Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 21, 2021

Startups used to raise once every 18 months. Venture capitalists and boards used to value a company every 18 months. We, as an industry, are marking-to-market much more frequently than we used to. At the same time, venture capital fundraising sets records each year. Just kidding.

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Revolution

JUNE 10, 2019

In fact, according to the 2018 year-end report by CREtech , funding for “proptech” startups has surged with over $20 billion invested across early and late stage venture rounds in the last two years?—?quickly quickly making real estate technology one of the fastest growing venture asset classes.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Applications in the metaverse often feel like more of a marketing gimmick than something that a critical mass of consumers would use, let alone pay for. But turn to the enterprise and there appears to be a very lucrative opportunity that’s well into finding traction. “We are very fond of what we do at this size,” he said.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Zong is obviously doing something right since they are now the preferred mobile payment platform for Facebook’s mobile credit offering but will compete against some serious guns – Boku has raised nearly $40 million from Benchmark, Index, DAG and Khosla Ventures – the A list of who’s who VCs. 15mm in Series A.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 6, 2021

Choosing the right mix of people can impact everything from fundraising to hiring: “Investors often ask founders about their board [because] it says a lot about their character, their judgment and their willingness to be challenged,” he writes. Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription.

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Startup Blogpost

DECEMBER 21, 2023

And I use automation tools to have the videos come out simultaneously everywhere. I rank for dozens of them—just creating landing pages for every use-case keyword imaginable. I use this to grow the company with new features, which can then be used for more bottom-of-funnel landing pages and more short-form mobile content.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

That’s why Oklahoma’s unique, pre-seed capital fund, Technology Business Finance Program (TBFP), is so critical to Oklahoma’s innovation economy. We also carefully assessed and delivered on the venture services entrepreneurs need. Results have been mixed.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

The funding — which closed in May — is being co-led by AirTree Ventures and Five Sigma, with SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Salesforce Ventures, Blue Cloud Ventures, Larsen Ventures, Scott Shleifer and John Curtius from Tiger Global, TEN13, M12 (Microsoft’s venture fund), Madrona Venture Group, SEEK and Y Combinator also participating.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

You see, insurtech startups often need to take into account the myriad rules and regulations in place when they seek to innovate and embed insurance into products, which might make it difficult to pull it off. And according to David Wechsler, a principal at OMERS Ventures, “having an embedded strategy is not required for venture funding.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2021

With that venture, he aimed to challenge traditional banking yet again by bringing personalized financial tools to gamers. I think that’s a really big differentiator for us from our competitors.”. Acorns’ SPAC listing depicts a consumer fintech business with a SaaSy revenue mix. Or is it more like Robinhood?”.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

As Stein, CEO, worked with clients, she saw the need for specialized foods, like gluten-free, and what started as a side project — a blueberry muffin mix — was the catalyst for Purely Elizabeth and became her first product before moving into granola, which is what the company is known for today.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Scott Kirsner is CEO and co-founder of Innovation Leader , a research and events firm that focuses on innovation in Global 1000 companies, and a longtime business columnist for The Boston Globe. Some recent research that my company, Innovation Leader , conducted in collaboration with KPMG LLP , suggests a constructive approach.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

Transpose Platform and Shopify led the round and were joined by previous investors Jason Lemkin of SaaStr, Rajeev Dham from Sapphire Ventures, CRV and Alven. Mix in continued supply chain issues and the higher cost of raw materials and direct-to-consumer brands are feeling the margin squeeze at both ends,” he added.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The latter, funnily enough, got a bit of a mixed shout-out when we spoke to Darolfi last year. I sat at America’s Tires for three hours and thought, hey, we use robots to put tires on at the factory,” he told us. The company was joined by Automotive Ventures, Detroit Venture Partners and 640 Oxford Ventures in the round.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

I want to thank my coauthor Akshat Dixit , a rising senior at North Carolina State University, intern at Versatile VC, and past intern with the HBS Alumni Angels Association and the Innovation Quarter in Winston-Salem, NC. . Columbia , University of Washington , NYU ) have mounted formal efforts to promote interdisciplinary innovation.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

The $10 million funding round was led by Acre Venture Partners , with participation from the E14 fund and food-focused venture firm Astanor ventures. What Source adds to the mix is the ability to use data and AI to help greenhouses operate at even higher levels of efficiency and repeatability of high-yield harvests.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

This is in contrast to better-known platforms like Western Union and Wise that use traditional banking systems. Last year while the startup graduated from YC, it claimed to be processing about $500,000 per month in transaction fees and is used in more than 30 countries. Remittance is the best and most important use case for crypto.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 20, 2023

(May 22, 2023) – The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) Board made several key program and policy approvals during its May meeting, including its first awards of residential projects under the Aspire Program, additional funding for the Authority’s child care programming, and record-breaking investments in venture capital.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2021

RapidDeploy , which provides computer-aided dispatch technology as a cloud-based service for 911 centers, has closed a round of $29 million, a Series B round of funding that will be used both to grow its business and continue expanding the SaaS tools that it provides to its customers. “Now the cloud has become the nexus of signals.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

Many of us are moving around these days a lot less than we used to — because of COVID, we’re working from home instead of an office; and we are traveling and going out less. The round is coming from an interesting mix of strategic and financial investors. Placer has confirmed that the round values it at $1 billion.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

Government tends to struggle when it comes to keeping up with tech innovation. A mix of old and new investors also participated, including King River Capital, G1 Ventures, Main Street Investment, Three Point Capital, Shorooq Partners, VaynerFund, Blizzard the Avalanche Fund, and AngelList Quant Fund, the company says.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Plume’s CEO and founder Fahri Diner said the startup will be using the money to continue building out its software platform, inking and servicing more deals with carriers and generally expanding its horizons. Now it has closed a huge funding round to ride the wave. billion valuation in the startup.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

Will the public widely accept and use it? During his career, he has been recognized as an innovative executive with a reputation for transforming startups into global businesses. And we’ll announce a third expert to the mix soon. . What are the costs and benefits?

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HPA

OCTOBER 11, 2022

While the University of Michigan has been formally educating students on entrepreneurship for decades, the region’s entrepreneurial ecosystem has notably ramped up in the last ten years and has effectively used its powerful alumni network to amplify its growth.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

However, her take on the NYC innovation economy during her recent State of the City Address confirmed my thinking: Most of what the NYC government should be doing to support technology entrepreneurship in NYC is to try and stay out of the way. Last month they closed up shop and sold their technology to Amazon, who will be using it in.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2022

A group of four Black women, two with MBAs from Wharton, and the other two with PhDs from MIT, founded Parfait because they believed they could build a better and more efficient way to design and build these wigs using technology. They brought the idea to market and have gotten a $5 million seed investment led by Upfront Ventures.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Italy’s ecosystem for tech venture capital and startups has been in development for years and has made decent strides in the last decade. In 2019, about 300 deals were venture-backed. These are the investors we interviewed: Giulia Giovannini , partner, United Ventures. Giuseppe Donvito , partner, P101 Ventures.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

Technologists are getting better at coding biology and venture firms are flooding a new generation of startups with cash so they can commercialize their technology bringing in the next wave of genetic innovation. The round was led by Alaska Permanent Fund Corp.,

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2021

Offering video software and other features dedicated to workshopping, the idea is to pull people away from using more generic tools, such as Zoom and Microsoft Teams, which, arguably, aren’t well suited to workshops. Backing Butter’s seed round of $2.75 million, which is being disclosed today, is Project A.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

In the meantime, Acorns has raised money to continue to explore more acquisitions — it acquired two companies in the first half of last year — as well as to fund “growth and innovation,” Kerner said. Acorns’ SPAC listing depicts a consumer fintech business with a SaaSy revenue mix.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2021

The country has historically been capital-starved, but recent investments from the government and foreign investors have significantly increased access to early-stage venture capital funding. Then there are groups, like Outset Ventures, formerly LevelTwo, that are geared toward helping seed and pre-seed deep tech startups get going.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

But with innovation seeming to slow in the smartphone market, what MWC may look like in the future could be up for debate. We have three sections of startup news today, starting with mobility, continuing with venture fund news, and closing with a neat startup round. Why I’m using a credit facility to grow my startup.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 5, 2024

It’s an area where a lot of companies are trying to innovate. First of all, I think it’s about our 165th attack on us using those sorts of techniques, largely UAS, but a variety of techniques. Without the budget, it’s very, very hard for us. We are using everything we have.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

MARCH 6, 2023

Join us for a virtual event awarding up to $30,000 to a Pennsylvania-based food and beverage startup! Ben Franklin’s Food & Beverage Tech Celerator recently offered a 10-week business startup boot camp for entrepreneurs who are developing scalable, innovative, and technology-focused products/services in the food and beverage industry.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Susquehanna Growth Equity is leading the round, with JMI, Khosla Ventures and strategic backers Randstad Innovation Fund and Recruit Holdings also participating. “We saw that resumes had a very mixed correlation to skills, and that was what triggered this,” Ravisankar said. It has now raised $115 million.

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Jason Malki

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

is a New York-based company that develops innovative color technology products. Since the COLORPIK brand was born, we are committed to crafting exceptional quality, innovative products that can hold the ever-changing palette of colors. The pen could be used to teach children about color theory and color mixing.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2021

The funding is being co-led by Advent International and Ten Eleven Ventures. Prelude Fund (the venture practice at Mercato Partners), Emerald Development Managers, Great Road Holdings and cloud security firm Zscaler — a mix of financial and strategic investors — also participated.

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