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. Constrafor grabs $106M in equity, credit to finance construction subcontractors. Indian fintech Slice tops $1.5

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Impact Hub

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The winning project of Raíz’s first edition was Sustein Material , a startup driven by Simon Gonzalez that addresses the reuse of healthcare waste for construction materials. For more inspiring stories like this, head to our blog. Simon won a membership to Impact Hub Barcelona space for the next few months. ”A

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OurCrowd

MAY 23, 2021

SqUID is the only fully-automated warehouse robot technology that transforms existing facilities into autonomous warehouses of the future without any need to construct dedicated new buildings. Join OurCrowd as we invest in a Series A round with Pico Venture Partners and Pontifax. Learn More. Explorium raises $75M Series C.

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Forward Cities

JUNE 26, 2019

Very often, minority racial and ethnic populations have to be innovative by necessity to overcome the barriers constructed by our society. Others may not consider the venture successful until the moment their idea becomes an operational business that fully covers their personal financial needs.To Recommended Resources.

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

But as I told CNBC’s Hadley Gamble this week, venture investors must take a long view and remain optimistic. Construction of the 60,000-square-foot facility will begin in 2025. A global pandemic, a supply-chain crisis, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and a global recession have all contributed to jitters about the future.

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

OurCrowd is joining a pre-revenue up to $12M round led by State of Mind Ventures. Largix is set to transform 3D printing for the storage and chemicals industry and also has its sights set on the huge construction sector. The general partner of AME Cloud Ventures is now focused on cloud and FinTech investing. Learn More.

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OurCrowd

DECEMBER 11, 2022

AI-powered chip maker NeuReality raised $35M in a Series A funding round co-led by OurCrowd, Samsung Ventures, Cardumen Capital, XT Hi-Tech and Varana Capital, TechCrunch reports. The post Newsletter: Lunar land rush begins appeared first on OurCrowd Blog. Sign NDA to Learn More. NeuReality raises $35M Series A co-led by OurCrowd.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

This $35M Series B round is led by Khosla Ventures with Upfront Ventures reinvesting. It will break ground on a 100-home project in the Austin area next year, along with construction giant Lennar. Durable Capital Partners, which led the Series D, Norwest Venture Partners, Citi Ventures and OurCrowd also participated.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2023

Image Credits: Getty Images Substack’s newsy week Blogging and media platform Substack opened up a community fundraising round this week, seeking capital from its writers, readers both accredited and unaccredited. Speakers include Techstars’ Kerty Levy , Construct Capital’s Dayna Grayson and NFX’s James Currier.

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Y Combinator

MAY 29, 2019

19:00 – Data examples from their blog. And when you think about it, like put yourself in the shoes of a venture capitalist. Because your blog is basically just this, right? Michael Babineau [19:32] – Gotcha, what’s some stuff that you guys have put on the blog recently that’s your favorite?

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 17, 2021

CEO Rajat Bhargava is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and MIT graduate who previously founded nine venture-backed startups of which four were acquired and two IPO’d. The post Newsletter: UK trials for anti-Covid spray + Securing the Internet of Things appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Alex Iskold is a co-founder and managing partner at 2048 Ventures , an early-stage lead investor in technology and data companies. He blogs about startups at startuphacks.vc. Venture outcomes are driven by a power law. There is nothing mysterious about the power law dynamic in venture. Alex Iskold. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2022

million seed round from Index Ventures with CoinFund and FJ Labs also participating. Today, the company announced that it has integrated Otis’s offerings onto its own app, meaning its 3 million users can construct portfolios composed of both public stocks and alternative assets such as high-end trading cards and other collectibles.”.

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Haystack

JANUARY 18, 2020

This impacts portfolio construction and possibly returns, though on the flip side, end-markets are larger and outcomes can be greater — look at Datadog, for instance. While VCs have blogged and tweeted often before 2010, some still resisted being too forward with their point of view. What a difference a decade makes!

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 26, 2016

By Charl Vollmer , special to Octane Blog. After the second day of working non-stop, I realized the amount of work I needed to put in to get my venture off the ground. I kept myself motivated by reading online blogs about famous entrepreneurs who failed many times, but who still kept trying. Those days were tough.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

More specifically, an SEC filing from Sound Ventures , actor and entrepreneur Ashton Kutcher’s venture firm, confirmed plans to raise an artificial intelligence-focused venture firm. Are we going to see more celebrity-led venture firms jump onto the AI bandwagon? Ok, now onto the aforementioned essay!

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propel(x)

JULY 11, 2022

billion in venture capital in 2021 and $70.7 billion in the first quarter of 2022 alone, according to PitchBook’s Venture Monitor report. Since then, AR (Augmented Reality) and VR (Virtual Reality) have moved beyond games and gimmicks into a variety of industries including retail, health care, and construction.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 23, 2012

Conferences, startup blogs, meetups--they're all filled with people telling you how to build your company. Venture capital is kind of like a knuckleball. VCs construct stories in their head as to why they invested in this or that, and much of it is based on prior experience, but they're often awful at articulating the real reasons.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 5, 2011

You can do nearly absolutely anything within one or two years time--as long as you put your mind to it and construct a plan. He was interested in venture capital and was a year away from graduation. He was interested in venture capital and was a year away from graduation. There's also a ton of content out there.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 23, 2021

When I left the hot tub industry to pursue a new manufacturing venture in electronics, global climate and waste issues inspired my thoughts around pursuing a path that would contribute to reducing carbon footprint while being a viable, sustainable business. 13 ) while building sustainable cities and communities ( SDG No.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Today, I have moved on to a new venture—a healthcare and cosmetic OEM business. There were few mentors assigned to me and guided me prior to the finals in Germany, they were radically open-minded to the idea and gave very constructive feedback that helped a lot in developing my self-awareness. It was a very humbling journey.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

In the construction business, time is money. But with so many moving parts, it can be extremely challenging for construction companies to manage the administrative aspects of their finances. Adaptive , an 11-month-old startup that has set out to give construction teams better tools to manage their back offices, has raised $6.5

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Step back and ask around, starting with our life partners, whether that new venture would diminish the quality time we need to focus on current business and our families. and more articles from the EO blog. The post 4 Ways Raising a Family and a Company Share More in Common Than You Think first appeared on The EO Blog.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 21, 2014

Stuart Lander has joined Upfront Ventures to help us run operations. I started working with David when I was an entrepreneur and he was an associate with a VC firmed called … wait for it … GRP Partners (now Upfront Ventures)! David is also frequently an inspiration for a story on my blog.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

TechCrunch ran my article yesterday as a guest post but I wanted to have a copy here for anybody who missed it and for future readers of this blog. We raised a seed round of capital in 1999 and our first venture capital round was the first week of March 2000 (e.g. This is a slightly longer version and also has an update at the end.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

Building for (literal) builders A common refrain in the construction industry is that most contractors are forced to complete projects before getting paid, often having to pay for material and labor out of pocket. Going from payments to construction tech might seem like a big shift but for Eagle, it was something that was almost inevitable.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 19, 2021

Abodu , one of a slew of startup companies pitching backyard homes and office spaces to Californians in an effort to help address the state’s housing shortage, has instituted a new “Quickship” program that can take an order from contract to construction and installation in about 30 days. trillion-dollar industry.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

I asked some investor friends to share, as the title suggests, one thing they wished people better understood about venture capital. When you read a thought leadership blog post from a VC – is it actually advice for founders… or is it to establish expertise so LPs keep giving them more money? Reporting out in batches of five.

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Haystack

JANUARY 20, 2019

What makes this especially hard for newer managers is that the ability to understand and practice fund management takes a long time and can’t be learned in an online course, or through blogs — it has to be practiced in real life, and the GP has to take it upon themselves to learn it and craft it. (As

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 29, 2021

Previous investors include Headline (formerly e.ventures), Khosla Ventures and TPY Capital. NASA tapped ICON’s 3D construction technology to complete the 1,700 square-foot (158 square-meter) structure which includes separate living and working areas as part of a program to help NASA astronauts prepare for challenges they may face on Mars.

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Angel Capital Association

AUGUST 28, 2023

The Basics We explained RFC in our first blog post and won’t repeat that explanation here other than to say that revenue-financed capital is risk capital that is not dependent upon an exit to generate a return. About Sage Growth Capital Sage Growth Capital is a venture capital firm that provides revenue-financed capital exclusively.

angel investing

This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

That your career is a prisoner—in a prison that has been constructed in your mind to keep you contributing your energy into the system. Start blogging about what you *are* excited about. Learn how to drive traffic to your blog using Google keywords. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. What truth?

startup

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Over the years, the company managed to raise $12 million, including a $10 million Series A led by GV (Google Ventures) back in 2017. There was a time that Katerra was considered the darling of the construction tech world. Some argue it made prefab construction more mainstream — and cool. Image Credits: Katerra.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

If you enjoy this newsletter, you should check out my personal blog too ! Z5 Capital, a venture firm focused on enterprise startups based in the United States, is planning to raise a $25 million fund, according to SEC filings. Speakers include Techstars’ Kerty Levy , Construct Capital’s Dayna Grayson and NFX’s James Currier.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

I’m also writing on my personal blog, if you’d like to follow along with the 1,821 other people who come to hang and be too wordy. They’ve teamed up to launch Phenomenal Ventures, which just closed a $6 million debut fund with top-tier investors to back enterprise SaaS, fintech and future of commerce companies. Book your pass ASAP!

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2023

writing more broadly that “value investing in venture is like restricting your search for your lost keys under only brightly lit street lamps.” Speakers include Techstars’ Kerty Levy , Construct Capital’s Dayna Grayson and NFX’s James Currier. Book your pass ASAP! Subscribe here and share it with your friends.

pitching

This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

When I was a buy side analyst, I thought that you had to have an MBA from Stanford or Harvard to get into venture capital--until I just e-mailed Fred Wilson and asked what a VC analyst does. You do your best to construct it, and you wind up running that list through filters like, "Who do I remember in the middle of doing 800 other things?"

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