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. s Black and multi-ethnic communities, meanwhile, now comprise 14% of the U.K.

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Dream It

APRIL 7, 2020

Apply through your company’s primary bank, or consider community banks and non-bank SBA-lenders for faster processing. Expect quick loan application processing once banks formalize their processes Work with specific investors and your law firm on affiliation to address specific problematic covenants, if your company is VC-backed.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2022

Developers can use Column to build apps that pull and push money to any bank account, for example, or maintain FDIC-insured checking and savings accounts. Peeling back the curtains, Column is a rebranded community bank — Northern California National Bank, or NorCal — that Hockey purchased for $50 million last year.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 12, 2017

VCs are at the forefront of technological disruption, funding many of the latest cutting edge productivity tools. But what tools are they using themselves to automate their own processes? The VC landscape has gotten much more competitive and crowded over the past several years, and if investors are not using software tools?—?they

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

The three-year-old startup is today announcing its first institutional funding, securing a $11 million seed tranche from a slew of backers including lead investor Aleph , an early-stage VC firm that has previously backed the likes of WeWork , Lemonade , and Houseparty. So what, exactly, is Daily.dev hoping to bring to the mix?

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 3, 2023

It might be useful to list some of the ways in which you can raise money for growth with and without outside investors. Bootstrapping: This term describes your ability to start a business with little investment and grow it using internally generated funds. Professional angels: This is the arena where I work and play.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

The money is coming from an interesting group of investors: edtech specialist Owl Ventures led the round, with also had participation from previous backers Lightspeed Venture Partners, NEA and PJC; the DJ Diplo; Sky9 Capital and others that are not being disclosed. The startup has raised $41 million to date.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

.” To achieve this flexibility (or at least try), Morales and Grover co-founded Orb , a pricing platform that helps companies automate a range of different billing types — usage-based, subscriptions or a mix of both. Image Credits: Orb Orb can be used to schedule future price changes for customer cohorts or contract renewals.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

Fetch Package , a last-mile package delivery company for apartment communities, has raised $50 million in a Series C round of funding and closed on a $10 million venture debt facility. Michael Patton founded Fetch in May 2016 after being frustrated by having packages lost at the apartment community in which he was living. . “I

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. including H-1B visas, pathways for international student founders, what to do if you weren’t selected in the green card lottery, and information for members of the Ukrainian IT community who’ve been impacted by the ongoing Russian invasion.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Unfortunately, the venture capital scene is embarrassingly backward in terms of diversity, and women and ethnic minorities are shockingly underrepresented among investment decision-makers. Perhaps unsurprisingly, for every £1 of VC investment in the UK, 89p goes to all-male founding teams. Don’t worry, you get used to it.)

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

Does the traditional VC financing model make sense for all companies? VC Josh Kopelman makes the analogy of jet fuel vs. motorcycle fuel. VCs sell jet fuel which works well for jets; motorcycles are more common but need a different type of fuel. . Absolutely not. So what is Revenue Based Investing?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2021

The funding is being co-led by Advent International and Ten Eleven Ventures. Ten Eleven, meanwhile, is a VC that specializes in cybersecurity startups. Ten Eleven, meanwhile, is a VC that specializes in cybersecurity startups. Before this, the startup had raised around $13 million, and it is not disclosing its valuation.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Startups and VC. Venture capital funds focusing on niche sectors are “in,” according to Connie , and Will Ventures is here for it. Here’s the first batch that pitched today: NXgenPort : A Saint Paul, Minnesota–based startup that’s looking to remotely monitor cancer patients in between doctor visits using a port catheter.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2022

A group of four Black women, two with MBAs from Wharton, and the other two with PhDs from MIT, founded Parfait because they believed they could build a better and more efficient way to design and build these wigs using technology. They brought the idea to market and have gotten a $5 million seed investment led by Upfront Ventures.

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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. In addition, their portfolios look far more diverse than VC industry norms. Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

“Working on trustworthy AI for almost five years, I’ve constantly felt a mix of excitement and anxiety,” he told TechCrunch in an email interview. We then set out to find someone with the right mix of academic and industry AI experience to lead it.” Surman describes Mozilla.ai While he pledges that Mozilla.ai

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Editor’s note: Get this free weekly recap of TechCrunch news that any startup can use by email every Saturday morning (7 a.m. On to the headlines from TechCrunch and Extra Crunch: If you didn’t make $1B this week, you are not doing VC right (EC). The VC and founder winners in Airbnb’s IPO (EC). Subscribe here.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2021

The Czech Republic may be better known for beer, hockey and the sights of Prague, but its entrepreneurial community is as ambitious as any. Use discount code CZECHIA to save 25% off a 1-year Extra Crunch membership. Oleksander Bondarev , associate, Credo Ventures. Ondrej Bartos , founding partner, Credo Ventures.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2022

But Martin says the proof is in the pudding: thousands of hybrid and remote teams use Kumospace today, some for more than five hours per day. Today, Kumospace closed a $21 million Series A round led by Lightspeed with participation from Boldstart Ventures and others. Supporting evidence is mixed.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

These factors also give us an indication of where crypto might be going. “We believe that crypto has a big opportunity to digitize cash,” said Patricio Jutard, co-founder and general partner of Newtopia VC. Christine Chang , head of corporate development & ventures, Tribal. Matias Nisenson, co-founder, Wonderland.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. This week, the user-generated community revealed that it had filed confidentially to go public. Lisa Rich, managing partner, Hemisphere Ventures. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. Founded 16 years ago, Reddit has raised $1.3

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

On the bright side, the fact that VCs are more discriminating about where they put their dollars could actually lead to more M&A activity, according to Ruark. That is one reason why a number of VC firms have told their portfolio companies to focus on performance and cut costs,” he told TechCrunch.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! And of course, effectively all venture capitalists are going to require some equity for their investment. Columbia Business School Tamer Fund for Social Ventures. If you think I’ve missed any, please contact me.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Left Lane making a right turn when it comes to investments : It was the gift that keeps on giving for Left Lane CEO and managing partner Harley Miller, who closed the venture capital firm’s $1.4 Startups and VC. The hardware dweebs among us were having a great day today. billion fund on his birthday. Warner Bros.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2023

The problem, in part, was that they claimed to have used a material (lead apatite) that not only isn’t a known superconductor, but also isn’t, in fact, conductive at all. YHBT, YHL, HAND , as they used to say in the early days of the internet. venture landscape and argues that the U.S. Oh, governments. They do try ever so hard.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Kikoff is hiring for 10 roles (a mix of hybrid and remote), including senior product manager, associate product manager, senior product designers, engineers and a growth marketing manager. It’s great to see more women in leadership roles in the fintech community. a way to see what positions are available out there.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2022

And sure, last year was one of the best for crypto startups, but now even more big companies are getting into the mix. Twitter rolls out NFT support : If you’re a member of Twitter’s subscription service, you will soon have the ability to connect a crypto wallet and use an NFT that you own as your profile picture. Startups/VC.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

However, when you account for how much longer that startup scene has been around, I'd say the fact that we're at about 50% of their pace of venture funding is pretty damn phenomenal--not to mention the fact that there's about an order of magnitude more VC funds located out there. Let someone else build the chips. Never heard of them?

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

The challenges are more business challenges and design challenges--so schools need to rethink how they interact with innovation communities if it's not going to only be through commercialization: Recognize that creating a founder should be a secondary goal. That means making it easier for meetups and innovation conferences to use your spaces.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

I didn’t want to write it because I have mixed feelings about AngelList. What he gave the community with VentureHacks is a pure gift to the community. What he (along with Naval) started with AngelList is also a very important transformation to the communications between first-time entrepreneurs & angels.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 16, 2021

Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. The IPO market is sending us mixed messages. From building out Facebook’s first office in Austin to putting together most of Quora’s team, Bain Capital Ventures managing director Sarah Smith has done a bit of everything when it comes to hiring.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

This is the task I set out to answer with the master of analysis at Upfront Ventures Glenn Poppe who deserves the bulk of the credit for our work. 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. LA By The Numbers.

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2022

Thus, it’s not surprising that given its cultural significance, coupled with the rising popularity of chai in Western countries, a string of direct-to-consumer businesses has emerged to launch their own masala chai mixes, bottled drinks and cafes. Will quality struggle with venture-like incentives?

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Berkonomics

JUNE 8, 2017

It might be useful to list some of the ways in which you can raise money for growth with and without outside investors. Email readers, continue here…] Bootstrapping: This term describes your ability to start a business with little investment and grow it using internally-generated funds.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

The Nordic countries make up just 4% of Europe’s total population, but they account for a significant amount of venture capital investment. That said, Norway’s VC community has been somewhat dormant for a while. Use discount code HALLO to save 25% off a 1-year Extra Crunch membership. and Nomono.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

Israel’s heady mix of questioning culture, tradition of national military service, higher education, the widespread use of English, appetite for risk and team spirit makes for a fertile place for fast-moving companies to appear. As in other countries in “COVID 2020”, VC tended to focus on existing portfolio companies.

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