TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2023

Market headwinds continue to dog startups chasing venture backing. That’s the top-level finding of a new PitchBook report that looked at VC trends toward the end of 2022, specifically Q4, including investments made at the seed, late-stage and nearing-the-exit levels. But the year was ultimately mixed.

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 23, 2023

who is a junior investor in the Venture Capital industry. He hopes to find a fulltime position in venture capital after graduation. He currently serves as a Venture Partner at Mech Ventures where they invest in the future of pop culture. Azriel Nicdao otherwise known as (A.Z.)

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2022

With another year of venture capital records in the books, it’s time to look forward. Global data was clear: The 2021 venture capital startup investment cycle was record-breaking ; around the world, startups raised more money than ever before, with individual geographies posting all-time hauls. Africa had a killer year.

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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. 500 Global’s Christine Tsai shares her 2022 VC predictions. on Tuesday, Jan.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Mar Hershenson , co-founder and managing partner at Pear VC. 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. Aileen Lee , founding partner at Cowboy Ventures.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

This was another blockbuster year for global venture funding, with 2021 breaking records across the board. Beyond being awash in capital, the VC industry has also seen a historic number of exits. VCs are paying close attention to the opportunities that are materializing not just in Silicon Valley, but all over the world.

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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. seed- and early-stage venture dollars. Silicon Valley’s share of US VC funding falls to lowest level in more than a decade. This momentum we’re seeing now?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

After years of rosy projections, growth and investor enthusiasm, a new report from PitchBook shows that VC activity in the AI sector declined precipitously over the past few months. quarter over quarter in Q2 2022, with overall investments reaching $20.2 Year to date, VCs have funneled $48.2 billion across 1,340 deals.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2023

Over the last year, the venture industry has had a tough time. Many feared that the bull market had pushed valuations to unsustainable heights and would result in a windfall of startup down rounds and cash burn, which would have a negative impact on VC fund performance. So how were most venture funds actually performing?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

For the first time, the sector attracted over 1,100 unique investors in 2022, which in turn resulted in a record fundraising haul of $6.5 We are slowly building a more durable capital base for African tech. billion, according to data from Partech. These are all indications of a growing ecosystem,” he added.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

The first quarter of 2022 brought a historically huge sum of investment for global startups, with the three-month period outclassing any quarter in 2018, 2019, and 2020, according to CB Insights data. But despite the fact that Q1 2022 posted historically elevated results, venture capital investment decelerated from Q4 2021 levels.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2022

VC funding into Europe (including the U.K.) was up in the first quarter of 2022, CB Insights and Crunchbase data show. But Europe isn’t the only place where VC funding didn’t decline. Q1 2022 was no different in that regard. As we noted earlier this week, this was also the case in Africa – unlike the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

Although Africa’s venture capital totals remained afloat in the first quarter, some investors and tech stakeholders think there’s still a good chance the continent will join the rest of the world in a slowdown. This means there’s a lag in what’s reported as the current state of VC on the African continent.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Instead of late-stage opportunities, they’ll be focusing on early-stage venture in 2022. Hedge funds’s big chip stacks have become a market force in venture during the last three years. PitchBook surmises non-traditional VC (aka hot money) comprises 78% of venture dollars invested in 2021.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2022

As venture capital grew around the world , tracking the fintech market was a fine way to understand the general health of the VC world; when venture was getting bigger, so too was fintech fundraising. So it is not a huge surprise that fintech had a big part to play in the venture boom that is now behind us.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2023

Even as Y Combinator reveals the latest startups in its cohort for this winter , we have poor news for founders: the global venture capital market shrank in Q1 2023, and it would have been even worse if it were not for a few mega deals, according to Crunchbase (disclosure: my former employer) and PitchBook reports. Up is good, right?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

million seed round led by MaC Venture Capital. Serena Ventures, Omidyar Group’s Luminate Fund, Melo 7 Tech Partners and Cascador (Empowering Economic Growth Foundation) participated. It also expects revenues to double from last year as half-year revenues for 2022 have already surpassed full-year revenues for 2021.

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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. billion in VC, “dwarfing the previous record of $14.6 The growing power of digital healthcare: 6 trends to watch in 2022.

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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. The macro environment changed in 2022, and three major trends drove downward near-term trends.

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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. Ratings is a sensitive topic in venture, only reinforced by some of the reactions I got by investors when telling them about this ratings platform.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

Rhys Spence Contributor Share on Twitter Rhys Spence is head of research at Brighteye Ventures, a European edtech-focused fund. But 2022 was the year when this “spending” slowed and was instead more widely rebranded and accepted as actually being “borrowing.” billion in 2022 compared to $2.5

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2023

If you thought the fourth quarter of 2022 felt slow when it came to investment activity in the fintech space, that’s because it was. fintech funding since 2018, according to CB Insights’ State of Fintech 2022 Report. billion in 2022, down 46% compared with 2021, but up 52% compared to 2020. based companies. In the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 29, 2022

In 2014, Prayank Swaroop made a pitch to the storied venture firm Accel, where he worked as an associate, about future marketplaces in India. Indian venture funds have historically gotten most exits by the way of mergers and acquisitions. Many venture investors are now increasingly chasing opportunities to back banks instead.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

That’s what early data appears to say about the global venture capital market in Q1 2022. In comparative terms, the dataset shows that the global venture market in Q1 2022 was in fact larger in dollar terms than its year-ago comp. And if that happens, the exuberance of 2021 could become the hangover of 2022.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

billion during the same period in 2022. But one venture capital firm is anticipating a recovery. Fuse, a Bellevue, Washington-based early-stage venture outfit focused on PNW companies, today […] Funding for startups in the Pacific Northwest (PNW) fell precipitously early this year.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The start of 2022 shows no signs of slowing, with more startups jumping into the fray to tackle one of humanity’s biggest challenges. We spoke with: Alex Bondar , partner, Acre Venture Partners. Carolin Funk , partner, Blue Bear Capital. Joshua Posamentier , co-founder and managing partner, Congruent Ventures.

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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. What do early-stage founders need to know to capture VC interest, and dollars, in a challenging market?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Seventy-five venture capital firms, including Bloomberg Beta, 776 and M13, are standing together to launch VCs for Repro, a coalition stating that criminalizing abortion is a violation of human rights that stifles innovation. Vote like it matters to you on November 8, 2022,” VCs for Repro’s statement read.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Rebecca Mitchem is a partner at Neotribe Ventures , which invests in early- to growth-stage companies developing breakthrough technologies. Over the last several years, VC money has been abundant and relatively cheap. In fact, the question, “How long do you expect the capital raised to last you?” Rebecca Mitchem.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

The picture forming from Q1 2023 venture data is one of measured decline compared to the end of 2022. And March brought with it something akin to a boomlet in domestic venture activity, which could become an even brighter spot if the last bits of first-quarter data further bolster the month’s totals.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 4, 2022

On today’s episode of the Business Beat, Jeff highlights a few companies mentioned by Cronicle Tech News as hot tech companies to watch in 2022 in the Great Lakes region. Top Detroit Startups and Tech Companies to Watch in 2022. for the WJR Business Beat. Listeners outside of the Detroit area can listen live HERE.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 16, 2023

In The Figures that Will Move the Venture Capital Market in the Next 3-5 Years , I wrote about the correlation between interest rates & venture capital investing. The correlation is strong enough to build a simple prediction of early stage venture capital activity in 2023. correlation to -0.51.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

That global venture capital slowed down in Q1 2022 might no longer be news to you. According to CB Insights’ latest State of Venture report , the amount of funding flowing into U.S.-based based and Asian startups did decline, in line with the global trend. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 1, 2023

While many have gotten their burn rates way down, most startups still are losing money and will eventually need to raise capital in 2023. Good businesses with product market fit, positive unit economics, and strong leadership teams will raise capital although it will be at the new normal in terms of valuation.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Ivan writes that BeReal won “app of the year” for 2022 in Apple’s annual App Store Awards. Startups and VC. The venture market is in the middle of a downturn, but there are still plenty of emerging fund managers. Early-stage founders still have currency: Fundraising in times of greater VC scrutiny. The TechCrunch Top 3.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2022

We have an outstanding cohort of VCs ready to hear their pitches and follow up with tough Q&As — and we’re thrilled to add three more to the slate. Did you miss the other Startup Battlefield VC judges? Prior to joining Sequoia, Chen worked at Emergence Capital and McKinsey. Did you know?

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

As I wrote then: I don’t think a VC firm should manage to a pacing number. In the last two years, the VC business has been operating at a blistering pace, the fastest I’ve witnessed in my 35 years in the business (including the 99/00 era). But even so, the VC business has turned into a sprint. But it is exhausting.

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