Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

We also spent a fair bit of time talking about the changing nature of venture capital and in particular the hand-on practitioner role of early-stage VC led by accelerators such as YC, 500Startups, Betaworks and the like. You can watch on YouTube or download the podcast (for the gym!) Hope you’re enjoying the show.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

I recently sat down with Matt Coffin , the founder of LowerMyBills, which sold for $400 million but was very nearly a bankruptcy only a few years early, and talked “startups.&#. You can watch him on YouTube , download in iTunes (for gym or commute) 3/31/11 edition. Here’s a summary of our interview.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 17, 2020

economy, people of color are disproportionately hurt by lack of access to capital. Some studies have indicated that 16% of non-white business owners overall report a negative impact on their profits, specifically due to a lack of access to capital. Your Guide to the Season’s Hottest Gifts from Dell: Download Now and Save up to 39% Off.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Register According to iLife * founder Nelson Lee, roughly $200 billion in premiums are signed annually in the U.S. Founded in 2014, they are an early-stage venture capital firm that’s active in both the US and Asia, with a total AUM of 400 million USD. This article is part of a partnership with Cherubic Ventures.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

With a focus on designing, building and growing mobile and web apps, Appetiser’s co-founders Jamie Shostak and Michael MacRae were endorsed by several clients who worked with them from the earliest days of their projects. MacRae: On the App Store, you’ve got seconds to convince a user to download your app.

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NZ Entrepreneur

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

While capital to large tech companies is increasing, smaller rounds for early-stage companies is drying up. Capital funding for early-stage companies is drying up and becoming harder to find. Yet, founders bet their company’s success in finding small investment rounds in these unfavourable conditions.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 17, 2023

This funding round is said to be a prominent investment in the Chinese AI industry, as startups like Baichuan plan to capitalize on the growing demand for ChatGPT-like services. The success of their open-source models is evident in the download count, with two of them amassing over 6 million downloads. Tencent Holdings Ltd.,

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 12, 2023

The capital will be used to expand Overplay’s team and accelerate product development and user acquisition. Needless to say, the Wefunder results excited co-founders Dan Projanksky and Caroline Strzalka. Strzalka is a two-time founder and business development executive who has built partnerships with Netflix, Hulu and YouTube.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

We live in a world with a stereotypical representation of what a startup founder looks like, so it’s no wonder that a large portion of the population feels underrepresented. So, why should startup founders care about attracting and retaining a diverse workforce? Myth 1: Startup founders are young . Fastest growing 0.1

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice. Juno used your modem to to download and send email, and it was paid for by placing ads in the email client. Joel met his co-founder for Fog Creek software and learned a valuable management lesson.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

So despite the broader downturn , it seems that 2022 may have been relatively kind to startups operating in the no- and low-code sphere, something that fledgling Northern Irish startup Budibase is capitalizing on with the announcement of a fresh $7 million tranche of funding to further develop an open source web app builder.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The startup has spun out a rather simplistic app into a separate company and raised an undisclosed amount of seed funding from a very real venture capital firm at an eye-popping $200 million valuation. Push Party’s round was financed by Founders Fund, with Principal Trae Stephens driving the deal.

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Haystack

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

This premium tier also allows users to download content to their device for offline viewing.) MasterClass is an example of a company doing this well in the age of mobile, only issuing videos via its mobile application and therefore forcing would-be consumers to download its own app and charge them directly for that restricted content.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

Previous backers, including Slow, Founder Collective, Indicator Venture, Entrée Capital and CueBall also made follow-on investments in the round. The fresh capital, which gives ianacare a total of $16.7 Its mission is to encourage, empower and equip family caregivers with resources and communities, so no one has to do it alone.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

As put by Doug Beyer, managing director at Radianx Capital, “Disruptive investment strategies and models are hard to come by and it is even more rare to be an early investor in an asset class or strategy before they’re overcrowded; if venture capital is an important part of your existing portfolio then venture studios deserve serious consideration.”

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David Teten VC

MARCH 21, 2024

How can influencers raise capital for companies or funds, without running afoul of restrictions on “general solicitation”? The 2012 bipartisan JOBS Act was supposed to empower funds and individuals to raise capital more openly: to publicly advertise their track record and what they’re selling, just like almost every other industry.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2021

CoLearn has since been downloaded more than 3.5 The round also included participation from returning investors Sequoia Capital India’s Surge and AC Ventures. The company’s co-founders are Abhay Saboo, Marc Irawan and BYJU product team alum Sandeep Devaram. This marks the first time both have made an investment in Indonesia.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2023

This week on Equity, I interviewed T2 co-founder Sarah Oh , who is building a Twitter rival after working at Twitter as a human rights adviser. By joining the consumer social wave today versus before anyone even thought in characters and retweets, the co-founder thinks they get to factor in more of the nuance. Smart, and common.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The app, which seeks to support those struggling with mental health issues, was built by Balvin and his two co-founders Mario Chamorro, a creative wellness activist and acting CEO; and Patrick Dowd, a creative strategist, and the company’s COO. The company says that, while a co-founder, Balvin will be chief dream officer, or CDO.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 2, 2021

Take trends like the rise of building in public or the unbundling of venture capital. There is this expectation that a startup, with one or a few founders and a couple of employees, is somehow going to build a perfect product on day one that mitigates any potential problem even before it becomes one.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

A download link is sent to you automatically by Gust once you create your profile, and the book is exactly what it says. I am continually surprised at founders who spend ten minutes throwing up a barebones profile and are dismayed that money doesn’t start flowing in. This will almost always be the best approach to an investor.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 21, 2021

The company may be best known for its podcast production, but it describes itself as a “media invention company,” and co-founders June Cohen and Deron Triff want to double down on the invention part of that description, going past podcasting to explore other ways of interacting with users. Podcasting startup WaitWhat raises $4.3M

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

London-based venture capital firm Anthemis co-led the growth round alongside crypto-focused fund Dragonfly Capital. Jason Yanowitz, co-founder of Blockwoks is one of the angels in the round. . Anthemis is a follow-on investor in Ejara, having also led the fintech’s $2 million seed round announced last October. .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2022

Some investors still scoff at the idea that their portfolio companies may be asked to review what it’s like to work with them; similarly, founders are surprised when stories, not Cultureamp surveys, are where honest feedback truly lives. Flush with new capital, Foxtrot’s ‘convenience store of the future’ is coming to a location near you.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 16, 2023

Having accumulated more than 40 million app downloads and disbursing over $4 billion in loans, Atome Financial has demonstrated its impactful presence in the fintech sphere.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Goldman Sachs Asset Management and TVS Capital co-led the 13-year-old startup’s Series A funding round, they said. Ankit Agrawal, co-founder and chief executive of InsuranceDekho, said the startup has established presence in about 98% of all zip codes in the nation, giving it an opportunity to go deeper as the market matures.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The stress of her pregnancy led Walton to download Expectful, a meditation and sleep app for new mothers. Walton helped it raise its first millions in venture capital, making her one of the few dozen Black female founders to do so. That said, from the moment Mark Krassner started Expectful, he knew he was an unlikely founder.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

Up to now, these have focused on both the kinds of conversations that students can have with each other and the teacher, and ways for the teacher to keep their students engaged, by way of quizzes, notes that they can download and annotate and Q&A channels. How is edtech spending its extra capital? in the U.K.

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David Teten VC

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

We’re fortunate to interview William Stringer, Founder of Chisos Capital , a structured finance company. Chisos is a structured finance company that provides startup and brand capital to entrepreneurs, athletes and creatives. Q: Specifically given you’re investing in ISAs: how do you make sure founders pay back?

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Habitto has continued to see an increase in downloads. Founded in 2014, they are an early-stage venture capital firm that’s active in both the US and Asia, with a total AUM of 400 million USD. This allowed them to launch services ahead of competitors. This article is part of a partnership with Cherubic Ventures.

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 3, 2023

Prominent Venture Capital Firms and Individual Investors back the AI Startup to build world’s largest AI Cluster While follow on funding is a hurdle for many startups, Inflection AI faces no such challenge. Suleyman’s other co-founders are Chief Scientist Karén Simonyan and Board Member Reid Hoffman. This is truly an inflection point.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Around 7,000 tech workers have joined the ranks of the Armed Forces or Territorial Defense Only last month, OneUkraine sprang up from a host of major European tech founders and investors, who plan to provide sustainable humanitarian relief for the Ukrainian people. Claims 250M downloads (+70M / 38% growth).

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Over the past month a colleague ( Chang Xu ) and I sifted through data on the venture capital industry (as we do every year) and made a bunch of calls to VCs and LPs to confirm our hypotheses. As a result of the IPO window shifting we saw a massive inflow of public-market capital into the latest stages of venture. What gives?

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

The latest close of the B round was led by Ahren Innovation Capital, which the startup notes counts two Nobel laureates as science partners. “What we’re able to start scientifically putting some evidence behind is something that people have talked about for a long time,” says co-founder George Hadjigeorgiou.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 5, 2023

maintainer behind Fastify, used by Capital One and Walmart , launches a new out-of-the-box API platform to help companies modernize infrastructure SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., contributor James Snell , Tier.run founder Jevon MacDonald , notable Silicon Valley investor Walter Kortschak , and serial entrepreneur and investor Omri Barzilay.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 17, 2021

It’s just bagged $1M in seed funding led by Angels Capital, a European VC fund owned by Juan Roig (aka Spain’s richest grocer and second wealthiest billionaire), and Miami-based The Venture City. “In terms of upload and download speed we’re pretty close to Google Drive and Dropbox,” he suggests.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

More funding for European end-to-end encrypted messaging app, Wire : The enterprise-focused messaging platform told TechCrunch it closed a €24 million Series C round of funding led by growth equity firm Cipio Partners and Iconical, the investment vehicle of Skype co-founder Janus Friis. “That’s the mission.”

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