Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly. More on both trends later. Success begets success.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Funding of women-founded startups remains significantly lower than those that are gender-mixed While women entrepreneurs are making significant strides in startup formation, they continue to struggle to gain access to funding on par with men. venture firms allocated only 22% of their deals to female-founded startups.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

If you let them control and manipulate you rather than controlling them, emotions can ruin your startup. Are your friends really suited to the roles you need in a startup ? Of course, to solve this, you can look for professionals to add to your team, but what use are your friends then? Your Finances Will Be Quite Strained.

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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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Taha Ahmed and Rooshan Aziz left their jobs in strategy consulting and investment banking in London earlier this year in order to found a mobile-only education platform startup, Maqsad , in Pakistan, with a goal “to make education more accessible to 100 million Pakistani students.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

As Stein, CEO, worked with clients, she saw the need for specialized foods, like gluten-free, and what started as a side project — a blueberry muffin mix — was the catalyst for Purely Elizabeth and became her first product before moving into granola, which is what the company is known for today. billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2020

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 21, 2021

Startups used to raise once every 18 months. Today, we joke in Startupland that a startup is never raising and always raising. 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.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

I’m excited to shine the light on Logan and Frank, a software startup focused on worker empowerment. Hunter Walk: Frank , your current startup, is a platform for workers to organize in order to protect or advance their rights. I’m going to assume that your funding conversations here were a bit different than your last startup.

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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. Cruttenden founded Ant Money , a micro-income startup, with Mike Gleason in March of 2020.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Startups need to live in the future. Big companies, often the target customers for startups, live in a much more near-term world. That situation can lead to a huge waste of time for startups that want to sell to enterprise customers: a business development black hole. Augmented reality/mixed reality. Virtual reality.

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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. API startups are so hot right now.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

Note we are not including here most of the freebies offered by corporates for founders in general (as opposed to students in particular), which we list in Free Money from the Global 500 for Tech Startups. We use Asana at Versatile VC for managing tasks and projects with other collaborators in our teams. Grand prize is $25,000.

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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 computing startup Quantum Motion raises $50.5M

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2022

Now, as competition heats up among investors to work with the most promising startups earlier, and the field of the founders hoping to build and launch companies gets wider and wider, the firm is taking a new approach. Those interested can start to apply from today until April 8, and the program will start May 23.

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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

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. The combined valuation of the company, as well as further financial terms, were not disclosed.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Storm clouds for late-stage startups : To close out a cheery week on a high note, TechCrunch dug into late-stage valuations in light of public market declines. In short, it appears that a host of startups raised new capital last year when valuations – and therefore revenue multiples – were hot. Startups/VC. Big Tech Inc.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

of the venture capital investments made at seed, early and late-stage over this decade. “A total of 10 female entrepreneurs of Black appearance received venture capital investment (0.02% of the total amount invested) across the 10-year period, with none so far receiving late-stage funding,” the report notes. population.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

The IRS, for its part, turned to Seattle, WA-based startup ZenLedger for help. While $500,000 seems like a paltry sum for a federal agency, the contracts are significant in the small, hypercompetitive world of crypto tax prep startups. “That turns out to be extremely useful for an individual when you do accounting and tax.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Freshly capitalized, MasterClass and Outschool are looking for ways to grow into their valuations. As the movement to support employees better gathers momentum, traditionally consumer-focused edtech startups are taking notice. The platforms, which mix entertainment and education, have an unconventional value proposition.

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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. Some of those other functional beverage startups are also venture-backed.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

It doesn’t feel like a week goes by at the moment that another startup doesn’t emerge armed with a huge wallet of cash to pursue a strategy of consolidating and then scaling promising brands that have built a business selling on marketplaces like Amazon’s. based pioneers of the roll-up space, was seeing for the model. .

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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. And as far as the local startup scene goes, the U.K.’s markets gives us advantages that we would be foolish to waste.”.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

If you think embedded insurance is the only hot thing in insurtech these days, we’ve got a surprise in store for you: While it’s true that startups that help sell insurance together with other products and services are enjoying tailwinds, there are plenty of other opportunities in the space, several investors told TechCrunch+.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

Now, one of the startups that has created a platform to make it easier to build mobile apps is announcing some funding to continue its expansion after passing 3 million consumer and business users and more than 6 million apps developed on its platform. The startup has raised $41 million to date.

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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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Today, an Israeli startup called Rezilion that is doing just that — building automation tools for DevSecOps, the area of IT that addresses the needs of security teams and the technical work that they need to do in their jobs — is announcing $30 million in funding. Previously, the company had raised $8 million.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

That’s the thesis behind his startup, which uses behavioral, financial and device-specific user data to detect fraud on behalf of its clients in the crypto and fintech industries. Sardine didn’t share the valuation from its latest fundraise, but the startup is significantly earlier-stage than Socure.

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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. the CEO recounted. Breadfast supplies.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 11, 2021

Beauty and wellness businesses have come roaring back to life with the decline of COVID-19 restrictions, and a startup that’s built a platform that caters to the many needs of small enterprises in the industry today is announcing a big round of funding to grow with them. It will also be making acquisitions to expand its customer base.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

And it’s this sector that Germany-based Celus wants to capitalize on, with an automated platform spanning the whole circuit board design process from ideation to printed PCB. Thus, the global PCB market is big business, expected to grow from a $60 billion industry in 2020 to $75 billion by 2027. Celus in action.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

The announcement of the raise comes about six weeks after the consumer fintech startup said it was shelving its plans for its $2.2 With the latest capital infusion, Acorns has raised over $500 million, according to Crunchbase. Acorns’ SPAC listing depicts a consumer fintech business with a SaaSy revenue mix. ” .

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

But should you actually write one if you’re a startup, an industry figure (lawyer, banker) or VC? I was meeting regularly with entrepreneurs and offering (for better or for worse) advice on how to run a startup and how to raise venture capital from my experience in doing so at two companies. I use WordPress.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2021

An early-stage startup thinks it’s time to give some of that decision-making power back to employees, too. 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. Janitorial entrepreneurship. A turnkey solution for unions. Unit charges 0.8%

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

An alarming report from Veracode and Enterprise Strategy Group found that nearly half of organizations knowingly ship vulnerable code despite using cybersecurity tools, often to meet release deadlines. Freddy Mallet, SonarSource’s second cofounder, was a project architect at E-Trade and CTO at agtech startup Hortis.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

“The invoicing company” “When they started, they didn’t position themselves so much as a startup or as a tech company,” recalls Skype founder Niklas Zennström, whose venture capital firm Atomico would eventually become a Klarna investor in 2012. This is the classic mistake that you do as a startup.”

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