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. He doesn’t expect the startup environment to get any better for Black founders, but is set on finding success regardless.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

Today is last day to cast your vote for Audience Choice roundtables and breakouts at Disrupt 2023. You pick the sessions you want at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 Specifically, you help decide which of the 17 roundtable discussions and 15 breakout sessions will earn a spot on the Disrupt agenda. Voting ends at 11:59pm PDT tonight.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

startups in Q1 2023, according to PitchBook. 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. Things could’ve been worse, I guess. In dollar terms, that is a 53% year-over-year decline from the $1.7 of total funding.

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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. 17 Roundtables vying for a spot at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 These should pique your interest.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2023

In fact, most of the startups in CB Insights’ unicorn index are on the bubble and “ are actually hovering right at the $1 billion mark ,” reports Rebecca Szkutak. Any startups that hope to weather this downturn must raise additional funds. “How many of these will stay unicorns through this calendar year?

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 23, 2024

Business analytics platform CB Insights released their State of Fintech 2023 Report which indicates the fintech sector experienced a greater downturn than the broader venture capital market—which reported that Q4’23 was “the harshest quarter for global VC in 6 years”. The numbers reveal the steep funding drop-off for fintech startups.

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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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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2023

TechCrunch Disrupt , our yearly flagship startup event, returns to San Francisco on September 19–21 — and you can bet TechCrunch+ will be in the house. In 2023, it’s back under a new moniker. We’ll be talking operations, hiring, fundraising and more, hitting on key topics for a new generation of startup founders.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

It’s that time of year again: the week when startups in Y Combinator’s latest batch present their products for media — and investor — scrutiny. Over the next two days, roughly 217 companies will present in total, a tad smaller than last winter’s 235-firm cohort as VC enthusiasm a slight slump.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

To put it mildly, the meteoric collapse of Silicon Valley Bank has been a historic time of confusion for everyone the startup ecosystem touches. Niko Bonatsos, MD, General Catalyst While many founders and VCs have shared similar experiences as they try to navigate this confusion, the future ahead is even hazier. were looking at it.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

If the past few years, and even the past week , has reminded us soundly of anything — it’s that the startup world will never be predictable. 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.

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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. The most recent startup, Pyxis Oncology , was spun out of the University of Chicago. where do you travel to in your mind?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2023

The ecosystem watched as startup funding dried up , held its breath as a $32 billion venture-backed company evaporated almost overnight and witnessed one of the largest startup acquisitions of all time. I’m excited for Q1 2023 and the entire year of 2023 for the opportunities coming to us. Did you hear anyone yell “bingo?”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

EduFi, a fintech startup that enables financially strapped students to secure loans for their education, has raised $6.1 million in a pre-seed round led by Zayn VC with participation from Palm Drive Capital, Deem Ventures, Q Business and angel investors. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2023

Africa seemed to defy the global venture funding decline in the first half of 2022 after its startups raised $3 billion, double the amount secured over a similar period the previous year. Africa predicted to experience sustained funding slowdown in 2023 by Annie Njanja originally published on TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Saviu Ventures, a VC firm targeting startups in Francophone Africa, has made an initial close of €12 million for its second fund with the backing of private investors, including French and Kenyan family offices. All rights reserved.

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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

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The French government and the government-backed initiative La French Tech gathered applications, processed the numbers and ranked the 120 top-performing startups in France right now, with a special category for the top 40 ones. The Next40 ranking is still mostly determined by how much VC money you’ve raised. It’s that time of the year.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 21, 2023

Why should you go to TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 in San Francisco on September 19–21? Besides, these five should be tempting enough for anyone interested in building a bigger, better startup — in less time. Five reasons to go to TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 1. Listen to our four-episode Inside Startup Battlefield podcast 5.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 16, 2023

The correlation is strong enough to build a simple prediction of early stage venture capital activity in 2023. The model predicts about $30b in early stage VC in 2023 (assuming a 10 year rate of 3.7%). About one third of the way through the year, early stage VCs have invested about $16.5b correlation to -0.51.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

Starting in early April, TechCrunch+ will dig into information relating to startup fundraising in the first quarter. The picture forming from Q1 2023 venture data is one of measured decline compared to the end of 2022. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. How’s Q1 2023 venture shaping up?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Given today’s harsh economy and reduced VC spending, startups need a critical eye when purchasing SaaS and cloud infrastructure. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Register Multi-stage global venture capital firm MSA Novo , announced that it has invested more than $16 million in six Indian startups and plans to further inject funds into the Indian startup ecosystem by the end of 2023. We are incredibly bullish on investing in India.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 4, 2024

My previous startup was bootstrapped, easy, fast, and 100% control. The head VC guy seems a little bit… weird. Fundraising is different for each startup, and it’s also very different in each stage of that startup. Still no new email. This is so frustrating, they promised to get back today. Refresh again. Still nothing.

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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’s easy to see why down rounds seem out of the question for many startup founders.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2023

You don’t need to be an economist to appreciate the myriad forces placing downward pressure on startups today. “We’re entering 2023 with a great number of known issues and a constrained ability to forecast what’s ahead,” says Jaffe. 2023 will bring crisper methods for evaluating startup success.

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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. Both events brought down a lot of smaller startups and big players who intermingled with those now defunct market players.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2023

Similarly, one VC may encourage newly minted CEOs to eat ramen and ride the bus, while another might suggest a salary in the low six-figures, depending on geography. We invest in startups leveraging the immense breadth of AI to solve critical business problems. How much salary should the CEO of a pre-revenue startup take?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2023

There’s no question that this will impact deal-making, but uninsured customers who run startups still need to buy laptops, pay cloud vendors and cover worker salaries and benefits. Startups that find the right tools to drive growth while optimizing vendor and cloud expenses can enhance short-term gross margins. Take a walk.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 11, 2023

During the launch event on December 4, 2023, the DTI revealed the Incubation, Development, and Entrepreneurial Assistance (IDEA) Program and the Accelerating Development, Valuation, and Corporate Entrepreneurship (ADVanCE) Program. brought together over a hundred stakeholders from both the creative and innovation sectors.

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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

JANUARY 7, 2023

elcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. Keep reading to see how three laid-off employees are approaching their careers differently in 2023. Here’s a roundup of the top AI-powered products we saw at CES 2023.

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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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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 31, 2023

I like to think of what we’ve been going through in the tech sector/startup land/venture capital over the last year as a cleanse. VC portfolios have been marked down upwards of 50% and more. This cleanse is likely to continue for most, if not all, of 2023 but I think it gets easier from here.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 31, 2023

Register Indonesian digital bank Superbank , supported by Grab, Singtel, and Emtek Group, is collaborating with Singapore’s Genesis Alternative Ventures to offer a financing package of $40 million for startups in Indonesia. This initiative will primarily focus on startups in the series B and series C funding stages.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2023

Three months into 2023, investors continue to use buzz words like “responsible growth,” “business efficiency” and “quality marketing” when explaining how VC-backed companies should do business this year. Likewise, maximizing growth with little sensitivity around costs won’t work in 2023.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2023

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. Sometimes, due to the nature of the startup game, we over index on “the new.” It just made me think about that larger comprehension coupled with the nimbleness of a startup.

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