TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Most recently, Facily closed on a $250 million Series D that was led by DX Ventures and Berlin-based Delivery Hero , with Citius as co-anchor investor. Glade Brook led its $63 million Series C financing, which included participation from Tiger Global Management and Hill House. That investment values the startup at $850 million.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Here are two other news items for you to sink your teeth into: CNN+ downloads are more like a minus: CNN+ launched last week and is now seeing around half of the downloads from its opening day. TechCrunch has gone Texas-sized today, with our inaugural City Spotlight for 2022, where we do what we can to help Keep Austin Wired.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The stress of her pregnancy led Walton to download Expectful, a meditation and sleep app for new mothers. Walton helped it raise its first millions in venture capital, making her one of the few dozen Black female founders to do so. One of Expectful’s closest competitors is Peanut, a social network for moms used by over 1.2

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

Because much of this population is of a lower-income demographic, downloading an app can be cost-prohibitive and difficult. Later, the goal is for this system to transform into a network of partners. “We A number of angel investors also participated in the financing.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 3, 2021

In the wake of the murder of George Floyd and nationwide protests, venture capital firms are making newfound commitments to invest in, or at least evaluate, potential investments that are led by diverse founders. Investors’ networks tend to mirror themselves. Work harder to broaden your network. Sourcing deals.

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Angel Capital Association

AUGUST 28, 2023

This is Part II of a two-part series on Revenue-Financed Capital (RFC) for angels. In Part I addressed the question of when RFC might be appropriate to meet some of the capital needs of angel portfolio companies. To learn more about Sage Growth Capital or to apply for funding, visit: www.sagegrowthcapital.com.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 2, 2020

Some that exist already will expand dramatically: digital medicine; artificial intelligence-powered diagnostics; remote social and business networking; online freight and logistics; one-click cybersecurity and payment systems for small businesses; 3-D printing for vital medical equipment; training for distance learning – just to name a few.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

Venture Financings we Discussed. SGN games downloaded +17mm times on mobile devices. Current round: $2mm Series B from Tomorrow Ventures (Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google) and Lars Hinrichs (Xing founder). Current round: $10mm in Series E from Alloy Ventures, Lightspeed, and Walden International. Total raised: $17.0mm.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 12, 2017

Only a handful of next-generation, venture backed software companies are larger: Salesforce, Workday, Palo Alto Networks. To compare the differences between a bootstrap and a venture business, I’ve created a very basic financial model on Google spreadsheets. With those caveats, let’s continue. These are just a few.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

Until recently it was headquartered 2 blocks from our offices in Santa Monica so we literally saw it emerge under our feet and we proudly invested in the last 3 rounds of financing. Today the company officially announced its most recent round of capital ?—?having Ah, but Bird doesn’t have network effects! There is nothing viral!

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

For example, a mobile gaming company might pay Play2Pay $100 for every user that downloads their app from the Play2Pay app and plays the game for a period of time (such as two hours). Those developers and brands pay to access Play2Pay’s mobile audience in order to promote their products and services.

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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. Gust takes advantage of the cloud, and you should, too.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

If you’re paying taxes on crypto you bought or sold through a centralized crypto exchange like Coinbase, Binance, or Gemini, understanding what you owe might be simple, since you can download a form from many of these exchanges detailing your trades, gains, and losses. Australian venture firm AirTree led the financing alongside U.S.-based

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 14, 2014

Will the company leverage its press momentum and download pace to raise a bunch of money at a ridiculous valuation before we really know anything about it''s uptake and stickiness? If you worked in finance and had a Bloomberg terminal on your desk, you used their messenger product to connect and chat with other professionals.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

I got a job at a bank, and I worked in their corporate finance group. We had a finance group for all of the bank branches based in San Diego, and I wrote programs to download stuff from the mainframe so we could do analysis three days faster than they could send us the data. And my specialty was computer networks.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2022

The phrase may be meant to make people with imposter syndrome remember the importance of a simple cold emails, but it often comes off as a rebranded way to remind people that exclusive networks rule the world. Consumer love, a fickle thing: App Annie: Global app stores’ consumer spend up 19% to $170B in 2021, downloads grew 5% to 230B.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2022

Other awesome things happening across the startup ecosystem: Ola is planning to acquire blue-collar workforce fintech company Avail Finance at undisclosed terms. Mozilla today launched a paid subscription to its Mozilla Developer Network , offering additional features starting at $5 per month. My precious. Gotta love the intrigue.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The new round was co-led by New York-based VC firm Insight Partners and Hanaco Venture Capital and includes new investors Migdal Insurance, Altshuler Shaham, and Shavit Capital. Existing investors Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Clal Tech, Harel Insurance and Finance, and Greycroft, also participated.

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TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2021

Part 2: Product-led growth strategy “ The product-led growth behind edtech’s most downloaded app ” (3,000 words/12 minutes) — analyzes the tactics and tradeoffs that an edtech company has to evaluate as it grows from thousands to 500 million registered learners. Flywire, a Boston-based magnet for venture capital, filed to go public Monday.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

On June 18, Aswath Damodaran , a finance professor at NYU’s Stern School of Business, published an article on FiveThirtyEight titled “ Uber Isn’t Worth $17 Billion. I find it surprising that a finance professor like Damodaran did not consider the impact of price on demand. Different Economics.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

Almost every major scooter-sharing app, except for Voi , has seen a YoY rise in downloads. But downloads are not necessarily the best metric to gauge success in the sector. Broom , an Indonesia-based auto-financing startup, closed a $10 million pre-Series A round led by Openspace Ventures.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 18, 2015

There is a lot of uncertainty about the state of the private, high-growth technology markets and the venture capital markets that underpin them. Technology riches yield bumper crops in venture capital with new firms and new largesses – the rewards of LPs rediscovering our asset class. Are LPs to blame?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Juno used your modem to to download and send email, and it was paid for by placing ads in the email client. There’s a big business in Finance working with Excel, but that’s an outlier. How do you keep an audience as a blogger and on the network of StackExchange? Distinct Communities. Fog Creek now has 35 people.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Our firm has had the good fortune to invest in many two-sided networks that used information aggregation, supplier aggregation, and user generated content to attract and inform consumers and resultantly disrupt and change different industries. Ezra Klein : Hello and welcome to the Ezra Klein Show, a podcast on Vox Media Podcast Network.

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