TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

Corporate venture capital investments (CVCs) now represent more than a fifth of global venture. The bigger slice of the funding pie comes as founders have to navigate a more uncertain capital landscape. At Wayra, we’ve adapted our strategy a number of times to ensure that we evolve as the startup ecosystem does.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2020

million seed round led by Founders Fund, an early investor in SpaceX, backed by Luminous Ventures, 7percent Ventures and Entrepreneur First. Co-founder (and Star Trek fan) Dr Thomas Clayson did a PhD in plasma physics, working on advanced electromagnetic fields. Magdrive has just closed a £1.4

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

It gives extra credence to the thesis behind new climate-focused funds from Greensoil Proptech Ventures and Fifth Wall Ventures , which is raising a $200 million investment vehicle to focus on energy efficiency and climate tech solutions. The global economy happens indoors,” said Fifth Wall co-founder Brendan Wallace, in a statement.

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UBI Global

JUNE 5, 2019

How Innovation Will Survive and Thrive Last week’s GCV Symposium was a fantastic event that brought the venture capital ecosystem together. Founder and CEO James Mawson and his team created an exciting event full of impactful collaborations, new technology, and insights on uncovering startups.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Around 7,000 tech workers have joined the ranks of the Armed Forces or Territorial Defense Only last month, OneUkraine sprang up from a host of major European tech founders and investors, who plan to provide sustainable humanitarian relief for the Ukrainian people. Main investors include TMT Investments, TLF Ventures, Flyer One and others.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 1, 2022

Priyanka Srinivas is the co-founder and CEO of Live Green Co , a Chilean food tech startup that uses artificial intelligence to suggest plant-based alternatives for meat and artificial additives in food. Here are five things green founders should remember when seeking VC funding at this moment. Priyanka Srinivas. Contributor.

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Revolution

MAY 21, 2019

Meet the five winning founders from Rise of the Rest 8.0 Also, utilize our ecosystem and engage support systems available such as our growing network of business accelerators, and the University of Central Florida Business Incubation Program, a support system from which AireHealth has benefited. What does your company do?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2022

In exchange for an unannounced percentage of ownership, “a16z START” will offer early-stage founders up to $1 million in venture capital. The remote-first program will accept founders on a rolling basis and wants to connect folks with partners for advice, potential customers or investors, and of course, other entrepreneurs.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

Previously as DigitalOcean's COO, Karl built the business from first product to over 500 employees and $250M ARR over six years and prepared it for its IPO. This year brought the first signs of skepticism and pressure on venture. It is more important than ever for founders to remain calm and be strategic.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Founder, and former President and CEO. While the State is not known as a hub for venture capital, we have frequently been recognized by national sources as a great place to start a new business. Few barriers to entry, low operating costs and a friendly business climate make Oklahoma very attractive. Get started!

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Framework has spun out of Founders Academy, the nine-month “free alternative-MBA” born out of Founders Forum, a private network of the world’s elite tech entrepreneurs, largely drawn from Europe. The backing is coming from LearnStart, the seed fund of Learn Capital, Evio, as well as the angel programs for Atomico and Ada Ventures.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

Alto announced today that it has raised $40 million in Series B funding led by Advance Venture Partners , whose founder and managing partner David T. Existing investors Unusual Ventures , Acrew Capital , Alpha Edison , Foundation Capital , Gaingels and Coinbase Ventures also participated in the round.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Thus, the original list of 101 companies has ballooned to 267 as of February 2022 ( YC list isn’t exhaustive; some founders opt out of being listed ). The second is that companies YC backed four to five years ago, after raising a series of venture capital rounds, are now commanding huge valuations that they didn’t have in 2018.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

We believe very much in the consumerism of healthcare, and what that means is you have to build healthcare around the consumer,” says founder and chairwoman Gina Bartasi. Arvind Gupta, an investor at Mayfield Fund and founder of accelerator IndieBio, reviews several hundred pitch decks each year. “In With 12 outlets in 10 U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2022

Other investors include the likes of early Zoom investors Maven Ventures, Bill Tai and Matt Ocko, early-stage funds Character.vc, Active Capital, Global Founders Capital, Rackhouse.vc Fathom founder and CEO Richard White. and Soma Capital, as well as the CEOs of Reddit, Twitch, Cruise, Mercury, People.ai, Snapdocs and Shogun.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In the scuffle, VCs are turning to scouts to do the legwork, but that has meant being yet another step removed from their founders. I’ve sat at both sides of the table as a founder and a VC, and I understand how difficult it is to get them on the same page. Techstars Equitech Accelerator ) and women founders (e.g.,

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TechCrunch

JULY 4, 2022

To a lot of founders, an exit — or a “liquidation event,” as the legal buffs tend to refer to it — is the big pot of gold at the end of a very long and arduous journey. Second, your job as a founder is to build the best company you possibly can.

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 5, 2019

In short, Paul Graham predicted that there would be way more startups, that they’d be cheaper to start, that new kinds of investors would fund them, that founders would be more technical, and that founders would keep control of their companies. But access to those venture capital firms was limited.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2021

Yin Wu, a three-time YC alum, is founder of Pulley , which offers cap table management tools that help companies better understand and optimize their equity. My company, Pulley, has helped more than a thousand founders build their cap table and equity structure. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Day 1: Incorporate.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

A few weeks ago, I found a Twitter thread by Sam DeBrule, co-founder and head of marketing of Heyday, who explained how he and his co-founder reduced customer churn by improving their onboarding process. Twitter Space: What can today’s founders learn from the 2000 dotcom bubble burst? I love it when a plan comes together.

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TechCrunch

JULY 23, 2021

In deep tech, it’s essential to think about founder-investor fit. And what it is that’s driving you, the founder, to do what you do. We, as investors, love to see methodical founders who can see the first step that will converge at the right moment of technical and business milestones. Timestamp: 6:09).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2021

“There are a lot of VCs out there,” explained founder and general partner Dakin Sloss about the concept behind the fund. In addition to core partners with that kind of expertise, Prime Movers Lab enlists the help of venture partners and specialist advisors like former astronaut Chris Hadfield.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

According to Mike Asem , a partner at the Midwest-focused M25 venture capital shop, the new terms help Y Combinator, but come with “tradeoffs” for the group and founders themselves. We asked investors and founders to weigh in on the matter. How will the new YC standard deal impact founders?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Matt Cohen, founder and managing partner of Ripple Ventures , was the founding investor of Turnstyle Solutions, which was acquired by Yelp in 2017. As fundraising gets harder, founders should ask investors for a flat round. It is important for founders to recognize this and leverage their VCs during these times.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

Women founders are disadvantaged,” the director said. And that’s one of the things the investment in innovation will try to address: to take that gender and disadvantaged African founder lens and prioritize them when selecting the potential beneficiaries who will participate in the program.”.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

It wasn’t long before venture capital firms started up and major tech companies like Microsoft, Google and Samsung had R&D centers and accelerators located in the country. However, the decline may also be a function of large tech firms setting up incubation hubs to cut up and absorb talent. So how are they doing?

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