TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

If not, just about anyone could schedule Zoom calls with founders to talk about making their dreams come true. “If you’re not careful, you can come up against delays, or worse, investors pulling out at the last minute,” according to Denis Shafranik, co-founder of early-stage venture firm Concentric. Are solo GPs screwed?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

startups in Q1 2023, according to PitchBook. When the economy is volatile, appetite for risk decreases, which impacts venture totals in general and certain founders in particular. Once again measured in dollars raised, mixed-gender teams also saw their venture totals decline on a year-over-year basis, raising $7 billion in Q1 2023.

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TechCrunch

MAY 1, 2023

Back in February, we started calling for content — urging startup subject-matter experts to submit applications to lead roundtable discussions or breakout sessions at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 on September 19–21 in San Francisco. TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 Audience Choice voting opens Now comes the part where you, dear readers, play a major role.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2023

My greater hope: investors and founders will use this era of austerity as an opportunity to create value, and not just wealth. Image Credits: Bryce Durbin/TechCrunch Dear Sophie, I’m a co-founder of a very early-stage startup. My co-founder and I are considering bringing on a third co-founder, who was recently laid off.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 17, 2023

Buy a $449 Founder pass now , while you still can. Are you ready to spend the day with hundreds of like-minded early-stage founders and investors? Buckle up, because this day is absolutely packed with the essential information all early founders need to determine their next steps and make meaningful connections to grow their business.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2023

It’s going to be the biggest and best Disrupt we’ve ever hosted: Along with a few to-be-announced surprises, we’ll have Startup Battlefield, as well as six new stages with targeted materials for founders of all types. In 2023, it’s back under a new moniker. When should founders follow the hype?

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2023

In early 2022, you may remember, we called for experts to submit applications to present breakout sessions and roundtable discussions at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 , taking place on September 19–21 in San Francisco. Audience Choice voting opens for TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 It’s time to make your voice count!

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 17, 2023

While women entrepreneurs continue to struggle to gain more venture capital funding, the Forbes’ 2023 Midas Lis t suggests some inroads have been made. The post <strong>Eleven Top Women Tech Investors on Forbes’ 2023 Midas 100 List</strong> appeared first on American Entrepreneurship.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2023

Some think 2023 will just be the start of a venture winter and overall economic recession, while others think we could see some stabilization as things head back to normal by midyear. Bruce Hamilton, founder, Mech Ventures: We are contemplating decreasing our check size so we can double our number of investments from 75 to 140.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

To meet the changing startup landscape, we’re refreshing and re-imagining TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 in a big way, with more of what you love and new ways to accelerate your growth. What’s new at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023? It draws founders, investors, CEOs, tech professionals, scientists, policy makers, researchers and entrepreneurs.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Russ Heddleston is co-founder and former CEO of DocSend at Dropbox. Start up solo or bring on a co-founder? There’s no question about it: The market going into 2023 isn’t going to be what it was when 2021 ended, when growth at all costs sometimes trumped common sense. Contributor. Share on Twitter. 4 factors to consider.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2023

This week, DocSend dropped a big load of statistics about the VC activity over the past half year or so. Financially, the world is a little bit wobbly right now, so investors want to see decks that show that founders know how to optimize for break-even, then profitability. Welcome to Startups Weekly. Now the average is 16.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

However, it appears that even though VCs are proceeding more cautiously than before and taking their time with due diligence, they are still investing. CB Insights recently found that two of the largest global VC firms, Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, actually backed more fintech companies in 2022 than any other category.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2023

Amid market volatility, decentralized finance, or DeFi, is an area that continues to be in focus in both the crypto VC world and across the community as new use cases, protocols and projects arise. We surveyed: Michael Anderson , co-founder, Framework Ventures. Alex Marinier , founder and general partner, New Form Capital.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 21, 2023

Why should you go to TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 in San Francisco on September 19–21? Five reasons to go to TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 1. Networking at Disrupt also includes plenty of organic ways to meet, greet and create startup magic in a variety of settings: Deal Flow Café, our brand-new investor-to-founder networking area.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2023

After attending TechCrunch Early Stage last week, I was cheered to meet so many first-time founders and experienced investors who are looking for opportunities. Based on my conversations, VCs are very open to working with novices who can show that they understand the market in which they hope to compete.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 2, 2023

For startup founders, determining which path is right for their business may require fundamentally rethinking the way they measure success. The business climate in 2023 will be unfamiliar to many who founded a company in the past decade. It was a culture that nearly everyone, from founders and investors to the media, fed into.

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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

MARCH 15, 2023

Friday in tech vs Sunday in tech pic.twitter.com/NsuzK5fqty — Yuri Sagalov (@yuris) March 13, 2023 Not a scientific sampling, but several investors signaled this week on Twitter that they remain interested in talking to founders who are still at the idea stage. Founders should apply on our portal and follow on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2023

Instead of chasing growth like a plant reflexively bending toward the strongest light, he says founders should prioritize more meaningful “efficiency metrics,” such as: Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. 2023 will bring crisper methods for evaluating startup success. 5 cloud trends to track in 2023.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2023

To master deep tech investing, a VC fund manager must understand market opportunities that are growing in size and at a rate that cannot be ignored. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

Robotics was in a nice little bubble when the VC slowdown began, as well, though not even it was immune. How essential is DARPA/defense funding to the category in 2023? 13 VCs talk about the state of robotics investing in 2023 by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch Where is the Instant Pot of stir fry?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2023

Venture firms are advising portfolio companies to move money out of SVB Q1 2023 market map: SaaS cost optimization and management Image Credits: John Lund Photography Inc (opens in a new window) / Getty Images Since the downturn began, SaaS has become a game of fine margins. . “Simply reducing costs in lieu of growth will not work.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Register Startup founders looking to attract investors need to show proof of an outstanding team and must be realistic with their valuation numbers, said Bernard Moon , Co-founder & Partner at SparkLabs Group , a South Korean accelerator and fund network. Bookmark( 0 ) Please login to bookmark. Username or Email Address.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2022

3 Black founders predict little will change in VC in 2023. A rising tide lifts all boats, but when free-flowing venture capital starts to recede, underrepresented founders are the first to find themselves on dry ground. Sevetri Wilson, founder and CEO, Resilia. Abimbola Adebayo, founder and CEO, Pinnu Analytics.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 23, 2023

The first event is on February 1, 2023, and will feature a timely discussion on what to do if your company can’t raise a Series A. TCL’s mission is still to help founders build better venture-backed businesses. But going into 2023, there’s new urgency behind this mission. Of course, TechCrunch Live is free to attend.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2023

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription “Starting a tech company today costs 99% less than it did 18 years ago when Y Combinator was started,” says Brett Calhoun, managing director and general partner at Redbud VC.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2023

VCs want to fund the newest tech mafia startups before banks do, top MBA programs want laid-off workers to join so badly that they’re waiving standardized test score requirements, and the tech companies that are in a position to hire really want you to know it. Here’s a roundup of the top AI-powered products we saw at CES 2023.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

Then, in 2022, investments fell to $4 billion, with 2023 likely to see further precipitous declines. In 2022, these companies attracted $7 billion in investments, defying the broader slowdown in VC investment by growing 15% over the previous year. F-Prime State of Robotics Report.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2022

2023 will be the year electric vehicles really start to take shape : “Driven by policy initiatives from governments and billions of dollars in investment from automakers, we can safely say the EV industry has begun to take shape,” Rebecca writes. Startups and VC. Daily Crunch: What’s around the corner for the EV market in 2023?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

VCs are wringing their hands (or not) over how they can help their portfolio companies; startup founders and CEOs are running about trying their very best to plan for the foreseeable future; and vendors and partners are either helping those affected or asking for reassurances that they’ll be paid or serviced properly.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2023

Climate tech investors and founders in 2022 may not have hit the heights of 2021 but they didn’t drop off a cliff either. Many founders I’ve spoken with said that the law, which was signed in August, was both welcome and unexpected. As a result, some founders felt the need to speed up their plans. .”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

based tech companies have already been laid off in mass job cuts in 2023, according to Crunchbase. Yet for early-stage startups, the outlook isn’t as bleak as the headlines make it out to be — conversely, there’s a huge opportunity for scrappy founders in a downturn. More than 102,000 workers in U.S.-based It’s as simple as that.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

No founder event would be complete without pitches! TechCrunch editorial is looking for 6-7 founders to take part in a Pitch Deck Teardown. Founders can apply here. It’s rare however for innovators to get truly candid insight on their pitches before stepping in front of VCs.

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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. As AI pervades biotech, what are investors looking for in 2023? When you think of life sciences and biotech hubs in the U.S.,

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Revolution

DECEMBER 6, 2023

However, some of the insights below can help proptech founders think strategically through their fundraising and exit strategies. Per the Pitchbook data below, that number is consistent with the broader VC-backed company exit trends, where roughly 56% of all M&A deals are defined by exits of $100M or less. of all rounds vs. 2.6%).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2023

Engineers at Polymath Robotics were working late Wednesday night on multiple projects when co-founder and CEO Stefan Seltz-Axmacher noticed chatter about Silicon Valley Bank in a YC founder WhatsApp group. Seltz-Axmacher, as well as hundreds of other founders, couldn’t have predicted what would transpire over the next 36 hours.

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