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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OurCrowd

MAY 5, 2019

The company is the first venture-backed ‘meat alternative’ startup to go public. Sleek startups developing faux meats that smell, sizzle and even bleed are proving that the year’s most transformative venture-backed technologies are not about AI, drones, or robotics — they are about food. Not just for hippies .

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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. Additionally, all of us that have been consumers of the U.S. Before we jump into it.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

6/ Venture Capital In Expansion Phase. Public investors, cross-over investors, and even traditional private equity firms have taken notice, further blurring the lines of what constitutes true venture capital. During this time, there’s financial leverage used in the transaction to help buffer the firm’s cost of capital (e.g.

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Gust

DECEMBER 27, 2012

A good beginning would be Bill Payne’s The Definitive Guide to Raising Money from Angels, available as a free download from [link]. ONLY after you’ve completed #1 and #2 will you then be ready for capital to be applied to your venture. This phase is a combination of (to mix several metaphors) WMDs and sniper fire.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Might come as a surprise, but the audio world, in large part, uses general-purpose tools to discuss and iterate their files, which is extremely inefficient,” Bradley said. Highnote is free to use, and no download is required. We think that moving forward, current and future partners can really help us make waves,” he told us.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Investors in the round include Caruso Ventures, Vision VC Fund, e& capital, investment pillar of e& (formerly known as Etisalat Group), DFDF (Dubai Future District Fund), WIN (Webit Investment Network), SRMG, Elbert Capital, and Yasta Partners, Faith Capital, Panthera Capital. Seven existing investors participated as well.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The startup — which counts SoftBank, Airbnb, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital India and Microsoft among its investors and was most recently valued at $9.6 Its aggressive expansion bet has had a mixed success rate. SoftBank plans to sell stakes worth over $175 million, Oyo said in the filing. Oyo’s offerings.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The startup — based out of Stuttgart, Germany, and used primarily in the German-speaking DACH region — will be using the funding to break into new markets, starting with the UK, CEO and founder Benedikt Ilg said. But there are three things to be said about what looks like a crowded field.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

TechCrunch reports that data indicates that the crypto trading ad push during the big American football game led to a spike in downloads for the pertinent companies. versus-China battle but could have a third hub, or series of hubs, in the mix. Free money is popular : Alternatively, advertising works. TechCrunch Experts.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The startup — based out of Stuttgart, Germany, and used primarily in the German-speaking DACH region — will be using the funding to break into new markets, starting with the UK, CEO and founder Benedikt Ilg said. But there are three things to be said about what looks like a crowded field.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2022

market in June last year , later going on to add a free “basic” tier to the mix with certain restrictions in place. He left in 2018 to join esteemed venture capital (VC) firm Greylock Partners, a role he continues in today, albeit in a reduced capacity. Neeva search engine. Tripadvisor. Image Credits: Neeva.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The intention for us was always to deliver on a number of different areas of gynaecological health — not just changing the tampon so it serves people better and so it delivers pain relief. We always saw tampons as a potential tool for bridging the many gaps that exist in gynaecological health today.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

Social commerce startup Flip is mixing live commerce mobile apps with real customer reviews to improve the buying experience and opportunity for the creator economy. Today, the Los Angeles-based company closed on a $28 million Series A led Streamlined Ventures. In total, Flip raised $31.5

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2023

Second, while financial terms of the acquisition are not being disclosed by the two companies, but we have confirmed other details with Go1’s co-CEO and founder Andrew Barnes: the acquisition is a mix of cash and shares. “But there was never something before Go1 that looked like a great fit,” Seim said.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

That may sound awfully familiar, but Directus , which is announcing a $7 million Series A round led by True Ventures today, is taking a different approach to most of its competitors by combining traditional developer tools with a no-code approach to offer a highly flexible open-source data platform for its enterprise users.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

From humble origins a decade ago as a translation platform for news agencies, it’s now used by 500 million people across the world to learn Spanish, English, French and more, all while generating bookings of $190 million in 2020. One of the companies that has led the charge in transforming those perceptions is Pittsburgh-based Duolingo.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Bessemer Venture Partners led the tranche with participation from Insight Partners, Kleiner Perkins, and S28 Capital, which brings Teleport’s total raised to $169 million. The open source version of Teleport, Teleport Community Edition, remains available for download from GitHub. billion post-money valuation. ”

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Gust

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Readers joining this series in progress may find it helpful to download the sample term sheet from my firm’s website and review the earlier posts covering the basics. In Parts II and III, we looked at commonly used mandatory and voluntary conversion language in convertible notes. Most would agree this is not a fair outcome.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

Investors in the round include a mix of national and international funds, including Spain’s Seaya Ventures, a new backer of Payflow and Cathay Innovation via its C. It operates a SaaS business model, charging employers a tiered fee depending on the number of employees using the product.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2021

The product-led growth behind edtech’s most downloaded app (3,000 words/12 minutes). Literally moving us along: Can solid state batteries power up for the next generation of EVs? GM CEO Mary Barra wants to sell personal autonomous vehicles using Cruise’s self-driving tech by 2030. Why did Bill.com pay $2.5B

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Left Lane making a right turn when it comes to investments : It was the gift that keeps on giving for Left Lane CEO and managing partner Harley Miller, who closed the venture capital firm’s $1.4 The hardware dweebs among us were having a great day today. billion fund on his birthday. Startups and VC. Warner Bros. Roku users rejoice !

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

It does so through a patent-pending protocol called Apollo, which uses time-bound cryptographic tokens and distributed ledgers – a mouthful of buzzwords but the centerpiece of Xeal’s technology. The cryptographic tokens are “time-bound” because they dissolve after they are used.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2020

It’s using AI to notify online shoppers when the products they’re looking to buy are fake listings or when reviews they’re reading on marketplaces like Amazon or eBay are a fiction. Right now, Fakespot is free to use, including because every review a consumer enters into its database helps train its AI further.

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