American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 22, 2023

FPV Ventures’ Co-founders Wesley Chan, founder of Google Analytics, and Pegah Ebrahimi , former COO of Morgan Stanley’s Technology Investment Banking Establishing credit is a major challenge facing millions of Americans, both those in low-income jobs or those just entering the workforce, among others.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

As far as putting that money to use, Systemiq says it is out to fund founders who are focused on making large industries and cities “more efficient and sustainable.” Morgan , the world’s top funder of fossil fuels. . Last year, OpenInvest sold to J.P.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

For founders and investors, there’s no platform like TechCrunch Disrupt. Just as the industry is always evolving and innovating — especially in recent months — we’re doing the same to keep Disrupt on the cutting edge for first-time founders, seasoned investors, visionaries and everybody in between.

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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. We look forward to the exciting growth ahead. appeared first on HPA.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2023

It is now ‘warming’ up to ocean conservation,” Daniela Fernandez, managing partner of Seabird Ventures, told TechCrunch. Our planet is 70% ocean, so the urgency of facing and solving climate change can only be properly addressed if we include the ocean in the equation,” said Rita Sousa, partner at Faber Ventures.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

With that in mind, we reached out to founders, investors and executives in the city to get an inside look at the state of the current tech startup ecosystem. ” The low cost of living is also encouraging for talent to stay put in the city, which makes for a tech scene that’s poised to take off, this founder added. .”

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Paul G. Silva

DECEMBER 15, 2023

[This is part of a series on the KISS Canvas ] For over twenty years I’ve had the pleasure of co-founding a handful of ventures and mentoring hundreds of startup and intrepreneurial teams. A pitch deck template is great for telling a convincing story to investors, but not a practical guide for execution.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 1, 2022

Priyanka Srinivas is the co-founder and CEO of Live Green Co , a Chilean food tech startup that uses artificial intelligence to suggest plant-based alternatives for meat and artificial additives in food. Here are five things green founders should remember when seeking VC funding at this moment. Priyanka Srinivas. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Linda Greub Contributor Share on Twitter Linda Greub is the co-founder and managing partner of Avestria Ventures. When most people think of venture capitalists, they often think of investors, the people writing checks to fund startups. But that image is only one part of venture capital.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 25, 2024

With booking volumes approaching $2 billion and employees now over 1200, the latest lead funder Softbank has come on board with participation from existing investors, Kinnevik and Felix Capital. Last year TravelPerk grew revenue by over 70% year-over-year with gross profit rising by more than 90% year-over-year.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

JULY 22, 2020

Since their inception, 1863 Ventures has been unwavering in their commitment to building wealth in Black communities. – Formalized collaboration between funders, founders and ecosystem builders. About 1863 Ventures. Discussing the state of Black entrepreneurship and the broader New Majority.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 25, 2024

“The industry needs a next-generation solution for reciprocal deposits that is seamlessly integrated into online banking, built both API-first and cloud-native,” said Neil Underwood, Co-Founder and General Partner at Canapi who led the Series A round. ModernFi has built exactly that, at the exact right time and place.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

“Starting a business is hard, but we now have a path for proptech lined with funders and advisers that can propel entrepreneurs over early obstacles through to maturity and deep market penetration.” How I navigated my pregnancy as a Series A founder. ” How I navigated my pregnancy as a Series A founder.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

As the lead in your venture, recognize both the needs of your organization, your capital requirements, and the prioritization of those needs. Ventures must align the risk appetite of prospective funders with their own venture’s stage. At the early stages of a venture, it is likely worth as little as it ever will be.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

And even though robotics is weathering the current slowdown in venture funding better than other tech sectors, it’s still too easy for innovative inventions to remain stuck in the lab. Abbeel’s work has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, BBC, Rolling Stone, Wired, Tech Review and (of course) TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Great Question’s seed round came from investors including Funders Club, January Capital, Nomo VC and Twenty-Two Ventures. The platform has been used to interview customers about product ideas and strategy, find product-market fit, conduct usability studies on UX designs and see how well marketing landing pages perform.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2021

David Teten is founder of Versatile VC and writes periodically at teten.com and @dteten. Jamie Finney is a founding partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund , where he blogs about his work on VC and small communities. .” It has moved from its origins as a tax benefit and can be viewed as a feature that benefits founders.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2023

The “endgame,” as Nuview founder and CEO Clint Graumann put it, is to map the entire land surface of the Earth with lidar — on an annual basis. Nuview , a geospatial technology company that emerged from stealth today, wants to change that. The company also scored a government contract for an undisclosed amount.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

That player, Crowdz , recently secured $10 million in financing co-led by Citi and Dutch growth equity firm Global Cleantech Capital, with participation from Bold Capital Partners, TFX Ventures and Augment Ventures. For his part, co-founder Lee said he grew up in a “pretty rough part of LA” and has “always been viewed as an underdog.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2022

But IP can be difficult to protect during fundraising, because venture firms reviewing confidential pitch materials do not regularly sign NDAs as is traditional in other industries, and applicants lack leverage to push for them. The most important asset early-stage companies possess is their intellectual property.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The trained lawyer did all this while running the Africa Payments Club, a platform that brought together a pool of founders, experts and investors in the tech space to connect and address common business challenges as well as to scout for opportunities in Africa. Our job is to support startups and help them all the way to maturity.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

To continue its mission, the Miami-based trade finance company raised $7 million in seed funding and $75 million in a credit facility, led by Arcadia Funds LLC and Kayyak Ventures, to increase its credit line to $100 million. Shoihet met his co-founder and COO Peter D. How tech can build more resilient supply chains.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

She is also the co-founder of Build In SE , a community of founders, funders and ecosystem partners committed to company building in the Southeast (#BuildInSE). The wave of venture capital interest in geographies other than Silicon Valley has been building momentum over the past 5+ years. and Canada. This is America.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

Tech founders and investors are already being attracted by the $369bn on offer under the US Inflation Reduction Act for technology startups. And in a survey by industry body Coadec of more than 250 UK founders, the majority said the cuts made the UK significantly less attractive.

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Angel Capital Association

JULY 10, 2023

As research has shown including that of the Angel Funders Report and the data efforts of the ACA, entrepreneurs are largely the innovation and job-creation engines for our country. This technology has been especially useful in treating children who are experiencing some form of mental illness,” said Shipley.

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2021

Laura González-Estéfani is the founder and CEO of TheVentureCity , an international, operator-led venture acceleration model designed to make the global entrepreneurial ecosystem more diverse, international and accessible to fair capital. But who’s talking about the power of exits to change the playing field for diverse founders?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2021

Jumpcut founder Kartik Hosanagar is a professor at the Wharton School, but about ten years ago, he spent his summer in an unlikely way: he wrote a screenplay. He was a founder of Yodle, which was acquired by web.com for $340 million in 2016. ” At Wharton, Hosanagar is the Faculty Lead for the AI for Business program.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

We live in a world with a stereotypical representation of what a startup founder looks like, so it’s no wonder that a large portion of the population feels underrepresented. So, why should startup founders care about attracting and retaining a diverse workforce? Myth 1: Startup founders are young . Fastest growing 0.1

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

Existing investors Daphni , Imaginable Futures , Pearson Ventures , Reach Capital and Trinity Ventures also participated in this round, which brings Holberton’s total funding to $33 million. ” Clearly, that’s how Holberton’s funders feel about this, too.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

One of the things that founders have the most angst about is whom they should have on their board and at what stage of the business. Why you should set up a board at the seed round of funding I know these days with SAFE documents and rolling convertible notes many founders prefer not to set up a board early on.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Quona Capital and Kinea Ventures co-led the round. Jonathan Whittle, partner and co-founder of Quona Capital, said his firm — which invests in startups focused on fintech for inclusion in emerging markets — was impressed with what he described as Monkey’s “novel approach.”. Monkey had previously raised about $1.5

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

million seed round from TA Ventures, DNX, Florida Funders and other unnamed angels to keep building on that idea. Company CEO and co-founder Yuri Frayman says that they started the company with the idea that developers should be able to get the best of each of the public clouds without being locked in. That’s what Cast.ai

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 3, 2023

“In a culture where growing valuations are worn like a badge of honor, founders may fear that taking a down round would render them Silicon Valley pariahs,” writes Holden Spaht, managing partner at private equity firm Thoma Bravo. Redefining ‘founder-friendly’ capital in the post-FTX era. Happy new year! Walter Thompson.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 14, 2013

There was no strategic goal to build venture backed startup companies, but yet at least three companies in her community got VC investment last year. It was a happy accident when I got back into NYC VC in 2009 that I just happened to find the Ace Hotel--a space that was really conducive to meetings and founders working on projects.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

They’ve been absolutely a dream funder.”. An examination of California state filings show that Oceankind was incorporated as an LLC in 2018, managed by a family office that controls many of Google co-founder Larry Page’s properties and businesses. Until this week, Dunbabin was not allowed to mention Oceankind.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Making our ecosystem more easily navigable and ultimately founder-friendly. Our biggest frustration continues to be that sometimes people do not understand the severity of the fundraising gap for underrepresented founders. Dealing with resistive funders, however, is our biggest challenge. Jeannette Balleza Collins. Paul Riser.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The company calls its technology “electro-extraction,” and Nth Cycle’s founder and CEO Megan O’Connor likened it to a water filter in a recent interview with TechCrunch. “We There, she received $500,000 in funding to scale the technology and prepare it for demonstration to private funders. Thus far, the company has raised $1.25

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