TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2022

Interest in the space seems to be growing rapidly in the VC community, so I spoke with five investors to get a better idea of where longevity tech is headed and just how big the market stands to become. Once the first ones are proven in a clinical trial, we expect that to go from zero to a trillion-dollar industry within a decade.

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TechCrunch

JULY 23, 2021

And what we mean by this is understanding why an investor is even in VC in the first place. This is general advice for startups, but according to these two, it’s even more important when building a company that might take longer for the investor to see a return. In deep tech, it’s essential to think about founder-investor fit.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

While few corporates used to offer startup investment (and the ones that did were primarily concerned with software, practically every corporate is involved in VC today and covers a range of niche sectors. Corporate investment arms have gotten stronger. That means there’s more corporate money and players for startups to explore.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Riya Pabari, co-founder at Framework, added: “As two female founders of color, it’s also our chance to fly the flag for all of the incredible under-represented founders who deserve more attention from the VC community.”. What we’re doing is microlearning… It’s really about doing it every day, practical questions.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

Optimism reigns at consumer trading services as fintech VC spikes and Robinhood IPO looms. “Yieldstreet’s management team’s vision for the future of digital investing aligned perfectly with that of our organization at Tarsadia. Yieldstreet is building the future of investing.”.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Notes follow from Asem; Pejman Nozad of Pear VC; Iris Choi of Floodgate; Nathan Lustig of Magma Partners; Siggi Simonarson , co-founder of BuildBuddy , which took part in a 2020 Y Combinator class; and Torben Friehe , co-founder of Wingback , which is part of the Winter 2022 YC batch.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Investment dollars stretch far beyond business: In the United States, venture investment accounts for 0.2% of GDP, while revenue from VC-backed companies accounts for 21%.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2021

“There’s not enough technical expertise in VC firms to choose winners intelligently, rather than ending up with the next Theranos or clean tech bubble,” he said. “So that’s the first thing I wanted to solve.

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 5, 2019

The only model of institutional seed funding was the “business incubator” model, where VC firms would fund well-connected founders they knew and incubate them in their office. Because these companies wouldn’t raise VC until they were much further along and had leverage, the balance of power shifted.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

As in other countries in “COVID 2020”, VC tended to focus on existing portfolio companies. However, early-round investments (seed and A rounds) slowed due to pandemic uncertainty, but picked up again toward the end of the year. COVID brought unexpected upsides: Israeli startups, usually facing longs flight to Europe or the U.S.

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