This is going to be BIG.

MAY 2, 2023

When I think about true disruptions in tech—the ones that enable huge investor outcomes because they create generational behavior change, entirely new markets, and populate whole business ecosystems out of nothing—location-aware mobile devices stand out to me as right up there with the web itself.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Otherwise, you lose sales even before you start Photo by Christina @ wocintechchat.com on Unsplash Do not mistake the perfect pitch for the well-rehearsed (read: memorized) presentation. The cookie-cutter pitch presentation kills your sales pipeline before you actually have one. My team members call it the Pitch Perfect experience.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2022

But the rules are different in startup-land: although there are basic best practices for putting together a pitch deck or term sheet, there are no hard rules for approaching potential investors. We are following the effects of web3 or blockchain-enabled technology across each of these verticals.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

This is a fantastic time to found a startup, but unless you plan to bootstrap it, you will still need to go through the laborious exercise of crafting a pitch deck. According to Jose Cayasso, CEO and co-founder of pitch deck design agency Slidebean, there are five slides where pretty much all founders miss the mark : Go-to-market.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JANUARY 30, 2024

During Demo Day, attendees heard pitch presentations from five founders who participated in the initial Bridge2 cohort. Before this program, I had the desire to pursue venture capital funding but lacked the clarity on what steps to take. “The The Bridge2 Program has been fundamental to the next phase of my business.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Even though Kevin Busque is a co-founder of TaskRabbit, he didn’t get the response he was hoping for the first time he pitched his new venture to Felicis Ventures’ Aydin Senkut. The duo also offered candid, actionable feedback on pitch decks that were submitted by Extra Crunch Live audience members. (By

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

This relationship also supplied Spleet with the critical network of landlords required to list multiple units when it went live; the pitch to landlords was that Spleet would bring proper KYC into the rental process and allow them to verify tenants and automate rent collection. Closing on $103M, MaC VC is changing the face of venture capital.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

Contestants pitch their legal product idea for a chance to win $5,000, tutoring, and more. The Baylor New Venture Competition is a business plan and elevator pitch competition for college students from around the globe. Student teams pitch and compete for more than $1.5 The competition has $50,000 in cash prizes.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 21, 2013

Ten years ago, I was an analyst for the General Motors pension fund, working on fund investments into leveraged buyout funds and venture capital deals. Now that I''m gathering capital, that seems to have been a missed opportunity. You see, people doing interesting stuff often need capital to make that stuff sustainable.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

March 3 is your opportunity to hear from and engage with the people who, through entrepreneurship, venture capital, labor organizing and advocacy, are both using and challenging tech to disrupt the status quo for the betterment of all. Tune in a get ready to take notes — the advice you hear could help you improve your pitch deck.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Not all teams end up pitching at demo day. If the teams feel they want to focus on building their traction or PMF, they can choose to pitch at a later demo day,” Kim said. YKring says it enables users to find out what’s going on in the community to find clubs or a group of people with similar interests to do activities together.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Just as it seemed the venture capital boom of 2021 was slowing down, the startup and VC worlds spun on their axes practically overnight, birthing a new dynamic where “growth at all costs” was quickly replaced by a more measured and careful approach to business and investing. This year’s been eventful for investors and founders alike.

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2021

You can highlight your pitch deck, run a video loop and/or host live demos. CrunchMatch lets you host private video meetings — pitch investors, recruit new talent or grow your customer base. a startup that enables on-demand repair of electric vehicle charging stations. Will Venture Capital Drive the Future of Mobility?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 2, 2022

A Korean startup called AIMMO , which uses software and humans to label and categorize image, video, sound, text and sensor fusion data, built an AI data annotation platform, enabling the data labeling faster for enterprises. . AIMMO posted $10 million of revenue in 2021, according to its IR pitch deck. ScreenShot | AIMMO website.

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Jason Malki

JULY 13, 2023

As I made the transition from successful club promoter (known as the nightlife ninja) into the world of startups and venture capital, I recognized that the vast majority of founders who reached out to me for help lacked many of the basic skills required for startup success.

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2023

I’ll be moving on to a new publication, continuing to report on venture capital and startups. I’m thrilled to share that Haje Jan Kamps , a longtime reporter and the creator of our amazing Pitch Deck Teardown series, will be taking over Startups Weekly. I love seeing early pitch decks and term sheets too.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2022

We have an outstanding cohort of VCs ready to hear their pitches and follow up with tough Q&As — and we’re thrilled to add three more to the slate. The seed-stage venture capital firm holds more than $565 million assets under management and investments in over 150 startups. Dave Samuel, the co-founder of Freestyle.vc.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 24, 2022

The announcement of the new investments was made during the venture capital firm’s inaugural “Touchstone Day” conference, which took place 18-19 August at the Hoiana Hotel in central Vietnam.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

The second day of Y Combinator’s Winter 2022 Demo Day is now behind us, and the TechCrunch team is recovering from watching hundreds of pitches in quick succession. Though the term has lost much of its meaning, it’s still an important part of the tech landscape, and both using it and enabling it are fertile ground for new companies.

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Revolution

APRIL 2, 2019

Meet the companies that will pitch Steve Case and the Revolution team on the upcoming Rise of the Rest Road Trip. At each stop, we will host a fireside chat, a community celebration, and a pitch competition where eight startups will compete for a $100,000 investment from Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

In that way, as some late-stage venture capital funds invest earlier — and now later — full-service VC outfits will offer first check to final liquidity, will such a full-stack venture outfit be able to win more deals than a group offering a limited set of financing options? Full-stack capital.

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Dream It

APRIL 23, 2019

Its initial use cases target pharma companies to enable the creation of voice and chatbot products to improve sales reps’ performance, complement their medical science liaisons, and support clinical trial sites and investigators. The Echo-integrated product enables them to alert staff in a hands-free way if they fall or have an emergency.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

The pitch: Spathios says it’s a marketplace to book short-term venues and spaces. Its platform aims to enable businesses to host meetings and events in some of the world’s most unique venues. The pitch: PemPem is building mobile supply chain management software for micro-enterprises in commodity supply chains.

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Startup Blogpost

DECEMBER 29, 2023

For example, our Series A was oversubscribed because of our pilot success, demonstrating a 7x increase in qualified candidates per role through our AI-enabled platform. We helped them refine their pitch to emphasize not only the innovation but also the market potential, scalability, and revenue model.

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2022

So, if your face doesn’t appear on the team slide in your startup’s pitch deck, this would be a good time to cancel your upcoming vacation. Pitch Deck Teardown: Dutch’s $20M Series A deck. If you’re working on a pitch deck and are in need of inspiration, start here: all 17 slides are available to TC+ members.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

million seed round led by Black Ops Ventures. Launched in 2018, the company’s software lets enterprises plan programs for their employee resource groups (ERGs), which enable employees who share characteristics or experiences to come together, share resources and connect. Last year, less than an estimated 0.5%

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Venture capital funds focusing on niche sectors are “in,” according to Connie , and Will Ventures is here for it. For you, special price : Kyle reports that Enable lands $94 million to help B2B companies manage their rebate programs. Alas, it’s also more expensive, but you get a larger screen. Priorities, amirite?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

million seed round led by Black Ops Ventures. Launched in 2018, the company’s software lets enterprises plan programs for their employee resource groups (ERGs), which enable employees who share characteristics or experiences to come together, share resources and connect. Last year, less than an estimated 0.5%

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2021

“Denver was ready for the Zoom boom, and is reaping the — venture capital — rewards.” Crafting a pitch deck that can’t be ignored. I went into Apple Podcasts and it said, “Hey, Saba, here’s my pitch.” Crafting a pitch deck that can’t be ignored. How 2 companies leveraged organic and inorganic growth.

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Jason Malki

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Silicon Valley Fund, co-investing in late stages alongside top-tier VCs such as SoftBank, TMT Invest, Mighty Capital, BlackRock, and Fusion Fund. As a co-founder of Mighty Oaks Capital Partners (MOCP), a US-based fund, Gbenga focuses on investing in startups and connecting founders to venture capital at pre-seed, seed, and series A stages.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2023

WebAssembly (Wasm for short) is an open standard that enables browser-based applications to run with near-native performance, Frederic reports. Pitch Deck Teardown: Prelaunch.com’s $1.5M In a follow-up, he analyzed the pitch deck for Prelaunch.com’s $1.5 Here’s how to give it to them, T.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Murf’s platform includes an AI-enabled SaaS tool that helps users to generate “human-like” voices, typically for use in videos or presentations, without having procure complex and costly recoding equipment or hiring a voice artist. ” 5 questions for venture capital in Q3 2022.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2022

A pitch deck is just part of the story, writes Matt Van Itallie, founder and CEO of codebase analytics company Sema. “Enable multifactor authentication (MFA) on everything you have,” said Katie Moussouris, founder of Luta Security. “Enable it on every account that you have.” Image Credits: Getty Images.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

The company attended pitch competition after pitch competition, raising about a total of $100,000, until one day in the summer of 2020 an analyst for musician Jay-Z’s Marcy Ventures happened to be in the audience. We don’t want to charge users for access to something they already have.”. Image Credits: Altro.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

Please enjoy his Pitch Deck Teardown on Five Flute while he’s away. The company provides tools for financial advisors to expand their business, while also enabling users to do fun things like a “cash waterfall,” which means whenever you have the benefit of excess funds, you can designate where the overflow goes. See you tomorrow!

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

Couple of quick things: Apply now to pitch at TechCrunch Live’s Atlanta pitch-off. Gotta get paid : A new WhatsApp feature enables users to pay businesses within the app. To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Happy Tuesday!

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

Enabling other companies to offer financial products continues to be a hot area for venture capital investors to put their dollars. Investors seem to believe the sales pitch, at least, Kyle reports, with Imply raising $100 million at a $1 billion+ valuation. . Where dem dollas at?

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