TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

Growing communities : Substack opens up a $2 million community fundraising round , Aisha reports. The picture forming from Q1 2023 venture data is one of measured decline compared to the end of 2022,” he found. Apple Music Classical is now available for download and includes over 5 million tracks, Ivan and Sarah report.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Discord’s doubling in corporate value comes as the persistent, inept, American response to the COVID-19 pandemic continues to accelerate the adoption and growth of businesses creating virtual social networking opportunities. Those opportunities are apparent in Discord’s explosive growth. To date, Discord has raised $379.3

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StartupNation

JANUARY 27, 2022

In this role, I spearhead a program that helps veterans and community heroes like teachers, police, firefighters, medical professionals and social workers acquire housing. Since relocating to America, I have independently invested in several other business ventures outside of my full-time job. How to Achieve Startup Success from Day 1.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

Users can download the Phantom wallet to their browsers to interact with applications, swap tokens and collect NFTs. The round, which closed earlier this summer, comes as some venture capital firms embrace a crypto future even as volatility continues to envelop the broader market. Last month, a16z announced a whopping 2.2

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

By: Nick Zasowski, Director at Global Startup Studio Network Startup studios are gaining steam across the angel investing landscape. As the Global Startup Studio Network (GSSN) researched last year, the early signs of studio data are just the beginning for the growing expectations. For today, we’ll refer to them simply as “studios.”

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 4, 2020

The likes of Facebook, Instagram and Twitter have billions of users among them, and even those of us who aren’t actively using any social networks understand what they are and how they function. One of the most important things to think about when launching a vertical social network is its initial purpose and timing.

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2022

E4E Africa, a South African venture capital firm, led the round, which welcomed participation from other firms such as Strat-Tech, Next Chymia, Untapped Global and Codec Ventures and angels like Ashwin Ravichandran and Kanyi Maqubela. million in seed funding a year after closing an undisclosed pre-seed round.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

We strive to give them tools to succeed with our support programs and a strong network of 16,500 people throughout 59 countries. We at Impact Hub advocate for better policies and funding, we make education and financial and non-financial resources accessible to impact ventures around the world. Emploi et Moi . Ilmuwan Muda Indonesia .

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 15, 2013

I’m thrilled to announce Brooklyn Bridge Ventures’ investment in Tinybop , a new Brooklyn-based studio building the most creative and thoughtfully-designed educational apps for kids. That’s also why this is the second company (the other is Editorially ) I’ve invested in from that network.

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Impact Hub

MAY 13, 2021

From healthcare to education, agriculture, and engineering, meet the resilient entrepreneurs who are creating a positive impact on their local communities as well as national economies and contributing to the country’s post-pandemic economic recovery during these incredibly tough times. . Let’s start with some context.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 9, 2013

You can of course view the presentation in SlideShare above or download it directly for free here. Network Up. billion page views making it the largest communities of artists in the world. Venture capital will be easy and then hard. I did spend some time in the presentation to how consumption networks will evolve.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The stress of her pregnancy led Walton to download Expectful, a meditation and sleep app for new mothers. Walton helped it raise its first millions in venture capital, making her one of the few dozen Black female founders to do so. ” Walton plans to pivot the startup in three phases: content, marketplace and community.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The app is free to download, and there are some freemium features with a subscription tier for the coaching. Between 2012 and 2020, the company raised $52 million in funding before Acevedo and Greiff sold the company to Latido Networks. L’Attitude Ventures closes on $100M fund to back Latino founders of early-stage startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 16, 2011

That’s why I was so interested in having “ The Gotham Gal &# come on This Week in VC ( video link on YouTube , download iTunes, episode 15) ) and dispel those myths. Be a mensch – the world is small than you think and bad karma will catch up to you “We’re in a very small community.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

Viewing the article through the lens of a venture capitalist there’s much to agree with under the mantra of “growth!” He also nails the reason why venture capital is still necessary to grow large businesses quickly in a world where the costs of running startups have fallen dramatically. So I like that bit, too.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

A startup called Matter , which aims to build a better reading app for today’s internet, is launching out of private beta testing and announcing the close of its $7 million Series A, led by GV (formerly Google Ventures.) Users on Matter can follow others, in a model similar to social networks like Twitter.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

It is the production angle that is most fascinating to me and the biggest unspotted trend by most venture capitalists and traditional media executives. most Internet connections have been asymmetric & optimized for downloads). easy sharing (through social networks or platforms like YouTube). Two followed by eight zeros.

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Angel Capital Association

AUGUST 28, 2023

About Sage Growth Capital Sage Growth Capital is a venture capital firm that provides revenue-financed capital exclusively. Our limited partners are all angels and most of our deal flow comes from the angel investor community. We launched our first fund in Q4 2019 and have invested $5.6 million in 20 deals as of June 2023.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

Eventually, they also decided to develop an open source version of the entire product called Faros CE (short for community edition), which they are making generally available today to download and install. The funding was led by SignalFire, Salesforce Ventures and Global Founders Capital with participation from several industry angels.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

We had a finance group for all of the bank branches based in San Diego, and I wrote programs to download stuff from the mainframe so we could do analysis three days faster than they could send us the data. And my specialty was computer networks. I got a job at a bank, and I worked in their corporate finance group.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Just the other day, I took a meeting with an entrepreneur who had a great mobile app with lots of downloads. When someone e-mails me and says, "I have 75,000 downloads of my app in the last few weeks" I'm not going to stop and ask how many kids they have or how old they are. That, I didn't get. That's the great thing about tech.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Remote and hybrid working are the order of the day, and now a startup called AnyDesk that helps enable that to be pulled off smoothly — regardless of the architecture of a company’s network, or where a person happens to be working — is announcing a round of $70 million to fuel its growth.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Bessemer Venture Partners led the tranche with participation from Insight Partners, Kleiner Perkins, and S28 Capital, which brings Teleport’s total raised to $169 million. The open source version of Teleport, Teleport Community Edition, remains available for download from GitHub. billion post-money valuation. ”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The Series A was co-led by Point72 Ventures and Goodwater Capital, with additional investments from Pipeline Capital, Quest Venture Partners, Mana Ventures, Band of Angels and Gaingels. Payne was also a founding member of Major League Fantasy, a daily fantasy sports network that was acquired by Latitude 360 in 2015. “We

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Religion-based apps, tools and communities aren’t brand new, including to investors. Still, fueled by a pandemic that drove churches to close, faith-based apps and communities are growing faster than ever — the most popular, Bible app , is now on more than 400 million devices worldwide — and getting more notice as a result.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

. “We also have more community-focused features to encourage story sharing and discovery rolling out over the course of this year. ” The funding round included participation from Stonks, Cooley Law, Blue 9 Capital, Seraph Group, Eric Ries, and Kern Venture Group. The extended seed round follows Autio’s $3.2

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2020

based seed-stage venture firm that has, from its outset, attracted the attention of VCs who think the firm has an eye for nascent talent , staged its seventh annual demo day earlier this week, and while it was virtual, one of the startups has already signed a term sheet from a top-tier venture firm. June Motherhood. Website: wagr.us.

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Impact Hub

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Over the last 15 years, the Impact Hub network has supported more than 30,000 impact-driven enterprises in 55+ countries across all inhabited continents. These challenges influence women’s entrepreneurial activity and outcomes which makes them more likely to be stuck in the early stages of venture development. Venture selection.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2020

However, what those promising to change the world from their Silicon Valley office often forget is that so many of the big tech giants began by addressing a small but present pain point within a specific community. Your Guide to the Season’s Hottest Gifts from Dell: Download Now and Save up to 39% Off. Airbnb is another great example.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2022

The phrase may be meant to make people with imposter syndrome remember the importance of a simple cold emails, but it often comes off as a rebranded way to remind people that exclusive networks rule the world. Consumer love, a fickle thing: App Annie: Global app stores’ consumer spend up 19% to $170B in 2021, downloads grew 5% to 230B.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

Taking advantage of advances in 5G in the millimeter spectrum as well as rapidly declining hardware costs, the startup is pioneering a mesh network of wireless base stations that can transmit high-bandwidth signals across entire neighborhoods at relatively cheap infrastructure installation costs.

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TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2021

Part 2: Product-led growth strategy “ The product-led growth behind edtech’s most downloaded app ” (3,000 words/12 minutes) — analyzes the tactics and tradeoffs that an edtech company has to evaluate as it grows from thousands to 500 million registered learners. Flywire, a Boston-based magnet for venture capital, filed to go public Monday.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2020

However, what those promising to change the world from their Silicon Valley office often forget is that so many of the big tech giants began by addressing a small but present pain point within a specific community. Your Guide to the Season’s Hottest Gifts from Dell: Download Now and Save up to 39% Off. Airbnb is another great example.

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OurCrowd

MAY 23, 2021

Join OurCrowd as we invest in a Series A round with Pico Venture Partners and Pontifax. Nexa3D raises $55M for faster 3D printing OurCrowd increased our investment in Nexa3d , the leader in ultrafast polymer 3D printers, as it raised $55M from investors including Saudi Aramco Ventures. Learn More. Explorium raises $75M Series C.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 23, 2019

From cars, to pacemakers, to ATMs, our networked world is becoming more and more vulnerable to cyber attacks. Help us help them by downloading it from here , rating, and commenting on the app! This past week we hosted an exclusive gathering for our Israeli investor community in the first of the OurCrowd TLV Series.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

If you live in a suburban community, there is little chance you could walk out your door and hail a cab. Increasing returns are particularly powerful when a network effect is present. According to Wikipedia , a network effect is present when “… the value of a product or service is dependent on the number of others using it.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

million downloads to make it “the largest and first Black-owned personal finance platform” to do so, Rodney Williams, co-founder and president of SoLo, told TechCrunch. The community finance company defines the claim “as a business-to-consumer personal finance banking solution, U.S.-based

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