TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

This is a fantastic time to found a startup, but unless you plan to bootstrap it, you will still need to go through the laborious exercise of crafting a pitch deck. According to Jose Cayasso, CEO and co-founder of pitch deck design agency Slidebean, there are five slides where pretty much all founders miss the mark : Go-to-market.

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StartupNation

APRIL 26, 2021

Smith discuss the 2021 Midwest Venture Showcase , a partnership between the Midwest Growth Capital Symposium (MGCS) and InvestMidwest , which will showcase 57 companies actively seeking funding to an audience of top-tier investors, entrepreneurs, researchers and business executives. for the WJR Business Beat. Absolutely.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

When robotic process automation company UiPath filed to go public in March 2021, the startup had just closed a $750 million round that helped it clinch a $35 billion valuation. Pitch deck pro tips from a leading Silicon Valley venture capitalist. ” Pitch deck pro tips from a leading Silicon Valley venture capitalist.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

I’ll be talking to more venture capitalists and angel investors in the coming weeks, so watch this space. How to pitch me: 4 VCs share what they’re looking for in March 2022. Dive deep into Snorkel.AI’s pitch technique that raised $135m. Dive deep into Snorkel.AI’s pitch technique that raised $135m.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

On a recent episode of Extra Crunch Live , Retail Zipline founder Melissa Wong and Emergence Capital investor Lotti Siniscalco joined Managing Editor Jordan Crook to walk attendees through Zipline’s Series A deck. She was one of the few or maybe the only CEO who ever stood up to pitch the entire team,” said Siniscalco.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Data indicate that the pace of startup value creation reached a fever pitch in 2021. According to venture capital data collected by PitchBook , prices spiked for startup equity across the maturity spectrum last year. Larger venture capital funds are also a driving force behind the pricing dynamics uncovered by the data.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

Less than 2% of venture capital funding went to all-female founding teams in 2021, marking a five-year low, new data from Pitchbook shows. So how is it that despite the recent boom in startup funding, the venture capital industry is actually becoming an even tougher place for women to raise money?

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

Year over year, fintech startups received 46% less funding than in Q2 2021, yet the sector still received almost 20% of all VC dollars. In the first six months of 2021, PitchBook reported that U.S.-based based venture capital firms raised $74.1 You may need more than one pitch deck. That amount rose to $121.5

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Early-stage investments are way down in 2023. What you need to do if you want investment. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook »

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2022

From the hottest year in startup venture capital history to a period of pessimism, how did we get to where we are today? The era of ultra-rich software valuations could be behind us (December 2021). Just how much has late-stage venture capital slowed? Seed rounds have declined around 5%from Q4 2021 to Q1 2022.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 21, 2021

They are found across all industries and are useful for entrepreneurs who are beyond the seed stages of financing but are not yet ready to seek out venture capital. Perfect your pitch. Once you have an investor’s attention, a sales pitch is your chance to clinch the deal. Peer-to-peer lenders. Updated Nov.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

What to expect while fundraising in 2021. For most, that’s as far as entrepreneurship ever goes, because, unfortunately, a great idea can’t raise money, develop a product or disrupt an industry. Do not pass go — VCs insist pitch decks meet 3 key criteria. What Q2 fundraising data tells us about the rest of 2020.

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StartupNation

APRIL 5, 2021

of venture capital funding ? The application deadline for this program is April 16, 2021. Starting in September 2021, Black-owned businesses harmed by the pandemic can apply to receive one of up to 300 grants of $5,000. Interested entrepreneurs can find more information here about applying to upcoming cycles.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

Benoit Wirz , partner, Brighteye Ventures (an active edtech-focused venture capital fund in Europe that backs YouSchool, Lightneer and Aula). Charles Birnbaum , partner, Bessemer Venture Partners (a generalist fund with portfolio companies including Guild Education and Brightwheel).

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

“What you want as an entrepreneur is funders nodding in agreement with your pitch before you even have a chance to finish it,” write Fingert and Foster. Your startup pitch deck needs an operating plan. ” Your startup pitch deck needs an operating plan. . Since housing accounts for as much as 18% of the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2022

It’s not your imagination: After a deluge, it has stopped raining venture capital. According to CB Insights’ State of Venture Q2 2022 Report, global venture funding decreased by 23% quarter over quarter, the second-largest drop in a decade. Pitch Deck Teardown: Forethought’s $65M Series C deck.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2021

What to expect while fundraising in 2021. Within that time frame, you are pitching your heart out to multiple investors and ideally setting a number of meetings, either virtual or in-person. You’re also busy building and constantly tweaking your narrative (and pitch deck) and managing each of those meetings and the necessary followup.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

It’s hard to pin down where Shein is from,” answered Richard Xu from Grand View Capital, a Chinese venture capital firm. Fletcher joined TechCrunch at a virtual TC Sessions: Mobility 2021 event to discuss what it’s like to launch a slew of startups under the umbrella of a 113-year-old automaker.

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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. billion across 412 deals in 2021, more than double the amount of capital invested in 2020, according to PitchBook data. Today, Austin is more than just the capital of Texas. VCs invested over $5.5

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TechCrunch

JULY 5, 2022

Most startups were overvalued before 2021, and now it’s causing problems. In the first five months of 2022, crowdfunding platforms raised more than $215 million, a slight increase from $200 million during the same interval in 2021. Without a clear ask, your pitch deck is useless. Thanks very much for reading, Walter Thompson.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

“We were at this trajectory as a company where we had a semblance of product-market fit,” said Bapu, reflecting on the summer of 2021. The entire episode is available below, along with a portion of DeepScribe’s Series A pitch deck. “We had proven our product.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 16, 2021

During a seed-funding round, a founder needs to convince a venture capital investor on a vision. Founder and investor Melissa Bradley outlines how to nail your virtual pitch meeting. Melissa Bradley is the co-founder of a startup called Ureeka, an investor at 1863 Ventures and a professor at Georgetown’s business school.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

How to kick the 10 worst startup habits with Fuel Capital’s Leah Solivan. Fuel Capital General Partner Leah Solivan joined us at TechCrunch Early Stage 2021 to explain how to avoid early mistakes in building your startup. Image Credits: MaC Venture Capital. Image Credits: Meg Messina. Image Credits: Ureeka.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

Unless you’re a former CIO who already has a clear understanding of the decision-making process, you can only fall back on basic best practices that usually result in a generic sales pitch: “How do you do, fellow CIOs?” Corporations are scrambling to get into the venture game. Just how wrong were those SPAC projections?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 6, 2022

Gumroad’s Sahil Lavingia broke into the venture world as one of the early testers of the rolling fund, an AngelList product that allows investors to raise capital on a subscription-like basis. The number of pitches from founders looking to raise. That was in 2020. Fast-forward to 2022 and a lot has changed. One of those changes?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

Pitch Deck Teardown: Encore’s $3M seed deck. Cloud-based software development platform Encore shared the pitch deck its founders used to raise a $3 million seed round with TechCrunch+. Pitch Deck Teardown: Encore’s $3M seed deck. billion in May 2021, reports Jacquelyn Melinek. billion from $2.23

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In the first half of 2021, global venture funding shattered the previous six-month record — set in the second half of 2020 — by more than $100 billion. In venture capital, perception is important — and seeming desperate is not a good look! Rahul Vohra. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Mercedes Bent, partner, Lightspeed Venture Partners. Jai Das, co-founder, president and partner, Sapphire Ventures. To make things as clear as possible, we asked each respondent to share their elevator pitch: How would they describe the technology if they were trying to convince a skeptic to invest? yourprotagonist.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2021

After listening to others pitch me a few different job opportunities while still at Google in 2008, it became clear to me that I would make a better decision if I could fully explore the larger landscape of new companies emerging in Silicon Valley. Copyright © 2021 by Sukhinder Singh Cassidy. More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2021

On a recent episode of Extra Crunch Live , Bain Capital Ventures’ Matt Harris said that if you had asked him a year ago what would happen to venture capital during a pandemic lockdown, he would have replied “it would have fallen off a cliff.”

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 7, 2021

We’re set to kick-off STARTUP SUMMIT in a little less than 24 hours so grab your seat today to get to know Fred and the other speakers to help you better understand what VC’s are looking for in 2021, write emails that get responses to people you admire and want to collaborate with, and what to look for (and watch out for) when growing out your team.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

A VC shares 5 things no one told you about pitching VCs. The pandemic failed to slow the momentum of venture capitalists pouring money into startups, but Chicago stands out as an “outlying benefactor of accelerating venture capital activity and the rise of remote investing,” Alex Wilhelm and Anna Heim write for The Exchange.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

VCs are bullish on European innovation : Continuing our look into the deep tech in Europe , venture investors remain optimistic about where the continent is heading. As we noted previously, deep tech investment in Europe had a very strong 2021. A headless, cloth unicorn : Fabric, which builds APIs for e-commerce, is now a unicorn.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

Since then, many of the key trends and themes we surfaced have come to pass: Airtable clinched an $11 billion valuation in December 2021 after raising a $735 million Series F with help from Salesforce Ventures and Michael Dell’s MSD Capital. Zendesk is doing very well: in 2021, revenue increased 30% year-over-year.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

Raising the right amount of capital after a correction. Twitter Space: “How to Pitch Me,” with Mayfield Partners’ Arvind Gupta. ET, I’m hosting a Twitter Space with Mayfield Partner Arvind Gupta to discuss pitch strategies and techniques for early-stage founders. This afternoon at 2:30 p.m. PT/5:30 p.m.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

For YC Summer 2021 Demo Day, the accelerator’s fourth virtual gathering, Natasha Mascarenhas, Alex Wilhelm, Devin Coldewey, Lucas Matney and Greg Kumparak selected 14 favorites from the first day of one of the world’s top pitch competitions. Our favorite startups from YC’s Summer 21 Demo Day, Part 1.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

How contrarian hires and a pitch deck started Nubank’s $30 billion fintech empire. How contrarian hires and a pitch deck started Nubank’s $30 billion fintech empire. million in a Series A round led by Khosla Ventures. Thanks very much for reading Extra Crunch! Walter Thompson. Senior Editor, TechCrunch. yourprotagonist.

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