TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

So this, essentially is what Framework has come up with, and it’s now raised a $2 million seed round to create an “on-demand business school” The edtech platform says it has more than 2,500 people on its waitlist ahead of its launch next year. Ideally, business education should be more on-demand, targeted, practical and byte-size.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

He talked in the video about how he finds it helpful in companies to think about practical theory and frameworks for thinking about company strategy. A summary of the show with direct links to a spot you might like to watch is below: 1:00 Welcome everyone to episode 69, season 3 of This Week in Venture Capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

The framework of his book has profoundly altered how I think about the technology market and affects how I thought about building my businesses and how I think about investing in venture capital. It is not a beach novel to be sure. It should affect how you think if you are an incumbent but also if you’re a startup.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

At the time almost nobody had heard of the following funds: FirstRound Capital, TrueVentures, Floodgate and SoftTech. Firms like Baseline, Felicis, ff Ventures, Founder Collective, Freestyle, HomeBrew, IA Ventures, K9, Lowercase, NextView, Resolute, Rincon, Crosscut and the countless other great firms we all now know didn’t exist.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

With this, the Japanese government now allows startups the flexibility to secure capital using crypto assets in addition to conventional stocks. Japanese startups stand to gain fresh prospects and opportunities as this forward-looking framework comes into effect. Japan’s Five-Year Development Strategy unveils KANSAI Startup Night Vol.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2023

And now that many startups are running through the venture funding they raised in the go-go-go times of pre-2021, many founders are facing the difficult task of reducing expenses to extend their runway. The best founders look for a framework to strategically cut burn while keeping their startup’s value drivers functioning.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Today, Grouparoo , a new startup from three industry vets is the next company up with an open source framework designed to make it easier for developers to access and make use of customer data.

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Revolution

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In a rapidly evolving business landscape, founder-market-geography fit serves as a multifaceted framework for assessing a startup’s potential. Louis, Missouri stands as a major hub for the agricultural sector, shaped by its advantageous location, academic institutions, industrial presence, and capital availability. Plastomics: St.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 9, 2013

I broke down the types of CC companies into 5 main buckets today to give a framework to think about your startup if you’re entering this space: 1. Here I talked about Lending Club where I understand hedge fund managers are now deploying capital to lend directly against pools of borrowers. Will this Trend Last?

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

A scalable business model refers to a framework that enables a company to increase revenue without a proportionate increase in operational costs. The Importance of Investment in Scalability Bringing in investment via venture capital or angel investors can turn a startups business model into a scalable one.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2021

Investment app StashAway has raised a $25 million Series D led by Sequoia Capital India, with participation from returning investors Eight Roads Ventures and Square Peg. Its Series D brings StashAway’s total paid-up capital to about $61.4 million led by Valar Ventures. and AutoWealth.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 22, 2023

GenAI, Developer-and Data Stack-Focused Companies Dominate List as well as 80% of ET30 founders are Millennials Five years ago, Wing Venture Capital introduced their annual Enterprise Tech 30—a list of the most promising, private enterprise tech private companies across all stages of maturity. years for 2022 and 5.0 years in 2019.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2022

After incubating a startup — Axelera AI — to commercialize their chip technology within the blockchain company Bitfury Group, Del Maffeo and team secured capital from VCs including Imec’s venture arm, Imex.xpand. Axelera’s test chip for accelerating AI and machine learning workloads. Image Credits: Axelera.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

Too Much Capital Too Fast. Velocity of venture dollars deployed increased because of ZIRP iii. Prediction for Next Wave of Startups: More startups that build for defined, but not yet venture scale, markets. Too many of the CE startups started with sub 20% take rates or venture-subsidized subscription prices.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 3, 2015

I am often asked how we make decisions on investments at Upfront Ventures. Then they need to take all the input they received, mix it up, apply a framework for how the information affects your decision and decide. Great leaders are rare and competition for capital, people, press and customers can be brutal.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The Exchange gained early access to pi Ventures’ Deep Tech Shifts 2026 report , which identifies 15 deep tech sub-sectors the firm believes will reach an inflection point by 2026. ” A framework for inflection points. But today, that’s precisely what we are going to do. Predicting 15 shifts. ”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2022

Slope takes in first capital with visions of being ‘Stripe for global B2B payments’. Previously, Jain most recently served as senior vice president of C2FO, overseeing capital markets, card products and corporate development. He was also head of capital markets at SoFi and began his career at Deutsche Bank in 2003.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 31, 2024

How They Do It: The team’s proprietary platform, PathOS™ , gains deep insights into patient responses using a causal AI framework that analyzes gene expression changes related to drug mechanisms and survival outcomes.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

Consultants should provide you data & frameworks – not decisions. In preparation for her reentry into VC she spoke with many mentors of hers for advice on venture capital. In my view the best VCs are merely your guides. They are your sparring partners. Kara worked in VC for more than 5 years but more than a decade ago.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

But in 2019, various policymakers across different parts of the continent signed the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Agreement — a framework for Africa to be a single market for trade and services — to make intra-trade less painful (side note: the agreement is yet to make any significant impact.).

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StartupNation

JUNE 18, 2025

Founding team conflicts have doomed many promising ventures. Remember, agility in your financial strategies can mean the difference between capitalizing on trends or running out of resources. Every decision you make, from establishing legal frameworks to the daily habits of your team, plays a part in fortifying your company.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

I asked some investor friends to share, as the title suggests, one thing they wished people better understood about venture capital. Also, because the feedback loop is very long, the advice we give founders – to move fast and iterate – is hard to put into practice as a venture investor.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Make your pitch tailored to what excites venture capital investors and avoid what does not. So make your pitch tailored to what excites venture capital investors and avoid what does not. Keep the financial model details and the warehouse system logistics information to your Appendix. Try to reach hearts and minds.

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StartupNation

JUNE 9, 2025

Starting a new business is an exciting venture, but it’s fraught with potential pitfalls. It helps you stay focused on your objectives and provides a framework for decision-making. Underestimating Financial Requirements Many new business owners underestimate the amount of capital needed to launch and sustain their operations.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 11, 2023

Register AHG Lab , an independent venture builder based in the Philippines, has successfully raised $4 million in a pre-Series A funding round to expand its portfolio of ventures and programs. million in its seed round in 2021, with support from Philippine’s venture capital investor Foxmont Capital Partners.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

A portion of the capital — $10 million — was debt, while the rest was a Series A equity tranche led by Georgian Capital Partners. Beyond this, Savana offers a low-code UI framework to build internal and customer-facing apps that interface with the aforementioned APIs. million in capital.

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StartupNation

JULY 5, 2025

You must demonstrate how your venture helps solve certain problems. They want a glimpse of what your venture’s future looks like. That shift made all the difference — not only did we close our seed round oversubscribed, but we also attracted mission-aligned partners who continue to add value beyond capital.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Stories create a construct-a framework to make sure we've accounted for all the parts. I don't know how these people are ever going to get an investment, get press or close a hire--because all off the above requires people to feel like they're a part of something bigger. I was watching a legendary story in the making.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2023

To date, Cranium, which launches out of stealth today, has raised $7 million in venture capital from KPMG and SYN Ventures. And they can establish an AI security framework, providing their security and data science teams with a foundation for building a security program.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2023

Although SVB’s failure can’t be blamed on the venture ecosystem, some policymakers have joined the general public in maligning the bank’s depositors — in large part venture-backed startups. This negative narrative has immense implications for the venture community. This is an inflection point.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

In late 2020, a group of Stanford students banded together to create Stanford 2020, a venture fund solely to invest in their fellow classmates’ ventures. Now, two years later, the leader of that club, Steph Mui, is trying to replicate that playbook in the form of a venture-backed startup, and solo entrepreneurship.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 25, 2019

Venture capitalists and seed funds and angel investors make or lose money on the journey from hypothetical value to real value. You trade ownership for capital at work. I try to keep this framework front and center in my brain as we meet with founders and work to find transactions that work for everyone. You can see it.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Venture capital continues to flow into Latin America at a staggering rate. Venture firms in those countries are also raising funds; for example, this month, Colombia-based Marathon Ventures announced its first fund of $26 million. Why Latin American venture capital is breaking records this year.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Pydantic , the popular Python library and open source data-validation framework used by some of the world’s biggest companies, has a new commercial namesake and the backing of one of Silicon Valley’s most storied venture capital (VC) firms. Pydantic Services Inc. emerges from stealth today with $4.7

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Crowdfunding has become an increasingly popular way for companies to raise capital, and investors are taking notice. Groundfloor , the first real estate crowdfunding platform to gain regulatory approval, announced today that it raised its first round of institutional capital since 2015. “These are heavy RegTech lifts.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 24, 2025

Startup Formation and Venture Capital Activity Arizonas bioscience innovation engine is also being powered by its universities and startup community. Venture capital activity, though mirroring a national downtrend, remained relatively strong in 2024.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

million Series A round led by Cota Capital with participation from Heavybit, Uncorrelated Ventures, Bling Capital, Primary Venture Partners, Y Combinator and Newark Venture Partners, bringing the company’s total raised to $17.8 Bucking the macroeconomic trend, Mobot this week closed a $12.5

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