TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

He is a 2021 MBA from UVA Darden. Yet, for every public intervention that spurs entrepreneurial activity, there are many failed efforts that waste untold billions in taxpayer dollars … [The book] reveals the common flaws undermining far too many programs ? Prabhat Gusain. Contributor. Share on Twitter. David Teten. Contributor.

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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. The main driver for me to go into music was reading a book called ‘Empire State of Mind’ about Jay-Z,” Mr. Eazi told TechCrunch on a call. “I

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

TechCrunch has been covering the demo days of the seed-stage venture firm Pear VC since 2015. For example, Mark Suster of Upfront Ventures and Kirsten Green of Forerunner Ventures helped advise Pear’s newest batch of companies. The pitch: Spathios says it’s a marketplace to book short-term venues and spaces.

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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. from a year earlier, and brought in more than $6 billion in revenue, more than $542 million the revenue generated in 2021. It has now moved to Poland and set up the office there.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

After creating COVID screening solutions in 2020 and expanding their partnerships, DocNetwork announced a new partnership with Daxko in 2021 that allows for seamless integrations with YMCA and JCC platforms. EverActive has won multiple awards, including a recent 2021 IDEA Innovation Award. Apply now to DocNetwork. RightBrain Networks.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

Mural still had most of its previous round on its books, Sachdev said. According to the Insight MD, the startup has retained strong levels of efficiency as it has scaled, venture-speak for an ability to rapidly expand revenues while not similarly boosting the pace at which cash is consumed. So, it didn’t. The list goes on.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

Launched in 1987, the company provides hundreds of transportation and hospitality providers with inventory management and booking services. With plans to raise a $25 million fund and more than $15 million already invested, PsyMed Ventures focuses on early-stage startups developing psychedelic therapeutics.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

Image Credits: HUSSLUP Unlike the majority of professions, there’s no rule book for how to get a career in entertainment. million seed round, led by f7 Ventures and Fuel Capital, with additional funding from Ulu Ventures, Gaingels and 360 Venture Collective. In December 2022, HUSSLUP raised a $2.5

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2022

I faced a similar situation in late 2021. It was unclear how much this would impact VC investments, as many of the top firms were, and are still, holding significant dry powder on their books. The initial signs were the significant drops in public company valuations, with some previous high flyers losing 60%-70% of their value.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

“As the venture landscape becomes more a meritocratic environment where resumes and institutional affiliations matter less, these strategies can make the difference between a successful fundraise and a fruitless meeting,” says Agya Ventures co-founder Kunal Lunawat. Image Credits: Nigel Sussman (opens in a new window).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Founded in : 2021. Founded in : 2021. Abdigani Diriye, Khalid Keenan and Youcef Oudjidane, the other co-founders, have combined experience across engineering, investment banking and venture capital. Founded in : 2021. Founded in : 2021. beU delivery. Website : [link]. Team size : 300. Website : [link].

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

OMERS Ventures and Stage 2 Capital co-led the investment, which included participation from existing backers Alate Partners and Metaprop. It’s also aimed at helping organizations remain in compliance with new lease accounting guidelines that were effective for public companies in 2021 and will impact private companies this year.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Jonathan Metrick, chief growth officer, Portage Ventures. — TechCrunch (@TechCrunch) November 16, 2021. The company has had an interesting trajectory: venture-backed, it “has struggled as a public concern” since its 2020 IPO, reports Alex Wilhelm. Tracey Wallace, director of marketing, MarketerHire. PT / 6 p.m.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Testimonial: “Fifth Star Funds (our fund) is a venture philanthropy fund focused on closing the funding gap for Black founders, at the family and friends round. TechCrunch+) As Apple messes with attribution, what does growth marketing look like in 2021?”: Danny walks through a recap of his panel at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

The report first highlights the growth of venture capital on the continent over the past six years; within this period, investments in African startups have grown 18x. From 2020 to 2021, it grew 2x faster than global startup funding, it said. million jobs due to Google’s $1 billion investment in the continent.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2022

All of 2021, we spoke about the power pendulum shifting toward employees, spearheaded by the Great Resignation. Here are the best books that TechCrunch read this year. 6 extremely online books to gift your most internet-obsessed friends. Don’t wait — book your Founder Pass today for just $75 with this link!

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 19, 2023

In mid-2021, the Web3 industry experienced the hottest period of the DeFi Summer, with the daily trading volume of DeFi protocols reaching 850,000 users, 140 times more than a year ago. . I’ve just never agreed with that,” Paul says, a statement it’s hard to believe comes from a Web3 entrepreneur. Paul sees “Web2.5”

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 22, 2023

It then went beyond music to trade all kinds of NFTs on its platform, gaining popularity in 2021 with its news-making ‘Fried Chicken’ NFT (the startup even once dubbed itself the ‘Taobao of NFTs’). This article is part of a partnership with Cherubic Ventures. “We were frantically looking for contacts.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 5, 2022

But as fellow fintech enthusiast Jason Mikula pointed out last weekend, the fintech has struggled to build a meaningful loan book by lending to its customers and has been quickly spending the $510 million it raised in a Series E last September. In February 2021, corporate spend startup Brex was the latest fintech to apply for a bank charter.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

But for Amazon, revenue from its fast-growing AWS business is allowing the company to experiment, invest and venture into new areas that will bolster its core e-commerce offering, report Ron Miller and Alex Wilhelm. But they don’t rely on YouTube: they also write books, make paid appearances, and offer group and private instruction.

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2021

Almost half of all Americans play mobile games, so Alex reviewed Jam City’s investor deck, a transcript of the investor presentation call and a press release to see how it stacks up against Zynga, which “has done great in recent quarters, including posting record revenue and bookings in the first three months of 2021.”

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 6, 2021

As friends, they quickly sensed the potential for partnership, and in 2010 joined forces and merged their groups to build what is now a nationally-recognized angel network, Launchpad Venture Group. The 2021 honorees have been invaluable contributors to the angel and ACA communities. Christopher serves on the U.S.

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 22, 2023

OurCrowd has an allocation in CropX’s Series C round led by Aliaxis Ventures. Freightos: Record transactions and bookings in 2022 2022 was a banner year for our portfolio company Freightos. This brought the total freight transactions booked in 2022 to 668K, a 154% increase compared to 2021.

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OurCrowd

MAY 7, 2021

Israel’s tech ecosystem is heading for 100% yearly growth in 2021 – something unprecedented anywhere. The booming Israeli tech investment scene and the economy in general seem to be impervious to the country’s political deadlock, with four general elections in the past two years. Top Tech News. “The

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Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Maybe it will be 2019, or 2020 — or even 2021. USV’s Albert Wenger has been writing his book, World After Capital , which lays out the argument that money is no longer the scarce asset driving the economy, but rather, it’s attention. Yet, I keep wondering, that even in some downturn, both the U.S. (on

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 28, 2022

McMaster, leading SpaceTech venture investor Mark Boggett of Seraphim Capital, Steve Kitay, Senior Director of Azure Space at Microsoft, Adam Kaplan, CEO of Edgybees and Raz Itzhaki, Founder and CEO of NSLComm. in 2021 – more than a third of the record $25.6B Read the OurCrowd High-Tech Jobs Index Q3 2021 HERE.

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

OurCrowd is joining a pre-revenue up to $12M round led by State of Mind Ventures. The general partner of AME Cloud Ventures is now focused on cloud and FinTech investing. “If Freightos boosts Qatar Airways Cargo online bookings. Read the OurCrowd High-Tech Jobs Index Q3 2021 HERE. Learn More. Click HERE for details.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

JANUARY 29, 2021

Looking for some good ideas for 2021 from our group!”. These were viewed and attended by over 500 ventures globally. We have the zero-sum mentality Brad Feld speaks of in his recent book in spades. A Pandemic Playbook for 2021. It will take time to shift to a more positive-sum mentality.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Life lessons from a venture visionary. Only two other companies are aiming at backyard deliveries with this end-to-end capability: Amazon’s Prime Air, which serves only Amazon, and Alphabet’s (Google) Wing, currently focused on medical supplies and library books. Life lessons from a venture visionary. Sniffing out Covid-19.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 25, 2022

the blockchain [is] simply changing one word: any entity exchanging value with any other entities in a frictionless way”— Ken Seiff , Managing Partner at Blockchange Ventures on The Pomp Podcast 2. Kevin Rose ( @kevinrose ): partner at VC firm True Ventures , host of the Modern Finance and Proof podcasts. including one of my friends.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2021

recipient, her first book, " How to Build a Goddamn Empire ," comes out in April 2021. In 2020, venture capitalists unceremoniously broke up with D2C brands and product-based businesses. Many product-based brands, as it turns out, are no longer interested in chasing venture capital. Share on Twitter. A Forbes 30 Under 30?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

Then, in 2021, Morrison left Calgary for Halifax, Nova Scotia, back east. In January 2021, Prince Edward Island-based ScreenScape Networks was acquired by Spectrio for an undisclosed fee, then Halifax-based storytelling platform Wattpad was acquired by Naver in a deal worth $600 million. venture capital. billion in cash.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

At the same time, the distractions of daily life can easily impinge on the “deep work” many need to get done when working on something important, like writing a book, or launching a company for instance. At the same time, they might look for a space that can also inspire their work and mindset.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

YC has a catalog of the entire Winter 2021 batch here (minus those that haven’t publicly launched), filterable by industry and region. During their pitch, co-founder Soy Hwang said Blushh wants to do for sexual wellness what “Spotify and Audible did for music and audio books.” Want to see all of the companies?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

Whether it’s bundling bookings, payments or just trip planning, startups are selling these mobility-as-a-service (MaaS) offerings as a lifeline to make transit agencies the backbone of urban mobility. Third-party platforms have become more appealing to transit agencies as they scramble to keep buses, trains and rail full of customers.

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

2021 Ez-Probate Inc. As the book world’s leading platform for exclusive access to sneak peeks, advance previews, and special giveaways, we live our mission every day and give readers a chance to See It First. Lenoss Medical Lenoss Medical Inc. provides the first natural, cement-free solution to treat osteoporotic spinal fractures.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

Cardify told TechCrunch that after peaking at around +70% in the March-April timeframe, “average booking sizes have now normalized and are approximately 30% higher on a YTD basis.”. The dataset concerned accommodation booking volume around the world for a number of travel services, including Airbnb. Various and Sundry.

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