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 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.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

But this allowed us to develop the company in a self-financed and profitable way,” Utzmann said. In 2015, Effy acquired Quelle énergie , a VC-backed startup that could calculate how much money you would save by isolating your roof, changing your windows and more. Second, Effy could start offering some financing options with partners.

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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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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

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

AUGUST 4, 2022

Breakthrough Energy Ventures, a climate-focused VC firm linked to some of Earth’s wealthiest individuals, has joined a $44 million bet on solar startup Terabase Energy. ” Terabase also makes software tools to manage the design and construction of solar farms.

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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

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

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

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

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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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 11, 2014

Is it better to raise your startup’s seed round from only angel investors, or is it better to include a VC or two? For example, VCs may invest larger sums than angel investors. The imprimatur of a VC’s investment in a company might help convince potential customers and recruits. The typical seed round with VCs has 1.6

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

Jumba, a Kenyan construction tech startup, is looking to diversify its deposit holdings, with co-founder Kagure Wamunyu telling TechCrunch the startup is opening an additional account with a “bigger bank” in the U.S. We don’t have (in Africa) a financial system that is remotely mature enough to deal with startup financing.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2023

How to Construct an Equitable Cap Table with Ashley Mayer (Coalition Operators), Amanda Robson (Cowboy Ventures) and Richie Serna (Finix) Venture investors are no longer all located on the same road at the same time in the same city in the same state of the same country. How can founders construct an investor pool that reflects their values?

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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

AUGUST 4, 2022

. “The biggest challenge has been around scaling my team’s time, particularly around managing a growing portfolio at a time when founder support is critical,” said Ariana Thacker, founder of Conscience VC. Ariana Thacker , solo GP and founder, Conscience VC. So how are these first-time fund managers going to fare?

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FundersClub

OCTOBER 20, 2021

We'd like to congratulate FundersClub portfolio companies on their ongoing progress, as well as to welcome aboard their new VC investor partners. Jerry , a consumer app for car insurance, financing, repairs, and more, announced a $75M Series C led by Goodwater Capital. We invested at Seed, Series B, and Series D.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Hire admin / office management after you raise a reasonable size VC round. Equally – a great VP Finance can be leveraged well to take on finance, legal, HR and much of the operational tasks. Be careful about board construction. Limit the number of VCs. Equally limit the number of management.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Participants included Blume Ventures, Good Capital, Zerodha’s Rainmatter Fund, Loyal VC and angel investors. It’s already been deployed to over 20 million square feet of real estate in Asia and announced today $2.5 million in seed funding that will be used to expand across Southeast Asia, the Middle East, the United States and Canada.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 3, 2024

Overall, 40% of financing rounds had an angel representative of some sort (Director or Observer) at the close of the round and 70% of angel groups had at least one Board or Observer seat among their portfolios of 2022 deals. In 2022, the typical angel group reporting AFR data had Directors for approximately 20% of the companies it funded.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

Startups and VC. I think I’ll use my credit card : Mary Ann reports that payments and software startup SpotOn has closed on $300 million in a Series F financing that values the company at $3.6 Five construction tech investors analyze 2022 trends and opportunities. The green, green grass of climate investing just got a $1.7

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2021

This week, used clothing marketplace Poshmark saw a 140% pop in its first day of trading and consumer-financing company Affirm “priced its IPO above its raised range at $49 per share ,” reported Alex. Dayna Grayson, co-founder and general partner, Construct Capital. Allen Miller, VC, Oak HC/FT. In December, C3.ai,

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

. “The biggest challenge has been around scaling my team’s time, particularly around managing a growing portfolio at a time when founder support is critical,” said Ariana Thacker, founder of Conscience VC. Ariana Thacker , solo GP and founder, Conscience VC. So how are these first-time fund managers going to fare?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Rather than compete with the VC ecosystem, Price’s strategy is to complement the biggest VC firms by building companies with them, he said. .” Meanwhile, Price expects most of the check sizes to be between $500,000 and $1.5 million for early-stage companies and $2 million to $3.5 million in later-stage companies.

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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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Kruze Consulting, an accounting firm for startups, mined through over 750 companies’ finances, which includes upward of $300 million in quarterly revenue and over $750 million in quarterly spend. But one could argue that new VC fund announcement dates, much like the phrase “oversubscribed,” don’t mean much in practice.

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Haystack

JANUARY 16, 2019

The more I discover about going beyond just writing checks into startups — concepts like portfolio construction, cross-fund management, and new fund formation — the more I realize how critical the parlay is. Let’s focus on the noun first. Of course, if the fund does well, that investment compounds nicely.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

Startups and VC Comixology was genuinely a game changer. Finance, meet regulation. Regulation, finance : Ira Lam explores CeFi and DeFi in the face of regulation. AI also for enterprise : Over on TC+, Ron explores how generative AI could transform the way we interact with enterprise software.

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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

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

A long-time fan of “The Karate Kid,” I find my style’s a bit more Miyagi-Do , but, in reflecting upon my last few years as a founding GP at a young VC firm, I see some parallels between what it takes to win as an emerging manager and the mantras by which the Cobra Kai school abides. Angel/seed pre-money valuations by quartile.

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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

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Promus Ventures , a VC firm based in Chicago, closed a €120 million ($139 million) space fund, dubbed Orbital Ventures. The financing shot the company’s valuation to $2.4 Gitai has a really fascinating vision for the future of space, which sees robots as composing the labor force in off-world colonies on the moon and Mars. ?.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

financing back in 2005, “climate change” was some future event. To tackle the crisis, capital must flood in and even more so than in the past few encouraging years, during which climate tech VC investment increased 40x between 2013 and 2019. Contributor. Share on Twitter. When I started getting involved in clean tech 1.0

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Some of H20’s early investments from that fund went into companies like Tül, a construction material e-commerce marketplace that is now valued at $800 million after raising a $181 million Series B round in January. market in the verticals of e-commerce, marketplaces, fintech and software. million Series A last October. .;

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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

APRIL 8, 2023

In these situations, investors also reserve more capital to backstop their best performing companies, which further reduces the number of new financings. Speakers include Techstars’ Kerty Levy , Construct Capital’s Dayna Grayson and NFX’s James Currier. Book your pass ASAP! Subscribe here and share it with your friends.

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