Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

I started showing my partners more deals that I found interesting and doing loads of analysis on the future of markets I thought were ripe for disruption. I have always believed that TV was ripe for disruption. Finance where needed. Venture capital is an industry best served up from 7-year aged casks.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

Raising venture capital is rarely an easy lift for startups, but 2022 is turning out to be a more challenging year than we’ve seen for some time. As venture capital continues its slowdown after an aggressive 2020 and record-breaking 2021 , it’s clear that early-stage founders looking for their first dollars will require a new approach.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

When you’re building a startup and thinking about what it’s going to take to raise your first dollars in a slowing capital market , perspective can be very helpful. In this case perspective, like any story worth telling, has two sides — founder and venture. TechCrunch Disrupt is back in person on October 18-20 in San Francisco.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

This is part of a series on building your career in venture capital: Reading list for working in private equity/venture capital , including all of the major online communities, programs, and educational options for people studying VC. How to get a job in venture capital. The Part-Time Practitioner.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Pan-African focused venture capital firms Samurai Incubate Africa, Future Africa and Consonance Investment Managers led the round. Individual investors like Stephen Pagliuca, the chairman of Bain Capital and Justin Kan of Twitch also participated. Today, the company is announcing that it has raised $2.7 Then the $1.5

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

Toni Eliasz is the program manager of the Disruptive Technologies for Development Program (DT4D) that supports the innovation and adoption of technology-driven solutions in World Bank Group operations. The education sector is also prominent in Singapore’s ecosystem. Toni Eliasz. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Startups digitizing B2B e-commerce and retail in Africa continue to grab the headlines after the pandemic paved the way for widespread offline retail and commerce disruption. The Series B funding is coming almost eighteen months after raising $10 million co-led by Partech Africa and the International Finance Corporation (IFC).

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

The Kauffman Foundation found 47% of US tech founders held degrees in STEM while 34% held degrees in business, finance, and accounting. Next Canada’s programs offer a world-class education, exclusive events, an expansive network, and more. G Ventures is “France’s First Student-Run Venture Capital Fund.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Recently, it co-led a $350 million Series D round in Argentine personal finance management app Ualá. There is so much innovation and disruption taking place in Latin America, and I believe the business opportunities there have never been stronger. Why global investors are flocking to back Latin American startups.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

Flink , a Mexico City-based neobroker, has raised $57 million in a Series B round of funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. The financing comes just over six months after Flink raised $12 million in a Series A round led by Accel. Since its 2017 inception, the startup has raised nearly $70 million.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2021

Without further ado, here’s a look at what you can expect in August: STARTUP ALLEY EDITION: Edith Yeung (Race Capital) + Laela Sturdy (CapitalG). REGISTER FOR RACE CAPITAL AND CAPITALG. Check out the Startup Alley companies that will exhibit at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 in an episode dedicated to the art of the pitch.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Besides Riverwood, edtech-focused Owl Ventures (which led its $5 million Series A round last June), Endeavor Catalyst and Roble Ventures also participated in the financing. Federico Storani, executive director of Riverwood Capital, is joining UBITS’ board as part of the financing.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Experts say Africa is poised to be disrupted by web3 in a similar fashion that has seen Southeast Asia become one of the best markets for web3. The latter is home to startups like Axie Infinity and Yield Guild Games, which have raised millions of dollars in venture capital owing to the adoption of crypto and play-to-earn models.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Startups qualifying under Startup SG can access cash grants, equity financing, and business loans. The grant facilitates advancing innovative technology solutions, driving startups toward market disruption or creating entirely new markets. This collaborative effort injects crucial financial resources to help the expansion of startups.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

Embedded finance will help fill the life insurance coverage gap. There’s latent demand for life insurance currently unaddressed by much of the financial services industry, and embedded finance can be the solution. Embedded finance will help fill the life insurance coverage gap. 5 predictions for the future of e-commerce.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

million in a Series A round led by Silicon Valley VC firm Ribbit Capital. Kaszek Ventures, QED Investors and Greenoaks Capital also participated in the financing, which brings the startup’s total raised to $36.7 Cora , a São Paulo-based technology-enabled lender to small-and-medium-sized businesses, has raised $26.7

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In a panel discussion at TechCrunch Disrupt, Managing Editor Eric Eldon interviewed Jaime Bott, talent partner at Sequoia, Tawni Nazario-Cranz, operating partner at Signalfire, and Doris Tong, founder and CEO of EQ Talent Group, to learn more about recent shifts in recruiting. Image Credits: Bryce Durbin. Edtech startup Woolf landed a $7.5

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

However, our research indicated that the investment landscape is growing increasingly competitive as venture capitalists become more educated and less skeptical. The technological basis for NFTs will unlock disruptive value systems across gaming, fashion, social and creator economies.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Aileen Lee and Rachel Carlson walk through Guild Education’s early pitch deck. Image Credits: Guild Education. Cowboy Ventures led a $2 million seed round in 2015 while the founders were just starting their entrepreneurial journey. Aileen Lee and Rachel Carlson walk through Guild Education’s early pitch deck.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2021

The startup has agreed to support five nonprofit organizations in its first year: Instituto Ayrton Senna (education), AACD (disability), Gerando Falcões (economic opportunity), Casa 1 (LGBTQ) and Conexsus (sustainable development in the Amazon). . The company also has a social good component.

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 23, 2020

Not microwaved, but actually baked, broiled, steamed – and taste delicious,” Mastrobuoni told OurCrowd’s disruptive food tech webinar last week. Mastrobuoni, then CFO and founding partner of Tyson Ventures, now chief investment officer at Big Idea Ventures, became an early investor. Learn more about Tovala here. .

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2021

The PayPal Mafia is a set of former PayPal executives and employees — such as Elon Musk, a South African, and Peter Thiel, a German American — who have gone on to seriously disrupt not one but multiple industries across tech. ambassadors. That’s just one company.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 10, 2023

Are they making an educated bet or gambling? Solution: develop more accurate mental models of how venture capital works and how humans make decisions under uncertainty. Apophenia is a term that explains this tendency to see patterns in randomness, across domains of finance, art, science, and games of chance.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? VI: Revenue-based financing: The next step for private equity and early-stage investment. This is a summary of: Revenue-Based financing: State of the Industry 2020. Collab Capital.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 2, 2021

RPA market surges as investors, vendors capitalize on pandemic-driven tech shift. E-commerce roll-ups are the next wave of disruption in consumer packaged goods. Just a year ago, digitally native brands had fallen out of favor with venture capitalists after so many failed to create venture-scale returns.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? VI: Revenue-based financing: The next step for private equity and early-stage investment. This is a summary of: Revenue-Based financing: State of the Industry 2020. Collab Capital.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Their discussion, which took place at TechCrunch Disrupt, also addressed the value of using test suites and selecting a reliable continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) framework. What are the things that can help our team move really fast and ship really fast?”

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 2, 2011

This is particularly acute in New York City, where you have several industries undergoing serious disruption, a critical mass of creativity from the cross pollination of ideas, and lots of capital. My sense is that it would be most interesting and most effective over the long term to think about educating new developers.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

Ashley Bittner , founding partner, Firework Ventures (a future of work fund with portfolio companies LearnIn and TransfrVR). Jomayra Herrera , principal, Cowboy Ventures (a generalist fund with portfolio companies Hone and Guild Education). Matthew Hartman , partner, Betaworks Ventures. Siegler , general partner, GV.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Mark Volchek, founding partner, Las Olas Venture Capital. Parekh, managing partner, Secocha Ventures. Mark Volcheck, founding partner, Las Olas Venture Capital. Parekh, managing partner, Secocha Ventures. We spoke to the following investors: Alexandra Wilkis Wilson, co-founder and managing partner, Clerisy.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Sara Mauskopf is the CEO and co-founder of Winnie , a child care and education marketplace helping millions of parents across the United States. That means they required a lot of upfront venture capital investment to disrupt their respective markets. Venture capital alone hasn’t funded some of the largest companies.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

At Qumra, we get excited about companies that disrupt traditional industries while doing good and improving quality of life. Our portfolio includes some great examples such as Fiverr that has disrupted the labor market by unlocking the global talent pool, or Talkspace, which is providing access to therapy to all. More than 50%?

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OurCrowd

MARCH 6, 2021

Hear from: Claire Tomkins , PhD, founder and CEO of Future Family, startup veteran who was formerly an Investment Bank advisor and director of Richard Branson’s Carbon War Room accelerator, who will speak on the category potential and her startup’s disruptive solution. Finance Associate, Payment for Klook (Malyasia). Angeline N.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 1, 2020

In fact, Marc Andreessen once tweeted: "To be AGAINST disruption is to be AGAINST consumer choice, AGAINST more people bring served, and AGAINST shrinking inequality." If I am to really seek out the disruptors, I need to find more people who will actually see upside from disruption, not from status quo. Move fast and break things.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

” Using data sourced from the National Venture Capital Association and PitchBook, Alex used Monday’s column to recap last year’s seed, early-stage and late-stage rounds. . “The huge sum of money, however, was itself dwarfed by the amount of liquidity that American startups generated, some $290.1

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Blue Future Partners, a venture capital fund of funds, recently interviewed me on ESG in venture capital. For example, I’m an investor via ff Venture Capital in: – Plated.com is a meal kit company, delivering you the recipe and fresh ingredients to make a gourmet meal in your own kitchen.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 2, 2020

We plan to raise $100 million for investment in urgent technological solutions for the medical, business, educational and social needs triggered by global pandemics and other health emergencies. Continuity & Disruption Mitigation – Remote working, Distance learning, Robotic Process Automation, Home exercise, Cybersecurity, etc.

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