TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

And then for the follow-on financing, it ranges in terms of what the person needs and also [it’s tied to] when we invest into that company, so it ranges in valuation, as well. Somewhat relatedly, Y Combinator just wrapped up its latest Demo Day. How much of a stake does that $50,000 buy you? But it is a SAFE note.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 2, 2015

One time, I spoke at a meetup that was divided into my talk and demos--and the organizer assumed I wanted to go on before the demos. I didn''t understand why it would matter, but she told me that most of the investors like going before so they could skip out after the demos and not get bombared at the end of the event.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

See How to negotiate a partner role at a VC or private equity firm.) At Versatile VC , we’ve used all these models. However, historically most private equity professionals were former investment bankers and other finance professionals. Preqin (free demo). Grey House (free demo). Private Equity. Venture Capital.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

To begin with, it is important to understand some basic facts about the world of entrepreneurial finance: There are many more entrepreneurs than there are investors, with the result that only one company out of every 400 that seeks venture funding actually receives it. One of the primary ones is the referral source.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 2, 2022

A multibillion dollar acquisition , IPO projections and some good ol’ VC and billionaire drama? That conversation hasn’t disappeared, but it has certainly gotten quieter, with many investors now telling me that there’s a super surge of financing on the way. billion in financing for startups that use its own platform.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 20, 2019

A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. In addition, their portfolios look far more diverse than VC industry norms. Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2023

I also got a demo from CTO and co-founder Ilan Twig of just how Navan is using ChatGPT within its new offering, which is essentially a CFO dashboard, the company says. Last week, I published a scoop on fintech-focused VC firm Anthemis having laid off 28% of its staff , or 16 people, earlier this year as part of a restructuring.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Expo Hall & Demo Booths. They’ll unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines and will wade through the hype to keep you up-to-date on the world of business, tech and VC. Latecomers always welcome: Buy a pass right here. Investor Reception. Receptions | 12:00 pm . Winning the War on Ransomware. TC Plus Stage | 11:30 am.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

TC Sessions: Mobility will feature speakers on the main stage, a bevy of startup exhibits, demos, networking and a live pitch-off with a pretty sweet prize. Buy your general admission or early-stage startup demo package today before prices increase. How to Land Early-Stage Funding. Turning an AV Innovation into a Product.

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Angel Capital Association

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

For the early stage community, the amendments include a very useful provision that excludes “Demo Days” from being considered general solicitations provided certain conditions are met. Dror was the co-founding chair of the PLI VC Law program and hosted their first blockchain legal program.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

TC Sessions: Mobility will feature speakers on the main stage, a bevy of startup exhibits, demos, networking and a live pitch-off with a pretty sweet prize. Buy your general admission or early-stage startup demo package today before prices increase. How to Land Early-Stage Funding. Turning an AV Innovation into a Product.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2022

TC Sessions: Mobility will feature speakers on the main stage, a bevy of startup exhibits, demos, networking and a live pitch-off with a pretty sweet prize. Buy your general admission or early-stage startup demo package today before prices increase. How to Land Early-Stage Funding. Turning an AV Innovation into a Product.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 6, 2016

This posts analyses US headquartered information technology companies which VC-led investment rounds, except for the $793M Series C in Magic Leap , which I excluded as an outlier. VCs invested about $2B in January and February 2016. Was VC activity in February an aberration or representative of a deeper change in sentiment?

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Don Dodge

APRIL 6, 2015

I remember the Demo Day in 2007 where DropBox presented to about 30 Boston area Angels and Venture Capital investors. None of the local VC firms invested. from Sequoia Capital and have gone on to raise over $1 Billion from VC investors. Classic VC funding is a well-understood model. They got their initial funding of $1.2M

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Fortunately, there are a wide range of organizations that specifically want to support you, not just the VC community. VentureCrush FG. “ Pando Daily wrote : “VentureCrushFG takes no equity, there is no co-working space, and no demo day. Non-Dilutive Financing: Everything You Need to Know. Most applicants come from referrals.”

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Today I’m handing her the largest A-round check I’ve ever written as a VC as we lead her $10 million A-Round at uBeam. They demoed the electricity transfer with a physical device that looked like something that would never be allowed on an airplane. When I first met Meredith Perry she was 24. But it seemed to work.

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Jason Malki

JULY 26, 2023

I had the pleasure of interviewing Manuela Seve a Brazilian-born, Los Angeles-based tech entrepreneur with a futurist mindset and a background in finance. She is the CEO and co-founder of alphaa.io , a women-led Web3 company that is revolutionizing fan engagement across sports, fashion, CPG, tourism and more.

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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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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

David Teten is founder of Versatile VC and writes periodically at teten.com and @dteten. 5 innovative fundraising methods for emerging VCs and PEs. Paulina Symala is a consultant at Oliver Wyman and a past intern of Versatile VC. At Versatile VC , we’ve used all these models. Preqin (free demo). Paulina Symala.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Fortunately, there are a wide range of organizations that specifically want to support you, not just the VC community. VentureCrush FG. “ Pando Daily wrote : “VentureCrushFG takes no equity, there is no co-working space, and no demo day. Non-Dilutive Financing: Everything You Need to Know. Most applicants come from referrals.”

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

It was 2009 and it was terribly difficult to get any financing (if you can remember a time like that!) Throughout all of these years I was a full-time VC so Launchpad really came out of evenings and weekends for me. Adam had a full time startup and then was doing consulting (he later raised a VC fund). Demo’d to death.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

Your product demo crushed. At night I had a group dinner where I met 6 new entrepreneurs and hung out with some old friends from law firms, banks and other VC funds. You had an amazing meeting with an investor. The dialog was great. They told you how much they loved your space.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Startup accelerators are increasingly putting the brakes on demo days. But demo day isn’t a good use of founders’ or investors’ time. Many VCs who sign deals with the top startups from YC actually do so before demo day. Demo day dilutes investor engagement. Demo days are performative.

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Y Combinator

MAY 29, 2019

I don’t come from an investing background or I don’t come from finance at all. We’ve always been into tech world, but we’ve got plenty of friends in finance and one of those friends just out of blue called me one day, and was like, “Mike, I need your help. Right, so imagine you’re a VC.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

It’s demo day season. This morning marked the kickoff of VC firm 500 Global’s Fall 2022 Demo Day, which saw over a dozen startups give their best pitches to prospective investors — and customers. Elsewhere on Demo Day, Lydia.ai walked through its health assessment service for insurance carriers.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2022

For decades, there were several blocks where angels and VC partners camped out at café tables, taking pitches between lattes. DeWitt, who became a VC after selling Drop, Inc. ” There’s an inherent power imbalance when asking a stranger for money, but “VCs should work to earn your trust,” writes DeWitt.

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Gust

DECEMBER 27, 2012

A comprehensive list of things you might want is listed in the answer to What materials or software should I use to pitch a VC? , Blindly sending your business plan to every single angel and VC in the world will have zero effect, and simply clogs the system while annoying everyone.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 19, 2015

I’ve been to many YC Demo Days and I always look forward to them. This trend opposes the broader VC market’s investment patterns. Startups pursuing consumer finance have popped recently, not driven by Bitcoin, but by a wave of founders bringing more sophisticated financial tools to the masses.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

Existing investors Base10 Partners and Gradient Ventures (Google’s AI-focused VC) also participated. This brings the company’s total financing to $54 million. Sales teams can also use it to book demos, increase inbound conversion rates, eliminate manual lead routing and streamline critical processes around meetings.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

To kickstart its operations, the startup has closed a $13 million seed round, financing which co-founder Matt Gialich says will fund Astroforge through its first two missions, including an initial demonstration flight that’s scheduled to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rideshare mission next year.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2020

If so, startup valuations could decline en masse, along with the more exotic areas of startup-related finance. What’s going on in the world of venture debt as VC gets back to form? For the Europhiles amongst us, here’s what’s up with the continent’s VC receipts. Here are 10 favorites from recent Techstars demo days.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

To boost adoption and reduce churn, VC Ross Haleliuk shares four steps PLG cybersecurity companies can take to drive growth and reduce churn , along with multiple tactics that will help teams get started. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. 500 Global’s take on the rising competition among startup accelerators.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

The demo facility at least won’t have major energy requirements to run. With the demo factory set to come on stream in 2023, Solar Foods’ hope is the first consumer product containing Solein will be on the market by the end of next year (or, failing that, in early 2024). . ” Good food and food for good?

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

Soyombo is one of the few founder-cum-investors on the continent, despite his company not being the traditional VC-backed startup the world has become accustomed to. The idea was to invest $25,000 and take the startups through a three-month accelerator program culminating in a Demo Day.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

One reason it attracts the most VC dollars is how expensive building a fintech product can be when factors such as integration, compliance and licensing are considered. Fintech is Africa’s hottest startup segment, and startups here make up the largest percentage of any typical YC cohort — in this case, five out of eight are fintechs.

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David Teten VC

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

” Of course, YC companies typically have very strong decks and get meetings easily with top VC firms. The cover note should include: name, website, elevator pitch , location, revenues (if any), detailed financing history (if any), and precise terms on which you are seeking to raise capital. Include resume highlights.

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 15, 2023

In early-stage VC especially, you get to talk to people at the cutting edge of every vertical in tech, be it finance, housing, healthcare, or education. What should VCs focus on when it comes to finding the “right deals”? What should VCs focus on when it comes to finding the “right deals”?

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