TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

If you’ve ever had to take out a loan, you know just how many documents are involved in the approval process. Ocrolus is a startup that is hoping to change that with an automation platform that it says analyzes financial documents with over 99% accuracy. It’s a lot. We wanted to create a new way of doing this.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). Paul discussed his perspective having been at SAP Ventures. 406 Ventures.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

To know that while acquiring a business in China will help you globalize faster it most certainly will take you off of your most immediate problems at home and that dominating your national opportunity first is far better than being spread thinly across two complex opportunities. Document management? Bring it on.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 1, 2024

The AI “stack” has emerged with Large Language Models and other important models (like audio, imagery, video, etc) operating in the cloud with well-documented and supported APIs that are available to developers to build on. So if we have healthier capital markets and more innovation than ever, what is up with the venture capital ecosystem?

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

Would you like to work with private equity and venture capital funds? There are relatively few jobs directly inside private equity and venture capital funds, and those jobs are highly competitive. Venture capitalists often come from an operating background. Venture Capital. Asian Venture Capital Journal (free trial).

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

To begin with, it is important to understand some basic facts about the world of entrepreneurial finance: There are many more entrepreneurs than there are investors, with the result that only one company out of every 400 that seeks venture funding actually receives it. One of the primary ones is the referral source.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 19, 2011

I think about that when I do my job as a venture capitalist. They hangout with the same people they grew up with and haven’t ventured much past the world that mainstream media and pop culture has served to them via the broadcasted silver platter of TV. —they’re the ones who fell into the most routine.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Scale Ventures and angel investors from Airtable, DocuSign, LinkedIn and Gainsight also contributed, Boskovic told TechCrunch in an email. ” Flatfile competes with incumbents like Textract, Amazon’s service that can automatically extract text and data from scanned documents, and Microsoft’s data onboarding tool Form Recognizer.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

It was an expensive mistake, and one he wants to help Latin American entrepreneurs avoid with his new venture, Latitud. “I According to PitchBook, venture-backed companies raised $14.8 are starting a venture-backed company, the friction is not there like in LatAm,” Requarth said. even though we had zero activity there.” .

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Working with writers to create documentation. They didn’t focus on building for the web and they lost a great opportunity to win the transition to browser based applications. Joel felt that MySpace completely missed the opportunity to build a platform, and were clueless about the decision they made.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Others saw the pandemic as a chance to launch new ventures. So, make a point to check in with your salespeople on a regular basis, and document your findings so you can pick up on patterns in your customers’ comments. After all, rejection is just part of their day-to-day reality.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

Some of the greatest areas of innovation opportunity are at the intersection of sectors historically segregated , e.g., computational biology. LawCloud offers free legal documents through the Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Organization. Participants have the opportunity to receive prizes reaching $40,000. Many universities (e.g.,

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

Filevine , a startup offering a software-as-a-service product for legal case management, today announced that it closed a $108 million series D round led by StepStone Group with participation from Golub Capital and existing investors Signal Peak Ventures and Meritech Capital. software-as-a-service market.” ” Legal tech suite.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 29, 2025

The Power of AI Agents in Behavioral Health Eleos AI agents fundamentally change the workflow of behavioral health practitioners, improving time-consuming tasks such as clinical documentation, compliance monitoring, and patient engagement. These changes are allowing healthcare providers to spend more time with patients and less on paperwork.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

But in recent years, corporate docs are being drawn up in English to facilitate communication both inside Switzerland’s various language regions and foreign capital, and investment documentation is modeled after the U.S. These are the investors we interviewed: Jasmin Heimann, partner, Ringier Digital Ventures.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

This window of opportunity was driven by the pandemic as we saw a lot of companies become distributed and go remote,” CEO Babcock told TechCrunch. There was no longer the opportunity to tap on people’s shoulders in the office, so much of the training was left to people’s own devices.”.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Most investors reject the opportunity to invest and being told “no” hurts. You should anticipate and plan for business, legal and other questions, and ensure your documents are in proper order. Set a date to close a funding round, stick with it, and circulate proper legal documentation ahead of time. We understand.

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Haystack

JULY 4, 2019

I don’t think it matters what the obligation is — but rather — it’s an opportunity for the founders to supply their most passionate early supporters with information and ammunition to infuse into our conversations with downstream investors, potential candidates, and potential angels and BD prospects.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . That Google document provides cut and pasteable text I can share with other investors, based on their stage, focus, and appetite. . When I was single, I registered for (a lot of) dating websites.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 17, 2023

The initiative includes expanding visa opportunities and proposing tax system revisions concerning stock options to attract and retain highly skilled professionals. According to the report , the Ministry of Economy recently introduced guidelines outlining support measures to strengthen startups in Japan.

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Ian Hathaway

MARCH 31, 2020

Senators led by Amy Klobuchar introduced the New Business Preservation Act to incentivize venture capital formation around the country. It avoids two well-known traps for government-sponsored venture programs by requiring that public funds are matched with private dollars and that capital is deployed by professional investors.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 4, 2023

However, if a company has backing from a venture capital firm, we would recommend that they meet with their venture firms first to review the firm’s existing relationships and/or to get recommendations for lenders based on the company’s stage and preference. For corporate debt, normal venture counsel (e.g.,

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

MONIX was established in 2020 as a joint venture fintech startup between SCBX Group and China’s fintech unicorn Abakus Group. The company’s application provides instant money in just 5 minutes using alternative data, without having to require paper documents or guarantors.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

We know the rules, so you don’t have to spend time talking to lawyers and getting documents — we simplify all that.” Other VCs include Sahil Lavingia of Gumroad, Kinfolk VC, Future Africa, Ventures Platform, Microtraction, Boleh Venture, Voltron Capital, Wuri Ventures and Afropeneur.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2021

GGV Capital, monashees, Canary, Qualcomm Ventures LLC, ONEVC, Peninsula and Norte also participated in the funding, bringing its total raised to nearly $50 million. The company said its APIs verify personal documents and information by searching in public and private databases “quickly and pursuant to the compliance rules.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2021

In a single year, the classic general partner in a venture firm is exposed to around 5,000 pitches … and ends up doing between zero and two deals.”. You want them focused on the opportunity. Weeks or even months of working on your pitch deck could come down to the 170 seconds (on average) that investors spend looking at it.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Money is emotional and complex, and the opportunity within the multiplayer fintech reflects just that. But as ventures as an asset class grows and the documentation around raises gets thornier, the data can sometimes be missing a big chunk of what’s actually happening on the scenes. Data on startups is dreadful.

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Gust

AUGUST 5, 2012

Remember that investors like industries that have a billion dollar opportunity, and a double-digit growth rate. It always amazes me how an entrepreneur can define his market opportunity so broadly, and then assess his competition so narrowly in the next breath. Show breakeven and growth assumptions. Exit strategy.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 18, 2024

Still, there are a lot of downsides to taking venture money—the push to grow at all costs, our desire to be all up in your business, literally, and sometimes, we’re kind of obnoxious. Role When I was a lowly Analyst at Union Square Ventures, I had so many ideas for the founders we worked with.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2010

I’m writing this post as part of my series with Advice on Raising Venture Capital but will file it under Sales Tips as well since it applies equally to both scenarios. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Pitching VCs Raising Venture Capital Start-up Advice Startup Advice. Congratulations.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Interestingly, that same survey — conducted by Caring.com — found that 50% more young adults (aged 18 to 34) had estate planning documents than before the pandemic. The capital infusion from Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures represents the firm doubling down on its first investment in the company in 2020.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Rhys Spence is head of research at Brighteye Ventures, a European edtech-focused fund, where he works with portfolio companies to help address priorities, with a focus on internationalization. Rhys Spence. Contributor. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor. The 2021 edtech avalanche has just begun.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Other participants are existing investors MDI Ventures , GGV Capital and Telkomsel Mitra Inovasi, and new investors including Singtel Innov8. They announced on Monday, November 14, the signing of definitive agreements that will allow KKR to participate as the lead investor in the $48 million Series C funding round.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Ushur today announced that it raised $50 million in a Series C round led by Third Point Ventures with participation from investors Iron Pillar, 8VC, Aflac Ventures and Pentland Ventures. “We optimize our [AI] models for industry-specific taxonomy and document types,” Sadasiva told TechCrunch in an email interview.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Abstract Ventures led the financing, which also included participation from Propel Venture Partners, NFP Ventures, BoxGroup and Precursor Ventures. BrokerTech Ventures (BTV), a group consisting of 13 tech-focused insurance agencies in the U.S. million in a seed round. Are insurtech startups undervalued?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

With a passion for drones and other cutting-edge tech, Burton says he saw an opportunity to use airborne robotics and sensors to capture data about how assets — for example, solar panels and turbines — change over time. Those thoughts align with Energy Transition Ventures’ Neal Dikeman’s. billion in 2022.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

In a prior TechCrunch venture capitalist survey , GSV managing partner Deborah Quazzo said the following: Exit volume is rising already with a wide range of strategic and financial buyers of edtech companies — something that didn’t exist before. Edtech valuations aren’t skyrocketing, but investors see more exit opportunities.

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