.S.

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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. The plan is to reduce venture flight which has become prevalent in the ecosystem in recent times. CcHub Syndicate, on the other hand , launched in December 2020. million across 19 African companies.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

Startups and VC. AM Ventures raised $100 million for industrial 3D printing , writes Haje. AM Ventures raised $100 million for industrial 3D printing , writes Haje. And Valkyrie looks to raise $30 million for its new crypto VC arm , Anita writes. In 2020, the U.S. Also, a bunch of new funds announced again today.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

But as ventures as an asset class grows and the documentation around raises gets thornier, the data can sometimes be missing a big chunk of what’s actually happening on the scenes. How African startups raised investments in 2020. 3 adtech and martech VCs see major opportunities in privacy and compliance. Seen on Extra Crunch.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

billion between July 2020 and June 2021, per research by New-York based research firm Chainalysis. The Connecticut-based venture capital and holding company has over 60 crypto and blockchain subsidiaries and investments across 30 countries, including LUNO, CoinDesk and Bitso. million pre-seed to that end.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Ukraine’s startup ecosystem was thriving before the war and making great progress, with Ukrainian startups raising $832 Million in VC funding in 2021. VC Funding was steadily growing before the war and there are more than 50 VC firms continuing to operating in the country. Secured seed finding from SMRK VC.

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