Remove board Remove incumbents Remove venture capital Remove ventures
article thumbnail

Why your company requires both brains and brawn to succeed

Entrepreneurs' Organization

He’s also a Silicon Valley venture capitalist, sits on the boards of several startups, is a many-time entrepreneur himself, and was previously an exec at GE and Intel. As a venture capitalist who frequently works with tech startups, what are some of the traditional competencies that startups typically overlook and underappreciate?

article thumbnail

Fintech Roundup: Will financial technology startups dodge the venture slowdown?

TechCrunch

There has been much talk as of late of a slowdown in venture funding. For example, Brex announced last week that it provided $10 million in growth capital via venture debt to Zesty.ai, a leading provider of predictive data analytics in the climate risk space. We’re seeing pretty big market changes.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Pinecone drops $100M investment on $750M valuation, as vector database demand grows

TechCrunch

Now of course, this is a well-formed market and the category has different players, and so incumbents and clouds and so on, and we’re clearly ahead. Peter Levine, who is leading today’s investment for Andreessen Horowitz and will be joining the Pinecone board, sees the vector database as a key piece of the AI stack.

investing 100
article thumbnail

AI chip startup Sima.ai bags another $30M ahead of growth

TechCrunch

A recent ZDNet piece reaffirms that the AI edge chip market is booming, fueled by “staggering” venture capital financing in the hundreds of millions of dollars. It brings Sima.ia’s total capital raised to $150 million. After emerging from stealth in 2019, Sima.ai

startup 95
article thumbnail

CommerceIQ gets its horn as capital continues to flow into e-commerce infrastructure startups

TechCrunch

When much of the shopping shifted online during the global pandemic, startups developing software and other products to aid the transition began to garner attention from venture capital firms. As part of the investment, Priya Saiprasad, partner at SoftBank Investment Advisers, is joining CommerceIQ’s board of directors. “E-commerce

capital 89
article thumbnail

Extra Crunch roundup: StockX EC-1, Early Stage recaps, unpacking Alkami’s IPO, more

TechCrunch

The competition intensified further last year when American incumbents Beyond Meat and Eat Just entered China. Image Credits: MaC Venture Capital. Setting up a management board for success with Dave Easton. Setting up a management board for success with Dave Easton. Image Credits: Generation Investment Management.

board 91
article thumbnail

Equal access to capital and entrepreneurship is the final civil rights movement

TechCrunch

But despite my privilege, I’m also confident that my Black heritage made it more difficult for me to raise venture capital. Today — and the data proves this — if you are a white male, you have an unfair advantage when looking to raise venture capital. And really, this was where my race became an obstacle.