article thumbnail

Never Raising, Always Raising

Tomasz Tunguz

Startups used to raise once every 18 months. The implication is the most sought after companies often receive offers, whether they are in market raising capital or not. Venture capitalists and boards used to value a company every 18 months. We, as an industry, are marking-to-market much more frequently than we used to.

mix-use 110
article thumbnail

Female Founders: What the numbers mean and what they don't

This is going to be BIG.

Take the most widely used number--that way fewer women are getting venture funding than guys. It also doesn''t take into consideration many important factors: One, venture backed companies are a tiny hiccup in the grand scheme of entrepreneurship. Most companies don''t ever raise venture capital and they do just fine.

founder 329
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Celus, which uses AI to automate circuit board design, raises $25.6M

TechCrunch

” Celus has built a platform that provides engineers with component data from electronics manufacturers, while adding its own special automation sauce to the mix. Engineers save a massive amount of time through this, meaning they can experiment, try different things, and be creative.” Celus in action.

board 97
article thumbnail

A Sign of the Times: Why Saving the Kentile Sign is Important #savekentile

This is going to be BIG.

Brooklyn is attracting a generation of entrepreneurs who never saw Brooklyn in its industrial heyday, but feel like the borough is uniquely positioned and a historically fitting place to produce their products and serve creative communities. Politics Venture Capital & Technology' Makerbot has a factory in Industry City.

mix-use 291
article thumbnail

Daily Crunch: Former Googlers raise more than $90M to scale alternative asset fintech startup

TechCrunch

Also, we’ve got an eclectic mix of additional news for ya: Wild tales of smarter sales : Kyle reports that Orum raised $22 million to inject AI into the sales prospecting process. Hand built by robots : Picsart adds an AI Image Generator and AI Writer to its suite of creative tools, Aisha reports. You can sign up here. Big Tech Inc.

article thumbnail

Why Product Management is More Like Baking than Cooking

This is going to be BIG.

Once that crust begins to harden, there’s no mixing anything into them without throwing out the whole batch. It’s fine to be a creative person when you’re coming up with a recipe, but when you’re executing on one, it’s about exact attention to detail. Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology.

mix-use 253
article thumbnail

Surging homegrown talent and VC spark Italy’s tech renaissance

TechCrunch

Italy’s ecosystem for tech venture capital and startups has been in development for years and has made decent strides in the last decade. However, in June 2020, the Italian government sponsored a €1 billion investment program aimed at the native startup ecosystem, creating a new venture arm: CDP Venture Capital.

VC 122