TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2022

Here’s a look at just some of the ways early-stage founders can learn to build, grow and fund their startups at TechCrunch Disrupt on October 18–20 in San Francisco. Let’s kick off the Disrupt opportun-a-palooza with a time-sensitive reminder to apply to the Startup Battlefield 200 (SBF 200) by July 31 at 11:59 p.m.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

We’re less than a month away from TechCrunch Disrupt on October 18–20 in San Francisco! Mar Hershenson co-founded and serves as managing partner at Pear VC, a seed-stage investment firm in Palo Alto backing companies like Guardant Health, DoorDash, Gusto, Aurora Solar and Branch. TechCrunch Disrupt takes place on October 18–20.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2023

The reinvention of banking is well underway, and we’re excited to welcome three key players — Peter Hazlehurst, co-founder and CEO, Synctera; Laura Spiekerman, co-founder and president, Alloy; and Amanda Swoverland, chief compliance officer, Unit — to the Fintech Stage on September 19 at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023. billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 13, 2023

It’s hard to believe it but TechCrunch Disrupt — only one of the most engaging, fun, well-attended startup events in the world — is around the corner, taking place September 19–21! Outsiders may not realize just how much work goes into planning Disrupt. billion during the same period in 2022. This is a first.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Happy TechCrunch Disrupt eve! How to Build Your Early VC Network — Turning Social Capital into Financial Capital: If you haven’t heard of Nik, Josh or Gefen, where have you been? We’ll talk about their investment thesis, her plans to bring more diversity into tech, and what she brings to the table as a VC.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Welcome to the first day of TechCrunch Disrupt ! You’ll find all the day’s programs, stage location and times listed in the Disrupt agenda and in the event app. You’ll find all the day’s programs, stage location and times listed in the Disrupt agenda and in the event app. Disrupt Stage | 10:00 am. Disrupt Stage | 1:40 pm.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2022

If you couldn’t make it to San Francisco to attend TechCrunch Disrupt in person, the next is the next best thing. With it, you can access all the sessions that went down on the Disrupt stage, the TechCrunch+ stage along with select presentations from both the Discovery stage and breakout sessions — today, October 21 only!

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Today, the Japanese investment conglomerate is announcing the launch of the SoftBank Latin America Fund II, its second dedicated private investment fund focused on tech companies located in LatAm. Fund II will explore options to raise additional capital,” SoftBank said in a statement. SoftBank Group Corp. billion as of June 30.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Decades after Palo Alto’s first garage startup, talent and capital has become more evenly distributed: This year, Bay Area startups only attracted 27% of all U.S. 3 disruptive trends that will shape marketing in 2022. 3 disruptive trends that will shape marketing in 2022. Walter Thompson. yourprotagonist.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

Everstream Analytics , a supply chain insights and risk analytics startup, today announced that it raised $24 million in a Series A round led by Morgan Stanley Investment Management with participation from Columbia Capital, StepStone Group, and DHL. Investors seemingly see the potential. billion in funding, according to Crunchbase.

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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. However, by 2022 (with most pandemic restrictions in the rear view mirror and financial markets facing challenges), investors began gravitating towards perceived safe havens, as reflected in the data.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Soda that serves a purpose, whether that be more healthy or even functional, is the new wave of drinks disrupting the $38 billion U.S. Lester touts the company’s success as “the first major disruptive innovation in the soda category in over 40 years since Coca-Cola launched Diet Coke in 1981.”. soft drink industry.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

Signaling that investments in the supply chain sector remain robust, Pando , a startup developing fulfillment management technologies, today announced that it raised $30 million in a Series B round, bringing its total raised to $45 million. The result of those major disruptions? Pando isn’t the only vendor doing this.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2023

A fund typically invests the capital for three to five years, which causes its “performance” to drop. There are ways to disrupt this timeline: VC firms can sometimes back a relatively early-stage company and exit the investment within 12 months. But 2021 wasn’t normal.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Register Multi-stage global venture capital firm MSA Novo , announced that it has invested more than $16 million in six Indian startups and plans to further inject funds into the Indian startup ecosystem by the end of 2023. We are incredibly bullish on investing in India.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Travel booking startup Hopper today announced that it closed a $96 million follow-on investment from Capital One, bringing the company’s total raised to $740 million. Travel app Hopper raises $96M from Capital One to double down on social commerce by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch. billion this year.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

We’re likely to see BNPL offerings become more prevalent at points of sale for a manner of different purchases through 2022. We also see opportunities for new BNPL products for small businesses that are looking to reduce cash flow strains or avoid maxing out credit lines,” said Jason Brown, partner at Victory Park Capital. In the U.S.,

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 6, 2022

Register Transport Capital , a globally-recognised investment management and advisory firm focused on the maritime and aviation industries, has launched its new venture capital arm named TC Ventures. Headquartered in Singapore, Transport Capital’s core expertise is in Real Assets and Private Capital Markets.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2021

million Series A round of funding led by Ribbit Capital. Senior executives from Robinhood, Stripe, Wise, Carta and Capital One had also put money in the round. The insurtech plans to use its new capital to continue to hire, and expand its area of operations, as well as toward launching other lines of insurance.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The venture capital industry is built on signals. The startup, launching publicly today, is building a rating system for the venture capital industry. Revere declined to share any customer names but said that one of its first customers was a sizable investment consultant. 3 views: How due diligence will change in 2022.

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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

JULY 31, 2022

A few examples… When asked in February what differences in the landscape he saw in 2021 and if deals were much more competitive, Accel partner Ethan Choi responded: “On the investing side, deals were definitely more competitive and valuations certainly reflect that, even despite a correction in public fintech comps.”.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 10, 2023

million investment to help Token Unlocks grow its team and expand the platform across the globe. According to the statement, Token Unlocks intend to use the investment from its seed funding round to expand its team across the globe to further drive growth to the platform. Register SCB 10X announced its $1.5 Revenues jumped from 7.4

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2022

The $25 million fund bases all of its investments off of one key metric that AngelList has been tracking for years: a startup’s ability to hire. Of course, there are some challenges with leaning on such signals to make investments. This is our data set, let’s see if we can put money into them,” he said. No further due diligence?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

We all know that cash is not nearly as readily available in 2022 as it was in 2021. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2022, I interviewed Ramp CEO Eric Glyman, Airbase CEO Thejo Kote and Anthemis partner Ruth Foxe Blader on the topic. This puts startups in the position of having to compete without losing their minds — or runway.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

Everstream today announced that it raised $50 million in a Series B round led by Morgan Stanley’s 1GT Fund with participation from StepStone Group and Columbia Capital. Julie Gerdeman, Everstream’s CEO, says that the fresh capital will be put toward product development, hiring and customer success efforts.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 22, 2022

Register Le Yen Thanh, the 28-year-old CEO of Vietnam’s smart mobility startup Phenikaa Maas , is among the 2022 Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia honorees in the Industry, Manufacturing & Energy category. In 2021, BusMap received a capital injection of $US1.5

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

Sanjay Aggarwal Contributor Share on Twitter Sanjay Aggarwal is a venture partner at F-Prime Capital focused on frontier technology investment opportunities. From 2018 to 2021, investments in the AV sector across the U.S. Then, in 2022, investments fell to $4 billion, with 2023 likely to see further precipitous declines.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Swap Robotics , a company that manufactures electric grass-cutting and snow removal robots, presented today at TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield to detail how it’s making sustainable outdoor work equipment. A large portion of the investment will go toward commercialization of the startup’s robots.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 25, 2024

Another high-growth digital platform gains a significant amount of follow-on funding with the announcement by TravelPerk that it has secured over $100 million as an extension of the Series D-1 raised in January 2022. The all-in-one platform gives business travelers more freedom while giving their companies the necessary control.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

While it’s often held that the early-stage investing market has generally fared better in this funding slowdown of the last 18 months or so , things haven’t actually been very good for pre-seed startups trying to raise money. So, what can founders expect if they’re looking to raise their first round of capital these days?

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Revolution

OCTOBER 4, 2022

This article originally appeared in Harvard Business Review on October 3, 2022. At the turn of the 20th century, any number of American municipalities with similar access to talent, materials, investment, and transportation might have emerged as the beating heart of the automobile industry. as do manufacturing workers.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

“With TAM, it is almost guaranteed you’re going to be wrong,” Aydin Senkut, the founder and managing partner of Felicis Ventures, said at TechCrunch Disrupt. “It’s Kara Nortman, a managing partner at Upfront Ventures, said the TAM numbers given in a pitch do not control whether she’s likely to invest. “I

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

I have experienced two major financial disruptions in my career: the bubble burst in 2000 and the financial crisis of 2008. The key difference between 2022 and previous downturns is that this contraction was anticipated for a long time, whereas the previous downturns were far more sudden.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Now that investing is cool again, upstarts like Staax , which pitched today at TechCrunch Disrupt’s Startup Battlefield, are finding new ways to cash in on its cachet, particularly among young people. Oftentimes, the barriers to investing are logistical, she explained. Image Credit: Haje Kamps / TechCrunch.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 7, 2023

Register Indonesia-based hyperlocal online F&B startup, UENA , has secured new funding from existing investor East Ventures and new investor Trihill Capital in a round that closed in Q1 2023. Since launching in August 2022, UENA has opened seven kitchen locations in Jakarta and has served over 300,000 portions.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 30, 2023

Despite continuing talk about a possible recession , slumping tech stocks and a slowdown in the world of startup investing, the business of funding was positively humming last week. After slowing way down last spring, venture outfits disclosed a stunning $8 billion in new capital commitments in the span of just five days.

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