Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

2022: The Aftermath In 2022 war, inflation, rising interest rates and a tougher economic environment–one not buoyed by historically low interest rates–brought an end to the long-term bull market in assets (the “everything bubble”), including startup capital. 2 A (temporary) venture capital reset?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

Then, in 2022, investments fell to $4 billion, with 2023 likely to see further precipitous declines. In 2022, these companies attracted $7 billion in investments, defying the broader slowdown in VC investment by growing 15% over the previous year. From 2018 to 2021, investments in the AV sector across the U.S.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Data reveals Women Entrepreneurs Gaining Ground On the startup side, according to the 2024 Wells Fargo Impact of Women -Owned Business Report, between 2019 and 2023 women-owned businesses grew at nearly double the rate of those owned by men which was exceeded during 2022 to 2023, reaching 4.5 According to the PitchBook data, in 2022 U.S.-based

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propel(x)

JULY 11, 2022

Deep tech refers to scientific or engineering innovations that disrupt existing industries through years of research, patent application, and other forms of intellectual property. billion in the first quarter of 2022 alone, according to PitchBook’s Venture Monitor report. Startups raised $342.2 Investors funneled $15.4

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Fund II intends to back technology-enabled companies across countries and industries at every stage of their development, from seed to public, throughout Latin America, with a focus on e-commerce, digital financial services, healthcare, education, blockchain and enterprise software, among others. .

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 29, 2023

The US even enacted legislation in 2022 to bolster its national semiconductor industry. has played a pivotal role in developing groundbreaking connectivity solutions since the company’s establishment in 2022. Amid this competitive landscape, Uniqconn Inc., Kim Young-dong, the CEO of Uniqconn Inc., Could you talk about its impact?

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

From 2003-2022 the River Valley Investors operated as a traditional angel group, investing in nearly 100 startups. For posterity, here are some of the more recent investments… 2022 Hubly Surgical Hubly Surgical has an advanced drill, complete with auto-stop and visual feedback, to make medical drilling safe across underserved settings.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2023

In a February 2022 paper, scientists at Alphabet-backed DeepMind had an AI observe keyboard and mouse commands from people completing “instruction-following” computer tasks, like booking a flight, to learn how to do them itself. That hasn’t disrupted product development, apparently. Adept isn’t the only one exploring this idea.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

To paint a picture of the demand, AltSchool, one of the exhibitors at TechCrunch Disrupt 2022 , received 9,200 applications in its initial call but could only admit about half. Its courses are short, lasting up to a year (including an internship), enabling the school to churn talent out fast enough to meet the market demand.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2023

Wellthy is a startup aimed at helping caregivers be more equipped to deal with all aspects of their various responsibilities by serving as a self-described “tech-enabled care concierge.” F rom 2019 to 2022 the number of lives covered with Wellthy benefits grew from about 100,000 to 2 million.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The company is exhibiting as one of the Battlefield 200 at Disrupt 2022. The model also enables more flexible learning. .” But the existing options for acquiring professional skills just aren’t very effective, argues Colin Mansell, founder and CEO of Skills Union.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2022

“Enable multifactor authentication (MFA) on everything you have,” said Katie Moussouris, founder of Luta Security. “Enable it on every account that you have.” In Q3 2022, Crunchbase reports that Black founders raised just $187 million, “a staggering decline from the nearly $1.1

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

The venture firm invested in startups such as MPL, Slice, Jar, Apps For Bharat, Flint, and Questbook, focussing on early and growth-stage tech-enabled startups. “We The firm’s sector focus is concentrated on core infrastructure layers in financial services and commerce enablers. We are incredibly bullish on investing in India.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

MyCarrier expects to process over two million shipments in 2022 for more than 5,000 business-to-business software-as-a-service customers, driving the company’s annual recurring revenue run rate to more than $11 million next month (August’s total was $9.4 million). .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

Supply chain disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine is driving increased costs of goods and services, affecting not only the industrial sector (e.g., The platform helps from research to ordering and enables buyers to source their food and agriculture items at reasonable prices in more than 150 countries.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Haje is considering dressing up as “supply chain disruptions” for Halloween, whereas Christine is contemplating dressing up as a down round. Its new Level Lock+ with Apple Home Key support replaces your current lock and enables you to unlock your door and provides you with some exclusivity for now, Darrell writes.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

He has a deep history of investing in deep tech startups that have gone on to disrupt industries across AI, data, semiconductors, among others.” “Sima.ai’s software and hardware platform can be used to enable scaling machine learning to [a range of] embedded edge applications. As over-100-employee Sima.ai

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

However, a change-point is in the offing as insurtechs like the Kenya-based insurtech Turaco introduce new technologies and products that are disrupting the market. Pantone co-founded Turaco with Peter Gross after their stint at MIC Global (Micro-Ensure), a tech-enabled embedded insurance provider.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 6, 2022

In conjunction with the launch, TC Ventures announces its first two partnerships: an angel investment in Turtle in late 2021 and a seed investment in Everimpact in early 2022. Founded by Isabelle Rickmers, the company’s mission is to enable data driven recruitment decisions at global scale and to provide seafarers with a safe home.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

To meet the changing startup landscape, we’re refreshing and reimagining TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 in a big way, with more of what you love and new ways to accelerate your growth — new stages, new content, and new opportunities. Oh, and if you were laid off recently, we are offering a free Expo+ pass to TC Disrupt 2023. Kyle has more.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

There’s another episode out of Inside Startup Battlefield, the podcast mini-documentary getting a behind-the-scenes look at the TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield. Oh, and if you want to speak at TechCrunch Disrupt, you can apply now to speak ! Maggie just dropped the new EP: Getting to know the Battlefield 200. You can sign up here.

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2023

billion of financial fraud in 2022 to the Federal Trade Commission. Christine also wrote about the District of Columbia Attorney General announcing an agreement with SoLo Funds, a fintech company that enables peer-to-peer lending, to settle a lawsuit that alleged SoLo Funds engaged in predatory lending practices. reported $8.8

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Before we go any further, here’s a bit more context on technical due diligence for software: TDD applies to traditional software companies and non-software companies enabled by custom created software. Not only is there a cyclicality in the work (higher in summer), but it has declined significantly over time, especially in 2022.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Better Dairy says it will use the funds to accelerate its R&D efforts with the aim of commercialising its first products by early 2022. While our intention was initially to enable a wave of better dairy products, our ambitions have grown to target the disruption of the entire dairy supply chain across dairy and non-dairy categories.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Boston-based AppMap , going through TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield this week, wants to stop this bad code from ever making it into production. It was described by security experts as a “design failure of catastrophic proportions,” and demonstrated the potentially far-reaching consequences of shipping bad code.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

If we could find a way to make it taste good, we felt like we had the potential to disrupt the entire energy drink market and really the caffeine market as a whole,” he added. What emerged was “patent-pending hyper-soluble caffeine technology,” that enables VAE Labs to “significantly increase solubility of caffeine and liquid,” Bogdan said.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

The service can scan public sources including news publications, blogs, and SEC filings to gauge consumer sentiment, for example, or predict how supply chain disruptions might impact a business. It has 80 employees currently, and plans to end 2022 with a headcount over 100. ” Accern has raised $20 million in capital to date. .

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

“Pando’s no-code capabilities enable business users to customize the apps while maintaining platform integrity — reducing the need for IT resources for each customization.” The result of those major disruptions? ” Pando makes a best effort to automate processes around the supply chain. billion in 2019.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

Our brand is very disruptive on the shelf, and so we believe that retail is important in our discovery. Berger started Bundle x Joy in 2022 after spending the past 15 years in the pet industry, most notably at PetSmart and Nestlé, where she ran Castor & Pollux’s organic dog and cat food line.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2022

By the time you’re reading this, we’ll be two days away from TechCrunch Disrupt! Anyway…speaking of Disrupt and Brex, I will be interviewing co-founder and co-CEO Henrique Dubugras and Anu Hariharan, managing director of YC’s growth fund, YC Continuity, live in a Fireside Chat on October 19! Hello, hello. Soooo exciting!

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

Smart said that group revenue in 2022 was £67 million, up 65% increase compared to 2021. “We are on a mission to transform retirement, savings and financial wellbeing… This is a $62 trillion global sector in the early stages of being disrupted, and we are uniquely positioned to take advantage of that.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2022

But even with that in mind, 2022 just hit different. Proving that home automation can be a tough nut to crack, Insteon abruptly shut down in mid-April 2022, turning off its cloud servers without giving customers any warning. Sebastian Thrun at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2017. Kitty Hawk. Image Credits: TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

Zestworld is bringing together every aspect of the comic creator business and community into one centralized platform that is disrupting how comic creators publish and own IP, as well as enabling fans to connect with creators directly in entirely novel ways.”. Both joined a Series A round led by General Catalyst that provides $9.37

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 10, 2023

Investing in a tokenomics insights platform that offers unparalleled access to on-chain metrics and information reflects SCB 10X’s mission of expanding the disruptive potentials of blockchain technology,” Mukaya (Tai) Panich, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of SCB 10X. Revenues jumped from 7.4 percent to a record of $35.6

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The company, which exhibited as part of the Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt, builds dolls that include programmable computers that girls can code through an app. The device has a screen and is Bluetooth-enabled to receive code via the doll’s companion app.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2022

The company’s technology is essentially APIs that provide a “headless” offering — meaning the shop front technology is separated from the back technology so customizations and maintenance can be made in one section without disrupting the other — for merchants that want to be more in control of their e-commerce tech stack.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 11, 2023

Alchera’s technology works accurately and efficiently in the business field 2022 Notable Venture Company of the Year Award (Photo = beSuccess) Q. Alchera has made significant strides in global markets since 2022. was grappling with forest fires leading to power disruptions and water scarcity. At that juncture, the U.S.

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