Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin!

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Venture capital funds focusing on niche sectors are “in,” according to Connie , and Will Ventures is here for it. Venture capital funds focusing on niche sectors are “in,” according to Connie , and Will Ventures is here for it. PDT, subscribe here. Christine and Haje. The TechCrunch Top 3. Startups and VC.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Gorra intends to use the new capital to continue technology development on those tools, to add to Rebag’s workforce of 150 people and expand its marketing. The market for venture capital is active and favorable, and we seized on that opportunity to accelerate funding,” he added. and now it is closer to 20%.

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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. Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet?

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 11, 2023

Register AHG Lab , an independent venture builder based in the Philippines, has successfully raised $4 million in a pre-Series A funding round to expand its portfolio of ventures and programs. million in its seed round in 2021, with support from Philippine’s venture capital investor Foxmont Capital Partners.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

But today we’re highlighting the demo day for a new wave of crypto projects and teams who participated in the latest cohort for Alliance DAO, a web3 accelerator and builder community. It seems like every time a demo day ends , there’s a new one waiting around the corner — and as you know, TechCrunch is no stranger to covering them.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

FSD Africa is set to launch insurtech accelerator programs in Ghana and Nigeria next year to promote innovations that will drive the uptake of insurance in the two markets and beyond. We are planning to launch the BimaLab Insurtech Accelerator Program in Ghana and Nigeria.” funded Financial Sector Deepening (FSD) Africa.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 1, 2014

After much thought and consideration, I''ve decided that the best move for my career right now is a second stint as an analyst at Union Square Ventures. Why go back to a job I first took nine years ago when things are going so well for me and I''m running my own fund, Brooklyn Bridge Ventures. Well, that''s part of it. Except me.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The investment comes barely six months after Chipper Cash closed its first Series C round of $100 million, led by SVB Capital , the corporate venture capital arm of SVB Financial Group. Serunjogi founded Chipper Cash with Maijid Moujaled in 2018 to offer a no-fee peer-to-peer cross-border payment service in Africa via its app.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Peer to peer transactions and retail trading are two of the biggest drivers of crypto adoption on the continent. Still, it is when compared with its peers in Africa as no local crypto platform serving just Africa has reached a million customers. million pre-seed to that end. million pre-seed to that end.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

When Christian Lawless founded Conversion Capital in 2015, fintech was only starting to take off. Lawless raised $10 million and $20 million for Conversion Capital’s first and second funds, respectively. It currently has $254 million in assets under management.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

Would you like to work with private equity and venture capital funds? There are relatively few jobs directly inside private equity and venture capital funds, and those jobs are highly competitive. Venture capitalists often come from an operating background. Venture Capital. Private Equity.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 27, 2023

The round was led by venture capital firm Betatron Venture Group, with participation from Forge Ventures and Indonesian tobacco magnate Michael Sampoerna. million in March, which was also led by Forge Ventures. Register Indonesian supply-chain startup Baskit has successfully raised $3.3

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Haystack

OCTOBER 2, 2019

And one of the sources of that flow are the new accelerators (I’m lumping incubators, accelerators, etc. Yesterday, I tweeted this: I get emails from friends @ accelerators, asking me what kind of co’s I’m interested in, or to watch online demo day (no), etc. ” And, surely, it “can” work.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2021

South Korea-based peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platform PeopleFund announced today it has closed a $63.4 billion won) Series C round led by Bain Capital with participation from Goldman Sachs. million (75.9 Returning investors in the round include CLSA Lending Ark Asia and 500 Global.

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Paul G. Silva

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

This costs the entrepreneurs precious time they need to run their ventures. Saves deal leads time by making it easy to share a deal with their peers in seconds. Saves entrepreneurs time by accelerating connection to more investors via the curated list. Entrepreneur Pain Points. This is bad for everyone! Is it perfect?

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. How can you get free money and other support for your business idea? . Right here. In my book, I collects all the best scholarships, fellowships, and other programs for high-achieving young people. .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Goodwater Capital, Dubai Future District Fund, Rebel Fund, Trampoline Venture Partners, Zemu VC, a number of prominent European family offices, and strategic angel investors participated in the latest round. The new funding follows the $1 million pre-seed backing it secured in February this year. Image Credits : Zywa.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 28, 2024

El Segundo, CA – March 26, 2024 – Picogrid , a defense technology startup, announces a $12 million seed round led by Initialized Capital with participation by Starburst Ventures, Credo Ventures, Giant Step Capital, Domino Ventures, and Alumni Ventures. and international security needs.”

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 19, 2023

million to fund its mission to accelerate financial inclusion and strengthen the neo-rural bank ecosystem in Indonesia, especially outside the Greater Jakarta area. It was also participated by AlphaTrio Sustainable Technology Fund, Skystar Capital, Sovereign’s Capital, Ozora, and Gobi Partners.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

Amit Anand is a founding partner of Jungle Ventures and an early pioneer and leader in the development of Southeast Asia’s venture capital industry. They use their networks for socializing as well as transacting, and they’re particularly enthusiastic about peer-to-peer services. Amit Anand. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2023

Two: That’s the number of startups in YC’s latest batch with offices in Denmark, Norway or Sweden, according to data from the accelerator itself. And yet, these three countries create more than their fair share of startups compared to their larger European peers. Well, a promise is a promise. Turns out, not really.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

Peer-to-peer car-sharing company Turo filed to go public last night. After raising nearly $500 million while private , the company has an enormous capital base underneath it, meaning that there is also institutional pressure for the firm to pursue an IPO. Let’s talk about acceleration post-lockdown. million to $149.9

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2020

As continentally confined Americans look for domestic vacation options that won’t expose them to too much risk of infection from the pandemic that’s still raging across the country, the RV rental company RVshare has raised more than $100 million to capitalize on its historic opportunity.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

The data and research organisation uses factors like performance, capital, market reach, connectedness, talent, and knowledge to produce its rankings. However, a Kenyan B2B management startup founded by Yacob Berhane and Wossen Ayele wants to close the gap on three of the six factors — access to capital, knowledge, and talent.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Silicon Valley peer-to-peer car rental startup Getaround has secured a $25 million loan from Horizon Technology Finance Corporation. The financing announcement comes one month after Getaround raised $140 million from investors, including SoftBank Vision Fund, Menlo Ventures, Reid Hoffman and Mark Pincus’ Reinvent Capital.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

million Series A to strengthen its system integration with OTAs on the demand side, build a booking management system for transportation operators on the supply side and accelerate digital transformation in the pre-booking transportation industry. SmartRyde announced today it has secured a $1.6 SmartRyde announced today it has secured a $1.6

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2021

People have been discussing the importance of expanding opportunities for women in venture capital and startup entrepreneurship for decades. The prospect of more women writing checks was viewed as a positive for female founders, a cohort that has struggled to attract more than a fraction of the funds that their male peers manage.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

Less than 2% of venture capital funding went to all-female founding teams in 2021, marking a five-year low, new data from Pitchbook shows. So how is it that despite the recent boom in startup funding, the venture capital industry is actually becoming an even tougher place for women to raise money?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The investors backing MNT-Halan include private equity firms Apis Growth Fund II, Development Partners International (DPI), and Lorax Capital Partners; VCs like Venture Partners, Endeavor Catalyst, and DisruptTech. Then in mobility, MNT-Halan provides courier, delivery, and ride-hailing services. . billion worth of loans to 1.8

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Founders Coop

JANUARY 11, 2023

Our firm’s original premise was – and remains – dead simple: Seattle is a global gravity well for engineering talent, thanks to the sustained excellence and corresponding human capital needs of Amazon and Microsoft. By contrast, venture capital is a craft that defies both speed and scale.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 13, 2023

million Series B growth financing led by ABS Capital Partners with participation from existing investors Claritas Health Ventures, as well as Healthworx, the innovation and investment arm of CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, PTX Capital, and Kapor Capital. Last week’s announcement of a $1.67

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

As the markets turned early this year, insurtech left most generalist investors’ playbooks almost as fast as Metromile and its peers’ plummeting valuations. The bulk of the buyers, however, would likely be companies involved in insurance themselves – either insurtechs acquiring some of their peers or legacy players.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This is Y Combinator Demo Day week , which means a zillion startups are going to be doing their best to make noise, stand out from their peers, and raise capital on uncapped notes sans discount.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

That hefty valuation comes on the back of a $13 million extension to the company’s latest round of funding, led by Food Retail Ventures and joined by existing investors Innovation Endeavors, Maersk Growth and Baseline Ventures, the company said.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 25, 2023

MINNEAPOLIS-SAINT PAUL, MN – The Forge North startup coalition announced the first close of the MSP Equity Fund – the first-known venture capital fund of funds in the country designed to invest across race, place, and gender. Research has shown that diverse-fund managers often outperform their non-diverse peers.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

Since then, many of the key trends and themes we surfaced have come to pass: Airtable clinched an $11 billion valuation in December 2021 after raising a $735 million Series F with help from Salesforce Ventures and Michael Dell’s MSD Capital. Renato Valente, general partner, Iporanga Ventures. Seems like a long time ago.

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