A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
MAY 24, 2021
I was rooting for Phil Mickelson all weekend to win the PGA at age 50. I’ve watched Phil for thirty years and I’ve seen all of the highs and lows and there have been many. He plays the game of golf with a level of creativity that can often lead to problems. He is a risk-taker which isn’t always the best way to approach a golf course.
TechCrunch
MAY 24, 2021
Long before SoftBank launched its $2 billion Innovation Fund in Latin America, and before Andreessen Horowitz began actively investing in the region , Sao Paulo-based Kaszek has been putting money into promising startups since 2011, helping spawn nine unicorns along the way. And now, the early-stage VC firm is announcing its largest fund closures to date: Kaszek Ventures V, a $475 million early-stage fund, believed to be the largest vehicle of its kind ever raised in the region, and Kaszek Ventu
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StartupNation
MAY 24, 2021
While the pandemic has certainly had an impact on the startup space, speculations were off about one thing: venture capital. It didn’t dry up: Venture investors poured $150 billion into North American companies in 2020, up about 7% from 2019 levels. All was not rosy, however, as first-time financings comprised only a fraction of that funding and decreased at points during the year.
TechCrunch
MAY 24, 2021
The Fireflies.ai project is a good reminder that not every startup project goes from idea to unicorn-status in 48 minutes. Instead, the startup’s CEO Krish Ramineni told TechCrunch about how a period of interest in natural language processing (NLP), tinkering with a friend, a stint at Microsoft, and even working on Slack bots led him to helping found Fireflies.ai (Fireflies), a company that today announced a $14 million raise led by Khosla.
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Entrepreneur's Handbook
MAY 24, 2021
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Entrepreneur's Handbook
MAY 24, 2021
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TechCrunch
MAY 24, 2021
Commonwealth Bank group executive Angus Sullivan and Jon Beros, co-founder and CEO of Little Birdie. Melbourne-based Little Birdie , an e-commerce startup that wants to become the “new homepage of online shopping,” won’t launch until next month, but it’s already scored a major investor. Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) , the largest of Australia’s “Big Four” banks , has poured $30 million AUD (about $23.2 million USD) in pre-launch funding into Little Birdie, and will also integrate its shop
StartupNation
MAY 24, 2021
On today’s Business Beat, Jeff discusses the uptick in workers’ desires of working from home permanently after the COVID-19 pandemic moved the world to remote work. According to an in-depth look at remote work after the COVID-19 pandemic from the University of Chicago’s Becker Friedman Institute for Economics , around 21% of total work hours post-pandemic will be working from home, nearly four times as high as the level of those working from home pre-pandemic.
TechCrunch
MAY 24, 2021
Thomas Asseo. Contributor. Share on Twitter. As co-CEO, Thomas Asseo oversees the strategic direction of Fresh n' Lean in distributing thousands of meals for active lifestyle consumers. Before joining the company, he rose to the top of the auto racing ladder system. Netflix has two CEOs: Co-founder Reed Hastings oversees the streaming side of the company, while Ted Sarandos guides Netflix’s content.
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Entrepreneur's Handbook
MAY 24, 2021
You don’t have to be the next Elon Musk to achieve enormous startup success Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».
TechCrunch
MAY 24, 2021
You might have thought that with more than 300 companies joining this year’s winter batch of Y Combinator , the investor interest might have thinned. Well, it’s 2021 and investors are hopping around like crazy to invest in ideas that push the boundaries in fields far flung from enterprise SaaS. Case in point today: Gridware. It’s a startup I profiled earlier this year when it had just started up in its YC batch.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
MAY 24, 2021
I’m building another business from scratch, and it’s nothing like my others. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».
OurCrowd
MAY 24, 2021
The round was led by Mindset Ventures. The company is using the funds to accelerate its clinic partnership network. Led by CEO and founder Claire Tomkins, Future Family provides a fintech solution for fertility treatment with services like egg freezing, IVF, and concierge care. The personalized buy-now-pay-later plan offers a flexible financing option equipping individuals seeking fertility treatment to move forward without having to pay expenses upfront.
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Entrepreneur's Handbook
MAY 24, 2021
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Both Sides of the Table
MAY 24, 2021
Silicon Valley and the media industry that surrounds it values youth. The culture is driven by the 20-something irreverent founder with huge technical chops who in a “David vs. Goliath” mythology take on the titans of industry and wins. It has historically been the case that VCs would rather fund the promise of 100x in a company with almost no revenue than the reality of a company growing at 50% but doing $20+ million in sales.
TechCrunch
MAY 24, 2021
Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest private market news, talks about the coming week, digs into some recent funding rounds and mulls over a larger theme or narrative from the private markets.
StartupNation
MAY 24, 2021
Today’s savvy e-commerce companies are putting their Q3 and Q4 marketing and inventory management strategies into place right now. With the disruptions 2020 saw, it’s never too early to start planning for the latter part of the year, the e-commerce marketing that drives it and the order fulfillment that keeps people coming back. StartupNation exclusive discounts and savings on Dell products and accessories: Learn more here.
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Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.
TechCrunch
MAY 24, 2021
Future Family , a company we’ve written about a few times over the years , makes fertility treatments more accessible. They pre-negotiate terms with fertility clinics to ensure there are no surprise fees, convert the often substantial upfront costs into a monthly payment plan and give each user a dedicated Fertility Coach to help them navigate their journey.
Y Combinator
MAY 24, 2021
Every batch, we invite founders and executives to advise YC companies as Visiting Group Partners. These advisors bring valuable insights and recent operational experience to YC early stage companies. Throughout the batch, they take on a subset of YC Group Partner responsibilities, including application reading, interviews, group office hours, individual office hours, demo day prep, and more.
TechCrunch
MAY 24, 2021
Welcome back to the working week. Are you ready to get our hands a little dirty this morning? Good. We have an IPO to catch up on, one I should have kept up with in the past few weeks. Regardless, today we’re looking at Zeta Global’s latest IPO filing ahead of its eventual pricing. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. . Read it every morning on Extra Crunch or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday.
OurCrowd
MAY 24, 2021
When a pipe bursts and floods your house, you don’t have time to wait around for an insurance payout. With the cost of repairs, replacing belongings and clean-up, you need money now. Read more here. The post [Lemonade in The New York Post] Lemonade app sweetens insurance for homeowners, renters appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.
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TechCrunch
MAY 24, 2021
In February, Nigerian fintech startup Mono announced its acceptance into Y Combinator and, at the time, it wanted to build the Plaid for Africa. Three months later, the startup has a different mission: to power the internet economy in Africa and has closed $2 million in seed investment towards that goal. The investment comes nine months after the company raised $500,000 in pre-seed last September and two months after receiving $125,000 from YC.
OurCrowd
MAY 24, 2021
CTech – Israeli AI and big data analytics company ThetaRay has announced the launching of SONAR, a financial crime prevention solution for cross-border payments. The SaaS solution helps banks, institutions, and businesses increase transfer volumes without the risk of exploitation from terrorist financing, money laundering, and human trafficking by providing full visibility across complex cross-border transaction paths.
TechCrunch
MAY 24, 2021
Mobile landing page builder Beacons has raised a $6 million seed round to expand its vision for empowering creators to make money beyond the cramped confines of their social media profiles. The company, co-founded by Neal Jean, Jesse Zhang, Greg Luppescu and David Zeng, provides anyone who uses social media a single, mobile-optimized link hub to display to their followers.
OurCrowd
MAY 24, 2021
Future Family, a company we’ve written about a few times over the years, makes fertility treatments more accessible. They pre-negotiate terms with fertility clinics to ensure there are no surprise fees, convert the often substantial upfront costs into a monthly payment plan and give each user a dedicated Fertility Coach to help them navigate their journey.
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