TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

Enter Assent Compliance — a Canadian company focused on supply chain sustainability management. Assent’s trajectory continues to grow and Waitmen projects the SaaS company will cross $100 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) this year after growing ARR by over 50% in the past 12 months. It’s an enormous market.”.

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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. If the past few years, and even the past week , has reminded us soundly of anything — it’s that the startup world will never be predictable.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Our generation’s most valuable startups have all sustained a high rate of user/revenue growth over an extended period of time. As such, founders, employees and investors are all trying to figure out if their startup can achieve sustainable growth to create a large and enduring business over time. Just don’t let it be the only one.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Seedstars Africa Ventures – which is part of Seedstars Group, an accelerator and VC that is active globally in over 30 emerging markets – provides early-stage capital of up to $2 million in seed and Series A rounds. You see multiple businesses gaining funding, building sustainable business models, growing and scaling.

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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

JULY 12, 2022

Think of it as a two-sided marketplace: Continuum brings together executives with experience from VC-backed companies, including leaders from Tesla, Plaid, Intercom, Snap, Carta and Twitch, and connects them with companies that need help with a specific challenge or pivot.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

The judges for this pitch-off will be Yoon Choi (Muirwoods Ventures), Mar Hershenson (Pear VC) and Gabriel Scheer (Elemental Excelerator) on day one; and Sven Strohband (Khosla Ventures), Victoria Beasley (Prelude Ventures) and John Du (GM Ventures) on day two. ” Mar Hershenson — Pear VC. Mar received her Ph.D.

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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). Sustainability, silver tech, women in tech.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Spark Capital led the investment and was joined by existing investors Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund, Social Impact Capital and Congruent VC. It is time to tip the scales back to sustainability based on small and mid-sized farmers. MilkRun founder and CEO Julia Niiro.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The whole package: How plastics and sustainability startups achieve success. As people look to minimize the waste they produce, startups are coming up with novel solutions to help people and companies meet sustainability goals. The whole package: How plastics and sustainability startups achieve success.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

In a blog post/letter to employees , CEO and co-founder Will Young wrote that the company’s “focus on accelerating growth and product development came at the cost of higher risk tolerance and greater expenses.” TechCrunch had covered its $20.8 million Series A raise back in 2020. Last August, the firm made its first investment in Africa.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

VC firm General Catalyst, a new investor in the business, along with existing backer Kinnevik. The startup is also ploughing money into developing what it bills as “sustainable” travel solutions. The final tranche of the D round was led by U.S. Last fall TravelPerk acquired a U.K.-based

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 4, 2024

The head VC guy seems a little bit… weird. Since then, I’ve raised 5 more times for my companies and also advised various VCs and accelerators on tens of deals. Source: FasterCapital The biggest red flag for VCs is when startups start raising without any traction or before their MVP. to grow their business.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

The initiatives were painful for both the engineering and finance departments, they say — which is when the pair realized that they wanted more flexibility over how software-as-a-service (SaaS) products were billed and monetized. “The trend towards usage-based pricing has accelerated in recent years, and so has the hype around it.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

After years of sustained growth, the pandemic supercharged the outdoor recreation industry. European VC soars in Q1. European VC soars in Q1. Here’s how marketing in tech will shift — and what you need to know to reach more customers and accelerate growth this year. Many people think that means adding another team member.

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 5, 2019

The only model of institutional seed funding was the “business incubator” model, where VC firms would fund well-connected founders they knew and incubate them in their office. Because these companies wouldn’t raise VC until they were much further along and had leverage, the balance of power shifted. But that’s no longer the case.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 30, 2023

They are joined by base case capital, The Cannon Project, Data Community Fund, Essence VC, FOG Ventures, Scribble Ventures, South Park Commons, and SV Angel, as well as founders and executives from leading companies such as Asana, Datadog, HubSpot, Braze, Notion, Plaid, Replit, and Vercel. I wish we had Orb to accelerate our revenue goals.”

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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

The Israeli-based company developed artificial intelligence-driven data analytics that help food brands make smarter decisions around product development, marketing and retail sales for their next healthy, sustainable and delicious product.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

of all VC funds raised in 2022 to 17.2%—seen as part of a decade-long trend. Aspect Ventures : co-founded in 2014 by Theresia Gouw and Jennifer Fonstad, the early-stage venture firm uniquely focuses on bridging the funding gap between angels and the larger multi-stage VC platforms through collaboration and diversity.

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2021

In order to determine one, you should ask fundamental questions: What’s the long-term, sustainable reason that the company will stay in business? As M&A accelerates, deal-makers are leveraging AI and ML to keep pace. As M&A accelerates, deal-makers are leveraging AI and ML to keep pace. Investors are.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 6, 2021

I published a scoop earlier this week that Coursera is filing to go public soon, which would be one of the first debuts that will let us see how an education company’s finances changed, and accelerated, amid the pandemic’s impact on remote learning. Corporate sustainability initiatives may open doors for carbon offset startups.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

That said, Norway’s VC community has been somewhat dormant for a while. In Norway, sustainability-focused companies. Our portfolio is heavy on SaaS, which has weathered things well. In some cases yes, including our e-commerce SaaS companies and my recent Bitcoin exchange investment (MiraiEx). Dignio (SaaS/medtech).

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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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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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