TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

The Austin-based firm recently secured $145 million in its own debt and equity financing to help B2B SaaS founders grow their businesses without diluting ownership. The firm has deployed over $60 million in capital to 130 SaaS founders since launching in January 2020, according to Latka. Enter Founderpath. So, how does it work?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I invested in LA-based Gogii , one of the fastest growing, most exciting mobile social networking companies you’ve never heard of and maker of a product called textPlus. I only recently invested and I only got here through persistence. The opportunity came up to invest in this one and I pounced. More on that later.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JANUARY 1, 2022

I’m Ramon Ray founder and editor of Smart Hustle, this year has been tough for me, in some regards. Business Strategies That Can Make Difference in 2022. Here are some business strategies for the new year you can implement to boost growth: 1- Having a Clever Pricing Strategy. 5- Investing in Yourself.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

based co-founders of another music-licensing company, Music Vine. The founders realized there was an opportunity to put their expertise to work to address the growing need to offer a free music resource for the creator space. mo) provides full access and unlimited downloads. (A million GBP ($6.15 The Premium subscription ($6.99/mo)

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

Funding backers included Y Combinator, Tinder co-founder Justin Mateen, Canary, Hustle Fund, Necessary Ventures and the co-founders of TaskUs. The total investment includes pre-seeding capital raised in 2020. Yummy’s app can be downloaded for free, and the company charges a delivery fee or merchant fee.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 16, 2023

Having accumulated more than 40 million app downloads and disbursing over $4 billion in loans, Atome Financial has demonstrated its impactful presence in the fintech sphere.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2020

Please download the episode here , if for no other reason than to make Harry happy :) but I’ve also included some quick notes below including a few notes I didn’t share in the podcast (and vice versa by the way? Biggest Advice I Give to Portfolio Founders? Paying close attention to the psychology of founders.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Now that investing is cool again, upstarts like Staax , which pitched today at TechCrunch Disrupt’s Startup Battlefield, are finding new ways to cash in on its cachet, particularly among young people. Oftentimes, the barriers to investing are logistical, she explained. Image Credit: Haje Kamps / TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 21, 2021

” — as well as invest in its tech and R&D and efforts to break new ground for new kinds of formats. And Meditative Story, which focuses on mindfulness, is being downloaded 750,000 times each month. Podcasting startup WaitWhat raises $4.3M as interest in audio content explodes.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The round was led by SignalFire, and the company reported that today’s investment represents 5% of its value. Oana Olteanu from SignalFire will be joining the board under the terms of the deal, which includes warrants of $12 million in additional investment at the same price.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

million users downloaded the Riiid Tutor app in South Korea and Japan. The exceptional capacity of Langoo in its local business with Riiid Tutor was the main reason for this acquisition,” said co-founder and CEO of Riiid YJ Jang. By leveraging this investment, we will capture broader Japanese market opportunities.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

If you’ve previously downloaded the app, please delete it and re-download to get the latest update. ” Download here. ” Download here. based Apple or Google account to download and use the mobile app. . Navigating Silicon Valley — OG Advice for African Founders , with Fast Forward Venture Studio.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

You don’t have to download another app to start buying crypto assets. per month can access more stocks and create recurring stock investment rules. That strategy could turn Plum into a mainstream product with less tech-savvy people. Plum users can also use the service to buy and sell shares. Creating a Plum account is free.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

Harness , a startup from AppDynamics founder Jyoti Bansal, has been building a platform of developer tools over the last five years. Bansal said they are trying to balance the idea of having an open and available product, while protecting the significant investment they have made into building the product. ”

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

By: Nick Zasowski, Director at Global Startup Studio Network Startup studios are gaining steam across the angel investing landscape. Studios are causing this precise disruption to the traditional ways of building companies and how to invest in them. With numbers like they are reporting, it’s easy to understand why.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Tom Ferrier, the founder of Greener , an Australian cleantech startup, wants to help. For consumers, it is as simple as downloading the app and securely connecting their bank account using our open banking technology partner Basiq, to start tracking their carbon footprint [of every dollar spent],” he said. Image Credits: Greener.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

I’m very pleased today to announce that I invested, on behalf of GRP Partners, in Burstly alongside Rincon Venture Partners , an early stage VC in Southern California whith whom we love to work (and were our co-investors on RingRevenue ). Naturally I’m excited about this investment or I wouldn’t have done it.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2022

Pervasive BI remains elusive, but statistics on the category reveal that about a third of employees use BI tools for analytics to inform strategy. Growth Partners, Clal Insurance Enterprises Holdings, and General Oriental Investments at a “nearly” $1 billion valuation. You can only download so much data to a laptop.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

Co-founder and CEO Jason Lee tells TechCrunch that the money is being used to build out Salt Labs’ initial team, product development and go-to-market strategy and execution. But Lee and Rob Law, Salt’s other co-founder, have broader ambitions for the platform. ” That’s wildly optimistic.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Several years ago Serenade co-founder Matt Wiethoff was a developer at Quora when he was diagnosed with a severe repetitive stress injury to his hand and couldn’t code. He and co-founder Tommy MacWilliam decided to use AI to create a tool that let him speak the code instead and Serenade was born.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

Other VC firms such as Global Founders Capital (GFC), Golden Palm Investments, DFS Labs, Ulu Ventures, Plug and Play and Soma Cap also participated in the seed round. IROKO co-founder Bastian Gotter raises $3.2M million led by pan-African venture capital firm TLcom Capital. seed for new venture, Bamba.

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StartupNation

AUGUST 17, 2021

Netscape founder Marc Andreesen, now a prolific startup investor, describes entrepreneurial risk management in terms of peeling an onion. But in the hyper-growth markets where Andreeson’s venture capital firm invests, it rarely does. Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia Capital were investing. Of those: . million each) . It’s software.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2018

When you raise money from investors you produce information that you are told they want and care about: A fund-raising deck that articulates your company strategy, plans, team, market, competitors and so forth. These collective sets of documents form the basis of what somebody looking at investing would call “financial due diligence.”

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StartupNation

JUNE 16, 2021

There are many reasons why entrepreneurs fail to see any return on investment (ROI) from PR. For example, this Forbes article shares a desired result (making thousands of dollars) and includes five strategies that align with my services. Think of all the quick win strategies you can use to get immediate eyes on the piece.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2023

After raising $100 million at a valuation of over $2 billion last year, the Australian ed-tech startup Go1 is making an acquisition and getting some investment to expand its reach and technology to serve the market of corporate online learning. “But there was never something before Go1 that looked like a great fit,” Seim said.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2022

The collapse of Three Arrows Capital and the counterparties wrapped in the crypto hedge fund’s troubles have drawn questions about the soundness of the heady digital asset investment space. Bitmain’s co-founder welcomes crypto regulation to help stabilize things, Rita reports. 3 ways to optimize SaaS sales in a downturn. .

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Strategies to cultivate a community, iterate with an audience and convert it into a customer base Photo: Unsplash In today’s hyper-competitive, fast-paced digital world, it seems like everyone and their smartphone-savvy grandmother is developing a mobile app. In this article, we’ll discuss some of the best strategies for doing that.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Your Guide to the Season’s Hottest Gifts from Dell: Download Now and Save up to 39% Off. Checking your expenses regularly and keeping a shrewd eye to cut any unnecessary expenses is vital to ensure your money is being spent properly or is at your disposal for any investment opportunities. Sign Up: Receive the StartupNation newsletter!

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

TechCrunch is asking founders who have worked with growth marketers to share a recommendation in this survey. Laja is the founder of several marketing and optimization businesses: CXL , Speero and Wynter. We asked him to expand on some of his thoughts and recommendations for startup founders.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2021

The round, which co-founder and CTO Georgina Kirby describes as a “late seed” — ahead of a planned Series A “in the next 12-18 months” — is led by Talis Capital with participation from previous investors Playfair Capital and Ascension. million seed round as it prepares to expand into the U.S.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

I’m very interested in the tech stack of private equity/VC firms , both to improve the efficiency of Versatile VC and also as a focus area for our investing. Investors [and founders] will follow a power-curve, like any other data set. HubSpot doesn’t allow blocking of downloads and Docsend does, so we continue to use them. .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

The company said that downloads have now passed the 1 million mark, compared to 300,000 a year ago, with production users growing by 300% in the same period — however, it didn’t disclose its active user numbers. Prosperity7’s investment in Zilliz seems to fit nicely into the investor’s mandate.

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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. The business is pivoting its product strategy to grow beyond recorded meditations. Walton helped it raise its first millions in venture capital, making her one of the few dozen Black female founders to do so.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 12, 2017

” One founder asked me this question recently. I hesitate to compare and contrast bootstrapped and venture backed businesses, because I’m a venture capitalist and it’s very easy to dismiss any analysis as biased in favor of venture investment. Imagine two founders start a company. Again it’s very basic.

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Impact Hub

MAY 13, 2021

The three founders of The Three Cord Collective , Banke Makinde, Tunde Adekoya, and Rachel Lulu-Briggs, had always discussed the need for a local engineering solutions company. The Three Cord Collective is a social impact-driven engineering solutions company with a focus on sustainable development.” — Banke Makinde, Co-founder.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Mitch Allen, an Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) member in Fort Worth, is founder and Head Elf of Hire Santa , a service that brings the season to life with thousands of professionally trained Santas worldwide. My ask was a US$200,000 investment for 10 percent of the company. EO member Mitch Allen is one of them! I went all in.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Climate tech is heating up : Data indicate that the market for investing in climate-focused companies is alight, with 2021 bringing hugs sums to the sector. Before we jump into our daily download of startup doings, a few call-outs from today’s coverage. 14 climate tech investors share their H1 2022 strategies. Startups/VC.

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