TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2021

Startup Battlefield , the world’s preeminent pitch competition, has launched hundreds of startups over the years — 922 if you want to be a stickler about it. The next Battlefield takes place at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 on September 21-23. Is your company interested in sponsoring or exhibiting at Disrupt 2021?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Mark your calendar for TechCrunch’s annual celebration of the startup community — TC Disrupt 2021 returns this September 21-23! At Disrupt , you’ll rub virtual elbows with the thousands of startup founders, investors and innovators building cutting-edge products and companies.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The battle to win Startup Battlefield began long before TechCrunch Disrupt kicked off Tuesday. Startup founders from all over the world applied to what has been described as the most competitive batch in TechCrunch history. Von Tobel joined the management team of Northwestern Mutual as the company’s first chief digital officer.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2021

I urged founders to think less about how to bundle and unbundle lecture experience, and more about how to replace outdated systems and methods with new, tech-powered solutions. In other words, don’t simply put engaging content on a screen, but innovate on what that screen looks like, tracks and offers. Across the week.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

Alex looks at Databricks, a company perhaps on the cusp of going public, and opines about what it might mean if it’s worth less today than it was in 2021, and comes to the conclusion that an IPO can wait. You can read more about what startups are worth in the TechCrunch+ section below. Startups and VC.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

We’re only two weeks away from TC Sessions: Justice 2021 , a virtual conference focused on making diversity, equity, inclusion and labor as integral to tech as data, software engineers, startups and venture capital. Here are just a few of the outstanding presentations on tap — be sure to read the TC Sessions: Justice 2021 agenda.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The silver lining to the horrors wrought by Covid is that the pandemic opened the venture capital community’s eyes to the world of opportunity beyond the traditional tech startup hubs of California, New York, and Massachusetts. Distant skeptics also took note, and the belief that “innovation can happen here” proliferated.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 24, 2023

Through their initial KRW 5 billion investment fund established in 2021, Mark & Company has successfully invested in 19 companies. Among these investments, nine companies have been selected by the Technology Innovation Program for Startups (TIPS), while four others are in the process of applying for TIPS this year.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 27, 2024

The membership community will be a resource base for the Women’s Fund, a women-centric network that will help source, invest in, and support top female-led startups. The Women’s Fund seeks companies and trends at the intersection of innovation, venture investing, and female entrepreneurship. Pitchbook reports that in 2022 U.S.-based

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 24, 2021

This week, Bill Taranto, president of Merck’s Global Health Innovation Fund, wrote a TechCrunch+ article that explored six digital health trends his corporate VC fund is tracking as we enter 2022. Between Q1 and Q3 2021, healthcare startups landed $21.3 By July 2021, startup founders had raised $268.7

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Boston offers a world of advantages for startup founders Boston’s university-to-startup pipeline defies downturn to grow and diversify Boston has had a thriving tech startup ecosystem for a while, but things can change fast. After setting records in 2021 as “Zoom investing” took off, how are local startups faring in 2023?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Just because there are no shortcuts to startup success doesn’t mean you have to reinvent the wheel. While both TC Early Stage bootcamps focus on startups in the very early innings, each event will feature different topics, content and experts. Join us at TC Early Stage 2021 on April 1-2.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

Some of of that growth has been fueled by an exodus from the Bay Area, but many early-stage security startups already have deep roots in East Coast cities like Boston and New York. In the United Kingdom and Europe, government innovation programs have helped entrepreneurs close higher numbers of Series A and B rounds. citizenship!

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2022

While many funds are returning to more conservative check-writing , with a focus on profitability and business fundamentals, crypto remains a sector in the spotlight that attracts dedicated billion-dollar funds and investment terms that remind us more of 2021 than 2022.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

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 signs point to a continued abundance of opportunities for startup founders and investors in the year ahead.”.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2021

And it plans to grow in 2021 and beat that number. I used to say that my goal was to make the name ‘Foursquare’ synonymous with ‘innovation in contextual aware computing’… And, here in 2021, we’ve built the tools and frameworks that can make that so,” Crowley writes in a blog post. Also, 12 years is a lot of time.

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Hunter Walk

DECEMBER 11, 2023

He’s founder and CEO of Greenhouse , a ‘hiring operating system’ for companies which spans recruiting and onboarding tools for enterprises and SMEs. Originally backed by venture capital, in 2021 Daniel worked with TPG , a large private equity firm, to make them the majority investor.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 25, 2022

KSGC 2022 started receiving applications from startups on April 15 and the last date for startups to apply for the most sought after program in Asia is soon on May 31. Startups, innovators, and entrepreneurs, who want to experience the business ecosystem in Korea and Asia, should take action soon enough.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

“Yoon has been a Venture Investor and strategic partner to many Silicon Valley startups/founders for 18 years prior to Muirwoods. Mar has been recognized in the Midas List of Top Tech Investors in 2021.” ” Expert panel of judges. Yoon Choi — Muirwoods Ventures. Mar received her Ph.D. ” Day 2 .

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 28, 2023

Register Startup founders are often too focused on the amount of money they can get from an investor that they mostly fail to see the value that other investors have to offer to grow their businesses further. Later, I switched back to my entrepreneurial roots and started a couple of startups which I have now exited.

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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. That’s why TechCrunch has chosen to shine a spotlight on the city with a special episode of TechCrunch Live centered on the growing startup scene in Austin, Texas. And the numbers are there to back it up.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2023

If this momentum held in the past six months, funding into the sector would meet or exceed the $306 million invested in all of 2021, despite the slowdown last year. I expect to see more innovation and investment into the advancement of consumer experience and 3D structures.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Offering consumers affordable options for high-end clothing and accessories is innovative, but Rent the Runway’s recent IPO filing makes the company’s “overall business profile” look “unsteady,” writes Alex Wilhelm in today’s edition of The Exchange. Lessons from founders raising their first round in a bull market. founder Manu Bansal.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

In short order, this shift has created tangible benefits for the cybersecurity industry: In 2021, investors poured $29.5 billion into cyber startups, a YoY increase of 138%. As part of an ongoing series of interviews with transportation startup founders, ??Rebecca It’s not a startup reckoning, it’s a correction.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 16, 2021

In the interview below, she says that after the pandemic, startup founders will need to develop a mentality that places growth at the center of company strategy. That said, the pandemic was an enormous constraint on human society and [the] economy, and these kinds of constraints often breed innovation that doesn’t go away.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

In recent years, calling oneself a startup founder was certainly seen as a flex. In addition to having fewer outlets to address mental health issues, founders on the continent are facing a new kind of pressure, the type that comes off the back of a record venture capital year (2021) bolstered by large U.S.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Dana Stalder, a partner at Matrix Partners and Afterpay’s only institutional investor, describes the deal as part of a recurring “critical innovation cycle” in fintech that “determines the winners and losers” for decades to come. Can your startup support a research-based workflow? Treat it like an app.

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Y Combinator

JUNE 25, 2021

Last week, we launched our Summer 2021 batch here at Y Combinator, the 33rd batch since our founding in 2005. Thanks to innovations from Nobel Prize winners Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna , biology now has an effective gene editing technique called CRISPR. And YC is CRISPR for startups.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Lithuania is 16th in the Global Innovation in Biotechnology ranking according to Scientific American WORLDVIEW international biotechnology ranking 2019. According to McKinsey study on B2B startups, Lithuania’s B2B startups generate more value per funding than the U.S. Who are the key startup people in your city (e.g.,

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

The Series A funding brings its total raised to $25 million, including a seed round of $5 million in 2021. MarqVision won the LVMH Innovation Award in June 2022 and is participating in the LVMH’s accelerator program, La Maison des Startups. “No The company is not disclosing its valuation.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Sesie Bonsi is the founder and CEO of Bleu , a financial technology platform focused on enabling touchless payment experiences. billion in the first half of 2021 — a fourfold increase from the previous year. But what about those minority founders who don’t have family, friends or connections to lean on for the first $250,000?

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2022

Well before Better.com garnered negative media coverage due to the manner in which CEO and co-founder Vishal Garg callously laid off 900 employees, the controversial executive made headlines for being the target of multiple lawsuits by PIMCO, Goldman Sachs and other investors involving entities he controlled.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The unprecedented rush of venture capital into startups is having an interesting knock-on effect: “Venture capital investors are racing to pay more to buy smaller pieces of startups that are less profitable than before,” writes Alex Wilhelm, who studied Silicon Valley Bank’s State of the Markets Report Q4 2021.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JANUARY 21, 2021

The i2E e3 Series helps Oklahoma startup founders perform market validation of their ideas and solutions before they start creating products that their customers may not want to buy. i2E concluded the latest virtual e3 cohort featuring five new startups from across the state. Andy Jones, Founder and President.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Vieje Piauwasdy is the director of equity strategy at Secfi , an equity planning platform for startup executives and employees. We fear that these unintended consequences could choke innovation and harm a small group of people while raising what will amount to a rounding error’s worth of new tax revenue for the federal government.

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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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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 1, 2022

Register Microsoft launched its Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub in Asia, to empower startups’ ambitions and fuel innovation to drive economic and societal progress for Asia and beyond. Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub is a new digital and truly inclusive platform for Founders in Asia.

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