TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

On June 21st, TechCrunch will host TC Sessions: Robotics 2022 — virtually. No TechCrunch event is complete without a pitch-off showcasing early-stage startups from around the globe. Who will you be pitching to? Bummed you missed your chance to apply for the pitch-off? The glitterati of the robotics ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

TechCrunch Disrupt 2022 kicks off in just four days, startup fans. How to Activate Your Profile: Look for an email in your inbox titled “Time to log into TechCrunch Disrupt 2022” and follow the directions. How to Use Your “Perfect Pitch” to Gain Partnerships and Grow Your Startup , with Dell for Startups. 21 online).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2023

But I’ve always found those same focuses to be especially in conflict with what it means to be an early-stage founder pitching your vision: You have to have Elon Musk-level ambition, big dreams and the ability to sell a company to investors before there are any real metrics behind it. What is this, revenue growth for ants?

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 1, 2021

In this article, we’ll explore seven essentials to help you adapt and be more successful with PR efforts in 2022. If you’re interested in having your business, product or service considered for or included in a 2022 issue, you’ll want to consult the publication’s editorial calendar to see where you’d be a good fit. Digital press kit.

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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 This shows that Africa’s investment landscape is still very promising because it continues to grow, and there’s increasing interest in multiple startup ecosystems, including nascent ecosystems.

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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. The partners complained that the quality of startups has dropped even as the volume of pitches has surged. Swaroop’s presentation from 2014. Take crypto, for instance.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 5, 2022

The MyEO DealExchange DX22 Conference will take place in Denver, Colorado, from 12-15 October 2022. The first two MyEO DealExchange conferences in 2018 and 2019 made a significant impact on the members who attended—including a 7-figure investment in Scott Mesh (EO New York)’s company. What is the Needs and Leads Speed Networking event?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

For most of the Information Age, companies that wanted to scale invested in server farms and hired teams to keep them running. At one of my first startup jobs, I walked in one day to find two sleeping co-workers who’d spent the night configuring servers at a co-locating facility 60 miles away. PitchBook found that CVCs played a part in 56.2%

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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. The company pitched to River Valley Investors in April 2022 and RVI invested one week later. Jaia Robotics Inc. Imago Rehab Imago Rehab is a robot-assisted virtual clinic for stroke recovery.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

TechCrunch’s iconic startup competition is back, as entrepreneurs from around the world pitch expert judges and vie for the Startup Battlefield Cup and $100,000. TechCrunch’s iconic startup competition is back as entrepreneurs from around the world pitch expert judges and vie for the Startup Battlefield Cup and $100,000. Yes, Chief.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

On June 1, 2022, our crew is hosting an extended TechCrunch Live episode with Columbus investors, founders and business leaders. There’s even a pitch-off, and we’re looking for Columbus-area startups to apply and pitch. Register for the virtual event here , and apply for the pitch-off here. Apply for the pitch-off!

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Investors are spending 24% less time looking at pitch decks in 2022, compared to 2021. It’s pretty rare that I get to talk to someone who is as big of a pitch deck nerd as I am, but when I was finally able to nerd out with the research lead at DocSend , how could I not? Your investor has an investment thesis.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

This is a great moment to launch a fintech startup, but which firm is best to pitch if you’re an early-stage embedded finance company based in Latin America? Each respondent was kind enough to let us know how they want to be pitched, and for grins, one shared an example of a cold e-mail that worked. Ethan Choi , partner, Accel.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Here are my predictions for 2022: Web3 consumer products go fully mainstream with more than 35% of Americans, about 100m people, engaging with them by 2023. Most companies pitch PLG forward motions when raising capital and some have internal initiatives to push in this direction. VCs invested $10b per year. MAU growing quickly.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2022

For decades, there were several blocks where angels and VC partners camped out at café tables, taking pitches between lattes. Not a complete deck, but an embellished elevator pitch meant to whet investors’ appetites before you serve them the full meal. How to make a teaser trailer for your startup pitch. Start here.

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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. Hailing from around the United States and the globe, founders will pitch on the main stage, for four minutes, followed by an intense Q&A with our expert panel of judges. Startups pitching on the main stage.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2023

Nancy Wang Contributor Share on Twitter Nancy Wang is the general manager and director of engineering for AWS Data Protection and a venture partner at Felicis Ventures on enterprise infrastructure investments. billion in 2022 to $267.3 There’s no more room for a good product winning over a CISO despite a bad pitch.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Exhibiting your early-stage startup at TC Sessions: Mobility 2022 in San Mateo, California on May 18-20 is one of the fastest ways to discover new opportunities and accelerate your growth potential. An exhibitors-only invitation to the live, online pitch feedback session with TC staff on May 20. Apply it liberally.

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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

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

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

We’re encouraged to think of pitch meetings as a trial by fire: If an entrepreneur can negotiate deadly traps and slay the doubt monsters that bedevil tech investors, they’ll be rewarded with a golden SAFE note at the end of their quest. — Felicis (@felicis) October 27, 2022. “If pic.twitter.com/9mAzoEiF7Z.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 6, 2022

The way people fund their business has also been evolving and, in 2022, the traditional ways like angel investment and VCs will walk hand in hand with new and emerging blockchain-based options that offer loans outside the traditional banking system. Angel investment. Get angel investment for your startup. Crypto lending.

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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

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Chattha is the CEO and founder of VSC and founding partner of VSC Ventures, a $21 million investment vehicle to back startups. . The difference between pitching a VC and pitching a journalist (lol). How tech PR’s job changed in 2022 by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 4, 2023

Video pitching. I see an uptick in pitching via pre-recorded video. We used Loom to pre-record our pitch and share it with potential investors. It’s a great way to personalize a pitch deck and share it with interested parties. Here’s what they shared. I see this as a new trend that will only grow over time.

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 14, 2023

were made in 2022. Unlike traditional lending, angel investment is seldom tied to collateral, college degrees, or other assets that some entrepreneurs don’t have access to. Unlike traditional lending, angel investment is seldom tied to collateral, college degrees, or other assets that some entrepreneurs don’t have access to.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2022

Earlier this month at TechCrunch Early Stage, I talked to Frederique Dame, an investing partner at GV, about product-market fit. — Frederique Dame (@fffabulous) April 14, 2022. “Trust me with what you don’t know or what’s not working, because once we invest, we’re going to have to work on this stuff anyway,” she said.

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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

MAY 11, 2022

But, historically speaking, choosing just 20 startups to compete in Startup Battlefield and exhibit for free meant that we had to say no to many incredible, investment-worthy startups. All TC Startup Battlefield 200 founders get to flash-pitch in front of investors and TechCrunch editors. Still, this is no walk in the park.

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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

APRIL 26, 2022

— TechCrunch+ (@TechCrunchPlus) April 20, 2022. Why a16z pitched Deel to lead its Series A. Why a16z pitched Deel to lead its Series A. Join @YourProtagonist and @Sophie_Alcorn ( @AlcornLaw ) for a Twitter Spaces chat on April 26 at 2:30 PT/ 5:30 ET [link]. Image Credits: Andreessen Horowitz / Deel.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2022

Lotti Siniscalco is a partner at Emergence Capital , where she invests in early-stage enterprise software companies. During TechCrunch’s Early Stage event, she headlined a session dedicated to giving feedback on pitch decks. Constructing pitch decks is part art and part science. I’m sending you this pitch deck. .”

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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. Microsoft Corp.

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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. Tiger and Insight Partners led the investment, giving the AI workload orchestrator a huge capital base from which to grow. PT, subscribe here. Well, we’ve done it. Big Tech Inc.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

TC Sessions: Mobility will feature speakers on the main stage, a bevy of startup exhibits, demos, networking and a live pitch-off with a pretty sweet prize. TechCrunch Mobility Pitch-off. TechCrunch Mobility Pitch-off. Who will be on our stage? Turning an AV Innovation into a Product. Founders — apply here.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 29, 2021

In venture investing, back channeling can be used by an investor to gut check an entrepreneur they’re about to wire millions of dollars to — or vice versa, by the snappy founder who wants to make sure the money behind their money is stable.

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