Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

2021 saw phenomenal returns for our industry and it topped off more than a decade of unprecedented VC growth. Since 2021, Upfront returned more than $600 million to LPs and returned more than $1 billion since 2018. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

For Part 1 on The Equity Seller’s Bubble of 2021, click here to access the ACA Data Insights Archive. Major capital market disruptions often bring a “VC Reset,” as venture firms rethink fundamentals, often pressured to do so by limited partners. 2 A (temporary) venture capital reset? From VCs to Investment Advisors… and back again?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

In December 2021, a vulnerability in a widely used logging library that had gone unfixed since 2013 caused a full-blown security meltdown. . Boston-based AppMap , going through TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield this week, wants to stop this bad code from ever making it into production.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Koa is one of 20 companies competing for $100,000 and the Disrupt cup in this week’s TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield competition. But Koa still sees an opportunity because banks are generally a less popular savings destination for an average Kenyan evident in the aforementioned stats. Image Credits: Koa.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2021

Still, new opportunities are popping up in remote work, psychedelics and wellness. This offer is only available to readers in Europe and expires on April 30, 2021. What are some overlooked opportunities right now? How should investors in other cities think about the overall investment climate and opportunities in your city?

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The $11 million round announced today follows the $6 million Series A round in 2021, which was led by Pearl Abyss Capital, Storm Venture, Big Basin Capital, and Smilegate Investment. Provided as a SaaS model, CLASSUM enables active communication and engagement from participants.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

That, in turn, boosted the pet industry itself, with the market’s value increasing from $90 billion in 2018 to over $120 billion in 2021. Our brand is very disruptive on the shelf, and so we believe that retail is important in our discovery. Of that, $50 billion was spent in the U.S. on food and treats.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

From our Extra Crunch Live Pitch-offs all the way up to the world-famous Disrupt Startup Battlefield, we can’t get enough of ’em. The Extreme Tech Challenge 2021 Global Finals: Startup Pitches Part 1. The Extreme Tech Challenge 2021 Global Finals: Startup Pitches Part 2. Going Green. Networking.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2023

At the time, custom-built solutions were the trend, and — according to Romero — he and his friend had the opportunity to build an asset allocation software for a mutual fund company. In 2021, the firm bought Altus, a U.K.-based billion from 2012 to 2021. That software formed the basis for Equisoft.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

designed to equip entrepreneurs of color with tools and resources to enable them to accelerate growth and maximize impact. is further closing the opportunity gap that exists for Black and Latinx social entrepreneurs by elevating, co-creating with and funding entrepreneurs creating change in their communities.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

The funding comes just months after São Paulo-based Mercado Bitcoin’s Series A round (of an undisclosed amount) in January of 2021, which was co-led by G2D/GP Investments and Parallax Ventures, with participation from HS Investimentos , Gear Ventures, Évora and Genial. JPMorgan and DealMake. Image Credits: Mercado Bitcoin.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Bhettay wasn’t planning to raise additional funds so soon after the Series B, but said accelerated growth in the business enabled the company to hire more, check off more of the to-do list items over the past eight months and provided a unique opportunity to lean in on partnerships and expand financial plans.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

We saw a huge opportunity to support immigrants,” Canals told TechCrunch. “We We both believe in the value of immigrants and how financial access empowers them to power opportunities.”. In addition, the company closed out 2021 with 15,000 active clients and annual deferred revenue of $25 million.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Its users in Thailand have grown from 17 million in early 2021 to 20 million as of now, while the transactions of its online payment use case surged over 75%, Thamavaranukupt said. Ascend Money provides a financial platform of opportunity for those financially excluded as well as SMEs around the region.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

It has now become a materials innovation company disrupting how clothes are made. It is enabling people to contribute to the possibility that their children will enjoy the lives that they did and making them feel good about it? — ?through Most of what we wear on our bodies today is made from plastic. This needs to change. And it will.

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OurCrowd

MAY 7, 2021

Top investment opportunities. Treedom, based in Italy, enables consumers and corporations to plant trees and track their environmental impact with the click of a button. By financing small agroforestry projects, Treedom provides income opportunities for local farming communities in 17 countries. Register Here. Top Tech News.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

With COVID-19 disrupting the entire manufacturing supply chain including semiconductor shortages, companies across multiple industries have been struggling to seek a procurement solution that can rebalance the gap between supply and demand. CADDi had 102 employees as of March 2021. billion (that is 1 trillion YEN) by 2030, Kato said.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

In 2015, Rehmann teamed up with his longtime business partner Steve Moran to explore Lake Victoria and perform some feasibility studies on how they could use technology to disrupt the country’s cold chain markets. They concluded that a unique opportunity to rebuild the fish value chain from scratch existed. billion fish deficit.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 26, 2021

Israeli Energy-Tech All Stars Insight and opportunities for new OurCrowd investors. market cap, ~25X forecast 2021 revenues, has focused attention on plant-based milk. Ripple projects 40% YoY revenue growth in 2021 and its gross margins are improving. The event will take place on Tuesday, June 29th, 2021, at 18:00 (GMT +3).

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

OnLoop aims to bring some joy into the process by enabling information-gathering to happen behind the scenes and be easier for hybrid workforces. The platform was in private beta since January 2021, and after a successful run with 25 companies, OnLoop raised $5.5

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OurCrowd

JUNE 20, 2021

Three of those companies are already in the OurCrowd portfolio and we are pleased to offer investors the chance to participate as we join this $35M Round E led by GSR Capital, enabling VisIC to scale its business to address a huge global market. A rare opportunity to hear from three leaders of the digital retail revolution.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Alice Deng and Lawrence Murata were working at artificial intelligence companies when they found inspiration from their respective family’s businesses to create Slope , which enables businesses an easy way to offer buy now, pay later services. Slope, how it works. Image Credits: Slope.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

While searching for remote locks that would enable him to unlock it after someone bought the grill, he came up short. There are lots of opportunities where we can take this, such as food pick-up, medication delivery or unattended pick-ups.”. An inventor by nature — he holds 70 U.S.

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

2021 Ez-Probate Inc. Ignitepost IgnitePOST is a service that enables sales & marketing teams to boost conversion rates by 15X. 2017 Relativity6 AI for Insurance Advisers, Brokers and Agents helps enable your sales and accounts teams to service and retain clients smarter. Lenoss Medical Lenoss Medical Inc. management.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2022

By the time you’re reading this, we’ll be two days away from TechCrunch Disrupt! Anyway…speaking of Disrupt and Brex, I will be interviewing co-founder and co-CEO Henrique Dubugras and Anu Hariharan, managing director of YC’s growth fund, YC Continuity, live in a Fireside Chat on October 19! Hello, hello. Soooo exciting!

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

Last week, Paystand — a blockchain-enabled B2B payments startup — announced it had acquired Mexican fintech Yaydoo — creating a new unicorn in the resulting new entity. The company has raised over $86 million over its lifetime and counts NewView Capital and SoftBank’s SB Opportunity Fund among its backers. and Mexico. and Mexico.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

In Latin America, the business of trolling threatens Twitter’s disruptive power. Then, in 2021, Morrison left Calgary for Halifax, Nova Scotia, back east. Bird also pointed out that the Atlantic time zones are ideal, enabling effective communications with Europe as well as the rest of North America. billion in cash.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Just over $15 billion went into startups in 2021 , according to LAVCA. As a result, the firm is positioned to provide what the entrepreneurs need, and with SoftBank and other growth equity funds coming into the region, it has opened up an opportunity to start investing at the Series A level.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Wynn started the company in January 2021 with his co-founder Praveen Chekuri after working together at Instacart. Ascend is offering point-of-sale financing to enable insurance brokers to break up those commercial payments into monthly installments. They want all of their money up front so they can invest it. Ascend app.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

But the company will end 2021 with revenues close to 2x its pre-pandemic peak, in spite of continued low interest rates, reduced travel, and depressed pandemic spending. As of February 2021, Gambling Block was being used by 275,000 customers and was blocking nearly 600,000 transactions per month. (2) This did not happen by magic.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

Decipad , a no-code startup that’s aiming to disrupt spreadsheets with accessible tools that empower people to play around with numbers, has nabbed $5 million in seed funding. The startup, which was founded in January 2021, is offering a beta version of the product currently but says it expects to launch more fully in a few months.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Top investment opportunities. She included our culinary startup in her Favorite Things 2021 gift list. Summit Week will be packed as ever with corporate meetups, VC forums, insider access to accelerators and labs, touring opportunities, and legendary partying. Startup of the Week: Bionaut micro-robot inside the brain.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

Headroom , a startup developing AI-powered software to make meetings ostensibly more efficient, today announced that it raised $9 million in funding led by Equal Opportunity Ventures with participation from Gradient Ventures, LDV Capital, AME Cloud Ventures, and Morado Ventures. The momentum isn’t slowing down.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2021

Opontia was founded by co-CEOs Philip Johnston and Manfred Meyer in March 2021. “We started Opontia to enable e-commerce entrepreneurs to realize the full potential of their brands. E-commerce roll-ups are the next wave of disruption in consumer packaged goods. Both regions present Opontia with a huge opportunity.

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 1, 2021

The innovators behind the advanced optical spectrometer ‘SCiO’ are disrupting AgTech yet again by introducing two new products that will further the company’s mission to optimize farming methods and improve crop quality and yield. Israeli cybersecurity companies broke fundraising records in the first half of 2021, posting $3.4B

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OurCrowd

JULY 11, 2021

This investment opportunity is closing soon. To secure your participation in this fast-growing company, please click below to sign documents and fund your investment before July 16th, 2021. A small allocation still remains via OurCrowd. Learn More. Watch the full interview here and read the story here. Learn More.

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

Smart said that group revenue in 2022 was £67 million, up 65% increase compared to 2021. This investment is strong recognition of Smart’s success and journey to date, and highlights the immense opportunity that lies ahead. It also claims to have £5.5

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