TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

The MaC Venture Capital founding managing partner hadn’t actually seen Wonderschool’s original pitch deck before investing in the remote education startup. At my first fund, Cross Culture [Ventures], we were interested in investing in early childhood care. We started to build a casual relationship then.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Blue Future Partners, a venture capital fund of funds, recently interviewed me on ESG in venture capital. I see a clear cultural change happening in the investing universe, as more people pay attention to ESG objectives and apply an ESG filter to their investments. They were sold to Albertson’s for over $300m.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 14, 2014

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. I scratch my head over why raising venture is put on such a podium.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Like most entrepreneurs, I started as an underdog, and it remained a key part of company culture as we grew. As a firm, we pitched campaign ideas and strategies to huge, internationally recognized brands, going up against big network agencies. We had no venture capital and weren’t part of a global agency network.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Two of the main reasons this deck “sings” is the line it draws to the Justworks culture and that the deck isn’t “artificially simple.” They also gave live feedback on pitch decks submitted by the audience in the Pitch Deck Teardown. (If Pitch deck teardown — 33:00. Episode breakdown.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Blue Future Partners, a venture capital fund of funds, recently interviewed me on ESG in venture capital. I see a clear cultural change happening in the investing universe, as more people pay attention to ESG objectives and apply an ESG filter to their investments. They were sold to Albertson’s for over $300m.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2022

Founders need to ask themselves what really matters to their business, and which benefits best align with their cultural values,” says Anitra St. Marco DeMeireles and Allan Jean-Baptiste, co-founders and GPs, Ansa Capital. Pitch Deck Teardown: Glambook’s $2.5 Pitch Deck Teardown: Glambook’s $2.5 million seed deck.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2023

The venture capital opportunity in the South is better than it’s ever been,” Lisa Calhoun, a general partner at Valor Ventures, told TechCrunch+ last year. “A Last year, Atlanta startups raised around $1.65 billion, according to PitchBook; though an about 47.9%

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StartupNation

APRIL 26, 2021

Due to COVID-19, the Midwest Growth Capital Symposium has partnered with the Invest Midwest Venture Capital Forum to present the virtual Midwest Venture Showcase. It will highlight Midwest companies seeking early stage funding and offer an opportunity to connect with founders, angel investors and venture capitalists.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Gaetano Crupi is a partner at venture capital firm Prime Movers Lab. He serves on the boards of OCEANIX, Atom Computing, Conscious Cultures and MycoWorks. I have also heard it referred to as a “narrative deck” — basically a detailed, written version of your pitch. Gaetano Crupi. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

Meetings should have a clear purpose, but instead, they’ve become a way to measure status and reinforce what is colloquially referred to as CYA culture. Changing your meeting culture is difficult, but given that 26% of workers plan to look for a new job when the pandemic ends, startups need to do all they can to retain talent.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Nichols is intimately acquainted with the topic — as a founding managing partner of MaC Venture Capital (nee Cross Culture Ventures), he has been involved in helping more than 100 early-stage startups receive seed funding. Marlon Nichols will be joining us to discuss securing seed funding.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Company Culture Many founders underestimate the importance of having a healthy company culture. They also do not realize how their values and behavior greatly influence the culture that emerges as the company grows. Sri shares how he changed the culture of Kenmore Brands to re-brand Kenmore for the digital economy of the future.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The venture capital market is on a tear , pumping capital into a host of startups around the world. It’s generally considered a great time to raise capital and build a technology-centered, disruptive business. For some, that is. ” Norman asked TechCrunch rhetorically before supplying his own answer: No.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2023

I’ve been among the group of TechCrunchers watching pitch after pitch at Y Combinator’s Demo Day. Connie notes that the market might be slowing, but venture capital firms are continuing to amass big funds, as we also saw S2G Ventures do today. Well, hello there! On with the news! Connie tells you why.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

I’ve heard pitches from many life science companies with deeply credentialed and innovative technical founders with absolutely no business expertise on the team. Turnover disrupts the company’s operation, culture and growth trajectory. It’s a red flag that drama is consuming the company while its mission is mostly sidelined.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2021

For MaC Venture Capital founder Marlon Nichols, it’s an ability that’s helped him spot big names like Gimlet Media, MongoDB, Thrive Market, PlayVS, Fair, LISNR, Mayvenn, Blavity and Wonderschool early on. For us, that means taking a look at emerging behavioral trends and shifts in culture. Timestamp: 4:33).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

With all that experience, she knows all too well that the process of fundraising starts well before your first pitch meeting. How to Get An Investor’s Attention (Marlon Nichols, MaC Venture Capital). How to Nail Your Virtual Pitch Meeting (Melissa Bradley, Ureeka). Building and Leading a Sales Team (Ryan Azus, Zoom CRO).

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 5, 2024

California has long been ground zero for the new: new technologies, new frontiers, new arts and culture. From a cultural perspective, I grew up on a diet of Hollywood culture and movies and TV shows. What is your pitch to employers to tell them to come to Solano County? And I think there were two influences.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2022

Felix Williams is the founder and managing director of Lagomaj Capital. TechCrunch sat down with Williams to learn more about how he got into venture capital, and his plans for the future. When did you first become interested in venture capital? While growing up, I had no idea what venture capital was.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 11, 2018

In a continuing effort to help shift the venture capital funding geographic imbalance in our country, since 2014 our team has traveled to 38 cities to meet entrepreneurs where they are. In his discussion on tactics to help take companies from “$100 Million to $1 Billion” Scott emphasized the importance of team and culture.

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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.” Vise CEO Samir Vasavada and Sequoia’s Shaun Maguire break down the art of the pitch.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 12, 2023

A 2020 report by the International Finance Corporation (IFC) revealed that despite women constituting 30 percent of the region’s entrepreneurs, they receive a mere eight percent of venture capital funding.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Greg Kubin is a partner at PsyMed Ventures and co-host of Business Trip. As a venture firm that invests in psychedelics, we receive hundreds of pitches every month from founders developing psychedelic therapeutics. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

We took some highlights from the session and chatted with a couple more partners to dive deeper into what founders need to know — how to ask for help, fundraising principles, how to build company culture and more. So now the week you’re pitching them, they feel like the pace is too high, so the bar is now higher than it was a week ago.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

For those who wielded that role or the coveted CEO position, you were likely to be placed on a pedestal or be viewed as a visionary, aided by a venture capital market that experienced an overextended bull run in the background. So in a way, foreign capital can act as a stressor to African founders.

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Revolution

MAY 21, 2019

At the end of each tour day, we hosted a pitch competition where a local startup received a $100,000 investment from Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund. For the pitch competitions in Orlando, Tampa Bay, Miami, and Puerto Rico, innovative startups based within a 100-mile radius of a tour stop were invited to apply.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

This Space is not a forum for pitching an article — if you’d like to submit your post for consideration, please email guestcolumns@techcrunch.com. Ask @YourProtagonist tomorrow, October 19 at 3 pm PT/ 6 pm ET during our Q&A (but please save your pitches to send over via email!) — TechCrunch (@TechCrunch) October 18, 2021.

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Haystack

OCTOBER 2, 2019

all together) combined with the culture of “demo days,” in-person gatherings where angels and professional investors collide with entrepreneurs. 2/ Pitch Deck Design: There’s a robust debate about slide decks. ” And, surely, it “can” work. We won’t get into that here.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

When founder Arvind Gupta left the accelerator last year to join the venture capital fund Mayfield , Mayfield and IndieBio partnered to form the Genesis Consortium, which offers IndieBio companies an additional $250,000 in optional funding. California Cultured : Lab-grown cocoa. Leaving the $3.2 San Francisco.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Unfortunately, the venture capital scene is embarrassingly backward in terms of diversity, and women and ethnic minorities are shockingly underrepresented among investment decision-makers. Your neighbour, your brother, the 21-year old investment associate who spent 3 minutes looking at your pitch deck?—?they’ll Doesn’t matter.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

Benoit Wirz , partner, Brighteye Ventures (an active edtech-focused venture capital fund in Europe that backs YouSchool, Lightneer and Aula). Charles Birnbaum , partner, Bessemer Venture Partners (a generalist fund with portfolio companies including Guild Education and Brightwheel). Jerry Lu , senior associate, Maveron.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

Part 4: The consequences of scaling up sneaker culture. We asked him about when founders should step aside from leading their startup’s sales org, how to build a working sales culture, hiring diversely, how to pick customer segments and how to build a playbook. Image Credits: MaC Venture Capital. The StockX EC-1.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

The next wave of products will be able to straddle the line of comfort to successfully get adoption, and cultural shift to successfully deliver a truly collaborative cash experience. Announcing the TC Early Stage Pitch-Off. Money is emotional and complex, and the opportunity within the multiplayer fintech reflects just that.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2020

It’s good PR to say you’re a company with a strong culture focused on diversity, as it helps attract top talent. This is the pitch, at least if you’re a promising male. This is the culture and thus foundation of your company. Identify a “culture chair.” Some of it, in truth, has been window dressing.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Fong’s Capitale Ventures is an investment and advisory group with expertise in complex, cross-border transactions. It partners with entrepreneurs in funding their growth stories through innovative market access and public venture capital strategies. We pitch to investors without requiring them to commit to a blind pool.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2022

4 principles private capital firms should leverage to win the talent race. My startup experience focused on operations, so the world of venture capital is still a black box to me in many ways. 4 principles private capital firms should follow to win the talent race. Image Credits: Simba Chain (opens in a new window).

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