TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

There’s clearly a lot of venture money to be raised — and most tech entrepreneurs happily take it in exchange for equity. ” Despite the VC flurries of 2020 creating an ecosystem of seemingly endless equity, it’s important for entrepreneurs and founders to understand that there is no one-size-fits-all model for raising capital. .”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

On the other, “the growing interest and value of embedded insurance may bring nontraditional companies into the acquisition arena,” David Wechsler , principal at OMERS Ventures , said. This may actually be a great moment for insurtechs to nurture their relationship with incumbents to work on synergies and potential trade sales.”

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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. maintain “technological superiority.” In the U.S.,

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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. Brex launched a venture debt program last August as part of its effort to be many financial-related things to startups and maturing companies alike.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 30, 2023

The company’s aim is to enable space access at greatly reduced risk, cost, and environmental impact compared to incumbent solutions. VC is a Singapore-based early-stage VC fund investing in technologies of the future and founders that create emergent industries with a global impact. million in seed funding led by Elev8.VC.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Any VC will tell you that the ones they said yes to, they mostly got there right away—and that there are very few “maybe” deals that get tipped over the fence. Or that venture capital is a meritocracy? What we do not know is how many people are deciding to seek out venture capital from each group. That adds risk.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

“Challenger” startups in banking and insurance have upended their industries, and picked up significant business, by building more customer-friendly tools and services — more personalized, easier to access and usually competitively priced — than those typically provided by their bigger, incumbent rivals.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2023

Although SVB’s failure can’t be blamed on the venture ecosystem, some policymakers have joined the general public in maligning the bank’s depositors — in large part venture-backed startups. This negative narrative has immense implications for the venture community. This is an inflection point.

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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. million (CAN $299 million) since its 2019 inception, and values the company at over $784.8

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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. Incumbent Strengths & Weaknesses.

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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., Sub)stacks o’ cash : Alex wonders if perhaps Substack can grow just fine without venture dollars. Tim Stevens reports.

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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. But investors are being careful to not put all their eggs in one basket.

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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. million in debt — led by NGP Capital with participation from Team8 Capital and Jerusalem Venture Partners. million in equity and $19.5 billion in 2020.

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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. . based fintech called Lightyear , though it’s focused on bookkeeping, while the heavily VC-backed Dutch startup called Lightyear is all about electric cars. Trading stocks.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Today Upfront Ventures is announcing that we’ve backed Rebecca Kantar ’s startup Imbellus , a company designed to assess human potential and ultimately change the way we teach children. We led a $4 million investment along with Thrive Capital, GLG and Sound Ventures.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

We don’t want to be elitist, we don’t want to do this for a very small category of people because we really want to become the incumbent bank in the U.S.,” The round, led by Tiger Global with participation from Sequoia, Lux Capital, Emerson Collective, Plural VC and more, came together in less than 24 hours, Yahyaoui noted.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Despite a roughly 30% draw-down in the last months of 2021, the Matrix Fintech Index continued to beat the broader market as well as incumbent financial service companies. 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

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. At the time, I didn’t even know that raising venture capital was a possibility.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

This is where he says the differentiator is between his company and the incumbents, like Momentive/SurveyMonkey or Typeform, which focus more on the research space, while EnquireLabs is focused on how to put the data to use in real time. The round was led by True Ventures, with participation from V1.VC, million in seed funding.

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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. How tech can build more resilient supply chains.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

But now, many VC firms have raised huge funds. Hedge funds are now investing in venture rounds. If a portfolio company is doing well, VC firms now usually want to double down on their previous investment. He doesn’t think it’s a duel between neobanks and incumbents. Some companies will get it while others won’t change.

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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. Much of this can trickle down into the startup ecosystem. Money has been coming into the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Pitch deck pro tips from a leading Silicon Valley venture capitalist. If your business requires a lot of preparation to understand the nuances before you meet the VC, you probably need to reframe your story a little bit and simplify,” she said. ” Pitch deck pro tips from a leading Silicon Valley venture capitalist.

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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

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 7, 2021

And today, the New York-based company is announcing it has raised $6 million in an “oversubscribed” seed round of funding led by Better Tomorrow Ventures. Over time, Coast also plans to expand into more categories of fleet businesses’ spending as it seeks to become more of a holistic platform for the industry.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2023

Snafus can happen even when incumbents and fintechs partner. How can fintech startups outlast the VC winter? Nihar Bobba has “dipped” out of Wharton to join fintech-focused venture firm Better Tomorrow Ventures as a principal, according to this tweet. Reports CFO Dive : “Wilmington N.C.-based

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2023

Similar to most other sectors today, that crumbling of confidence in the sector has trickled down to the private markets as well, slowing down venture dealmaking and further shrinking deal sizes in an already parched venture market. Will they take the lead?” Big pharma awaits more data on this front before an M&A move.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

The venture potential of a startup that caters to individual students — instead of a slow-moving, small-pocketed institution — has a bullish aura that attracts investors. Last year brought a flurry of record-breaking venture capital to the sector. billion in venture capital across 265 deals during 2020, compared to $1.32

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

” That new ventures are jumping on the ChatGPT hype train isn’t surprising, considering ChatGPT’s virality. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg — see ventures like Lang , Neuron7 and Ultimate.ai. Plus, while RPA VC funding has fallen from the heights it hit in 2018, it remains a large tranche.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

million in funding on TechCrunch led by Harmony Partners and Upfront Ventures to double its footprint of 3 cities (New York, Chicago & Washington DC) to 6 in 2016. Incumbents became increasingly annoyed with our successes in the country’s largest market – NYC – that they started even taking out ads against us.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

million, with backers including edtech-focused VC firm Brighteye Ventures , Adjuvo , Ascension Ventures, and a slew of angel investors. In addition to market expansion, Kremerman said the fresh cash injection will be used to double its headcount to 200 in the next six months, as well as acquire some incumbents in the market.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

GV (formerly Google Ventures) led its $20 million Series A this year, and Menlo Ventures led its $4.2 Naomi Pilosof Ionita, partner at Menlo Ventures, led Vareto’s seed round last year. The VC says she experienced that firsthand when running product growth and monetization at Invoice2go. .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Flyer One Ventures and Solid led the seed round. TA Ventures, Jiji, u.ventures and AVentures Capital also participated. Digital banks, neobanks, challenger banks or whatever you may call them, are among the biggest recipients of VC investments in fintech.

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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). Eventually, Super.mx

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

MAY 21, 2021

It is incumbent upon those of us working to build vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystems to put inclusion front and center, at the heart of everything we do. What does it say about us when we don’t allow certain groups of motivated, innovative, and optimistic people access to the resources they need to start up and scale up?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

On the bright side, the fact that VCs are more discriminating about where they put their dollars could actually lead to more M&A activity, according to Ruark. That is one reason why a number of VC firms have told their portfolio companies to focus on performance and cut costs,” he told TechCrunch. Guess we’ll see about that.

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