TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Sweetgreen’s IPO pricing guidance illuminates valuation range for tech-enabled companies. That’s a lot of lettuce, but the pricing shows how much tech-enabled DTC firms can flex, writes Alex Wilhelm, who compared Sweetgreen’s range to IPO pricing for Allbirds and Rent the Runway. and a valuation between between $2.5

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

For later in the year, we’re pretty excited about this panel at TechCrunch Disrupt, where VCs will discuss how you can raise money when you’re not at one of the major tech hubs. It’s Thursday, May 26, 2022, and we have a busy day of news on the site today. Here are the gems sparkling in the spotlight of our journalistic gaze. Startups and VC.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Demoing as part of the Battlefield 200 cohort at TC Disrupt this week, Zette is trying to achieve something that others before have tried. “We’re investing heavily in marketing and growth, especially as it pertains to getting younger readers — Gen Zs and millennials — on board.” readers,” Zhu said.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

“So it’s like building an advisory board for yourself.” “What we’re building is really the phone book of the future,” says Orlic, slotting his elevator pitch into our ~30-minute phone conversation. “None of us in the founding team had any networks to speak of when we were growing up.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

the customer on stage showing your product turns into an advocate or evangelist while the prospect is far more likely to be persuaded by a customer presentation than a salesperson’s pitch. Competitors can leapfrog you on features or outspend you on customer acquisitions but communities are very hard to disrupt. Derek founded Bevy ?—?a

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

London-based femtech, Hormona , which is pitching its hormone tracker in the Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt, hopes to encourage people with periods to do just that: Add hormone-monitoring to their quantified health mix. Today it’s announcing the launch of its app in the U.S. The 2019-founded U.K.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 30, 2022

Committing to enabling startups When Kickstart was established in 2012, the Philippine startup ecosystem was at its nascent stage. This inspired its founders Minette Navarrete, Dan Siazon, and Christian Besler to pitch for a pioneering evergreen fund to the Globe board, starting with $2.5M on its first year. on its first year.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

” “We also give every woman a full personalized plan — that includes ways to help reduce any type of disruptive bacteria, ways to promote their protective bacteria and ways to overall maintain their vaginal health based on their personal life experiences,” she adds.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

With Colorado as an ideal pilot community, the GCVF team has helped grow multiple staple initiatives in the rural Colorado startup ecosystem, including West Slope Startup Week , Telluride Venture Accelerator , Startup Colorado , Energize Colorado Gap Fund , and the Greater Colorado Pitch Series. Collab Capital. —– TinySeed.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

With Colorado as an ideal pilot community, the GCVF team has helped grow multiple staple initiatives in the rural Colorado startup ecosystem, including West Slope Startup Week , Telluride Venture Accelerator , Startup Colorado , Energize Colorado Gap Fund , and the Greater Colorado Pitch Series. Collab Capital. —– TinySeed.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Disrupt is turning 12 years old. And in the name of coming back bigger and better than ever, the Disrupt Startup Battlefield has grown by 10x. This year, we’re curating 200 companies for you to check out and meet for the first time in the Expo Hall, with the top 20 gracing the Disrupt stage to launch their wares.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

This post was a shortened version of a more detailed post he had written for his own blog titled “ A Disruptive Cab Ride to Riches: The Uber Payoff.” As the Series A investor and board member at Uber, I was quite intrigued when I heard that there was a FiveThirtyEight article specifically focused on the company.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Day one of TechCrunch Disrupt is in the rearview mirror, and what a great day it was! You’ll find all the day’s programs, stage locations and times listed in the Disrupt agenda — and in your handy event app. Women of Disrupt Breakfast . Disrupt Stage | 10:55 am & 2:40 pm. Disrupt Stage | 1:15 pm.

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OurCrowd

MAY 20, 2022

Our mission statement is to enable the vision of cultivated meat by reducing its cost and improving its quality,” Guy Nevo Michrowski, ProFuse CEO, tells Amy Teibel in The Times of Israel. EVERY aims to disrupt the $200B egg market by producing egg protein for cooking without chickens. Taranis is raising on the OurCrowd platform.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2021

” For this new survey, we heard from 10 VCs — nine who invest in media startups, plus a tenth who’s seeing plenty of media pitches and was happy to share her thoughts. Jana Messerschmidt: We will see a proliferation of products that enable content creators to build businesses outside of traditional media companies.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

I quickly recruited a board of experienced hands. Many of my board members are still there, a decade later. . We organized a series of HBS Angels pitch nights, joint with a range of affinity groups for HBS Alumni: HBS African-American, HBS Healthcare, HBS LBGT, and HBS Latino. They were sold to Albertson’s for over $300m.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

I quickly recruited a board of experienced hands. Many of my board members are still there, a decade later. . We organized a series of HBS Angels pitch nights, joint with a range of affinity groups for HBS Alumni: HBS African-American, HBS Healthcare, HBS LBGT, and HBS Latino. They were sold to Albertson’s for over $300m.

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