TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In a sign that national security tech is a safe bet even during troubled economic times, defense- and security-focused VC firm Razor’s Edge Ventures today announced the closing of its third startup investment fund at just under $340 million. For example, Razor’s Edge recently invested in Corsha , a Washington, D.C.-based

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

This works for some, but too often founders find themselves diluting their equity to unrecoverable portions rather than considering other financing options that allow them to hold on to their company — options like debt capital. People tend to think that category creation is less risky than incumbent disruption.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

venture capital firm Lightspeed, with participation from other notable backers including Virgin Group , which counts Richard Branson as its sole shareholder. . On top of that, users can invest in what are known as exchange traded funds ( ETF s), which are essentially investment funds. Trading stocks.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

But despite my privilege, I’m also confident that my Black heritage made it more difficult for me to raise venture capital. Today — and the data proves this — if you are a white male, you have an unfair advantage when looking to raise venture capital. And really, this was where my race became an obstacle.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

“Insurtech startups that do not offer embedded insurance, and rather provide other innovative solutions will still attract VC funding this year, especially if they can show cost-efficient and sustainable growth,” said Nina Mayer, a principal at Earlybird. And the current market is rather reinforcing our investment thesis.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

The questions that a VC mulls before writing a check are precisely the questions you should be asking yourself. But this isn’t likely to be a VC-backable business (which to be clear is totally ok). Marketing with long payback is precisely what requires venture capital. Market Size. Market Structure.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

Valar Ventures led the investment, which brings Neo’s total funding to $234.7 Also participating in the round were Tribe Capital, Altos Ventures, Blank Ventures, Gaingels, Maple VC and Knollwood Advisory. Maple is based in San Francisco, but focuses on investing in founders with Canadian roots.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The former commercial chief (Product, Sales and Marketing) at PayPal, he now leads fintech investing at Matrix Partners, where he also invests in consumer marketplaces and enterprise software. VC funding into private fintech companies crossed $134 billion in 2021, rising by 177% from a year earlier, according to Crunchbase.

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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. Some include U.K.’s

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Today, Akeyless is thriving, Angel tells me — despite fierce competition from incumbents like Hashicorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager and Google Cloud’s Secret Manager. Hareven didn’t mention during our conversation, but Akeyless is also likely to benefit from the continued broader VC interest in cybersecurity.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Marco was backed last September by a small seed round from Struck Capital and Antler and over $20 million in a credit facility underwritten by Arcadia Funds. This is where venture capital firms should be putting their dollars — in companies where technology and talent unleash a lot of value.”.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

There are many reasons for that, such as private equity and crossover investors investing earlier, or the fact that LPs in VC funds are affected by public market swings and could, theoretically, hit some VC firms to feel the pinch. could become even more attractive regions for investment.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

Last year brought a flurry of record-breaking venture capital to the sector. While reporting delays could change this total, VC dollars have more than doubled since the pandemic began. billion in venture capital across 265 deals during 2020, compared to $1.32 billion last year, compared to $4.7 billion in 2019.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2022

It also resurfaced talk of when Stripe reportedly pressured investor Sequoia to back off from an investment that smelled like competition. In other words, incumbents in some cases need fintechs even as they compete with them. million in a round led by Firebrand Ventures. It expects to achieve a second close by the end of June.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

million Series A round — led by Silicon Valley VC firm Ribbit Capital — in early April. For its part, Patrick Backhouse of Greenoaks Capital believes that Brazil has an “enormous” SME economy that has historically been “underserved by incumbent banks.”. The startup has now raised a total of $152.7

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

That’s because only 7% of the startups that raise seed rounds are able to grow their companies enough to land a Series C investment, according to a Dealroom study. Besides traditional VC, crowdfunding, venture banks and venture debt funds are all viable options. Which form of venture debt should your startup go for?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2023

Startups and VC While most established automotive players call the shots from sprawling, corporate palaces, Scout bases much of its operations — at least for now — out of a WeWork near Washington, D.C., Basically, it’s Uber’s attempt to follow the Instacart model, which is working well for the incumbent grocery delivery company,” she reports.

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Haystack

JANUARY 24, 2019

More often than not, I believe it is largely impossible to predict the shape of an outcome when making an initial venture investment. The insight and data venture investors have to work with increases as a company matures — the earlier the investment, the more unknown the outcome is. Seed is what I know.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

Goodwater Capital, Kairos Angels and Bridge Partners also participated in the Series A round in addition to angels such as Joe Schmidt IV , vice president of business development at insurtech Ethos and former investor at Accel and Kyle Nakatsuji , founder and CEO of auto insurance startup Clearcover (and also a former VC).

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Venture Capital is a tricky industry. As is often said if you don’t get at least a few fellow VCs (and entrepreneurs) scratching their heads you may not be funding ideas with enough upside. Internally at Upfront Ventures we talk about “high consensus” vs. controversial deals with “high conviction.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

The competition intensified further last year when American incumbents Beyond Meat and Eat Just entered China. Image Credits: MaC Venture Capital. Being a successful early-stage investor is about a lot more than simply identifying trends; a successful VC needs to think several steps ahead.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2022

billion last year — up 153% year-over-year in terms of global VC deal value. There has been much talk as of late of a slowdown in venture funding. Startups like these are keeping the incumbents (relatively speaking) on their toes. Robinhood expands into consumer finance while Apple steps up its fintech game.

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Haystack

JUNE 5, 2018

Not yet profitable but invaluable to developers worldwide, the decade-old company bootstrapped, differentiated from formidable competitors GitLab and Atlassian’s BitBucket, weathered leadership upheavals, and eventually ingested lots of venture capital which helped them weather the challenges they faced. 5/ “Decentralized Everything?”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

GM invests in fast-charging battery startup : And for something a bit different, U.S. Startups/VC. But first up is Natasha’s dive into Mos , which founder Amira Yahyaoui says is gunnin’ to become “the incumbent bank in the U.S.” We’ve seen similar plusses and minuses in the crypto world , for example.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2021

In fact, Galileo founder Clay Wilkes introduced the VC firm to Dan Snyder, Lower’s founder and CEO. The two companies have a few things in common besides being profitable: they were both bootstrapped for years before taking institutional capital and both have headquarters outside of Silicon Valley. “We

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Notably, Metromile saw its valuation decline over 85% and was subsequently acquired by peer Lemonade , and it hasn’t been alone in losing a lot of value and being eyed by peers and incumbents. Martha Notaras, general partner, Brewer Lane Ventures.

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Haystack

JUNE 29, 2018

One analyst estimated $15b+ of incumbent market value was wiped out. PillPack didn’t over-raise venture capital, likely had several million on the balance sheet when it was acquired, and the acquisition presents a terrific outcome for the Boston area. So, I met TJ once just to hang out, and I loved the kid.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

The VC says she experienced that firsthand when running product growth and monetization at Invoice2go. . Regarding established incumbents in this space, we hear from their users that a lot of analyses and forecasts still default to Excel files being emailed back and forth,” she added. “Forecasting can’t be an ivory tower process.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Morgan Stanley has meanwhile been beefing up its stock plan administration business, acquiring Solium Capital early last year and more recently purchasing Barclay’s stock plan business. Carta was just valued at $1.7 billion by Andreessen Horowitz, in a deal some see as rich. TC: How adaptable is the software?

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

“Like a pressure cooker, COVID blew the lid off what was a simmering mental health crisis for over a decade,” VC Tim Schlidt told TechCrunch. Each of them has an investment thesis that strongly overlaps with applications of psychedelics. Burkitbayeva, Shah, and Schlidt are three of the five investors we interviewed for this deep dive.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

The first iteration of the app launched last August, and in the intervening months the company raised an “over-subscribed” $700,000 pre-seed round of funding from backers including early-stage Swiss venture capital (VC) firm Wingman Ventures, as well as U.S.-based

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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. Startups and VC. Some affected founders are pushing the narrative that incumbent banks lobbied the RBI to reach a decision favorable to them.

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WSJ - The Accelerators

JULY 2, 2015

For instance, as I’ve previously written , “In 2011, only 28% of Europe’s venture-backed tech deals were seed stage… [but] in 2013 and 2014, roughly half of all European tech venture deals were seed stage.” venture and seed funding will intensify in the coming years. Because the U.S.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

The venture capital industry is so heavily skewed to Northern California, which the remains spilled over Boston, New York & Southern California. So it was wonderful to hear from a leading venture capital firm based in Washington DC. I run Revolution’s VC investments. Revolution, what is it?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

The trio had made early investments in more than 50 fintech companies, including the likes of Stripe, Plaid, Melio and Trulioo. The firm says its intent is to go beyond term sheets to issuing bespoke “Strategy Sheets,” which outline how Vesey Ventures aims to leverage its network “to act as a company’s first business development team.”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

We’re also building a growing stable of podcasts focused on the most critical topics relating to the startup and venture capital worlds. Finally, there’s Equity , TechCrunch’s long-running, Webby-award-winning podcast focused on venture capital and the latest startup news, hosted by Natasha , Mary Ann and Alex.

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