Y Combinator

AUGUST 26, 2021

In this guide, YC Managing Director Jon Levy talks about venture debt. He covers what it is, walks through some of its benefits and risks, and gives advice on how to approach the process of taking on venture debt. He also highlights Brex’s newly launched venture debt offering. What is Venture Debt?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

On the other hand, Appruve, which provides an API that verifies user identity, fraud detection and digital documentation, primarily focuses on new datasets that enable or complement traditional government data such as international passports and national IDs.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 25, 2023

The fund, known as Cool River Venture, will primarily focus on investing in technology-related industries. The fund’s registration documents indicate that Zhang is the sole director, and its sole shareholder is a Cayman Islands entity called Galaxy LLC. This is known to be his only public contribution since his resignation.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Ever the adventurer, Lennert soon left Toronto’s advertising scene, at which point his new venture really took off. The venture quickly scaled beyond its initial vision. I just feel so honoured and humbled to have my story documented,” Lennert reflected. And to have my life with my partner documented forever that way.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

Investors: Foundation Capital (lead), with existing investors: Morgenthaler Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Canaan Partners. Investors: FirstMark Capital (Amish Jani)(lead), with existing investors: Accel Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, First Round Capital, Reid Hoffman. Online peer-to-peer lending. 14.7mm in Series D.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 20, 2023

The funding was co-led by iGlobe Partners and SIG Venture Capital, with participation from Pavilion Capital and Qualgro. However, its SaaS solution is now being used across various public and private sectors, enabling government institutes and enterprises to issue verifiable documents digitally.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

It would be months before Foursquare's first round touched off a NYC venture frenzy. While my company may not have lasted, and even though I swore to myself that I wouldn't do another startup--this recently launched new venture is moving forward with the help of some fantastic partners.

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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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The startup provides dashboards from where users can build AI-powered workflows for tasks like claims processing, customer support and appointment scheduling, letting organizations automate both business processes and front-office, customer-facing tasks (if the sales pitch is to be believed). After all, Jiffy.ai

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Dream It

MARCH 1, 2019

TELUS Ventures led the round with participation from ScaleUP Ventures , Panache Ventures , Ontario Centres of Excellence , and several angel investors. MedStack , a Dreamit HealthTech alum whose platform provides a privacy and security compliance solution for healthcare apps, recently closed a $2.4 million round of funding.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

Atlassian, Kima Ventures, Seedcamp as well as multiple business angels also participated. But letting multiple people interact with the same document, form, whiteboard or piece of content is still incredibly hard. When you open a document in Google Docs, you can see several profile pictures in the top right corner.

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Dream It

APRIL 23, 2019

Dozens of healthcare-focused voice tech startups have popped up in the last few years which are backed by top tier venture funds. Boston Children’s Hospital has piloted or promoted dozens of voice applications and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center has supported the development of platforms like Sopris Health and Aiva Health.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 8, 2024

I am frequently shocked at the poor quality of investment documentation that founders present to Delaware Crossing when seeking investment. It is often clear that the companies lack experienced legal and financial support and that the lead investors have not engaged experienced counsel to review the documentation.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

This was a big enough problem for one company to support all of the data analysis and forecasting without having to manually convert the data,” Li told TechCrunch. Latency and volume also need to be at a point where infrastructure can support the algorithms needed to gather data from thousands of different documents.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

How can you get free money and other support for your business idea? . 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. Participants have a chance to win more than $250,000 in cash and other support.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Further in the reports, multiple venture capital firms have reportedly played substantial roles in this financial round. We are thrilled to back JALA in their goal to modernize and improve shrimp farming in Indonesia.” – Patrick Yip, Founding Partner of Intudo Ventures. While JALA’s social media revealed to have raised 13.1

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The new hires will help support its goal of expanding its platform to support a wider base of institutional investor types, including foundations, endowments and pension funds. The ability to also include people that have supported us early as clients, as investors in our last round, was something that we’re extremely proud of.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

A typical enterprise grapples with hundreds or thousands of agreements, contracts and other legal documents every year, and it usually engages costly legal counsel either inside or outside the company to assess those documents on their behalf. They are focusing on larger M&A transactions and supporting the company.

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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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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Other participants are existing investors MDI Ventures , GGV Capital and Telkomsel Mitra Inovasi, and new investors including Singtel Innov8. Privy, a digital trust provider, said new investments will further strengthen its position as the leading digital signature and digital identity provider in Indonesia.

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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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Dream It

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Because senior management may have a deep understanding of the sector and the specific needs of the corporate sponsor, it seems easy to assume that involving them in the selection process will help the corporate venture capitalist (CVC) pick the right startups to support? However, that’s not the case. I’ll explain.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

“We have expertise across asset classes and we support any way a customer wants to capture data: as a service all over the world via our network, inspect themselves using our software or hybrid models,” Burton said. Those thoughts align with Energy Transition Ventures’ Neal Dikeman’s. billion in 2022.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

And according to David Wechsler, a principal at OMERS Ventures, “having an embedded strategy is not required for venture funding.” ” On the flip side, he predicts that corporates with venture capital arms that are “committed to the insurance sector will likely step up their involvement.”

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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. Countries around the world examine Singapore’s ecosystem from a distance, hoping to learn from, and emulate, its story.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

The company also supports background checks for employers and staffing companies seeking to verify potential new hires. As such, Truework recently rolled out a new tool called Truework Documents, which transforms physical documents that a user has uploaded digitally into structured data to make it easier to assess for fraud risk.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

” That new ventures are jumping on the ChatGPT hype train isn’t surprising, considering ChatGPT’s virality. “ But they all have one thing in common: they all hate customer support. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg — see ventures like Lang , Neuron7 and Ultimate.ai.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

Lilt , a provider of AI-powered business translation software, today announced that it raised $55 million in a Series C round led by Four Rivers, joined by new investors Sorenson Capital, CLEAR Ventures and Wipro Ventures. “It’s only becoming more vital to ensure an end-to-end multilingual customer experience,” Green added.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 28, 2024

The investment was led by Advantage Capital with participation from Conductive Ventures, Origin Ventures, ScOp Venture Capital, JobsOhio, Cintrifuse Capital and 1809 Capital. Since 1992, the firm has invested more than $4 billion in more than 900 companies to support more than 67,000 quality jobs.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

For one thing, the processes remain largely manual, with financing in this sector remaining reliant on emails, spreadsheets and documents in a variety of formats. This injection of $369 billion of government money is aimed at supporting and developing clean energy technology, manufacturing and innovation.

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Dream It

JULY 31, 2019

We eventually launched the product, which didn't generate enough revenue to support us- so we shut down the business after all my credit cards maxed out. Don't get me wrong; the pitch deck is a crucial document (trust me, it's what we do). That summer in Dreamit was the most important class I've ever had in my life.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2022

Mavenoid , a Swedish company that provides both human- and AI-enabled support and troubleshooting tools for hardware companies, has raised $30 million in a series B round of funding. ” Technical support. Hardware issues are repetitive, difficult, and time-consuming to fix. Mavenoid chatbot.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

But those more aligned with the private sphere, such as venture capitalists and private equity investors, perhaps aren’t quite as well-served when it comes to funnelling into the data they need to carry out their due diligence ahead of making a big investment, or tracking and managing their portfolio through to an exit. .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

The trading service’s investors came in force to ensure it had the capital it needed to continue supporting consumer trades. And then there were so very many cool venture capital rounds that I couldn’t get to this week. Of course, the Public round comes on the heels of Robinhood’s epic $3.4 This Koa Health round , for example.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2022

Stripe has laid off some of the employees who support TaxJar, a tax compliance startup that it acquired last year, TechCrunch has learned from multiple sources and firsthand documentation. On Deck, a venture-backed startup accelerator that invests in other companies, recently cut 25% of staff and scaled back its accelerator program.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

One source estimates that document disorganization costs businesses $3,900 per employee each year in productivity losses, making Mem an attractive proposition if the tech works as advertised. In enterprise search, there’s Glean, which recently raised $100 million in a venture equity round.

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