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. New research looking into how U.K. population.

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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. Use code “DC” for a 15% discount on an annual subscription! Priorities, amirite?

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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. The project is backed by Kelli Jones of Sixty8 Capital.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

“A lot of founders mix up raising money with making money.” The company, co-founded by Michele Romanow and Andrew D’Souza, positions itself as an alternative equity-free capital solution for early-stage founders. As for if a startup takes ClearAngel capital and doesn’t make the minimum revenue? Does YC care at all?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Six months after announcing $30 million in equity and debt, Boopos , a Miami-based lending platform for business acquisitions and growth, is back with an even bigger round, a $58 million Series A, again in a mix of equity and debt. Boopos charges interest on the loans.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

He will focus on Africa investments as part of QED’s international team. 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.,

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

A spin-off from LanzaTech , one of the last surviving climate tech startups from the first cleantech boom that’s still privately held, LanzaJet is taking a phased investment approach with its corporate backers, enabling them to invest additional capital as the company scales to larger production facilities.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Fund investing, like adulting, is boring. That’s the first thing anyone trying to raise a fund needs to understand, as well as anyone thinking about investing in one. Fund investing can be additive to your angel investing and there are two main arguments for it: Getting indirect benefits from being invested in one or more funds.

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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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Dream It

AUGUST 6, 2020

Today, the company announced a $10M Series A financing round led by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and digital health fund Heal Capital , with participation from existing investors Karma Ventures, Inovo Venture Partners, and Dreamit Ventures. The new capital places total funding to date at $15 million.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

As a turbulent week in the capital world, we’re taking a look at something a bit slower moving: venture capital trends in Africa during 2020. The Exchange has long explored quarterly and yearly data regarding the North American , European and Asian venture capital markets , along with data on particular startup categories.

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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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

” That might sound silly coming from a media outlet focused on technology — and the people investing and building it. But technology for technology’s sake can lead us down some tricky paths. Investment activity in aviation — specifically air taxis — continues to ramp up as illustrated by Boeing. Deal of the week.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2021

Regional VCs like Seedra Ventures, LoftyInc Capital, and Essa Al-Saleh (CEO of Volta-Tucks) also took part. A commission-based model is used and Odiggo charges the car suppliers 20% commission on every transaction. A commission-based model is used and Odiggo charges the car suppliers 20% commission on every transaction.

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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. but we are using much better ingredients.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Rustic Canyon is an LA-based, but geography-agnostic VC that is currently investing from a $200 million fund. They were originally founded inside of Times Mirror and had a huge string of major investment success before spinning out as a fully independent fund. The investment will be used for product development initiatives.

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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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Revolution

JUNE 10, 2019

We have witnessed the likes of WeWork, Convene, and Airbnb reimagine working and living, all while catalyzing momentum for further investments across the real estate technology landscape. Modern consumers have increasingly begun to accept, and often prefer, reducing both human and invested capital with technology and third-party services.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

“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. Then people will feel like they are buying from a friend because they know us.”. Mid-Day Squares previously raised $7.5

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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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Founder Bounty

APRIL 4, 2023

While some business owners use personal savings or loans to get started, many others turn to investors to help finance their dreams. Investors can provide the capital needed to start a business, expand an existing one, or take it to the next level. Build a strong team Investors invest in people as much as they invest in ideas.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Capital allocation is a core part of any CEO’s job, and it’s particularly critical for growth-stage CEOs. Most growth-stage CEOs I work with know how to tell if they’re efficiently allocating capital in every part of their budget with one glaring exception: research and development (R&D).

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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. The boom of the past decade, and especially the bubble of 2021, has pretty much faded away, and that means startups looking for investment need to adjust their approach and unlearn what they learned during the bubble. Immad Akhund.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Lest there be any doubt some startups are riding high even amid the macroeconomic uncertainty, process mining software vendor Celonis today announced that it secured a whopping $1 billion in additional capital at a $13 billion post-money valuation, a mix of equity ($400 million) and debt (a five-year $600 million credit line).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

VUZ , a social app that allows users to stream and experience immersive realism in extended reality (XR) and metaverse digital experiences, has raised $20 million in Series B investment. The Dubai-based VUZ says that this round which has seen it onboard a mix of U.S.- Seven existing investors participated as well. Asia, and Europe.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

Upstart tech companies delivering their product or service via an API raised mammoth amounts of capital during the final year of the 2021-era startup boom. GGV, a venture capital firm that invests across sectors, stages and geographies, compiled an index of what it considers API-first companies that it launched last year.

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TechCrunch

JULY 3, 2022

This year looks poised to be monumental for equity crowdfunding, which entails raising capital through specific filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including Reg CF and Reg A , from a mix of investors that don’t have to be accredited. TechCrunch+ is having an Independence Day sale!

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Soon after graduating, they co-founded Reshape, a venture capital fund with $100 million of assets under management. King David Tacos is the first to use this new model, which involves its breakfast tacos being sold alongside Blank Street’s coffee and tea. “We Blank Street’s co-founders Vinay Menda and Issam Freiha.

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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

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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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

MAY 25, 2022

tax season that just wrapped up in April was particularly stressful for investors and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) alike, as both struggled with the implications of 2021’s crypto investing boom. 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

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

APRIL 3, 2023

based savings and investing startup Acorns has acquired London-based GoHenry , a startup focused on providing money management and financial education services to 6- to18-year-olds in an all-equity deal, the two companies announced today. Acorns Early lets parents, guardians, family and friends easily invest in a child’s future.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

In the wake of a $300 million investment from General Motors in September, Momenta, an autonomous driving solution provider from China, announced today an additional $500 million added to its Series C round. Singapore’s sovereign fund Temasek and Jack Ma’s Yunfeng Capital are among its institutional investors.

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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. Imche Fourie, CEO of Outset, said the company has already made 40 investments from that fund.

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