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Creator Ventures Raises $45M Fund II to Back the Next Generation of Consumer Internet Startups
American Entrepreneurship
MAY 21, 2025
Creator Ventures, founded in 2022 by cousins Sasha Kaletsky and Caspar Lee , is uniquely positioned to invest in the next wave of AI-enabled consumer applications, marketplaces, creative tools, and SaaS platforms reshaping the digital landscape. Thats what we bring. Its Fund I (20222025) already shows 0.3x
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Praise Our Lord For Secondary Markets, Because Selling Shares Is Now an Essential Part of (Seed) Venture Capital
Hunter Walk
APRIL 21, 2025
That’s a 2025 milestone as Homebrew turns 12.5 I entered venture capital with some beliefs – many of which still hold true (such as ‘your LPs are your business partners, not your customers’). VC Skillset VCs are investors, not traders. VCs increasingly *are* traders.
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Interview: James Burnes, Ministry of Awesome
NZ Entrepreneur
MARCH 16, 2025
Over time, the co-working space developed and there was a natural progression towards a lot of individuals starting new ventures coming out of that space. And we’ve kind of moved to a virtual event because, for us, we have a great relationship with VC’s in the market, and with angel investors in the market.
Headwinds, Tailwinds, and Crosswinds Ahead for Rising Startup Ecosystems
Revolution
DECEMBER 23, 2024
In 2025, startups beyond the coasts and outside of the traditional tech hubs will face new challenges and, with customary resourcefulness, also seize new opportunities. Headwinds Liquidity crunch: While venture-backed IPOs ticked up in 2024 , public market entrances still fell short of expectations and historical levels.
Venture studio Adanian Labs fuels startup growth in Africa
TechCrunch
JUNE 29, 2022
And so, swimming against the tides, he set up the venture studio in partnership with co-founders Irene Kiwia and Bendon Murgor. New report examines Africa’s growth in the digital economy and VC investment landscape. It is eyeing a pan-African presence by 2025 as it races to help build 300 companies over the next five years.
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New report examines Africa’s growth in the digital economy and VC investment landscape
TechCrunch
JUNE 8, 2022
The dynamics that play into this forecast, aside from the impact of COVID, include a youthful population (the youngest globally), rising smartphone adoption and internet penetration that has led to a burgeoning tech ecosystem backed by local and international VC dollars. million jobs due to Google’s $1 billion investment in the continent.
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TechCrunch: Where top VCs are investing in construction robotics
Dream It
FEBRUARY 14, 2020
Via TechCrunch by Arman Tabatabai: Venture capital has been flooding the various subverticals under the robotics umbrella in recent years, and the construction space is one of the largest beneficiaries. Last November, we surveyed 13 of the top robotics-focused VCs to find out which areas of robotics are exciting them most going into 2020.
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PH venture investor Kickstart Ventures commits to expand investments globally
AsiaTechDaily
MARCH 30, 2022
Register Kickstart Ventures , one of the most active venture capital firms in the Philippines, celebrates its 10th anniversary with a renewed commitment to invest in startups across the Philippines, and in major innovation hubs in Southeast Asia and beyond.
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Nigerian healthtech startup Reliance Health raises $40M led by General Atlantic
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
Reports say healthtech in Africa should reach a market value of over US$11 billion by 2025 and Reliance Health is looking to play a pivotal role in the continent reaching that capitalization. After years of government- and donor-backed funding initiatives, venture capital in African healthtech is picking up.
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“Workers are mad and no longer willing to sit idly by being spoon fed ‘we’re family’ b t from bosses:” Logan LaHive is Helping Employees Organize & Collectively Bargain. But Did He Compromise His Own Vision By Taking Venture Capital for the Startup?
Hunter Walk
SEPTEMBER 2, 2022
What will unionization rates in private workforce be in 2025? HW: Frank is venture backed. Endless anti-union tantrums, delivered with the confidence that only a VC who had a single personal interaction with a union 7 years ago could muster. Look, socialists hate venture capital, and venture capitalists hate unions.
Newly minted unicorn Tackle plans to use $100 million Series C to accelerate the future of software sales
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 21, 2021
Co-led by Coatue and Andreessen Horowitz , the round also saw participation from Bessemer Venture Partners. The VC firm has backed Tackle since its seed round, and led its $7.25 Fellow VC firm Battery Ventures, which to our knowledge hasn’t invested in Tackle, also backs up that view. billion valuation.
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Niio announces $15M Series A following strategic partnership with Samsung Displays
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
The round was co-led by L Catterton, a joint venture between LVMH and Catterton, Entrée Capital and Pico Venture Partners. The digital art market is projected to be approximately $50 – $100 billion by 2025, according to Anders. Digital art has long been on our radar at L Catterton.
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Investors say web3 and hype are in for 2023, high valuations are out — maybe?
TechCrunch
JANUARY 4, 2023
This past year was tumultuous for venture investors, to say the least. 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 think maybe 5%-10% will fail in 2023, but maybe 40% by 2025.
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Your deal flow is not diverse enough
TechCrunch
MARCH 9, 2021
Furthermore, women founders receive less than 3% of all VC dollars. Data show that men were four times as likely as women to access equity financing from angel investors or VCs (14.4% Data from Women in VC show that only 5.6% VC firms are women-led and only 4.9% of VC partners in the U.S. against 3.6%).
Another huge funding round gives Veho room to deliver
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
Existing investors, including General Catalyst, Bling Capital, Construct Capital, Industry Ventures and Origin Ventures, joined the round. Other notable investors in the company include The Chainsmokers’ Mantis VC Fund and the founders and CEOs of Allbirds, Everlane, FIGS, Harry’s, Flexport and Warby Parker. billion by 2025.
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GetVantage offers revenue-based financing to India’s founders
TechCrunch
JUNE 29, 2022
The Mumbai-based startup announced today that it has raised $36 million in equity and debt led by Varanium Nexgen Fintech Fund, DMI Sparkle Fund, along with returning investors Chiratae Ventures and Dream Incubator Japan. Varanium Capital partner Aparajit Bhandarkar will join GetVantage’s board.
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Akeyless secures a cash infusion to help companies manage their passwords, certificates and keys
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
million in debt — led by NGP Capital with participation from Team8 Capital and Jerusalem Venture Partners. billion by 2025. Hareven didn’t mention during our conversation, but Akeyless is also likely to benefit from the continued broader VC interest in cybersecurity. million in equity and $19.5 billion in 2020.
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Extra Crunch roundup: Z?m CEO interview, Cisco’s M&A ethos, neoinsurance bad romance
TechCrunch
AUGUST 24, 2021
Image Credits: Cowboy Ventures / Guild Education. Tomorrow’s episode of Extra Crunch Live will feature guests VC Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures and Rachel Carlson, CEO and co-founder of Guild Education. Full Extra Crunch articles are only available to members. Since then, Z?m
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Axio lands $23M to help companies quantify cyber risk
TechCrunch
AUGUST 4, 2022
Axio , a platform for cybersecurity risk evaluation, today announced the closure of a $23 million Series B round led by Temasek’s ISTARI, with participation from investors NFP Ventures, IA Capital Group and former BP CEO Bob Dudley.
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Edda wants to be the Bloomberg Terminal for private markets
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
But those more aligned with the private sphere, such as venture capitalists and private equity investors, perhaps aren’t quite as well-served when it comes to funnelling into the data they need to carry out their due diligence ahead of making a big investment, or tracking and managing their portfolio through to an exit.
Extra Crunch roundup: Jam City SPAC, startup PR, telemedicine market map, more
TechCrunch
MAY 21, 2021
According to data gathered by Rob Olson, partner and head of data strategy at venture engine M13, startups that have two or more experienced founders tend to exit 33% faster and raise 34% less capital. May Mobility’s Edwin Olson and Nina Grooms Lee and Toyota AI Ventures’ Jim Adler on validating your startup idea. EDT/noon PDT.
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Extra Crunch roundup: ‘Nightmare’ security breach, Poshmark’s IPO, crypto boom, more
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 18, 2020
In an Extra Crunch guest post, Quiq CEO and founder Mike Myer poses two questions for founders who are considering a new relationship with a VC: How can the investor help the business? trillion by 2025, but e-commerce represents just 3% of that activity today, reports Manish Singh. How to pick an investor in good or bad times.
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K-Startup Grand Challenge 2022 is accepting applications from global startups till May 31
AsiaTechDaily
MAY 18, 2022
Furthermore, the government plans to find 200 promising startups through 2022 and 1,000 promising startups, and 700 pre-unicorn startups by 2025. Venture capital investments have also poured into Korean startups and grew 78% year-on-year in 2021, surpassing 7.7 Bigbang Angels is a Korean early-stage VC with Singapore headquarters.
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These 5 investors are betting on helping you live longer and better
TechCrunch
AUGUST 18, 2022
Analysts estimate that the market for “delaying human death” could be worth $610 billion by 2025. Interest in the space seems to be growing rapidly in the VC community, so I spoke with five investors to get a better idea of where longevity tech is headed and just how big the market stands to become.
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Extra Crunch roundup: Klaviyo EC-1, micromobility’s second wave, UiPath CFO interview, more
TechCrunch
APRIL 23, 2021
Now that many consumers are buying their own e-bikes and e-scooters, shared dockless micromobility “just hasn’t proven itself to be a profitable line of business,” Puneeth Meruva, an associate at Trucks Venture Capital, told TechCrunch. By 2025, 463 exabytes of data will be created each day, according to some estimates.
Newsletter: Airbnb, DoorDash & DropBox incubator
OurCrowd
DECEMBER 13, 2020
OncoHost is using artificial intelligence software to revolutionize the $275B market (2025) for immunotherapy cancer drugs. Rebel Fund is a Silicon Valley-based venture fund focused on the top seed-stage startups from Y Combinator, the world’s most successful tech incubator. Introductions: Can your contacts help our startups grow?
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Fintech’s growing role in the healthcare revolution
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 25, 2021
Simon is an investment director with Cathay Innovation , a global venture capital firm investing across North America, Europe, Asia and Africa. billion in VC investment, and that number rose to $14.6 billion in VC investment. population will have a chronic illness by 2025. Contributor. Share on Twitter. billion in 2020.
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Daily Crunch: Tesla shares drop after leaked CEO email reveals hiring freeze, plans to cut 10% of staff
TechCrunch
JUNE 3, 2022
The delivery kids aren’t all right : Delivery startups, once the “darlings” of venture capital investment as Kyle put it, found their stride when none of us could go places over the past 2 years. Startups and VC. This is about changing the power dynamics in venture capital,” he told TechCrunch.
Allocate banks $5M to open up venture capital fund access
TechCrunch
JULY 22, 2021
The world of venture capital investing is a relatively small one, and relationship-based to boot. The company, founded by Samir Kaji and Hana Yang in February 2021, is developing an approach to venture capital fund investing that provides a way for investors of any size to participate. Enter Allocate.
The grocery industry’s shopping list: Inventory management, frictionless checkout, computer vision
TechCrunch
AUGUST 12, 2022
And venture capital is here for it. Grocery tech is attracting VC activity for a few reasons: For one, grocery retail is such a large market — a $1 trillion industry that is poised to grow 3% each year for the next eight years, according to Grandview Research. Bagging capital and expanding footprints.
Hypd raises $4m to empower content creators in India
AsiaTechDaily
MAY 3, 2023
Register Hypd , the Indian tech platform that enables content creators to monetize their influence, has successfully raised $4 million in a pre-series A funding round led by Orios Venture Partners. Existing investors Sauce VC and Better Capital also participated, doubling down on their previous investments.
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PitchBook’s new tool uses AI to predict which startups will successfully exit
TechCrunch
MARCH 20, 2023
The venture capital and private equity database today launched VC Exit Predictor, a tool trained on PitchBook data to attempt to suss out a startup’s growth prospects. “To ensure accuracy, predictions are made for venture-backed companies that have received at least two rounds of venture financing deals.”
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Black Founders Matter presses VCs to pledge commitment to diversity
TechCrunch
JUNE 3, 2022
Today, at the helm of the Black Founders Matter venture fund, Michel has kept that mentality. The fund announced today the formation of the 25 by 25 Pledge , which encourages venture capitalists to commit to investing a quarter of their funds into BIPOC women founders by the year 2025.
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McKinsey, eyeing the MLOps space, buys Tel Aviv-based Iguazio
TechCrunch
JANUARY 23, 2023
Prior to the acquisition, Iguazio managed to raised $72 million in venture capital from investors including INCapital Ventures, Pitango VC, Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP) and Magma Venture Partners according to CrunchBase data. By one estimation , the market for MLOps could reach $4 billion by 2025.
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Nigerian startup Klasha gets an additional $2.1M for its cross-border commerce play
TechCrunch
JUNE 7, 2022
The startup, which provides multiple products for the cross-border commerce space in Africa, raised this new financing from a group of international investors co-led by American Express (AMEX) Ventures, the strategic investment group of American Express. This investment is AMEX Ventures’ first in an African startup.
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Zoomo raises $12 million to expand e-bike subscription offerings
TechCrunch
MAY 3, 2021
billion in 2025 at a compound annual growth rate of 11%. Zoomo’s newest funding round, led by Australian VC AirTree, follows an $11 million Series A raised in August 2020, with support in both rounds from the Clean Energy Finance Corporation, Maniv Mobility and Contrarian Ventures.
Vietnam-based Anfin makes stock investing accessible
TechCrunch
JUNE 21, 2022
Participants in the round also included Rebel VC, Kharis Capital, Newman Capital, First Check Ventures, Micro Ventures, Springcamp and AngelHub. The startup is the latest investment app in Southeast Asia to get venture capital funding. The Y Combinator alum announced today it has raised a $4.8
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Daily Crunch: Meta decimates its staff as the social media giant lays off 11,000
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
Startups and VC. The funding also included participation from Shasta Ventures and Sixty Degree Capital. Startups might be in a funding midwinter, but the ray of sun shining on some VCs speaks of a different trend , reports Ingrid. No crypto deals for you : Will the FTX debacle scupper crypto venture deal-making?
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4 Indian investors explain how their investment strategy has changed since 2021
TechCrunch
MARCH 22, 2023
After a blockbuster year for venture capital funding in 2021, the flow of capital to Indian startups seemed like it would buck global trends in early 2022, but dried up in the second half of 2022. For Ashutosh Sharma, head of India investments at Prosus Ventures, it is paramount for startups to ensure their existence at this time.
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Extra Crunch roundup: Square buys Afterpay, paid search basics, career advice for devs
TechCrunch
AUGUST 3, 2021
alone, yearly spending on AI R&D is expected to reach $100 billion by 2025. How public markets can help address venture capital’s limitations. After interviewing Draper Esprit co-founder Stuart Chapman, Alex Wilhelm and Anna Heim took a look at the trend of European VCs floating themselves. In the U.S.
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Indian edtech Teachmint valued at $500 million in $78 million funding
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 25, 2021
Goodwater Capital and Epiq Capital as well as existing investors Learn Capital, CM Ventures, Lightspeed India and Better Capital also participated in the round, he said. The market is estimated to generate $5 billion in revenue by 2025 (up from about $1 billion last year), according to analysts at Goldman Sachs.
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Daily Crunch: Microsoft dumps Yammer and makes Viva Engage its preferred enterprise social platform
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
Startups and VC It’s always nice to have a lot of capital to invest, but managing a large new fund can be even more advantageous right now given that many later-stage companies that put off fundraising last year will likely be in the market come hell or high water in 2023, Connie reports. Kirsten has more.
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Localyze, a SaaS for staff relocation, gets $35M as it gears up for US launch
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
The Series B is led by US VC fund, General Catalyst. Other investors in the round include Visionaries Club, Web Summit Fund and Frontline Ventures, along with Job van der Voort (CEO of Remote) and the founding team at Taxdoo. “And then we now start having conversations with the really big global companies.
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