TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2022

European and North American edtech startups see funding triple in 2021. Pre-pandemic, VCs were notoriously reluctant to invest in education-related companies. Today, edtech startups are seeing higher average deal sizes, more seed and pre-seed funding from non-VC investors, and an influx of generalists.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

In conversation with reporter Taylor Hatmaker, Rubin said NFTs show that individuals can benefit from Web3 adoption, while decentralized finance and cryptocurrency trading are more commercialized forms. Which form of venture debt should your startup go for? “And that’s, I think, the simplest way, the shortest way I can explain it.”.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Founders who manage to raise more VC funds end up having a greater value stake in their company when the time comes to IPO, according to statistical research. The learning curve is steep; you’re not just studying VC as an industry, but the individual investors themselves. But the opposite is also true.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

” Peanut argues there’s inherent bias in assuming that every startup founder has access to what are, essentially, wealthy friends or family who can spare a little startup capital. Despite gains, gender diversity in VC funding struggled in 2020.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2021

Clearbanc, a Toronto-based fintech startup that gives non-dilutive financing to businesses, has rebranded alongside a $100 million financing that valued it at $2 billion. Now rebranded as Clearco, the startup wants to be more than just a capital provider, but a services provider, too. European VC soars in Q1.

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2021

Upsie , a consumer warranty startup, has raised $18.2 The financing brings the total raised for the St. Paul, Minnesota-based startup to $25 million since its 2015 inception. Bethea’s background is not the same as a “typical” startup founder, which also was viewed as an advantage by True Ventures. “He

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

Hailing from around the United States and the globe, founders will pitch on the main stage, for four minutes, followed by an intense Q&A with our expert panel of judges. “Yoon has been a Venture Investor and strategic partner to many Silicon Valley startups/founders for 18 years prior to Muirwoods.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2022

On March 25, PitchBook released its 2021 Annual Fintech Report , which found that the fintech industry raised $121.6 billion last year — up 153% year-over-year in terms of global VC deal value. Unfortunately, as with most private companies, neither startup will share hard revenue figures.

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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. “They are the strongest company in the segment and well financed in this growing market,” said Forrester analyst Craig Le Clair. per share.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 16, 2021

Additionally, the iterative nature of open-source projects leads to fostering a sense of teamwork between the founders, their team and investors and stakeholders. How we dodged risks and raised millions for our open-source machine learning startup. Founder and investor Melissa Bradley outlines how to nail your virtual pitch meeting.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

Buy your Early Stage 2021: Marketing & Fundraising pass before April 30, at 11:59 p.m. (PT) Take action, reap savings and get ready to join your community of early-inning startup founders for a two-day bootcamp (July 8-9) dedicated to helping you build a firm foundation for entrepreneurial success. Want to save a cool $100?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2023

In all of 2022, banking startups raised $9.4 billion raised across 447 deals in 2021. While of course I still believe fintech is in its early innings, I do also think that people went a little too crazy, too fast in 2021 and a lot of companies that probably shouldn’t have gotten funded did. billion across 299 deals.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2023

At least that’s the case for Series CEO Brexton Pham, who has been building a full-stack enterprise platform for institutions and enterprises since March 2021. Series, which offers corporate bank accounts, is getting inundated with inbound messages, entire portfolios of VC firm — and the pace of inbound is ramping up by the hour.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Design expert Scott Tong outlines 4 concepts founders should consider when designing products. At Early Stage 2021, design expert Scott Tong shared some ways founders should think about design and branding. Can your startup support a research-based workflow? The best way to grow your tech career? Treat it like an app.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

A new company recently emerged that is targeting a popular startup niche, wanting to exclusively help early-stage SaaS (software-as-a-service) companies with their financial needs. Muir , Nick Lombardo (president) and Raven Jiang (CTO) founded Arc in January of 2021 and incorporated the company in April.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

We’re just a few weeks out from the first TC Early Stage 2021 event on April 1-2. This two-day bootcamp helps early-inning founders develop core entrepreneurial skills for startup success. Intellectual property is your bread and butter — you need to safeguard it and understand its value from a VC’s perspective.

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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. Venture capital is a talent game, which starts with the team that’s inside Upfront.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

He pointed to data from Pitchbook showing an uptick in down rounds in Q3 this year, with almost 19% of all European VC funding now fitting this criteria. Technology investment in Q3 is around 30% down on the same period in 2021. There’s a stigma. We’ve turned the down round into a worst case scenario. It’s market dynamics.”.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2022

Early-stage startup founders have just a few ways to recruit and retain employees: Offer a competitive salary. In a TC+ guest post, Kirsten Prost, vice president at VC/PE firm Tercera, lays out detailed steps for designing your equity program. A startup founder’s guide to allocating equity grants.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

Drawing from The TechCrunch List , reporter Sarah Buhr interviewed eight active health tech VCs to learn more about the companies and industry verticals that have captured their interest in 2021: Bryan Roberts and Bob Kocher, partners, Venrock. 8 VCs agree: Behavioral support and remote visits make digital health a strong bet for 2021.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

The easiest way to work with and for VC funds is to become a part-time scout, getting paid for sourcing investments. How to find a job as a VC scout. VC recruiters list and compensation data. How to negotiate a partner role at a VC or private equity firm. Syllabus for how to launch, manage, and invest a VC fund.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

was a short-lived boom, but it gave entrepreneurs a better understanding of climate tech, which in turn, has fostered more confidence among investors: 2021 saw a 400% YoY increase in round sizes for startups in this sector. David Frykman, general partner, Norrsken VC. Cleantech 1.0 Thai Nguyen, partner, MCJ Collective.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

On to the headlines from TechCrunch and Extra Crunch: If you didn’t make $1B this week, you are not doing VC right (EC). The VC and founder winners in Airbnb’s IPO (EC). With a 2021 IPO in the cards, what do we know about Robinhood’s Q3 performance? (EC). Against all odds: The sheer force of immigrant startup founders.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

raised approximately $7 billion in 2021 , up 59% year over year. Female-founded venture firms have shown strong support for female-founded startups accounting for 28% of their deal counts from 2016 to October 2021 in startups with at least one female founder. In contrast, male-only founded U.S.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

With the fundraising world becoming more democratic and accessible, we should help people find the right path to setting up a venture capital firm and also make sure the right people are entering the VC sphere. Startups are changing, and any new investment manager will have to adapt to the shifting landscape.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

Social app IRL shut down in June, but SoftBank — which led the platform’s $170 million Series C in 2021 — is now suing the company for $150 million. “There are 100 metrics they can show you, and they will pick the four that will make them look the best,” said 37 Angels founder Angela Lee.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

The increase might not turn heads in a world of $90+ billion valuations, but Lavingia thinks the new rules could revitalize a path to raising capital for venture capitalists and founders alike. If this works, startup founders will start to be able to go direct more frequently,” Lavingia said. Don’t give up.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

That said, Norway’s VC community has been somewhat dormant for a while. Local investors tend to invest 50% to 90% of their fund into local startups, “but we do look at deal flow in all Nordic countries,” said one. This offer is only available to readers in Europe and expires on April 30, 2021. Maybe, maybe not.

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