TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

But, speaking as someone who’s worked at several startups, Extra Crunch stories contain actionable information you can use to build a company and/or look smart in meetings — and that’s worth something. Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. The VCs who founders love the most.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

and yes, I’m intentionally not throwing DAOs or web3 in the mix here as just doesn’t yet deserve implied parity). Frankly, raising capital to work on this problem is and was privilege. Lot of people I’ve known for many years certainly aren’t returning emails the way they used to. How many times did you get called a socialist?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

They include lead investors Vostok New Ventures and Endure Capital and participating investors JAM Fund (led by Tinder co-founder Justin Mateen), YC Continuity Fund, a large unnamed Saudi-based fund, Shorooq Partners, 4DX Ventures and logistics giant Flexport.

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Revolution

MAY 21, 2019

Meet the five winning founders from Rise of the Rest 8.0 At the end of each tour day, we hosted a pitch competition where a local startup received a $100,000 investment from Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund. Florida is the gateway to space for us! What can your city teach Silicon Valley? What does your company do?

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 14, 2023

For investors themselves, angel investing is a mix of exhilaration and caution. The legal structures have gotten so much better, and the costs have come down to assemble investors using instruments like the SPV [special purpose vehicle] to invest together. The Angel Capital Association keeps a list and has some great resources.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Sebastian Siemiatkowski, the co-founder and CEO of Klarna — the Swedish fintech “buy now, pay later” sensation that is currently Europe’s most valuable private tech company — is dismissive of the suggestion that non U.S. companies should relocate to Silicon Valley if they really want to grow.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. We believe very much in the consumerism of healthcare, and what that means is you have to build healthcare around the consumer,” says founder and chairwoman Gina Bartasi. Zimmerman, the founder and CEO of Drift. With 12 outlets in 10 U.S.

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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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

San Francisco-based Heyday — which buys up and then grows direct-to-consumer merchants and brands that have found initial traction, leveraging the Amazon marketplace — has raised $555 million, a Series C that it will be using to continue expanding its technology, investing in business development, and to buy up more assets.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2021

Unit itself is not a labor union, but instead helps worker-organizers set up, affiliate and manage a union with a mix of software and human resources. Unit founder and CEO James White watched Occupy Wall Street unfold in real time while he was a graduate student. Janitorial entrepreneurship. In July 2020, Unit closed $1.4

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

So in early summer of this year we decided to take on two new strategic investors — The Venture City and Kal Vepuri — bringing our overall seed funding to $6M,” explain two of Beams’ four co-founders (and its co-CEOs), Alan Sternberg and Robert Kilian, on why it’s taking more funding now.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! Our program mixes the best of both Washington and Silicon Valley, bringing together stakeholders in policy and technology to train the next generation of policy entrepreneurs. Future Labs Flash Pitch. “For

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Use-cases may include accelerating new drug discoveries, or powering the vast amount of data processing required for AI applications. So, what can Quantum Motion and its upstart brethren bring to the mix that the deep-pocketed behemoths can’t? ” Quantum Motion CEO James Palles-Dimmock with co-founders Prof. .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Sebastian Siemiatkowski, the co-founder and CEO of Klarna — the Swedish fintech “buy now, pay later” sensation that is currently Europe’s most valuable private tech company — is dismissive of the suggestion that non U.S. companies should relocate to Silicon Valley if they really want to grow.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! Our program mixes the best of both Washington and Silicon Valley, bringing together stakeholders in policy and technology to train the next generation of policy entrepreneurs. Future Labs Flash Pitch. “For

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2017

I’ve never met a founder who wasn’t acutely aware of his or her ticking time bomb and the sense that failure and humiliation is a real possibility. Very, very few founders have an easy time despite what you read in the press. Strangely, most founders I know don’t have this conversation with the inside investors early.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The area is home to a number of investors, successful tech founders and an eager local government. We spoke to the following investors: Alexandra Wilkis Wilson, co-founder and managing partner, Clerisy. Mark Volchek, founding partner, Las Olas Venture Capital. Laura González-Estéfani, founder, TheVentureCity.

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TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2021

Through AaaS, managed services providers (MSPs) can help organizations get started on their analytics journey immediately without extravagant capital investment. Flywire, a Boston-based magnet for venture capital, filed to go public Monday. Fintech venture capital activity has been hot lately, which makes the Flywire IPO interesting.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

Now that you have said subscription, head on over to Haje ’s story about your pitch deck needing an operating plan. It wasn’t that long ago that venture capital firms were skittish on the idea of investing in one of the “vices,” you know, like alcohol and cannabis. Oh, and TechCrunch+ is having an Independence Day sale! Big Tech Inc.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

Since then, many of the key trends and themes we surfaced have come to pass: Airtable clinched an $11 billion valuation in December 2021 after raising a $735 million Series F with help from Salesforce Ventures and Michael Dell’s MSD Capital. Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

Each story is based on an interview with a founder or investor who addressed some of the most common startup dilemmas. TechCrunch reporter Natasha Mascarenhas interviewed Kleiner Perkins partner Bucky Moore to get sector-agnostic advice for founders who are ready to raise a Series A. When should I hire a sales team? Walter Thompson.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

As notably, despite introducing a far smaller number of teams to investors than Y Combinator and more renowned accelerator programs, there always seem to be at least one or two projects in Pear’s Demo Day mix that turn into actual, sustainable and, sometimes, sizable companies. Founders: Matt Alston (CEO), Melissa Zhang (CTO).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

I’d be lying if I told you that every week was an embarrassment of riches here at Actuator HQ (a one-bedroom in a Queens office managed by a mischievous lionhead rabbit mix), but I’ve thus far been happy with the flow of news. That’s doubly the case if you’re a founder who can see the end of the runway looming on the horizon.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2021

The data is based on a sample of 2,500 companies that have used AngelList to syndicate deals from 2013 through 2020. With the Coinbase direct listing behind us and the Robinhood IPO ahead, it’s a heady time for consumer-focused trading apps. Raising capital for a new fund is always hard. billion pre-money valuation.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Sequoia, the top venture capital firm on the face of the earth, put in a growth round that valued the company at close to half a unicorn. I imagined a future Wing media arm with a TV channel, a venture capital fund… …and then it all came crashing down. Audrey Gelman was on the cover of Inc magazine, visibly pregnant.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

I had a great idea for a tool the market was crying out for, and a technical co-founder to build it. Unfortunately, the venture capital scene is embarrassingly backward in terms of diversity, and women and ethnic minorities are shockingly underrepresented among investment decision-makers. According to the study, founders are 5.5

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propel(x)

MARCH 2, 2017

Around the same time we started that analysis, I met scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab who were looking to commercialize an electrochromic glass technology and wanted a co-founder who had been through the startup lifecycle before. There is still money to be made, but it needs to be used in different and more intelligent ways.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

In the startup world, it’s pitch decks, not business plans that get companies funded. Making a pitch deck is an art, a science, but most importantly, a story. We work with founders to help them tell their company stories, so we get to see hundreds of decks and talk to dozens of companies every month. What’s going on?

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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. Why a16z pitched Deel to lead its Series A.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 10, 2023

Stories, Slides, and Data Primary data set of public 3-minute pitches and 2-minute Q&As I have spent more than a decade coaching thousands of people on how to tell stories. Halfway through the journey, I realized that something was fundamentally off in how founders tell them and how investors receive them. Who is the founder?

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Gust

DECEMBER 27, 2012

It sounds obvious, but the majority of entrepreneurs who pitch me have obviously never thought through many of the major issues surrounding their companies. ONLY after you’ve completed #1 and #2 will you then be ready for capital to be applied to your venture. And that capital is going to come from…YOU.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

I used to think you could use convenience and common sense to predict markets. Somewhere in the mix, timing matters a great deal and first isn’t often the most significant mover advantage. Tim Berry , Founder, Palo Alto Software. Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO, Startup Professionals. Power Pitches.

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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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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

” Despite the hype about ease of use, enterprise companies always ask customers to abandon familiar tools so they can learn something new. Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. But more than that, this IPO is a useful measuring stick for keeping tabs on the IPO market as a whole.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

There’s been a profusion of startups emerging in the last year around the concept of rolling up smaller e-commerce businesses — operations that mainly sell and distribute their products on marketplace platforms like Amazon’s — using economies of scale to bring them together to run and grow them more efficiently.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 5, 2021

If your business sells a unique product, consider using a crowdfunding site like Kickstarter or Indiegogo to raise funds. In addition, many accelerators like to see two founders on an application, so you may have to consider bringing on a partner. Your goal is to create a compelling and well-organized narrative for your reader.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

Last September, the fintech-focused venture capital firm announced closing $1.05 TechCrunch reported that Fund VII, made up of a $550 million early-stage fund and a $500 million growth-stage fund, will be used to back “fintech companies primarily in the U.S., Today’s announcement adds Africa to the mix.

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