TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2021

venture capital firm based in the midwest. Playvox , a Colombian startup that wants to bring a positive twist to customer service monitoring announced a $25 million Series A from Five Elms Capital , a Kansas City, MO VC firm. It’s not every day you see a Latin American startup funded by a U.S.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? Image Credits: Versatile Venture Capital (opens in a new window). First Round Capital found that among its portfolio companies, startups with female founders outperformed those without by 63%.”. Of course, this dataset is incomplete.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? First Round Capital found that among its portfolio companies, startups with female founders outperformed those without by 63%.” . If they had missed it, they would have failed to return capital after fees.”.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

million led by Schematic Ventures with participation by Motivate Ventures and SHRM Labs (the venture capital arm of the Society of Human Resource Management). MECHANICSBURG, PA – Gig and Take has closed a pre-seed round totaling $1.5

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

But through media depictions of male leadership, stories and culture, we have, for the most part, been socialized to more easily trust a white male persona, so when it comes to early-stage investing, this concept of trust is quite insidious. of venture capital is invested into them.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2021

Raising capital for a new fund is always hard. In this exciting moment, when younger founders will likely receive more attention, capital and control than ever, it’s crucial to avoid certain pitfalls. The new capital came less than a year after Brex raised $150 million at a $2.9 Let’s break down the pros and cons.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Even then, Bain Capital Venture’s Matt Harris felt confident in betting on the startup. Two of the main reasons this deck “sings” is the line it draws to the Justworks culture and that the deck isn’t “artificially simple.” “The word that really comes to mind is ‘structured.’

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Haystack

JANUARY 2, 2020

A topic that’s been on my mind a lot in 2019 is “time diversity” in venture capital funds. These are firms that have returned capital at scale. From what I’ve gathered from LPs and VC mentors, in previous eras, the initial deployment period of a VC fund (not including reserves for follow-ons, etc.)

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? First Round Capital found that among its portfolio companies, startups with female founders outperformed those without by 63%.” . If they had missed it, they would have failed to return capital after fees.”.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 16, 2023

Clear Street , which says it is building “modern infrastructure” for capital markets, raised $270 million at a $2 billion valuation in the second tranche of a Series B raise. Nonetheless, its ability to raise so much capital during such a challenging fundraising environment is impressive.

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Red Rocket

MAY 11, 2021

I recently stumbled on this great article below from my good colleague, David Gardner (pictured), the founder and General Partner at Co-Founders Capital , one of the most active early-stage venture capital firms in the Southeast, based in the Raleigh-Durham area. Constructive and actionable feedback can be hard to come by.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

venture capital to date (more on this in a separate post), unfortunately relegating billion-dollar exits as “ho-hum” events to the technology crowd. The company only raised a bit over $1M as seed capital. However, 2018 has other ideas, with the most money ever invested in U.S. 1/ Cash Is King: The $1.4B

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Haystack

JANUARY 18, 2020

This impacts portfolio construction and possibly returns, though on the flip side, end-markets are larger and outcomes can be greater — look at Datadog, for instance. I don’t have the data, but I’d bet the “minimum ownership” requirements VC funds started 2010 with have gone down dramatically.

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Haystack

AUGUST 18, 2019

They’ve all accepted that this is a new world of capital abundance and that the pistons driving the global economy are technology and network effects. More and more seed capital has flooded into the market, making the situation for funding seed rounds ~$2M-ish total size more competitive.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

Oh, it also needs more capital. As I described in Part 2 of this EC-1 , that staffing efficiency is partly due to its culture and who it hires. Zeta Global raised north of $600 million in private capital in the form of both equity financing and debt, making it a unicorn worth understanding. ” Dogs of Lordstown.

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2021

billion blank-check deal with DPCM Capital. Perhaps that will unlock more late-stage capital for hardware-focused upstarts. According to data gathered by Rob Olson, partner and head of data strategy at venture engine M13, startups that have two or more experienced founders tend to exit 33% faster and raise 34% less capital.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

Planetary , a Geneva, Switzerland-based food tech company, is tapping into a new $8 million cash infusion to construct an industrial-scale production facility so that its customers leveraging fermentation technology can create and scale their alternative proteins quicker. Is cell-cultured meat ready for prime time?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

The Folklore highlights the best design talent across [Africa], and demand for these products that reflect the culture is exploding,” says Folklore’s CEO of its $1.7 Once Conceive is successful, Singapore’s Parentinc leaps into the breach ; it just raised $22 million for its parenting community and D2C brand. What’s Coinbase?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Wider issues seem more cultural; startups not thinking big enough, investors lacking the necessary appetite for risk, and even — among wider society — some latent suspicion of entrepreneurs. While Spain-based investors are champing at the bit for administrative reform and better stock options. Measures to change mindsets.

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TechCrunch

JULY 18, 2022

Xpeng Robotics , a bionic robot maker affiliated with Xpeng , raised $100 million in a Series A round led by IDG Capital, at a time when venture investments are slowing in China. Wonder Robotics , an autonomous drone technology startup, raised $4 million in a round led by Elron Ventures, in conjunction with Besadno Investment Group.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

So despite total funding for women-founded companies reaching $834 million in 2021, per Partech Africa — a VC firm and data tracker of African investments — and the number of women in venture capital increasing, t heir representation remains minute against a faster-growing percentage of startups run by men.

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Haystack

JANUARY 20, 2019

While the big funds hire people to do this and the new angel/seed funds are just starting out and don’t even think about it when starting — it’s somewhere between years 3-5 where I’ve noticed this starts to sink in.

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Haystack

JANUARY 16, 2019

The more I discover about going beyond just writing checks into startups — concepts like portfolio construction, cross-fund management, and new fund formation — the more I realize how critical the parlay is. Let’s focus on the noun first.

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