TechCrunch

AUGUST 13, 2023

It’s hard to believe it but TechCrunch Disrupt — only one of the most engaging, fun, well-attended startup events in the world — is around the corner, taking place September 19–21! Outsiders may not realize just how much work goes into planning Disrupt. If you want to receive this in your inbox every Sunday, sign up here.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Happy TechCrunch Disrupt eve! Have a look at the agenda for times and stage locations and then fire up your event app, build your schedule and start connecting and networking with other attendees. We’ll talk about their investment thesis, her plans to bring more diversity into tech, and what she brings to the table as a VC.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Delve into his story as it unfolds with lessons from filmmaking, startup ventures, and the fascinating world of technology innovations and investing. This gave me a front-row seat to the world of tech/innovation, and I began making some personal angel investments along the way.”

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 1, 2024

Let’s start with Artificial intelligence (AI) which was the big event in 2023. While in 2023, everyone was rightly focused on the large language models like OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Llama, etc, we will see new AI-first applications emerge in 2024 that will start to move the focus and the conversation up the stack. This is a big deal.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2023

” is becoming more and more important to investors — why should they part with their cash to invest in you in this exact moment? It got so intense, that Bluesky had to impose rate limits to improve network stability , because they got that much traffic. Top reads on TechCrunch this week Moar? Save 15% with code STARTUPS.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Even in person, there’s no way to absorb Disrupt in its entirety. Many reporters filed stories recapping the interviews and panels they conducted at Disrupt, and there will be more to come in the next few days. Full coverage of TechCrunch Disrupt 2021. Duolingo doesn’t want to disrupt the college degree. Walter Thompson.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

By gaining real world experience and exposing these college students to potential future employers, the program moves LSC’s mission forward to “disrupt the cycle of poverty and inequality”. An alumni network is being established to support students’ post-internship and into their first full-time jobs.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Accredited investors are invited to nation’s largest angel conference, which has invested $4.8M December 08, 2023 10:35 AM Eastern Standard Time SAN DIEGO—San Diego Angel Conference at the University of San Diego (SDAC) activates angel investors and connects them with early-stage companies seeking seed funding.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 18, 2024

MIAMI—Palm Tree Crew, an entertainment, hospitality, and investment holding company, recently closed a new round of funding at a $150M valuation. Palm Tree Crew, through its investment arm, also recently raised a $32M venture fund that focuses on providing capital to early-stage disruptive brands across the consumer and technology space.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

To meet the changing startup landscape, we’re refreshing and reimagining TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 in a big way, with more of what you love and new ways to accelerate your growth — new stages, new content, and new opportunities. Oh, and if you were laid off recently, we are offering a free Expo+ pass to TC Disrupt 2023.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2023

We have only 7 days left of early-bird pricing to TechCrunch Early Stage 2023 in Boston on April 20. We’re talking more than 40 highly engaging presentations, workshops and roundtables with interactive Q&As and plenty of time for networking. Here are just a few examples of the topics we have on tap.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2023

Elsewhere, we spotlight X, the social network formerly known as Twitter, slowing down access to rival websites; Better.com going public; and TC’s impressions of Baldur’s Gate 3. Join us at Disrupt 2023 in San Francisco this September to immerse yourself in all things startup. A room-temperature superconductor?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2023

We have only 7 days left of early-bird pricing to TechCrunch Early Stage 2023 in Boston on April 20. We’re talking more than 40 highly engaging presentations, workshops and roundtables with interactive Q&As and plenty of time for networking. Here are just a few examples of the topics we have on tap.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Sure, plenty of money is spent on ocean-based industries, but most of today’s marine investments are into either extractive industries like fishing or oil and gas, or activities like shipping, which aren’t extractive but don’t exactly benefit marine ecosystems. “Our That doesn’t mean that investors aren’t bullish, though.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

The company was founded in 2014 and has its own sidechain technology, Liquid Network, as well as bitcoin mining operations and hardware wallets for Bitcoin and other assets. Erik previously worked on Wall Street as a VP for AIG investments and was a co-founder and consultant of other startups.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Ursa Major wants to disrupt the vertically integrated rocket launch sector. Ursa Major is scaling up its ambitions to disrupt the vertically integrated launch sector with a fresh round of funding. The first launch will take place in 2023. Image Credits: John Kraus / Astra. Tomorrow.ai

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TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2023

As of 2023, there are still a few independent sites (such as Smart Asset and Zoe Financial ) offering some kind of financial advisor matchmaking tool. First, these startups were unable to overcome the difficulty of building a two-sided network for a product with a slow sales cycle. This idea failed to catch on for two reasons.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2023

And make note (if you haven’t) of TechCrunch’s upcoming events, including the startup-focused Early Stage in Boston on April 20 and our mega-conference, Disrupt , in San Francisco on September 19–21. Climate tech’s resilience up until now has led some to call it the ultimate “recession-proof” investment.

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2023

In addition to this traditional equity investment, Wefox also secured $55 million in a revolving credit facility from JP Morgan and Barclays. He’s comparing Q1 2023 versus Q1 2022. On the distribution side, the company is currently developing a network of affinity partners so that they can embed insurance products in their offerings.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

NFX and existing backers Pear and Mexico-based Wollef (formely known as Jaguar Ventures) doubled down on their investment, which values Melonn “in the neighborhood” of $100 million post-money and brings the Bogota-based startup’s total raised to $24 million since its November 2020 inception. “The

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Start looking now for a new position, and tell everyone in your network that you’re open to work. “At 2023 will be the year of cyber-risk quantification. 2023 will be the year of cyber-risk quantification. First order of business: If you’ve been impacted, don’t delay. Thanks for reading, Walter Thompson. yourprotagonist.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2023

Meanwhile, Natasha M spoke to Mayfield’s Navin Chaddha about the VC firm’s new $955 million fund , writing that now that the firm is bigger — and busier— “the capital will be used to ramp up the firm’s investment cadence in a more realistic market. Embedding: Integrate your services so deeply, customers “cannot rip them out.”

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 13, 2023

Founded and led by Kristina Simmons, a former partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Chief of Staff and Investor at Khosla Ventures, Overwater Ventures makes strategic investments in early-stage companies pushing the boundaries of biology, healthcare, AI, robotics, climate tech and the future of food.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 5, 2023

In a world where constant change and the need for sustainable solutions are more urgent than ever, young entrepreneurs emerge as the driving force behind innovation and progress — as demonstrated by the winners of EO’s 2023 Global Student Entrepreneur Awards. For new businesses, finding investors in your field enables greater opportunities.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Matt Murphy and Grace Ge, Menlo Ventures Which trends are you most excited about in construction robotics from an investing perspective? We are active in construction with investments such as HOVER and Fieldwire and believe the entire sector is right for a digital and automation overhaul. Finishing is the ripest for disruption.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Embark is not currently testing on public roads without a human safety driver, but is planning a pilot for 2023 and is targeting commercial driver-out operations by 2024. In the near term, Lu pointed to supply chain disruptions and labor shortages. Kodiak Robotics, for example, has only begun driver-out testing on closed tracks.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2023

In the post, Nauiokas writes that the firm aims to “translate 2022’s reckoning in private markets into enduring change in the structure and method of early-stage investing.” Of course: It’s already Disrupt season. Here’s what to know: We don’t see venture layoffs often, even though I have a feeling many are ghosts these days.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

This is particularly important because the speculative (degen) side of crypto investing is often portrayed as a get-rich-quick scheme. Institutional Adoption Institutions have a lot of regulatory and compliance restrictions, which hinder them from investing in alternative assets like crypto. What kind of regulation can we expect?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

Russia invaded Ukraine last week, which, in addition to being a human rights tragedy, is going to affect industries far and wide as supply chains become even further disrupted than they were before war broke out. Automotive mobility group Astara is investing $5 million in GoTo Global’s pre-IPO round. First thing’s first.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

. — Mary Ann Storied venture firms Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) invested more in fintech than any other category in 2022, according to research from CB Insights. Sequoia apparently was fairly active overall last year despite the global downturn, with over 100 investments. But wasn’t that true for every sector?

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The UK has had real-time payments since 2005, via the Faster Payments network. And UK institutions continue to invest: This summer, Mastercard, Barclays and the London Stock Exchange Group announced a £1 billion fintech fund to back British growth-stage fintech companies. A full 8 years earlier than the U.S.)

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

. “Our developer platform enables our customers, and the world’s developers, to defragment their AI technology stacks — pushing more innovations into production faster and realizing more value from their investment in AI,” Lattner said. ” Ambitious much? It’s already had an impact.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

“We started off as two industry founders looking for product/market fit with no-code SaaS, bootstrapping whilst minimising investment. ” Despite the hype, construction tech will be hard to disrupt. So the platform acts as a centralized pipeline which keeps all parties in the loop and can be used to track compliance.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2023

If the company exits for a billion dollars, that means that short-sighted VCs who refuse to invest unless there’s a technical person on the founding team are effectively pushing startups into putting hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of equity in incompetent hands. Get your TechCrunch fix IRL.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The broad-brush goals for the strategy are to increase growth in startup investments; attract and retain talent; promote scalability; and inject innovation into the public sector so it can bolster and support Spain’s digital development. And for the period 2023 it’s over €4.5 So it will be something of a milestone.

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TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2023

In case you forgot, Finix is a startup that Sequoia backtracked on investing in after Stripe (an existing portfolio company) expressed concerns about being too competitive. British neobank Revolut launched in Brazil, its first country in Latin America, offering customers a global bank account and crypto investments, Silicon Republic reported.

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OurCrowd

MAY 7, 2021

Top investment opportunities. trees with the click of a button and aims for 10M trees worldwide by 2023, reducing carbon emissions by 10M tons. Join OurCrowd as we invest in a $14M B round led by Banca Generali, a branch of Assicurazioni Generali, the world’s fourth-largest insurance company. Invest More. Register Here.

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