TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

The company is partnering with HomeValet , the maker of a temperature-controlled smart box that’s placed outside the home. Customers’ groceries can be delivered, contact-free, to the secure box and kept cold at any time — even if the customer isn’t at home.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

million seed round in September from YC, Haystack Fund, Webb Investment Network, Liquid 2 Ventures, Jigsaw Ventures, Basecamp Fund, Pathbreaker Ventures and various angels — including what CEO Edoardo Conti said are 10 current and former Uber employees. It also raised a $1.32

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

I’ve been looking for a good example of an angel deck to share with you, and I found just that in Laoshi ‘s angel deck. The overarching thing you have to remember for an angel deck is that your investors know they are in the business of high-risk investing. But as a base-level team slide, this ticks a lot of boxes.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

Struck Capital led the funding round and was joined by Craft Ventures, Relish Works, Aurify Brands, Food Tech Angels and Branded Strategic Ventures. Angel investors backing the company include Snap’s former head of product Bobby Lo, Shef founders and Bento Box founder and CEO Krystle Mobayeni.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

Notable among the current crop are Desana, Continuum Industries, Parsley Box, Current Health, Boundary, Zumo, Appointedd, Criton, Mallzee, TravelNest, TVSquared, Care Sourcer, Stampede, For-Sight, Vistalworks, Reath, InfraCost, Speech Graphics and Cyan Forensics. The Scottish business-angel community is said to be the largest in Europe.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

And when seed deals have no where to go you end up with “seed extensions” where seed funds and angels are buying an extra 6–12 months of runway to try and reach a phase that can attract traditional venture. thus the rise of “pre seed” investing).

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

As our needs grew we could just add more cheap boxes and as boxes failed we could just chuck them out. We had to learn how to be better at “load balancing & replication&# – meaning how we managed data across all the boxes since they weren’t centralized on one box. Spawning of Micro VCs.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

Wilco’s seed deck is a 19-slide deck that ticks all of the boxes. In other words: The car can get you from Los Angeles to San Francisco without having to stop to charge or refuel. In the second box, the company outlines its hiring plan. In the third box, Wilco gets things ever so very right. Slides in this deck.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Other investors included Alltek, PalPilot, Sand Hill Angels and Gaingels. Through the strategic investment, Kneron and Lite-On will jointly develop roadside AI boxes that will be powered by Kneron’s edge AI chips. The new proceeds lifted Kneron’s total funding to over $125 million since its inception in 2015.

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 26, 2022

From Box to Glossier, and Comms to Venture Capital, Ashley Mayer Is Carving a Pretty Unique Path. Hunter Walk: Ok, so we first met when you were leading comms at enterprise software company Box, a startup you joined when they were still pretty early and stayed at until post-IPO. Enter Box. Working at Box was a revelation.

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OkDork

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

The kid started boxing competitively for fun and now he makes more than some of the major fighters out there. Revenue Stream #1: Boxing. Jake and Geoffrey were angel investors before they came together to launch Anti Fund, and now the fund allows them to ramp up their investments and put more money towards bigger brand growth.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

The entrepreneur’s experience with subscriptions goes back to high school, where he said he started skipping class to do web development for a subscription box startup called Conscious Box. Image Credits: Skio. After that, he worked as an engineer at Hulu, where he built an app for managing subscription discounts.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2021

Investors include Foundation Capital, XFund, PJC, Precursor Ventures, Liquid 2 Ventures, SV Angel, Underscore VC, Alpha Bridge Ventures, April Underwood and more. Kudos operates on a D2C subscription model, offering a monthly box based on your baby’s changing size and weight, for $78/month. million seed round of financing today.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

The financing was co-led by Resolute Ventures and SWAT equity partners, with participation from Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator, Bullish, and a variety of strategic angels. Modern Fertility , for example, is selling ovulation and pregnancy tests direct to consumer and has distribution through big box retailers like Wal-Mart.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

He says it works for companies right out of the box. million led by GV with help from NEA, Essence VC, Formulate Ventures and SV Angel. He says the beauty of the solution is that it provides everything you need to get started. It’s not a slice of a solution or one that requires plug-ins to complete.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

More than 200 angel investors contributed, including CPOs from Bill.com, Zapier, Box and Calm. Knoetic integrates with HR systems to allow CPOs to run analyses and automatically generate reports, and it also delivers recommendations like how to improve employee retention if the platform identifies an issue with turnover.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

A pitch to offer artists a way to give geo-fenced, live events to fans around the world has brought the new Los Angeles startup Moment House $1.5 The money came from heavy hitters in the Los Angeles entertainment and investment scene including Scooter Braun, Troy Carter, Kygo’s Palm Tree Crew and Jared Leto.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

The latest is Routable, which has nabbed $30 million in a Series B raise that included participation from a slew of high-profile angel investors. Unlike most raises, Routable didn’t raise the capital from a bunch of VC firms. Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI and former president of Y Combinator, and Jack Altman, CEO of Lattice, led the round.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Locale, based in San Francisco, enables customers to order from dozens of businesses, including bakeries and restaurants, and get them delivered in one box for just a $5 delivery fee. In addition to San Francisco, the company is now operating in Los Angeles.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

The round is led by Norwest Venture Partners with participation from existing investors Menlo Ventures and Sierra Ventures, and a group of angel investors. Enable , a startup developing a cloud-based software tool for business-to-business rebate management, announced Wednesday a $45 million Series B funding round.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

million seed investment led by Unusual Ventures and a group of individual angel investors. For all of that stuff, we have connected it together to make it like an out-of-the-box experience,” he said. RunX , an early-stage startup that wants to make it easier for developers to deploy cloud infrastructure, announced a $4.1

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Enter MKT1 Capital, a venture firm that Kramer is building alongside Kathleen Estreich , who previously led marketing and operations teams at Box, Facebook and Scalyr. And I want to invest in companies that I think care about DEI.” You have to be as good at distribution as you are at building a product,” Kramer said. “We

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

In addition to Index Ventures and Point Nine, several business angels are also investing in the company, such as Monzo founders Tom Blomfield and Jonas Templestein, Eileen Burbidge of Passion Capital, Renaud Visage, the co-founder of Eventbrite, as well as some clients, such as Hiroki Takeuchi of GoCardless and Vinay Hiremath of Loom.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

has invested as an angel in recent years, he is now taking the plunge to full-time investing with a new early-stage fund called simply “ The Fintech Fund ” with the tagline of “by fintech people, for fintech people.” The goal is to make this kind of a community fund, rather than an undifferentiated out-of-the box venture fund,” Milanovi?

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Angel Capital Association

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

By: Warren Spiwak, IBTX Partner ACA Affinity Partner IBTX recognizes the risk that angels and startups face. Q: Warren, what are some of the risks that create increasing exposure for Angel Groups in the next decade compared to the past? What should Angel Groups be doing proactively to mitigate those risks?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Also participating in the round is a star-studded lineup of angel investors, including the Khan family ; Zoe Cruz , Jerod Mayo , a New England Patriots coach and former player; Ju Rhyu of Hero Cosmetics and others. The latest round was led by the cleverly named For Later , which is the investment arm of Boston-based retail incubator For Now.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

There are various models of this but amongst the most successful I’ve seen executed is FabFitFun , based in Los Angeles. They provide a quarterly box with stuff that spans make-up, sports gear, nutrition and just fun surprises. These aren’t “sample sizes” but rather full experiences for women who trust FabFitFun to curate for them.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

Secondly, developers can connect to a data source, or use an API to connect to one not available out of the box. Today’s $41 million Series B investment was led by Insight Partners with participation from Accel, Canaan Partners, OSS Capital and individual angel investors. That involves providing drag and drop user interface components.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

The PrOATagonist comes in a box of seven for $34, and can be obtained via a monthly subscription of $33. Chernow spent over a year testing the formula, which comes in three flavors, including chocolate, blueberry-banana and vanilla. 5 tips for brands that want to succeed in the new era of influencer marketing.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

He said the raise attracted a group of angel investors in the industry, who were looking for a product like this to help them sell more insurance versus building it from scratch. Like other firms, First Round looks for team, product and market when it evaluates a potential investment and Trenchard said Ascend checked off those boxes.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 20, 2013

It also seems fitting that the company was built by a wacky, mad scientist hacker founder, and funded by an even wackier angel (thank you Jake Lodwick for being the right kind of crazy to take a shot on ideas like this). It''s going to produce more exits of game changing companies.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Facemoji has raised a $3 million seed round led by Play Ventures, with participation from Twitter and Roosh Ventures, alongside some angel investors. They also already have a full, diverse system of avatar art that developers can lean on out of the box if they so desire.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The company raised $27 million in Series A funding in a round, led by Khosla Ventures and including First Round Capital, Box Group, Collaborative Fund, The Longevity Fund and Lachy Groom — all companies involved in Loyal’s $11 million seed round raised in 2020, as well as a group of angel investors.

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StartupNation

AUGUST 8, 2021

You’ll need to think outside the box, but you’re bound to come across your “aha” financing moment in this article. Angel investing and venture capital (VC). Angel investors and venture capitalists can provide substantial capital to startups. Fortunately, not all is lost.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

For now, Eano is operating in the Bay Area and Los Angeles, with plans to expand to Seattle and Houston this year. We love that ethos — it matches with our thinking about backing entrepreneurs who don’t fit into the stereotypical box,” Kim said. So they come to us and we basically take care of it all.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Today, on his personal blog , he announced that he has started a consumer fintech company that has already garnered initial funding from Ribbit Capital, along with other “friends and angels” who appear to have also pitched into the round, including Box CEO Aaron Levie, Mighty Networks founder Gina Bianchini, Superhuman founder Rahul Vohra (..)

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Indeed, Budibase includes automations that are powered by webhooks and actions that are good to go out-the-box, but which can also be customized by the more technically-minded that want to throw their own scripts into the pot. ” Budibase had raised $1.8

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