TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

The headline speaks for itself : Mike scored a home run with his headline for a story about four European founders turned angel investors who are giving some of their venture capital firm competitors — many they say have not operated a company before — a run for their money. Startups and VC. Vice no more? :

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

Over the past decade, some of the biggest names in the tech, VC, automotive and aerospace industries have poured millions of dollars into developing electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. Will the public widely accept and use it? And we’ll announce a third expert to the mix soon. .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2021

The country has historically been capital-starved, but recent investments from the government and foreign investors have significantly increased access to early-stage venture capital funding. Last October, Elevate allocated $20 million to a fund managed by deep tech VC firm Pacific Channel.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 6, 2024

For Founders Make It Make Sense Venture capital is where innovation meets investment. Founders seeking to tap into this rare mix of reach, influence, and capital must navigate this terrain with an immense amount of intention and foresight. Remember that actors, artists, athletes, and executives work in cycles.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Betting on web3 : Manish’s second story is on Microsoft, which is backing South Korea–based web3 game developer Wemade. Startups and VC. Also, we’ve got an eclectic mix of additional news for ya: Wild tales of smarter sales : Kyle reports that Orum raised $22 million to inject AI into the sales prospecting process. Big Tech Inc.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

“Insurtech startups that do not offer embedded insurance, and rather provide other innovative solutions will still attract VC funding this year, especially if they can show cost-efficient and sustainable growth,” said Nina Mayer, a principal at Earlybird. Wechsler said, “Many firms who dabbled in insurtech (A.K.A.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 17, 2023

Startups and VC Back in January, a $810 million deal fell apart to buy Angry Birds makers Rovio, but the company suggested they were still in talks with other potential interested parties. million in a seed investment round led by La Famiglia VC, Mike writes. Use code “DC” for a 15% discount on an annual subscription!

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2022

A group of four Black women, two with MBAs from Wharton, and the other two with PhDs from MIT, founded Parfait because they believed they could build a better and more efficient way to design and build these wigs using technology. They brought the idea to market and have gotten a $5 million seed investment led by Upfront Ventures.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 10, 2023

The drop off rate depends on each fund’s specific selection and rejection criteria, brand, team size, deal flow quality, volume, and the stage in a VC fund’s life cycle. The standard venture funnel. Or are they just going through the motions to please a VC? See the public memos by Bessemer Venture Partners.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

Can Bitcoin find its practical use case as a currency in Latin America? Verafin would appear to be following suit: in the press release announcing the acquisition , Nasdaq committed to keeping the company’s headquarters in Newfoundland, investing in the local university and contributing to the development of the local ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2022

You can program it and use it for all sorts of things. But it’s also expensive to use at times, with transaction fees jumping up and down. Startups and VC. Reface, a Ukrainian app, did not, instead opting to “use its app as a conduit to circumvent the Kremlin’s media censorship,” TechCrunch writes. Upstash just closed $1.9

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

With $20 million in new funding, it helps fintech companies test and deploy those tweaks without a developer, Kyle reports. million in funding to solve this problem with a no-code way to design online storefronts using just one tool, Christine writes. Startups and VC. Use code “DC” for a 15% discount on an annual subscription!

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

. “Bootstrapping Klaviyo, it came out of this: ‘Hey, if we are super disciplined about finding a problem that someone will pay us to solve, we have a real company,'” said Hallen. Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. Full Extra Crunch articles are only available to members.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

Since then, many of the key trends and themes we surfaced have come to pass: Airtable clinched an $11 billion valuation in December 2021 after raising a $735 million Series F with help from Salesforce Ventures and Michael Dell’s MSD Capital. Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

These factors also give us an indication of where crypto might be going. “We believe that crypto has a big opportunity to digitize cash,” said Patricio Jutard, co-founder and general partner of Newtopia VC. Christine Chang , head of corporate development & ventures, Tribal. It depends on the vertical.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 13, 2021

We’re far better, but I want to make sure that we get traction quickly so that we develop good metrics for the next investment round” Joe stared through the window as the first heavy drops landed on the glass. As a VC and Board member, I am usually involved in this topic thanks to my experience as an entrepreneur and business operator.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

It says it works with seven of the top 10 nationally recognized apartment management companies in the country, in addition to “a majority of the largest owners and developers.” Austin-based Ocelot Capital led its Series C round, which also included participation from Greenpoint Partners, Alpaca VC and Rose Park Advisors.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. LG continued pushing envelopes — albeit to mixed effect. Omoigui advocates for founders to develop their own All-22 tape — a tool used by professional football coaches that allows the viewer to see all 22 players on the field at the same time.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

Sony buys Bungie as gaming consolidates : If you have been reading TechCrunch for more than a few days, you’ve seen us cover the Take Two-Zynga deal , and the recent Microsoft-Activision Blizzard deal. Today, Sony threw another transaction into the mix, announcing that it will buy Halo-maker Bungie for billions. Startups/VC.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2021

Unit itself is not a labor union, but instead helps worker-organizers set up, affiliate and manage a union with a mix of software and human resources. The startup has a step-by-step process of how to virtually unionize a workplace that it offers for free public use on its website. To scale, Unit will have to lean on VC, per White.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

If anything, the business school students need to figure out what their value add is to a design or software development student. Sales and marketing skills and a huge network of customers, capital, and talent are huge value adds--but I know very few students honing that. Kick the students out.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 24, 2022

Stay tuned as my colleagues and I parse the developments. Startups and VC. Reactions have been mixed, Jacquelyn reports. While the outcome was expected — a draft of the decision leaked months ago — the implications for the tech industry are only starting to become clearer. Perhaps it can be forgiven for charging a premium.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. Over the past 4 years LA’s tech fundings have growing at a 30% compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) which is > 4 times the US average VC CAGR (7%). Use any you want. Tell a friend. Forward the data.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 12, 2017

VCs are at the forefront of technological disruption, funding many of the latest cutting edge productivity tools. But what tools are they using themselves to automate their own processes? The VC landscape has gotten much more competitive and crowded over the past several years, and if investors are not using software tools?—?they

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

The founders also took in grant money from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research fund during an earlier R&D phase developing the network tech. But Tor does not do packet mixing — and Nym’s contention is that a functional mixnet can provide even stronger network-level privacy. government. “The U.S.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 29, 2022

The hub also gives you some DJ mixes from the likes of TT the Artist, Carlita, AMÉMÉ, Coco & Breezy, &ME and Austin Millz. Startups and VC. million in a seed funding round to help with a unified API that works with Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams to help customers build apps for a number of use cases.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

The company, which uses mushrooms in its meat alternatives, has raised $6.5 million USD) in a seed round led by Blackbird Ventures, the Australian venture capital firm whose portfolio also includes Canva, Culture Amp and SafetyCulture. million AUD (about $4.8

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2022

In 2021, $330 billion in venture capital was deployed, and only 2% of that number went to companies founded only by women and 15.6% In my view, the correct statistic is about 18%, not 2% — as we should take into account deals that had mixed-gender founding teams. I’ll illustrate using edtech, which had another blockbuster year.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Generative AI , essentially, describes the process of using algorithms to create (“generate”) new content. market in June 2021 , and later went on to add a free “basic” tier to the mix with certain restrictions in place. ” Founded four years ago, Neeva has taken on some $77.5

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TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2021

Use discount code CZECHIA to save 25% off a 1-year Extra Crunch membership. Oleksander Bondarev , associate, Credo Ventures. Ondrej Bartos , founding partner, Credo Ventures. Osman Salih , associate, Bolt Start Up Development a.s. ný , principal, Y Soft Ventures. Vaclav Pavlecka , managing partner, Air Ventures.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

In 2021, one-third of all unicorns created were fintech companies: investor FOMO, increased use of digital payments, BNPL, and other financial services created a gravitational field that attracted more than one out of every five dollars VCs invested last year. Did venture capitalists undervalue startups for decades?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2022

million in a funding round led by UAE-headquartered VC fund Winter Capital. The Gurugram-based startup develops and provides tailor-made learning programs in coding and English speaking. The ERP platform functions as an entry gate for Uolo as it allows the startup to create an ecosystem once schools start using it.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2022

Startups/VC. Anyone who has been in charge of making food on a regular basis for others can attest to the issues that stem from — to pick a few at random — stale meal rotations, boring ingredient mixes and the sheer ennui of uninspired food creation. Hence why it just got fined “€5 million (~$5.6 TechCrunch Experts.

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TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2021

Flywire, a Boston-based magnet for venture capital, filed to go public Monday. Fintech venture capital activity has been hot lately, which makes the Flywire IPO interesting. After that, we’ll discuss valuations and which venture capital groups are set to do well in its flotation. Thanks for reading!

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

But, speaking as someone who’s worked at several startups, Extra Crunch stories contain actionable information you can use to build a company and/or look smart in meetings — and that’s worth something. Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. The VCs who founders love the most.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Mark Volchek, founding partner, Las Olas Venture Capital. Parekh, managing partner, Secocha Ventures. Use discount code MIAMICRUNCH to save 25% off a 1-year Extra Crunch membership. Mark Volcheck, founding partner, Las Olas Venture Capital. David Goldberg, general partner, Alpaca.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

Leading the round, which included a first tranche of €4 million last year, is byFounders VC and private equity firm Finnish Industry Investment (Tesi). We will also have massive news soon about how we’re taking sustainability to the next level, as all of us need to do more to combat the climate crisis”

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