TechCrunch

AUGUST 13, 2021

Still, most startups persist in releasing products aimed at serving younger users, says Lawrence Kosick, co-founder of GetSetUp, an edtech company that targets 50+ learners. In a candid guest post, Scott Lenet, president of Touchdown Ventures, writes about the cognitive dissonance currently plaguing venture capital.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Private market investors poured capital into promising insurtech startups, while the public markets sent the value of recently public insurtech companies down — and then further down as the year progressed. billion in capital (again, an all-time record, and a 90% gain over 2020.). The company went public at $29 per share.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

The investment was AfricInvest’s first involvement in an AI startup, a decision based on InstaDeep’s founders selling a global vision to the Pan-African private equity firm. When this happens, the CEO says he hopes that founders and investors reinvest back into the space, something InstaDeep and AfricInvest intend to act on moving forward. “I

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

million seed round led by MaC Venture Capital. Serena Ventures, Omidyar Group’s Luminate Fund, Melo 7 Tech Partners and Cascador (Empowering Economic Growth Foundation) participated. Five years on, this startup, Stears , is announcing a $3.3 This news is coming two years after Stears raised $650,000 in pre-seed funding.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 23, 2022

Register DELOS, an Indonesian aquaculture-tech company , has raised $8 million in Seed extension financing co-led by Centauri, a collaborative fund between MDI Ventures and KB Investment Co., and Southeast Asian venture capital fund Alpha JWC Ventures.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

We’re talking founders, engineers, investors, tech journalists, potential customers and collaborators from the public sector and private sectors — not to mention people who hold the purse strings at NASA and the military. Some investors spend a lot of their time looking to the stars for the next venture capital opportunity.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

According to co-founder and CEO Lanre Ogungbe , the team was initially building a platform that required consumers to use biometrics (face, fingerprints, or voice) and cards to make payments. Y Combinator, Soma Capital, True Capital Fund and Sherwani Capital are among its other investors.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The role venture capital must play in all of this is becoming clearer: There has been a push to fund more reproductive health companies , include healthcare access in ESG investments , and reevaluate the safest places to open a business for women employees. Due diligence needs to expand past the point of founder ‘intentions.’

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2020

You’ll hear from and engage with the world’s top space experts, founders, scientists, engineers and investors across public, private and defense sectors. From Space Rock Returns to Financial Returns – An Investor Panel: Some investors spend a lot of their time looking to the stars for the next venture capital opportunity.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Founders and investors have started to look for opportunities to conserve, and even enhance, the ocean’s resources rather than exploit them. Seafood traceability solutions; ropeless traps; microalgae and seaweed are a hugely untapped resource with multiple market opportunities; ocean and weather data collection and analysis.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2022

Staying in Asia, Anna and Alex take the pulse on China’s venture capital scene. Learning from my failures: Lessons from a 2-time founder. Squadhelp CEO and founder Darpan Munjal shut down his previous company, a fashion e-commerce venture, after four years of “solid growth.” You can sign up here.).

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

My friend Michael Broukhim, founder & co-CEO of FabFitFun and I recently had a catch-up meeting for 3-miles on the Santa Monica “Bird Trail” No company has ever elicited so many questions by friends, colleagues, entrepreneurs, fellow VCs and journalists as has Bird, the company that pioneered the electronic scooter as a service market.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

An ad tech veteran who has logged time at Google and The Rubicon Project (now Magnite), Casey Saran is co-founder and CEO of Spaceback. But the digital ad ecosystem can’t get by only using broader data-crunching techniques to replace “retargeting.” Casey Saran. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Ads need to do more work today.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

It can be used as a storytelling tool to enable ecosystem organizations to see the different onramps and paths that different founders take, and identify what’s working as well as gaps that need to be addressed. In my initial effort I collected all of the resource information that I could find. Defining Categories of Information.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

Daloopa closed on a $20 million Series A round, led by Credit Suisse Asset Management’s NEXT Investors, to continue developing its data extraction technology for financial institutions, which is now being expanded globally. Customers can request data sets with a couple of clicks of a button and have it delivered the next day.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

I talk to so many founders — capable, smart, well-connected, experienced founders — who are working on problems that genuinely just don’t matter. I was just thinking about my own family,” said George Netscher, founder and CEO at SafelyYou. George Netscher, CEO and co-founder of SafelyYou.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

Early-stage founders, usually first-timers, often tie themselves in knots as they try to project the qualities they hope investors are seeking. How to identify unicorn founders when they’re still early-stage. What, exactly, are investors looking for? Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

It’s the secret sauce that ties its automated systems, sensors and data collection together into a central nervous system. You could be the greatest farmer in the world in Salinas Valley, and I pick you up and bring you to New Jersey and that knowledge doesn’t transfer,” says Irving Fain, founder and CEO of Bowery Farming.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

million in new funding to continue building its consumer-friendly data collection and monetization service. Datacy is a tool that allows individuals to collect their browsing data, manage it, have it anonymized and aggregated with others and then sold. So it’s a good use of venture capital, in other words.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

T he startup uses blockchain with the aim of creating a richer network effect of data that allows credit bureaus and others to predict the creditworthiness of people who are not in the traditional credit bureau system. GreatPoint Ventures and August Capital, among other existing investors, are participating in the Series B round as well. “We

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

TechCrunch+ is our membership program that helps founders and startup teams get ahead of the pack. If you’re wondering how Apple collects data… : Then you might want to pay close attention to this new lawsuit involving Apple and its data collection practices in first-party apps. You can sign up here. Big Tech Inc.

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

The venture capital fund of the future will perform the same tasks as the venture funds of today: help portfolio companies, evaluate new investment opportunities and build networks of other investors, potential hires, and founders. There has never been more data collected on startups than today.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Register Beleaf , an I ndonesian smart farming startup , announced raising $2 million in a Seed funding round led by Jakarta-based venture capital firm Alpha JWC Ventures. The funding round was also backed by BRI Ventures’ Sembrani Nusantara, MDI-Finch Capital’s Arise, and several prominent angel investors.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

million in seed funding, led by 645 Ventures (also an investor in SaaS companies like Iterable, FiscalNote and Panther), with participation from Wing Venture Capital, Firstminute Capital and Character. The San Francisco-based startup announced today it has raised $8.5

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2021

European startup and venture capital data company Dealroom has raised a €6 million Series A, it told TechCrunch. The company’s new capital comes nearly two years after it raised €2.75 To better understand the round, TechCrunch put a number of questions to Dealroom founder and CEO Yoram Wijngaarde.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . But, most funds raise capital and source deals the same way people looked for dates 20 years ago: by networking at conferences (or bars). . Most of us want one spouse and we’re done.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . But, most of use raise capital and source deals the same way people looked for dates 20 years ago: by networking at conferences (or bars). . Most of us want one spouse and we’re done.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

Due to the Great Resignation and restrictions to immigration laws, “this labor shortage affects both blue-collar and white-collar labor,” said Sungjoon Cho, partner at D20 Capital. Suzanne Fletcher , venture partner, Prime Movers Lab. Sungjoon Cho , general partner, D20 Capital. Is there a killer app?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Existing backer s Avid Ventures, Better Tomorrow Ventures and BoxGroup also participated in the financing, along with new investors Flexport and The Fintech Fund. Also, the company’s SMS-based mobile sign-in and data collection is aimed at improving security, convenience for drivers and data quality for managers, Simon said.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

” That might work inside mature companies, but early-stage founders who are presenting themselves to investors must be more specific. In an interview with Natasha Mascarenhas, B2B stealth startup founder Akshaya Dinesh recounted the time her team was rejected by an accelerator because they hadn’t yet picked a CEO.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Besides my experience, I read and talk about diversity in tech every day, so when I was offered a chance to speak to three founders from underrepresented groups at TechCrunch Disrupt, I was eager for the opportunity. Every entrepreneur swims against a current, but these founders face challenges that their white, male counterparts do not.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2022

To kick off, our own Walter Thompson has a great investor survey up today that attacks the question of how to pitch venture capitalists as a founder. It’s written and compiled in a manner that makes the advice fresh – what do venture investors want now. And speaking of pitching, we have a great piece up looking at how Snorkel.AI

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Via TechCrunch by Arman Tabatabai: Venture capital has been flooding the various subverticals under the robotics umbrella in recent years, and the construction space is one of the largest beneficiaries. One of the most common areas of attention respondents highlighted were startups focused on construction and manufacturing.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2022

Data privacy is top of mind for online sellers, and for good reason: Regulators in China, Europe and North America are taking an interest, and iOS 14.5 allowed many consumers to disable data tracking, with negative consequences for companies that relied on Facebook’s granular ad targeting. 5 growth marketing predictions for 2022.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

“Today, businesses have massive amounts of complex data, but not enough time, people or the right tools to analyze it,” Bailis said. A typical organization has way more data collected than people actually use, because it’s cheaper and easier to get this kind of data and consolidate, especially in the cloud,” Bailis told TechCrunch. .

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OurCrowd

JULY 11, 2021

From the summit, it is easy to be dazzled by the achievements of Israel’s venture capital colossus. “Ro’s mission is to build a patient-centric healthcare system, and Ro’s acquisition of Kit is an important step in bringing that future into reality,” says Zachariah Reitano, Co-founder and CEO of Ro. With a record $10.5

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2022

She then decided to drop out of school and focus on the company, which was becoming a service startup founders would use. Investors include MaC Venture Capital, Seabed VC, Soma Capital, Fearless Fund, Liquid2 Ventures, Slope Agency and Thumbtack founder Jonathan Swanson. The new round gives Pareto $5.1

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