TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

Edtech needs to reach beyond underfunded public school systems to become more sustainable, which is why more investors and founders are focusing on lifelong learning. Also, we’re adding a new feature to Extra Crunch Live — our guests will offer advice and feedback on pitch decks submitted by Extra Crunch members in the audience!

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Jason Malki

AUGUST 3, 2023

Since 2018, he is investing with an emerging tech VC focused on web3 and managing early-stage deal flow. I started educating myself about investing back in 2016 and joined a VC in the web3 vertical to manage deal flow from sourcing to deploying. Get advice, feedback and mentored as soon as you can.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

As the team is not from a VC background, the typical investment strategy for seed or early-stage fund on diversifying into a portfolio of companies and then follow-on investments into potential winners is simply not in our DNA who came from corporate finance and business advisory background. Build trust. front seat now to drive the valuation.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

According to him, a valuable company, sustained by growth and impact, naturally becomes an attractive acquisition or public offering candidate. For founders opting for VC funding, swift closure of funding rounds is advised to maintain focus on product development.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

Featuring topics like green infrastructure, new mobilities, sustainable tech, urban mobility The Fintech Stage: Dive into the evolution of monetary exchanges and follow the technology that is powering new ways of capturing and distributing value and wealth. That’s certainly true for the Builder Stage.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

However, it appears that even though VCs are proceeding more cautiously than before and taking their time with due diligence, they are still investing. CB Insights recently found that two of the largest global VC firms, Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, actually backed more fintech companies in 2022 than any other category.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Last week, we ran an article by Gaetano Crupi, a partner at VC firm Prime Movers Lab, identifying three pillars required to support a Series B data room : a strategy memo, a pitch deck and a forecast model. As Crupi notes: The advice presented here will only help companies that have really good fundamentals. yourprotagonist.

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Startup Blogpost

OCTOBER 28, 2022

To help you determine if corporate venture capital is right for your startup, we asked startup founders, investors, and business leaders this question for their best pieces of advice. Assess Sustainability Over the Long Term. Consider the Location of the VC Investor. Be Sure You Have Similar Goals and Expectations.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Success breeds IPO : Shared vehicle company Lime reported its first profitable year, with Rebecca writing that “Lime has figured out how to make shared micromobility a sustainable business.” So what happens when you are good at what you do? The company is now eyeing an initial public offering.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Ukraine’s startup ecosystem was thriving before the war and making great progress, with Ukrainian startups raising $832 Million in VC funding in 2021. VC Funding was steadily growing before the war and there are more than 50 VC firms continuing to operating in the country. Secured seed finding from SMRK VC.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

What advice would you give your portfolio startups to continue growing at this time? Focus on growth with good economics and don’t “buy” growth, as that will come with poor economics and hence is not sustainable. How has your investment strategy changed? Focus on the core business and deprioritize experimental investments.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Several months later, we’ve since learned that cutting marketing budgets doesn’t make early-stage startups healthier, but it is a great way for VCs to reduce burn rates across their entire portfolio. As Rebecca Szkutak reported this week, SaaS startups that ignored this advice outperformed the ones that followed it.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

This morning marked the kickoff of VC firm 500 Global’s Fall 2022 Demo Day, which saw over a dozen startups give their best pitches to prospective investors — and customers. Participants ran the gamut from fintech and sustainability to edtech and developer tools, and several stood out from the rest of the pack.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2023

Please note that these are for entertainment purposes only, as “we’re not offering investing advice or recommending anyone join or back a startup.” Last year, VCs flowed approximately $6 billion to resale platforms, according to Brian Schwarzbach, an investor with Cathay Innovation. ” Thanks very much for reading.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

This is where VC comes in and why it’s needed in the industry no matter how much populist sentiment exists against the VC industry. got picked up early without raising a lot of VC. That is why I find it curious when angels start shouting that VC’s are dinosaurs, evil, money-grubbing and non-value-add.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

We broke the process down into three parts: planning, execution and follow-up,” he writes in a TechCrunch+ post that condenses the advice he’s giving the founders he works with. Pre-pandemic, edtech was not an especially frothy sector: In 2019, these startups received approximately $7 billion in VC funding, according to Crunchbase.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

Startups and VC. Pre-pandemic, edtech was not an especially frothy sector: In 2019, these startups received approximately $7 billion in VC funding, according to Crunchbase. I enjoyed Dominic-Madori ’s story today on supply chain technology company Stimulus, which raised a $2.5 million seed round.

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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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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 25, 2023

His advocacy for reshoring battery manufacturing to the United States echoed the national drive toward sustainability. “On the venture investing side, Sebastien Mallaby wrote a great history of the VC industry called “The Power Law.”

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 28, 2020

This is advice for people who have done scientific research at a university and are considering starting a company to commercialize it. So they take their idea and pitch it to some local VC firms. While VC firms will occasionally fund spin-outs this way, usually they don’t. Being “hands-on” means more than giving advice.

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Hunter Walk

DECEMBER 11, 2023

I *think* Daniel and I met at a VC happy hour many years ago. It might ‘exit’ again at a later point (anything from a sale to an IPO), but it’s no long dependent on VC funding. A few other things to think about: PE approaches debt very differently than VC firms.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

Also participating are two former American football players, Eli Manning and Ositadimma “Osi” Umenyiora; Boston, US-based seed fund Accomplice; healthcare-focused VC firm THVC and early stage European VC, Daphni.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2022

And while the company claims to be “in a strong financial position with many years of runway,” it adds that its shift away from SMBs to focus more on enterprise customers — and, by default, any related layoffs — will put the company “on a path to sustainable profitability over the next few years.”. I’m still trying to find evidence of that.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

Once lone rangers, Q1 Labs and Radian6 are now surrounded by thriving copycats in a self-sustaining ecosystem. VC firms have taken notice: notable investors in Atlantic Canadian startups include Breakthrough Energy Ventures , a fund supported by Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Olaf Hannemann, partner, CV VC AG. Also sustainability will hopefully be put back on the agenda. What is your advice to startups in your portfolio right now? Philipp Stauffer, partner, FYRFLY Venture Partners. Claude Donzé , partner, Tomahawk.VC. Lucian Wagner, partner, Privilège Ventures. Andreas Iten , partner, F10.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

This is where VC comes in and why it’s needed in the industry no matter how much populist sentiment exists agains the industry. got picked up early without raising a lot of VC. That is why I find it curious when angels start shouting that VC’s are dinosaurs, evil, money-grubbing and non-value-add.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

This week, I heard that Hopin cut 12% of its staff , citing the goal of more sustainable growth. Last week, right after I finished up this newsletter, I turned to Twitter and saw controversy over whether venture capitalists should charge founders for advice on their pitch decks. Live events platform Hopin is facing a similar mountain.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2022

She shared her prerequisites for making product-led efforts more successful and sustainable with TechCrunch+. Her advice skips straight past basic best practices to explain alignment and partnership strategies, recommendations for nurturing community, and other PLG tactics. Image Credits: Bryce Durbin/TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

. “[But a major challenge] is that the tax industry is often forced to play catch-up to the realities of a rapidly expanding tax code, with changes from remote work, recent global regulations, tax incentives for climate, and sustainability and new assets like crypto and NFTs. The tides might be turning.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Dear Sophie: Any advice for living my dreams in Silicon Valley? Any advice? Dear Sophie: Any advice for living my dreams in Silicon Valley? Heavily VC-backed salad chain Sweetgreen heads toward public markets. ” Heavily VC-backed salad chain Sweetgreen heads toward public markets.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

World Fund is a new €350M climate VC fund incubated by green search engine Ecosia. They added that Ecosia’s goal for the green energy investments is to encourage more businesses to invest in renewables and speed up the transition to renewables at a time when it has never been more pressing to leave fossil fuels in the ground.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 4, 2014

But I would posit that in order to sustainably build great products in an intensely competitive industry with skills shortages – people management is one of the most critical soft skills organizations need. I have seen it first-hand in my VC career many, many times. Startup Advice' And, yes, it is politics at its purest.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 28, 2010

Why do I give this blunt advice? Finding the best jobs takes a lot of commitment to taking many different networking meetings with executives, recruiters, entrepreneurs, VC’s, investment bankers, etc. It takes a sustained effort to get the right job. .&# Definitely gets shock value. At least I have their attention.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Boston-based VC firm OpenView interviewed nearly 600 SaaS companies for its annual pricing survey and the results are in: Automation is taking usage-based pricing (USP) mainstream. To gather advice and insights, she interviewed: Julio Lopez, director of client strategy, retail practice lead, Movable Ink.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 17, 2023

In a recent interaction, Koh talked to AsiaTechDaily about her background and expertise in the VC funding space, the companies that Play Ventures focuses on, and other stuff that startup founders need to ponder on. Interview transcript below: What background and domain expertise do you have?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

I surveyed six seed- and early-stage investors to get their tactical advice for laid-off tech workers who are thinking about starting up. You never know, the VC who passes on your pitch may recommend you to a founder that’s building a team. “IP is important to us. .”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

TechCrunch reporter Natasha Mascarenhas interviewed Kleiner Perkins partner Bucky Moore to get sector-agnostic advice for founders who are ready to raise a Series A. Giving EV batteries a second life for sustainability and profit. Giving EV batteries a second life for sustainability and profit. When should I hire a sales team?

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