TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

Friederike Grosse-Holz, a director at impact investment firm Blue Horizon, said lab-grown meat is “a little like a moonshot,” but predicts that 11% of the seafood, meat, eggs and dairy consumed globally in 2035 will come from alternative sources. Use alternative financing to fuel VC-level growth without diluting ownership.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 29, 2022

India, which has doubled its pool of unicorns to over 100 in the past two years, has attracted over $75 billion in investments from tech giants Google, Meta and Amazon and venture funds Sequoia, Tiger Global, SoftBank, Alpha Wave, Lightspeed and Accel in the past half decade. Accel and Quona recently backed Shivalik Small Finance Bank.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Venture capitalists pin their hopes and expectations on revenue because it’s a clear signal of how quickly their investment may grow. 2022 crypto predictions from Prime Trust CFO Rodrigo Vicuna. 2022 crypto predictions from Prime Trust CFO Rodrigo Vicuna. Is algorithmic VC investment compatible with due diligence?

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

According to a recent dataset from CB Insights , crypto startups raised more capital than ever before in Q1 2022 and set records across a host of other metrics. billion in total investment during Q1 2022, an all-time high that bested the prior record (Q4 2021) by around $400 million. Decentralized finance startups raised $2.1

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

What you should know about working with corporate venture investment committees. SPACs are the construct VCs need to fund clean tech. and globally, VC activity in 2022 is well on track to exceed a long-term trend that started in 2006 for total amount invested. Focusing on a narrow slice of the VC pie.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

We’re thrilled to tap into this controversy and excitement once again as we announce the star-studded agenda for TechCrunch Sessions: Crypto 2022. We’re so excited to hold this event in the city of Miami, which has encapsulated so much of the recent excitement surrounding emerging tech development and investment in the crypto sector.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

TechCrunch is excited to announce the six companies pitching in person and onstage at TC Sessions Mobility 2022. Yoon founded a seed fund, Forest Ventures focusing in automotive sector and was an investment director at SAIC capital, one of the leaders in China’s automotive industry. ” Mar Hershenson — Pear VC.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Buy now, pay later (BNPL) has quickly established itself as the go-to method of financing for a variety of purchases, particularly online. This financing model has primarily been available to customers shopping online, but customers outside the U.S. have already dipped their toes into similar alternatives at brick-and-mortar stores.

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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

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

While leagues behind fintech as a whole, insurtech startups have still attracted a significant amount of investment over the last few years — $43 billion between 2016 and 2022, according to a recent report. Do you expect late-stage insurtech investment volume and valuations to fall further than what we have already seen this year?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

We’re thrilled to tap into this controversy and excitement once again as we announce the star-studded agenda for TechCrunch Sessions: Crypto 2022. We’re so excited to hold this event in the city of Miami, which has encapsulated so much of the recent excitement surrounding emerging tech development and investment in the crypto sector.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

We’re thrilled to tap into this controversy and excitement once again as we announce the star-studded agenda for TechCrunch Sessions: Crypto 2022. We’re so excited to hold this event in the city of Miami, which has encapsulated so much of the recent excitement surrounding emerging tech development and investment in the crypto sector.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Last month, it was one of the 60 startups to get accepted into the Google for Startups Black Founders Fund 2022 cohort, which included some non-dilutive funding. The $100-a-year product witnessed significant usage among consumers, particularly employees working in various finance-related institutions across the country.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

Over the past decade, some of the biggest names in the tech, VC, automotive and aerospace industries have poured millions of dollars into developing electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. And that investment trend shows no sign of slowing any time soon. We’ll be announcing a third panelist soon.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 31, 2023

Register Indonesian digital bank Superbank , supported by Grab, Singtel, and Emtek Group, is collaborating with Singapore’s Genesis Alternative Ventures to offer a financing package of $40 million for startups in Indonesia. This initiative will primarily focus on startups in the series B and series C funding stages.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 9, 2022

I’ve been asked by portfolio companies and plenty of others about how they should be changing their strategy given the stock market pullback and what they’ve been hearing on “VC twitter”. 3) Do you need to raise a large amount of growth capital in 2022? It was super hard to get any kind of financing before, and it will remain so.

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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. CB Insights forecasts a roughly 20% drop in total VC investments from Q1 to Q2, leaving ambitious young companies scrambling to fight for scraps.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Tuesday, March 15, 2022! Now it’s just the final two weeks until we rock into the second real period of 2022. Startups and VC. Tiger and Insight Partners led the investment, giving the AI workload orchestrator a huge capital base from which to grow. PT, subscribe here. Big Tech Inc.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

He is also the founder and managing partner of HartBeat Ventures, an early-stage VC firm with a focus on lifestyle, media and technology. What’s more, Hart’s investment company seems to accomplish this while maintaining a focus on inclusion — financial inclusion specifically. Venture funding inequity remains a big issue.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 31, 2023

The BTC ETF drives a resurgence in interest in web3 financing. US VC investment falls from $275b in 2022 to $200b in 2023 & sustains at about $200-220b in 2024 as LP interest in venture attenuates after the euphoria in 2020 & 2021. The hangover from web3’s raucous 2022 extends into 2023. Score : 0.5.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

with Yoon Choi (Muirwoods Ventures), Mar Hershenson (Pear VC) and Gabriel Scheer (Elemental Excelerator). We’ve also recently added two new ways to attend the event; Expo Only and Online Only passes ($75 and $45, respectively). . How to Land Early-Stage Funding. Spoiler alert: Uber for X is no longer a differentiator.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 3, 2024

Angels often make their first real impact post-investment by helping a portfolio company develop a “real” Board, by insisting on documented processes, key metrics and measures and a more rigorous approach to corporate oversight and accountability. The median number of Director seats held by angel groups for their 2022 investments was 4.5,

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

with Yoon Choi (Muirwoods Ventures), Mar Hershenson (Pear VC) and Gabriel Scheer (Elemental Excelerator). We’ve also recently added two new ways to attend the event; Expo Only and Online Only passes ($75 and $45, respectively). . How to Land Early-Stage Funding. Spoiler alert: Uber for X is no longer a differentiator.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

The first mission, which ispace aims to conduct in the latter half of 2022, is being furnished by earlier financing. The Series C was led by Japanese VC firm Incubate Fund, with additional investment from partnerships managed by Innovation Engine, funds managed by SBI Investment Co.,

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2022

with Yoon Choi (Muirwoods Ventures), Mar Hershenson (Pear VC) and Gabriel Scheer (Elemental Excelerator). We’ve also recently added two new ways to attend the event; Expo Only and Online Only passes ($75 and $45, respectively). . How to Land Early-Stage Funding. Spoiler alert: Uber for X is no longer a differentiator.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

It’s possible that your pre-seed, pre-revenue startup could similarly defy gravity, but in July 2022, it’s going to be difficult to find many investors who want to bet on a company with no traction. If your company is too nascent to be valued, convertible notes might be a viable way to secure early financing.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2023

On Friday, PitchBook’s Q1 2023 B2B fintech investment report showed that investment into enterprise fintech was $11.8 Though it is a decrease from the same quarter in 2022, it was above the first quarter of 2021. And compared to the shrinking of quarter-to-quarter investments for the rest of 2022, the $11.8

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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 chart above shows the predicted invested in grey & actuals in orange. The model predicts about $30b in early stage VC in 2023 (assuming a 10 year rate of 3.7%).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2023

Amid market volatility, decentralized finance, or DeFi, is an area that continues to be in focus in both the crypto VC world and across the community as new use cases, protocols and projects arise. What were the biggest challenges your firm faced in 2022? What steps are you taking to better prepare for 2023?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Silicon Valley law firm Cooley recently reported that it “handled 298 disclosable venture capital financings for Q3 2022, representing $8.1 billion of invested capital, continuing a downward trend for both metrics and representing the lowest for both since Q4 2019.” Yet, November was also when U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

These startups offer embedded finance solutions; Maelis Carraro , Catalyst Fund MD, explains the thought process behind this selection in a statement. First off, from Kenya, Koa enables users to save and invest, gaining control over their finances. to accelerate 30 new inclusive fintech startups by 2022. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

However, it appears that even though VCs are proceeding more cautiously than before and taking their time with due diligence, they are still investing. CB Insights recently found that two of the largest global VC firms, Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, actually backed more fintech companies in 2022 than any other category.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

A seven-month-old fintech app that is helping millions of Indians to begin their investment and saving journeys for the first time in their lives has attracted the attention of Tiger Global. The Bengaluru-based Jar said on Thursday it has raised $32 million in its Series A financing round, just months after securing its seed funding.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2022

It’s Friday, June 10, 2022, and Haje is on the road, so it’s just me today. TC Sessions: Climate 2022. Startups and VC. Getting in on a growing market : The International Finance Corp. is poised to invest in Partech’s Africa Fund II, Annie reports. PDT, subscribe here. Have a great weekend! The TechCrunch Top 3.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 3, 2022

to $360b invested per year. But, 2022 saw a swing upwards, reversing a three-year decline. More financings occur outside San Francisco, but Bay Area companies now raise 2000 to 2500 rounds per year, up from 404. It’s not that VC dollars have left San Francisco to fuel other geographies.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Addepar , which makes software to track investment performance, is also actively hiring with roughly 50 open roles across the U.S., 401(k) provider Human Interest , which recently increased total funding to $500 million, including an investment from BlackRock, has 23 open roles, including in engineering, product and revenue.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2022

Making venture more accessible: Despite press releases, sound bites and increased awareness surrounding the inequities in venture funding, many barriers remain for women — and POC-led startups seeking financing — and people hoping to work at a VC firm. Is your company interested in sponsoring or exhibiting at TechCrunch Disrupt 2022?

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