TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The investment came from a long list of VCs and angel investors. VCs include WndrCo, DN Capital, Kismet Capital, Spike Ventures, Quiet Capital, Endeavor Catalyst, FJ Labs, VentureSouq, Nellore Capital and Moving Capital. After earning a Ph.D. He founded Yassir with Mahdi Yettou in 2017.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 13, 2015

Earlier this week, we examined the trends in the major categories of startup investment including eCommerce, Software, Social Networking and Education. But which lesser known startup sectors are starting to raise venture dollars? Semiconductor investment fell 31% per year. Email and dating’s decline are less obvious.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

NFX and existing backers Pear and Mexico-based Wollef (formely known as Jaguar Ventures) doubled down on their investment, which values Melonn “in the neighborhood” of $100 million post-money and brings the Bogota-based startup’s total raised to $24 million since its November 2020 inception.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Venture Capital is a tricky industry. This was certainly the case when I invested in a small YouTube video production company called Maker Studios that recently sold to Disney for just shy of $1 billion. Internally at Upfront Ventures we talk about “high consensus” vs. controversial deals with “high conviction.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

Recently, there’s been rapid digitization of this market , with several startups upending incumbents such as classifieds and hoping to define the new era of used-car-sale platforms. Saudi-based early-stage venture capital firm RAED Ventures led the round. Almajdouie, the managing partner at RAED Ventures, in a statement.

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Haystack

MAY 4, 2019

This is all happening, of course, to a region that doesn’t have a modern public transportation system. As an investor in startups, there is considerable conventional wisdom around the idea of investing only in the Bay Area. Until then, the overwhelming majority of Haystack investments were in the Bay Area.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

“It used to be that if you were a fintech startup or, for lack of a better term, a digitally native financial services business, you might be eyeing an acquisition from an incumbent in the industry,” Ryan Lawler writes. The hyperactive late-stage market should keep the startup investing game afoot.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 24, 2022

billion transaction — led by Permira and Hellman & Friedman — gave investors a way to get some return on their investment, albeit below the $17 billion offer they got in February. Hold my battery: Package-transporting drones are cool. Ron notes that the $10.2 Who needs megapixels when you have Benjamins? million deal.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 14, 2016

Inexpensive equity dollars enable capital-intensive companies to amass the warchest necessary to dethrone incumbents. Equally important to note, real estate and transportation are two industries startups historically haven’t upheaved. Crunchbase tallies $10.1B raised by Uber and $2.4B As demand falls, so will prices/valuations.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

When I began investing a little over five years ago, it felt like the conventional wisdom was that one had to invest in the Bay Area to harvest venture-like returns. So, about two years ago, as a Bay Area resident, living right off Sand Hill Road, started intentionally investing outside the Bay Area.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

While incumbents have pioneered various enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to digitize these processes, companies would still get four to five different software platforms to complete multiple tasks. CDG Invest, Y Combinator, Flexport, Swiss Founders Fund, Outlierz Ventures, and a few angel investors from the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic didn’t just upend the transportation industry. Following up on our May of 2020 survey of the sector and about the impact of COVID-19 in particular , TechCrunch spoke with 10 investors about the state of mobility, which trends they’re most excited about and what they’re looking for in their next investments.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

In November of 2015, I posted a tweet that declared Benchmark was interested in discovering Internet healthcare investments. So if Internet and mobile technologies can be used to change real estate or transportation, why not healthcare? We also discovered what we believe is a large and investible trend/theme.

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