TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2023

Atlanta, Georgia has emerged as one of the buzziest new hubs in the nation, with booming enterprise, cybersecurity and SaaS sectors, as well as a slew of investors looking to back the hot new startups coming from the city. Some well-known companies from Atlanta include Calendly, Kabbage, One Trust and FullStory — all unicorns, by the way.

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2023

With that, let’s get into the perfect pitch deck and the outsider advantage. The perfect pitch deck The inimitable Haje Jan Kamps has done 47 pitch decks in his Pitch Deck Teardown series. Of course: It’s already Disrupt season. I love seeing early pitch decks and term sheets too. No pitches, please.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

This may seem like a great time to launch a SaaS startup, but the landscape is crowded with well-designed applications that promise “blazingly fast and delightfully simple” experiences, according to seed-stage investor John Chen of Fika Ventures. SaaS needs to take a page out of the crypto playbook. Walter Thompson.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Now, Adventr is a drag-and-drop SaaS tool for creating, viewing and sharing interactive media — people can interact with the videos through touch screens, clicks, and even their voice. Adventr competed in the Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt this fall, earning a top-5 finalist spot only about a year after launch.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2015

Try to imagine if you *didn’t* already know Amazon and the company walking into VC meetings telling people they were going to disrupt the selling of all goods starting with books but then extending into electronics, apparel, toys and so forth. What tech has our capital raised gone into? ” Let’s start with some basics.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

You have four — count ’em, just four — more days to take advantage of early-bird pricing on passes to TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 , taking place on September 19–21 in San Francisco. Expand your knowledge in dozens of presentations — vote here for the Audience Choice breakout sessions and roundtable discussions you want to see at Disrupt!

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

This collaborative program also includes prominent VC organizations like Kleiner Perkins, Salesforce Ventures and Initialized Capital to develop lasting mentorships with the TC Include founder cohort. We’re disrupting boring, inefficient and outdated diversity training through real talk and interactive gaming.

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TechCrunch

JULY 17, 2022

In summary, as Alex wrote: “We’re seeing a comedown, but not a whole-cloth retreat; things are still more active in capital terms in the fintech world now than they were two years ago.”. So when you pitch, be sure to point out what makes your company/news stand out. Why is it unique? Why would our readers care? Is it bucking a trend?

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Blue Future Partners, a venture capital fund of funds, recently interviewed me on ESG in venture capital. We organized a series of HBS Angels pitch nights, joint with a range of affinity groups for HBS Alumni: HBS African-American, HBS Healthcare, HBS LBGT, and HBS Latino. They were sold to Albertson’s for over $300m.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2022

A pitch deck is just part of the story, writes Matt Van Itallie, founder and CEO of codebase analytics company Sema. ” Last week at TechCrunch Disrupt, Moussouris and Brett Callow, threat analyst at Emsisoft, spoke about the need to invest early in locking down their systems, starting with MFA.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2021

billion through Q3 of 2021 — more capital in less time.” “Denver was ready for the Zoom boom, and is reaping the — venture capital — rewards.” How to root out shadow IT and maximize SaaS investments. Just shine a light on your SaaS portfolio, according to CEO and co-founder of Zylo, Eric Christopher.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

John Danner , managing partner, Dunce Capital (an edtech and future of work fund with portfolio companies Lambda School and Outschool). Benoit Wirz , partner, Brighteye Ventures (an active edtech-focused venture capital fund in Europe that backs YouSchool, Lightneer and Aula). Full Extra Crunch articles are only available to members.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Those workflows include creative, sales, client services or startups using DocSend to deliver proposals or pitch decks and track engagement. In fact, among the earliest use cases for the company was helping startups track engagement with their pitch decks at VC firms. DocSend raises $8M for smarter document sharing.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

I’m excited to announce SureImpact won today’s City Spotlight: Columbus pitch-off! Winning a free exhibition space at TechCrunch Disrupt 2022 and a spot in TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 200 , the Ohio-based company pitched alongside Skuld and Healia Health on TechCrunch Live earlier today.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

TechCrunch Editorial is on the hunt for six early stage startups to feature in a pitch-off on the Main Stage. On May 18-20, the industry’s brightest entrepreneurs will take the stage in front of a live audience and a panel of industry experts, pitching revolutionary technologies. TC Sessions: Mobility is back… in person!

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Blue Future Partners, a venture capital fund of funds, recently interviewed me on ESG in venture capital. We organized a series of HBS Angels pitch nights, joint with a range of affinity groups for HBS Alumni: HBS African-American, HBS Healthcare, HBS LBGT, and HBS Latino. They were sold to Albertson’s for over $300m.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2022

The clock is ticking and we’re down to seven days left to apply to pitch at TC Sessions: Mobility taking place on May 18-19 in San Mateo, California, with online analyst commentary on May 20th. What are the qualifications to participate in Mobility Startup Pitch-Off? It’s simple: Be an early-stage startup.

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2023

My ears perked up when I got this pitch, as it’s a concept that hasn’t come across my inbox in all my years of covering fintech. Comparing data from F Prime’s fintech index with valuation marks for SaaS and cloud companies in terms of historical revenue multiples, it appears that fintech companies are being clobbered a little too much.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

Resonance Philanthropies, Inclusive Capital Partners Foundation, Maja Kristin, and others also chipped in. “There is such a funding gap in this space – lots of funding going into research, but not into the seeding of these projects, empowering youth across the world, thinking how to disrupt and re-engineer industry.”

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Angel Capital Association

AUGUST 13, 2021

It made sense because a common playbook for consumer-facing startups was to build the product, prove PMF, raise capital from investors, and then deploy some/much/most of that capital in paid media to grow quickly. I serve as a formal advisor to a small number of companies that have potential to disrupt their industries.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2022

Configuring a robot to mix cement is easy, but delivering a CementTron 3000 to a job site, training employees on its use, and keeping it maintained are not the kinds of disruptions builders are looking for, especially when margins are so thin and experienced workers are hard to find. Sungjoon Cho, general partner, D20 Capital.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

If you’ve been to Disrupt before, you’ll remember we had a stage or two or three. New for Disrupt 2023: The Security Stage , for those of us who love us some hacking, security, and everything in between. Haje is scratching his head in the newest Pitch Deck Teardown for Diamond Standard’s $30M Series A deck. PDT, subscribe here.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? In our previous essay, we introduced the concept of Flexible VC : structures which allow founders to access immediate risk capital while preserving exit and ownership optionality. IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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NZ Entrepreneur

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Wellington UniVentures offers mentorship opportunities, access to pitch workshops and meetings where new ideas are screened, to name a few. “We We value our investors for the operational and strategic input they can provide as well as the capital support they bring,” Pierre says. We welcome engagement in all aspects of our process.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2020

WorkRamp , which has built a platform that helps organizations build their own training materials, and then distribute them both to their workforce and to partners, has raised $17 million, a Series B round of funding that’s being led by OMERS Ventures, with Bow Capital also participating.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

But this hasn’t stopped startups from trying to disrupt the status quo. Besides Prezi, there’s Pitch , a deck creation suite from the founders of Wunderlist. PowerPoint has over one billion installs and 500 million users alone, thanks to Microsoft’s longtime bundling of Office with certain Windows editions.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 2, 2021

But the fact that a16z is pouring more capital into the alt-media space is not a surprise. RPA market surges as investors, vendors capitalize on pandemic-driven tech shift. RPA market surges as investors, vendors capitalize on pandemic-driven tech shift. How is edtech spending its extra capital?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

With that in mind, SaaS startup Wingback made a fractional head of remote its first hire, “and it was the best decision we made,” said Yann Leretaille, co-founder and CTO. “A Before you can deliver on any of the promises in your pitch deck, you’ll need to build a team. By this point, most startup employees have worked remotely.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? In our previous essay, we introduced the concept of Flexible VC : structures which allow founders to access immediate risk capital while preserving exit and ownership optionality. IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

and mentally preparing ourselves for TechCrunch Disrupt. A strong sales organization is the tip of the spear for every SaaS startup, but because so few founders have meaningful experience in this arena, they don’t know how to set their teams up for success. PDT, subscribe here. How to make coaching work for your sales team.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Supply chain disruptions — triggered by factors including demand surges, high transportation costs and pandemic-related lockdowns — are expected to continue well into next year, experts predict. Companies are experiencing the brunt of the impact, with 36% of small businesses responding to a 2021 U.S.

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FundersClub

JUNE 1, 2017

" Medha Agarwal of Redpoint Ventures shares a market landscape and post on computational biology and the potential for machine learning to disrupt healthcare across the value chain in " Radical Approaches to Healthcare: Our Thesis in Computational Biology. zip code in " Introducing Territory Planning in Mattermark.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

The TechCrunch Podcast Network has a new podcast — and it’s taking you inside one of the most anticipated startup competitions in the world: Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt. Bain Capital has closed its second Tech Opportunities fund with $2.4 Book your pass ASAP!

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Aileen Lee and Rachel Carlson walk through Guild Education’s early pitch deck. Aileen Lee and Rachel Carlson walk through Guild Education’s early pitch deck. Remote’ is fundamentally disadvantaged,” said Phil Libin, founder and CEO of startup studio All Turtles and mmhmm at TechCrunch Disrupt.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

For cash-strapped SaaS startups trying to reach scale, the math doesn’t look great. In his TC+ guest post, Owens shares several tactics “SaaS leaders can use to supercharge their expansion revenue,” such as adding upsell tiers and charging customers for priority support. Thanks very much for reading, Walter Thompson.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2022

I haven’t launched a successful startup, but I have helped write several pitch decks. “You might think that with venture capital piling into the technology business model category and a number of recent IPOs to point to, the market for such work would be hotter than ever. It was always the last slide we worked on.

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OurCrowd

MAY 20, 2022

EVERY aims to disrupt the $200B egg market by producing egg protein for cooking without chickens. OurCrowd, Regal Four (a Beren family venture entity), F2 Venture Capital, NGN Partners and Future Energy Ventures participated in this new round. “Animal agriculture emits more greenhouse gases than the entire transportation sector.

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