TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

It’s a known fact that the number of venture dollars flowing to Black and Latinx founders is dismally low. billion venture dollars invested between 2018 and 2019. Venture firms rush to find ways to support Black founders and investors. As one evidence of that, last year Crunchbase found that as of Aug. of the total $87.3

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

At Versatile VC, we particularly like investing in “dual-PhD” problems, at the intersection of multiple domains. The Baylor New Venture Competition is a business plan and elevator pitch competition for college students from around the globe. Participants have a chance to win more than $250,000 in cash and other support.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2022

But that doesn’t sit well with Christian Angermayer, who co-founded Cambrian BioPharma and Rejuveneron, and whose family office Apeiron Investment Group has a special interest in expanding longevity. According to JME Ventures partner Samuel Gil, the opportunities in longevity are “endless.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

“The climate-oriented investment in Biden’s new plan would be roughly ten times what came through ARRA,” wrote Shayle Kann, a partner with the investment firm, Energy Impact Partners. ” Climate resiliency . Given the steady drumbeat of climate disasters that hit the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2022

Whatever you do, don’t refer to LG’s incubator program LG Nova as a corporate venture capital (CVC) outfit. “CVC, as you know, is a venture capital play. Because of that, they invest in companies with the potential to grow the market value. And a financial investment is just one part of that.

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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. The most important next step is to secure growth investment, without which many startups won’t survive.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Main investors include TMT Investments, TLF Ventures, Flyer One and others. Ahrefs “Ahrefs is an SEO software company that helps optimize websites of any scale — from giants like Netflix, Facebook, Uber, and Forbes to small businesses looking to build their presence on Google’s top page.” It has raised $14.7

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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. Investment terms will be discussed with final candidates, the form says. The checks are backed by a $400 million seed fund , which closed in August 2021.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 1, 2022

CB Insights forecasts a roughly 20% drop in total VC investments from Q1 to Q2, leaving ambitious young companies scrambling to fight for scraps. Whether it’s dedicated impact funds or value-based venture capital firms, funders tend to back companies that have demonstrated their ability to scale.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

The tech investment scene was characterized as being strong in software and life sciences, but sometimes too conservative or risk-averse. However, this seems to be changing for the better, and foreign direct investment (FDI) is an important growth factor for the ecosystem. Belfast is weak in investment and investors.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

She is also principal of Broadway Realty, investing in, and repurposing, historic properties. 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. What advice would you give to entrepreneurs pursuing a startup in Oklahoma?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

“It’s a careful balance of keeping burn rate at a minimum while investing in key areas.” Crypto is altering the investing landscape for even the most disciplined VCs. With more than $32 billion invested last year, and over $11.3 Crypto is altering the investing landscape for even the most disciplined VCs.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Investment is much like dating — VCs could go for 40 coffee meetings a week with founders, but only one or two really catch their eye. Reconnect with impact investing. Boost serendipitous, strategic meetings. This kind of serendipity is much harder (almost impossible) to curate via a phone call.

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Revolution

MAY 21, 2019

At the end of each tour day, we hosted a pitch competition where a local startup received a $100,000 investment from Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund. Venture funding and government funding routes for growth are not mutually exclusive. Meet the five winning founders from Rise of the Rest 8.0

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Investment dollars stretch far beyond business: In the United States, venture investment accounts for 0.2% Imagine the impact on GDP if companies invested in improving digital inclusion, as well — consumers could gain access to online goods and services, and more people could start 100% digital companies.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

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. There were 141 companies from 24 countries in the winter 2018 batch , compared with 377 companies across 47 countries in the summer 2021 group.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

EDT , Chan will join me to share his views about why “ Gen Z isn’t a real investment trend. " In a conversation on Tuesday with @yourprotagonist , @chandr3w will share his views about why "Gen Z isn’t a real investment trend." " [link]. — TechCrunch (@TechCrunch) September 9, 2022.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Y Combinator’s newly announced plan to invest more capital into startups that take part in its accelerator program is more controversial than many first assumed. program and investing group with hundreds of companies in each of its accelerator classes may have materially changed the earliest stage of investing.

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 5, 2019

In 2005, when Y Combinator started, there was already a well developed ecosystem of venture capital firms in Silicon Valley and Boston. But access to those venture capital firms was limited. Today, early stage biotech funding is dominated by the “venture creation model”. How tech startup fundraising changed from 2005 to now.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

However, the segment is yet to record the type of investments that have poured into B2B retail e-commerce in the previous two years. But he contends that since most of these startups haven’t scratched the surface of a vast FMCG space, it’ll take a long while before they invest in B2B medicine distribution.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

These days, investing goes way beyond the stock market. And in recent years there’s been a growing number of startups which aim to give more people access to a wider array of investment opportunities. Former E*TRADE CEO Mitch Caplan, of Tarsadia Investments, led the round. These are investments that generate passive income.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

The Yozma Programme (Hebrew for “initiative”) from the government, in 1993, was seminal: It offered attractive tax incentives to foreign VCs in Israel and promised to double any investment with funds from the government. This will offer participating companies grants worth 40% of an investment round up to $1.1

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StartupNation

JANUARY 6, 2022

There are fantastic rewards to be had for those who know how to exploit the new opportunities for business funding that arise in times like these. Today, you can even buy cryptos like Ethereum or Bitcoin and use them as collateral to fund your business with crypto-backed loans. Angel investment. Venture capital or VC.

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