TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2023

Betting early on the next big startup is enough to cement the entire return of a fund (and then some) — and help that plucky investor make a name for themselves. The venture firm, which just closed a $150 million fund in May 2022 , is launching what it describes as a common application for pre-seed startup founders.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

In true TechCrunch fashion, part two is a pitch-off with an amazing group of founders from the Ohio region. Each founder will pitch for four minutes, followed by a Q&A with our stellar panel of judges: Anna Mason , Managing Partner, Rise of the Rest Seed Fund at Revolution. Register here for free.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

I tracked down and emailed the founder who sent the transfer to figure out what they were up to. “In the past two and a half weeks I’ve reached out to over a hundred VCs, angels, celebrities, athletes and influencers through Venmo,” says Chip Herndon, CEO and co-founder at Chatterbox , in an interview with TechCrunch. .

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Today, TechCrunch is excited to announce the 20 startups pitching onstage in this year’s Startup Battlefield. Selected from the most competitive batch in TC history, selected founders from across the globe will pitch on the virtual stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021. With just over a 1.5% Session 1: 10:45 a.m.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 24, 2021

Advice for non-technical founders for finding a serious CTO for your startup Finding a co-founder is hard work. Finding a technical co-founder is even harder. Yet, the benefits of having a technical co-founder make it all worthwhile. A good co-founder will serve as a powerful force multiplier.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

Over the course of the past 10 weeks, I’ve taken apart 10 pitch decks as part of our Pitch Deck Teardown series. We want your pitch decks for our Pitch Deck Teardowns! None of this should be new to you; as a founder, this is the bread and butter of your job. Why you need to tell your story in numbers.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The crew here at TechCrunch has done a lot of writing about making amazing pitch decks over the years, and I figured it was time that I put together a collection of all of it in one handy spot. Before you start pitching. As a startup founder, you really need to understand how venture capital works.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2023

After attending TechCrunch Early Stage last week, I was cheered to meet so many first-time founders and experienced investors who are looking for opportunities. But dealmaking is idiosyncratic: a few investors might be content to make a deal over coffee, but early-stage teams still need a sturdy pitch deck or memo they can leave behind.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

With a drier than normal investment scene, founders are looking for more effective ways to reach the right VCs. To that end, over the past few weeks, thousands of founders have applied to land capital through a common app, but instead of hoping to land into a university, they’re hoping to land capital from top investors.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The new initiative includes a strategic partnership with the highly anticipated X-PITCH 2023, a global deeptech startup competition aimed at catalyzing the widespread adoption of cutting-edge technology across diverse industries. “We see immense potential in partnering with X-PITCH.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Practice pitching your startup on this week’s TechCrunch Live. I have two amazing guests and they bring along a lot of startup pitching experience. Three guests of this week’s TechCrunch Live event will have two minutes to practice their elevator pitch and they’ll get four minutes of candid feedback from the two guests.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

At one of my first startup jobs, I walked in one day to find two sleeping co-workers who’d spent the night configuring servers at a co-locating facility 60 miles away. Martinez, who worked on growth teams at Uber, Postmates and Coinbase, is also the founder of SalesKiwi. PitchBook found that CVCs played a part in 56.2%

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2023

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. I’ve been noticing small things about how early-stage founders have changed their pitches, suggesting that the checks are currently less about the messiah and more about the monetization.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Practice pitching your startup on this week’s TechCrunch Live. I have two amazing guests and they bring along a lot of startup pitching experience. Three guests of this week’s TechCrunch Live event will have two minutes to practice their elevator pitch and they’ll get four minutes of candid feedback from the two guests.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

Over on TC+ , I just launched a new series called Pitch Deck Teardowns! Astute readers may already have figured out what that is all about: You submit a pitch deck and we share it with our readers, highlighting things that are awesome, making suggestions for improvements and celebrating the fun, innovative and surprising things that we find.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 10, 2023

Stories, Slides, and Data Primary data set of public 3-minute pitches and 2-minute Q&As I have spent more than a decade coaching thousands of people on how to tell stories. Halfway through the journey, I realized that something was fundamentally off in how founders tell them and how investors receive them. Who is the founder?

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. The Kauffman Foundation found 47% of US tech founders held degrees in STEM while 34% held degrees in business, finance, and accounting. 1) Freebies for Student Tech Founders. Right here.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Founders – pitch on stage with TechCrunch. We’re on the hunt for early stage founders creating innovative companies in space or space-related industries. Pitch your space tech startup. Now founders – apply to pitch on the same stage as these space tech luminaries. Apply here.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

Before you raise money as a cash-strapped fledgling startup, it can feel like every problem you are experiencing would go away if you just had some money in the bank. At TechCrunch, it often seems as if every other startup story is about yet another fun company raising satchels full of venture capital. I have two day jobs.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2023

It’s too early to determine whether SVB’s downfall heralds a new era for venture capital, but based on anecdotal evidence, off-the-record discussions and chats with co-workers, it seems like we’re back to business as usual as far as pre-revenue startup fundraising is concerned. Más o menos.

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TechCrunch

JULY 4, 2022

A lot of pitch decks I review have a slide that really shouldn’t be there: the exit strategy slide. As an early-stage startup, it’s downright nonsensical, and it shouldn’t be part of your pitch deck at all. Second, your job as a founder is to build the best company you possibly can.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

It’s free to attend, and it’s free to submit your Minneapolis-area startup to the pitch-off competition. Except this time, the event is extended to make room for more local founders and investors who are deeply integrated into the Minneapolis ecosystem. I hope you can make it.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2022

If you’ve read anything about pitching your company, you’ve probably come across advice that says that you need a warm introduction to an investor. Without a doubt, a good, friendly introduction — ideally from a founder they’ve already invested in — is the best way to get on the radar of an investor.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 8, 2023

in 17 startups since 2019. You’re part of a knowledgeable group of investors who work collaboratively to evaluate each startup and its ability to provide valuable, marketable solutions and good returns.” Accredited investors are invited to nation’s largest angel conference, which has invested $4.8M It’s inspiring,” says Luckhurst.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

Momentum pulled off what every entrepreneur dreams of: Last year, it closed a lead investor for its seed round — which our own Ron Miller covered at the time — without even creating a pitch deck. Once a lead was secured, Momentum created a pitch deck to fill out the round. Makes the pitch feel current.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 26, 2023

The 3rd Annual Startup302 competition, Delaware’s premier funding contest for technology and tech-enabled startups led by underrepresented founders, is holding its finals tomorrow, April 27th. The Pitching event is being held at Theatre N, Nemours Building, 1007 Orange St.,

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Do you have a great idea that you're looking to bring to life, but you're still missing the perfect co-founder to make it happen? YC is excited to announce our first-ever generative AI themed co-founder meetup, happening virtually on Saturday, December 17th at 11am-1pm PST.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2022

If you told me that a company that’s charging $70 per month for multivitamins would be able to raise a $10 million round, I’d demand to see the receipts, and I’d be very curious indeed to see its pitch deck. Rootine is the company, and the founders were gracious enough to share their pitch deck with me.

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 1, 2022

You might think my job is about saying “yes” to founders, but statistically it’s *actually* about saying “no,” given we typically see 3,000+ companies annually in order to make 10–12 investments. Hopefully every startup finds the right investors! Founder/Team Bios Which Feel Deceptive. Fortunately They’re Really Simple To Fix!

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

We [believed] the world [was] going to need a tool like this that allows users to have both speed and flexibility,” Christine Yen, co-founder and CEO at Honeycomb, told TechCrunch in a previous interview. I find this fascinating and was excited to go through the company’s pitch deck to learn more. Slide 17] Look at that!

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

How good is the founder-market fit? It’s natural for founders to live and breathe for their customers and product, but the dirty little secret of fundraising is that your investors are extraordinarily unlikely to care about your product. Is it venture-scale? And they have a few legitimate reasons for being that way.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

In a recent episode of TechCrunch Live, Agility’s co-founder and CTO, Jonathan Hurst, and Playground Global’s founding partner, Bruce Leak, joined us to discuss the robotic company’s journey from the lab to the commercial sector — and the role a good VC firm can play in that journey. The deck and video are embedded below.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

On June 1 our crew is hosting three hours of panels, talks and pitches with founders, investors and startups from Columbus, Ohio. This extended event is designed to highlight the growing startup ecosystem emerging from America’s midwest. Register for the virtual event here , and apply for the pitch-off here.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 6, 2023

Register Startup founders wanting to pitch to investors to raise money should not get into the “sell now” part of the conversation immediately but must instead lay the groundwork first, according to James Walker, Associate Counsel and Investor at Draper Associates. And when did you first think about starting a fund?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Over the last six months, I’ve written up 25 Pitch Deck Teardowns — the popular series of articles where I review a pitch deck in detail, celebrating the wins and gently (and sometimes not-so-gently) suggesting improvements. A pitch is a story, and stories have audiences. ” Ahem.). Let’s gooooo. Series A deck.

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TechCrunch

JULY 23, 2021

We know how much you love a good startup pitch-off. Plus, you get to hear feedback from some of the smartest folks in the industry, thus learning how to absolutely crush it at your next pitch meeting with a VC. Extra Crunch Live is usually a combination of an interview with a founder/investor duo and an audience pitch-off.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

It’s my pleasure to announce FabuLingua won today’s City Spotlight: Austin pitch-off! Mark Begert pitched his company to three Austin-based investors who found his messaging and pitch to be clear, concise and easy to follow. Two other companies presented in the Austin pitch-off.

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