TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The boom in venture capital fundraising that the technology startup market has enjoyed since the back half of 2020 has been eye-popping. Record sums have been disbursed around the world as more firms entered the fray to invest in startups, and the late-stage capital flowed like water. Let’s talk about it. Bootstrapping today.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

If you fit that description, we want you to apply to compete in the Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 on September 21-23. Any early-stage startup founder with an MVP — regardless of your category or geographic location — is eligible to apply. But here’s the thing.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2022

European and North American edtech startups see funding triple in 2021. Today, edtech startups are seeing higher average deal sizes, more seed and pre-seed funding from non-VC investors, and an influx of generalists. European, North American edtech startups see funding triple in 2021. Walter Thompson.

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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. GV partner Terri Burns is joining us to judge the Startup Battlefield. Yeah, them.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2023

It took me a while, but I’m realizing that my startup love language is discussing any attempts to standardize the opaque and often informal world of venture capital. You can read my whole piece on TechCrunch+: “Is it time for a Common App for startup founders?” You’re not going to grow into your 2021 valuation.

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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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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. Indelible Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in B2B SaaS startups that can scale internationally.

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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. A few months into 2021, the exit environment in edtech…feels like it’s doing exactly that. To scale such models, new businesses will need venture capital.

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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

MARCH 27, 2022

I’ll be publishing this every Sunday, so in between posts, be sure to listen to the Equity podcast and hear Alex Wilhelm , Natasha Mascarenhas and me riff on all things startups! On March 25, PitchBook released its 2021 Annual Fintech Report , which found that the fintech industry raised $121.6

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 4, 2021

Gil Dibner, the general partner at Angular Ventures noticed : “… we live in an era where there are tremendous short-term benefits to successful pseudo entrepreneurship. For example, Entrepreneur First or Khosla Ventures may dedicate up to 46–57% of their annual deal activity to startups with at least one doctorate founder.

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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. Brian Brackeen (Lightship Capital), Astrid Scholz (Zebras Unite), Sydney Thomas (Precursor Ventures).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The two founders, Ayelen Denovitzer and Shailendra Sason, met while they were working for Revolut, in the crypto team more specifically. million seed round from Index Ventures with CoinFund and FJ Labs also participating. I covered the company’s February 2021 $110 million Series C raise here. Fundings and M&A.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

It competes directly with Pipe — a marketplace that connects companies with predictable, recurring revenue to investors that was valued at $2 billion last year — and Capchase, which in July of 2021 secured $280 million in new debt and equity funding. He founded Webmail before exiting to Rackspace ).

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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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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2021

Listen up, all you budget-conscious early-stage founders. That sound you hear is the countdown clock for serious savings to TC Early Stage 2021: Marketing & Fundraising on July 8-9. We’re talking essentials like product-market fit, paid marketing strategies and, every founder’s favorite topic, fundraising.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 24, 2023

Register Mark & Company, led by CEO Kyungpyo Hong, has announced the establishment and management of a new venture investment fund in partnership with Yoonmin Creative Investment Foundation, chaired by Minseop Sung. 1, launched in July 2021.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The latest Crunchbase numbers show that Black founders raised $187 million in Q3, a staggering decline from the nearly $1.1 billion they received in Q3 2021 and a sizable drop from the $594 million the cohort raised in Q2. Black founders raised just 0.12% of the $150.9 allocated in the record-breaking year that was 2021.

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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. And that mass of talent, in turn, continued to build in Utah.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

Here’s who she spoke to: Deborah Quazzo , managing partner, GSV Ventures. Ashley Bittner , founding partner, Firework Ventures (a future of work fund with portfolio companies LearnIn and TransfrVR). Jomayra Herrera , principal, Cowboy Ventures (a generalist fund with portfolio companies Hone and Guild Education).

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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

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Recounting the best books that entrepreneurs read in 2022 follows our list of recommendations from venture capitalists and the TechCrunch staff. There are also recommendations from founders that stray into the autobiographical and fiction realms. Naturally, you’ll find a good number of business books below.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 17, 2023

When it became clear that the public market had forever descended from the peaks of 2021 , venture investors decided to break camp and head downhill as well, advising their portfolio companies to focus on lowering their burn because capital had suddenly become expensive. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

The venture capital market is retreating somewhat from its aggressive 2021 pace, new data indicates. But while aggregated data is useful for charting larger and slower-moving trends in the startup market, we care more this morning about near-term changes.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

The venture capital market could be seeing a shift in power dynamics away from founders and more toward investors, data indicates. Founders were able to raise successive rounds quickly, often at attractive terms, and at times with slim due diligence.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

This week , we have Rajeev Batra, partner at Mayfield, and Christina Ross, co-founder and CEO of Cube, an FP&A toolkit company. Rajeev has been investing in startups at Mayfield since 2007. Christina is a serial CFO-turned-startup founder, and knows what it takes to get early funding. Not selected for this show?

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Revolution

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

According to PitchBook , VC investments were down 30% in Q2 2022 compared with 2021, and IPOs hit a 50-year low. While a few iconic brands including Uber, Airbnb, and Square emerged successfully from the last downturn, most venture-backed companies struggled during this period, and many ended up pursuing M&A strategies.

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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

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. Yet, things are accelerating across the board in crypto.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Andrew has been investing in startups at Sequoia since 2014. Christina earned undergrad and postgrad degrees from Stanford, and is a former investor at Union Square Ventures, professor, and Dropbox product manager. She knows what it takes for a business to get startup capital. You do not need a pitch deck to participate.

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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

MARCH 4, 2022

Ridge Ventures partner and five-time CIO Yousuf Khan wrote a column for TechCrunch+ that explores “ what CIOs look for in solutions and how you can tailor your sales approach accordingly.”. What US startup founders need to know about the R&D tax credit. What US startup founders need to know about the R&D tax credit.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

Good Startup founders Gautam Godhwani and Jayesh Parekh. Good Startup , a Singapore-based venture capital firm focused on alternative protein, has closed its latest fund. Founded in 2021, Good Startup wants to remove animals from the global food system.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

In a mere 72 hours, early bird pricing disappears for TechCrunch Early Stage 2021 , our two-part, founder bootcamp series focused on the building blocks you need to grow your company. TC Early Stage is all about helping new startup founders (pre-seed through Series A) learn the essential skills required to build a successful startup.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 26, 2023

Register Explico , a Singapore-based edtech startup , has secured US$1.4 million in pre-series A funding from Astonic Ventures Singapore, Mavis Tutorial Centre, and Singapore Asia Publishers. billion in 2021 and is projected to grow annually by 16.5%, up to $404 billion in 2025. The value of the global edtech market was $106.46

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StartupNation

JANUARY 4, 2022

How the Midwest Startup and Tech Scene Boomed in 2021. It’s 2022 and already local VCs, angel investors, startup founders, incubators and accelerators, and more are pushing hard to make their startups go. So, Paul, tech startups are alive and well in our region. WJR Business Beat Transcript.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The company has raised $4 million in seed funding led by LocalGlobe and participation from Y Combinator, 7percent Ventures, Moonfire Ventures, Shine VC, TrueSight Ventures, Pioneer Fund and Venture Together. Along with this, the startup is also releasing SigmaOS 1.0 Functionality.

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