TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

Pre-seed round funding is under scrutiny: Is VC pandemic posturing here to stay? Amid the pandemic, investors became laser-focused on sections of the pitch deck that address monetization and business viability — signs that founders need to come to the table with better-defined businesses in order to succeed.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

In particular, StartHER aims to tackle the difficulties specific groups have in raising their first capital — something typically referred to as the “friends and family round.” “The assumption that founders should have networks able to invest in their businesses creates an unfair starting line for most groups.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

In late 2020, a group of Stanford students banded together to create Stanford 2020, a venture fund solely to invest in their fellow classmates’ ventures. Given the school’s past in spinning out successful startup founders, it unsurprisingly had no trouble raising $1.5 During a downturn, the pitch seems more risky.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 13, 2021

Singh Cassidy, founder of premium talent marketplace theBoardlist, will discuss making the leap into entrepreneurship after leaving Google, her time as CEO-in-Residence at venture capital firm Accel Partners and the framework she’s developed for taking career risks. We simply must take the time to get to know founders.”.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

Coral Capital , a Tokyo-based venture capital firm, announced today that it has closed its third fund, Coral Capital III, raising $128 million (14 billion yen). Coral Capital’s total assets under management (AUM) is now $275 million. LINE Ventures merges with YJ Capital, launches $271M fund.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2023

Startups and VC Meal replacement startup Yfood did a thing today. She writes, “Yfood’s milestone should give the food tech community something substantial to chew on. Connie notes that the market might be slowing, but venture capital firms are continuing to amass big funds, as we also saw S2G Ventures do today.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Workshops, breakouts and roundtables — led by established founders, leading subject-matter experts and VCs — cover core entrepreneurial topics across fundraising, marketing and operations. We’ll provide the opportunity for you to ask your most pressing questions and teach you how to: Build your startup community from scratch.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2021

Two back-to-back MasterClass copycats raising millions in venture capital makes me think about if the model can truly be verticalized and focused down into specific niches. Is it by creating micro-learning communities around shared loves? Garry Kasparov launches a community-first chess platform. European VC soars in Q1.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Austin made headlines in 2021 for being “the place” for startup founders and venture capitalists alike to set up shop. That’s why TechCrunch has chosen to shine a spotlight on the city with a special episode of TechCrunch Live centered on the growing startup scene in Austin, Texas. Austin wasn’t an overnight success.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 24, 2021

This week, Bill Taranto, president of Merck’s Global Health Innovation Fund, wrote a TechCrunch+ article that explored six digital health trends his corporate VC fund is tracking as we enter 2022. Between Q1 and Q3 2021, healthcare startups landed $21.3 billion in VC, “dwarfing the previous record of $14.6

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Tracy DiNunzio isn’t your typical Silicon Valley startup founder. She did her first tech startup after the age of 30. She hasn’t raised any venture capital. It represents the great majority of entrepreneurship and eschews the fairytale rags-to-VC-riches stories we so often read about in the press.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

managing director, The Lithuanian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association. Andrius Milinavicius , founder, Baltic Sandbox. Gabriele Poteliunaite , associate, Change Ventures. Alex Gibb , partner, Katalista Ventures. Jone Vaituleviciute , partner, Startup Wise Guys. Practica Capital).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 16, 2021

Building the right team for a billion-dollar startup. During a seed-funding round, a founder needs to convince a venture capital investor on a vision. Clearly communicate this fact to venture capitalists for the best chance at securing the seed funding your organization needs. Image Credits: Ureeka.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 3, 2022

If you’re building a community-led product, Lolita Taub and Greg Isenberg are the ones to reach out. VC investment VC is a private equity financing option provided by venture capital firms or investors to new companies with the ability for long-term growth potential.

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StartupNation

MARCH 2, 2021

So, does that media bias extend to the venture capital community? The people that hold the purse strings that can make the difference between an idea foundering and dying from lack of oxygen. The average age, actually, of a VC-backed company, I believe is around 32. A 50-year-old startup founder is actually 2.8

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2022

I could spend hours discussing early-stage startup operations and community-based marketing, but deal flow is my blind spot. Pre-pandemic, VCs were notoriously reluctant to invest in education-related companies. It’s still a great time to be a startup founder. Specifically — an early-stage startup founder.

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Not coincidentally, they also serve as training grounds for some of the world’s most successful startup founders. Although we haven’t been on the inside at Techstars for several years, we grew up with the program and have watched with growing dismay as it drifted away from its original focus on founders.

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Don Dodge

APRIL 6, 2015

I remember the Demo Day in 2007 where DropBox presented to about 30 Boston area Angels and Venture Capital investors. None of the local VC firms invested. from Sequoia Capital and have gone on to raise over $1 Billion from VC investors. Why do startups join the Ycombinator program?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

Ariane de Bonvoisin is an executive coach to top CEOs, startup founders and VCs. She has keynoted the Oprah conference, given a TED talk, and been invited to Google, Amazon, the World Bank, Union Square Ventures and Red Bull to teach about navigating change and founder and startup wellness. Contributor.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

I have never been more optimistic about the impact that the tech startup community is having on cities in America or about the role that cities outside of San Francisco / Silicon Valley can play in our future. Changes in the Software World & in Venture Capital. Changes in the Startup Ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 14, 2022

Nigel Morris , the firm’s co-founder and managing partner, in an interview with TechCrunch, said Africa was the final piece of the puzzle for transforming QED into a global fintech-specialist VC firm.”. In February, TechCrunch reported that FVS had named Cameron Peake , a former startup founder and advisor, as its newest partner.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

So then when I wanted to go into venture capital, they said, “You can’t do that, you need to be in EIR.” If you want to be the marketing person or you want to be perceived as a businessperson or a VC or technical person or whatever you want to be perceived, people will always define you.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. I gave him the same advice I give nearly all over-worked, control-freak, do-everything-yourself startup founders: “Your number one priority isn’t any of these things. I need to take some VC meetings. Me: “Bullshit.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

Photo by Scott Clark for Upfront Ventures (no, Evan is not standing on a box) Last year marked the 25th anniversary for Upfront Ventures and what a year it was. 2021 saw phenomenal returns for our industry and it topped off more than a decade of unprecedented VC growth. How do we plan to do it?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

But most venture-backed startups are “still overwhelmingly white, male, Ivy-League-educated and based in Silicon Valley,” according to a study conducted by RateMyInvestor and Diversity VC. Or will we have to repeat the same conversations about representation failings within VC funds?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

Determined early-stage startup founders (are there really any other kind?) We’re talking about Startup Alley+ , a curated experience available to only 50 early-stage startups who exhibit in Startup Alley at Disrupt 2021. Startup Alley+ gives participants a healthy head start on their Disrupt experience.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

The easiest way to work with and for VC funds is to become a part-time scout, getting paid for sourcing investments. How to win consulting, board, operating, and investment roles with private equity and venture capital funds (video). How to find a job as a VC scout. How to get a job in venture capital.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

A new company recently emerged that is targeting a popular startup niche, wanting to exclusively help early-stage SaaS (software-as-a-service) companies with their financial needs. We quickly realized that they shared a common pain point — startup funding is costly and distracting. And that appeal was another draw for NFX.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2011

But last week I noticed a blog post by a woman, Tara Tiger Brown, that asked the question, “ Why Aren’t More Women Commenting on VC Blog Posts? She has a quote from literally every major VC from whom you’d want to hear. And many of the best women founders. ” [it's short, you should read it].

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

This morning , Alex Wilhelm examined Q4 VC totals for Europe, which had its lowest deal count since Q1 2019, despite a record $14.3 Asia’s VC industry, which saw $25.2 That’s 2020 VC around the world in a nutshell.” ” How VCs invested in Asia and Europe in 2020. Hello, Extra Crunch community!

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

based startups with “all-women teams” received just 1.9% (or around $4.5 billion of total venture capital. of all VC funds raised in 2022 to 17.2%—seen as part of a decade-long trend. According to the PitchBook data, in 2022 U.S.-based billion) out of approximately $238.3 This was a drop from the 2.4%

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2022

As late-stage tech startups face the changing environment in the public markets, their early-stage counterparts are in a different world altogether. The cohort has had access to ample capital in recent quarters, giving them a bubble of venture capital that somewhat protects them from rapid changes in the greater economy.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

You’ve decided to launch a technology-enabled startup with a positive social impact! Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! Fortunately, there are a wide range of organizations that specifically want to support you, not just the VC community.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The report, titled Europe and Israel’s Startup Founder Factories , was produced by VC firm Accel with heavy support from startup and VC data platform Dealroom. Even failure isn’t necessarily a bad thing. ” It seems that this trend isn’t lost on unicorns themselves. Methodology.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

You’ve decided to launch a technology-enabled startup with a positive social impact! Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! Fortunately, there are a wide range of organizations that specifically want to support you, not just the VC community.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

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). Against all odds: The sheer force of immigrant startup founders. S16 Angel Fund launches a community of founders to invest in other founders.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

With the fundraising world becoming more democratic and accessible, we should help people find the right path to setting up a venture capital firm and also make sure the right people are entering the VC sphere. Startups are changing, and any new investment manager will have to adapt to the shifting landscape.

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