TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

They had been building Chargifi for seven years, enabling users to access mobile power using the free app in any public location with a ‘Chargifi Spot’ – such as a bar, stadium, hotel or office. Relaunching as Kadence , the startup now coordinates people, places, and projects to enable hybrid co-working inside teams. Kadence screen.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

“Giving teams access to an AI colleague who can understand legacy code and help new developers navigate it will enable companies to scale the impact of their current employees and train new employees with less personal coaching. “This raises the bar for new entrants like us.” The short-term goal (i.e.,

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 22, 2023

Register HYU Holdings has partnered with Singapore’s early-stage fund Farquhar VC to help early-stage university startups scale and thrive in overseas markets. The partnership will allow HYU Holdings, a Hanyang University-based investment-holding company, to work closely with Farquhar VC to help South Korean startups to go global.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

However, while many startups exist in cities like Turin, Bologna, Naples and Rome, Milan is generally seen as a bigger ecosystem because of its mercantile culture and a significant share of VC funds. The good news: VC funding in Italy has grown. It has an estimated 67 VC funds, with 18 of them started since 2015. More than 50%?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

If you want to understand the software trend that drove the creation of the seed-stage VC phenomenon I wrote about it that linked blog post but in short: cloud computing drove down the cost to create startups enabling a new category of investor. Some quick highlights include: The Role of a Seed Stage VC. Startup Lessons'

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TechCrunch

APRIL 17, 2023

in a seed investment round led by La Famiglia VC , out of Berlin, the €250M fund raise for which we covered just last month. Equipme has a B2B marketplace and asset management portal which – it says – enables suppliers to offer their products and services in this XaaS manner. It’s now secured $3.8M

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2023

Reshape invests in tech-enabled businesses that need real estate to scale, according to Crunchbase. Of course, Blank Street isn’t the first VC-backed coffee shop. Blank Street cracked the code on making coffee shops attractive to VC by Rebecca Szkutak originally published on TechCrunch

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

However, we are focused on delivering products people love and hitting metrics that enable us to continue to raise capital despite the economic condition. 3 Black founders predict little will change in VC in 2023 by Dominic-Madori Davis originally published on TechCrunch. What plans have you made to stay afloat?

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Haystack

JULY 3, 2019

The gist of that post is – making investments is relatively easy, but learning to manage a VC fund is very complex and hard to learn. Raising a small fund enabled Susa to get into market quickly, get into good deals, and show momentum in raising the next fund, which I believe was $50M. They had four GPs.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 28, 2022

VC firm Baukunst led the Five Flute investment, and I sat down with Axel Bichara and Tyler Mincey to learn how they evaluate a potential early-stage deal. In VC, we are looking for the outliers.” Covering Five Flute’s fundraising and tearing down the deck the company used to raise its $1.2 That’s not helpful.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2022

What is the best alternative to VC, and at what point in your company’s growth do other funding sources make sense? Revenue financing enables companies on a healthy growth trajectory to instantly access future cash flows from their customers’ monthly payments.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 8, 2013

I usually direct people to this post --still hanging atop the search rankings for " How to be a VC analyst" years later. In VC, no one''s investment gets bought on the first day, or the second day, or the third day. Well, let me be the first to tell you. 5) It takes a long time to be successful. And most of all, I love people.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

The venture firm invested in startups such as MPL, Slice, Jar, Apps For Bharat, Flint, and Questbook, focussing on early and growth-stage tech-enabled startups. “We The firm’s sector focus is concentrated on core infrastructure layers in financial services and commerce enablers. We are incredibly bullish on investing in India.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

McKinsey expects the chemical and pharma industries to be the first potential users of quantum computing, enabling the accurate simulation of larger numbers of atoms and molecules, which is not possible today using classical supercomputers.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

The new fund will enable the bank to make deals ranging from $50 million to $100 million in capital. Our role is to help both the entrepreneur and their VC partners grow that business with incremental capital,” he told TechCrunch. “We We don’t replace equity, but extend the runway. It’s also now why CIBC can claim it is the No.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2023

Today, it’s Prewave ‘s turn to demonstrate that the global supply chain is still one of the hottest tickets for raising VC bucks. For its latest cash injection, Prewave has also attracted European VC heavyweight Creandum , which has previously backed the likes of Spotify, Klarna, and iZettle. .

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

I’m over-paying for every check I write into the VC ecosystem and valuations are being pushed up to absurd levels and many of these valuations and companies won’t hold in the long term. However, to be a great VC you have to hold two conflicting ideas in your head at the same time. Where are Things Headed for VC in 2031?

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 11, 2022

We will continue to support companies that share our vision in using science and technology to create food that is not only healthy and tasty, but also enables a sustainable and environmentally friendly food system,” said Jayesh Parekh, managing partner of Good Startup.

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David Teten VC

MAY 19, 2017

Historically VC has been an apprenticeship business. VC ASSOCIATIONS. No-cost accelerators: Afore Capital Angel to Fund Manager (AFM), Founder Institute VC Lab , Recast Capital Enablement Program – Accelerators with tuition: Oper8r , OnConduit ‘s Emerging Fund Managers Initiative. Reboot VC Bootcamp.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 14, 2024

Featuring easy-to-integrate APIs and white-label products, the company enables health plans to disintermediate PBMs and take control over pharmacy services, facilitates direct-to-patient experiences for pharmaceutical manufacturers, and empowers digital health brands to easily launch innovative, on-brand experiences.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 19, 2021

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. raised money from VCs and 7.7% More and more startups are pursuing Revenue-Based VCs , but “RBI” doesn’t fit everyone. A new category of VCs have emerged offering a hybrid between VC and RBI, which we call “Flexible VC”. .

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 19, 2021

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2010

Because it is a “series&# I plan to get into some of the deeper complexities of funds such as “cross over funds&# and “why VC’s hate to price their own deals&# at a later stage. First, if the VC does 15-20 of these under one partner then it is certain he can’t spend any time with these investments.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

EduFi, a fintech startup that enables financially strapped students to secure loans for their education, has raised $6.1 million in a pre-seed round led by Zayn VC with participation from Palm Drive Capital, Deem Ventures, Q Business and angel investors.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2023

As VC activity slowed down globally last year, Kenya defied odds to record the strongest growth in funding raised in Africa. Why Africa had no unicorns last year despite record fundraising haul Partech placed Kenya fourth in the list of the top VC destinations after Nigeria, South Africa and Egypt, respectively.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 9, 2018

The traditional answer of most VCs to the question of “edge” is a combination of the said and the unsaid. What VCs most typically talk about are: – Industry expertise. Many VCs focus on specific verticals, usually based on the sector in which a VC initially made her reputation. This model certainly makes sense.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

I saw this tweet in my feed yesterday and read the New Yorker piece when I woke up this morning: @fdestin @MacConwell @HarryStebbings any VC 'fairy godfathers of success' viewpoints? "Building All of that said, the vast majority of VC-backed companies are not WeWork. "Building a solid business, but the V.C.s

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

As a VC you want to feel like you have “proprietary sources” of deal flow. The sheer number of relationships I’ve built through being public, transparent and being willing to engage in comments and through social media has enabled me to get to know entrepreneurs even before they launch their next company.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The common VC passes are pretty cliche. Now, the situation here that enabled such a frank discussion is a bit atypical. Checks I’ve Written The Company Since Saying “No,” Never Bought Me As Much As Saying “YES!” Would Have In The First Place. An Investor and a Founder Postmortem a Mistake.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

I have a lot of respect for the product that they offer, and the community that they offer, and the way in which fundraising is enabled as a result of that. VC Ann Miura-Ko is looking to help more students answer the question: Is this idea big enough? For me, it’s just a harder platform to engage with.

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Case in point: only 1% of 2022 VC dollars went to Black founders, a marked decrease year over year. Rheaply has diverted tens of thousands of lbs of waste from landfills by enabling organizations of all stripes to create sharing economies through its technology solutions.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Boomerang gains committed capital from CareSource, enabling it to advance its health technology venture capital fund. Boomerang’s VC Fund is now able to pursue an even greater role in healthcare innovation, making investments ranging from $500K to $2M in early-stage healthcare startups while expanding into new, key geographic markets.

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Revolution

DECEMBER 20, 2023

While VC dollars still overwhelmingly funnel into places like Silicon Valley, Brookings research shows tech jobs are finally spreading out — movement spurred by the availability of hybrid and remote work, private investment, and federal initiatives. The soundbite: “Every local problem is personal.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

“The welcome recognition by the Abu Dhabi regulatory authorities will enable us to create venture funds based at ADGM to invest in technology startups and projects in the UAE and across the region,” said Dr. Sabah al-Binali, OurCrowd’s UAE-based venture partner. Read more here.

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HPA

DECEMBER 8, 2021

HPA participated in the round, which included participation from other investors including Supply Change Capital, Aera VC, Sustainable Food Ventures, Hanfield Venture Partners, Lifely VC, Conscience VC, Kingfisher Capital, Big Idea Ventures, among others. Food tech startup Aqua Cultured Foods announced a $2.1M Pre-Seed Round.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

Brett Calhoun Contributor Share on Twitter Brett Calhoun is the managing director and general partner at Redbud VC. Amid these turbulent times, the VC accelerator industry has emerged as a stalwart player. At the dawn of 2022, there were 2,900 active VC firms, marking a 225% increase since 2008. psychedelics or construction).

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Revolution

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

According to PitchBook , VC investments were down 30% in Q2 2022 compared with 2021, and IPOs hit a 50-year low. When deal-making slows, VC dollars typically favor the perceived market leader, starving other venture-backed businesses in the same space of capital.

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