TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

The venture capital boom of 2021 was not built from merely traditional VC money. And amid all the noise, record-setting totals, and rapid-fire dealmaking, corporate venture investors were busy, investing gobs of parent-company cash into far-smaller concerns. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Sounds good?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2023

One of the quieter conversations in venture capital has only grown louder, in my DMs and interviews, over the past few months: The known bias in venture capital has been a branding issue for some of the emerging, diverse fund managers just now splashing onto the scene. The whole show was a hoot. And with that, thank you for being here.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

While capital infusion into companies took a summer siesta, some venture capital firms continue to see their coffers runneth over. Three years after raising a $500 million fund , European venture capital firm Northzone is back with what partners are calling its “largest fundraise to date” of €1 billion, or $1.01 Salkantay Ventures.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

In this piece , I spotlighted what influenced this venture capital growth — which, at the time, was pegged at a little over $4 billion. Then, the disparities between venture funding studies were stunningly clear. . African tech took center stage in 2021. In 2021, Nigeria retained the first spot ($1.8

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

500 Global’s Christine Tsai shares her 2022 VC predictions. 2021 was a year like no other when it came to venture investment, and this year is poised to tread a similar path, writes 500 Global’s CEO and co-founder, Christine Tsai. “All 500 Global’s Christine Tsai shares her 2022 VC predictions.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

Kunal Lunawat is the co-founder and managing partner of Agya Ventures , a venture capital firm focused on proptech, travel, hospitality and the future of the built world. Though 2021 is far from over, it’s already witnessed a record level of venture capital activity in the technology sector. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2022

He is building Picus’ Berlin office focusing on early-stage technology ventures. Post-money valuations were inflated by market expectations in 2021, but they were also inflated by the underlying mechanics of the valuation model itself. The miracle year of 2021. Bastian Hasslinger. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Brian Walsh is the head of WIND Ventures , the venture capital arm of Copec. What you should know about working with corporate venture investment committees. SPACs are the construct VCs need to fund clean tech. This narrative falls short when you consider data that goes back beyond 2021. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Open finance continues to be a significant theme in the world of fintech as businesses tap APIs to access customers’ financial accounts and provide a gamut of integrated and embedded financial services. And in Q4 2021, the platform witnessed a 44% month-on-month customer growth and a 72% month-on-month increase in linked financial accounts.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

seed- and early-stage venture dollars went to Bay Area startups. VC investment, according to “Beyond Silicon Valley,” a new report co-produced by venture firm Revolution and PitchBook. So far in 2021, only about 27% of U.S. VC dollars have gone to Bay Area startups. In 2014, more than 40% of U.S.

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FundersClub

OCTOBER 20, 2021

We'd like to congratulate FundersClub portfolio companies on their ongoing progress, as well as to welcome aboard their new VC investor partners. Selected recent FundersClub portfolio company follow-on rounds and events: GitLab (NASDAQ: GTLB), a SaaS platform for DevOps, completed a successful public listing on October 14, 2021.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 4, 2022

I’m a straight white dude who grew up in NYC and worked in finance. I’m the on-paper poster child for “who can get VC dollars”. Will the money have been worth it if you find yourself out on the street, fired from your own company, just a few years later—replaced by some guy that was in the same fraternity as your lead VC?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Brian Walsh is the head of WIND Ventures , the venture capital arm of COPEC, a leading energy company in Central and South America and the U.S. WIND Ventures provides mobility, energy and retail startups and scaleups with access to Latin America. SPACs are the construct VCs need to fund clean tech. Brian Walsh.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

Raising venture capital is rarely an easy lift for startups, but 2022 is turning out to be a more challenging year than we’ve seen for some time. As venture capital continues its slowdown after an aggressive 2020 and record-breaking 2021 , it’s clear that early-stage founders looking for their first dollars will require a new approach.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Akin to many startup markets around the world, Europe has seen its venture capital totals rise, its unicorn ranks swell, and even a few major public exits. The Atomico/Dealroom report details that the total value of tech M&A in Europe through the third quarter of 2021 has crossed the $100 billion mark.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

For our latest investor survey, Natasha Mascarenhas polled 13 edtech VCs to learn more about how “employer-led up-skilling and a renewed interest in self-improvement” is expanding the sector’s TAM. Here’s who she spoke to: Deborah Quazzo , managing partner, GSV Ventures. Image Credits: Bryce Durbin.

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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. Von Tobel joined the management team of Northwestern Mutual as the company’s first chief digital officer.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2022

He has worked with the World Bank, IFC, UN, Clean Energy Venture Group, Schmidt Futures, Ashoka, and other organizations. As of October, climate-tech startups had raised over $32 billion in 2021 and, according to Dealroom and London & Co., VCs invested nearly $50 billion in climate-tech companies between 2020 and 2021.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2023

More posts by this contributor You’re not going to grow into your 2021 valuation What am I worth now? For the venture world specifically, this dynamic is compounded by the venture debt markets cooling, which in turn makes equity the most viable option for most. Opportunity cost is powerful indeed.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2023

Building a lean B2B startup growth stack Venture firms are advising portfolio companies to move money out of SVB Image Credits: Spencer Platt / Getty Images “My ask is just to stay calm, because that’s what’s important,” said Silicon Valley Bank CEO Greg Becker yesterday during a Zoom call with customers.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Payments infrastructure company Stronghold has launched a venture capital arm to deploy $100 million of its balance sheet capital in startups and funds in three core strategies — underrepresented founders, fintech, and web3, CEO Tammy Camp told TechCrunch in an interview. It has raised $3.3 billion, the company says. ”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 14, 2022

More debt financings means flat is the new up. Last week, I wrote about Founderpath , an Austin-based company that offers debt financing to B2B startups. Some founders might be struggling to raise venture dollars, while others don’t want to — preferring not to dilute ownership. This could be for any number of reasons.

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TechCrunch

JULY 18, 2022

Fundrise , a company that allows anyone to invest in real estate with a minimum investment of just $10, is making a splashy entry into the venture capital market with the goal of raising a new $1 billion growth equity fund to invest in late-stage tech startups, it announced today.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 11, 2022

Register Good Startup , a Singapore-based venture capital firm focused on the innovation and growth of the alternative protein sector, has closed its Good Protein Fund I at $34 million, according to an announcement. Founded in 2021, Good Startup’s mission is to remove animals from the global food system.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2022

Embed that finance : Pezesha, a Kenyan-based fintech startup, is flush with $11 million in new capital as it seeks to bridge the gap between access to financial products and what is a “$330 billion financing deficit for the small enterprises that make up 90% of Africa’s businesses,” Annie reports. Startups and VC.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

All these inefficiencies, asides from being time-consuming, lead to errors and affects cash flow and finance, which is why almost nine out of 10 small businesses in the country fizzle out in the first five years. The startup’s new financing round was led by Berlin-based VC Target Global. million in pre-seed funding.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Fintechs could see $100 billion of liquidity in 2021. Fintech tailwinds, strengthened by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, only accelerated in 2021. Despite a roughly 30% draw-down in the last months of 2021, the Matrix Fintech Index continued to beat the broader market as well as incumbent financial service companies. Matt Brown.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 20, 2021

More mainstream venture capital firms are jumping on the crypto bandwagon as investors increasingly consider bitcoin an investable asset, despite the recent massive price drops of a few major cryptocurrencies. ” The firm’s past investors Pantera Capital, Coinbase Ventures and Blockchain.com also participated in the new round.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Andy Areitio is a partner at the early-stage fund TheVentureCity , a new venture and acceleration model that helps diverse founders achieve global impact. When you’re running your own venture — especially if it’s your first — it’s unlikely you will find the time to deep dive into how venture capital firms work.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

Dayna Grayson has been in venture capital for more than a decade and was one of the first VCs to build a portfolio around the transformation of industrial sectors of our economy. It should come as no surprise, then, that we’re absolutely thrilled to have Grayson join us at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 in September.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Any change is an opportunity to create leverage, and a downturn is no exception,” writes Masha Bucher, founder and general partner of early-stage VC firm, Day One Ventures. We need to unlearn the lessons of the 2021 fundraising bubble. We need to unlearn the lessons of the 2021 fundraising bubble. Rigorous Recruiter.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2021

The world of venture capital investing is a relatively small one, and relationship-based to boot. The company, founded by Samir Kaji and Hana Yang in February 2021, is developing an approach to venture capital fund investing that provides a way for investors of any size to participate. Enter Allocate.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2021

Few people are more knowledgable on the topic of how founders should manage their finances than Alexa von Tobel. At Early Stage 2021, she gave a presentation on how founders should think about managing their own wealth. You’re never going to be as good at managing your finances. Fewer accounts are better.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Something happened in the past 7 years in the startup and venture capital world that I hadn’t experienced since the late 90’s — we all began praying to the God of Valuation. Between 2006–2008 I sold both companies that I had started and became a VC. And the valuation party lasted until November 9th, 2021. What happened?

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

We named this summit after a report we wrote with Pitchbook at the end of 2021 to explore the impact of the pandemic on investment patterns. Consequently, the Bay Area experienced a surge, capturing over one-third of all early-stage venture funding in the U.S., marking its highest level since 2017. Seed- and Early-Stage U.S,

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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. There has been much talk as of late of a slowdown in venture funding. But they do at least provide some metrics.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2023

As VC activity slowed down globally last year, Kenya defied odds to record the strongest growth in funding raised in Africa. Reports show that the deal count and value to the country surpassed 2021 figures owing to increased investor interest. The four markets account for over 70% of the total VC funding in Africa.

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