TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Among other topics, Lee will talk about how Guild Education met her criteria for investment before the duo offer feedback on startup pitches submitted by audience members. India’s path to SaaS leadership is clear, but challenges remain. ” India’s path to SaaS leadership is clear, but challenges remain. PDT/2:30 p.m.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2023

Atlanta, Georgia has emerged as one of the buzziest new hubs in the nation, with booming enterprise, cybersecurity and SaaS sectors, as well as a slew of investors looking to back the hot new startups coming from the city. Some well-known companies from Atlanta include Calendly, Kabbage, One Trust and FullStory — all unicorns, by the way.

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TechCrunch

JULY 17, 2022

So when you pitch, be sure to point out what makes your company/news stand out. So while we’re still getting pitched (a whole bunch), we more than ever are reviewing pitches with a bigger-picture lens and hope you’ll do the same when you’re doing the pitching. Why is it unique? Why would our readers care? Weekly News.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

For me, this was particularly interesting because it helped me better understand that an optimal pricing structure can be key to a SaaS company’s initial success. For starters: he’s never had an opportunity to pitch at a VC firm where there was another Black person in the room. API startups are so hot right now.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2015

Try to imagine if you *didn’t* already know Amazon and the company walking into VC meetings telling people they were going to disrupt the selling of all goods starting with books but then extending into electronics, apparel, toys and so forth. ” Let’s start with some basics. And here’s the thing.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

. “There is such a funding gap in this space – lots of funding going into research, but not into the seeding of these projects, empowering youth across the world, thinking how to disrupt and re-engineer industry.” ” She emphasized that while the efforts of bodies like the U.N.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

With that in mind, SaaS startup Wingback made a fractional head of remote its first hire, “and it was the best decision we made,” said Yann Leretaille, co-founder and CTO. “A Before you can deliver on any of the promises in your pitch deck, you’ll need to build a team. By this point, most startup employees have worked remotely.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Disrupting the traditional MBA may be the most tried, tested and tweaked edtech startup pitch out there. Flockjay, a bootcamp startup that helps laid off people and job seekers break into tech, recently cut half of its own employees amid a broader pivot to a B2B SaaS platform.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Supply chain disruptions — triggered by factors including demand surges, high transportation costs and pandemic-related lockdowns — are expected to continue well into next year, experts predict. Companies are experiencing the brunt of the impact, with 36% of small businesses responding to a 2021 U.S.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Aileen Lee and Rachel Carlson walk through Guild Education’s early pitch deck. Aileen Lee and Rachel Carlson walk through Guild Education’s early pitch deck. Remote’ is fundamentally disadvantaged,” said Phil Libin, founder and CEO of startup studio All Turtles and mmhmm at TechCrunch Disrupt.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 2, 2021

E-commerce roll-ups are the next wave of disruption in consumer packaged goods. E-commerce roll-ups are the next wave of disruption in consumer packaged goods. There’s certainly no shortage of SaaS performance metrics leaders focus on, but NRR (net revenue retention) is without question the most underrated metric out there.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

With Colorado as an ideal pilot community, the GCVF team has helped grow multiple staple initiatives in the rural Colorado startup ecosystem, including West Slope Startup Week , Telluride Venture Accelerator , Startup Colorado , Energize Colorado Gap Fund , and the Greater Colorado Pitch Series. 20% initial ownership.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

With Colorado as an ideal pilot community, the GCVF team has helped grow multiple staple initiatives in the rural Colorado startup ecosystem, including West Slope Startup Week , Telluride Venture Accelerator , Startup Colorado , Energize Colorado Gap Fund , and the Greater Colorado Pitch Series. 20% initial ownership.

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2021

Meanwhile, read on for highlights from our chat with Olson, Grooms Lee and Adler, and then stay tuned at the end for a recording of the full session, including our live pitch-off. At a high level, WalkMe is a SaaS business, which means that when we digest its results we are digging into a modern software company. Investors are.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

TechCrunch Disrupt — the original startup conference — returns to San Francisco on September 19–21. Plan ahead for Disrupt 2023 and bank big savings Early action deserves to be rewarded. What can you expect at TechCrunch Disrupt? Is your company interested in sponsoring or exhibiting at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

This year, we’re adding a new feature: Our guests will analyze pitch decks submitted by members of the audience to identify their strengths and weaknesses. Also, we’re adding a new feature to Extra Crunch Live — our guests will offer advice and feedback on pitch decks submitted by Extra Crunch members in the audience!

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

TechCrunch Disrupt 2022 kicks off in just four days, startup fans. Here’s a handy how-to guide for everything you can expect at TechCrunch Disrupt presented by AT&T on October 18-20 in San Francisco at Moscone West (Oct. Transcribe TechCrunch Disrupt with Otter.ai! We can’t wait to greet you. 21 online). 2:10 p.m. –

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

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. We have also invested in marketplace business models in products disrupting travel, pets, solutions for SMBs.

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FundersClub

JUNE 1, 2017

" Medha Agarwal of Redpoint Ventures shares a market landscape and post on computational biology and the potential for machine learning to disrupt healthcare across the value chain in " Radical Approaches to Healthcare: Our Thesis in Computational Biology. zip code in " Introducing Territory Planning in Mattermark.

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StartupNation

MARCH 10, 2021

Just recently, BrandXR received funding deals in the Entrepreneur Elevator Pitch competition. Founded in 2016, Groundspeed Analytics is disrupting the $300 billion insurance industry. Their mission was recognized at the a2Tech360 event, where they won the Social Impact Pitch Competition. Groundspeed.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield startup Cellino Bio raises $80M : This is the leading story from startup-land today, I reckon. Just a few months after winning our own startup pitch competition, Cellino has raised a massive Series A that should provide the startup with plenty of runway. Startups/VC.

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OurCrowd

MAY 20, 2022

EVERY aims to disrupt the $200B egg market by producing egg protein for cooking without chickens. It will have a hackathon focusing on energy resources, autonomous capabilities, safety and reliability challenges, and a startup pitch track. “Animal agriculture emits more greenhouse gases than the entire transportation sector.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 18, 2021

“While all startups are certainly not focused on being disruptive, they often rely on cutting-edge technology and processes to give their customers something truly new,” Zeile writes. Edtech investors are flocking to SaaS guidance counselors. Edtech investors are flocking to SaaS guidance counselors.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

We organized a series of HBS Angels pitch nights, joint with a range of affinity groups for HBS Alumni: HBS African-American, HBS Healthcare, HBS LBGT, and HBS Latino. Numerous thoughtful people are worried about how technological disruption will destroy jobs. In its first full year of operation, VCAP attracted 159 applicants.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

We organized a series of HBS Angels pitch nights, joint with a range of affinity groups for HBS Alumni: HBS African-American, HBS Healthcare, HBS LBGT, and HBS Latino. Numerous thoughtful people are worried about how technological disruption will destroy jobs. In its first full year of operation, VCAP attracted 159 applicants.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

The innovation offered by machine learning techniques are real, and they will changed the SaaS world. domain name and inserting the words machine learning/artificial intelligence to your sales pitch isn’t sufficient to succeed. How can startups use machine learning to their advantage? But just plugging those APIs, buying the.ai

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

In the startup world, it’s pitch decks, not business plans that get companies funded. Making a pitch deck is an art, a science, but most importantly, a story. Angel investors and venture capitalists have also learned to expect a standard pitch deck as the first filter when evaluating a company to invest in. Demo Day pitch.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Register for TC Sessions: Justice to meet some of the visionary female founders who are part of the Black Female Founders organization and watch them take part in a live pitch feedback session with TechCrunch during the event. We joined forces with Black Female Founders , and they nominated an impressive posse of early-stage startup founders.

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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. “It’s attention.”

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

Outplay helps them scale more easily with tools that automate campaigns, identifies the likeliest prospects and uses data to decide the right time to send pitches. The previous outbound sales tech disruption happened in 2011 when Outreach and Salesloft were founded. The company announced today it has raised $7.3

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

If you look at SaaS, there are 53 times more companies than 10 years ago, with hundreds of tools available in any given category — think of email marketing, for instance. This is what my company does, and that’s how I pitch it. Seven hours of video. Top lecturers.”. This is also what I am doing with my company, Wynter.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Its big pitch is that it has built the tools to make it easy for companies to build their own training and learning materials, incorporating tests, videos, slide shows and more, and by making it easier for companies to build these themselves, the materials themselves become more engaging and less stiff.

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2023

My ears perked up when I got this pitch, as it’s a concept that hasn’t come across my inbox in all my years of covering fintech. Comparing data from F Prime’s fintech index with valuation marks for SaaS and cloud companies in terms of historical revenue multiples, it appears that fintech companies are being clobbered a little too much.

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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. Pitch Deck Teardown: BoxedUp’s $2.3M

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

But this hasn’t stopped startups from trying to disrupt the status quo. Besides Prezi, there’s Pitch , a deck creation suite from the founders of Wunderlist. PowerPoint has over one billion installs and 500 million users alone, thanks to Microsoft’s longtime bundling of Office with certain Windows editions.

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Angel Capital Association

AUGUST 13, 2021

I learned something new with each pitch deck, each conversation with a Founder, each term sheet, each stock purchase agreement, each follow on financing, each exit event… Of course I expected that by angel investing I would learn about angel investing. A lot of new things. I am especially interested in FinTech and SportsTech verticals.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2022

A pitch deck is just part of the story, writes Matt Van Itallie, founder and CEO of codebase analytics company Sema. ” Last week at TechCrunch Disrupt, Moussouris and Brett Callow, threat analyst at Emsisoft, spoke about the need to invest early in locking down their systems, starting with MFA.

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