AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Register SatSure , an Indian business that is at the convergence of spacetech, artificial intelligence (AI), and software as a service (SaaS), has raised $5 million in a round led by Baring Private Equity India Pvt. Ltd, joining ADB Ventures as investor.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

For Ashutosh Sharma, head of India investments at Prosus Ventures, it is paramount for startups to ensure their existence at this time. How has your investment strategy changed? Focus on growth with good economics and don’t “buy” growth, as that will come with poor economics and hence is not sustainable.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

These events aren’t just a chance to review the latest cohort of hopeful entrepreneurs — they also showcase the technology, products and services that will compete for VC and consumer attention over the next few years. Subscription-based pricing is dead: Smart SaaS companies are shifting to usage-based models.

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Founders Coop

JANUARY 11, 2023

Our firm’s original premise was – and remains – dead simple: Seattle is a global gravity well for engineering talent, thanks to the sustained excellence and corresponding human capital needs of Amazon and Microsoft. First, the increment of learning in VC is investment decisions managed to maturity.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2023

Brian Schwarzbach Contributor Brian Schwarzbach is an SF-based investor with Cathay Innovation, a global venture capital firm investing across North America, Europe, Asia and Africa. He focuses on early-stage investments in commerce, marketplaces and consumer. Recommerce is a concept as old as trade itself.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Although they wanted to invest more into sales and marketing, they didn’t have the capital to expand the team to meet their needs. Why dilute themselves if they were clearly on a path towards self-sustaining growth? Mopinion wanted to grow ambitiously, but not at the doubling year-over-year rate that VCs often demand.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2023

Investors have raised expectations around SaaS profitability and growth since the downturn began. As a result, it’s even more important for founders to have a firm handle on the key metrics VCs are likely to consider before saying “yes” or “no.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

Edtech needs to reach beyond underfunded public school systems to become more sustainable, which is why more investors and founders are focusing on lifelong learning. Mercedes Bent and Bradley Twohig , partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners (a multistage generalist fund with investments including Forage, Clever and Outschool).

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 31, 2023

US VC investment falls from $275b in 2022 to $200b in 2023 & sustains at about $200-220b in 2024 as LP interest in venture attenuates after the euphoria in 2020 & 2021. Grading last year’s predictions : ML propels SaaS into a massive second wave that increases workers’ productivity measurably. Score : 0.5.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

Enter Assent Compliance — a Canadian company focused on supply chain sustainability management. Assent’s trajectory continues to grow and Waitmen projects the SaaS company will cross $100 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) this year after growing ARR by over 50% in the past 12 months. It’s an enormous market.”.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Seedstars Africa Ventures – which is part of Seedstars Group, an accelerator and VC that is active globally in over 30 emerging markets – provides early-stage capital of up to $2 million in seed and Series A rounds. He had previously worked as an investment banker in the U.K. Chandaria Capital backed 38 startups .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2022

She shared her prerequisites for making product-led efforts more successful and sustainable with TechCrunch+. Cloud providers’ default retention policies are not enough: You better back your SaaS up. A lot of work today has moved to the cloud as SaaS tools replace traditional on-prem software in the enterprise.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

David Smith is VP of data and analytics at TheVentureCity , a global early-stage venture fund investing in product-centric startups across the U.S., Of every 100 deals a VC firm considers, about a quarter get a meeting, and only one ends up securing investment. Europe, and Latin America.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Startups and VC. The company raised millions to turn accredited investors into LPs in VC and private equity funds. A SaaSy hotel lobby : Ingrid covers Mews’ $185 million fundraise for its SaaS-based hotel management platform. million investment to harden AI projects from attack, Kyle reports.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

In fact, even some of the excesses of 2021 were eclipsed when the number of investments on the continent rose higher in 2022 than they had a year earlier, boosted by early-stage firms flocking to fund startups in the wake of landmark exits of homegrown companies like Jumia and Paystack. billion, according to data from Partech.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Ukraine’s startup ecosystem was thriving before the war and making great progress, with Ukrainian startups raising $832 Million in VC funding in 2021. VC Funding was steadily growing before the war and there are more than 50 VC firms continuing to operating in the country. Secured seed finding from SMRK VC.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

For this morning’s edition of The Exchange, Alex Wilhelm interviewed three executives at cloud and SaaS companies to find out how well Q3 2020 has been treating them: Ping CFO Raj Dani. 3 tips for SaaS founders hoping to join the $1 million ARR club. ” 3 tips for SaaS founders hoping to join the $1 million ARR club.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

DECEMBER 12, 2019

STATE COLLEGE, PA – Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Central & Northern PA provides investment capital and business support services to tech-startups and small manufacturers located in our 32-county footprint. An investment in Sustain VC Impact Fund was also awarded. We Invest in Innovation.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

million Series C, the kind of investment that’s been harder to come by this year in a tightening VC environment. Companies configure Fairmarkit for things like price, sustainability and vendor diversity and the system finds the best match for them, a process known as autonomous sourcing. “We’ve Today’s $35.6

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Our survey respondents said the city was strong across a broad range of tech industries, particularly those with practical applications: cybersecurity, energy and sustainability, fintech, health care and medtech, edtech and silver tech among others. What is the investment scene like in your city? What are you most excited by?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Now that remote work has become the norm, remote investment in the area has dialed up as well. Heavily VC-backed salad chain Sweetgreen heads toward public markets. ” Heavily VC-backed salad chain Sweetgreen heads toward public markets. How to root out shadow IT and maximize SaaS investments. Any advice?

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

The judges for this pitch-off will be Yoon Choi (Muirwoods Ventures), Mar Hershenson (Pear VC) and Gabriel Scheer (Elemental Excelerator) on day one; and Sven Strohband (Khosla Ventures), Victoria Beasley (Prelude Ventures) and John Du (GM Ventures) on day two. ” Mar Hershenson — Pear VC. ” Mar Hershenson — Pear VC.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

Think of it as a two-sided marketplace: Continuum brings together executives with experience from VC-backed companies, including leaders from Tesla, Plaid, Intercom, Snap, Carta and Twitch, and connects them with companies that need help with a specific challenge or pivot.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Spark Capital led the investment and was joined by existing investors Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund, Social Impact Capital and Congruent VC. It is time to tip the scales back to sustainability based on small and mid-sized farmers. She is also unique in they way she started a technology company.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Addepar , which makes software to track investment performance, is also actively hiring with roughly 50 open roles across the U.S., 401(k) provider Human Interest , which recently increased total funding to $500 million, including an investment from BlackRock, has 23 open roles, including in engineering, product and revenue.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The whole package: How plastics and sustainability startups achieve success. As people look to minimize the waste they produce, startups are coming up with novel solutions to help people and companies meet sustainability goals. The whole package: How plastics and sustainability startups achieve success.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

Gloat , an internal marketplace for corporate talent, today announced that it raised $90 million in a Series D round led by Generation Investment Management, bringing the startup’s total raised to $192 million. Gloat is also benefitting from a general rise in VC funding for HR tech startups. In January, VCs funneled more than $1.4

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

Joining them is JAM Fund and existing investors Flexport, FundersClub and Vast VC. The latest investment gives the company a total of $33 million in funding since it was started in 2018 by Juan Martin Altamirano, Emiliano Segura and Agustin Novillo Saravia. Last-mile delivery in Latin America is ready to take off.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

. “[But a major challenge] is that the tax industry is often forced to play catch-up to the realities of a rapidly expanding tax code, with changes from remote work, recent global regulations, tax incentives for climate, and sustainability and new assets like crypto and NFTs. The tides might be turning.

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Feedough

JANUARY 6, 2021

As you compete for VC funding , an entrepreneurship degree may add an edge to your case or argument for why you should get funded. If you join a university course, you will need to invest a considerable amount of time attending classes and doing class-work and so forth to earn your degree. What are these skills?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

VC firm General Catalyst, a new investor in the business, along with existing backer Kinnevik. The startup is also ploughing money into developing what it bills as “sustainable” travel solutions. The final tranche of the D round was led by U.S. Last fall TravelPerk acquired a U.K.-based

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

Walter Thompson Editorial Manager, TechCrunch+ @yourprotagonist Just starting out angel investing? “There simply aren’t enough entrepreneurs providing adequately ESG-aligned investing opportunities,” according to T. Avoid these 7 mistakes. Investors want best-of-the-best ESG data. Here’s how to give it to them.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 4, 2014

2014 will be the third largest year in VC fundraising since 2000. Prices for startup shares have increased dramatically over the past few years as the dollars raised by VCs has doubled year over year, while the amount of great companies founded each year has not. What would cause a change in the environment?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 4, 2024

The head VC guy seems a little bit… weird. Let’s get one thing very clear, not every startup has to raise investment nor it’s the job of a startup to raise money. Successful founders are not very happy when they raise a new round of investment, because they understand that they didn’t actually raise any money, they raised debt.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 6, 2014

Because GoPro is the first sizable consumer hardware IPO in eons and because the startup world has a blossoming hardware segment, I thought it would be interesting to compare and contrast a top consumer hardware startup with the benchmarks of public SaaS companies using GoPro’s S-1. I have three goals with this analysis.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

The wealthy and connected investment firm that backs them will take on the task for its chosen champions.”. Veo CEO Candice Xie has a plan for building a sustainable scooter company, and it’s working. I would say that’s OK in the consumer industry, like consumer electronics or SaaS. a16z’s new $2.2B

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

After years of sustained growth, the pandemic supercharged the outdoor recreation industry. European VC soars in Q1. The venture capital world kicked off its 2021 European investing cycle with enough activity to set the continent on the path that would crush yearly records. European VC soars in Q1.

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