TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Akros Technologies wants to disrupt the current asset management industry via its AI-driven asset management software platform that mines market data for stocks. million from Z Venture Capital , the corporate venture capital wholly owned by Z Holdings , which also owns the Japanese messaging app Line and internet portal Yahoo Japan.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 12, 2022

However, few investors can directly impact the value of the underlying asset, except for private equity and venture capital investors with portfolio acceleration strategies. After gazing long and thoughtfully at the beautiful boats, the short seller asked wryly, ‘Where are the customers’ yachts?’ ”. The HFRI Index returned 18.3%

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2021

People have been discussing the importance of expanding opportunities for women in venture capital and startup entrepreneurship for decades. The prospect of more women writing checks was viewed as a positive for female founders, a cohort that has struggled to attract more than a fraction of the funds that their male peers manage.

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

SwipeRx , a platform for pharma professionals, said Tuesday it has secured a $27 million Series B round led by Indonesia’s MDI Ventures, with participation from the Gates Foundation, Johnson & Johnson Impact Ventures, Susquehanna International Group and existing backers. Certainly, SwipeRx — which raised $6.3

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

This year, we’re pleased to share hosting honors with Mayfield — a global venture capital firm with a people-first philosophy. And of course, it wouldn’t be a TechCrunch event without door prizes to keep things interesting, including TechCrunch swag and tickets to Disrupt 2022 in San Francisco this October. PDT – 8:30 p.m.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Sequoia India and Southeast Asia has launched a new program to help its portfolio’s early-stage founders connect with international operators who can help the startups expand to new markets, the venture firm said, as it aggressively scales its offerings in the key regions. the UK, Europe and other international markets.

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DECEMBER 16, 2013

Peer to peer lending, community supported agriculture, ride sharing, house sharing, fans supporting artists directly, bike share--even the growth of healthy lifestyle activities like yoga and running--it''s not just about new business models. What about programs like Defy Ventures that turn convicts into entrepreneurs?

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. I have been researching this both to support Versatile VC ’s portfolio companies and also as part of research for my new book, To University and Beyond: Launch Your Career in High Gear. 1) Your school. 1) Your school.

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Revolution

JUNE 10, 2019

Yet, technology adoption within the real estate community as a means to fundamentally disrupt how physical assets behave and how transactions occur was lagging up until the last couple of years. quickly making real estate technology one of the fastest growing venture asset classes.

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2023

million in funding led by Better Tomorrow Ventures. Welcome to The Interchange ! If you received this in your inbox, thank you for signing up and your vote of confidence. If you’re reading this as a post on our site, sign up here so you can receive it directly in the future. That’s when we submitted our bids,” Dubugras said. “In

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

By 2017, Duolingo would boast having 200 million users, which was double von Ahn’s goal when he first launched to the public on the TechCrunch Disrupt stage. She said to me, ‘Look, it worked for you to continue getting bigger and bigger checks from venture capital,’” von Ahn said.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

The new funding was led by Alkeon Capital, an American investment firm, and included participation from new investors like Korea Development Bank, and returning backers Altos Ventures and Greyhound Capital. The app launched as a Venmo-like peer-to-peer money transfer platform in 2015, before adding more services.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

The funding comes just months after São Paulo-based Mercado Bitcoin’s Series A round (of an undisclosed amount) in January of 2021, which was co-led by G2D/GP Investments and Parallax Ventures, with participation from HS Investimentos , Gear Ventures, Évora and Genial. JPMorgan and DealMake. Image Credits: Mercado Bitcoin.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

It has now become a materials innovation company disrupting how clothes are made. On any given day, you can find news on the funding of sustainable technology at the small end of towns (every large venture capital firm has at least one alternative meat company in their portfolio) or the ESG responsibility of large corporations.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

million in funding on TechCrunch led by Harmony Partners and Upfront Ventures to double its footprint of 3 cities (New York, Chicago & Washington DC) to 6 in 2016. Fragmented markets can be a great target for disruption. MakeSpace , the leading provider of next-generation storage for consumers, today announced an additional $17.5

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The company announced today $55 million of seed investment in a mix of equity and debt (the company declined to disclose the breakdown), from a group of investors that includes CoVenture and Crossbeam Venture Partners. Gravitiq is looking for companies in all areas of healthcare, like supplements, wellness, baby and first aid.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 13, 2022

The New Angel Cohort is a six-month program powered by Melissa Bradley’s 1863 Ventures and BLK GRVTY , and it’s designed for new investors who want to explore angel investing with tools, education, and experts at their fingertips. Without this support, many early-stage companies wouldn’t get off the ground.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

According to a statement, the company seeks to “disrupt traditional centralized credit infrastructure by providing individuals, businesses and developers with the tools to access credit” via blockchain technology. Masa Finance is the result of these collective ventures. million in pre-seed funding.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2023

D espite the slowdown in venture capital activity, there’s still a mountain of money flowing through startups today. TechCrunch+ is launching a series of posts looking at recent, notable venture rounds, exit activity and other news that relates to the financial side of building new technology companies.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

World Innovation Lab (WiL) led the Series A, with new investors Uncorrelated Ventures and individual investor Jonathan Siegel also participating. World Innovation Lab (WiL) led the Series A, with new investors Uncorrelated Ventures and individual investor Jonathan Siegel also participating. million, Chikazawa said.

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 7, 2021

We are grappling with healthcare challenges, irreversibly disrupted industries, millions of underemployed workers, and devastating racial and gender inequities. Our investor community drives holistic wealth creation, leveraging dollars invested with the significant time and expertise that we commit to our budding ventures.

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Feedough

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

For a startup to exist, you should have a disruptive idea, the right investor, and unique positioning. You not only have to be an innovator but also a leader if you want to succeed in the startup ecosystem. But more than that, you need to be an exceptional leader to lead the startup and make it stay in the market for long.

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2021

Laura González-Estéfani is the founder and CEO of TheVentureCity , an international, operator-led venture acceleration model designed to make the global entrepreneurial ecosystem more diverse, international and accessible to fair capital. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor. Competitor effect. firms and sells to a U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

By now many of you know the Harlem Shake but what you may not appreciate is the broader trend behind the video and it has mirrored my general views on how TV will work in the future. 200 million views. Suck it traditional TV. TV of the future will not always have linear stories. Why would it? Gangnam Style Meets Torso TV. think Apple.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

million in a seed funding round led by European VC firm Octopus Ventures. Also participating was Ascension and D4 Ventures, among others. We’ve all witnessed the rise of disruptive tech-first businesses such as Airbnb and Uber and, if we can rent our houses and cars, why not our wardrobes.”.

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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. Back in the 60’s, JFK make a bold proclimation that we were going to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Two black entrepreneurs, despite living in segregated America, found ways to exercise their creativity and disrupt their worlds. How important could a barbershop be? John Merrick rose from slavery to found the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, one of the largest black-owned businesses in the United States. What did they share?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

Photo by Scott Clark for Upfront Ventures (no, Evan is not standing on a box) Last year marked the 25th anniversary for Upfront Ventures and what a year it was. Photo by Scott Clark for Upfront Ventures A question I often hear is “how is Upfront changing given the current market?” The answer is: not much.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

” TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 is underway! Yesterday, Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski admitted to a reporter that this didn’t feel like the right moment to take his buy now, pay later company public. “I I think it would be nice to IPO when it’s a little bit more sound,” he told CNBC’s Karen Tso. Walter Thompson.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Many startup businesses – tech or otherwise – fail. In our industry we applaud the efforts for entrepreneurs to have tried and we know that today’s failure can bring the experience for tomorrow’s success. Yet I can’t help thinking there are many predictable failures that come from a lack of basic planning. Market Size.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 24, 2022

New and aspiring entrepreneurs often fall victim to impatience and imperfection. When something’s not working perfectly to their standards (or worse, fails), they take it personally and don’t know how to move on to better iterations after the setback. But that’s what startup life is all about. 8 Surprising Strategies for Unstoppable Focus.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin!

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

More posts by this contributor Preparing for fintech’s second decade: 4 moves your firm must make now Over the last decade, fintech has evolved from a label for plucky startups into a sustained movement that has disrupted the traditionally stodgy financial services industry. It is worth first defining how we are categorizing “failure.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

British venture capital firm Draper Esprit recently moved its listing from the AIM to the main board in London, the LSE. Draper has always felt like something of an anomaly from our perspective, a generalist venture capital firm that was itself public. It’s a reasonable point. But the model is not perfect. The future?

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

The latter provides corporate lending, also known as venture lending. As Ido Vigdor, general partner at Viola Credit, says: “There is a disruption happening in financial services. If this fintech play reminds you of Silicon Valley Bank, think again. Instead, Viola provides lending capital to fintech lenders. Western Europe, U.K.,

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FundersClub

JUNE 12, 2017

’ It’s that line of thinking that leads people to create disruptive companies, to solve problems that were thought to be intractable. ” In the end, venture capital is driven by capitalism. That line of questioning led Mittal and co-founder Boris Silver to build FundersClub in the way they did.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Venture capital is basically the complete opposite. I find level setting to be one of the most difficult things to do around any task or skill. Just how good is good? What are the best people accomplishing? How do you measure it? I figured the best way to go about answering would be to ask the best of the best. But I thought I was good!?”

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