TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

In Africa, incubators, accelerators, angels and seed investors easily outnumber larger funds — simply because it’s much harder to raise a large fund here. ” Olumide Soyombo, co-founder, Voltron Capital What differences did you notice in the investment landscape in 2022 compared to 2021? Were deals less or more competitive?

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

Pangaea, to date, has been a brand incubator, but post the Series B will expand to be a vertically integrated e-commerce platform for other brands. Gani said he is excited to work with Eurazeo, which he referred to as “experts in building and scaling consumer brands.” We are even more excited for this next phase of their growth.”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

Meetings should have a clear purpose, but instead, they’ve become a way to measure status and reinforce what is colloquially referred to as CYA culture. It’s hard to pin down where Shein is from,” answered Richard Xu from Grand View Capital, a Chinese venture capital firm. Image Credits: Chevrolet.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

But they don’t know Woo,” says Mark Davies, Automattic’s chief financial officer, referring to the company’s WooCommerce subsidiary. “It’s “I spend a lot of time with investors, press and research analysts, and I’m always stunned that people say, ‘We know WordPress.’ Why should they care?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2021

But the firm is also still eager and “excited” to incubate companies, Wong said. Interestingly, Accel is often referred to some of these companies by existing portfolio companies (also in the case of Lower, whose CEO was referred to Accel by Galileo Clay Wilkes).

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

The other problem with extreme success is that for some VCs it makes them disinterested in middling outcomes, things that take a long time to incubate or solving thorny problems when a company doesn’t immediately move up and to the right. And so is venture capital. SEO marketing vs. social marketing. Commitment.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2023

Even at the first-capital-in stage at which we invest, where a company is pre-revenue and often pre-product, a pitch deck is valuable in guiding the conversation and serving as reference material in the diligence process. With that in mind, I have never issued a term sheet without a presentation of some form outside of an incubation.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 25, 2013

Back in 2006, when I started working on putting together some community groups for entrepreneurs and tech people, I looked for a better name to reference this collection of people. Anyone who was doing something new and cutting edge should feel connected to each other--whether or not they are building a venture backed startup.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 19, 2010

Whitney McNamara referred to as the “post that launched 1000 VCs”, but it was really meant to open up a dialogue between an innovative little company hyperfocused on an important piece of data—when people show up to venues—and a bigger company dependent on relationships with venues. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology.

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TechCrunch

JULY 4, 2022

To a lot of founders, an exit — or a “liquidation event,” as the legal buffs tend to refer to it — is the big pot of gold at the end of a very long and arduous journey. As an early-stage startup, it’s downright nonsensical, and it shouldn’t be part of your pitch deck at all.

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Angel Capital Association

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

By: Dror Futter, Legal and Business Adviser to Startups, Venture Capital Firms and Technology Companies The SEC announced a series of amendments (likely to be effective early next year) to the rules governing private offering exemptions – by far the most frequent path for venture fundraising.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! The Aspen Tech Policy Hub is a West Coast policy incubator, training a new generation of tech policy entrepreneurs. Some specific accelerators: 17 Incubators For Impact Entrepreneurs and Social Enterprise.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 19, 2010

Despite the fact that I'm a blackbelt in Tae Kwan Do (haven't practiced in a few years though), what I'm referring to has nothing to do with kicks or punches. Would you stay on the venture capital side? Run an accelerator/incubator? Sounds like a Jean-Claude Van Damme movie doesn't it?

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OurCrowd

JULY 19, 2021

It has also been a record-breaking year for venture capital investing, and overall growth in the tech industry. They call data ‘the new oil,’ and the reason is because information lets us understand the engine of our world, and how it works,” said Stav Erez, a partner at Jerusalem-based incubator Labs/02.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Among a package of some 50 support measures, the entrepreneurial strategy makes a reference to “smart regulation” and floats the idea of sandboxing for testing products publicly (i.e. And that sometimes the public sector makes the investment that not even the riskier of venture capital funds can do.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! The Aspen Tech Policy Hub is a West Coast policy incubator, training a new generation of tech policy entrepreneurs. Some specific accelerators: 17 Incubators For Impact Entrepreneurs and Social Enterprise.

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