HPA

MARCH 21, 2024

HPA is excited to announce our investment in Fuel Me ’s $18M Series A Round , which was co-led by Pritzker Group Venture Capital and Tribeca Venture Partners and includes co-investors Bessemer Venture Partners, Interplay Venture Capital, and FJ Labs. Fuel Me is a first-of-its-kind platform that revolutionizes fuel procurement and management.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JULY 28, 2022

Eleven companies located in central and northern PA recently received an investment from Ben Franklin Technology Partners that will allow them to further develop and commercialize new products and/or software applications or stabilize operations in a long-standing manufacturing business. We Invest in Innovation.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2021

In short: Access to great deals, ability to be invited to invest in these deals, ability to see where value in a market will be created and the luck to back the right team with the right market at the right time all matter. So if you truly want to be great at investing you need all the right skills and access AND a diversified portfolio.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Three ways VC firms can construct sustainably diverse portfolios. There is some truth to this: VC had its biggest year in 2021 , more than doubling from 2020, which was already a record year for investments. Leslie Feinzaig. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Leslie Feinzaig is the founder and CEO of the Graham & Walker.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 4, 2022

. $100m post is consistent with what I’ve seen in the market for the most sought-after investments. Most SAFEs forgo a board-of-directors. A decade ago, businesses raising $3-5m Series As would elect a board. A decade ago, businesses raising $3-5m Series As would elect a board.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

H Twenty Capital (H20) co-founders Daniel Lloreda and Mauricio Porras recall getting into the region in 2018, a time Lloreda considered pretty early to be the investment space. It also invested in Brazilian social grocery commerce company Favo , which raised a $26.5 million Series A last October.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? Well, we learn to invest exclusively in men, preferably white or Asian. . So, why invest in anyone who’s not a white or Asian male? . We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.”

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Oklahoma’s Technology Business Finance Program (TBFP) Seed Fund is a nationally recognized best practices example of legislated early stage capital that has stood a 20-plus year test of time. Tax credits are another financial tool that states have attempted to use with varying success to stimulate early-stage investment in startups.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

I am fond of quoting that about 70% of my investment decision of an early-stage company is the team. So I naturally spend much time with the companies in which I invest helping them: recruit. Equally – a great VP Finance can be leveraged well to take on finance, legal, HR and much of the operational tasks.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

The startup claims its automated, on-site factory can already speed up plant construction and cut costs by employing robotic arms that lift and connect heavy solar panels to sun trackers. ” Terabase also makes software tools to manage the design and construction of solar farms. .” million ).

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? Well, we learn to invest exclusively in men, preferably white or Asian. . So, why invest in anyone who’s not a white or Asian male? . We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Groundfloor’s platform offers investments in real estate debt to its 150,000+ users, with a minimum investment of $10. Groundfloor has scaled its platform by adding new debt investment products, including a saving and investing app called Stairs that it launched last fall, which now has $22 million in assets invested.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

Infrastructure bill could promote lean construction via data capture. There’s a lot of excitement about construction tech among investors and entrepreneurs, but general contractors aren’t nearly as enthusiastic. Infrastructure bill could promote lean construction via data capture.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

That includes over $50 million from Goldman Sachs to help back the company’s green building financing, as well a $30 million investment from Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund. First of all, once it got some building owners involved, there was a big word of mouth effect, and that helped get more owners on board.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

“We’ve gotten inbound outreach by several banks…but you know banks always like to know a lot of information about companies, their revenue, the amount of cash the company would hold with them, and so on to bring them on board,” said Nala CEO, Benjamin Fernandez. Chipper had insignificant exposure to SVB ~$1m.

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Angel Capital Association

AUGUST 28, 2023

This is Part II of a two-part series on Revenue-Financed Capital (RFC) for angels. Sage launched its first fund in 2019 and has actively evangelized for the RFC model of investment in many gatherings across the country since then. And if the company fails, we may lose all or a portion of our investment, similar to equity investors.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Kruze Consulting, an accounting firm for startups, mined through over 750 companies’ finances, which includes upward of $300 million in quarterly revenue and over $750 million in quarterly spend. Speakers include Techstars’ Kerty Levy , Construct Capital’s Dayna Grayson, and NFX’s James Currier. Book your pass ASAP!

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

I have been writing a series on how startup boards get selected, who sits on them and what to avoid. I started this series in part to help entrepreneurs but also to help newer investors because I’ve know with so many new companies you have so many new board members and many people are trying to figure out there respective roles.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 6, 2021

Higher-than-average investment risk meant that returns from winning bets had to be very lucrative, or else the venture model would have failed. Or, as Lessin puts it, thanks to better market ability to metricize startup opportunity and risk, “investors across the board [now] price [startups] more or less the same way.”.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 26, 2015

Whether this is a lounge with a table and chairs, a pair of couches or an open area with a white board, create opportunities for your team to communicate. Research and invest in work space options. Encourage, praise and criticize constructively. Invest in professional development. Sit teams members close to one another.

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TechCrunch

JULY 10, 2022

I did not speak to Better CEO Vishal Garg but he did provide a canned statement conveying his excitement about all the new folks — who come on board after a flurry of senior exec departures and amid a tumultuous environment. Preliminary numbers confirm what we all already know: Investing in the world of fintech has slowed down.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Top investment opportunities. The firm’s advisory board is headed by Aya Jakobovits, PhD, Founding CEO of Kite Pharma, which was acquired by Gilead for $11.9B. Invest Now. . It will break ground on a 100-home project in the Austin area next year, along with construction giant Lennar. Project Manager for Teradata (Tokyo).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2022

And that’s been happening pretty clearly… Now, with that said, I think that there’s still a lot of appetite [for fintech] across the board. Robinhood expands into consumer finance while Apple steps up its fintech game. Handle.com raises $10M Series A for construction payment compliance. In other news.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

However, 2018 has other ideas, with the most money ever invested in U.S. 4/ The Big Winners: Cylance raised around ~$280M in financing, with large equity stakeholders being Khosla Ventures, Fairhaven, and Blackstone. Here’s my quick analysis with respect to two major recent technology exits: BlackBerry Acquires Cylance For $1.4B.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The challenges her father faced as a business owner in the construction industry always stayed in the back of her mind, so when Lin got the entrepreneurial itch, it was a natural move to help start a company that helped trade contractors better control their finances. It’s basically the slowest paying industry in the world,” Lin said.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

There were regular events where experts talked about: fund raising, term sheets, constructing a team, product development, establishing biz dev partners, M&A, dealing with the press, etc. Adam played a hands-on role in helping many of our last class through funding and even took some board seats and advisory roles.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 6, 2022

( Any views expressed in the below are the personal views of the author and should not form the basis for making investment decisions, nor be construed as a recommendation or advice to engage in investment transactions. The realm of finance is no different than a heated squash match. And then the pattern repeats.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 4, 2022

The week of Thanksgiving turned out to be less boring than I expected — I reported that three of alternative financing startup Pipe’s co-founders were stepping down as the company searched for a “veteran” CEO to take the company to the next level. Turns out having COVID helped me get more rest than I have had in a very long while.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 9, 2022

month support, the top startup teams can also look forward to getting further assistance to expand to Asia and investment from prominent VCs. During KSGC 2021, Khenda got introduced to prominent Korean businessman Dong Hoon Shin, who eventually joined the company’s advisory board. Besides the 3.5-month ” Srun said.

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TechCrunch

JULY 18, 2022

Other deals that got my attention… Aurora Labs raised $63 million through a Series C financing round led by Moore Strategic Ventures. This round brings the total investment in Aurora Labs to about $100 million. Audi started construction of an EV factory in China that is expected to come online in 2024. also participated.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Notion Capital, Anthemis, Continental Grain and existing backers Syngenta and Ascot also participated in the financing, which brings the Chicago-based startup’s total raised to about $50 million since its 2016 inception. million in a Series A round of funding led by Greycroft. Anthemis led its $3.5 million seed round in early 2020.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 1, 2022

The respective boards at JetBlue Airways and Spirit Airlines approved a merger agreement at a diluted equity valuation of $3.8 Everrati , EV conversion startup, has landed an investment from former Nest CEO Matt Rogers, the Verge reported. Back in late May/early June, Wheels furloughed “at least 10 people” according to one source.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Go 1st, create a feedback-loop, build trust / rapport, and invest in the relationship. Hot Tip: create a Miro board mapping all of the efforts and use this to keep your team in check. Planning: You have the resources to craft an effective project planning for RFP (and eventually scope it with account / finance). Chemistry?—?Finals.

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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. Learn more.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Transportation editor Kirsten Korosec reached out to 10 investors to learn more “about the state of mobility, which trends they’re most excited about and what they’re looking for in their next investments.” Rachel Holt, co-founder and general partner, Construct Capital. Shawn Carolan, partner, Menlo Ventures. Fifteen U.S.-based

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