TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

TechCrunch has been covering the demo days of the seed-stage venture firm Pear VC since 2015. “We want to focus on building products and finding customers” while the startups are participating in its accelerator program, he insists. . A few things have remained true since that time.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Demo days at startup accelerators are a pretty big deal around here. These events aren’t just a chance to review the latest cohort of hopeful entrepreneurs — they also showcase the technology, products and services that will compete for VC and consumer attention over the next few years. Omnitron Sensors. Apothecary.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2023

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription “Starting a tech company today costs 99% less than it did 18 years ago when Y Combinator was started,” says Brett Calhoun, managing director and general partner at Redbud VC.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

I was having dinner with a friend last night and we were chatting about venture capital and a bit about what I’ve learned. Today we’re in a world where 10 accelerators are bombarding you with emails to meet their 10-15 companies. Don’t even get me started on Demo Days. I don’t. Pay attention.

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500

JUNE 9, 2020

As a VC firm, we’ve had to adapt many aspects of our business as well. From taking all aspects of our accelerators digital (including our Demo Day) to rethinking the opportunities of the future, we’ve taken this moment to analyze what innovations can come from this time and new opportunities that arise from our changing environment.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

The frantic pace of technology cycles, the amount of tech news, the blogs, the conferences, the demo days, the announcements, the fundings, the IPOs. It got me thinking about the advice that I often give to new VCs. ” And then there are incubators and accelerators. They want you to attend demo days. They are known.

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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. See How to negotiate a partner role at a VC or private equity firm.) At Versatile VC , we’ve used all these models.

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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. I have been researching this both to support Versatile VC ’s portfolio companies and also as part of research for my new book, To University and Beyond: Launch Your Career in High Gear. Right here.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 5, 2023

and was co-led by Ironspring Ventures and Chicago Ventures, with continued participation from FUSE VC and Cercano Management. To Schedule a Demo: Nick Boston, Head of Sales nick.boston@goodship.io The raise brings GoodShip’s total funding to $7.4M Contacts Press Contact: Paige LaNasa, Head of Marketing pr@goodship.io

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 2, 2022

A multibillion dollar acquisition , IPO projections and some good ol’ VC and billionaire drama? If you missed last week’s newsletter, read it here: “Tiger Global, fickle checks and the difficulty of acceleration.” Instead, Cloudflare just got dozens of venture firms to offer to invest up to $1.25 Well, kind of. The follow-up.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 3, 2023

This class of investor, once quite disorganized, has become much like the venture capital community, creating a process including due diligence (careful examination of a business before investment), terms of investment that match those of venture capitalists, and a process that sometimes takes months from introduction to investment.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

In the rest of this newsletter, we’ll talk about the new career path to CEO, our favorite startups from Techstars Demo Day and the latest SPAC you should probably know about. A triple-hitter Demo Day. TechCrunch covered favorites from Techstars’ three Demo Days, which were focused on Chicago, Boston and workforce development.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

One could probably argue that Floodgate , the Bay Area-based seed-stage venture firm, punches above its weight. Called Reactor , the program combines curriculum from classes Miura-Ko teaches at the Stanford School of Engineering and consists of two components – a pre-summer lecture series and a summer accelerator.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

Existing investors Base10 Partners and Gradient Ventures (Google’s AI-focused VC) also participated. The company will use the capital raised to accelerate product development. The previous $18 million A round was led by Base10 and Google’s Gradient Ventures nine months ago. So all the way until 2019 we bootstrapped.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

To boost adoption and reduce churn, VC Ross Haleliuk shares four steps PLG cybersecurity companies can take to drive growth and reduce churn , along with multiple tactics that will help teams get started. 500 Global’s take on the rising competition among startup accelerators. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

The company was also part of the latest class at accelerator Y Combinator, and it recently raised $1.5 million in seed funding led by SMOK Ventures and Movens VC. Where is the e-commerce app ecosystem headed in 2021? ” The platform has been used to create more than 300 stores worldwide.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

It turns out that while later-stage investors, mostly international VC firms, grabbed headlines by writing immense checks, pre-seed and seed-stage investors were instrumental to the growth of the continent’s tech ecosystem. The most active African investors were involved in 15-20 deals, according to a report on African VC activity in 2022.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Startups and VC. Denver-based VC firm SpringTime Ventures is pivoting away from its original focus on its home state of Colorado, despite being the only local fund in two of the state’s 10 unicorn companies, Becca reports.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

The entire way in which people and goods move around has changed,” Machluf said in the second episode of the Pandemic Venture Investment Series , co-sponsored by OurCrowd and Anthony Scaramucci’s SALT. As in many other cases, Covid accelerated decisions that should have been made earlier,” he said. And some would say for the better.”.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

Many of those companies are Nigerian, and when we look at venture capital data, we can see why. The country had an incredible 2021 as the most active venture capital scene in Africa, collecting more than $1.8 In 2019, startups based in Nigeria attracted $747 million, or 37% of Africa’s total VC investment.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

The idea is simple enough: several female VC partners at top funds will hold 1-hour meetings with 40 promising female entrepreneurs looking to get advice on their business and pitch in a friendly, non-judgmental, safe environment. 8% of VC partnerships, for example). Now 33% of Supreme Court Justices are women (vs.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 14, 2021

Former founders of successful ventures receive even fewer [emphasis added] callbacks than former founders of failed ventures. At my prior firm, ff Venture Capital, we invested in a company co-founded by Nate Jenkins , who had a successful exit, but not quite enough to buy a private plane. Talk with VCs in your space.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Satellite servicing company Starfish Space has closed $7 million in funding to accelerate the development of a space tug vehicle that can extend the life of spacecraft and get rid of orbital debris. This latest round was co-led by NFX and MaC Venture Capital, with participation from PSL Ventures, Boost VC, Liquid2 Ventures and Hypothesis.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

It will be all hands on deck today and tomorrow as we listen to startups pitch at the YC Demo Day, so look out for a deluge of stories over the next two days. Startups and VC. YC’s Demo Day showed off 32 startups from India (the accelerator has funded almost 200 Indian startups to date), with heavy focus on fintech.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Fine Structures Ventures led with participation from J2 Ventures, SV Pacific Ventures, Quest Venture Partners, Amino Capital, Sand Hill Angels and Gaingels. Femtosense’s first-generation processor, the SPU-001, hasn’t begun demoing yet, and mass production is at least several months off (sometime in 2023).

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2021

The investors in this round include Egyptian VC Foundation Ventures, Y Combinator, MSA Capital, CRE Ventures, Alter Global, Jameel Investment Management Company (JIMCO) , B&Y Ventures Partners and Access Bridge Ventures. Our favorite companies from Y Combinator’s W21 Demo Day: Part 1. million.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 18, 2022

Register South Korea’s leading accelerator program K-Startup Grand Challenge (KSGC) , considered ‘a gateway’ to do business in Asia, invites global startups to participate. Its startup ecosystem is active and well designed, attracting the attention of investors, accelerators, and incubators worldwide.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

It’s Wednesday, which today is known as Apple iPhone 14 (here’s all our stories from the Apple event ) and Y Combinator Demo Day…day. Demo Day started today and goes through tomorrow — our team is standing by. Startups and VC. PDT, subscribe here. In startup land, it’s been a lot of Y Combinator goodness.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 20, 2019

A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. In addition, their portfolios look far more diverse than VC industry norms. Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

A few months in, Dave McClure hand-picks our tiny Ottawa-based startup to be part of 500 Startups, his famous accelerator in SF. Before the accelerator starts, we raise $500K, more than any other company there. After demo day, we got a call from a European gym equipment manufacturer. (An Everything is right on track.

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Angel Capital Association

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

By: Dror Futter, Legal and Business Adviser to Startups, Venture Capital Firms and Technology Companies The SEC announced a series of amendments (likely to be effective early next year) to the rules governing private offering exemptions – by far the most frequent path for venture fundraising.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2023

About a year ago, it seemed like myself and other colleagues were writing story after story about spend management companies raising tranches of venture capital — remember Mary Ann’s roundup story from basically this same time last year? While 16 people may not seem like a lot, when it comes to venture firms, it actually is.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2023

Bahadur said the company’s closest competitor is baby subscription box company Lovevery, which has raised $126 million in venture-backed funding since it was founded in 2015. The company got into the XRC Labs accelerator program and also signed a deal with a large U.S. She decided to go after venture capital, raising $1.2

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Expo Hall & Demo Booths. They’ll unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines and will wade through the hype to keep you up-to-date on the world of business, tech and VC. Venture firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is the largest and one of the best-known funding sources for web3 startups. Investor Reception.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 6, 2016

This posts analyses US headquartered information technology companies which VC-led investment rounds, except for the $793M Series C in Magic Leap , which I excluded as an outlier. VCs invested about $2B in January and February 2016. Was VC activity in February an aberration or representative of a deeper change in sentiment?

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David Teten VC

MARCH 21, 2024

My Partner Winter Mead, Founder & CEO of Coolwater Capital , the accelerator for emerging VC fund managers, said: “Fewer than 5 of the 180 emerging managers we’ve worked with are raising via 506c, in order to get in front of more retail LPs, who are generally already following the GP, e.g., through the GP’s newsletter or community.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

Today, the investor is announcing the launch of Voltron Capital , a Pan-African venture capital firm he co-founded with Abe Choi , a U.S.-based Soyombo is one of the few founder-cum-investors on the continent, despite his company not being the traditional VC-backed startup the world has become accustomed to.

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