TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

The round is led by Redseed Ventures, with participation from Baring Vostok, Kismet, Flyer One Ventures and Alexander Nevinsky, a partner at New York-based I2BF. The new funding will be used to further expand the reach of its online courses. Ireland, the U.S., Ireland, the U.S.,

education

TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

And according to David Wechsler, a principal at OMERS Ventures, “having an embedded strategy is not required for venture funding.” ” On the flip side, he predicts that corporates with venture capital arms that are “committed to the insurance sector will likely step up their involvement.” That hasn’t changed.

opportunity

TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

Private equity firm TPG led its Series F, which also included participation from BlackRock, Greycroft, Owl Rock (a division of Blue Owl), Senator Investment Group, Torch Capital, Industry Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Galaxy Digital, Headline and Kevin Durant & Rich Kleiman’s Thirty Five Ventures, among others.

education

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Lerman previously co-founded and led Yext, the publicly traded brand management company that uses a cloud-based network of apps and search engines to keep company information up to date across the web. based jobs are now either remote or hybrid, according to a March 2022 Gallup poll , representing a huge potential customer base.

mix-use

TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

I don’t have much to say about this since anyone who follows the most basic tenets of society and uses logic understands it is wrong and ridiculous. My one thought: perhaps, it’s time for us all to put our grown-up pants on and stop normalizing this kind of behavior. The pairing has been something of a mixed bag.

micromobility

Angel Capital Association

JUNE 14, 2023

were made in 2022. For investors themselves, angel investing is a mix of exhilaration and caution. The legal structures have gotten so much better, and the costs have come down to assemble investors using instruments like the SPV [special purpose vehicle] to invest together. If we get the money, how will we use it?

angel investing

TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. But the fact that its valuation sits at roughly 15x ARR could be mixed news for startups looking for an exit, wrote Alex Wilhelm in The Exchange. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members.

startup

TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

Since then, many of the key trends and themes we surfaced have come to pass: Airtable clinched an $11 billion valuation in December 2021 after raising a $735 million Series F with help from Salesforce Ventures and Michael Dell’s MSD Capital. Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription.

peer-to-peer

TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2021

Use discount code CZECHIA to save 25% off a 1-year Extra Crunch membership. Oleksander Bondarev , associate, Credo Ventures. Ondrej Bartos , founding partner, Credo Ventures. ný , principal, Y Soft Ventures. Vaclav Pavlecka , managing partner, Air Ventures. This can be professional, personal or a mix of the two.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Sequoia, the top venture capital firm on the face of the earth, put in a growth round that valued the company at close to half a unicorn. I imagined a future Wing media arm with a TV channel, a venture capital fund… …and then it all came crashing down. Audrey Gelman was on the cover of Inc magazine, visibly pregnant. No one ever did.

hospitality

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Jonathan Metrick is the chief growth officer at Sagard & Portage Ventures , where he helps build some of the world's leading fintech companies. Use cohort analysis to drive smarter startup growth. Let’s look at the three growth trends we saw in 2021 and how they will shape marketing in 2022. ” Predictions for 2022.

disruption

TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

Will the public widely accept and use it? Sigari is co-founder and managing partner of UP.Partners, an early-stage venture firm investing in technology companies that support a multi-dimensional future. And we’ll announce a third expert to the mix soon. . We’ll be announcing a third panelist soon.

transportation

AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 10, 2023

Register Stylework , an Indian co-working space aggregator , has secured a successful Series A1 funding round, raising $2 million at a $20 million valuation from institutional investors, including Capriglobal Holdings , QI Ventures, and undisclosed family offices.

coworking

TechCrunch

JULY 3, 2022

Regulations governing the process continue to evolve in the market’s favor, and 2022’s venture funding pullback may be the final piece needed to quiet the fundraising strategy’s naysayers for good. Some traditional VCs have even scouted on the platforms or encouraged their portfolio companies to pursue the process.

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2023

million in funding led by Better Tomorrow Ventures. Perhaps Jake Gibson, founding partner of Better Tomorrow Ventures, said it best. billion of financial fraud in 2022 to the Federal Trade Commission. So why are fintechs today worth less than they were before the recent venture boom? Well, people in the U.S. reported $8.8

peer-to-peer

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Might come as a surprise, but the audio world, in large part, uses general-purpose tools to discuss and iterate their files, which is extremely inefficient,” Bradley said. In August 2022, Soundtrap was testing a tool for people to write comments on different parts of a track. Highnote is free to use, and no download is required.

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Jason Malki

APRIL 7, 2022

Daniel is an immigrant New Yorker who defines himself as a rare mix of a producer and a serial entrepreneur with a variety of experience and success within the startup scene, including music, tech and video content. In 2018, Daniel fell in love with a mix of video and new technologies like AR and VR. Sustainability is the future.

sustainability

TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. — TechCrunch+ (@TechCrunchPlus) April 20, 2022. For any venture capitalist, overlooking a potential unicorn isn’t just potentially embarrassing — it’s the sort of mistake that can haunt them for a lifetime.

pitching

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The unprecedented rush of venture capital into startups is having an interesting knock-on effect: “Venture capital investors are racing to pay more to buy smaller pieces of startups that are less profitable than before,” writes Alex Wilhelm, who studied Silicon Valley Bank’s State of the Markets Report Q4 2021.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. Could it also be a sign of some of the changes we are planning to track in 2022?”. Lisa Rich, managing partner, Hemisphere Ventures. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. Thanks very much for reading, and have a great week.

health

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Kikoff is hiring for 10 roles (a mix of hybrid and remote), including senior product manager, associate product manager, senior product designers, engineers and a growth marketing manager. At NEA, a venture firm with over $25 billion in AUM, she focused on fintech and consumer products. Super interesting read.

opportunity

TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

It’s April 27, 2022, and here’s a thing we didn’t see coming: May. The right-to-repair hackers that live somewhere deep within us are mighty pleased. It’s fundraising season for venture funds, apparently! MassMutual Ventures closed a $300 million fund to back Asian and European startups. PT, subscribe here.

micromobility

TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2022

Configuring a robot to mix cement is easy, but delivering a CementTron 3000 to a job site, training employees on its use, and keeping it maintained are not the kinds of disruptions builders are looking for, especially when margins are so thin and experienced workers are hard to find. Suzanne Fletcher, venture partner, Prime Movers Lab.

construction

TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

GPS is one of those science fiction technologies whose use is effortless for the end user and endlessly challenging for the engineers who design it. Eschewing the hybrid chip model of mixing old signals with new, it wants one chip monitoring the singular band of L5 signals to drive cost and power savings for devices. government agency.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

In 2021, one-third of all unicorns created were fintech companies: investor FOMO, increased use of digital payments, BNPL, and other financial services created a gravitational field that attracted more than one out of every five dollars VCs invested last year. Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 22, 2022

The total funds obtained through series A reached $33 million or equivalent to IDR 510 billion on October 20, 2022. ” According to Eka Himawan, Xurya plans to allocate funding for the expansion of solar power development have tripled since the beginning of 2022. Xurya, which previously received Series A funding of US$ 21.5

energy

TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

We want every merchant selling online to use our tools to run and superpower their stores.”. NFX and QED Investors each led a round of funding among the total investment and were joined by 645 Ventures and Firstminute Capital. There was also some venture debt mixed in, and TriplePoint Capital provided that.

mix-use

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Thursday, February 17, 2022! versus-China battle but could have a third hub, or series of hubs, in the mix. Our own Matt Burns chatted with Emmalyn Shaw of Flourish Ventures and Itai Damti, a co-founder at Unit. PST, subscribe here. It has also been reforged at a far higher price.

collaboration

TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

Hivery , a startup that bills itself as an “optimization platform” for retailers, today announced that it raised $30 million in a Series B round led by Tiger Global, the embattled private equity firm, with participation from Blackbird Ventures, AS1 Growth Partners and OneVentures. billion in Q1 2022 compared to $26.6

mix-use

TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

Looking ahead, KPMG’s view on the prospects for financial services M&A over the next six to 12 months is mixed. Wiseasy is a brand you might not have heard of, but it’s a popular Android-based payment terminal maker used in restaurants, hotels, retail outlets and schools across the Asia-Pacific region.

real estate

Angel Capital Association

JUNE 27, 2024

The recent data from ACA for all Angel Groups shows a similar recent pattern, with only 7% in the $1-3 million range and 12% in the 3-6 million range: Source: TCA Venture Group, Angel Capital Association Angel Funders Report There are of course higher valuations (as expected) in Series A compared to Seed/Pre-Seed, and dispersion in each stage.

funders

TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

Venture-built indexes of startups and other firms have proved useful tools in recent years, led by Bessemer’s cloud index , which is now also a tradable ETF on Nasdaq. There’s not a great number of public API-first companies, which means that useful data on the cohort is somewhat scarce. What’s GGV built?

startup

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

“SwiftConnect also tapped into the fact that administrators were also seeking to use physical space and real estate more efficiently.” Using SwiftConnect, employees and tenants can add their employee badge to Apple Wallet on the iPhone or Apple Watch after an initial set-up process.

real estate

Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Also outline in the report outlined that the SEC’s Small Business Advisory Committee adopted recommendations in 2022 that the SEC does not increase the current thresholds for individual investors to qualify as accredited. In particular, it helps venture-backed startups. This is the first update to this threshold since the 1950s.

financing

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The intention for us was always to deliver on a number of different areas of gynaecological health — not just changing the tampon so it serves people better and so it delivers pain relief. In the US, for example, about 30% of the tampon market is scented tampons. So even your used tampon has to smell good, apparently!

health

TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

New data indicates that while the group of companies raised more capital in 2022 than in 2020, a downward trend in fundraising activity throughout the last calendar year shows that no startup cohort is immune from the venture capital slowdown. Tiffany Luck and Chelcie Taylor , investors at GGV, sat with us to chat about the data.

ventures

TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

billion all-female founding teams raised in Q1 2022. Venture and technology markets are not as confident as they have been in the past. When the economy is volatile, appetite for risk decreases, which impacts venture totals in general and certain founders in particular. The decline isn’t a surprise. of total funding.

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