TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2023

In the heat of 2021’s record-setting venture market, you couldn’t avoid the growing noise from the burgeoning web3 sector. Yes, venture as a whole had a quieter year overall in 2022, but the lack of web3 deals stood out particularly because the sector entered the year with so much momentum. Trust me, I tried.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

There’s been a lot of hype about “web3”, but the reality is that it’s still a largely nascent and fragmented concept, and that has led to web3 startups building platforms to engage with it more easily getting a lot of attention. The opportunity was clear: build the same kind of tools for web3.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 8, 2025

Cybersecurity and industrial/manufacturing are the two fastest growing categories. Crypto/web3 remains around 5% of investments. With Demo Day approaching this week & inspired by Jamesin Seidel’s YC Series A analysis , I wondered how YC investment patterns have changed since 2020.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

How Web3 startups should deploy their limited marketing resources Photo: Burst Almost $2 trillion of market value has disappeared from the crypto industry in 2022, taking with it much of the buzz around Web3. Web3 projects worldwide are laying low and waiting for the market to pick up to do more marketing. and their budgets?—?have

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Steven founded Offchain Labs, the company behind Arbitrum, a web3 project worth $21b as of this writing. On February 23rd at 10am Pacific time, Office Hours will host Steven Goldfeder. Arbitrum is a L2, a layer 2, that sits atop Ethereum, improving its performance & cost to write transactions.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 4, 2022

Web3 deals represented more than 11% of investments, the largest share, superseding fintech and healthcare. Web3 is a term that will disappear like web2 and mobile investing before it. While the segmentation may skew the data somewhat, the data point does underscore investor interest in the category broadly.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2022

We are rebuilding a checking account from the ground up with crypto and web3 at its core. Seamlessly integrating crypto and web3 in a checking account which is a trusted and familiar interface for millions of Americans can help onboard new users to web3,” said Ryan Navi, Principal at ParaFi Capital, in a statement.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Seems it’s set to continue expanding its reach, going forward with eyes on categories like web3 and NFTs. Brinc has expanded its scope a fair bit in the intervening years, with big focuses on things like food, health and deep tech. Hong Kong-based Animoca Brands appears to be playing a big role in the move.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

It will also launch a web3-based DAO called Solid World to help farmers and other carbon projects finance CO 2 sequestration. Tim Heath, general partner at Yolo Investments, said: “Many companies want to be in web3, but eAgronom and Solid World DAO have actual applications.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

70% of its content is free and VUZ monetizes by showing ads to users in this category; on the other hand, users must pay between $4-8 for its exclusive content. The web3 platform claims to have reached over 1 billion screen views from over 10 million users since its launch. Asia, and Europe.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

We believe web3 will be the very first step to revolutionize [our] own identities and asset management.”. We’re strong believers in the metaverse, not just user activity but the assets perspective,” Zhang said. “We

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

That’s not surprising given that the web3 crypto community relies heavily on hype these days, and dubbing something the “metaverse” before it even exists is certainly the definition of hype. The second-largest category where the term appeared was Finance, accounting for 101 of the “metaverse” apps.

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

We have partnered with 8 marvelous founding teams, all using data to power the next wave of innovation across the Modern Data Stack, Artificial Intelligence, & Web3. I’m grateful to our team, our founders, & our limited partners for the continued support, & to Allie Garfinkle for sharing more about Theory.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Even though users build their profile through using preset skins, these are only suggestions — if users want to build their profiles from a blank slate and create their own categories to organize their content with, they can do that. “ Profiles can look like anything, that’s the beauty of it.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

Whether it’s a new mobile, IoT or web3 product, the one question I’m asked almost always is: How much will it cost to build? The budgets and timeframes for new end-user software products tend to fall into one of several categories. Start by determining how much you can spend to develop the product. Budget range. Timeframe. <$25,000.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

With his seventh studio album “Subconsciously,” he became the first African act to win an award in the Best Dance/Electronic Album category. That was behind deciding to invest in tech,” said the artist who has invested in AltSchool, a talent-matching platform, and Nestcoin, an Africa-focused web3 startup.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

Get your learn on : Alchemy, a cryptocurrency developer platform, made its first acquisition in ChainShot, a bootstrapped education startup running coding bootcamps for aspiring web3 developers. Weaving web3 threads : As Ingrid notes, there is “a lot of hype around web3,” but building platforms within the space is still relatively new.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

What are my options, especially if I want to create my own web3 startup? This 60-day grace period also applies after OPT expires, unless the F-1 student applies for a two-year extension known as STEM OPT or finds another visa category. Web3 is hot right now, and it will relate to your computer science degree from an F-1 OPT standpoint.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

Building a Web3 Platform Company. How do you build a web3 platform company? In this presentation, Omar Valle will distill the lessons he has learned while working with over a thousand early-stage startups from top accelerators like Y Combinator, Techstars and StartX. Brought to you by Mayfield. We can’t wait to see you there!

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2022

“As a company, we are excited about a category that is the future. “We are excited to now deepen our investment to fuel the growth of one of the most loved Web3 companies in India.”. “We “We are excited to now deepen our investment to fuel the growth of one of the most loved Web3 companies in India.”.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

“Our founders bring with them a wealth of experience and creativity, and we believe that these dreamers, innovators and category creators have the potential to change the future of our region and the world,” he added. Kae Capital is an investor.). Luno, Global Ventures and Polygon Ventures are co-investors.).

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

chestnut that great companies are founded in hard times has been adapted by the web3 crew, for example. When crypto prices crash, folks in the web3 world love to call the regular and painful downturns “building periods.” The logic works to a degree in startup land. ” What matters more than sloganeering?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

. “Yet we have also seen a significant increase in [average contract value] from purchase to renewal in mission-critical and sticky software categories, like CRM or email.” Web100M : Web3 gaming will onboard up to 100 million gamers in the next 2 years , Polygon and Immutable presidents predict, Jacquelyn writes.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

In addition, nfinite is also providing visual assets that are compatible with both web2 and Web3 applications so as the future potential of the metaverse is realized, e-commerce customers will already have that capability. De Vigan estimates, on average, double-digit savings and an improvement in metrics for its e-commerce customers.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

However, the firm is also expanding that into crypto and web3, Xiao Schadeck said. “We’re We’re keeping an incredibly open mind for the next generation of founders to define totally new categories as well,” she added. For years, Northzone looked at sectors for its U.S.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

And, as it continues to build out the category of community marketing, it is looking at new areas, like how the changing of privacy settings, web3 and cryptocurrency are affecting audiences.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2023

This is for a few reasons, most of which are rooted in the continued importance and investment in our core market category of cybersecurity, safety, security and privacy. Investors say web3 and hype are in for 2023, high valuations are out — maybe? quick commerce delivery). by Rebecca Szkutak originally published on TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

Fintech Stage: Digs into the evolution of monetary exchanges across DeFi, challenger banks, blockchain, NFTs and web3. For founders and investors curious about an emerging category, these sessions are a chance to cross-pollinate. Sessions will include GitHub, Cloudflare, and Atlassian. Sessions will include Alphabet and Magic Leap.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 27, 2022

Tea, on the other hand, has shown a significant advancement above traditional open-source software by creating a new category in which volunteer programmers are paid and engage in open governance. “Web3 can alter this. Internet and Web3.” “On the backs of unpaid open source volunteers, Web 2.0

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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). Building tools for unions is certainly not a category or product that most VCs want to exist, let alone see grow. But building new tech to try to address major problems in a large category (Labor) requires $.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

What’s ahead for insurtech : Following our dive last week into the issues hitting some insurtech startups and continued venture interest in the category, TechCrunch took a look into which startups in the sector are set to thrive in today’s changing market. Call it the McKinsey tax , if you will. E-commerce is hot.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 21, 2022

Our founders bring with them a wealth of experience and creativity, and we believe that these dreamers, innovators and category creators have the potential to change the future of our region and the world,” said Rajan Anandan, Managing Director, Sequoia India & Southeast Asia, and Surge.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

According to information from AppAnnie (now Data.ai, apparently), the service did chart among iOS users in the United States this week, albeit only in the social networking category. We’ll check back with the company in a few months to see how downloads shake out. A little more before I let you go.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2023

The $1 billion vehicle is a blockchain-agnostic fund that will invest in web3 protocols and decentralized applications (dApps). We all have a lot of apps on our phones, but Sarah reports that for the first time in a while, the app economy slowed , with consumer spending in this category down 2% to $167 billion.

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TechCrunch

JULY 24, 2022

Now the company is not just seeing more SMB customers — a logical assumption considering that Ramp’s biggest competitor, Brex, recently announced it would largely stop serving businesses in that category. According to CEO and co-founder Eric Glyman, who I interviewed, it’s seeing increases across all stages of company maturity.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Blocksport Blocksport builds Web3-ready platform solutions for the professional sports and entertainment industry to enable tokenization use cases for their fan community. Developed a SaaS-based white-label web3 platform that opens revenue streams and strengthens community engagement. Incorporated in Delaware, USA.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2023

In general, our position is a validation of our core theses over the last three years, and we’re going to continue doubling down on DeFi, web3 gaming and more. In the next five years, we expect the market to bifurcate into two categories: permissioned and permissionless. How much do you expect it to grow in the next five years?

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