American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 30, 2025

This unified platform approach is especially valuable for Mercurys core users: fast-moving startups, e-commerce brands, venture capital firms, and small businesses that need scalable financial infrastructure without enterprise-level complexity. Since its last funding round, Mercury has expanded its capabilities in notable ways.

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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. These startups will struggle to raise capital at any price and most of them will fail.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Medium is on the lookout for some 2022 roundup stories. We’d love to read your takes on what 2022 meant for you as an entrepreneur or, more broadly, for the startup environment. 2022 in bad dates? 2022 in getting covid (again)? 2022 in vibe shifts ? Did you hear? But has it all been doom and gloom?

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MARCH 28, 2022

Here’s what I sent him: 1/ Startup = Growth by PG: [link] 2/ Competing To Win Deals by Fred Wilson: [link] pic.twitter.com/q7GG2k7UAX — Semil (@semil) March 27, 2022. So I am reposting it below: The venture capital business is highly competitive. Not this one. So you might as well play the game that way from the start.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 29, 2021

The acceleration of venture capital and the burgeoning check sizes in the last few years has led to a decline in traditional due diligence. The pace at which deals were done increased, and the time to reach what VCs love to call “conviction” fell sharply. This compressed diligence cycles, leading to less intrusive vetting.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 27, 2024

The Women’s Fund seeks companies and trends at the intersection of innovation, venture investing, and female entrepreneurship. years, and their companies have a lower burn rate, using 25% less capital per month vs. the overall market, according to 2022 Review of Funding for Female Founders by Female Founders Fund.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 22, 2025

In todays press release, WalletHub analyst Chip Lupo provides positive statistics about startups, explaining, Florida is the best state for starting a business in 2025, boasting the second-most startups per capita and the highest percentage of adults who engage in entrepreneurship. Beyond taxes, Floridas business growth is impressive.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2022

Buy a TechCrunch+ membership before July 4, 2022, and save 50% on an annual subscription. ” Useful news for investors and founders, but a worrisome signal for workers at software companies: Aggregator Layoffs.fyi tracked 75 layoff events in May 2022, and as of this writing, 152 in June. . “The 2022 correction is different.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2022

We’re still excited to invest in longstanding themes related to the transition to the digital economy and the globalization of entrepreneurship, and we are actively pursuing opportunities to back visionary entrepreneurs with proven business models. Our thesis has largely remained the same.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Register Indonesia-based venture capital firm East Ventures and Seoul-based venture capital firm SV Investment have joined forces to establish a new fund targeted at $100 million. In 2022 alone, East Ventures disbursed capital over 80 times yearly.

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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. Seedstars announced today it has launched a platform called Seedstars Capital with Swiss-based investment holding company xMultiplied to help new fund managers around the world launch funds and develop their investment firms.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2022

Bearing those factors and others in mind, Ben Parr, president and co-founder of e-commerce marketing platform Octane.ai, shared his e-commerce predictions for 2022 : Personalization and zero-party data become critical. ” My prediction: We’ll be running many articles in 2022 with tactics for zero-party data collection.

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 15, 2024

The company now has North America’s largest parking network having also purchased Premier Parking’s 500+ locations in 2022. Being part of a diverse founding team attracted early funding from Haloge n Ventures , a venture capital firm focusing- on early-stage consumer technology companies led by female and co-ed teams.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Global CVC Conference – Unlocking Pathways to Investment For the first time in 2023, COMEUP will host a “Global CVC Conference,” with participation from over 160 venture capitalists (VCs). The Global CVC Conference aims to facilitate significant investments and international market entry for startups.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 24, 2023

Launched in 2022, GGV Capital’s SMBTech 50 demonstrates both the breadth and depth of the sector and the enthusiasm of venture capital investors for these companies. About GGV Capital GGV Capital is a global venture capital firm partnering with founders to build category-leading companies around the world.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Day One Ventures , a venture firm launched in 2018 with a pitch to combine venture capital acumen with marketing and communications support, has launched a program aimed explicitly at those impacted by tech layoffs this year. The added layer of complexity, however, is the downturn that has somewhat defined tech’s 2022.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The new year 2022 has brought new hopes for small businesses. The State Small Business Credit Initiative (SSBCI) will handle this money and send it to tribal governments, territories, and states for programs that offer venture capital or loans to small businesses. The money will come from the $1.9 trillion covid relief bil l.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 18, 2022

The program’s 2022 edition started accepting applications on April 15, and the last date for the application stage is May 31, 2022. Furthermore, the government plans to find 200 promising startups through 2022 and 1,000 promising startups, and 700 pre-unicorn startups by 2025. trillion won (US$6.4

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2022

Sarah Kunst, managing director, Cleo Capital. What kind of opportunities are you looking for in Q1 2022? Editor’s note: The answers have been edited for space and clarity. Christine Choi, partner, M13. We are following the effects of web3 or blockchain-enabled technology across each of these verticals.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 20, 2023

as of December 31, 2022, according to the FDIC. Strategic investment fund BankTech Ventures invests in companies that are developing innovative technologies that enhance the ability of community banks to serve their customers. Funding supports innovative technology companies that are taking community banks into the future.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

3 disruptive trends that will shape marketing in 2022. “What worked yesterday may not work today and likely won’t work tomorrow,” write Jonathan Metrick, chief growth officer at Sagard & Portage Ventures, and Simon Lejeune, user acquisition lead at Wealthsimple. 3 disruptive trends that will shape marketing in 2022.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 28, 2024

French Gates executes her vision through Pivo tal which she established in 2015 to fund and advance social progress through venture capital investments, philanthropic grantmaking, advocacy funding, and partnerships. The post Melinda French Gates Sets Path to Empower Women Globally appeared first on American Entrepreneurship Today®.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2022

Rhys Spence is head of research at Brighteye Ventures, a European edtech-focused fund, where he works with portfolio companies to help address priorities, with a focus on internationalization and HR. The unbundling of professional learning and entrepreneurship education. billion in H1 2022 compared to a total of $20.1

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 22, 2023

GenAI, Developer-and Data Stack-Focused Companies Dominate List as well as 80% of ET30 founders are Millennials Five years ago, Wing Venture Capital introduced their annual Enterprise Tech 30—a list of the most promising, private enterprise tech private companies across all stages of maturity. years for 2022 and 5.0

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2022

From the hottest year in startup venture capital history to a period of pessimism, how did we get to where we are today? January 2022). Here’s how far VCs have lowered revenue expectations for seed through Series B (January 2022). January 2022). It’s not a startup reckoning, it’s a recorrection (February 2022).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Two years ago, the African tech ecosystem saw newfound attention from global players that translated to the continent’s best year of receiving venture capital. Venture capital investment in Africa predicted to reach a record high this year. These predictions weren’t entirely off the mark.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2022

The astonishingly fast raise was led by previous lead investor Insight Partners, and comes just weeks after the New York-based venture capital firm raised over $20 billion for its twelfth flagship fund. billion in venture capital in 2021, more than doubling the $12 billion raised in 2020 and outpacing the two previous years combined.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

venture investment, totaling just over $4.3 Black founders raised 1.3% of last year’s $330 billion worth of U.S. So far this year, Black founders have raised a smaller 1.2% of the $125 billion invested.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

The first quarter of 2022 was a great period for startups to raise venture capital compared to any time other than the bonkers 2021 private-capital cycle. What makes the situation ironic is that we’re starting to see the startup layoffs , implosions , and valuation cuts that appear when venture capital is frozen.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

I was clueless about startup operations, financing and venture capital, but I didn’t need to be an economist to realize that most of the companies I worked for lacked solid fundamentals. ” What can the 2000 dot-com crash teach us about the 2022 tech downturn? Nobody expects any of this to be smooth sailing.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 1, 2022

The dampened outlook for startup funding at the start of 2022 thanks to the pandemic’s lingering uncertainties has only worsened following a global market downturn and the war in Ukraine. More posts by this contributor. Aiming to create a gender-equitable startup landscape? When it rains, it pours.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The event was a part of the National Innovation and Startup Festival (TECHFEST) and the Week of Ho Chi Minh City Innovation, Startup, and Entrepreneurship (WHISE) 2023. Post-COVID-19, Vietnam attracted growing venture capital, reaching $634 million in 2022 and nearly $500 million in the first half of 2023.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2022

Yamin Durrani. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Yamin Durrani is CEO of Kami Vision , an AI services company focused on security and safety solutions. The past couple of years were all about huge valuations and less about needing to prove peak operational efficiency across the entire business.

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StartupNation

APRIL 5, 2021

of venture capital funding ? Although the following programs are full or the application period has passed for 2021, they are expected to reopen for 2022: New Voices. Although the application deadline recently passed for 2021, be sure to keep an eye on this page to learn when 2022 applications are being accepted.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The core views are that the pace of investment will slow some in 2022 from record highs set in 2021, that things appear stable thus far, and, finally, that this year could bring an acceleration in European deep tech investment and startup activity. But for our purposes, we want to be clear about what deep tech is and is not. ” We agree.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Investment stats in late 2022 indicated that investors were becoming more cautious about their allocations and favoring capital deployment in proven, existing portfolio companies. Of note, Keiretsu Forum deal counts in 2022 remained well above 2018 and 2019 (pre-pandemic) levels.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2022

Evan Kipperman is a partner in the emerging companies and venture capital practice at Wiggin and Dana. Paul Hughes is a partner in the emerging companies and venture capital practice at Wiggin and Dana. Len Gray is a partner in the emerging companies and venture capital practice at Wiggin and Dana.

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