TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2022

So, if your face doesn’t appear on the team slide in your startup’s pitch deck, this would be a good time to cancel your upcoming vacation. Pitch Deck Teardown: Dutch’s $20M Series A deck. If you’re working on a pitch deck and are in need of inspiration, start here: all 17 slides are available to TC+ members.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2021

It’s not too late to enjoy an epic pitch-off of global proportion. The main event is, of course, the pitch competition. Enabling Tech: Dot Inc. Register for free and gain instant access to this global pitch competition focused on saving the globe. AgTech & FoodTech: Wasteless. EdTech: Testmaster.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

From our Extra Crunch Live Pitch-offs all the way up to the world-famous Disrupt Startup Battlefield, we can’t get enough of ’em. The Extreme Tech Challenge 2021 Global Finals: Startup Pitches Part 1. The Extreme Tech Challenge 2021 Global Finals: Startup Pitches Part 2.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

Panaseer’s special sauce and sales pitch amount to what it calls “Continuous Controls Monitoring” (CCM). Ultimately, CCM enables these failures to be fixed before they become security incidents.”. Panaseer has now raised $43 million to date. Cyber is the existential threat to the global digital economy.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

Couple of quick things: Apply now to pitch at TechCrunch Live’s Atlanta pitch-off. Gotta get paid : A new WhatsApp feature enables users to pay businesses within the app. To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Happy Tuesday!

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 8, 2013

Since there''s no way to both make yourself accessible and not get a fire hose of inbound, most of the pitches you''re going to have are from perfectly nice, smart people who have perfectly horrific, unworkable ideas. 2) People pitch you. Even the best and most active board members can still feel pretty helpless.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

Greenlight , the fintech company that pitches parents on kid-friendly bank accounts, has raised $260 million in a Series D funding round that nearly doubles its valuation to $2.3 There’s Kard, Step, Till Financial and Current pitching similar businesses in the U.S. billion valuation. Image Credits: Greenlight.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Today, Haje is particularly psyched that he was able to talk the TechCrunch Plus team into letting him publish one of his Pitch Deck Teardowns without the paywall. We’re board already : As the end of COVID may be in sight, Connie reports that investors are losing their taste for board meetings in a big way. PDT, subscribe here.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

Marjorie Radlo-Zandi is an entrepreneur, board member, mentor to startups and angel investor who shows early-stage businesses how to build and successfully scale their businesses. Airbnb disrupted the hotel industry by imagining a technology that would enable homeowners to match up with travelers seeking a place to stay. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

It’s a compelling pitch, one that enabled Made Renovation to raise at least $31 million across two rounds of funding between 2020 and 2021 from investors Felicis, Founders Fund, Insight Partners, and actress-entrepreneur Jessica Alba among some others who liked its tech-driven approach. to shut down.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

With never-ending problems, especially in the current bear market, these events highlight the need for founders to prioritize their mental health and for investors and boards to help them seek support when needed. Upadhyay : At the board level, the bar is really low. I think right now, most boards in Africa need not do more harm.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

To put this capability in reach of any embedded hardware engineer, the company has developed an open source library that enables developers to create these different generic profiles. Prior to creating this framework, engineers would typically create custom code for each component on a board, a time-consuming and frustrating process.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

They met and bonded over both having type 1 diabetes — Westermann was diagnosed over 25 years ago — and started the MySugr app for diabetes self-management in 2012 ( they won a TC pitch-off back in 2011 ). Chou O’Keefe has been investing in healthcare her entire VC career, and sat on the board of Livongo for four years. through 2027.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2023

Its pitch is not only that its specialist, AI-driven harvester will make it more efficient to pick a familiar crop but also that the process will reduce waste — by being able to extract more nutritious protein from a field of broccoli without needing an army of extra human workers to do it.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

in average transaction fees, digital senders like NALA pitch themselves to customers as platforms with the best rates and lowest prices. Similarly, NALA, in addition to enabling cross-border payments from the U.K. Sheel Tyle , the founder and general partner at Amplo, will join NALA’s board, the company said in a statement.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

We kicked off a series of pitch deck teardowns, and we are looking for startups that want to have their pitch decks reviewed. The company launched its movie rental service in India, with over 40 original and co-produced shows and movies that will enable customers to get early access to both Indian and foreign movies. Oh Snap! :

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 24, 2021

Pitch Deck Get your idea onto paper; it’s far easier to convey that way. A pitch deck is a teaser, where its goal is to create an appetite for further conversations and this can work equally well with prospective co-founders as it does with investors. Get the pitch right Tell a great story Startups that tell a great story get funding.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

So they tapped into their neuroscience chemistry studies and went back to the drawing board for two years. What emerged was “patent-pending hyper-soluble caffeine technology,” that enables VAE Labs to “significantly increase solubility of caffeine and liquid,” Bogdan said.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

based startup, pitched a handful of investors during TechCrunch’s Battlefield competition. He says he has been an advisory board member for SRI International for more than a decade and seen a good many technologies like Siri develop and then spin out of the organization. Jurvetson plainly thinks it’s well-positioned.

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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

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.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2022

It’s also had some visible success in its home market by persuading restauranteurs to add its products (and brand name) to their menus — as plant-based ingredients, enabling them to offer vegan alternatives to meat dishes, from tacos and bocadillos to curries, poke bowls and more.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 17, 2023

Moreover, founders must learn to embrace the challenges of fundraising, honing their pitching and networking skills in the process. We see ourselves as a mix of cheerleaders, enablers (when it makes sense), sanity checks, and sounding boards. That guides how we work with founders and thankfully, it seems to have paid off.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Branded’s pitch is that it can use that expertise in building online businesses to grow its stable of sellers and brands better than they might be able to do on their own. “We We will look to partner with and enable the most successful founders of high-potential brands to scale their operations globally.”.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

The company also said that president Tim Mayopoulos will step down from his role in the first quarter and remain as a board member. It looks like incumbent banks and institutions are still struggling when it comes to offering tech-enabled financial services. Digital mortgage platform Blend said last week its slashing its U.S.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 1, 2021

Adding full lifecycle data and industry exposure tags to that, across such a large number of companies, often enables us to see trends ahead of the market, such as retail decimation a few years ago.” Two easy ways to enable scaleability: encourage founders to learn from one another, and share information simultaneously with many.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

“Right now we enable [organizers] to sell events, but we don’t give them distribution,” said CEO Ben Simpson, who co-founded the London-based startup with his wife Lisa. Zeisser is also joining the board.). investments at Alibaba.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

What is a reporter to do when they get a pitch from a company that had its name “stolen” by Apple, but it turns out the company failed to register a trademark because they thought it would be pointless? Startups and VC. Meanwhile, Twitter agreed to pay a $150 million settlement with U.S.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2020

will hand-hold you through the process of building a super savvy customer service robot, is the pitch. can still offer a compelling sales pitch to businesses with more “consultative” customer support needs, where automation will only be able to play a far more limited role. will do the same for customer service.”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2021

Tech-enabled organizing kept coming back to the forefront [of my ideas], and being both the most exciting to me personally, but also I think the most impactful in the ways I wanted to see the world change in terms of income inequality and individual empowerment,” he said. He kept thinking about labor unions.

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Hunter Walk

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Substack should partner with a broad set of 3rd party products to enable deep integrations inside of their newsletters. Pitch me coffee mug merch (since you can tell I like that) while showing a different reader t-shirts (since they seem to have bought those in the past from other Substack authors). Branded creator merchandise.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

So when we get to the states, we want to start shipping mostly to those sorts of users while we work out how to best pitch our value proposition to the larger clinics.” Having more tech talent on board will help HeartLab advance its product offering. ” said Hewitt. billion by 2027. By extending its reach to the U.S.,

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David Teten VC

APRIL 1, 2021

Adding full lifecycle data and industry exposure tags to that, across such a large number of companies, often enables us to see trends ahead of the market, such as retail decimation a few years ago.” Two easy ways to enable scaleability: encourage founders to learn from one another, and share information simultaneously with many.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 29, 2021

With new technology enabling better, faster and easier-to-use software to build better, faster and easier-to-use products, the market is becoming busier by the second. Besides social media, online forums, discussion boards and message groups are good places to ideate and iterate with like minds. So how do you stand out from the crowd?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Perhaps the crucial point worth noting here is that in contrast to something like Apple News+, rather than serving as an aggregator, Zette’s pitch to publishers is that it enables them to retain relationships with their readers, given that their content remains on their own website. ” Zette will be focusing on the U.S.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

It can be used as a storytelling tool to enable ecosystem organizations to see the different onramps and paths that different founders take, and identify what’s working as well as gaps that need to be addressed. If possible, recruit an advisory board or steering committee to enhance accountability and support project management.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

Investment Criteria: B2B SaaS or tech-enabled services with proven, recurring contracts. No board seats or personal guarantees. They are tech-enabled companies that provide high-yield investments for fund limited partners (LPs) that perform like bonds but generate returns on par with equity investments. ARR of $500K+.

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