TechCrunch

JUNE 21, 2021

” — as well as invest in its tech and R&D and efforts to break new ground for new kinds of formats. And Meditative Story, which focuses on mindfulness, is being downloaded 750,000 times each month. And Meditative Story, which focuses on mindfulness, is being downloaded 750,000 times each month.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

based music platform Uppbeat has been developing a service that makes it easier for content creators to find quality free music to use in their videos published to platforms like YouTube, Twitch, TikTok, and others. Now with over 500,000 users on board, the startup is announcing the close of its £4.6 million GBP ($6.15 million GBP ($6.15

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Explosion , a company that has combined an open source machine learning library with a set of commercial developer tools, announced a $6 million Series A today on a $120 million valuation. The round was led by SignalFire, and the company reported that today’s investment represents 5% of its value.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

Consumer shift to buying online during the global pandemic — and keeping that habit — continues to boost revenue for makers of developer tools that help e-commerce sites provide better shopping experiences. More people shopping on their mobile devices creates friction due to downloading an app for each brand. Nacelle raises $4.8M

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The past 18 months drew more users to the AllTrails mobie app, which now has over 40 million downloads and 30 million registered users across 190 countries. The funds will be used for product development, to build out the AllTrails team, and expand its community internationally. Image Credits: All Trails.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

ABS Capital’s Mike Avon, a co-founder of Millennial Media, and Paul Mariani, are joining Apptopia’s board with this round. Kay, previously Apptopia COO, is now taking over the top role from co-founder Eliran Sapir, who’s transitioning to chairman of the board as the company enters its next phase of growth.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The project website FAQ describes it thusly: “Apache Arrow is a software development platform for building high performance applications that process and transport large data sets. ” Patterson said that as data and analytics have evolved, developers have had to connect to a growing number of systems across a variety of languages.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Luos , a participant in the TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield competition this week, wants to make it easy for embedded hardware developers to connect to any hardware component, such as a motor or sensor, then build a reusable configuration profile to give them the same type of flexibility that software engineers have with microservices.

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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. Be careful about board construction. But my slides are linked above and you can also download from SlideShare. figure out roles.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2020

As one of the architects of the Uber Pool service and a longtime proponent of ridesharing as a means to slash vehicle emissions, Cox leapt at the chance to harness technology developed at MIT that purported to perfect a dynamic routing and vehicle management system for transit authorities. We are thrilled to support The Routing Company.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

This is a16z’s first investment in an Africa-headquartered company (the firm has previously invested in Branch and Zipline, companies with some of its operations in Africa but headquartered in the U.S). Carry1st also received investments from Avenir and Google; it’s the latter’s second check from its Africa Investment Fund.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

million seed investment. The firm is known for its investment in the video gaming industry’s infrastructure, technology, tools and platforms. The firm is known for its investment in the video gaming industry’s infrastructure, technology, tools and platforms. Carry1st has $4M to invest in African mobile gaming.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Your Guide to the Season’s Hottest Gifts from Dell: Download Now and Save up to 39% Off. As an Asian-American woman and a venture investor myself, I know this to be true — that investing in startups owned by people of color is key to unlocking innovation, elevating underserved communities and fostering long-term economic success.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 3, 2023

These are customers with whom you’ve developed a strong enough relationship that they will stick with you (and your crappy product) through all the poor design, crashes, and bad user experience. That’s right — it can’t fail repeatedly during on-boarding or crash the minute the user attempts to perform a key function. No one uses it.

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EntreWorks Consulting

JANUARY 22, 2020

It has an impressive track record: it “invented the internet” or at least pioneered its early development and rollout. For many, DARPA represents a path not taken—where the US could have assumed a more expansive role in investing in R&D and scientific advancements. NOTE: The book is available for free download here.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 9, 2018

As early-stage investors, we are acutely aware of the work of other venture capitalists on the boards of the companies we serve. Nearly 15 years ago one of Benchmark’s founding partners, Kevin Harvey, saw the skills of a young Peter Fenton on a board they shared. Our job, as early-stage venture capitalists, does not scale.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 27, 2022

Since relocating to America, I have independently invested in several other business ventures outside of my full-time job. I was on a mission to develop a game that would be exciting, challenging and engaging – a game that was just as fun to watch as it was to play. The development of Popongo and a celebration of culture.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 2, 2020

We plan to raise $100 million for investment in urgent technological solutions for the medical, business, educational and social needs triggered by global pandemics and other health emergencies. Appstore downloads of the top remote working apps rose from 1.4 Today, OurCrowd announces the launch of its Pandemic Innovation Fund.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Strategies to cultivate a community, iterate with an audience and convert it into a customer base Photo: Unsplash In today’s hyper-competitive, fast-paced digital world, it seems like everyone and their smartphone-savvy grandmother is developing a mobile app. But how do you do that? what they want, what they like, what they think.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 16, 2011

That’s why I was so interested in having “ The Gotham Gal &# come on This Week in VC ( video link on YouTube , download iTunes, episode 15) ) and dispel those myths. This is where she first developed sales skills. Make sure they’re on your board, your board of advisors, whatever. The women are out there.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

It’s far from the only teletherapy company looking to capitalize on a boom in venture capital investment in mental health startups , but it’s operating in a hyper-specific sphere: therapy for kids. . The round was fleshed out with investment from LRVHealth and OSF Ventures. . In total, the company has raised $14 million in funding. .

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Paul G. Silva

APRIL 7, 2020

Here is what the 4×3 foot poster looks like: Download & print the 4×3 ft poster , grab some sticky notes, and follow along. Board members. Know-How your team has developed to solve your own problems such as: processes, curriculum, understanding of complex systems. Classrooms. Playground. Multiple awards.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

Make them widely available inside the company and share your most important goals with your board. And given your stage of development you sure better at least know what your goal is. For example, I highly recommend a set of board metrics that the CEO communicates to board members at every meeting. That’s not acceptable.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2021

The company developed a mobile app for takeout and delivery orders that manages offline customer experiences while delivering an engagement platform to manage loyalty programs, customer feedback and analytics about the online and offline customer base. Koinz is his first investment in the MENA region.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

If you don’t know Montgomery & Co it is one of the premier technology & media focused investment banks in the country (and as Michael corrected me they also have a strong Healthcare / Med tech practice). Should you use investment banks to raise venture capital? Board includes Nick Wheeler, CEO of Charles Tyrwhitt.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The stress of her pregnancy led Walton to download Expectful, a meditation and sleep app for new mothers. Walton joined eBay and soon rose to work as the head of business operations and development. I think it caught her off guard,” Krassner said, who is still a board member at the company. The new Expectful.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

So if you want to be a content producer and want to make money you can develop content for global “niches” of watchers who might like: Japanese Anime, South Korean drama, Bollywood productions, reality TV on any topic – fashion, cooking, travel. I first wanted to invest in this trend by backing a company called Filmaka.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

We had a finance group for all of the bank branches based in San Diego, and I wrote programs to download stuff from the mainframe so we could do analysis three days faster than they could send us the data. I came from a board meeting to here. I can sit on probably eight or nine boards at a time. So I did that kind of stuff.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

The company plans to use a large portion of the new investment to fuel marketing efforts for Summer after it launches on Android next month. Founded in January 2019 by both Hofmann and an experienced product manager, Joe Viola , 9count isn’t focused only on developing a single app and perfecting it. ” Image Credits: 9count.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The funding round will go toward developing a new “Creator Rooms” feature, which gives sports content creators the opportunity to engage further with younger players by creating content and fantasy sports games, whether that be hosting a combined two-week NHL and NBA snake draft, creating polls and more. The average user is 22 years old.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

The company plans to use a large portion of the new investment to fuel marketing efforts for Summer after it launches on Android next month. Founded in January 2019 by both Hofmann and an experienced product manager, Joe Viola , 9count isn’t focused only on developing a single app and perfecting it. ” Image Credits: 9count.

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Y Combinator

MAY 30, 2024

So they built a better solution — one that handled the un-fun bits of managing in-app subscriptions, helped with data analytics, and let app developers focus more time and energy on the stuff they wanted to make. RevenueCat is an SDK and an API that helps developers add in-app subscriptions to their apps and run their businesses.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

million registered users, Fatmap’s mission, ultimately, is to be the Google Maps of the great outdoors , with a premium subscription ($30 / year) unlocking access to extra features such as downloadable maps and route planning in the mobile app. Fatmap in action Image Credits : Fatmap / Strava With 1.6

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Your Guide to the Season’s Hottest Gifts from Dell: Download Now and Save up to 39% Off. It’s best to begin with a small team of developers for any digital product, as too many cooks spoil the broth during the initial phases of development. Silicon Valley narrative is often damaging to budding founders.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

Joining TTV in doubling down on their investment in the company were Owl Ventures, SoftBank’s Opportunity Fund, Mubadala Capital and Next Play Capital. We blew through about 1 million app downloads of our digital wallet a few weeks ago,” Hemmat told TechCrunch. “We We want to build an operating system for immigrants,” Hemmat said.

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TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2021

Part 2: Product-led growth strategy “ The product-led growth behind edtech’s most downloaded app ” (3,000 words/12 minutes) — analyzes the tactics and tradeoffs that an edtech company has to evaluate as it grows from thousands to 500 million registered learners. How to attract large investors to your direct investing platform.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Your Guide to the Season’s Hottest Gifts from Dell: Download Now and Save up to 39% Off. It’s best to begin with a small team of developers for any digital product, as too many cooks spoil the broth during the initial phases of development. Silicon Valley narrative is often damaging to budding founders.

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