TechCrunch

JUNE 14, 2021

That time is now, and Yana is now among the top three downloaded apps in Mexico and 12 countries, including Spain, Chile, Ecuador and Venezuela. With its new capital, Yana is planning to “move away from the depression/anxiety narrative,” according to Campos. “We We also want to include a community inside our application.”.

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TechCrunch

JULY 4, 2022

The platform announced today it has raised $10 million in Series A funding led by Singaporean venture capital firm Jungle Ventures and Mumbai-based Dream Capital. million app downloads in India over the last 18 months and that its number of trading accounts and retail active clients have grown 10x year-over-year.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

London-based venture capital firm Anthemis co-led the growth round alongside crypto-focused fund Dragonfly Capital. Ejara , a Cameroonian fintech offering an investment app that allows users to buy crypto and save through decentralized wallets, has raised $8 million in Series A investment. .

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TechCrunch

JUNE 21, 2022

Based in Vietnam, Anfin wants to turn more people into stock investors with features like fractional trading and in-app communities. Participants in the round also included Rebel VC, Kharis Capital, Newman Capital, First Check Ventures, Micro Ventures, Springcamp and AngelHub.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

Users can download the Phantom wallet to their browsers to interact with applications, swap tokens and collect NFTs. The crypto wallet startup has banked a $9 million Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), with Variant Fund, Jump Capital, DeFi Alliance, Solana Foundation and Garry Tan also participating. Image via Phantom.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

This unprecedented growth provides a wealth of new opportunity for the investment community. One example is through TI Platform Management, the leading anchor investor for over a dozen studios, who recognizes that by displacing traditional venture capital firms as intermediaries, studio models provide compounded advantages for LPs.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The AMSA report noted there is a cultural mental health stigma within the Latino community and little knowledge of what it means to access mental health services. Users who download the app before October 31 will have access to a one-month free trial. Additionally, Latinos in the U.S. every month to access OYE and its resources.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2015

Or app companies that went viral due to spammy friend requests to download in an app store only to have a community backlash and subsequent crash. If venture capital is propping up your business performance – good luck when the spigot slows one day. Push yourself hard to be honest with yourself.

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2022

E4E Africa, a South African venture capital firm, led the round, which welcomed participation from other firms such as Strat-Tech, Next Chymia, Untapped Global and Codec Ventures and angels like Ashwin Ravichandran and Kanyi Maqubela. million in seed funding a year after closing an undisclosed pre-seed round.

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David Teten VC

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

We’re fortunate to interview William Stringer, Founder of Chisos Capital , a structured finance company. Chisos is a structured finance company that provides startup and brand capital to entrepreneurs, athletes and creatives. We also do some old school.csv download and pasting Q: What processes are you focused on improving?

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Angel Capital Association

JULY 31, 2023

This is Part I of a two-part series on Revenue-Financed Capital (RFC) for angels. ACA member Sage Growth Capital hosted a meet-up of attendees who were interested in RFC at the recent ACA Summit in Las Vegas. And perhaps more importantly, is this form of capital appropriate for their portfolio companies?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

Growing communities : Substack opens up a $2 million community fundraising round , Aisha reports. Growth for women founders : Dominic-Madori reports how the Tory Burch Foundation launches a tool to help women founders find capital. Big Tech Inc. Tweet at Christine and let her know your favorite piece.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

For Mexico City-born Sergio Jiménez Amozurrutia, the fact that in his country of more than 120 million people, only a tiny fraction of the population have the ability to invest in the capital markets just didn’t seem right. It averages 6,000 new customers a day, mostly due to word of mouth, the company said. Image: Flink.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

has raised $ 30 million in new capital to help these individuals not only adjust to – but feel comfortable and “thrive” in – their new environment. based company’s $35 million Series B in April 2021, which was co-led by TTV Capital, Owl Ventures and SoftBank Group Corp.’s s SB Opportunity Fund. the company says.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

He also nails the reason why venture capital is still necessary to grow large businesses quickly in a world where the costs of running startups have fallen dramatically. Fooling us into downloading an app to watch a video and afterward feeling duped. After all, growth equals high valuations and loads of venture capital!

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

He penned a great piece on the LA tech community here in Forbes. We also spent a fair bit of time talking about the changing nature of venture capital and in particular the hand-on practitioner role of early-stage VC led by accelerators such as YC, 500Startups, Betaworks and the like. Not bad, hey? I agree with him.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 20, 2023

million in a seed funding round led by Makers Fund, with participation from Y Combinator, Soma Capital, Pioneer Fund, Anorak Ventures, BonAngels, and Twitch co-founder Kevin Lin. The Beta introduces the first downloadable content for Blacktop Hoops , the Rising Legends Pack. To learn more, please visit blacktophoopsvr.com.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

Company plans to use the capital to build out sales and marketing and r&d. -a led by Altos Ventures and Maverick Capital, with Larry Braitman. Current round: $7.0mm Series-B led by MK Capital, withClearstone Venture Partners and Shasta Ventures. Tags: This Week in Venture Capital.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

million seed in August 2020 from Zetta Venture Partners and ING Ventures and since then has been on the radar of venture capital companies. Since then, its software has been downloaded almost 750,000 times, growth of about 30% per month. SeMI raised a $1.2 SeMI intends to deploy the new funding into hiring U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2021

Upon thoroughly analyzing the data, we’ve been able to identify the total number of investment firms and amount of capital that comprise the RBI industry, the specific verticals and business models that are most actively leveraging RBI, and the typical profile of companies that access this form of capital. billion in capital.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2023

“This will mean that SVB Financial can apply, and plans to apply, to the courts to resume activities while finding buyers for its assets, which include going ahead with its plans to sell off SVB Securities and SVB Capital, and more,” Ingrid notes. More that we didn’t ask for : Now U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

If you have time check out the video (or download on iTunes – Episode 27 - and listen at the gym or on your commute!). Yeah, that was when I changed for me…” “…there was so much positive feedback on demystifying this one element of venture capital. Brad’s start in Venture Capital. was starting.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

Mascarenhas has been covering edtech from the very first day she joined TechCrunch as a venture capital and startups writer, and she has built up a reputation as a fearless chronicler of this increasingly vital ecosystem. TechCrunch’s writer and analyst for this EC-1 is Natasha Mascarenhas.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Left Lane making a right turn when it comes to investments : It was the gift that keeps on giving for Left Lane CEO and managing partner Harley Miller, who closed the venture capital firm’s $1.4 Having a community is important, and Reddit perhaps has one of the biggest communities around. billion fund on his birthday.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2020

However, what those promising to change the world from their Silicon Valley office often forget is that so many of the big tech giants began by addressing a small but present pain point within a specific community. Your Guide to the Season’s Hottest Gifts from Dell: Download Now and Save up to 39% Off.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 2, 2021

It was a humbling year that, for much of the tech community, was mostly spent inside, away and alone. Take trends like the rise of building in public or the unbundling of venture capital. Or remote work’s shift from enabling communication to now needing to enable passive and active collaboration.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2022

Consumer love, a fickle thing: App Annie: Global app stores’ consumer spend up 19% to $170B in 2021, downloads grew 5% to 230B. As our own Mary Ann reports, “Arc is building what it describes as ‘a community of premium software companies’ that gives SaaS startups a way to borrow, save and spend all on a single tech platform.”.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

2001, a Starbucks Odyssey : In August, Starbucks got things percolating with plans for a blockchain-based loyalty program and NFT community. Olsen spent six years with Sequoia Capital in California before co-founding Drive Capital in Columbus, Ohio, in 2013. — Christine and Haje. The TechCrunch Top 3.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 9, 2013

You can of course view the presentation in SlideShare above or download it directly for free here. billion page views making it the largest communities of artists in the world. Here I talked about Lending Club where I understand hedge fund managers are now deploying capital to lend directly against pools of borrowers.

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Angel Capital Association

AUGUST 28, 2023

This is Part II of a two-part series on Revenue-Financed Capital (RFC) for angels. In Part I addressed the question of when RFC might be appropriate to meet some of the capital needs of angel portfolio companies. About Sage Growth Capital Sage Growth Capital is a venture capital firm that provides revenue-financed capital exclusively.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

Almost every major scooter-sharing app, except for Voi , has seen a YoY rise in downloads. But downloads are not necessarily the best metric to gauge success in the sector. The siren song of the public markets, and all of the capital they can provide, is simply too loud for WeRide to ignore. where it can build XL delivery vans.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The stress of her pregnancy led Walton to download Expectful, a meditation and sleep app for new mothers. Walton helped it raise its first millions in venture capital, making her one of the few dozen Black female founders to do so. ” Walton plans to pivot the startup in three phases: content, marketplace and community.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Ahrefs claims to have become a $100 million company in annual revenue without venture capital. Blocksport Blocksport builds Web3-ready platform solutions for the professional sports and entertainment industry to enable tokenization use cases for their fan community. Claims 250M downloads (+70M / 38% growth).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

with a wall of amazing content for you to download straight into your brain. With just one week of advance notice, the forum’s unknown owner announced that the website will shut down on February 1 , erasing the decades-long digital footprint of a community on the margins. What is a better expression these days?), states , raising $4.4

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Juno used your modem to to download and send email, and it was paid for by placing ads in the email client. The software is not difficult to build and the hosting element has become a commodity; the hard part is building a community. Lesson: Joel had been building a community of readers since 2001. Building Communities.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 16, 2011

That’s why I was so interested in having “ The Gotham Gal &# come on This Week in VC ( video link on YouTube , download iTunes, episode 15) ) and dispel those myths. Be a mensch – the world is small than you think and bad karma will catch up to you “We’re in a very small community.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2020

However, what those promising to change the world from their Silicon Valley office often forget is that so many of the big tech giants began by addressing a small but present pain point within a specific community. Your Guide to the Season’s Hottest Gifts from Dell: Download Now and Save up to 39% Off.

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