TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2022

After incubating a startup — Axelera AI — to commercialize their chip technology within the blockchain company Bitfury Group, Del Maffeo and team secured capital from VCs including Imec’s venture arm, Imex.xpand. Axelera’s test chip for accelerating AI and machine learning workloads. Image Credits: Axelera.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 1, 2021

Almost every private equity and venture capital investor now advertises that they have a platform to support their portfolio companies. I propose here a framework for prioritizing your platform buildout. First Round Capital has built an entire function just focused on helping companies refine their pitch and fundraise.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Kontent, a platform designed to help companies manage business-related content in the cloud, today announced that it raised $40 million from Expedition Growth Capital as part of a growth capital infusion. has been a first mover and innovator in the space.” “Kontent.ai

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 27, 2023

Register Sunrate , a global smart payment and treasury management platform, has successfully raised an extended Series D (Series D-2) funding round from Peak XV Partners, formerly Sequoia Capital Southeast Asia. The round included Prosperity7 Ventures and Softbank Ventures Asia.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2023

Anthony Cimino Contributor Share on Twitter Anthony Cimino , head of policy at Carta , works with policymakers and innovators to drive economic opportunity through expanding equity ownership and private market liquidity. And the scale of the SEC’s proposed reforms should alarm entrepreneurs, investors and employees in the innovation economy.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 6, 2021

” In a related article, Gregg Adkin, VP and managing director at Dell Technologies Capital, shared the framework he’s developed for helping founders set up their board. Matthew Harris, partner, Bain Capital Ventures. The acceleration of B2B AI innovation has begun. Enterprise AI 2.0: Enterprise AI 2.0:

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 10, 2023

” The financing framework for the projects includes offering loans for investment endeavors at a low-interest rate of 5% p.a. Spanning an expansive 100-hectare area, this center will encompass a range of facilities designed to foster innovation and support startups. in foreign currency and 12% p.a. in national currency.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Given that the majority of Colombians now have access to a smartphone, the internet, and a basic bank account, the conditions are set for an acceleration of financial innovation and inclusion. The new superintendent has reaffirmed the government’s commitment to an inclusive agenda that fosters competition and innovation.

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Ian Hathaway

MARCH 31, 2020

Senators led by Amy Klobuchar introduced the New Business Preservation Act to incentivize venture capital formation around the country. It avoids two well-known traps for government-sponsored venture programs by requiring that public funds are matched with private dollars and that capital is deployed by professional investors.

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Impact Hub

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Impact Hub: Our policy approach At Impact Hub, we are committed to accelerating global impact through collaboration, innovation, and inclusivity. These complementary pillars leverage Impact Hub’s extensive network of over 100 communities across the globe to accelerate learning across diverse realities.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

CEO Sean Knapp says that the new capital — which brings Ascend’s total to $50 million — will be used to expand the startup’s engineering, sales and marketing teams while extending Ascend’s platform to support greater automation. “The pandemic has accelerated adoption of the Ascend platform.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Studios do this by using repeatable frameworks (imagine a factory) to test these ideas and back them with funding and resources in order to launch and grow powerful, scalable startups. With great innovation comes big change, or even better, disruption, to systems that have been in place for years.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Framing Innovation Through Collaborations Big and Small with AT&T. Connectivity isn’t a nice-to-have for innovation. It’s mandatory, and collaboration between AT&T and startups at all stages could push the world forward and provide the framework for innovation. TC Plus Stage | 2:10 PM. Marc’s Lore.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Venture Capital Firm Launches third Cybersecurity Fund in the Past Three Years Warnings about cyber threats are so prevalent that people understand the importance of cybersecurity in their businesses and daily lives. SYN Ventures was founded by former Fortune 500 CISOs and C-level security leaders.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

As the demand for AI-powered apps grows, startups developing dedicated chips to accelerate AI workloads on-premises are reaping the benefits. A recent ZDNet piece reaffirms that the AI edge chip market is booming, fueled by “staggering” venture capital financing in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Here is a framework that can help you delve deeper into your quest to choose the right startup business: Self-Evaluation : What interests, hobbies, and passions do you have? In the latter instance, first time entrepreneurs tend to underestimate the capital needed to start a business and run it until it breaks even or becomes profitable.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

We spoke to: Sheila Gulati , managing director, Tola Capital. Sri Pangulur , partner, Tribe Capital. Sheila Gulati, managing director, Tola Capital. Modern cloud architectures provide many benefits such as increased innovation, faster time to market, improved reliability and reduced costs.

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Paul G. Silva

MAY 10, 2021

Three years later, we still consider ourselves privileged and honored to help other entrepreneurs create jobs, innovations, and prosperity. He discovered Launch413 and two of its advisors, Paul Silva and Rick Plaut , introduced him to one of their favorite tools, the VIRAL Scorecard , originally developed by Village Capital.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2023

million in a Series A round led by Chrome Capital with participation from FinSight Ventures and S16VC. “This expansion will enable us to accelerate our R&D and better serve our increasing user base,” Fedorov told TechCrunch in an email interview. Within Qase, testing reports and dashboards can be shared among teams.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2022

The Pensando team brings world-class expertise and a proven track record of innovation at the chip, software and platform level,” she said in a statement. “Joining together with AMD will help accelerate growth in our core business and enable us to pursue a much larger customer base across more markets,” he said. .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

The commitment is contained under the 24/7 Carbon-free Energy Compact , by leading energy buyers, suppliers, equipment manufacturers and governments, representing a global effort to accelerate the uptake of carbon-free electricity as a way of averting the perilous effects of climate change. Image Credits: Husk Power Systems. .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Insight Partners provided the equity side of the equation, while Hercules Capital and Bridge Bank supplied the venture debt. So you have all of this innovation happening in the world, and we make it easier for them to take advantage of it,” he said. It was split between $15 million in equity investment and $20 Million in debt.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In a reflection of investor confidence — or perhaps simply the demand for supply chain security solutions — Eclypsium today closed a $25 million Series B round led by Ten Eleven Ventures with participation from Global Brain’s KDDI Open Innovation Fund and J Ventures, bringing the company’s war chest to $50 million.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

NightDragon led the funding with participation from Snowflake Ventures as well as existing investors Dell Technologies Capital, DFJ Growth, IAG, Intel Capital, March Capital, StepStone, Ten Eleven Ventures, and Wipro Ventures. Fortunately for Immuta, venture capital sees big opportunities in data privacy.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2022

The startup will use the latest funding to advance its functionalities on top of the NPP’s PayTo framework and accelerate its international expansion, starting with New Zealand, driven by growing demand for Zepto’s infrastructure in the region, Jewell said. After New Zealand, Zepto wants to enter the U.S. .

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

s innovative potential come to life. Investing in Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Decentralized finance, commonly known as DeFi, is transforming the landscape of financial transactions by harnessing the potential of smart contracts within a peer-to-peer framework. But what approach should an investor take to participate in DeFi?

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

The Singularity Platform is essentially a combo of three tools that Koop built: Koop API, Portal By Koop, and Insurability Sufficiency Framework (ISF). Yoon founded a seed fund, Forest Ventures focusing in automotive sector and was an investment director at SAIC capital, one of the leaders in China’s automotive industry.

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Impact Hub

DECEMBER 2, 2020

At Impact Hub, we believe in supporting entrepreneurs with our accelerator programs as they prepare entrepreneurs for growth and serve as a pipeline for investors. Gender gap in access to resources, mainly capital and business support such as acceleration. This guide encompasses all stages of the acceleration process: .

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

We spent a bunch of time in the video talking about “disruption” as described by Clay Christensen in his seminal book, “The Innovator’s Dilemman” which I profiled here. I was influenced by Clay’s work and Fred Wilson has also said that he, too, was influenced by him. My guest today is Nate Redmond.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

The pandemic failed to slow the momentum of venture capitalists pouring money into startups, but Chicago stands out as an “outlying benefactor of accelerating venture capital activity and the rise of remote investing,” Alex Wilhelm and Anna Heim write for The Exchange. Image Credits: Nigel Sussman (opens in a new window).

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Impact Hub

MARCH 23, 2022

As global warming and its effect on climate change continue to harm our planet, women entrepreneurs are leading the charge in developing innovative solutions to tackle their negative effects and build a more sustainable future for all. Accelerate 2030: supporting groundbreaking women innovators.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 5, 2024

It’s an area where a lot of companies are trying to innovate. Is this an area where there are lessons to be learned from that and ways to accelerate technologies to the battlefield? Sharon: Another thing you talked about is just this tremendous amount of private investment venture capital going into defense.

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Startup Blogpost

AUGUST 18, 2023

Ewen Finser , Founder, The Digital Merchant Utilize a Hypothesis-Driven Framework One essential strategy that we’ve utilized to manage risks in our startup journey is the adoption of a hypothesis-driven framework. This way, we made more informed decisions and reduced the risk of failure.

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Impact Hub

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Historically, entrepreneurs and innovators find it hard to work in collaboration with each other and often find it difficult to build a coherent dialogue with policymakers. We successfully used the tool in Central Bohemia (a region of the Czech Republic) alongside our partners at the Social Innovation Center. Register here.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

” Now a company called Aware , which has built a similar framework aimed at organizations’ internal messaging boards, is announcing some funding — a sign of the growing interest in applying the same principles in-house.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

Dmg Ventures (the VC arm of the Daily Mail Group) and DN Capital co-led the equity-based seed funding, with VentureFriends and unnamed individuals in the tech world also participating. Victory Park Capital, meanwhile, provided the credit facility and also participated in the equity consortium. “The top 1.5%

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? In our previous essay, we introduced the concept of Flexible VC : structures which allow founders to access immediate risk capital while preserving exit and ownership optionality. IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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