TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2023

There’s no simple test to determine which aspiring founder can turn their idea into a billion-dollar business, but VCs who know which questions to ask can uncover the right mindset, says Sanjay Reddy, a co-founding partner at Unlock Venture Partners. How do you communicate your message to investors, coworkers, potential partners, etc.?”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2022

Lahore-based coworking space startup, Colabs , is set to roll-out a SaaS product to enable businesses meet back-office needs including company registration, talent sourcing and management, payroll processing and legal and tax compliance. We were fortunate enough to have met some of the startups we invested in, in their spaces.”.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 26, 2022

Register COLABS becomes Pakistan’s only venture-backed collaborative workspace by a $3 million investment. It is the first time these three leading Pakistan focused VCs are investing together in a startup. The round was led by Indus Valley Capital, Zayn Capital and Fatima Gobi Ventures.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The $360 exhibitor pass includes a digital exhibition space, the ability to gather leads who visit your exhibit space and three tickets to the conference for your coworkers. It’s a market unlike any other, but does that change the math on equity-based investment?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Coworking and warehouse space company Saltbox announced today the closing of a $35 million Series B led by Cox Enterprises and Pendulum Holdings. The company also wants to invest in software to create a more seamless logistics ecosystem. Saltbox’s Series B comes at the end of what has been a daunting year for Black founders.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 9, 2021

We love founder(s) who can say any of the following: Mindset . Being a founder is not for the faint of heart. One or more of our past coworkers are joining us in this new business, and working for sweat equity.”. One of our past colleagues / managers is investing.”. “We Even if it’s not in a business arena–e.g.,

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 3, 2023

If you’re a company with two founders looking for that advice, Becca and Darrell have a good Found podcast for you. Though CFO Nalin Negi will jump into the role as interim CEO, the company is already on shaky ground: BharatPe sent its founder packing last year after it was discovered he was allegedly misusing company funds.

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GCUC

AUGUST 5, 2019

In every facebook group, forum, contact form and unconference- Coworking and childcare comes up. Out of our own curiosity, we polled some of the founders in our international circle that have or are building spaces with child care offerings to get their take on it all. Space: Dayhouse coworking. Investment? Bootstrapping?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

As Fast Company notes , Bitwise made headlines in 2019 when it raised $27 million — one of the largest Series A rounds ever secured by a company with a female Latinx founder. Historically, female founders have received just 12% of venture capital investment for their businesses.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2023

This round was led by Singular , with a New-York based fund managed by Itai Tsiddon and Belgian investment firm CNP (Groupe Frère) also participating. Fly Ventures, an existing shareholder in the startup, invested once again. The startup just raised a $13 million Series A round. And yet, hotels have changed quite a lot in recent years.

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TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2022

Sure, I have way-too-many coworkers’ numbers set to automatically bypass my phone’s “Do Not Disturb” toggle and, yeah, sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night to a phantom Slack ding that didn’t actually ding, but… hm. I normally have very good work/life balance, I promise!

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David Teten VC

MARCH 21, 2024

My Partner Winter Mead, Founder & CEO of Coolwater Capital , the accelerator for emerging VC fund managers, said: “Fewer than 5 of the 180 emerging managers we’ve worked with are raising via 506c, in order to get in front of more retail LPs, who are generally already following the GP, e.g., through the GP’s newsletter or community.

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GCUC

AUGUST 8, 2019

In every facebook group, forum, contact form and unconference- Coworking and childcare comes up. Out of our own curiosity, we polled some of the founders in our international circle that have or are building spaces with child care offerings to get there take on it all. What made you want to have childcare to your coworking space?

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Founder and CEO Matt Schulman has created one of the most comprehensive and thorough recruiting processes, which has made him one of the most successful recruiters in the YC community. Would you recommend this strategy to founders? Often, first-time founders hire someone senior for optics reasons.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 9, 2021

We love founder(s) who can say any of the following: Mindset . Being a founder is not for the faint of heart. One or more of our past coworkers are joining us in this new business, and working for sweat equity.”. One of our past colleagues / managers is investing.”. “We Even if it’s not in a business arena–e.g.,

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 22, 2018

The responses I got came at a time when I've been having a lot of conversations with female founders as well about their fundraising experiences. At this moment, I'm in the process of backing three companies that have at least one female founder and I just finished a round for a black female founder in December. Ducks head.]

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Hunter Walk

MAY 17, 2024

We way underestimated Textio’s stickiness within HR and how deeply HR execs would invest in Textio. It’s also not an accident that, upon stepping back from being Textio’s CEO, I’ve built a sizable exec coaching practice working largely with early stage founders. HW: I think of you first and foremost as a founder, not a ‘female founder.’

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

With the acquisition of CoWorkr, R-Zero plans to develop an internet of things-style sensor network to manage both personnel and cleaning in the workplace, says R-Zero founder Grant Morgan. For instance, CoWorker’s battery-powered thermal sensors allow employers to know which rooms in an office are being occupied.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 12, 2023

Going for lunch with a new coworker. I met my co-founder because he used to make YouTube videos, and I reached out to him, just asking to chat. They’ve been *thinking* about starting a business, creating online, networking, investing, etc. Ask a friend to connect you to [X] who is further along your path.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 14, 2013

Anyone can build a coworking space, but it''s a lot harder to attract and curate a set of folks that makes me want to move into that space. There was no strategic goal to build venture backed startup companies, but yet at least three companies in her community got VC investment last year. What about connections to existing businesses?

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MAY 29, 2019

Chantalle Dumonceaux , co-founder of and adviser to Womena, an angel investment platform focused on women in the Middle East. Moderator Jeff Engell , founder of Blue Oceans Group. Coworking spaces. Grant Warner , director of innovation for Howard University’s Graduate School. What is a startup community? Universities.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

When needed, guidance from virtual coworkers is provided through the messaging app, simulating a modern remote work environment. OF: When we were just getting started, my co-founder Alon said that if Wilco had already existed, he’d simply join the company rather than start a new one. TC: Why are you excited about this company?

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

AUGUST 21, 2020

Eric Parker, Founder and President, theClubhou.se, Augusta, GA. However, my time is valuable and if I give you an hour of conversation out of my expertise, that means it’s not just the time investment; behind that time stands 25 years of experience, a college education (that I’m still paying for) and a family that I support.

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Haystack

MAY 19, 2018

Fast forward to 2013 — we became parents, I started investing, and life as we knew it changed. Mondays were for my Venture Partner role on Sand Hill Road; from Tuesday – Thursday, I was out meeting new founders, helping existing companies, meeting friends in the ecosystem. Fridays, I tried to keep free from meetings.

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StartupNation

MARCH 10, 2021

Community organizations like Shine & Rise provide support and mentorship to women who work at tech companies, and coworking spaces like Cahoots offer dedicated tech entrepreneurial spaces for the community. Amesite , founded by top Midwest female founder Ann Marie Sastry, uses AI to improve the online education experience.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

investment firm Sequoia) and Will Neale (founder of Grabyo and early-stage investor). investment firm Sequoia) and Will Neale (founder of Grabyo and early-stage investor). Patch’s founder Freddie Fforde said: “Where we work and where we live have traditionally be seen as distinct environments. It’s now raised a $1.1

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Imagine what the diversity of ownership and in the workforce would look like if people with the means to invest would care as much about social and human return on investment as they do about potential profit. Making our ecosystem more easily navigable and ultimately founder-friendly. Ellen Bateman. Jeannette Balleza Collins.

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GCUC

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

I consider it part of my job at GCUC to identify and highlight up-and-coming coworking brands and leaders. He agreed and came to Link Coworking (my brand, which I have since sold) in Austin. WHERE DOES THAT LEAVE COWORKING? Coworking is that disruption. Stop thinking small, my coworking friends.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The new funding will be skewed towards investing “heavily” in this hybrid work management offering, it says. “Technology has been on a steady path of enabling flexible work for over a decade and COVID-19 has only served to accelerate the process,” argues Miroslav Miroslavov, co-founder and CEO, in a statement.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Base Case, The 20VC Fund, SV Angel, BoxGroup, Hummingbird Ventures and 60 angels also invested in the company — it’s a long list of investors*. Product information is scattered across many different products,” Cycle founder and CEO Mehdi Boudoukhane told me. “As But they also have to check GitHub issues, Intercom messages and more.

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Reforge

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Finally we’ll run through a step-by-step example of how to use Meme Mapping to get a more consistent return on investment from experimentation. The startup I worked for, Efficient Frontier, was founded by a coworker of Jeff Bezos’ at hedge fund D.E.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

It is now also the new home for Tim Draper’s newest initiative to help support early-stage founders: Draper Startup House Accelerator Program. As founder of the famed Silicon Valley venture capital firm known as Draper Fisher Jurvetson, or DFJ, Draper in 2018 introduced the Startup House concept.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Kees Koolen, the founder of Booking.com, led the startup’s seed round in 2018. People can choose the closest space and book to use shared spaces, meeting rooms or private offices, according to Roberta Vasconcellos, CEO and co-founder of BeerOrCoffee. . Image Credits: BeerOrCoffee. BeerOrCoffee practices what it preaches.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Some people are more excited by emerging areas like artificial intelligence, which has been a focus of the country’s military for years, and like cybersecurity is now producing many fresh teams of founders. What trends are you most excited about investing in, generally? What’s your latest, most exciting investment?

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Jessica Willis, the CEO and founder of Pocketnest (and also a top female founder in the Midwest) noticed that the next generation does business differently, and most financial institutions leave them out. Ever need to reach out to a coworker but not sure how to find them or contact them? But not Pocketnest. Red Ventures.

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Y Combinator

MAY 1, 2019

30:00 – Investing in yourself. Craig Cannon [00:00:40] – Matt Hackett, who is Casey Neistat’s co-founder. Me and another coworker had started our channels at the same time, and hers blew up kind of immediately. 00:00 – Jarvis’ intro. 00:30 – Where his videos first got traction.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The app also enables users to be social with coworkers. raised $10 million “using a more incremental approach,” writes co-founder Henry Shapiro. TechCrunch+ is our membership program that helps founders and startup teams get ahead of the pack. Startups and VC. You can sign up here. Big Tech Inc. I spy : The U.S.

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