TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

Systemiq Capital , a backer of early-stage climate tech startups, says it has secured $70 million to kick off its second fund. As far as putting that money to use, Systemiq says it is out to fund founders who are focused on making large industries and cities “more efficient and sustainable.”

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Revolution

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The agenda included a tour of the Ion (the centerpiece of Houston’s innovation corridor), lunch with local investors and founders at Minute Maid Park’s Gallagher Club, watching the Astros take on the Guardians, and seeing Rivalry’s order fulfillment solution in action during happy hour at Margaritaville Lake Conroe.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

how on Earth could the venture capital market stand still? One of the most common questions I’m asked by people intrigued by but also scared by venture capital and technology markets is some variant of, “Aren’t technology markets way overvalued? two founders in a garage?—?(HP Of course we can’t. What Has Changed in Financing?

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 31, 2024

That includes angel investors, venture capitalists, and institutional funders associated with various stages of a startup’s growth. Investors also place great weight on the founder or founding team. They also want to know if the founder has the skillset to build a great team once funded.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

The city also has the famed Queen’s University and low living costs to count in its favor, and gentrification is starting to take place, which shows things are looking up for Northern Ireland’s capital. Here’s who we spoke to: Cormac Quinn , founder & CEO, loyalBe. Ryan Crown , co-founder, Hill Street Hatch.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

AngelList this week launched AngelList Stack, a new suite of products that will compete with Carta in providing services to help founders start, operate and maintain ownership over their companies. AngelList, alternatively, wants to then usher founders into its next tool: banking services. But then they stop right there.” A full Carta.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

For founders and investors, there’s no platform like TechCrunch Disrupt. Just as the industry is always evolving and innovating — especially in recent months — we’re doing the same to keep Disrupt on the cutting edge for first-time founders, seasoned investors, visionaries and everybody in between.

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HPA

DECEMBER 8, 2021

HPA participated in the round, which included participation from other investors including Supply Change Capital, Aera VC, Sustainable Food Ventures, Hanfield Venture Partners, Lifely VC, Conscience VC, Kingfisher Capital, Big Idea Ventures, among others. Food tech startup Aqua Cultured Foods announced a $2.1M Pre-Seed Round.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2022

In 2021, $330 billion in venture capital was deployed, and only 2% of that number went to companies founded only by women and 15.6% Doing so ascribes all the fundraising success and the leadership work underpinning it to the founders who are men, effectively propagating gender bias. Mimi Aboubaker. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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Founders Coop

APRIL 29, 2024

This post is an effort to unpack what’s required of a startup accelerator to truly serve the needs of high-performing founders. Every time I talk to someone about the work we do at Founders’ Co-op , I have to first explain that we don’t really care about technology or business ideas per se. Aviel and I know something about this.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 1, 2022

Priyanka Srinivas is the co-founder and CEO of Live Green Co , a Chilean food tech startup that uses artificial intelligence to suggest plant-based alternatives for meat and artificial additives in food. Here are five things green founders should remember when seeking VC funding at this moment. Priyanka Srinivas. Contributor.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 11, 2024

The great bull market of 2010 – 2021, fueled by cheap capital, caused a nearly unprecedented rise in the valuations of speculative assets, from real estate to angel and venture equity. With war, inflation, supply chain disruption, epidemics and the end of nearly free capital, the twelve-year party ended in 2022.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Linda Greub Contributor Share on Twitter Linda Greub is the co-founder and managing partner of Avestria Ventures. But that image is only one part of venture capital. In order to make those investments, venture firms must first have the money, which means they’re not only just the funders, they’re fundraisers, too.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 25, 2024

With booking volumes approaching $2 billion and employees now over 1200, the latest lead funder Softbank has come on board with participation from existing investors, Kinnevik and Felix Capital. TravelPerk was co-founded in 2015 by a highly seasoned entrepreneurial innovation team.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

“Starting a business is hard, but we now have a path for proptech lined with funders and advisers that can propel entrepreneurs over early obstacles through to maturity and deep market penetration.” How I navigated my pregnancy as a Series A founder. ” How I navigated my pregnancy as a Series A founder.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2023

” Founders and investors have a growing appreciation for the ocean’s potential as a resource for renewable energy and its capacity to buffer and even solve some of the climate problem. “We won’t achieve our climate goals without the ocean. We spoke with: Daniela V.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The cash came from a number of investors that included Spring Ventures, Nau IB Capital, Mirae Asset Ventures, HB Investment, and Hanbit Investment. “Law&Good focuses on customer experience more than any other LegalTech startups,” said MK Min, Founder and CEO of Law&Good.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

That player, Crowdz , recently secured $10 million in financing co-led by Citi and Dutch growth equity firm Global Cleantech Capital, with participation from Bold Capital Partners, TFX Ventures and Augment Ventures. In 2019, Barclays Bank and Bold Capital Partners co-led a $5.5 million Series A funding round for Crowdz.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2021

David Teten is founder of Versatile VC and writes periodically at teten.com and @dteten. ” From RBI, flexible VCs borrow the ability to reap meaningful returns without demanding founders build for an exit. Before raising capital, we encourage founders to dig into the nuances between different flexible VC structures.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 25, 2024

“The industry needs a next-generation solution for reciprocal deposits that is seamlessly integrated into online banking, built both API-first and cloud-native,” said Neil Underwood, Co-Founder and General Partner at Canapi who led the Series A round. ModernFi has built exactly that, at the exact right time and place.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The trained lawyer did all this while running the Africa Payments Club, a platform that brought together a pool of founders, experts and investors in the tech space to connect and address common business challenges as well as to scout for opportunities in Africa. Our job is to support startups and help them all the way to maturity.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

David Teten is founder of Versatile VC and writes periodically at teten.com and @dteten. Previously, we introduced the concept of flexible VC : structures that allow founders to access immediate risk capital while preserving exit and ownership optionality. Capacity Capital. David Teten. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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Angel Capital Association

JULY 10, 2023

In fact, winning the Hans Severiens Award at the 2023 ACA Summit of Angel Investing is a validation of his profound efforts to grow and support angel investing nationally through the Angel Capital Association as well as the community in which he works. CB Insights ranked QCA second out of 370 national angel organizations.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Great Question’s seed round came from investors including Funders Club, January Capital, Nomo VC and Twenty-Two Ventures. The platform has been used to interview customers about product ideas and strategy, find product-market fit, conduct usability studies on UX designs and see how well marketing landing pages perform.

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TechCrunch

MAY 1, 2021

As an early-stage reporter, I honestly bet a lot on the potential of a savvy edtech founder or creative marketplace play. All Raise, a nonprofit dedicated to increasing the footprint of women founders and funders, has released its annual report for 2020. Founders who don’t properly vet VCs set up both parties for failure.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 22, 2023

FPV Ventures’ Co-founders Wesley Chan, founder of Google Analytics, and Pegah Ebrahimi , former COO of Morgan Stanley’s Technology Investment Banking Establishing credit is a major challenge facing millions of Americans, both those in low-income jobs or those just entering the workforce, among others.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2023

The “endgame,” as Nuview founder and CEO Clint Graumann put it, is to map the entire land surface of the Earth with lidar — on an annual basis. Nuview , a geospatial technology company that emerged from stealth today, wants to change that. The company also scored a government contract for an undisclosed amount.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

.” He’d recently left an inflation-trading job at Bank of America, where the work was “not fulfilling in the slightest,” Peciulaitis said in a nod to the bank’s reputation as a major funder of fossil fuels. In 2017, PitchBook recorded 578 climate tech deals globally, altogether worth $12.5

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Over the past year, AngelList has grown from a platform that connects angel investors with startups to an end-to-end suite of tools, working on everything from fund operations to founder cap table management. The signal strips out factors like investor bias, the founder’s networks and even buzzy valuations. “I

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

So Jitx is changing that by letting engineers write code to create their designs, and that brings the benefits of software to hardware design,” co-founder and CEO Duncan Haldane told TechCrunch. As the idea of code-based circuit design grew, he connected with his co-founders and started the company in 2017. Image Credits: Jitx.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

Tech founders and investors are already being attracted by the $369bn on offer under the US Inflation Reduction Act for technology startups. And in a survey by industry body Coadec of more than 250 UK founders, the majority said the cuts made the UK significantly less attractive.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Monique Villa is an investor at Mucker Capital , an early-stage VC fund investing in startups across the U.S. She is also the co-founder of Build In SE , a community of founders, funders and ecosystem partners committed to company building in the Southeast (#BuildInSE). and Canada. More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Marco was backed last September by a small seed round from Struck Capital and Antler and over $20 million in a credit facility underwritten by Arcadia Funds. Strategic angel investors include Phil Bentley, CEO of Mitie, and Naman Budhdeo, co-founder and CEO of TripStack and FlightNetwork. Shoihet met his co-founder and COO Peter D.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

That’s why we’re thrilled to welcome three experts in the process to TC Sessions: Robotics on July 21: Pieter Abbeel, co-founder and chief scientist at Covariant; Joyce Sidopoulos, co-founder and VP of programs and community at MassRobotics; and Milo Werner, general partner at The Engine.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 8, 2024

The National Science Foundation Awarded a major grant to connect early stage capital to DeepTech innovations. This project is designed to better educate the early stage investor community on the benefits of Deep Tech investments with the intention of increasing the amount of private capital available for deployment in the Deep Tech sector.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

One of the things that founders have the most angst about is whom they should have on their board and at what stage of the business. Why you should set up a board at the seed round of funding I know these days with SAFE documents and rolling convertible notes many founders prefer not to set up a board early on.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 3, 2024

In return, investors providing larger amounts of capital are in a preferential position when the decision is made to award Board seats to round investors. As Figure 1 indicates, in 2022 angel groups qualifying for a Board seat invested 2x the capital compared to those groups having no Directorships.

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