TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

VC has been invested over the past decade according to race, gender and educational background makes for grim reading — with all-ethnic teams and female entrepreneurs receiving just a fraction of available funding versus all-white teams and male founders. It found that all-ethnic teams received an average of just 1.7% population.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

So instead, Meyer, founder and CEO, created Ghost Financial to initially do two things: provide what he touts as “the first cash-back credit card for food and beverage inventory” and use data and technology to underwrite restaurant expansion loans and credit limits for the card. Ghost Financial founder John Meyer.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Now as 2021 comes to a close, Cruttenden’s latest fintech, Ant Money, is announcing it has raised $20 million in funding (a mix of previously unannounced seed and Series A capital) and acquired Blast via a stock-for-stock merger. I think that’s a really big differentiator for us from our competitors.”.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Venture capital funds focusing on niche sectors are “in,” according to Connie , and Will Ventures is here for it. He also provided more info on the firm’s recent giant investment in our favorite controversial founder, Adam Neumann. TechCrunch+ is our membership program that helps founders and startup teams get ahead of the pack.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

“A lot of founders mix up raising money with making money.” ” This quote, which Career Karma founder Ruben Harris mentioned off-hand on a phone call with me, has been on my mind for months. In return for an investment between $10,000 to $50,000, founders have to pay up to 2% of their revenue over four years.

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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. Use discount code BELFAST to save 25% off an annual or two-year Extra Crunch membership. Toyah Warnock , co-founder, Lane 44.

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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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American Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The Emerging Developer Fund will help developers gain access to capital and build additional capacity to expand their existing portfolio. Access to capital for small-scale developers in the real estate development industry continues to be a challenge.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

When the economy is volatile, appetite for risk decreases, which impacts venture totals in general and certain founders in particular. Female founders, already seen as inherently riskier than male founders, are often overlooked, ignored, and stored away until the next global social movement awakens everyone’s intention for good.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. So what is Revenue Based Investing?

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The partner at the fund, the VC, gets to do the fun part—the meeting with founders, vetting deals, negotiating, helping, etc. Having a better overall portfolio of venture capital by adding funds into the mix. One way to measure that is to imagine the theoretical $500-$1mm angel round that a founder is looking to raise.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 17, 2023

It’s been a hot minute since TechCrunch checked in on the brand — almost three years, actually — which is carving out a unique niche in the $10 billion functional drink mix market that founder and CEO Lauren Picasso told TechCrunch has “exploded” in the past 12 months. Cure founder and CEO Lauren Picasso.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

Prior to its pre-seed round, Rebundle had raised what CEO and co-founder Ciara Imani May described as six-figures worth of grant, and other non-dilutive capital in an interview with TechCrunch. To create its product, Rebundle uses banana fiber as the core material in extensions that it sells in a variety of colors.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 20, 2019

A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Mid-Day Squares co-founders, from left, Jake Karls, Lezlie Karls and Nick Saltarelli. I showed them a slide of a rock band and told them this was the strategy: We are going to become a rock band, but will sell chocolate, showing the good, bad and ugly of the business using social media. Image Credits: Mid-Day Squares.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

He is founder of Arowana , a B Corporation which invests in, operates, and grows sustainable companies. Steve Jobs: In 1996, the Apple founder returned as CEO only to find his company in tatters. To start hyper-scaling, Martin re-engineered the hiring process, using online programming tests and recruiting from abroad.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2022

Today’s venture capital market feels strange because it isn’t uniform. While some companies are still able to raise mega-rounds , reach unicorn status , and even attract lots of new capital in sectors that have seen their exits struggle on the public markets, other startups are not having similar luck. Is that bad or good?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

It’s typical for creators and their teams to rely on email, text messages, Word Docs, Google Drive, Dropbox, and other file-sharing services and tools that aren’t optimized for audio content, Highnote co-founder and CEO Jordan Bradley told TechCrunch. Highnote is free to use, and no download is required. Image Credits: Highnote.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 6, 2021

Starting with the assumption that 90% of startups will fail and the most successful ones take an average of six years to IPO, founders must make careful decisions about whom they invite to join the core team. Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. Matthew Harris, partner, Bain Capital Ventures.

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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. Q: Please give us an overview of Chisos. Chisos is a structured finance company that provides startup and brand capital to entrepreneurs, athletes and creatives. Q: Who are your closest peers, and how do you differ?

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 3, 2023

The subject of raising money is critical to many businesses and a passing option to others, depending upon the capital efficiency of the enterprise. It might be useful to list some of the ways in which you can raise money for growth with and without outside investors. How important is this issue for your business?

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 21, 2021

Startups used to raise once every 18 months. The implication is the most sought after companies often receive offers, whether they are in market raising capital or not. Venture capitalists and boards used to value a company every 18 months. We, as an industry, are marking-to-market much more frequently than we used to.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

The investment round was led by Vulcan Capital, with participation from Prosus, Caldecott Music Group and K3 Ventures. The company says that over 40 million creators currently use BandLab. The app’s tools for creating music include a Mix Editor, royalty-free sounds, Mastering and SongStarter, or royalty-free compositions.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Pakistani children are less likely to go to school for each kilometer of distance between school and their home — with girls being four times affected, Maqsad co-founder Aziz said. Maqsad announced today its $2.1 million pre-seed round to enhance its content platform growth and invest in R&D.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

government, and it’s been doubling down on that strategy ever since, its CEO and founder Pat Larsen told TechCrunch. ZenLedger founder and CEO Pat Larsen Image Credits: ZenLedger. New investor ParaFi Capital led the round alongside existing investor Bloccelerate VC, which led ZenLedger’s Series A last August.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

NYX founder and Bespoke Beauty Brands CEO Toni Ko will also join Summer International as a strategic investor. Summer International co-founder and CEO Xiaoski Kuik said the company’s goal is to create an ecosystem to help influencers and creators launch and sell beauty brands using consumer data and analytics. “We

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

The success of Chinese edtech was used to predict the surge of U.S.-based The country has also introduced time caps and tutoring curfews, and notably, forbade the platforms from raising capital through IPOs as well as advertising their programs. When I first started reporting on edtech over a year ago, U.S.-based

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

. “We monitor and track publicly available job listing data, showing trends and fluctuations in labour demand,” StudentFinance co-founder and CEO Mariano Kostelec explained to TechCrunch. “We also use data from analyzing systemic and market changes such as government incentives for companies to become ‘greener.’

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2022

Immad Akhund is the co-founder and CEO of Mercury and an angel investor with more than 250 investments. Below is a mix of best practices and advice I would give to anyone trying to raise money for their startup in this climate. Immad Akhund. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Don’t fundraise in the summer or winter.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

Long payment cycles, which can take 30-90 days after services or products have been rendered, and little or no capital, of which research says 85% of African small and medium businesses are subject to, are the main culprits of cash flow issues. The seed round was a mix of $7 million equity and $10 million debt.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

Colleagues were using everything from the standard Google or Word documents to spreadsheets, but Sharkey wanted a more digital approach. Struck Capital led the funding round and was joined by Craft Ventures, Relish Works, Aurify Brands, Food Tech Angels and Branded Strategic Ventures. Meez software. Image Credits: Meez.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2022

More capital for instant delivery : After a flurry of 2021 rounds, the venture market for instant delivery companies is still active. And Chicago, one of the most important American metropolises, is funding more and more underrepresented founders at the seed and angel stages. You can program it and use it for all sorts of things.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

Just some of these investors include Google co-founder Larry Page, United Therapeutics founder Martine Rothblatt, UP.Partners co-founder Cyrus Sigari and Kitty Hawk CEO Sebastian Thrun — along with corporations such as Airbus, American Airlines, Boeing, Honda and more. . Will the public widely accept and use it?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2021

The country has historically been capital-starved, but recent investments from the government and foreign investors have significantly increased access to early-stage venture capital funding. New Zealanders make really good founders. Note: All monetary amounts are listed in New Zealand dollars unless otherwise stipulated. .

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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

AUGUST 18, 2023

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription “Starting a tech company today costs 99% less than it did 18 years ago when Y Combinator was started,” says Brett Calhoun, managing director and general partner at Redbud VC.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Most founders are not experienced entrepreneurs, which means they tend to repeat the same mistakes as they try to overcome universal challenges. According to Klaviyo co-founder and chief product Ed Hallen , luck was a contributing factor to his marketing automation company’s success. Stay tuned! Senior Editor, TechCrunch+.

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