TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2023

Earlier this month, we reported that investors’ sentiments surrounding venture capital activity going into this were more reserved than upbeat. Africa predicted to experience sustained funding slowdown in 2023 Most tech observers share Cuvelier’s thoughts on VC activity in Africa. Briter Bridges recorded $5.2

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Invest only what you are willing to lose completely; don’t double down on failing companies Fundraising Strategies for Founders: Balancing Need and Needy Energy Jeshua challenges the very decision to start fundraising, cautioning that not all businesses need venture capital.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2023

It took me a while, but I’m realizing that my startup love language is discussing any attempts to standardize the opaque and often informal world of venture capital. If you missed my most recent Startups Weekly, read it here: “Labor trends in 2023: Over-employment, fatigue and hope.”. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here.

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Jason Malki

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Initially aspiring to work in the events industry to organize music festivals, Triet gained valuable experience at non-profit organizations like The Dallas Entrepreneur Center and later at Capital Factory, a Texas-based accelerator fund. Breaking into venture capital has been a remarkable and challenging journey.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2023

Even as Y Combinator reveals the latest startups in its cohort for this winter , we have poor news for founders: the global venture capital market shrank in Q1 2023, and it would have been even worse if it were not for a few mega deals, according to Crunchbase (disclosure: my former employer) and PitchBook reports.

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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 22 nd annual ranking was conducted in partnership with TrueBridge Capital Partners. The List includes11 women in the media company’s global list of top 100 investors.

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Founder Bounty

DECEMBER 17, 2022

The chances of you getting venture funding in 2023 are close to zero. In venture capital, you get paid a management fee whatever happens plus a carry of its one of your investable company exits. We highly recommend trying to get into venture capital if you can. Building a company is damn hard.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Eric Tarczynski is managing partner and founder of Contrary Capital. To predict what 2023 will look like for venture capital, we need to start by understanding where we are now. The VC landscape has started to bifurcate, and it will continue to do so during 2023 both for fundraising and investments.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The sessions provided a platform for in-depth discussions and collaboration talks between startup representatives and notable participants, including government investment agencies like the Korea Startup Agency and Korea Growth Finance , alongside venture capital and accelerator representatives from MYSC and The Invention Lab.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Register The South Korea Ministry of SMEs and Startups, in collaboration with the Korea Startup Forum, is set to host the highly anticipated “COMEUP 2023,” set to take place from November 8 to 10 at the renowned Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP) in Seoul.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

It seems that every internet company and their dog have at least one venture capital (VC) arm under their wing, with the likes of Google Ventures (now GV), Microsoft Ventures (now M12), Salesforce Ventures , Twilio Ventures , and Zoom Ventures all serving their corporate namesakes potential cash cows via hundreds of equity investments.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2023

In 2023, it’s back under a new moniker. The good news is that even in a more conservative venture environment, it’s possible for founders to tackle big, hard and capital-intensive projects. Disrupt 2023 runs September 19–21 in San Francisco. Let’s talk about how it’s done. Seriously, what are you waiting for?

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 16, 2023

In The Figures that Will Move the Venture Capital Market in the Next 3-5 Years , I wrote about the correlation between interest rates & venture capital investing. The correlation is strong enough to build a simple prediction of early stage venture capital activity in 2023. correlation to -0.51.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The new initiative includes a strategic partnership with the highly anticipated X-PITCH 2023, a global deeptech startup competition aimed at catalyzing the widespread adoption of cutting-edge technology across diverse industries. “We see immense potential in partnering with X-PITCH. .”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

Diligence cycles have extended, better relationships with founders can be formed, investors can enter new spaces with more preparation, and a thoughtful approach to early-stage venture capital can emerge,” Kareem added. Do you expect to see more down rounds in 2023? How many will not manage the task in 2023?

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

In 2023, the industry attracted substantial investments, with strong financial inclusion and blockchain technology gaining acceptance in some countries. This funding round was led by the Singapore-based venture capital firm 1982 Ventures, the sole investor.

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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

JANUARY 24, 2023

For instance, even though quantum computing suddenly became popular in the public markets as D-Wave, Rigetti and IonQ listed in the last year, private investment declined significantly — the sector received just over $600 million in venture capital in 2022, down from $800 million in 2021, according to Crunchbase.

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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. As 2023 approaches, broadly, the most pressing political issue is the 2024 election. How has it impacted you as a founder?

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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”. Globally, fintech funding was down 50% year over year to $39.2

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 31, 2023

As we embrace 2023, the Southeast Asian startup landscape is abuzz with anticipation surrounding cross-border acquisitions to shape the upcoming year. billion as of March 31, 2023. These strategic collaborations, extending beyond geographical confines, carry the potential to redefine industries and fuel growth.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2023

The crypto venture capital industry has become more selective thanks to the general market downturn and wavering trust caused by a slew of scandals and market disruptions, but investors at major firms are still writing checks in the space. What steps are you taking to better prepare for 2023? More clarity could be very positive.

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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. I’m excited for Q1 2023 and the entire year of 2023 for the opportunities coming to us. How many of them do you think will fail in 2023?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2023

But if 2022 was a year of paradigm-shifting dynamics, 2023 will be a year when we’ll determine the winners and the losers — and more importantly, when crisper methods for evaluating success will emerge. We’re entering 2023 with a great number of known issues and a constrained ability to forecast what’s ahead.

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Secure Docs

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Venture capital and private equity transactions have fallen dramatically, with North American value and volume down 60% and 35%, respectively. 2023 is the year of cautious optimism. While economic indicators look better than in 2022, higher rates and uncertainty are putting a damper on investment.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2023

Our favorite startups from YC’s Winter 2023 Demo Day — Part 1 Now we’re focused on the standouts from day two. Our favorite startups from YC’s Winter 2023 Demo Day — Part 2 by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch Is crypto back? What happened to the accountant tech stack? We’re just having fun.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 18, 2024

Venture capital investments surged to unprecedented heights in 2023, surpassing $600 billion worldwide. This figure shows venture capital driving innovation and economic advancement globally.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2023

In case you missed it, July 2023 was the hottest month ever recorded on Earth. ” You’ll find it cooking on the Sustainability Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 , which runs September 19–21 in San Francisco. TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 takes place in San Francisco on September 19–21. Hurry and buy your Disrupt pass today!

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 13, 2023

Register Solarvest Holdings Berhad, a prominent distributor of clean energy in Malaysia, has officially announced the selection of five grant recipients for the Seed Grant Round of Solarvest Innovation Lab 2023 (SIL 2023).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2023

VCs now predict that the funding slowdown in Africa will be sustained in 2023 as investors continue to pull back, making it harder for new and existing startups to raise capital. ” Abel Boreto, Novastar Ventures. ” Abel Boreto, Novastar Ventures.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2023

The big themes that dominated 2022 news coverage were around layoffs, labor and venture capital incentives. Are venture dollars getting more disciplined or was that just a fever tweet of the past 12 months? Keep reading to see how three laid-off employees are approaching their careers differently in 2023.

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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. Venture capital firms got out of whack. This cleanse is likely to continue for most, if not all, of 2023 but I think it gets easier from here. Cost structures got out of whack.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Silicon Valley law firm Cooley recently reported that it “handled 298 disclosable venture capital financings for Q3 2022, representing $8.1 billion of invested capital, continuing a downward trend for both metrics and representing the lowest for both since Q4 2019.” Yet, November was also when U.S.

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Hunter Walk

JANUARY 6, 2023

If 2022 was the year of the startup layoff, 2023 is going to be the year of the wind down. In 2023 there will be a number of Series A-D companies that cannot clear that bar. And not enough venture investors willing to provide ‘bridges to nowhere’ (low growth, middling margins, no natural acquirers, team attrition ongoing, and so on).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2023

Talia Rafaeli is a partner with Kompas , an early-stage European venture capital fund investing in digital transformation technologies within the built environment and industry 4.0 However, talk of a pullback in global venture capital has become louder and more widespread of late. Talia Rafaeli. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Popup Bagels raised $8 million in venture capital this week. But why would a bagel store chain want such expensive capital? © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2023

Patrick Salyer, partner, Mayfield Fund What kind of opportunities are you looking for in April 2023? How to pitch me: 5 investors discuss what they’re looking for in April 2023 by Walter Thompson originally published on TechCrunch This year has seen massive attention paid to AI, specifically generative AI.

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