Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 4, 2024

The head VC guy seems a little bit… weird. However, there are principles that every founder should know before raising, and we will talk about them from the very beginning of the startup to later stages. Rookie founders want to raise to reduce their risk. Oh, how I’ve wasted my time, and what do I have at the end?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

According to CrunchBase, Rigetti has raised just under $200 million in VC capital since it was founded in 2013. In addition to the financial news, Rigetti also published an updated roadmap, that projects the company will produce 1,000-qubit machines in 2024 and 4,000-qubit ones by 2026. Currently, its systems scale to 80 qubits.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2023

In a galaxy far, far away : If you’re a Star Wars fan, Disney+ will debut a new series called “The Acolyte” in 2024. Startups and VC Everyone needs some good competition to get the creativity flowing. Aisha writes that this storyline takes place at the end of the High Republic era before the events of the main Star Wars films.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2023

Bell and Weingarten aren’t your typical meal delivery startup founders. million in pre-seed funding led by M25 with participation from investors, including Hustle Fund, Pillar VC and The Community Fund. Most items are ready to eat in minutes. Now Entrée itself is announcing $2.5

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

The money came from its recent funding round led Better Bite Ventures and participated by Ahimsa VC, PeerCapital, Spectrum Impact, Rohit Gulati (Managing Director and Partner at Boston Consulting Group), Sandhya Sriram (Chief Executive Officer, Shiok Meats), among others. Dairy has a huge environmental cost.

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Hunter Walk

JANUARY 28, 2024

Here’s what I predicted in Allocate’s 2024 Outlook Last week Pitchbook asked me (and others) for background on how a VC actually gets fired (or more often ‘transitioned’) Darwin moves slowly in venture, but these investor changes can be very disruptive to the founders who were backed by the exiting partner.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

The round was co-led by Eni Next, the corporate VC arm of Italian energy giant Eni; along with Neva SGR, the VC company owned by European banking group Intesa Sanpaolo. “The investment will also support Energy Dome’s business expansion in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Misfits Market is acquiring Imperfect Foods in an all-stock deal, Misfits Market founder and CEO Abhi Ramesh told TechCrunch. billion industry by 2024, up from $95.8 Startups are on track to acquire more VC-backed companies than ever in 2022. The online grocery industry in the U.S. is poised to be a $187.7 billion in 2020.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

Startups and VC At first glance, Boston Dynamics is a strange fit for a show like ProMat, Brian writes. How to spot investment-worthy founders: Look for mindset, competence and confidence , writes Sanjay Reddy. million round and spoke to the company’s founder about 10 tips to de-risk hardware. Aisha has more. million seed deck.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

Startups and VC. And Valkyrie looks to raise $30 million for its new crypto VC arm , Anita writes. TechCrunch+ is our membership program, which helps founders and startup teams get ahead. This may have it going mission-to-mission with Relativity and Impulse, which are planning to launch a rover to Mars in 2024.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 29, 2022

billion and majority owned by Walmart, doesn’t plan to list until at least 2024, according to a person familiar with the matter. But many star unicorn founders are unwilling to take a haircut in their valuations, in part because they believe that will drive some talent away. Flipkart, valued at $37.6 PharmEasy, valued at $5.6

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

The headline says it all : We couldn’t help but steal from the TC+ section because Tim ’s headline is just so good: “Nest co-founder Matt Rogers’ new startup is trash.” Startups and VC. TechCrunch+ is our membership program that helps founders and startup teams get ahead of the pack. The company raised $10.8 Big Tech Inc.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 28, 2024

X 2022 24.9% - 2023 46.2% - 2024 55.4% - The relatively constant drumbeat of smaller acquisitions provides liquidity essential for the venture capital ecosystem, both for venture capital firms to recycle and reinvest and also for founders to generate significant outcomes and potentially try again. X 2015 20.1% - 2016 43.0%

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Did you know we’re looking for you and your expertise for our TechCrunch founder summit ? Startups and VC. They are also being hit the hardest by inflation right now, as a result,” says Danielle Forward, CEO and co-founder of Natives Rising in an interview with Mike. PDT, subscribe here. She is working to change that situation.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

trillion by 2024. Will new SEC equity crowdfunding rules encourage more founders to pass the hat? “Life has gotten easier in other ways as well for founders pursuing this fundraising type and the platforms that seek to simplify it,” reports Lucas Matney, who interviewed Wefunder CEO Nicholas Tommarello.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Holidays, cheer, and daydreaming about what shenanigans we’ll get ourselves into in 2024. Yes, 2024, because clearly we’re just going to skip past all of 2023. Startups and VC. TechCrunch+ is our membership program that helps founders and startup teams get ahead of the pack. PDT, subscribe here. left of the year.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2022

New Zealand-based VC firms GD1 (Global From Day One) and Nuance Connected Capital led the round, with additional participation from Shasta Ventures, NZGCP, K1W1, Austrian billionaire Wolfgang Leitner, Alt Ventures, Enterprise Angels, Arkisys and NZVC. We can generate a new type of force in space,” founder Max Arshavsky told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

“Insurtech startups that do not offer embedded insurance, and rather provide other innovative solutions will still attract VC funding this year, especially if they can show cost-efficient and sustainable growth,” said Nina Mayer, a principal at Earlybird. Wechsler said, “Many firms who dabbled in insurtech (A.K.A.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

He’s the founder of Manta , a data lineage platform that automatically scans an organization’s data sources to build a map of data flows. billion by 2024. Tomas Kratky argues that the solution lies in software. “Data-driven decisions can only be as good as the quality of the underlying data sets and analysis. .”

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 23, 2024

At a16z’s recent Connect/Fintech event, a16z Partner Alex Immerman sat down for a broad conversation with Immad Akhund , co-founder and CEO of banking startup Mercury , and René Lacerte, founder and CEO of financial services company BILL. Alex Immerman: If 2023 was the year of efficiency, 2024 is the year of generative AI.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Matt reports that the electric Ram 1500 REV is packed with screens and, surprisingly, buttons and knobs, but sadly won’t be available until 2024. White (opens in a new window) / Getty Images Black entrepreneurs face a unique set of challenges, but Captain founder Demetrius Gray raised $107 million after his Y Combinator experience.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2022

According to Gartner, organizations running cloud infrastructure services will suffer a minimum of 2,300 violations of least privilege policies — i.e. when a user is given privileges above what they need to do their job — per account each year by 2024. Meanwhile, the average global cost of a data breach reached a record $4.24

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Startups and VC. The fresh cash will be put toward several efforts, CEO and co-founder Frederic Lalonde said in a press release, including supporting Hopper’s new social commerce initiatives. I am on an H-1B, have an approved I-140, and an I-797 that expires in March 2024. I have enough savings to survive for a while.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

billion by 2024. The seed round was led by Pan-African focused VC 4DX Ventures. It also included participation from Raed Ventures, Beco Capital, Breyer Capital and some private investors, including Magnus Olsson, co-founder of Careem. With over 1.25 Today, it is announcing that it has secured $6.4 million in seed funding. .

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The round, which is a combination of equity and debt financing, lists investors from the Middle East, including DisruptAD and (the VC arm of ADQ, an Abu Dhabi-based sovereign wealth fund), and SHUAA (a major UAE asset management and investment banking firm). The biopharma industry uses more optimistic numbers.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Build trust with founders and then offer your own data-backed take on why a founder’s decision might not be the best decision they could make. Talent in 2024. Many founders I’ve worked with are like, “well, that’s why you’re here. Key takeaways Write a MOC. Leading by influence, not directive.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 30, 2023

Mobee projects Indonesian crypto annual trading volume to reach over $100 billion by the end of 2024. The funding round for the exchange was led by leading Southeast Asia VC fund, 1982 Ventures, and strategic Indonesian family offices and individuals.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 3, 2022

Some of Aria’s predictions are : “The main story of 2022, it’s definitely going to be certification,” Sergio Cecutta, founder and partner at SMG Consulting, said. Fresh VC money is drying up and there aren’t likely to be more new entrants into the space. It’s the year of put up or shut up.”.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2023

As one VC put it: “It’s bad.” We also teamed up with other TC staff and talked to several founders who bank(ed) there to get their perspectives. Already, businesses are worried about making payroll, which could lead to unanticipated closures and layoffs. ” Our hearts go out to all impacted.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

The judges for the pitch-off – Yoon Choi (Muirwoods Ventures), Mar Hershenson (Pear VC) and Gabriel Scheer (Elemental Excelerator) on day one; and Sven Strohband (Khosla Ventures), Victoria Beasley (Prelude Ventures) and John Du (GM Ventures) on day two – largely thought Swyft Cities had a good direction and a very capable team.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

With its recent $7 million seed funding round led by Trucks VC with participation from Maniv Mobility and Wireframe Ventures, Solo AVT is gearing up to finalize the design and build of its first test vehicle, a battery-electric Class 8 truck, and begin testing this summer, the company said.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

The VCs who founders love the most. Managing Editor Danny Crichton spearheaded the development of The TechCrunch List earlier this year to help seed-stage founders connect with VCs who write first checks. ” The VCs who founders love the most. trillion by 2024. API startups are so hot right now.

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American Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Early stage climate tech VC firm Anthropocene Ventures also joins Kind Designs’ seed round. Rapidly growing climate and construction tech startup Kind Designs gained the support of entrepreneur Mark Cuban and VC firm Anthropocene Ventures for its $5 million seed round. In a brief span, she has demonstrated exceptional execution.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Startups and VC. Starry-eyed newlyweds routinely sign prenuptial agreements without losing their sense of idealism, and startup founders should do the same, advises Yonaton Aronoff, a partner at litigation and employment law firm Harris St. Laurent & Wechsler. ” Why your startup needs a prenup. You can sign up here.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

It’ll be used, Descope co-founder and CEO Slavik Markovich says, to grow Descope’s product capabilities, invest in research and support open source initiatives around authentication, authorization and user management. In 2021, VC investment in identity management startups reached $3.2

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2023

So if you want to drive around at your end destination, you need to take the car and you need to take gas with you,” explains Vanessa Clark, CEO and co-founder of Atomos Space. With the current round of funding, the company says it will double the size of the team and launch its first two OTVs in early 2024.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

That’s doubly the case if you’re a founder who can see the end of the runway looming on the horizon. While we anticipate the VC fundraising environment will become more cautious across the board, we don’t see robotics being uniquely impacted. It’s set to start deploying the system to customers in 2024.

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