Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

I’m going to assume that your funding conversations here were a bit different than your last startup. Frankly, raising capital to work on this problem is and was privilege. Building tools for unions is certainly not a category or product that most VCs want to exist, let alone see grow. HW: Frank is venture backed.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2023

This will include everything from funding rounds to trends to an analysis of a particular space to hot takes on a particular company or phenomenon. Later that day, it also came to light that Stripe had reportedly approached investors about raising more capital — at least $2 billion — at a valuation of $55 billion to $60 billion.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 5, 2022

But I can share with you a blog post that Affirm’s Levchin published on June 3 regarding his view at least on why his company is positioned to not only survive but also thrive in a downturn. It will also be working to develop a BNPL product for businesses and instant fund disbursement products. Fundings and M&A.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

To conduct market research, the platform looks at billions of tweets, posts, discussion forum threads, reviews and blog posts over a two-year period and then filters for roughly 400,000 distinct concepts (e.g. Oxx led Black Swan’s latest funding round, with participation from AlbionVC. ”

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

OurCrowd is joining some top investors raising a $24M investment round for Diagnostic Robotics , a company at the forefront of the digital health revolution that uses artificial intelligence to reduce hospital waiting times and guide patients to faster, more efficient medical care. Ripple: Disrupting the non-dairy milk market – Forbes.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing? V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog.

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FundersClub

JUNE 12, 2017

Getting funded or even acquired, in many cases, has more to do with whom you know than how good your product might be. I had either the fortune or misfortune of raising a lot of venture capital for myself. From which companies are surfaced to those who are backed and funded, there is a lot of groupthink in venture capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

Through this process he raised $2 million. Because my wife is a superstar she published them all on a blog here along with much other wonderful type-A mom advice. Jody didn’t exactly have an easy time fund raising because he’s not one of the prototypical Silicon Valley funded entrepreneurs.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing? V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog.

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OurCrowd

MAY 23, 2021

Nexa3D raises $55M for faster 3D printing. Explorium raises $75M Series C. Earned wage access provider DailyPay raises $500M. The World Economic Forum says SqUID’s technological power and its ability to climb and work within existing infrastructures puts it in a unique category of its own: an “Autonomous Climbing Robot.”

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OurCrowd

JULY 1, 2022

The company’s net revenue grew in 2021 despite supply-chain disruptions during the Covid-19 pandemic, with sales growing several times faster than the industry average across all categories. OurCrowd has secured an up to $5M allocation in the company’s new funding round, an up to $25M SAFE, at a 20% discount. L earn More. Learn More.

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OurCrowd

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Bionaut Labs raises $43.2M OurCrowd is leading SynergyMed’s current funding round. Bionaut Labs raises $43.2M MedTech pioneer Bionaut Labs raised $43.2M in Series B funding, TechCrunch reports. Our portfolio company Shield raised $20M for its AI-powered workplace intelligence platform, VentureBeat reports.

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OurCrowd

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

“Over the past 9 years since the company was founded, it has served 4 million customers and raised $200 million in external capital,” reports Meghan McCormick. . . The money raised in this round will support the company’s efforts to accelerate its governance initiatives and scale to meet demand, says CEO Brett Hurt. “We

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Salted raises $16M to expand US operations. Autobrains raises $101M for AI-powered driving platform. Funds will be used to continue R&D, complete clinical trials, and develop partnerships with other biopharmaceutical companies. Tovala gained popularity during the Covid-19 pandemic and has raised over $50M in funding. .

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Y Combinator

MAY 29, 2019

19:00 – Data examples from their blog. 19:00 – Data examples from their blog. 48:30 – Raising money from Goldman Sachs and Citi. And that blew my mind because he was at the 30 billion dollar hedge fund. In reality, most hedge funds have a handful of analysts and just some back office support, right?

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OurCrowd

JULY 11, 2021

To secure your participation in this fast-growing company, please click below to sign documents and fund your investment before July 16th, 2021. Israeli tech firms are storming the public markets, with $4.55B raised in June alone via 18 IPOs and SPAC deals, mainly in the US and Israel. This investment opportunity is closing soon.

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OurCrowd

MARCH 6, 2021

Medisafe raises $30M for AI that helps people take medication. Hear from: Claire Tomkins , PhD, founder and CEO of Future Family, startup veteran who was formerly an Investment Bank advisor and director of Richard Branson’s Carbon War Room accelerator, who will speak on the category potential and her startup’s disruptive solution.

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OurCrowd

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Rebel Fund: Nurturing the next DoorDash and Airbnb. Canadian clearance for our flagship OC50 Fund. Bizzabo powers through pandemic, raises $138M. Rebel Fund: Nurturing the next DoorDash and Airbnb. Canadian clearance for our flagship OC50 Fund. Startup of the week: OncoHost. For more information, click here.

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OurCrowd

JULY 7, 2022

Ondas, which acquired American Robotics in August 2021, says the proposed acquisition, if completed, would give the combined companies a better global foothold in a rapidly expanding category. Airobotics has raised $130M since it was founded in 2014. Join this $4M round now funding on the OurCrowd platform. . Learn More.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

You’re writing a freaking blog post! I try to bucket my tasks into major categories and spend some time doing each of them. I had a pre breakfast with a CEO of a company in which I invested talking about his next fund raising round. I called another about his fund raising (DUDE – you never called me back! ).

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

We’re staring to get the hang of how to divide the show up into talking about deals but also talking about issues for entrepreneurs during funding. Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. I first discovered it from Dharmesh Shah’s blog OnStartups.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

According to SEC paperwork, Learn Capital and USV have filed paperwork that shows the firms have raised new, multimillion-dollar funds. Zoom investing , it seems, is working just fine for cash-rich firms looking to double down on bets in categories from edtech to climate. It’s New Year’s Eve after all.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2022

Zombie companies are basically companies that raised a ton of money over the boom cycle but aren’t producing nearly enough revenue to justify the valuation. In the rest of this newsletter, we’re going to talk about the do-it-all startups and Sarah Guo’s new VC fund. Real estate investing app Fintor raises $6.2M

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TechCrunch

JUNE 27, 2021

In Southeast Asia, startups in this space that have raised funding over the past few months include Ajaib , Bibit and Stashaway —and that’s just a (very) partial list. Infina works with financial partners like Dragon Capital, ACB Capital, Mirae Asset Fund Management and Viet Capital Asset Management.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2021

This morning Webflow , a software company that helps businesses build no-code websites, announced that it has raised a $140 million Series B. The round, led by returning investors Accel and Silversmith, comes after the startup raised $72 million in an August, 2019 Series A. The new funding values Webflow at more than $2.1

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2021

Jamie Finney is a founding partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund , where he blogs about his work on VC and small communities. raised money from VCs and 7.7% raised from angels. Where else can fast-growing companies get funding? We detail below the major categories of VC: Funder category.

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TechCrunch

JULY 24, 2022

This will include everything from funding rounds to trends to an analysis of a particular space to hot takes on a particular company or phenomenon. In May, I wrote about Jay-Z-backed Altro, which raised $18 million to help people build credit through recurring payment forms such as digital subscriptions to Netflix, Spotify and Hulu.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The startup announced today that it has raised a $10 million Series A led by Union Square Ventures, with participation from Owl Ventures and Progression Fund. Previously, Fiveable had raised more than $4.2 “When we first started, we were livestreaming, we had some blogs and study guides,” said Ho.

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OurCrowd

APRIL 27, 2021

But even these blistering, back-to-back IPO s only underscored the gulf between public investors, who saw their opening-day shares double in value, and private shareholders who had been able to participate in the companies’ earlier funding rounds and enjoyed logarithmic returns. trillion raised in public offerings.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2022

This will include everything from funding rounds to trends to an analysis of a particular space to hot takes on a particular company or phenomenon. Last October, TripActions raised $275 million in a Series F “growth” funding round at a $7.25 Earlier this year, Solvo raised a $3.5 Read more on the company’s blog post here.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 14, 2021

could it be a blog post, or a tweet? The company had just raised a $12m Series B round and were looking to build their profile to impress potential hires. and why it’s better than just publishing the news on your blog?—?is Photo by Adeolu Eletu on Unsplash Press releases are the hoary old uncle of PR and communications.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

BUT I’m also a believer that most founders shouldn’t waste time with extensive investor conversations unless they’re getting ready to raise capital within the next 3-6 months -or- you believe an investor can help you in some specific way separate from/ahead of a funding.] public) markets.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 29, 2020

By: Kathie Priebe and Cristina Almeida, Managing Directors of Golden Seeds Reposted with permission from Golden Seeds blog. Editor’s note: This is an update to the original blog post, “How did she do it? We are clean technology to an extent, but also a hardware, so we can’t always rely on the funds available for clean technology.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 11, 2020

Other coinvestors: Limited partners, other VCs who are coinvestors, private equity funds which are potential growth-stage investors, etc. The first three tools are only relevant if you’re going to generate significant content yourself: Teten.com , my blog and content marketing strategy. I host on Hostforweb **. Linkedin.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 19, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. raised money from VCs and 7.7% raised from angels. Where else can fast-growing companies get funding? A new category of VCs have emerged offering a hybrid between VC and RBI, which we call “Flexible VC”. . Funder Category.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 19, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing? V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? raised money from VCs and 7.7% raised from angels. Of the Inc.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 12, 2017

VCs are at the forefront of technological disruption, funding many of the latest cutting edge productivity tools. Lisa Edgar, Managing Director at fund of funds Top Tier Capital Partners , observed: “It’s not surprising that venture capitalists are using software to help manage their business.

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