Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2015

I’ve made 5 investments in the sector and I hope to make 5 more. Between the US & Europe alone the video sector is worth around $500 billion. The best way to get across what your startup does is through video, too. In 30-90 seconds you can use visuals, story-telling, music, stats and humor to get across your message.

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Startup Grind

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Challenges facing EdTech founders: Small Network: A small number of hugely successful EdTech startups (compared to other markets like FinTech, AdTech, etc) so a very small network to learn from and everyone is still exploring and finding his own way. I would definitely recommend UCL educate program for that side.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2014

Many startups now go through accelerators and have mentors passing through each day with advice – usually it’s conflicting. There are bootcamps, startup classes, video interviews – the sources are now endless. On investment strategies I have “ Deflationary Economics ” 6. What is a founder to do?

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Funding of women-founded startups remains significantly lower than those that are gender-mixed While women entrepreneurs are making significant strides in startup formation, they continue to struggle to gain access to funding on par with men. venture firms allocated only 22% of their deals to female-founded startups.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2022

In my view, the correct statistic is about 18%, not 2% — as we should take into account deals that had mixed-gender founding teams. To put the number in context, women-founded companies have accounted for around 24% of annual first-financing deals that we know had mixed-gender teams since 2017. The rest is noise.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

A spin-off from LanzaTech , one of the last surviving climate tech startups from the first cleantech boom that’s still privately held, LanzaJet is taking a phased investment approach with its corporate backers, enabling them to invest additional capital as the company scales to larger production facilities.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Israel’s startup ecosystem raised record amounts of funding and produced 19 IPOs in 2020, despite the pandemic. Here are the investors in their own words, for any TechCrunch reader who is interested in hiring, investing or founding a company in the country. What trends are you most excited about investing in, generally?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

Upstart tech companies delivering their product or service via an API raised mammoth amounts of capital during the final year of the 2021-era startup boom. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. They also provided a slightly expanded dataset encompassing an even larger group of API-first startups at our request.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

VC has been invested over the past decade according to race, gender and educational background makes for grim reading — with all-ethnic teams and female entrepreneurs receiving just a fraction of available funding versus all-white teams and male founders. New research looking into how U.K. population.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Six months after announcing $30 million in equity and debt, Boopos , a Miami-based lending platform for business acquisitions and growth, is back with an even bigger round, a $58 million Series A, again in a mix of equity and debt. Founderpath secures $145M in debt and equity to help B2B SaaS startup founders avoid dilution.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 23, 2023

Register Vietnamese cleantech startup Stride has announced raising $2 million in a Seed funding round jointly led by Clime Capital and Touchstone Partners. The government has shown strong commitment to developing and implementing policies that encourage renewable energy use, particularly solar and wind power.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

In the wake of a $300 million investment from General Motors in September, Momenta, an autonomous driving solution provider from China, announced today an additional $500 million added to its Series C round. The new injection brings the total of the startup’s Series C to over $1 billion.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Taha Ahmed and Rooshan Aziz left their jobs in strategy consulting and investment banking in London earlier this year in order to found a mobile-only education platform startup, Maqsad , in Pakistan, with a goal “to make education more accessible to 100 million Pakistani students.” Maqsad announced today its $2.1

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2021

As a remote island nation in the middle of the South Pacific, New Zealand is experiencing the stirrings of a burgeoning startup scene. 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.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

He will focus on Africa investments as part of QED’s international team. TechCrunch reported that Fund VII, made up of a $550 million early-stage fund and a $500 million growth-stage fund, will be used to back “fintech companies primarily in the U.S., Today’s announcement adds Africa to the mix.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2022

While some companies are still able to raise mega-rounds , reach unicorn status , and even attract lots of new capital in sectors that have seen their exits struggle on the public markets, other startups are not having similar luck. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. There’s some good-ish news to be found. (If

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Kikoff is hiring for 10 roles (a mix of hybrid and remote), including senior product manager, associate product manager, senior product designers, engineers and a growth marketing manager. Addepar , which makes software to track investment performance, is also actively hiring with roughly 50 open roles across the U.S.,

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 3, 2021

One marketing trend you’ve likely heard of is the use of animated videos—and videos in general. And its use and effectiveness are likely going to increase with time. The use of animated videos in marketing hit an all-time high in 2021. This combination is a rarity, seldom used and not even known by many people.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

government’s National Security Strategic Investment Fund (NSSIF), and a host of additional investors. Use-cases may include accelerating new drug discoveries, or powering the vast amount of data processing required for AI applications. quantum computing startup Quantum Motion raises $50.5M

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 6, 2024

It doesn’t matter if you work for a startup or a thriving multinational corporation: Client-facing projects take priority. While tech companies do use plenty of no-code tools, it turns out that it is not the industry we’ve discovered to have the highest adoption rate for our no-code platform. Anyone can build an internal tool.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Register Xurya Daya Indonesia (Xurya), a solar power rental and installation startup, received additional series A funding from global trading and investment company Mitsui & Co., Especially at this time, the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) has targeted the new and renewable energy mix to reach 23% by 2025.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Pegasus Tech Ventures , a firm that helps corporations launch startup investment funds, announced a new partnership with Japanet today. Japanet is looking for startups to support its expansion into new sectors. Japanet is looking for startups to support its expansion into new sectors.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. Does your startup have enough runway? Startups are similar: If the landlord hikes your office rent, a very comfortable 18-month runway could easily shorten to a year. . ” Does your startup have enough runway? Editor, TechCrunch+.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2022

Now, as competition heats up among investors to work with the most promising startups earlier, and the field of the founders hoping to build and launch companies gets wider and wider, the firm is taking a new approach. Those interested can start to apply from today until April 8, and the program will start May 23.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

The Exchange has long explored quarterly and yearly data regarding the North American , European and Asian venture capital markets , along with data on particular startup categories. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. However, if we control for an outsized investment or two, things smooth out rather nicely.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Chooch.ai , a startup that hopes to bring computer vision more broadly to companies to help them identify and tag elements at high speed, announced a $20 million Series A today. Today’s investment brings the total raised to $25.8 Today’s investment brings the total raised to $25.8 His startup aims to change that.

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Paul G. Silva

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

It was clear that there was more opportunity for their research and data products, but they wanted to invest their resources in promising ideas for their target market. The product was useful to their business as a marketing and operations tool, but they wanted to build it into something more. PAD P urpose: Why innovate?

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2023

As our fellow fintech enthusiast Alex Johnson pointed out , there was one name that stood out on that list for being “not like the others”: fintech startup Brex. So it’s no surprise that we have seen a flurry of financial technology startups offering banking services catered to certain populations based on factors such as age and ethnicity.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 5, 2021

You know you’ll require startup funding, but aren’t sure where to start. Will you take investment from others? If your business sells a unique product, consider using a crowdfunding site like Kickstarter or Indiegogo to raise funds. Self-fund your startup. Did you know that approximately 57% of startups are self-funded ?

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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

JANUARY 25, 2022

The startup has received €50 million (just under $57 million at today’s rates) from the European Investment Bank, the funding arm of the European Union. Starship Technologies is describing this as a “quasi-equity facility”, meaning there is a venture loan involved in the mix.

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Dream It

APRIL 7, 2020

Friday, April 3 was supposed to be the orderly launch of the CARES Act Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) providing $349B of urgently needed funding to struggling startups and small businesses. After PPP is finished, I don't think bankers in the US will ever again acknowledge the letter P as a letter in the alphabet.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

It’s that time of year, time to look back and reflect on the most significant storylines in the tech, startup, and VC world. And, with that warning, I offer to you, the big stories in the startup and investing ecosystem of 2018, written in ascending order of importance and magnitude…. 6/ Venture Capital In Expansion Phase.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

For deep tech startups, the capital game can be a tricky one to play. The VC world is attracted to the low-investment/high-returns model deep tech tends to offer, but it can also be impatient with the time it takes to get there. Their goal is to “invest in a better future for our shareholders: the American public.”.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The Netherlands’ ecosystem has been flourishing; more than $85 million was invested in regional startups in 2019 alone. Plenty of good funding rounds, a highly skilled workforce and a strong entrepreneurial culture have given Amsterdam a booming startup ecosystem. The nation’s proximity to the U.K.,

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

Venture-built indexes of startups and other firms have proved useful tools in recent years, led by Bessemer’s cloud index , which is now also a tradable ETF on Nasdaq. What’s an API-first startup? You will have your own definition of what an API-first, or API-led startup is.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

As President-elect Joe Biden readies his transition team and sets the agenda for his first 100 days in office, startups can expect to see some movement on long-stalled infrastructure initiatives that could mean big boosts to their business. A Biden presidency doesn’t need a Green New Deal to make progress on climate change. .”

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