Y Combinator

JULY 15, 2019

One of the most common questions we hear from founders is “How do I manage my board?” It’s something that provokes anxiety, because this is the first time the founder/CEO is subject to external supervision, and the board has powers that include the firing of the CEO and the senior management. But first, what’s the purpose of a board?

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Dream It

AUGUST 6, 2020

Today, the company announced a $10M Series A financing round led by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and digital health fund Heal Capital , with participation from existing investors Karma Ventures, Inovo Venture Partners, and Dreamit Ventures. The new capital places total funding to date at $15 million.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Capital allocation is a core part of any CEO’s job, and it’s particularly critical for growth-stage CEOs. Most growth-stage CEOs I work with know how to tell if they’re efficiently allocating capital in every part of their budget with one glaring exception: research and development (R&D).

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Martin Bell, who sits on Arowana’s advisory board, founded 100tasks.com to democratize entrepreneurship and is an expert in launching and hyper-scaling companies. Within only 100 days, new leadership transformed the tech platform, marketing mix, and rider operations–elevating it from laggard to leader.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 3, 2023

The subject of raising money is critical to many businesses and a passing option to others, depending upon the capital efficiency of the enterprise. It might be useful to list some of the ways in which you can raise money for growth with and without outside investors. How important is this issue for your business?

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 21, 2021

Startups used to raise once every 18 months. The implication is the most sought after companies often receive offers, whether they are in market raising capital or not. Venture capitalists and boards used to value a company every 18 months. We, as an industry, are marking-to-market much more frequently than we used to.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Singapore’s sovereign fund Temasek and Jack Ma’s Yunfeng Capital are among its institutional investors. and WeRide are among its closest rivals and have also raised a significant amount of capital. Betting on China’s driverless future, Toyota, Bosch, Daimler jump on board Momenta’s $500M round.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Other investors in the company include Base Partners, Elad Gil, Greenoaks Capital Management, Zeev Ventures, Lightspeed Ventures and Addition Ventures. As part of the transaction, Premji Invest’s Sandesh Patnam will join TripActions board of directors. Coatue Ventures’ Dan Rose will join as a board observer.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2021

A little over a month ago, Orbillion held its first public tasting event, where meats mixed with its elk, beef and sheep were on offer straight from the petri dish to the table. The company said it would use the cash to bring its first product, a Wagyu beef offering, to pilot production.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 6, 2024

For Founders Make It Make Sense Venture capital is where innovation meets investment. Founders seeking to tap into this rare mix of reach, influence, and capital must navigate this terrain with an immense amount of intention and foresight. Remember that actors, artists, athletes, and executives work in cycles.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

The headline speaks for itself : Mike scored a home run with his headline for a story about four European founders turned angel investors who are giving some of their venture capital firm competitors — many they say have not operated a company before — a run for their money. Startups and VC. Vice no more? :

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TechCrunch

JULY 23, 2021

million in a mix of debt and equity. Though he wasn’t actively seeking new funds, Al-Ansari had been speaking with Crédit Mutuel Equity, which used to be CIC Capital Canada, prior to the pandemic, and their deal was put on hold. The new funding gives Canada-based Paystone total funds raised in 2021 of $78.8 It raised $54.9

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2021

Offering video software and other features dedicated to workshopping, the idea is to pull people away from using more generic tools, such as Zoom and Microsoft Teams, which, arguably, aren’t well suited to workshops. Butter also supports various third-party integrations, such as for white boarding, note taking, etc.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 23, 2022

and Southeast Asian venture capital fund Alpha JWC Ventures. MDI-KB’s Centauri and Alpha JWC Ventures are joined by existing investors, Number Capital, Arise, iSeed SEA, Irvan Kolonas, as well as Alto Partners Multi-Family Office, Mahanusa Capital, Kopi Kenangan founder James Prananto, and a number of strategic follow-on investors.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 21, 2021

Its solution, in part, may be based on creative ways of presenting content to users, but also keeping a focus on strong material to use in those channels. In part this is about hiring people from a mix of backgrounds but also about how it approaches management and how it endorses those with whom it works.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

There’s BetterUp, a re-skilling platform that wants to bring executive coaching to employees , and Sounding Board, which mixes SaaS and coaching services. Leland’s total known capital, to date, is $5.1 About 70% of coaches use the income as a side hustle. The coaching world is crowded.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2014

There are some smart if not somewhat cerebral bloggers I read who say that you shouldn’t take any startup advice at all because it’s too generalized to be useful to your situation. You start to test out whose opinions mapped best to your own situation and whether following their advice would have been useful. Triangulate.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. Raising a Series A in a market of mixed messages. Doom-and-gloom headlines abound, but for founders looking to raise a Series A, things are far from dire, Stellation Capital founder Peter Boyce II said during TechCrunch Early Stage.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 19, 2014

The same can be said of critical decisions in a board meeting or frankly any other meeting where major decisions are ratified. Why You Should Pre-Meet Board Members. It is healthy to allocate 30 minutes per board member for a call at least a week in advance of your board meeting. Can we do an inside round of capital?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The company brought on chief science officer Frank Rossi, who has a PhD at Cornell, to create its core product, which requires a mix of tech and science to work. As customers use Sunday’s lawn-care products, the startup also uses aerial imagery to check on the status of users’ lawns throughout the experience.

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Dream It

APRIL 7, 2020

You’ll learn insight to guide your PPP application process from our discussion with Jim Marshall (Silicon Valley Bank, SVB), Kathryn Hickey (PilieroMazza), and Duncan Davidson (Bullpen Capital), which is viewable in its entirety below. It depends on the bank’s capitalization level. For instance, one of our startups applied to J.P.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

Steadview Capital led the startup’s Series D round. Exotel, which counts Blume Ventures and IIFL Asset Management among its backers, has raised about $100 million in a mix of debt and equity rounds in the last 12 months. Indian ride-hailing giant Ola uses Exotel’s platform to send text messages to its customers.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. More than 10 startups raised capital to make plant-based protein for a country with increasing meat demand. LG continued pushing envelopes — albeit to mixed effect. How to kick the 10 worst startup habits with Fuel Capital’s Leah Solivan.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

” Despite the hype about ease of use, enterprise companies always ask customers to abandon familiar tools so they can learn something new. Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. It’s nice to see some other cities put points on the board. Another day, another unicorn public offering.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

TaskHuman , a professional development platform focused on coaching, today announced that it raised $20 million in Series B funding led by Madrona with participation from Impact Venture Capital, RingCentral Ventures, Sure Ventures, USVP, Gaingels, PeopleTech Angels, Propel(x) and Zoom Ventures.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

The investment was led by Union Square Ventures and included participation from Eniac Ventures, Human Capital and Flexport. Meanwhile, Rebecca Kaden, general partner, Union Square Ventures, is joining the company’s board. Syrup Tech bags $6.3M to develop some sweet inventory-planning software.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

Vue Storefront , which is building what it describes as “frontend-as-a-service”, has closed a $20 million round, which it plans to use for R&D, to bring on more tools targeting B2B e-commerce businesses, and for business development after seeing revenues grow 300% in the last 18 months.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

It is the latest startup feeling some investor love as it develops a software stack designed for business-to-business marketers, hosting interactive virtual and hybrid events, to use go-to-market channels and actionable account-based insights for sales teams to show the pipeline impact of events.

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TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2022

This way of growing users, by getting third-party brokers to use Wefox to advise their own customers, is how CEO and founder Julian Teicke reckons helped the company double its revenues to $320 million last year. “Our model is unique in the insurtech space, since all others go direct to consumer.” ” Customer acquisition.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Now, a startup called Deepdub is capitalizing on the growing demand for localized content by automating parts of the dubbing process using AI technology. What’s more, it does this by using just a few minutes of the actors’ voices — so the dubbed version sounds more like the original.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 8, 2019

So I splashed out and bought a gigantic pack of pick ‘n’ mix. Coaching can come in many forms, such as your board (and hopefully, chairperson), a mentor that has done what you want to do, or a structured, paid coaching relationship – I have utilised all three. 16 years later, seven other companies globally use that same name!

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Its software is used across some 130 countries, although the majority of the consumers engaging in the events themselves are based out of North America and Europe, Simpson said. Zeisser is also joining the board.). Since closing a seed round of $4.5 It has set ambitious targets to treble its growth in 2022. investments at Alibaba.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2021

RapidDeploy , which provides computer-aided dispatch technology as a cloud-based service for 911 centers, has closed a round of $29 million, a Series B round of funding that will be used both to grow its business and continue expanding the SaaS tools that it provides to its customers. Dyne has joined the RapidDeploy board with this round.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

This latest Series B is being led by Spark Capital, with Greenspring, Tiger Global, Lachy Groom, boldstart ventures, BoxGroup and Addition also participating. That’s in many cases translated to using a ton more software to manage those people, what they do and how they engage with each other when in-person is not an option.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

While firms define platforms differently, let’s just say they are the services that a VC offers outside of investment capital and partner time on boards or providing intros. Perhaps the best known new VC platforms of the last 10 years that are done on more modest scales are First Round Capital and True Ventures.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

Sendbird , a popular provider of chat, video and other interactive services to the likes of Reddit, Hinge, Paytm, Delivery Hero and hundreds of others by way of a few lines of code, has closed a round of $100 million, money that it plans to use to continue expanding the functionalities of its platform to meet our changing interactive times.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2022

Warm introductions are not factored in, and anyone can apply to be evaluated, screened and accepted or rejected on equal terms, in part using the data science that Sequoia’s product team (led by Lee) has built internally to evaluate potential investments. However, it seems there will still be some lines drawn in that process.

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