TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Jacob Beckerman, a former investment logic engineer at Bridgewater Associates, grew frustrated using standard document apps like Acrobat and Microsoft Office to print out and mark up documents. Using AI, the editor — called Macro — pulls out key terms, sections and equations to make documents interactive and hyperlinked.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 6, 2020

If your US-based business is adversely affected by Covid-19 such that you would need to lay off employees imminently and having access to capital would enable you to keep more employees on the payroll then you might be eligible. The NVCA (National Venture Capital Association) Guidelines are below. Am I eligible for the PPP Loan?

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 30, 2025

This fresh capital comes just months after Canopy secured $35 million in May 2024, signaling strong investor confidence in the companys vision and execution. With this new infusion of capital, Canopy plans to double down on AI product development, embedding automation and intelligence into every corner of its platform.

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Dream It

APRIL 23, 2019

From using voice analysis to identify behavioral health issues to streamlining physician documentation of patient interactions, startups have incorporated voice technology to improve the value and efficiency of care. Physicians spend hours each week documenting their patient interactions in the EHR. Here’s a look at it:

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Dream It

JULY 31, 2019

The product should be live if we hope to raise capital. A program to get your company 'accelerated'- selling faster, moving faster, which does not necessarily translate to capital. Don't get me wrong; the pitch deck is a crucial document (trust me, it's what we do). NOT spending time on the accelerator building the product.

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Dream It

APRIL 7, 2020

You’ll learn insight to guide your PPP application process from our discussion with Jim Marshall (Silicon Valley Bank, SVB), Kathryn Hickey (PilieroMazza), and Duncan Davidson (Bullpen Capital), which is viewable in its entirety below. It depends on the bank’s capitalization level. Bullpen Capital has agreed to that.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Frankly, I think venture capital is that way, too. I am inspired by the constant innovation in our industry by First Round Capital like the Dorm Room Fund , their expansion to Philadelphia (I hope they also have a secret plot to replace Andy Reid while there), the exchange fund and other initiative. I know, I’m weird.

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David Teten VC

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

It’s hard enough to raise capital from VC, private equity fund, and family offices. I list the online communities for VCs in general at Reading list for working in private equity/venture capital. Be flexible: Try to not be dogmatic about formality, avoid complex agreements/signed documents. How do you sell to them?

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Dream It

MAY 14, 2020

Net Health is a portfolio company of The Carlyle Group, Level Equity, and Silversmith Capital Partners. Clinicians will be able to capture and seamlessly upload wound images and other documentation, including automated measurements, to the WoundExpert platform. "In About Tissue Analytics Tissue Analytics, Inc. Tissue Analytics, Inc.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 8, 2022

An alternative to a bridge is an “insider round” where the existing investors provide sufficient capital to fund the business for eighteen to twenty-four months. While that can sometimes be the right answer for a startup, I strongly prefer bringing new investors/new capital into a company in every financing round.

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StartupNation

AUGUST 27, 2021

It’s an issue every entrepreneur and new business must face: raising capital for your business. While capital can come in many forms — debt or equity, private or institutional — this article focuses on raising equity capital. Whether you find the challenge of raising capital exhilarating or anxiety-inducing (maybe both!),

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

As venture capital investments slowed down in 2022 , some startups turned to private credit, including debt capital, as a way to supplement their operations in the meantime. He said interest in debt capital has grown, even among non-technology companies. Finley’s debt capital management dashboard.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

Would you like to work with private equity and venture capital funds? There are relatively few jobs directly inside private equity and venture capital funds, and those jobs are highly competitive. Venture Capital. Asian Venture Capital Journal (free trial). Private Equity. Preqin (free demo). Grey House (free demo).

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Dream It

JULY 29, 2020

TrekIT’s unique, clinician-designed platform improves provider wellbeing, helps teams find critical data they need, when they need it, while also increasing revenue for the health system by optimizing documentation workflows.” Investors echo the market opportunity and Dr. Airan-Javia’s vision for the company.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 1, 2024

As we enter 2024, the capital markets have found their footing and are moving higher. That is good news for the innovation economy because healthy capital markets are a necessary support system. However, optimistic capital markets are necessary but not sufficient for a healthy innovation economy.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

The D’Amelio family, including TikTok stars and digital creators Charli D’Amelio and sister Dixie , are formalizing their investments in startups with the launch of a new VC fund, 444 Capital. He and Renert had discussions about putting such a fund together, which has a similar focus as Tandem Capital. Image Credits: Step.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

On the other hand, Appruve, which provides an API that verifies user identity, fraud detection and digital documentation, primarily focuses on new datasets that enable or complement traditional government data such as international passports and national IDs.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

My version of the Canadian dream involved capitalizing on the inclusivity of Canadian life,” said Lennert. I just feel so honoured and humbled to have my story documented,” Lennert reflected. And to have my life with my partner documented forever that way. He contemplated hanging up his wetsuit once again. It’s so special.”

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

Generally speaking in venture capital financings the legal documents will specify that only “major investors” (a threshold set in the agreement – which can be $500,000 investor or more). Does he blog about venture capital and try to advise entrepreneurs? Has written a book on venture capital. You betcha.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 22, 2014

They seemed a little excessive in trying to make it hard for their competitors to raise capital. I was at the first pitch meeting they ever did to raise capital. They want us to store our documents. They were a little too fierce in their competitive practices against Lyft to sign up drivers. Journalist, train thyself.

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Dream It

APRIL 12, 2020

Paul Martino, General Partner at Bullpen Capital. During our recent Dreamit Kickoff week, Bullpen Capital Founder and General Partner Paul Martino ( @ahpah ) spoke with our Spring 2020 cohort about the state of the VC ecosystem in the current economic crisis. Will a financial crisis affect how venture funds deploy capital?

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 16, 2014

Theoretically, someone could meet you, sign your document, and write you a check for deposit that day, but that''s not how it usually works. Venture Capital & Technology' How long does it take from first meeting a VC to getting cash in the bank? That''s an interesting question.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2015

The one thing I learned as a consultant (I worked at Accenture for 9 years in my 20’s) and working with bankers doing M&A transactions is that no matter how hard we worked there was always a lawyer who got handed the documents at 2am and had to turn them around by 8am in the morning.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 2, 2014

Think about it – most of us accept the world of free-market capitalism in which of us acts as greedy individuals but the well-being is guided by an “ invisible hand ‘ the ends up maximizing benefits for society. Given how important people management is it’s surprising more of us don’t have group coaches.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

If I could persuade you that they’re already in these documents would you consider abandoning this structure? Those terms you fought so hard to get out of “clean term sheets” by using TheFunded, VentureHacks and the like are in your current documents. If we don’t raise a bone fide round of capital (say, $1.5

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David Teten VC

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

If you are launching your own investment management firm, we recommend designing a constitution: a set of documents covering the firms goals, legal obligations, and principles for handling disagreement. At Coolwater Capital , the Y Combinator for VC funds, we assess this as part of our diligence process.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 25, 2022

The structure of the meeting should follow some kind of document. To lay the groundwork for accountability—where you say what your plans are and you can all huddle around your performance against that. Very quickly, those bullets turn into a few things: One or more hypotheses. How many is too many, for example?

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Together, these documents will help distill not only your vision for the current fundraise, but more broadly the long-term differentiation and trajectory of your company. This is a simple table in which each row represents a spend category, and the sum of each row is roughly the quantum of capital which you are currently raising.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

Filevine , a startup offering a software-as-a-service product for legal case management, today announced that it closed a $108 million series D round led by StepStone Group with participation from Golub Capital and existing investors Signal Peak Ventures and Meritech Capital. software-as-a-service market.” ” Future growth.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Given the shifting landscape, it’s helpful for you as a CEO and/or founder—or for your finance and capital markets teams, if you have those hires to help you through this process—to know who the key players are at each stage so you can spend your time and energy speaking to the right firms. This usually takes about a week.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

The trading service’s investors came in force to ensure it had the capital it needed to continue supporting consumer trades. And then there were so very many cool venture capital rounds that I couldn’t get to this week. Of course, the Public round comes on the heels of Robinhood’s epic $3.4 This Koa Health round , for example.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

In preparation for her reentry into VC she spoke with many mentors of hers for advice on venture capital. Document management? just click that link) was preparing for our annual meeting with our LPs. Kara worked in VC for more than 5 years but more than a decade ago. ” Such simple yet poignant advice. So you become jaded.

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Dream It

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

In theory, investing off the balance sheet from budgeted funds should be as effective as committed capital within a formal venture capital fund structure. Since salary is easier to cut than carry, top venture capital talent often shy away from CVCs. In practice, it rarely is. The best startups have their pick of investors.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 21, 2013

With a well architected product that has well-documented APIs and proper core product abstractions then all custom work should be build above the API stack. If you never read my post on Elephant, Deer & Rabbits – a guide to customer segmentation – it might be worth a read.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Crypto companies that launch a token maintain two capitalization tables: equity and token cap tables. On the right is the token capitalization table. Classic startup investing documents cohered around standards sometime in the late 2000s. The NVCA model documents and the YC standard SAFE documents.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 20, 2021

So, make a point to check in with your salespeople on a regular basis, and document your findings so you can pick up on patterns in your customers’ comments. Current events might not have anything to do with my industry, but when they do, I want to be the first to know so I can make sure we’re capitalizing on opportunities.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

Imagine if Google Docs was end-to-end encrypted so that not even Google could access your documents. Skiff is a document editor with a similar look and feel to Google Docs, allowing you to write, edit and collaborate in real-time with colleagues with privacy baked in. That’s Skiff , in a nutshell.

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