TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Without further ado, here are the five judges who will pick the 2021 Startup Battlefield winner: Kirsten Green is the founder and managing partner of Forerunner Ventures, a San Francisco-based VC firm she formed in 2010. She later assumed the role of chief innovation officer through which she oversaw Northwestern Mutual’s venture arm.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2023

It took me a while, but I’m realizing that my startup love language is discussing any attempts to standardize the opaque and often informal world of venture capital. As a nod toward the beginning of this newsletter, ChatGPT could be looked at as yet another way that venture tries to automate itself. Book your pass ASAP! .

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

Serial edtech entrepreneur David Blake, who co-founded Degreed and launched LearnIn, is living the dream of any book worm. He reads at least one book a week, talks to the authors behind it and unpacks his biggest questions around the subtlest of passages. and Pelion Venture Partners?. No boring book clubs.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2021

As we entered 2021, I wrote about the big question on every startup’s mind for 2021: How will a cataclysmic event such as a pandemic show up in post-pandemic innovation? Don’t get me wrong, the gender gap in fundraising continues to be a blaring, embarrassing issue that venture needs to fix. TechCrunch Gift Guide 2021.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Participants in the round included Y Combinator (Deskimo was part of its summer 2021 cohort ), Global Founders Capital, Pioneer Fund, Seed X, Starling Ventures and TSVC. It is also soft launching in Jakarta, bringing its total markets to three, along with Singapore and Hong Kong.

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Revolution

JANUARY 19, 2021

2021: The Great Acceleration of the Rise of the Rest & the End of “Silicon X Syndrome.” But from the back half of 2020 into 2021, we are bearing witness to accelerated adoption and transformational change in industry after industry. Part I) Cities are Like Startups Cities are like startups. And that’s a good thing.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, TripActions was primarily known for merging many aspects of corporate trip booking — flights, hotels and rental cars — with expense tracking. million seed round from Index Ventures with CoinFund and FJ Labs also participating. I covered the company’s February 2021 $110 million Series C raise here.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2021

Tess Hatch, vice president and partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, will join us at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 as a judge for our Startup Battlefield competition. By the way startups, you can still apply now until May 27 to take part in the competition here !

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2021

/Israeli startup, Sorbet — which is tackling what companies do with the financial risks as employees accrue paid time off (PTO) — has raised $6 million in a seed funding round led by Viola Ventures, with participation by Global Founders Capital and Meron Capital. 5 emerging use cases for productivity infrastructure in 2021.

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StartupNation

MARCH 30, 2021

The following is excerpted from the book “Why Startups Fail” by Tom Eisenmann. Copyright © 2021 by Tom Eisenmann. I want to warn you about the challenges that you’ll face when leading an early-stage venture. Used by permission of Currency, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Q-CTRL , a Sydney-based startup that provides quantum control engineering solutions, announced today it has raised a $25 million Series B led by Airbus Ventures with participation from Ridgeline Partners, Main Sequence Ventures, Horizons Ventures, SquarePeg Capital, Sierra Ventures, DCVC, Sequoia Capital China and InQTel. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

Mediahuis Ventures, the VC arm of European media group Mediahuis, led the round with participation also from Raine Ventures, the VC arm of Raine Group (the investment bank that’s overseeing the sale of Chelsea FC), and Evli Growth Partners. Perlego claims that in 2021, it intercepted 2.1

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2022

The bets are no longer just on Wall Street — they’re in your group chats, book clubs and that awkward shuffle that happens when everyone’s trying to get out of the door at the same time at the end of class. The meme stock craze of 2021 highlighted a crucial trend — people want to invest with the conviction of a community behind them.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 25, 2023

The funding round was led by Northstar Group, Alpine Ventures, Patamar Capital and January Capital along with GFC, Money Forward, Alpine Ventures, Patamar Capital and nine angel investors and nine angel investors. Proyek Beta, now operating as Bunker Books, is further expanding its reach in the market.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 30, 2021

I co-wrote this essay with Prabhat Gusain , currently the Chief of Staff at Caffeinated Capital; formerly an intern with Versatile VC ; and a 2021 MBA from UVA Darden. Israel : Elevator Fund , Hanaco , Innovation Endeavors , JANVEST Capital Partners , Pereg Ventures , Team8 , numerous others. Poland : ff Venture Capital.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 1, 2023

The investment round was led by Quest Ventures Asia Fund II, an early-stage venture capital fund managed by Singapore-based Quest Ventures Pte Ltd. This marks Quest Ventures Asia Fund II’s second investment in HOMA2U. In 2021, HOMA2U secured a series of funding amounting to RM2.4

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Mary D'Onofrio is a partner and co-founder of the growth investment practice at Bessemer Venture Partners, where she primarily focuses on cloud software investments. For a $29 million ARR company growing at 100%, a 34x ARR multiple also equates to a 45x current revenue multiple ($22 million of GAAP revenue with midyear booking).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2023

Today, the company announced two new booking tool features, including guaranteed accessibility for hotel rooms booked from its website and a price match offer. We caught up with founders Alvaro Silberstein and Camilo Navarro again after covering their $2 million seed round in 2021.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2022

With another year of venture capital records in the books, it’s time to look forward. Global data was clear: The 2021 venture capital startup investment cycle was record-breaking ; around the world, startups raised more money than ever before, with individual geographies posting all-time hauls. Africa had a killer year.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Though the COVID-19 pandemic almost immediately devasted the business of travel booking startup Headout , the company has been able to return to growth as domestic travel rebounded in recent months. It’s joined by existing investors Nexus Venture Partners, FJ Labs and 500 Startups, among others. Image Credits: Headout users.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

What it does: Decentralized order book for loans. The pitch: Lulo is a DeFi lending infrastructure that aims to utilize order book technology to create a global liquidity layer in a permissionless way. In July 2021 it raised $235 million from General Atlantic and is using the funds to hire developers. Stage: Seed round.

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TechCrunch

JULY 9, 2021

The venture capital market is racing ahead, foot on the gas, middle finger out the window, hair on fire. That’s our read of the Q2 2021 data released thus far concerning how much money venture capitalists deployed around the world during the second three months of the year. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

SignalFire led the round, with participation from new investors Link Ventures and 7WireVentures alongside existing investors Viola Ventures and Picus Capital. The company last raised $5 million in seed funding in early 2021, and the Series A brings its total amount raised to $20 million.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Durable Capital Partners, which led the Series D, Norwest Venture Partners, Citi Ventures and OurCrowd also participated. Referred to as the “Great Resignation,” nearly 20 million people quit their jobs between April and August 2021, according to the U.S. Its members also achieved success, Alon noted, booking more than $1.8

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

When he is not investing, he is busy writing blogs and books. His third book “The Resilient Founder” will be released in 2022. But a challenge came up in 2021 as he was raising the seed round — the venture funding market got white-hot. By all means, 2021 will top this trend. “A More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

million in a seed round led by True Ventures. Existing investors Dream Machine, Debut Capital and Canvas Ventures participated in the round, along with new investors, including Slauson & Co., NextView Ventures and 2PM Inc. Less than a year after launching , Somewhere Good announced this morning that it has raised $3.75

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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

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Also participating is Cherry Ventures, Soravia, Kreos Capital, TruVenturo and Scope Hanson. Germany-based NUMA Group expanded into Spain, Italy, Austria and the Czech Republic in 2021. We achieved 500% revenue growth and 85% booking occupancy despite Corona using our NUMA concept and proprietary technology.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

Today, the company announced $13 million in Series A, led by FUSE, with participation from Sequoia Capital India and existing investors Prime Venture Partners and HubSpot. He is not alone in that thinking; for example, we have reported on other companies announcing new venture capital as they develop similar technologies.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

While books and talks galore have been published on pitching, the reality is that the art of the pitch deck is a constantly changing fashion. Hershenson has been a longtime venture capitalist and has consistently invested at the founding stages of startups. In addition to nabbing a Ph.D.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Co-founder and CEO Ashish Srimal founded Ratio in 2021 with CTO Mason Blake, and they have been heads down ever since working on the company’s concept, which is to help SaaS and technology companies tap into the $1.5 trillion subscription market for recurring revenue.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 3, 2023

Yuval Krigel is an associate at YL Ventures who focuses on deal sourcing, technological due diligence and providing value-add support to the firm’s portfolio companies. After closing the book on 2022 this week, it is safe to say that this optimism was somewhat misguided. Image Credits: YL Ventures (opens in a new window).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

Suppliers using the platform have dashboards to see where their products are being delivered, check key performance indicators and book merchandising. It got into Y Combinator during the accelerator’s summer batch in 2021, the first time for a Namibian startup. JABU operated in stealth mode for much of last year.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

They hang out with friends, they grab books, they figure out where they need to be next, they catch up — and a lot of what happens in Fiveable is that.”. The startup announced today that it has raised a $10 million Series A led by Union Square Ventures, with participation from Owl Ventures and Progression Fund.

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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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