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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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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StartupNation

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Michigan is now the state with the highest growth in VC investment. Here are the top Detroit startups and tech companies to watch in 2022. Small Detroit startups to watch in 2022. InvestNext is a Detroit fintech startup that has created a platform to streamline how real estate investment firms raise and manage capital.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2021

My question heading into 2022 is: How can the tech community sneak activation energy into startups, especially those built by historically overlooked founders, beyond capital? The macro trends forcing change on the investment management industry. The ‘art’ of VC startup valuations is a forgery. RIP Y Combinator.

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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

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Last year, round sizes for climate tech startups quadrupled, with more than 600 investments totaling over $40 billion. The start of 2022 shows no signs of slowing, with more startups jumping into the fray to tackle one of humanity’s biggest challenges. David Frykman , general partner, Norrsken VC.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Our investment in Kickstarter back in 2009 is an excellent example of that. link] A quick thread 1/ — ReFi DAO #GR15 (@ReFiDAOist) September 10, 2022. USV is invested in the Toucan Protocol which is building the web3 infrastructure to bring carbon offsets on-chain and to allow them to be traded/invested/etc using DeFi protocols.

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Since the beginning of modern venture capital investing — a relatively nascent asset class — the industry has been biased toward funding what it knows best: founders with familiar demographics (white, male) in familiar geographies (Silicon Valley).

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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. David Tisch , managing partner at BoxGroup.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 28, 2023

“Founders should also evaluate which VC is able to add-value to their growth, rather than just focusing on the amount of money the investor has to offer,” Lou told AsiaTechDaily. Indelible Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in B2B SaaS startups that can scale internationally.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Register Singapore’s Jungle Ventures has announced the launch of First Cheque@Jungle , a new program aimed at investing in startups during their pre-seed and seed stages. Second, the program offers an initial investment without imposing minimum ownership criteria.

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Revolution

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In 2017, we partnered with iconic leaders in American business to turn the thesis we developed on the road — that great companies can start and scale anywhere when given a chance — into an investment vehicle. In the last decade, we’ve socialized several Rise of the Rest-isms to describe investments that check those boxes.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

According to one source , VC investments in drone companies reached $7 billion in 2021 across 199 deals, up from $2.4 billion in 2022. ” Drone imagery firm DroneBase rebrands to Zeitview, lands $55M investment by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

Portal Innovations , a biotech VC firm based in Chicago, is trying to broaden everyone’s horizons and give opportunities to biotech startups growing out of labs in Chicago, Atlanta, and hopefully beyond. Biotech proved a surprisingly bright spot in 2022’s startup correction “Momentum and an ecosystem is really important. The Bay Area?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

For Black founders, who have rarely received more than 1% of total venture capital invested in startups, 2022 wasn’t kind, and 2023 doesn’t look promising given how things are going. 3 Black founders predict little will change in VC in 2023 by Dominic-Madori Davis originally published on TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

Brett Calhoun Contributor Share on Twitter Brett Calhoun is the managing director and general partner at Redbud VC. Amid these turbulent times, the VC accelerator industry has emerged as a stalwart player. Concurrently, the number of funds raised in the eight-year period up to 2022 was 2,700 , up from 883 in 2010.

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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

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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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Over the past couple of years, there’s been an overlap between tech and art, fueling a growing interest of movie, music and sports stars investing in tech startups. What’s pulling African music artists to tech investment? According to him, powering artists and people in the creative space should be done in a startup/VC manner.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 31, 2023

Through a joint announcement, the entities unveiled their intention to combine conventional bank credit with venture capital investment, all while ensuring minimal equity dilution for shareholders. He stated that VC funding experienced a substantial decline of 60% in Q3 2022 compared to the previous year’s corresponding period.

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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. is poised to invest in Partech’s Africa Fund II, Annie reports. The fund will invest in a broad range of stages, from seed to Series D. PDT, subscribe here. Have a great weekend! Big Tech Inc.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Earth Venture Capital (Earth VC), a global climate tech venture fund with Southeast Asia focus, led the recently concluded funding round that was also participated by KSL Maritime Ventures, the venture capital arm of The Kuok Maritime Group, and existing Ampotech investors like Silicon Solution Ventures and SEEDS Capital.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

But two months into 2020, the pandemic did an excellent job of lowering expectations as investment activities from local and international investors slowed down. Venture capital investment in Africa predicted to reach a record high this year. The European VC also led the pre-seed rounds of Kippa and Edukoya. billion and $2.8

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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? She helped lead investments in companies like Contra and Landing. .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2022

It’s a bold, even damning statement — one I made in a recent discussion speculating what’s to come in 2022 for women leading startups, like myself. This creates an invalidating cycle in which female investors take fewer risks, particularly in regard to investing in female founders, and garner fewer funds than their male counterparts.

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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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2023

Having local expertise in the category every VC wants to invest in right now doesn’t hurt, either. Startups in the city raised more than $534 million through December 12, 2022, according to PitchBook, which, while not a lot of capital, is better than 2021, when they raised $336 million.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Launched in April 2022, WaveOn is designed to empower individuals without coding expertise, aligning with Skylink’s mission to democratize software development beyond traditional programmers.

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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? Is your company interested in sponsoring or exhibiting at TechCrunch Disrupt 2022? Did you know?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Ukraine’s startup ecosystem was thriving before the war and making great progress, with Ukrainian startups raising $832 Million in VC funding in 2021. VC Funding was steadily growing before the war and there are more than 50 VC firms continuing to operating in the country. Secured seed finding from SMRK VC.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2023

It’s unlikely that many investors came close to predicting what would play out in 2022. Bruce Hamilton, founder, Mech Ventures: We are contemplating decreasing our check size so we can double our number of investments from 75 to 140. The end of 2022 has been a great awakening for founders. Did you hear anyone yell “bingo?”

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 31, 2023

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. The fundraising market thaws, but at materially lower prices than the first half of 2022.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2022

Island CEO Michael Fey tells TechCrunch that the investment is a result of “very fortunate” customer demand since it launched in February. ” The mega-raise, backed by existing investors Stripes and Sequoia Capital, also follows a record year of cybersecurity VC funding and suggests this trend could continue into 2022.

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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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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at Harvard Business School, to weigh in on what we are seeing, and while they’re trying to make sense of things, too, they noted a couple of things that could impact the velocity of deal-making that we’ve been seeing. We have come back and invested with founders we originally declined.”.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

VCs invested over $5.5 billion across 412 deals in 2021, more than double the amount of capital invested in 2020, according to PitchBook data. In 2022 alone, so far, two Austin-based venture firms have announced significant raises in the city — the most recent being Next Coast Ventures.

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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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