TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Rachel Holt, co-founder and general partner, Construct Capital. “You have to wonder if every VC worth a damn in the future will have their own raft of SPAC offerings,” says Alex. .” Here’s who she interviewed: Clara Brenner, co-founder and managing partner, Urban Innovation Fund. Dave Clark, partner, Expa.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

(co-written with Katherine Boe Heuck , a MBA candidate at MIT Sloan (class of 2022); past intern at Versatile VC ; and a current intern at Metaprop NYC.). We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.” Why are all of the VC home runs from white men, or Asian men in Asia, plus a few Asian men in the U.S.?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Backing the Dublin-based company, which targets mid-sized businesses that operate multi-entities, is Finch Capital, the fintech focussed VC that recently outed its third fund. million in funding. Finch Capital launches third fund to invest in European fintech at Series A and B.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

Embedded finance will help fill the life insurance coverage gap. There’s latent demand for life insurance currently unaddressed by much of the financial services industry, and embedded finance can be the solution. Embedded finance will help fill the life insurance coverage gap. Deep Science: Robots, meet world.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

David Teten is founder of Versatile VC and writes periodically at teten.com and @dteten. 15 steps to fundraising a new VC or private equity fund. Katherine Boe Heuck is a MBA candidate at MIT Sloan (class of 2022), a past intern at Versatile VC and a current intern at Metaprop NYC. David Teten. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

It makes angel, pre-seed and seed investments into B2B SaaS startups in sectors like finance, healthcare, cybersecurity, supply chain, construction and real estate. The graduates of this program were 58% women and 85% underrepresented, and many have gone on to full-time jobs or internships in VC and tech.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

But according to data from PitchBook, less than 2% of VC funding went to all-women-founded teams in 2021. It’s identical to what’s happening in Africa: Less than 1% of all VC dollars went toward startups with one or more women founders last year, according to The Big Deal , which details investments in Africa.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2023

Ken Smythe, founder and CEO of Next Round Capital Partners — a capital markets and VC secondaries firm — validated our impressions. ” That financing follows the company’s recent $15 million extension funding round. million to modernize construction payments, grow team. Suppli raises $3.1 Sandbar gets $4.8

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

of all VC funds raised in 2022 to 17.2%—seen as part of a decade-long trend. Aspect Ventures : co-founded in 2014 by Theresia Gouw and Jennifer Fonstad, the early-stage venture firm uniquely focuses on bridging the funding gap between angels and the larger multi-stage VC platforms through collaboration and diversity.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 7, 2024

$210 million financing by global Investors brings breakthrough technology to California Global cleantech leader Aymium, the top producer of renewable biocarbon products, just closed $210 million of financing to build a biocarbon production facility in Williams, California. having recently closed a $50 Million Series B funding round.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Buy now, pay later (BNPL) has quickly established itself as the go-to method of financing for a variety of purchases, particularly online. This financing model has primarily been available to customers shopping online, but customers outside the U.S. healthcare, home construction, etc.). Which products or services are innovating?

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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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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

Startups and VC. If you fund it, they will build : Constrafor is a SaaS construction procurement platform with embedded financing. Every time I explain what a SPAC is to someone, they go, “Wait, how is that legal?” It seems like some folks in government agree, Connie reports, with Sen.

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TechCrunch

JULY 10, 2022

Interestingly, the startup decided to forgo the typical VC route during its raise, instead focusing on regional groups that it believes will add value to its business model, including the largest gas station operators in the region, one of the largest supermarket chains and other large regional retail groups. a16z leads $6.5M

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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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Ian Hathaway

MARCH 31, 2020

As venture capitalist and economic historian Bill Janeway remarked : “… the federal government funded construction of a platform on which entrepreneurs and venture capitalists could dance.” No one tells this story better than Harvard Business School professor Tom Nicholas in his recent book VC: An American History.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Fortunately, there are a wide range of organizations that specifically want to support you, not just the VC community. Other traditional options for non-dilutive financing include grants, loans, SBIR, STTR, vouchers, tax credits, etc: Wonder’s Overview of Non-Dilutive Funding. Non-Dilutive Financing: Everything You Need to Know.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Fortunately, there are a wide range of organizations that specifically want to support you, not just the VC community. Other traditional options for non-dilutive financing include grants, loans, SBIR, STTR, vouchers, tax credits, etc: Wonder’s Overview of Non-Dilutive Funding. Non-Dilutive Financing: Everything You Need to Know.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2023

As one VC put it: “It’s bad.” Brazilian fintech Trace Finance launched a new checking account for startups in the wake of the news. Seed-stage fintech deals saw record investment as valuations of late-stage VC-backed companies saw significant downward pressure, attracting a record $4.5

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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. Head of Finance & Legal for D-ID (Tel Aviv).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

Kelly Chen, DCVC: Robotics startups have an additional layer to their banking relationship, typically tying equipment financing and other debt structures to banking. While we anticipate the VC fundraising environment will become more cautious across the board, we don’t see robotics being uniquely impacted.

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Y Combinator

MAY 29, 2019

I don’t come from an investing background or I don’t come from finance at all. We’ve always been into tech world, but we’ve got plenty of friends in finance and one of those friends just out of blue called me one day, and was like, “Mike, I need your help. Right, so imagine you’re a VC.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2021

Optimism reigns at consumer trading services as fintech VC spikes and Robinhood IPO looms. Mix in the impending SPAC-led debut of eToro, general bullishness in the cryptocurrency space, record highs for some equities markets, and recent rounds from Public.com, M1 Finance and U.K.-based But will it? There are data in both directions.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Rachel Holt , co-founder and general partner, Construct Capital. This is a fundamental confusion in the VC space — innovation does not always equal progress. We’d love to see better debt financing for electric vehicle companies. If the debt markets line up to finance these at scale, it could be a nice win-win.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2017

It’s why raising a round of capital often feels like a hollow victory because it almost feels like a temporary reprieve from the Grim Reaper and in a way every new round just sets the bar higher to clear for the next round of financing or the hope of reaching profitability. The best VCs follow up but then so, too, to the best entrepreneurs.

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Red Rocket

MAY 22, 2024

CB Insights, a leading research organization that tracks venture capital financings, recently released its report on t he state of the venture capital market in 2023. Gone are the days of “unicorn” creation (companies worth more than $1 billion), mega-sized financings, and excessive valuations.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2022

Seed investors Alpaca VC, Dolby Family Ventures, Timber Grove Ventures and Gaingels all invested above their pro-rata and are joined by Signia Venture Partners. housing market. In particular, the investor gets excited about startups re-inventing energy, transportation, infrastructure, manufacturing, human augmentation and agtech.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Indian fintech startup BharatPe has raised $370 million in a new round of financing as it looks to aggressively scale its business in the next two years. India poised for record VC year as unicorns head for decisive IPOs. The new round — a Series E — was led by Tiger Global and valued the New Delhi-based startup at $2.85

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Three ways VC firms can construct sustainably diverse portfolios. There is some truth to this: VC had its biggest year in 2021 , more than doubling from 2020, which was already a record year for investments. Leslie Feinzaig is the founder and CEO of the Graham & Walker. More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

Bangalore-based Zetwerk said on Monday it has raised $150 million in a Series E financing round led by New York-based D1 Capital Partners. India poised for record VC year as unicorns head for decisive IPOs. All the products it sells today — ranging from parts of cranes, doors and chassis of machines — are custom-made.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Construction is the one of the least digitized industries out there. million that was raised in a seed round led by Brick & Mortar Ventures and First Round Capital – to advance on its effort to “reimagine construction finance.” million in a financing that was led by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel. Love to see it!

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

SPACs are the construct VCs need to fund clean tech. But for CVCs investing off a corporate balance sheet, the IC can include corporate-minded people, such as the CEO or business unit leaders, who generally tend to be detached from the venture mindset and the requirements for operating in the VC world.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2023

Everyone has a story, but they all sound a bit similar: A female VC is launching a fund, and she’s either compared to every other female VC with a fund, expected to only invest in female founders or have a diversity, equity and inclusion angle as a core thesis. The whole show was a hoot. TechCrunch is coming to Boston on April 20.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

A great VC will do so much more for you than just write a check. The best founder and VC relationships are based on trust and partnership; it should be a relationship that’s nonjudgmental, supportive, and constructive. In many ways, it’s like finding the right spouse. Choose someone who can help with your blind spots.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

It predicts biological features from new genetic sequences to build new therapeutic vectors and generates new therapeutic constructs.” These included public databases, proprietary data and datasets from our partners. WhiteLab Genomics is similar, but it’s working with both gene and cell therapy companies.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

Categories like construction, agriculture and health care, among others, were very much looking to automate. Robotics was in a nice little bubble when the VC slowdown began, as well, though not even it was immune. It’s just a financing question. Investments began flooding into robotics around this time.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

An easing of laws around the construction of accessory dwelling units (ADUs) around the U.S. And it just closed on $15 million in a Series A funding round led by proptech-focused VC firm Fifth Wall to grow its business. has opened up opportunities for companies that build such structures. Cottage is one such company.

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