TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2022

There’s a galaxy of talented and/or well-connected startup founders out there, but few have any prior fundraising experience, which levels the playing field by an inch or two. Sarah Kunst, managing director, Cleo Capital. What kind of opportunities are you looking for in Q1 2022? Christine Choi, partner, M13.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 27, 2024

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. Pitchbook reports that in 2022 U.S.-based based startups with “all-women teams” received just 1.9% (or around $4.5

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

I asked some investor friends to share, as the title suggests, one thing they wished people better understood about venture capital. There were no ground rules other than to specify that ‘people’ could be founders, politicians, LPs, etc and that it would be default attributed but anonymous if they desired.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2022

Even if you didn’t experience this first-hand as a startup founder or employee, the sheer amount of funding dispersed just last year proves my point. The past couple of years were all about huge valuations and less about needing to prove peak operational efficiency across the entire business. This year’s a bit different.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

As is our custom, you’ll see quite a few TechCrunch+ articles in the coming days that share predictions for 2022. It won’t be too unrealistic to expect something in 2022. AWS will buy a SaaS company, and other 2022 enterprise predictions. .” 3 views: Pay attention to these startup theses in 2022.

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Revolution

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

This article originally appeared in Harvard Business Review on September 28, 2022. “ This article originally appeared in Harvard Business Review on September 28, 2022. “ According to PitchBook , VC investments were down 30% in Q2 2022 compared with 2021, and IPOs hit a 50-year low. How can you avoid this unnecessary fate?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

The venture capital market is retreating somewhat from its aggressive 2021 pace, new data indicates. But while aggregated data is useful for charting larger and slower-moving trends in the startup market, we care more this morning about near-term changes. We’re only discussing the U.S.

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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. million fund to back founders spinning out of turbulent startups.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Dave Samuel, the co-founder of Freestyle.vc. An experienced executive, serial entrepreneur and internet pioneer in software and media, Dave Samuel is co-founder of Freestyle.vc. The seed-stage venture capital firm holds more than $565 million assets under management and investments in over 150 startups.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

David Tisch is the managing partner of BoxGroup, an NYC-based seed-stage venture capital firm that has invested in more than 400 seed-stage startups, including Plaid, Ro, PillPack, Ramp, Amplitude, Airtable, Flatiron Health, Stripe, Warby Parker, Harry’s, Oscar, Flexport, ClassPass, Vine, GroupMe and more.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 28, 2023

Register Startup founders are often too focused on the amount of money they can get from an investor that they mostly fail to see the value that other investors have to offer to grow their businesses further. Indelible Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in B2B SaaS startups that can scale internationally.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

According to Mike Asem , a partner at the Midwest-focused M25 venture capital shop, the new terms help Y Combinator, but come with “tradeoffs” for the group and founders themselves. We’ll examine the impact that the new deal may have on startup founders, both experienced and not.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Backed by Draper, of course, the program will launch in April 2022. As founder of the famed Silicon Valley venture capital firm known as Draper Fisher Jurvetson, or DFJ, Draper in 2018 introduced the Startup House concept. As part of the program, DSH will invest up to $100,000 in pre-seed startups. .

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 25, 2023

MINNEAPOLIS-SAINT PAUL, MN – The Forge North startup coalition announced the first close of the MSP Equity Fund – the first-known venture capital fund of funds in the country designed to invest across race, place, and gender.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Startups and VC. Life as a startup founder is never dull. That’s doubly true for Black founders, who routinely struggle to raise funds, be noticed and get their fair share of attention, Dominic-Madori reports. For the new year, she conducted a mini-survey to find out what Black founders are expecting in 2023.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2023

Though investment in food technology has slowed in line with the rest of the venture capital world, the industry recently achieved some milestones that suggest the sector and the government are moving into alignment. billion over the next 10 years. billion over the next 10 years.

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propel(x)

JULY 11, 2022

Words of wisdom from a deep tech startup founder Barmak shared the following lessons he has learned from his entrepreneurship journey so far: * It is better to have a product which a small number of people love rather than having a product that a lot of people just like, but nobody loves. Originally published at [link] on July 5, 2022.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Boston offers a world of advantages for startup founders Boston’s university-to-startup pipeline defies downturn to grow and diversify Boston has had a thriving tech startup ecosystem for a while, but things can change fast. Boston remains a vibrant startup and VC market in 2023. My email is: rudina@glasswing.vc.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

After meeting at Stanford, the trio came up with the concept behind Arc and then teamed up with Y Combinator to meet with hundreds of software founders in the San Francisco Bay Area. Arc was an early member of YC’s Winter 2022 batch, which commenced earlier this week. “We

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2022

While many funds are returning to more conservative check-writing , with a focus on profitability and business fundamentals, crypto remains a sector in the spotlight that attracts dedicated billion-dollar funds and investment terms that remind us more of 2021 than 2022.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

He has opinions on bigger batch sizes , a growing standard deal , competition, the power of venture capital and why startup founders should be prioritizing more than just a check after Demo Day. Michael Seibel is synonymous with Y Combinator’s growth over the past decade.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

Silicon Valley-based A16z provided an initial investment for Yuno as part of the firm’s program for fintech startup founders. The pair decided to formally found Yuno, in January of 2022. Why Latin American venture capital is breaking records this year. Monashees and Kaszek followed as co-leads in the investment.

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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

MARCH 27, 2022

Meanwhile, Jeeves says it has seen its revenue grow by 900% since its September raise and even more impressively, that in the first two months of 2022, it brought in more revenue than all of 2021. Meanwhile, the startup has doubled its client base to more than 3,000 companies and reached about $1.3 Image Credits: Mila Ferrell / Cervin.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 23, 2023

The company quickly raised over $200 million in venture capital, becoming a unicorn with its $150 million Series B in October 2022. Hear from Cacioppo and Sequoia Capital general partner Andrew Reed on Vanta’s growth trajectory and fundraising strategy. And the industry responded enthusiastically.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Austin made headlines in 2021 for being “the place” for startup founders and venture capitalists alike to set up shop. That’s why TechCrunch has chosen to shine a spotlight on the city with a special episode of TechCrunch Live centered on the growing startup scene in Austin, Texas. Austin wasn’t an overnight success.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

market indicate that the Series A round is also looking green around the gills for domestic startup founders. Data from PitchBook (hat tip to Brex’s Shai Goldman ) and Redpoint detail a falling pace for Series A rounds in the United States through Q3 2022. However, further data focused on the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2023

The latest Crunchbase data shows that Black startup founders in the United States raised around $264 million out of the total $33.6 billion in venture capital allocated in Q4 2022. Black founders raised an estimated $2.254 billion out of the $215.9 venture capital allocated last year. .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2022

From there, it was time to talk about a new $100 million fund , which boasts some high-profile LPs and partners, that is out to invest exclusively in Latino(a) startup founders. Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev took responsibility for the company's over-hiring in 2021 and subsequent mass layoffs – two so far in 2022.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

To help TechCrunch+ readers take on this challenge, we are looking for experts to participate in a survey about tactics and strategies for startup recruiting in Q1 2022. Do you have recent experience recruiting talent for pre-revenue startups? As part of an ongoing series of interviews with transportation startup founders, ??Rebecca

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

Mavram co-founded Complete with CTO Zack Field last year and took the company through Y Combinator’s Winter 2022 cohort. Mavram used to work on the product team at Google, while Field’s background is in engineering at various late-stage startups, including Uber and Opendoor, the pair told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

What most startup founders get wrong about financial projections. The pressures facing first-time founders are enormous. ” What most startup founders get wrong about financial projections. Pitch deck pro tips from a leading Silicon Valley venture capitalist. Walter Thompson. Senior Editor, TechCrunch+.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 13, 2022

whereas in 2014 around 71% of teens used Facebook, the study says in 2022 that number has dropped down to 32%. Magnus Grimeland, founder of the early-stage VC firm Antler, lays out some of the key principles to keep in mind. other stuff. million investors losing $5 billion collectively.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Treasury management should be top of mind for startup founders. In the first half of this year, 30 funds received almost two-thirds of all new venture capital raised, according to PitchBook. “The founder wants us on the journey. Editorial Manager, TechCrunch+. yourprotagonist. Image Credits: Getty Images.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

Hello and welcome to this 109th day of 2022 – April 19 – which celebrates, among other things, National Garlic Day (nice try, Big Allium) and Bicycle Day , the anniversary of the discovery of LSD. To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PT, subscribe here.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2022

It’s still a great time to be a startup founder. Specifically — an early-stage startup founder. 3 views: How should founders prepare for a decline in startup valuations and investor interest? In blow to unicorns, the global IPO market continues to soften. Alex Wilhelm: Money over bulls**t.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

— Marcelo Claure (@marceloclaure) November 12, 2022. ” At the time, Jobs was talking about building products, but evidently, this also applies to the people funding the startup ecosystem. Black founders continually describe the higher bar they are expected to meet compared to their white counterparts.

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