TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Three ways VC firms can construct sustainably diverse portfolios. If you follow mainstream tech media, you could be forgiven for thinking that venture capital is a founders’ market today after two years of record round sizes and outcomes. Leslie Feinzaig is the founder and CEO of the Graham & Walker.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2021

Shots on Goal Being great as a startup technology investor of course requires a lot of things to come together: You need to have strong insights into where technology markets are heading and where value in the future will be created and sustained You need be perfect with your market timing. Being too early is the same as being wrong.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 30, 2024

The company recently moved much of its operations to a temporary site on Reads Way in New Castle near where construction on its new facility is ongoing. Their decision to grow in Delaware will help make our environment more sustainable and add jobs to our state.” As the company has evolved, including raising $16.5

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

Tech companies have spent the past decade or more developing innovations that can be applied to old-world industries like agriculture, construction, energy, education, manufacturing and transportation and logistics. Financing the future startup nation. ” Climate resiliency .

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

Sustainability Stage: Tackles social and environmental solutions such as urban mobility, sustainable tech, green infrastructure, and new mobilities. AI Stage: Covers the latest artificial intelligence tech related to NLG, speech recognition, virtual agents, biometrics, RPA, deep learning platforms, reactive machines, and P2P networks.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 3, 2024

Overall, 40% of financing rounds had an angel representative of some sort (Director or Observer) at the close of the round and 70% of angel groups had at least one Board or Observer seat among their portfolios of 2022 deals. The median number of Director seats held by angel groups for their 2022 investments was 4.5, with an average of 5.7

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Investors include CCB Trust, a subsidiary of China Construction Bank, GGV Capital and real-time communication solution provider Agora, a long-time partner of Cocos. These revenue streams have been able to sustain Cocos, but the company is ready to accelerate growth, which is why it sought outside financing.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

financing back in 2005, “climate change” was some future event. That’s where growth capital and eventually infrastructure investments come in. That’s where government, national labs, universities, angel investors and venture capital come in. I know it is a capital-intensive sector. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

Sustainable travel at the forefront. Infrastructure bill could promote lean construction via data capture. There’s a lot of excitement about construction tech among investors and entrepreneurs, but general contractors aren’t nearly as enthusiastic. Mainstream attention is increasing. An emphasis on noise pollution.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

billion boost from Generation Investment Management , a sustainability-focused public and private equity firm co-founded by Al Gore. I think I’ll use my credit card : Mary Ann reports that payments and software startup SpotOn has closed on $300 million in a Series F financing that values the company at $3.6 Startups and VC.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

It’s also a good thing when a state considers legislation to help address capital gaps. Oklahoma’s Technology Business Finance Program (TBFP) Seed Fund is a nationally recognized best practices example of legislated early stage capital that has stood a 20-plus year test of time. Some credits are transferable.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2023

“These deals were traditionally harder to track than primary venture capital deals, as they don’t generally get announced, but a new fleet of startups is shining light on them,” such as Caplight, Notice, Birel and Hive Markets. “It was really hard to figure out what was going on.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Ryan Popple , a former active duty Army officer and early member of Tesla’s finance team who rose through the ranks before leaving to become a partner at Kleiner Perkins and CEO of electric bus manufacturer Proterra, died unexpectedly at 44 years old. Construction will begin in summer 2022 with production beginning in 2024.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Juno , a proptech startup which aims to build more sustainable and affordable apartment buildings, has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round. Comcast Ventures, Khosla Ventures and Real Estate Technology (RET) Ventures co-led the financing, which brings the company’s total raised to $32 million since its 2019 inception.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 30, 2023

Marqeta has agreed to acquire two-year-old fintech infrastructure startup Power Finance for $223 million in cash, marking the first acquisition in the publicly-traded company’s 13-year history. Founded in early 2021 by Randy Fernando and Andrew Dust, New York-based Power Finance announced last September that it had raised $16.1

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

It’s getting more difficult to hire great talent at the growth stages because many companies were expected to go public and get the associated capital infusion from going public. This has more to do with retention issues and less to do with raising new capital. Retaining great talent in a tight market. Where are we putting our energy?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

That’s why technologies coming from companies like Malta , an energy storage technology developer that just raised $50 million in new financing, are attracting attention and venture capital investment. Dustin Moskovitz, a co-founder of Facebook and the chief executive and co-founder of Asana, also participated in the round.

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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. The Good Food Institute reported that this particular sector raised $1.7

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Developing construction systems to create infrastructure and habitats on the moon, and eventually Mars, with NASA. These are just some of the things that Austin, Texas-based construction tech startup ICON has been working on. The financing brings ICON’s total equity raised to $266 million.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2022

At the time, Topi was somewhat vague in terms of what its actual product would be, but the company today announced its first product in partnership with German electronics retailer Gravis , and unveiled a fresh $45 million in equity and debt financing. . Hardware-as-a-service. Topi payment methods.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

One of those companies, Oakland-based Mighty Buildings , just raised $40 million in Series B funding for its quest to create homes that it says are “beautiful, sustainable and affordable” using 3D printing, robotics and automation. It also plans to use the new capital in part to scale its production capacity with increased automation.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

While a portion of that is from the energy and materials required to construct buildings, the lion’s share — nearly 90% on an annual basis — comes from their use. There’s a lot of overlap between construction tech and proptech. We hear people make this distinction between proptech and construction tech all the time.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

” The financing brings the San Mateo, California-based company’s total raised since its 2008 inception to $600 million. At first, the company was focused on construction ADUs (accessory dwelling units), but now it is building multi-family homes and single-family homes at scale. .

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Ian Hathaway

MARCH 31, 2020

Senators led by Amy Klobuchar introduced the New Business Preservation Act to incentivize venture capital formation around the country. It avoids two well-known traps for government-sponsored venture programs by requiring that public funds are matched with private dollars and that capital is deployed by professional investors.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

Grab the Wite-Out : Alex and Anna look at venture capital activity in Latin America and sense that a decline is in the cards for the second quarter, alluding to a possible correction. Not today, neighbor : Haje covered how Ergeon enables anyone to order construction projects like fences, driveways and more. Startups and VC.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Assess Your Professional Skills: Take an inventory of existing skills that can be used when starting up a business apply to a startup that includes sales, marketing, operations, financing, human resources, hiring, communication networking, problem-solving, and more. Seek out financial advice because it takes time to improve a score.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

Categories like construction, agriculture and health care, among others, were very much looking to automate. Robotics innovation had somewhat plateaued: Capability to innovate was heavily based on a startup’s ability to raise capital. It’s just a financing question.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

An easing of laws around the construction of accessory dwelling units (ADUs) around the U.S. What followed was an over a year-long nightmare and process around the feasibility, permitting and construction,” Czarnecki recalls. The company plans to use the new capital in part to increase its headcount from 30 to 50 or 60 by year’s end.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

Fifth Wall led the financing, which notably also included participation from returning backer Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and new investors DoorDash CEO Tony Xu and StockX CEO Scott Cutler. With its new capital, the company plans to expand its nationwide network of hosts and renters as well as continue to spread awareness of its marketplace.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

If SVB rises from the ashes (seems like there is a glimmer of hope thanks to folks like Ro Khanna) — and we act to mitigate the weaponization of concentrated digital media — money may not become impossibly expensive for capital intensive technologies like robotics. How best would an adversary attack innovation in robotics?

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

Early-stage proptech startups have a potential new source of capital in 1Sharpe Ventures , which recently closed its $90 million inaugural fund. Oakland, California-based 1Sharpe Ventures was born out of another of the pair’s endeavors, 1Sharpe Capital , an institutional asset manager with equity real estate investments and a credit fund.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

Previous backer Initialized Capital also participated in the financing, along with Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman, former Stockton, California Mayor Michael Tubbs, GGV investor Hans Tung and Paradox Capital’s Kyle Tibbitts. “As a homeowner myself, I know the challenges of permitting and finding contractors during construction.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

Oh, it also needs more capital. Embedded finance will help fill the life insurance coverage gap. There’s latent demand for life insurance currently unaddressed by much of the financial services industry, and embedded finance can be the solution. Embedded finance will help fill the life insurance coverage gap.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2022

2021 was a record year for venture capital fundraising, and fintechs were the largest recipients of funding worldwide, with about 21% of all venture dollars last year going into fintech startups. We all knew – or at least some of us did, ahem – that this was likely not sustainable in the long term.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 26, 2021

Utilizing its proprietary clean protein technology, with some 40 patents filed, Ripple reduces impurities found in traditional plant protein extracts, creating a range of products with superior taste, nutrition, and sustainability. Eli Cymbalista, CEO of Environmental Sustainability Innovation Lab. Learn More. Featured Speakers.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! Their foci include addressing environmental sustainability, racial and gender equity, economic development concerns, etc. Non-Dilutive Financing: Everything You Need to Know. Congratulations!

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! Their foci include addressing environmental sustainability, racial and gender equity, economic development concerns, etc. Congratulations! Google for Startups Accelerator.

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