TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2022

By the time you’re reading this, we’ll be two days away from TechCrunch Disrupt! Anyway…speaking of Disrupt and Brex, I will be interviewing co-founder and co-CEO Henrique Dubugras and Anu Hariharan, managing director of YC’s growth fund, YC Continuity, live in a Fireside Chat on October 19! Hello, hello. Soooo exciting!

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2022

If you’re joining us at Disrupt next week, here’s an incentive for turning up early — we’re recording our podcasts live onstage, and you can be in the audience ! Startups and VC. Free fallin’ : Crypto VC deals continue to drop as activity follows bearish market prices , by Jacquelyn. PDT, subscribe here. Fun fun fun!

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

The influence of logistical operations on products leads to various problems for operators, from inconsistent pricing, which stems from a fragmented supply and demand market, to paper documentation and little or no access to financing.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

A significant amount also came from KEC holdings, a NJ based family office led by Jeff Citron, who is known for using technology to disrupt a number of industries. VCs pitch for money, too. No one ever thinks about VCs having to pitch, who they pitch to, or how it works. It's the black box of the startup world.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Why you should set up a board at the seed round of funding I know these days with SAFE documents and rolling convertible notes many founders prefer not to set up a board early on. Further, if you don’t trust that VC to serve on your board then why would you take money from them in the first place? Not really. Legally speaking.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

For later in the year, we’re pretty excited about this panel at TechCrunch Disrupt, where VCs will discuss how you can raise money when you’re not at one of the major tech hubs. Startups and VC. It’s Thursday, May 26, 2022, and we have a busy day of news on the site today.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2022

For most products and services, TAM is presented in nine figures or more, but when you’re sitting around a kitchen table eating cold pizza while planning to disrupt a billion-dollar market, these numbers can create a lot of cognitive dissonance. It was always the last slide we worked on. Image Credits: Bryce Durbin/TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 24, 2022

And on the distant horizon, TechCrunch Disrupt will return to San Francisco on October 18. Startups and VC. In other news, TechCrunch’s Summer Party yesterday was a major success — thanks to all who turned up! I can’t wait to see your smiling faces there. Need reading or listening material in the meantime?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

*. What is the role of a VC for entrepreneurs? I suppose it can be different for every founder and for different VCs but I’d like to offer you some context on what I think it is and it isn’t. They are unique to you and not to each other situation that VC has faced. Document management? ” I responded.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

Here’s how to give it to them For deep due diligence, minimize disruption to maximize success Image Credits: Vectorian (opens in a new window) / Getty Images Putting together a legitimate data room for due diligence is no small undertaking: stakeholders from multiple departments need to contribute reams of documents and keep them regularly updated.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

They also help you surface things like documents that you shared with other people without having to look through a bunch of old emails to find them. Tags: This Week in Venture Capital VC Industry. Enter Xobni. They help you built insights into whom you connect with the most via email or whom you haven’t contacted in a long time.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

The ability to get a document notarized without leaving one’s home suddenly became more of a necessity than a luxury. Pat Kinsel, founder and CEO of Boston-based Notarize, worked to get appropriate legislation passed across the country to make it possible for more people in more states to get documents notarized digitally.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

One of the great joys of doing the web series This Week in VC every week is that I get to spend time with great people debating the issues of our day including how our industry is evolving as well as insights into how companies got started, got their initial traction and dealt with adversities. Oh, yeah.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

A combination of university talent pipelines, top-rated quality of life, growing startup ecosystem, and growing VC funding has Tree Town topping lists as one of the best places to start a tech company or find a top tech job. FreightVerify. Now there is FreightVerify , a supply chain visibility platform for complex supply chains. FreightRoll.

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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. The VC landscape has gotten much more competitive and crowded over the past several years, and if investors are not using software tools?—?they they are definitely at a disadvantage.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

This sees Elevio’s own VC investors exit, and Elevio’s founders and employees incentivised as part of the Dixa family, according to Dixa co-founder and CEO, Mads Fosselius. The deal is said to be worth around $15 million, in a combination of cash and Dixa shares.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

VC and technologists. Today, she might manually extract those parameters, insert them in a Google Sheets document, email that to the system engineer or post it to a workspace like Confluence, and then the GNC team would manually take those values and hard-code them into GitHub or Bitbucket.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

Mediahuis Ventures, the VC arm of European media group Mediahuis, led the round with participation also from Raine Ventures, the VC arm of Raine Group (the investment bank that’s overseeing the sale of Chelsea FC), and Evli Growth Partners. Those two forces have actually been on a collision course for some time.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2023

Elsewhere, we pull back the curtains on Google Assistant reportedly pivoting to generative AI; NASA launching its own streaming service, called NASA+; and Walmart buying VC firm Tiger Global’s remaining Flipkart stake. Temu recently filed a court document in the U.S. law that could lead to greater surveillance online.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The insurance market is still one of the industries least disrupted by technology on the continent. A couple of local and foreign firms invested in the round — co-lead investors P1 Ventures, GFC, and Anim Fund (Founders Fund scout fund), with Costanoa VC, Liquid2 Ventures, Cliff Angels and other angel investors participating.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

The round was led by European VC btov Partners, with participation from FJ Labs, Enterprise Fund (a syndicate of former Atlassian & Docker executives) and Dr. Stefan Heitmann (founder & CEO of MoneyPark and PriceHubble) among others. ” Despite the hype, construction tech will be hard to disrupt.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2011

You just have to deal with some insufferable VCs and journalists for a while. It is the same movie I saw 10 years ago when every VC would say to me, “yeah, I get that you’re an online document sharing service, but what’s going to happen when Microsoft enters the market? They risk little but of course knew better all along.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 22, 2019

What if the person continues with his or her personal agenda or continues to disrupt? The solution I chose was to approach the VC, or another partner of the angel group, and explain the problem. Designated board seats cannot be changed because of investment documents. And what if the beast cannot be tamed? Can you change?

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OurCrowd

JULY 11, 2021

The round is led by MoreTech VC and a leading European carmaker has joined the round alongside a leading testing and tooling company with significant focus on automotive solutions, a Top-10 US insurance company, and a Japanese VC. This investment opportunity is closing soon. A small allocation still remains via OurCrowd. Learn More.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

What if the person continues with his or her personal agenda or continues to disrupt? The solution I chose was to approach the VC, or another partner of the angel group, and explain the problem. Designated board seats cannot be changed because of investment documents. I have had this experience more than once.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2023

Come to TechCrunch Disrupt 2023, and pitch in front of a room full of fellow startups and — definitely more importantly — investors. Startups and VC Ann Lai, a general partner at Bullpen Capital, says she has been fired from the firm, Natasha M reports. May the twoth be with you — we never did understand that joke, to be honest.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

With the fundraising world becoming more democratic and accessible, we should help people find the right path to setting up a venture capital firm and also make sure the right people are entering the VC sphere. Startup investors can be the financial backbone for mass disruption. Are you doing this for the right reasons?

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2021

The Exchange has been riffling through the document since it came out, and we’ve picked up on a few things to explore. 5 innovative fundraising methods for emerging VCs and PEs. 5 innovative fundraising methods for emerging VCs and PEs. Mapping out one edtech company’s $200M bet on lifelong learning. Launching a rolling fund.

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David Teten VC

MAY 19, 2021

Rob Leclerc, Founding Partner, AgFunder , said, “We think of ourselves as a media company with VC as a business model. Convenience , e.g., mobile access; same platform for all documents. An interesting model: ARC Angels Fund , an unusual VC in which the LPs are also collectively the GP. Ongoing information rights.

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