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. Paper plane made from a ten-dollar bill.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The Series B is led by US VC fund, General Catalyst. The Y Combinator-backed startup — which was only founded back in 2018 — has quickly gained traction for a b2b SaaS platform aimed at employers seeking immigration and relocation logistics support.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The round is led by Flashpoint Venture Capital, Uniqa Ventures, PKO VC, Black Pearls VC (an existing investor) and Adamed. Expanding supported languages is part of that plan. has the right product, the right team and the right culture to support insurers in providing seamless telemedicine services. telemedi.co

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

5 VCs discuss the future of SaaS and software after Pfizer’s vaccine breakthrough (EC). Calling Dublin VCs: Be featured in The Great TechCrunch Survey of European VC. There’s still lots of money, but it appears more focused on chasing winners than bolstering or supporting less-obvious startups. Across the week.

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Founders Coop

JANUARY 11, 2023

But as a “company town” where most engineers come for a well-paying job, not as founders seeking like-minded peers, our region’s entrepreneurial support systems are surprisingly weak. First, the increment of learning in VC is investment decisions managed to maturity. The implications of this are many.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Here’s what I said: In your career in tech and VC, how has your focus on ESG responsibility changed over time? It is accelerating the inclusion of the unbanked and underbanked population into a formal, secure economy. – StratiFi is the first low-cost, intuitive, and scalable portfolio hedging SaaS platform for investors.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Other investors — Better Ventures, Accelerated Ventures, Diverse Angels, AVG Basecamp and New General Market Partners participated. Their focus on data, process and supporting underserved ecosystems aligns perfectly with our mission and makes them an amazing partner for us to build with.”.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Female-founded venture firms have shown strong support for female-founded startups accounting for 28% of their deal counts from 2016 to October 2021 in startups with at least one female founder. of all VC funds raised in 2022 to 17.2%—seen as part of a decade-long trend. In contrast, male-only founded U.S. Secretary of Commerce.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Additional investors in the newest seed round and expanded credit facility include Village Global VC, Flexport Ventures, Tresalia Capital, 342 Capital, Struck Capital, Antler LLC, Antler Elevate, Florida Funders and Fox Ventures. Miami-based Marco Financial is launching a revenue-based lending service for Latin American SMEs.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

We are rolling out new products this year that support different languages, because this has been a barrier to our growth in these regions,” said Rutakangwa, who co-founded the startup with Eric Sewankambo. What data the startup collects is based on the needs of its customers who use its SaaS product.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Here’s what I said: In your career in tech and VC, how has your focus on ESG responsibility changed over time? It is accelerating the inclusion of the unbanked and underbanked population into a formal, secure economy. – StratiFi is the first low-cost, intuitive, and scalable portfolio hedging SaaS platform for investors.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

“It is still small-scale, and the most important thing we are doing that other companies should do is focus on the design, engineering and full-scale installations of vessels and the supporting systems to make a lot of it,” said Josh Tetrick, co-founder and CEO of Eat Just, which sells lab-grown chicken meat in Singapore.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Seedstars Africa Ventures , the pan-African early-stage fund for startups, has appointed Bruce Nsereko-Lule as its new general partner, to help it deploy more capital and provide the much-needed technical support for founders across the continent. The support is meant to help them to spend their full time building the business.”.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Cue statement from current CEO Raj Sabhlok: “Reaching ‘unicorn’ status and partnering with Vista will enable us to accelerate our mission to support SMBs as they continue to digitize their businesses in order to grow. “Pipedrive is now Europe and Estonia’s newest SaaS unicorn,” says Zennström.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

As the list illustrates, Johnson, an ex-Googler (and TC battlefield alum ), isn’t short of contacts to tap up for his new startup — having pulled so much VC into Lystable/Kalo. The pandemic accelerated this trend and humans are reevaluating who they are and what’s most important to them in life.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

making the need for singular platforms to support such e-commerce businesses all the more necessary,” says Cherry Ventures’ Bendz. Former Spotify marketing exec-turned-VC Sophia Bendz on her love of early-stage investing. Meanwhile, the business model is straight forward enough.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

The company says that it provides interested clubs with the back office framework, legal and tax support and has a platform where leaders can look for capital raise opportunities, meet other members and manage portfolios. PIN is working on different products that would create an incentive for club members to support founders beyond capital.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2021

To support what could be droves of workers sticking to distance-labor instead of returning to offices, Firstbase is building a software-and-hardware solution to quickly get remote workers the tools and support they need. And today the company announced that it closed a $13 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz.

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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

JANUARY 16, 2021

Overall, local investors cited the country’s focus on global markets from day one, general support from the Israeli government and deep relationships with Silicon Valley and other global tech centers as additional factors that are powering it forward today. Fintech (specifically embedded finance or financial SaaS), synthetic bio.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Amsterdam has tech industry “schools” such as Growth Tribe , The Talent Institute and THNK for educational courses, as well as accelerators like Rockstart, Startupbootcamp and Fashion for Good. For this survey, we interviewed the following Amsterdam-focused investors: • Janneke Niessen, partner, CapitalT VC.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

VC firms 500 Global and Unicorn Growth Capital co-led the Lagos-based company’s seed round. based accelerator Expert Dojo, Predictive VC, SaaS Growth Ventures, Betatron Venture Group, Accelerex Holdings. It saw participation from U.S.-based ThankUCash cofounders.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

So you’re interested in raising capital from a Revenue-Based Investor VC. Which VCs are comfortable using this approach? This structure offers some of the benefits of traditional equity VC, without some of the negatives of equity VC. Our wheelhouse is bootstrapped (or lightly capitalized) SMB SaaS. Bigfoot Capital.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2021

CourseKey , a San Diego-based trade school management SaaS startup, was in a unique position. And now, the company has raised $9 million in a Series B led by SignalFire and with participation from existing backer Builders VC to help it continue its momentum. . We saw a massive acceleration trend that was already going to happen.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

To meet the changing startup landscape, we’re refreshing and re-imagining TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 in a big way, with more of what you love and new ways to accelerate your growth. With this new stage, Disrupt 2023 is reaffirming its mission — supporting founders, builders and investors across the entire startup spectrum.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

To take that lesson and scale it, Church is launching a new product, available today, that will connect leadership teams to an HR executive who will help craft a company communications plan, a diversity and impact analysis, and day-of support in conducting the layoffs. 10 steps for managing layoffs respectfully.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

Many online entrepreneurs are underserved, he added, because “the VC model is somewhat broken and really based on who you know.” Its clients have come from sectors as diverse as SaaS, direct-to-consumer e-commerce, edtech, health tech, cloud kitchens and nutrition. For founders without the right network, it’s hard to find investors.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

This is why investors really like SaaS software companies where you have recurring revenue and your largest customer accounts for < 5% of your revenue and your renewals rates are > 90%. The reason is that no VC wants to see the venture debt provider get burned if you become bankrupt.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

Rather than employing a SaaS model that Beattie says is not well appreciated by its customers, Redbird’s revenue model is based on the supply of disposable test strips. In 2018, Redbird participated in the Alchemist Accelerator just a few months before launch. and South African early-stage VC firm Newtown Partners to cut a check.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Startups and VC According to former employees of human resources startup Free Agency, CEO Sherveen Mashayekhi’s leadership style is holding the startup back as he seems to care more about demanding loyalty and controlling his employees than building a company, Becca reports. And we have five more for you: Yep, that’s you : This U.K.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. Haystack VC runs almost entirely on Notion.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2020

Chatting with Hippo’s CEO Assaf Wand this week, he posited that SPACs were a market-response to the public-private valuation gap, an accelerant-cum-bridge to help startups get public while demand was hot for their equity. What’s going on in the world of venture debt as VC gets back to form? The SPAC boom, for example, may wane.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

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. We are thrilled to be partnering with Itamar Zur and the team to support their mission to reinvent delivery.”. on-time delivery rate.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The country’s startup-friendly regulatory environment, a beautiful medieval town center, over 20 business hubs and accelerators and strong rankings in intellectual property production are most obvious at a high level. VC investors: Rokas Peciulaitis (Contrarian Ventures). Deep tech, SaaS, sustainability. Martynas Gudonavi?ius

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

From an investor’s perspective, 2022 witnessed a sudden market reversal from an extreme equity seller’s market to an equity buyer’s market, causing dislocations throughout angel, VC, and startup ecosystems. It is unclear if VCs will agree to these terms, but LPs believe they now have more leverage. Smaller VC fundraises?

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