TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Today, TechCrunch is hosting TC Spotlight: Austin — a virtual event highlighting the innovation, investment and entrepreneurship in the region. In true TechCrunch fashion, part two is a pitch-off with an amazing group of of founders from the Texas region. The pitch-off is split into two segments. Register here for free.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 10, 2023

Stories, Slides, and Data Primary data set of public 3-minute pitches and 2-minute Q&As I have spent more than a decade coaching thousands of people on how to tell stories. As a result, I began meticulously cataloging the pitch conversations I listened to and ended up with nearly four hundred thousand words in transcript data.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

To fill this gap, Heartbeat Health , founded by Dr. Jeff Wessler, has raised more than $30 million , developing a digital data layer that uses telemedicine, remote diagnostics and digital heart health programs to give patients and clinicians a more proactive way to stay healthy. Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

Today, we’re taking a closer look at the pitch deck it used to raise its pre-seed round. We’re looking for more unique pitch decks to tear down, so if you want to submit your own, here’s how you can do that. . Well, that’s the world Five Flute wants to live in. The company raised a $1.2 Slides in this deck.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

If you’re working in hardware development, there’s not a lot of options for collaborative work — at least not until Five Flute came along. In a nutshell, Five Flute is an issue-tracking platform for anyone that develops physical products. We want your pitch decks for our Pitch Deck Teardowns!

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

Enter LiquidStack , a company that’s spinning out from the cryptocurrency hardware technology developer Bitfury Group with a $10 million investment. and research and development in Hong Kong, according to a statement. billion last year.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

What’s a poor, freshly minted developer to do when they’re out of coding boot camp but don’t have any real-life experience? Oh, yeah, pitch decks and the tearing down thereof. I’m always on the lookout for more pitch decks we can share with our TechCrunch readers. You step into the world of simulation.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Register The Malaysian Technology Development Corporation (MTDC), a company that is wholly-owned by Khazanah Nasional Bhd, has joined Gobi Partners in co-investing $1.16 million (RM5 million) in Pitch Platforms Sdn Bhd (pitchIN). Their investment was also expected to bring more growth to pitchIN.

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StartupNation

MAY 31, 2021

A business pitch is a presentation put together to entice an investor or group of investors. The goal of your pitch is to secure funding to proceed with your value proposition so you can take your idea to the market. Remember, the pitch process is about getting investors to back people ; it’s not about backing products and markets.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Investors are spending 24% less time looking at pitch decks in 2022, compared to 2021. It’s pretty rare that I get to talk to someone who is as big of a pitch deck nerd as I am, but when I was finally able to nerd out with the research lead at DocSend , how could I not? Your investor has an investment thesis.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

million at a $12 million valuation , and I managed to talk it into letting me share its pitch deck with you to see how the company wove its story to its investors. We’re looking for more unique pitch decks to tear down, so if you want to submit your own, here’s how you can do that. . The company recently raised $2.5

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

For this week’s Pitch Deck Teardown, I’m (virtually) traveling to Sweden to take a look at the $3 million seed round raised by developer tool startup Encore. The company is creating what it calls a software development platform for the cloud. Slides in this deck. 1 — Cover slide. 18 — Diagram slide.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2021

You can still shoot your shot to pitch to an amazing panel of judges and thousands of TC viewers. TechCrunch editors will select 10 founders from around the world to pitch on stage July 9th. Without further ado, here are your judges for the Early Stage Pitch-Off: Ben Sun, Primary Venture Partners. Apply here.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Personally, I find pitch events to be a little bit contrived. For the most part, while the companies may be interesting, the actual pitches are usually so-so. For the most part, while the companies may be interesting, the actual pitches are usually so-so. Furthermore, you should be able to give your pitch to anyone sans deck.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

For most of the Information Age, companies that wanted to scale invested in server farms and hired teams to keep them running. At one of my first startup jobs, I walked in one day to find two sleeping co-workers who’d spent the night configuring servers at a co-locating facility 60 miles away. PitchBook found that CVCs played a part in 56.2%

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

Open source has become a major force in the world of IT, and today a startup that has built a profitable operation by developing business management software on the principle is announcing a sizable secondary investment on the back of that growth. He added that this investment values the startup at over €2 billion (or over $2.3

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2022

in one before, but Card Blanch claims to have a fresh take on the concept and closed just shy of half a mil worth of angel investments with a very elegant deck. We’re looking for more unique pitch decks to tear down, so if you want to submit your own, here’s how you can do that. . Let’s dive right in! Cover slide.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Someone’s having a good day : Jasper, which calls itself an “AI content” developer, raised its first round of funding ever — and a big one at that, at $125 million, to give it a $1.5 He also provided more info on the firm’s recent giant investment in our favorite controversial founder, Adam Neumann. Christine and Haje.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The average new business pitch costs $450,000. You can’t afford to lose a pitch or (even worse) win a pitch that’s not the right fit for your business. So lets start with these six elements of a pitch response: Values: Your team aligns with the Brand’s value system. Process: Leading a pitch from end to end.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JANUARY 30, 2023

Even with the right people and strategy, young businesses still need sufficient investment to really hum. But that’s where Investment Ready comes in, it wraps around young businesses and prepares them with the confidence and capability to pitch to different investment sources. investment-ready.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 8, 2021

This year, investors pumped a record amount of venture capital into the world’s startups: In Q2 2021, VCs invested $156 billion, upping that to $158 billion in Q3. Don’t be afraid to just go for the teeth of the dragon, so to speak,” said Berdichevsky, who led the development of the Tesla Roadster’s battery pack.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Lisa Wu, a partner at Norwest with investments like Calm, Plaid, Opendoor and Grove Collaborative, has a message for founders: Think like a VC during your pitch presentation. After all, accepting capital isn’t simply adding more money to your balance sheet.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

One of the most popular activities at a TechCrunch conference is watching top-notch early-stage founders square off in a pitch competition. Seriously, who doesn’t love a pitch-off? And the Crypto Pitch-off is just one more compelling reason to go to TechCrunch Sessions: Crypto on November 17 in Miami.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

There’s no easy fix, but an emerging cohort of startups is pitching software as a way to potentially anticipate — and respond to — market shocks. billion in venture funding for supply chain startups, including Sensitech, Emerson and Project44 , which in June raised $202 million as part of an investment led by Goldman Sachs.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

We’ve all embraced video calls, whether it is with our work colleague or our physician, but for developers, it remains a challenge to build both real-time audio and video features into products. The company provides APIs so developers can add those features into products or websites using just two lines of code. Image Credits: Daily.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Investors are well aware of what’s at stake in this stage of a startup’s development and expect to sign term sheets only for the cream of the crop. Based on real-life investor and founder data from DocSend’s new report, “ The Anatomy of a Series A Raise ,” we’ve gleaned three takeaways to consider before you start your Series A fundraise.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 2, 2023

I had a strong personal network and brand in the Hong Kong region, and I had no trouble finding local entrepreneurs who wanted to pitch Fresco Capital for funding. Soon, I found myself with an extremely packed schedule but little excitement about any prospective investments. Time flew by, and I was finally producing results.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2021

The fund is commemorating its new identity by investing an additional $300 million in emerging technologies and carbon neutrality via two early-stage funds: the Toyota Ventures Frontier Fund and the Toyota Ventures Climate Fund. . The fund is accepting online pitches on its website from entrepreneurs seeking early-stage funding.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

In late 2020, a group of Stanford students banded together to create Stanford 2020, a venture fund solely to invest in their fellow classmates’ ventures. million for the debut investment vehicle — waitlist not included. million seed funding round led by Initialized Capital, with investments from GSR, NEA and Canaan.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MARCH 1, 2020

As i2E has been closing our latest round of new investments over the last few weeks, I am reminded of how in the startup world and the venture industry, investment events attract attention. I don’t usually write about investment events. i2E had previously led several seed investments in the company.)

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

In more than two decades as an angel investor and early-stage company scout, I’ve met with hundreds of entrepreneurs seeking funds and sat through an equal number of slide deck pitches. From my point of view as an angel investor and former entrepreneur, here are five essential factors I look for when considering my next investment.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JANUARY 4, 2022

The largest early-stage investor in the region, Ben Franklin provides investment capital, business support services, BIG IDEA Contests, and Startup Boot Camps to emerging tech-entrepreneurs and small manufacturers located in central and northern Pennsylvania. WE INVEST IN INNOVATION. . For more information: www.gigandtake.com.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

APRIL 2, 2021

“Communities seeking to grow their economy need to understand the impact entrepreneurship and small business play in economic growth.” — Grow Your Own: Entrepreneurship-based Economic Development for Local Communities, Dell Gines, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. Jess suggests starting with local economic development offices.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

AI-driven meeting assistants were a familiar pitch during a pandemic era of remote meetings, work-from-home setups and general digital transformation. For instance, Avoma developed software that automates meeting workflows to make conversations more actionable (or so the company claims).

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

MARCH 21, 2024

PureLine Putting (Michael Irvin), creators of a revolutionary putting aid for golfers, clinched the runner-up position, walking away with $5,000 to further develop their product. Since February 2008, ECGRA has invested more than $55 million in Erie County turning gaming revenue into transformative investments in Erie County, PA.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 4, 2023

Video pitching. I see an uptick in pitching via pre-recorded video. We used Loom to pre-record our pitch and share it with potential investors. It’s a great way to personalize a pitch deck and share it with interested parties. Here’s what they shared. I see this as a new trend that will only grow over time.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

AUGUST 14, 2020

As with any movement, there comes a day when grand visions need to either remain that, or be executed on so that they may evolve to the next stage of development and maturation. In doing this work, there has been a significant amount of investment of both funds and time in moving entrepreneurship activities forward.

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