TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

One key challenge for early-stage companies that are disrupting a particular space or creating a new category is figuring out how to sell a unique product to customers who have never bought such a solution. When to walk away from a VC who wants to invest in your startup. When to walk away from a VC who wants to invest in your startup.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

Also participating is LAUNCH (the fund led by investor Jason Calacanis), Sweet Capital (via Pippa Lamb), Rogue VC (via Alice Lloyd George) and Angel investors Simon Beckerman (co-founder of Depop), Eric Wahlforss (co-founder of SoundCloud and now Dance), Abe Burns and Joe White. Contact has now raised a $1.9 million (£1.4

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Michigan is now the state with the highest growth in VC investment. DeepHow is using this technology to bridge the skilled labor gap in the manufacturing, construction and service industries. They were founded in 2020 and have solid VC backing, recently raising $2 million, raising their total funding to $4.4 Apply now to Rivet.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 5, 2023

and was co-led by Ironspring Ventures and Chicago Ventures, with continued participation from FUSE VC and Cercano Management. After multiple years of global supply chain disruption stemming from the pandemic, trade tensions, and reshoring, demand for industry-specific tooling has increased dramatically.

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2021

5 innovative fundraising methods for emerging VCs and PEs. According to Versatile VC founder David Teten, five new strategies are gaining traction among fund managers looking to raise capital from family offices and high-net-worth individuals: Online communities and virtual events. Image Credits: Hiroshi Watanabe / Getty Images.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Beyond embeddable fintech products, we’re excited about companies that are disrupting traditional payment rails with more efficient models. healthcare, home construction, etc.). I believe the next Alibaba will start as a fintech play. Melissa Guzy: BNPL companies vary by geography to fit the local market.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 31, 2024

Venture capitalists (VC) typically seek businesses experiencing rapid growth and that meet their specific investment profile. It confirms the startup’s understanding of market trends, emerging technologies, and potential industry disruptions.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

The questions that a VC mulls before writing a check are precisely the questions you should be asking yourself. But this isn’t likely to be a VC-backable business (which to be clear is totally ok). You can enter either but your strategy must be very different and I can tell you that fragmented markets are easier to disrupt.

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FundersClub

JUNE 1, 2017

Jerrod Engelberg of FundersClub will host a Q&A on FC Live with Adam Draper of Boost VC on June 13th. Submit questions and watch the full event here: Q&A with Adam Draper of Boost VC — FundersClub Live Series. FundersClub Portfolio News. in " Flexport to open global network of consolidation centers.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

Kutcher has been an active and involved investor for a few years and has talked about his approach on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt. DiCaprio is newer on the VC scene but has long been involved in social and climate advocacy. Both will join as advisors.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

While we anticipate the VC fundraising environment will become more cautious across the board, we don’t see robotics being uniquely impacted. Rodney Brooks (Rethink Robotics) at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2017. Image Credits: Built Robotics A pair of new construction robots debuted this week.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Summit Week will be packed as ever with corporate meetups, VC forums, insider access to accelerators and labs, touring opportunities, and legendary partying. It will break ground on a 100-home project in the Austin area next year, along with construction giant Lennar. Due to Covid safety restrictions, places will be strictly limited.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Rachel Holt , co-founder and general partner, Construct Capital. COVID-19 disrupted virtually every sector of the transportation industry. This is a fundamental confusion in the VC space — innovation does not always equal progress. COVID-19 disrupted virtually every sector of the transportation industry.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2021

CEO and founder Anthony Baker said that they began construction of their first satellite with that money, “so we knew we got our sums right,” he said, then began the process of closing additional capital. That’s what attracted Satellite Vu’s first big piece of cash, a grant from the U.K.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2023

TechCrunch Disrupt , our yearly flagship startup event, returns to San Francisco on September 19–21 — and you can bet TechCrunch+ will be in the house. If you went to Disrupt 2022, you’ll recall the TechCrunch+ Stage, which hosted dozens of panels and interviews focused on the nuts and bolts of building and funding new tech enterprises.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 2, 2022

We may lose a significant amount of global agricultural and energy output for decades due to the current disruptions. Most tech VC shops are vehicles of expensive beta to the overall market when viewed against fee-adjusted performance. the inflation-driven contraction of VC balance sheets and the popping of the Luna bubble?—?my

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 17, 2022

There exists a universe of projects that are category leaders in the substrate that will allow the faithful to construct an entirely new decentralised financial system. Thank you VC money, keep pumping the market full of that fee-adjusted beta! NFTs will not perish, and their disruption to the economics of culture will be profound.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 9, 2024

If you had adopted that, this was a logical next step that you could apply, which again, was like a playbook that you could run over top of a new technological disruption that had happened. And then we would deliver it in dashboards and charts that were also constructed on technology we built. I think that’s really exciting.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 23, 2012

VCs construct stories in their head as to why they invested in this or that, and much of it is based on prior experience, but they're often awful at articulating the real reasons. Try and figure out exactly what a startup had to show at the moment a VC chose to invest in them. Venture capital is kind of like a knuckleball.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

She left NEA to start her own fund, Construct Capital, that focuses exclusively on early-stage startups, with a portfolio that includes Copia, ChargeLab, Tradeswell and Hadrian. It should come as no surprise, then, that we’re absolutely thrilled to have Grayson join us at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 in September.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 5, 2016

Just don't go picking someone who really doesn't compliment you just because it's some kind of VC rule. I've heard a lot of VCs tell founders they need co-founders--and that they wouldn't look at a business at a very early stage without a co-founder. The same holds true for VC funds.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Infra.Market, an Indian startup that is helping construction and real estate companies in the world’s second-most populated nation procure materials and handle logistics for their projects, said on Tuesday it has secured its third financing round in the past nine months. India poised for record VC year as unicorns head for decisive IPOs.

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TechCrunch

MAY 27, 2021

We’ve been urging you to apply to Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 for weeks now, and you have just over 12 hours left before the application window slams shut on May 27 at 11:59 p.m. (PT). She and her team competed in Startup Battlefield last year at Disrupt 2020. TC: What did it feel like to pitch at Disrupt?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

More posts by this contributor A VC shares 5 things no one told you about pitching VCs 5 factors founders must consider before choosing their VC For artificial intelligence, 2022 was a year of breakthroughs. AI-powered chatbots that power real estate brokerages have great potential to disrupt this marketplace.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Perhaps fundraising success is part of why the venture model has not seen much disruption in recent decades, apart from rising fund sizes. It can foist artificial time constraints on investors and force them to focus their deal flow into particular stages for fund-construction reasons. But the model is not perfect. The future?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

The round was led by European VC btov Partners, with participation from FJ Labs, Enterprise Fund (a syndicate of former Atlassian & Docker executives) and Dr. Stefan Heitmann (founder & CEO of MoneyPark and PriceHubble) among others. . ” Despite the hype, construction tech will be hard to disrupt. times over 2020.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

Vayyar , a company developing radar-imaging sensor technologies, today announced that it raised $108 million in a Series E round led by Koch Disruptive Technologies, with participation from GLy Capital Management, Atreides Management LP, KDT, Battery Ventures, Bessemer Ventures, More VC, Regal Four and Claltech.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Mauricio and I had this bold vision of backing as many disruptive entrepreneurs as we could, and leveraging our previous backgrounds and experiences.”. “The market wasn’t so established and meal companies, such as Rappi, were just getting started and reaching their growth phase,” Lloreda added. million Series A last October. .;

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

Startups and VC. Five construction tech investors analyze 2022 trends and opportunities. The technological advances we’ve made over the last 2,000 years are stunning, but the construction industry still relies on centuries-old technology. 5 construction tech investors analyze 2022 trends and opportunities. Big Tech Inc.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Spacemaker’s VC backers include European firms Atomico and Northzone, which co-led the company’s $25 million Series A round in 2019. real estate technology fund Round Hill Ventures and Norway’s Construct Venture. The price of the acquisition is $240 million in a mostly all-cash deal. argues the Autodesk CEO.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

If you’ve been to Disrupt before, you’ll remember we had a stage or two or three. New for Disrupt 2023: The Security Stage , for those of us who love us some hacking, security, and everything in between. Startups and VC Comixology was genuinely a game changer. PDT, subscribe here. Happy Thursday, Crunchers!

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Hydro- and pyrometallurgical facilities can cost millions of dollars to construct, a cost that simply isn’t feasible for a lot of waste collectors. million in seed funding from climate tech VC firm Clean Energy Ventures. We’re not on the logistics side.”. Thus far, the company has raised $1.25

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 29, 2021

Yahal Zilka, the lead investor at Waze and other unicorns, Co-Founder and Co-Managing Partner at 10D, an early-stage VC, in conversation with Jon Medved, Founder and CEO of OurCrowd. This is the highest-fidelity simulated habitat ever constructed by humans. Wednesday, Sep. 1 at 9AM SF / 12PM NY / 7PM JM. . “As

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Y Combinator

JULY 15, 2019

We recommend getting to know partners at VC firms on your list at least 6 to 9 months before your fundraise. But, if you still end up getting stuck with an unhelpful board member, the best way to handle this is to first meet 1:1 and share that feedback, constructively (not unlike running a feedback meeting with your peers or direct reports).

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 21, 2011

When I first got into VC I decided I better have some investment themes. That strikes me as an attractive market for disruption over time. Certain parts of it seem ripe for disruption sooner rather than later. “People still want calls …&#.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2023

This week, DocSend dropped a big load of statistics about the VC activity over the past half year or so. And Rebecca took a closer look at the EV battery factory construction boom across North America. Grab your pass to TC Disrupt 2023 Join 10,000 startup leaders in San Francisco at TechCrunch Disrupt on September 19–21.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2023

It always ranks at or toward the top of the list of most dangerous construction jobs, and there are a lot of roofs in the world — every human who wants one should have one. ” Interesting side note, HAX Associate/Analyst Dylan Crow made the jump from VC to COO of Renovate.

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