TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Selected from the most competitive batch in TC history, selected founders from across the globe will pitch on the virtual stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021. Each team will have six minutes to pitch, followed by a six-minute Q&A with our esteemed panel of judges — all experts in VC and successful companies. With just over a 1.5%

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TechCrunch

MAY 1, 2023

Back in February, we started calling for content — urging startup subject-matter experts to submit applications to lead roundtable discussions or breakout sessions at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 on September 19–21 in San Francisco. TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 Audience Choice voting opens Now comes the part where you, dear readers, play a major role.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 11, 2021

These are all important and disruptive changes to the startup, tech, and business sectors. That allows us to retain the team dynamic and culture while being more open to on-screen work going forward. I don’t think we will see founders going back on the road in any material way ever again.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

One of the great joys of doing the web series This Week in VC every week is that I get to spend time with great people debating the issues of our day including how our industry is evolving as well as insights into how companies got started, got their initial traction and dealt with adversities. Oh, yeah.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Transitions do happen in VC funds but many fail to make the move in a timely fashion and lose key younger personnel who break off and do their own funds or else the strong personalities of senior partners make it harder for new partners to flourish. How can high profile VC personalities best transition to younger partners.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

The easiest way to work with and for VC funds is to become a part-time scout, getting paid for sourcing investments. How to find a job as a VC scout. VC recruiters list and compensation data. How to negotiate a partner role at a VC or private equity firm. Syllabus for how to launch, manage, and invest a VC fund.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 11, 2021

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Charlie O'Donnell - VC (@ceonyc) She’s the best. We’ve had a serious disruption in the way we work that has been better in some ways, for some people, and worse in others. This is my daughter, Mirren. How will Mirren work?

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TechCrunch

MAY 1, 2021

64% of VC firms still don’t have a single female partner. Black + Latinx female founders receive only 0.64% of VC funding, a slight uptick from the year prior. Sydney Thomas is coming to judge startups at Disrupt. 85% of venture funding goes to all-male teams. Shopify Capital has a nice strategic ring to it, no?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2022

Traditional investment that prioritizes pedigree and culture, or the “art” of a founder, has left out an entire class of historically overlooked individuals. For my full take on this topic, check out my TechCrunch+ column: Is algorithmic VC investment compatible with due diligence? When will VCs hit the brakes?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

And more recently he has turned that into a fund called CrossCulture VC such that many in Silicon Valley and beyond now know Troy as well. She was disruptive. “Hip hop is a multi-billion dollar business and it was built off an opportunity that nobody else saw because they didn’t understand the culture.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Welcome to day three of TechCrunch Disrupt , where the opportunities to learn, connect and grow your business just don’t stop. Remember, you’ll find all the day’s programs, stage location and times listed in the Disrupt agenda and in the event app. State of VC in 2022. Disrupt Stage | 10:00 am. Disrupt Stage | 10:30 am.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 1, 2016

Praveen Varshney, a long-time EO Vancouver member and investor in Lyft, Guiides.com, ShareShed and other sharing-economy companies, is capitalizing on this new movement while helping the environment through supporting a culture of access over ownership. If you’re not disrupting yourself someone else will be.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2020

By now, we’re all familiar with the classic persona of the Bay Area-located, hoodie-wearing techie, who tells their team to “move fast and break things” in order to “disrupt” entire industries. If you choose to reject the Silicon Valley playbook of global disruption, remember that you still need to have a clear vision for your product.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

It become such a quick part of popular culture that Jim Carrey rode a Bird in an opening segment of the Jimmy Kimmel show (hilarious if you haven’t seen it). In the meantime we think we can build a globally complex, economically viable business that will be hard to disrupt. This led to massive funding rounds at Bird, Lime and others.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As an early-stage VC I love this phase. As somebody who has seen the shift from Innovation to Systematization many times I can tell you that culturally it is very hard for organizations. As a startup in this phase you often raise capital, get press, hire staff and everything feels possible.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

Disruptive led the round and joined existing investors PeakBridge and PICO Venture Partners. Is cell-cultured meat ready for prime time? And now it has secured another round of funding, this time $17 million in Series A funding. The latest funding round gives Tastewise $21.5 million in total funding to date.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

With the fundraising world becoming more democratic and accessible, we should help people find the right path to setting up a venture capital firm and also make sure the right people are entering the VC sphere. Startup investors can be the financial backbone for mass disruption. Are you doing this for the right reasons?

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Finishing is the ripest for disruption. Buildings are the same, however often historically and culturally significant and therefore protected. Zach Aarons, MetaProp VC Which trends are you most excited about in construction robotics from an investing perspective? This is an indication that the industry is ready for disruption.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2023

Apply to Startup Battlefield 200 anyway — and announce your public debut at TechCrunch Disrupt! Startups and VC Many apps today assume that data lives in only one location, typically a single cloud database. Cultivating capable coffee currency : Becca reports that Blank Street cracked the code on making coffee shops attractive to VC.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 1, 2021

But as venture capital (VC) firms grow, with the average seed deal growing from $1.7 Silicon Valley is no longer the sole home of startups; entrepreneurs across the globe are tapping into increased VC funding and making their mark in a variety of different industries. To truly disrupt an industry, you must avoid this at all costs.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2020

GGV Capital and Insight Partners led the round with help from existing investors 1984 VC, NewStack and NewFund. When he looked around a couple of years ago, he saw a space fully of these legacy vendors and ripe for disruption. Fairmarkit , a Boston startup, is working to bring a modern digital procurement system to the enterprise.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Ideas are the critical spark in the first stages of a startup: Ideas for a new product, for a disruptive service or engaging customer experience. Two giant firms created by Outsiders who had no experience in hospitality and transportation, but brought design, logistics, dispatch, and mega platforms to disrupt the hotel and taxi industries.

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 15, 2023

His background and career span over 3 continents, where he was exposed to different people, cultures and regions that shaped his global mindset. In the Fintech sector I am intrigued by technologies disrupting financial literacy and serving underprivileged communities, credit risk, open banking technology, wealth management and payments.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

Instead of putting the onus on customers to roll up their sleeves, he suggests that SaaS startups learn from cryptocurrency culture and find ways to “incentivize users to do the necessary work to have the right experience.” With a surge of VC investing, many startups are urgently hiring.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

It’s generally considered a great time to raise capital and build a technology-centered, disruptive business. “If I went and raised a big round from some top-tier VC, do you think that those people can help me hire other people of color?” For some, that is. Women remain underinvested in, despite some recent gains.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

A combination of university talent pipelines, top-rated quality of life, growing startup ecosystem, and growing VC funding has Tree Town topping lists as one of the best places to start a tech company or find a top tech job. It also just won the Digiday Worklife Award for Most Collaborative Culture. FreightVerify. and the world.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

For IndieBio, a science and biotech accelerator run by VC firm SOSV, this unprecedented year offered high stakes and new challenges. billion , including companies like Memphis Meats, which develops cultured meat from animal cells; NotCo, a plant-based food brand; and Catalog, which uses organisms for data storage. Leaving the $3.2

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2021

Regardless of how groundbreaking their product idea might be, immigrant Americans will always be more wary of putting their eggs into the entrepreneurship basket, at least as long as 93% of all VC money continues to be controlled by white men. ambassadors. That’s just one company.

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OurCrowd

JULY 1, 2019

Summit Week will be as packed as ever, with corporate meetups, VC forums, insider access to accelerators and labs, and touring opportunities providing a unique insider’s look at the innovation ecosystem. Attendees will also get a deep dive into the history, culture and vibe of Israel, including the nightlife of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Michigan is now the state with the highest growth in VC investment. They hire locally and remotely and have a close-knit culture built on authentic connections between team members. 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

JULY 6, 2021

Goodwater Capital, Kairos Angels and Bridge Partners also participated in the Series A round in addition to angels such as Joe Schmidt IV , vice president of business development at insurtech Ethos and former investor at Accel and Kyle Nakatsuji , founder and CEO of auto insurance startup Clearcover (and also a former VC).

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

As I described in Part 2 of this EC-1 , that staffing efficiency is partly due to its culture and who it hires. 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.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2020

By now, we’re all familiar with the classic persona of the Bay Area-located, hoodie-wearing techie, who tells their team to “move fast and break things” in order to “disrupt” entire industries. If you choose to reject the Silicon Valley playbook of global disruption, remember that you still need to have a clear vision for your product.

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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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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. This is where Spacemaker’s mission, and Nordic culture more generally, was also a strength. Autodesk, the U.S. The price of the acquisition is $240 million in a mostly all-cash deal.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

” She also points to the EU’s commitment, over ten years, to put €10 billion into investing in scale up companies across the bloc as an opportunity for EsTech to lean out towards regional policies as well as inwards to make the case for disruptive business models locally. How Europe has expanded its bid to disrupt Big Tech.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Zoe Jervier Hewitt is a leadership coach and talent partner at multi-stage VC fund EQT Ventures , where she helps portfolio companies structure and accelerate their search for talent by facilitating connections to the right technology and people required to source candidates at each stage of company growth. Zoe Jervier Hewitt. Contributor.

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