TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

It’s a phenomenon Flux has been thinking about for a while now, beginning development in 2019 with a team of employees who worked at places like Apple, Facebook and NASA. Today it’s announcing a $12 million seed raise, led by Outsiders Fund and featuring additional investments from Bain Capital Ventures, 8VC and Liquid2 VC.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2013

I am a VC. But through expressing points-of-view I can raise above the consciousness of my customers (entrepreneurs and limited partners who invest in VC funds) in ways that I couldn’t without breaking through the noise of the hundreds of others of VCs who also have money. I hand out money. How differentiated is that?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The app was originally built by iOS developer Shihab Mehboob, the creator behind a number of apps including the whimsical music app Vinyls and the Twitter client Aviary 2. Mammoth was the result of those efforts, but it has since been acquired by the company that’s now running the project, led by principal developer Bart Decrem.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

The importance of the conference is that it assembles most of the top privately held early-to-mid-stage technology companies in the country (and some globally) as well as most VC’s, growth equity funds and corporate development departments from large industry players looking at technology acquisitions. total funding $1.7

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Meet Revyze , a French startup that is developing a mobile app for iOS and Android at the intersection of education and social. We talked with kids attending 30 or 35 different high schools,” co-founder Florent Sciberras told me. “We In just a few weeks, Revyze managed to attract 35,000 downloads. Image Credits: Revyze.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

based co-founders of another music-licensing company, Music Vine , which has been operating for about six years. Last year, the co-founders realized there was a growing opportunity to address the creator space with a slightly different product. The paid plan offers full catalog access and no download limit.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2022

South Korean startup Bucketplace , which operates a home decorating and interior app OHouse, is looking to continue capitalizing on that trend with its most recent $182 million Series D round, the startup’s co-founder and CEO Jay Lee said on Monday in an interview with TechCrunch. Lee told TechCrunch. Lee told TechCrunch.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

One of the first decisions we had to make in setting up our new VC fund, Versatile Venture Capital , was our CRM and marketing technology infrastructure. . I’m very interested in the tech stack of private equity/VC firms , both to improve the efficiency of Versatile VC and also as a focus area for our investing.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

If you’ve previously downloaded the app, please delete it and re-download to get the latest update. ” Download here. ” Download here. based Apple or Google account to download and use the mobile app. . Getting to Yes and What Happens Next: An Unfiltered Chat with a Top VC , with Mayfield.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 3, 2023

It’s well intentioned on the part of the second or third time founder turned angel, VC, or accelerator mentor. Yet, it’s almost universally not helpful to tell a startup founder to just ship it. But, this is really difficult to do as a startup founder. This is borrowed from the Founder/CTO of HubSpot, Dharmesh Shah.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

“Why do founders want to take the VCs’ money? ” This is a frequent theme of mine when asked to speak to audience about the VC industry. Founders will continue to take the “growth at all options” path that leads to privacy & trust creep at places like Quora. Growth, again. Grow or die.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Ukraine’s startup ecosystem was thriving before the war and making great progress, with Ukrainian startups raising $832 Million in VC funding in 2021. VC Funding was steadily growing before the war and there are more than 50 VC firms continuing to operating in the country. Secured seed finding from SMRK VC.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Quick summary: Be careful not to have too many co-founders. And you need to be careful about giving up control to cofounders as much as VCs. I don’t think VCs care as much about co-founders & economics as people think. Hire admin / office management after you raise a reasonable size VC round.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Startups and VC. With plans to raise a $25 million fund and more than $15 million already invested, PsyMed Ventures focuses on early-stage startups developing psychedelic therapeutics. ” (TechCrunch+ is our membership program, which helps founders and startup teams get ahead.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Your Guide to the Season’s Hottest Gifts from Dell: Download Now and Save up to 39% Off. Silicon Valley narrative is often damaging to budding founders. Former Theranos CEO and founder Elizabeth Holmes is now facing criminal charges. Start with the why , the how , and the what of your product.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Gogii is the creator of the 36th most downloaded application in the history of the iPhone app store – a product called textPlus. If you download the app on your iPhone or Android phone you can save more than $200 / year on text messaging. Gogii came in my office in 2009 with three of the most talented founders I had seen.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The company, based on an open-source project that already has 5 million downloads and 8,000 websites using the service (and hundreds of paying customers, according to the company), is a variation on the browser fingerprinting technology that companies have been using for years. .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Pydantic , the popular Python library and open source data-validation framework used by some of the world’s biggest companies, has a new commercial namesake and the backing of one of Silicon Valley’s most storied venture capital (VC) firms. ” So what, exactly, do developers use Pydantic for? . Pydantic Services Inc.

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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

JANUARY 13, 2021

Once a user downloads an app, Loop will find a quote for the user based on their location. Exchanging data for more flexibility could raise some eyebrows, but the co-founders think their customer-base, largely millennials and Gen Z, are comfortable with the model as it promises fairer prices. A racial reckoning and a tweet.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Startups and VC. Oh no, Quix is developing event-driven applications with Python. TechCrunch+ is our membership program that helps founders and startup teams get ahead of the pack. And just like that, VLC’s download ban in India was lifted , Manish reports. Jaclyn has more. This is where Quix comes in, Mike writes.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

Other VC firms such as Global Founders Capital (GFC), Golden Palm Investments, DFS Labs, Ulu Ventures, Plug and Play and Soma Cap also participated in the seed round. IROKO co-founder Bastian Gotter raises $3.2M million led by pan-African venture capital firm TLcom Capital. seed for new venture, Bamba.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Your Guide to the Season’s Hottest Gifts from Dell: Download Now and Save up to 39% Off. With barriers like these in place, it should be no surprise that 77% of founders are white, and mostly male — despite the attention diversity and inclusion initiatives receive in tech culture today.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Get ready for your close-up : PhotoRoom, a photo-editing app for e-commerce sellers that enables users to remove the background behind objects, has attracted 40 million app downloads and now raised $19 million, Romain reports. Startups and VC. Twitter wants you back : If you were recently laid off from Twitter, would you return?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2022

Startups and VC. Bitmain’s co-founder welcomes crypto regulation to help stabilize things, Rita reports. You wouldn’t download a solar panel from the internet, would you? TechCrunch+ is our membership program, which helps founders and startup teams get ahead. 3 ways to optimize SaaS sales in a downturn. .”

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Your Guide to the Season’s Hottest Gifts from Dell: Download Now and Save up to 39% Off. Silicon Valley narrative is often damaging to budding founders. Former Theranos CEO and founder Elizabeth Holmes is now facing criminal charges. Start with the why , the how , and the what of your product.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The company says it took its two years’ of learning and customer feedback into account, when developing the new design, which is today used not only by parents, but also by pet owners. He wanted to build a more secure alternative, and brought on co-founder and CTO, Roger Ady, a previous director of engineering at Motorola, to help.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2021

The company developed a mobile app for takeout and delivery orders that manages offline customer experiences while delivering an engagement platform to manage loyalty programs, customer feedback and analytics about the online and offline customer base. ” This is where Koinz comes in.

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 29, 2021

In a world where everything is going digital, there is a significant and growing shortage of software developer talent, with 920,000 job openings in the US alone. Tabnine’s AI autocomplete assistant brings relevant code completions right into the developer’s toolbox. Learn More. 1: Fireside chat with Waze investor Yahal Zilka.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

This was the first episode where Jason wasn’t on the show, which gave me the chance to have another VC on the show to discuss deals. Rustic Canyon is an LA-based, but geography-agnostic VC that is currently investing from a $200 million fund. VC Financings: 1. I keep meaning to get him drunk to spill the stories.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

OurCrowd is reinvesting in Scopio , an Israeli company that has developed the world’s first digital cell morphology imaging and AI platform that can scan a full-field image of thousands of cells at 100X resolution, breaking a historical trade-off between resolution and field of view. Once you’ve downloaded it, you should be able to use it.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

Before launching Mercu, the startup’s two co-founders, Jascha Zittel and Elliott Gibb, both worked at Grab. Despite accounting for more than 70% of the global workforce, less than 1% of VC funding gets allocated to startups in the space, they said.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

I’m very pleased today to announce that I invested, on behalf of GRP Partners, in Burstly alongside Rincon Venture Partners , an early stage VC in Southern California whith whom we love to work (and were our co-investors on RingRevenue ). Both of his co-founders worked with him previously and both worked on ad management platforms.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2022

The London-based company, its CEO and co-founder Dev Subrata told me, started out as a customer engagement platform in 2013. “We Today, Fidel API provides identity, data and payments tools that it says gives developers a way to capture consent permissions and “securely” connect payment cards to a service or application. In other news.

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Gust

OCTOBER 2, 2014

As I’ve written about before, You’d Have to be a Big Baby to Complain about Being a VC. You’d imagine that every founder was getting rich. Actually, positive outcomes for founders are quite rare. As a startup founder you rarely have much money in your bank accounts. You have secret doubts about your co-founder.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

And no wonder, lately he and his partners are on a tear, investing out of their $200+ million VC fund. We also spent a fair bit of time talking about the changing nature of venture capital and in particular the hand-on practitioner role of early-stage VC led by accelerators such as YC, 500Startups, Betaworks and the like.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

million in early stage funding to date — with investment coming from European VC firm Earlybird; Dominik Schiener ( Iota co-founder); and the Swedish authentication and payment services company, Thales AB. “We developed our entire AI in Rust which is a safe language. They’ve raised some €9.5 ”

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