Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 26, 2020

Nathan Heller published an article called Is Venture Capital Worth the Risk? It’s a well-researched critique of the venture industry. The key question he poses is: has the industry become so large that it needs to be disrupted? The evolution of the venture industry parallels the private equity industry.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Venture capital is a popular source of capital for early-stage startups, but it’s definitely not the only one. Debt is an increasingly popular alternative, as is non-dilutive, revenue-based financing. Hurst unfortunately had a power outage so was not available for the entirety of the panel).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

No one likes dilution, and that’s why every founder is looking for alternatives to traditional equity investing by venture capitalists. SaaS securitization will disrupt VC’s biggest returns this coming decade. million seed led by Caffeinated Capital. to deliver fast cash to SaaS companies. Capchase raises $4.6M

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The company, with bases in both Austin and Australia, was started in 2009 and facilitates exits for millions of online business owners, some that operate on e-commerce marketplaces, blogs, SaaS and apps, the newest data integration being for Shopify, Blake Hutchison, CEO of Flippa, told TechCrunch. in 2020, up from 15.8%

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

As a partner in a fund of funds, I attend a lot of annual meetings, talk with a lot of venture fund general partners and review a lot of investor decks. As I have written many times before, venture is about elephant hunting. How many more e-commerce finance companies can survive and flourish? So, what should venture funds do?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

“Subscriptions are not dying; they are just evolving,” says Chargebee CMO Sanjay Manchanda, who notes that more than half of all SaaS companies plan to roll out usage-based billing by next year. Aydin Senkut, founder and managing partner, Felicis Ventures. Deena Shakir, partner Lux Capital.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

This may seem like a great time to launch a SaaS startup, but the landscape is crowded with well-designed applications that promise “blazingly fast and delightfully simple” experiences, according to seed-stage investor John Chen of Fika Ventures. SaaS needs to take a page out of the crypto playbook. Walter Thompson.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

The key to being able to run a business that isn’t yet profitable (on operating margin) is availability of capital to finance losses and preferably at a cost that isn’t too punitive to the founders and employees. And then of course you need to layer in marketing to understand the true SaaS customer acquisition costs.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

At Disrupt, TechCrunch interviewed Brex’s Dubugras onstage about the company’s recent change in strategy, which involves a stronger emphasis on software and the enterprise. Glyman and Kote shared how they’re working to preserve capital, while Blader offered up some of the advice she’s giving to her portfolio companies.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

and Germany; and “tech” means B2B SaaS/fintech or consumer apps. of venture capital deals. Those companies have garnered only about 2% of all capital invested. A typical VC thesis: “We invest in tech startups in Europe at an early stage.” Thirty-four VC firms in OpenVC call themselves “early stage.”

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TechCrunch

JULY 17, 2022

Last week, I talked with Airbase founder and CEO Thejo Kote about the fact that the company just secured $150 million in debt financing led by Goldman Sachs. Companies close credit lines all the time, but the reasons behind the moves are often more interesting than the financings in and of themselves. Hence its recent debt financing.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

3 disruptive trends that will shape marketing in 2022. 3 disruptive trends that will shape marketing in 2022. In the first post in a series that examines investment management, Teten and Stefanova give us a look at the current state of the industry and explain why it is primed for disruption. Walter Thompson. yourprotagonist.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

Benoit Wirz , partner, Brighteye Ventures (an active edtech-focused venture capital fund in Europe that backs YouSchool, Lightneer and Aula). Charles Birnbaum , partner, Bessemer Venture Partners (a generalist fund with portfolio companies including Guild Education and Brightwheel). Jerry Lu , senior associate, Maveron.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

It also plans to soon offer embedded finance products. In his view, Melonn has a “fresh approach to disrupt e-commerce behind the scenes — everything from SaaS and financing to fulfillment enablement” with a tech platform and growing fulfillment network that “is superior to anything else on the market.”.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

million seed round to further its insurance payments platform that combines financing, collections and payables. Ascend is offering point-of-sale financing to enable insurance brokers to break up those commercial payments into monthly installments. Bill Trenchard, partner at First Round Capital, met Wynn while he was still with Sheltr.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Julio Vasconcellos is the managing partner of Atlantico , a venture capital fund focused on Latin America. Much has been written about Latin American fintechs, which last year drew 40% of the region’s venture capital investment. Julio Vasconcellos. Contributor. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

New York-based Declaration Partners and European growth investor Kinnevik co-led the financing, which also included participation from WndrCo and existing backers W. Berkley and Menlo Ventures. Like any legacy industry being disrupted there are many players trying to ride the wave of ‘embedded’ by rebranding their 1.0

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

If you’ve been to Disrupt before, you’ll remember we had a stage or two or three. New for Disrupt 2023: The Security Stage , for those of us who love us some hacking, security, and everything in between. Finance, meet regulation. Regulation, finance : Ira Lam explores CeFi and DeFi in the face of regulation.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Venture capital continues to flow into Latin America at a staggering rate. Mauricio and I had this bold vision of backing as many disruptive entrepreneurs as we could, and leveraging our previous backgrounds and experiences.”. Why Latin American venture capital is breaking records this year.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

Kovi today is announcing it has raised $104 million in a Series B round of funding co-led by Valor Capital Group and Prosus Ventures. Quona, GFC, Monashees, UVC Investimentos and Globo Ventures also participated in the financing, in addition to Tinder co-founder Justin Mateen and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel through his family office.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The rising tide of venture capital that has lifted startups around the world also splashed over America’s Midwest this year. From the American heartland, a startup boom. Image Credits: Nigel Sussman (opens in a new window). Image Credits: Nigel Sussman (opens in a new window).

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2021

Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Capital led the round, marking the first time the New York-based venture firm has led an investment in a Brazilian startup. Atlantico participated in the financing as a new investor in addition to all existing backers including Monashees, Kaszek and OneVC. Image Credits: Pipo Saude.

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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.

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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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

While I think BNPL is disruptive, here to stay and might be helpful to many consumers and merchants alike – there’s no denying that it is still a form of debt and those who lack self-discipline could easily find themselves spending beyond their means and in over their heads. Nigerian fintech Grey Finance got backing from Y Combinator.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Remote’ is fundamentally disadvantaged,” said Phil Libin, founder and CEO of startup studio All Turtles and mmhmm at TechCrunch Disrupt. Each day, I get up, brew some coffee, and go to work. “We’re not remote, we’re distributed. We’re distributed intentionally in the same way that the internet is a distributed system.”.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Forgive the incoherence, we are entering TechCrunch Disrupt silly season over here. Also, there’s just a few hours left to apply to volunteer at TechCrunch Disrupt and attend for free , if you want to get your application in for next week! Meanwhile, Becca notes that venture capital has been on a roller coaster this year.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2022

Configuring a robot to mix cement is easy, but delivering a CementTron 3000 to a job site, training employees on its use, and keeping it maintained are not the kinds of disruptions builders are looking for, especially when margins are so thin and experienced workers are hard to find.

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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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

To pull car dealers into the 21st century with a snazzy end-to-end automotive SaaS platform like the one he helped develop inside Tesla. Accordingly, the company is today announcing $250 million in Series D financing that bumps its valuation a year ago from $1 billion to $3.5 Alkeon Capital and Durable Capital co-led the round.

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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. IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Mark Volchek, founding partner, Las Olas Venture Capital. Parekh, managing partner, Secocha Ventures. Traditionally, it’s been known for travel/hospitality, healthcare tech and real estate tech, but I’m already seeing emerging trends around blockchain/crypto, fintech, remote work and even some traditional enterprise SaaS.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Via TechCrunch by Arman Tabatabai: Venture capital has been flooding the various subverticals under the robotics umbrella in recent years, and the construction space is one of the largest beneficiaries. Finishing is the ripest for disruption. Any other thoughts you want to share with TechCrunch readers?

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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. IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 21, 2022

And fintech is still taking almost a fifth of all venture capital dollars. Cobbling together different platforms for these separate functions creates friction for finance users. YC-backed Arc, a digital bank for ‘high-growth’ SaaS startups, lands $20M Series A. Expensify), and banking services (ex. Seen elsewhere.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2023

Apply to Startup Battlefield 200 anyway — and announce your public debut at TechCrunch Disrupt! The only unicorn born in Q1 was Egypt-based MNT-Halan, which in early February raised $260 million in equity financing at a $1billion valuation, Mary Ann and Christine report in their look back at the first quarter of the year.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 13, 2022

Houze also announced that it is close to completing a new venture capital fund in order to launch new products like Houze Portal, Houze Super App, and Houze Finance. All of these services are integrated and linked in Houze, giving users a smooth experience by combining the aspects into a single platform.

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