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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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.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

Aytekin Tank is the founder of JotForm , an online form builder. Over the past decade, venture capital has become synonymous with entrepreneurship. Founders from around the world arrive in Silicon Valley with visions of record-setting A rounds and billion-dollar valuations. Share on Twitter. Keep your day job.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Travel booking startup Hopper today announced that it closed a $96 million follow-on investment from Capital One, bringing the company’s total raised to $740 million. Travel app Hopper raises $96M from Capital One to double down on social commerce by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch. Image Credits: Hopper.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 22, 2010

Back in 1999 when I first raised venture capital I had zero knowledge of what a fair term sheet looked like or how to value my company. Other founders, “as a privately held company we don’t disclose our valuation.&# Me, “dude, I’m not a journalist. Investors own 25%, the founders own 75%.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2021

CoLearn has since been downloaded more than 3.5 The company announced today it has raised $10 million in Series A funding co-led by Alpha Wave Incubation and edtech-focused GSV Ventures. The round also included participation from returning investors Sequoia Capital India’s Surge and AC Ventures. CoLearn screenshots.

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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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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2021

million in seed funding from Go Ventures, RTP Global, AlphaJWC, Sequoia Capital India’s Surge, FEBE Ventures and Taurus Ventures. Before downloading and onboarding on Bukugaji, the vast majority of our users utilized notebooks to mark attendance and track payroll,” Mahansaria said. “A

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

The Austin-based firm recently secured $145 million in its own debt and equity financing to help B2B SaaS founders grow their businesses without diluting ownership. The firm has deployed over $60 million in capital to 130 SaaS founders since launching in January 2020, according to Latka. Enter Founderpath. So, how does it work?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

Mara, a São Paulo-based startup that aims to “reinvent” the grocery shopping experience for the underserved in Latin America, has raised $6 million in a funding round co-led by Canary and Caffeinated Capital. Because much of this population is of a lower-income demographic, downloading an app can be cost-prohibitive and difficult.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Stellar Sleep’s co-founders George Wang and Edrei Chua suffered from insomnia for years and struggled to get care. The treatment options are so limited that these founders got trained as sleep therapists to treat themselves,” said Singh. No one values sleep as much as those who can’t get 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. But 2012 me, a first-time half-Latino half-African-American founder from Costa Rica, coming from a university these guys had never heard of, nope.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

CEO and co-founder Aaron Polhamus said he, Miguel Arroyo and Jaime Rodas were driven to start Mexico City-based Vest in December 2020 because of their belief that while Latin Americans work hard for their savings, “historically their savings have not worked hard for them.”. Presently, Vest has 36 employees, up from five a year ago.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

Zeni , a Palo Alto fintech company providing real-time financial services data to venture-backed startups, raised $34 million in Series B funding led by Elevation Capital. As part of the investment, Ravi Adusumalli, founder and managing partner at Elevation Capital, will join Zeni’s board. The company has now raised $47.5

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

The Bangalore-based company announced today it has closed a $75 million Series C from LeapFrog and Khosla Ventures, with plans to grow its user base in India, Southeast Asia and North America. HealthifyMe is the first Indian health tech startup LeapFrog has invested in, and Khosla Ventures’ largest investment in India to date.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

I had an hour to interview Mike Hirshland of Polaris Ventures. Since then Mike his built his career by investing in early-stage companies (seed or series A), which is remarkable given that Polaris Ventures is a $1 billion fund. And Mike believes that entrepreneurs often need less capital to get started these days.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2016

Many first-time founders seek advice when thinking about what ideas would be great for a startup company and receive the wrong advice that you need to focus on a billion-dollar idea. I advise founders to focus on what I call “basecamp,” which is the first level of success or validation at a startup. So what should you do?

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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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Today the company announced a $5 million seed investment led by 468 Capital and CM Ventures with participation from Tribe Capital, Shasta Ventures and various tech industry angels. The program has been downloaded 300,000 times so far. Activeloop image database. Image Credits: Activeloop.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2021

Few people are more knowledgable on the topic of how founders should manage their finances than Alexa von Tobel. At Early Stage 2021, she gave a presentation on how founders should think about managing their own wealth. At Early Stage 2021, she gave a presentation on how founders should think about managing their own wealth.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

This was really a fun week at TWiVC because we decided to have an entrepreneur come and talk about raising capital rather than having a VC come on. We had Farb Nivi , who is the founder & CEO of Grockit , a website that enables online group learning. Farb is the founder & CEO of Grockit.com. Total round was $2.5

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Rak Garg is a principal at Bain Capital Ventures where he leads early-stage investments in developer tools, data infrastructure, cybersecurity and enterprise software. Now, with the market downturn, raising capital for a dev-tools startup is much more difficult. Contributor. Share on Twitter. But it’s not impossible.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Plus, Super Bowl ads boosted crypto app downloads by 279%, so there is a burgeoning market. Joingin get raise was Soma Capital, Gilgamesh Ventures, FBG Capital, Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator, Toy Ventures, Gaingels, Ledger Prime, WAGMI Ventures, and NOA Capital.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

Funding backers included Y Combinator, Tinder co-founder Justin Mateen, Canary, Hustle Fund, Necessary Ventures and the co-founders of TaskUs. The total investment includes pre-seeding capital raised in 2020. Yummy’s app can be downloaded for free, and the company charges a delivery fee or merchant fee.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 12, 2017

” One founder asked me this question recently. I hesitate to compare and contrast bootstrapped and venture backed businesses, because I’m a venture capitalist and it’s very easy to dismiss any analysis as biased in favor of venture investment. Imagine two founders start a company.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

The company says it has more than 80,000 downloads, 15,000 registered users and over 1,000 families paying for the subscription. The company is currently raising capital through Wefunder , where it raised $322,983 with a $7.5 She later earned her masters degree in social anthropology from Cambridge University. million valuation cap.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

In August 2018, the company raised a $400,000 pre-seed round with Kima Ventures and the co-founders of Zenly Antoine Martin and Alexis Bonillo. In March 2019, General Catalyst, Slow Ventures, Dream Machine, SV Angel, Brian Pokorny, Florian Kahn and Guillaume Luccisano invested $1.5 Around May 2020, the company had to raise a $1.3

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

One-click checkout continues to stretch out its moment, and Sleek is the latest startup to get in on the venture capital action, where similar companies like Ownit , Bolt , Checkout.com , OurPass and Rapyd have collectively raised over $3 billion in investments within the past 18 months. It raised $1.7

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2022

The Series B round was led by Accel, Citius and Tiger Global, with participation from existing investors AC Ventures, Global Founders Capital, Lightspeed and Sequoia Capital India. Revenues grew more than 10x over the past few months and downloads hit 1 million, the company said.

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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. Instagram: follow @heypi.ai

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

Startups and VC Gotta love some solid startup drama, and Brian covers it in his summary of Turntable and all its iterations over the years: Turntable LIVE raises $7 million ahead of public launch , after years of co-founder disagreements and music licensing challenges. You can sign up here. Big Tech Inc.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

If you’ve previously downloaded the app, please delete it and re-download to get the latest update. ” Download here. ” Download here. based Apple or Google account to download and use the mobile app. . This year’s Startup Battlefield 200 is presented by Capital Connect by J.P.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

million in venture funding to date, says its web based HIPAA-compliant platform hopes to become a sort of “Miro for health”, allowing healthcare professionals to collaborate over patient documents and records. million downloads and raised a total of $15 million in total. million downloads and raised a total of $15 million in total.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

On a recent winter morning in New Delhi, Rajan Anandan and Pieter Kemps were pacing on the floor of a five-star hotel, quizzing a group of over two dozen young startup founders about their goals. One founder set eyes on getting the most downloads in the mobile gaming category.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Investors in the round include Caruso Ventures, Vision VC Fund, e& capital, investment pillar of e& (formerly known as Etisalat Group), DFDF (Dubai Future District Fund), WIN (Webit Investment Network), SRMG, Elbert Capital, and Yasta Partners, Faith Capital, Panthera Capital.

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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.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

B2B digital marketplace upstarts such as TradeDepot , Sabi and Omnibiz have raised millions of dollars to help thousands of these businesses purchase inventory from manufacturers while providing solutions to track cash flow, payments and access capital. million led by pan-African venture capital firm TLcom Capital.

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