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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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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

In short, the city appears to be strong in areas such as B2B, SaaS, marketplace, B2C, gaming and medtech. The country’s capital Warsaw has an angel investment scene, but founders instead often look to Germany for smaller investments because “the distance from Wroc?aw What are you most excited by?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

The ability to raise capital is less impressive than finding sustainable ways to build a base of paying customers. ” After surveying 14 public B2B software companies, Townshend says firms that built for discoverability and deployed usage-based pricing had a median growth rate of 141%, compared to 21% for traditional SaaS.

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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. By contrast, venture capital is a craft that defies both speed and scale.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

At our mid-year offsite our partnership at Upfront Ventures was discussing what the future of venture capital and the startup ecosystem looked like. Should SaaS companies trade at a 24x Enterprise Value (EV) to Next Twelve Month (NTM) Revenue multiple as they did in November 2021? But rest assured valuations get reset.

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Revolution

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Consequently, when it comes to investing in e-commerce, you’ll hear many VCs say they’re “waiting for the dust to settle.” And it’s certainly not sustainable in this market; the lack of transparency from ad-tech/tech companies makes optimizing customer advertising costly and inefficient. Existing platforms (i.e., Stay tuned.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

While capital infusion into companies took a summer siesta, some venture capital firms continue to see their coffers runneth over. Three years after raising a $500 million fund , European venture capital firm Northzone is back with what partners are calling its “largest fundraise to date” of €1 billion, or $1.01

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Though some businesses may never be truly sustainable, a venture firm in Seoul argues that emerging climate-tech startups will help big manufacturers do better overall. Its sweet spot is early-stage ventures from seed to series A stages across South Korea and Southeast Asia.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 12, 2023

“We created an educational SaaS that enabled real-time two-way communication between teachers and students through IT. EVENTUS automates tasks through event SaaS, reducing workforce and costs while recording and scoring attendees’ behaviors and actions during the event.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2015

I have written about the deceiving nature of early successes before – in particular in the SaaS or B2B world leading to a phenomenon called “shelfware.” I have many investments with early traction and I the entrepreneurs I work with must tire of my constantly saying, “Are we really making a difference?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Ventures Platform, a Pan-African early-stage venture capital firm, has closed its fund at $46 million as it looks to double down on “category-leading” companies across the continent, Tage writes. A SaaSy hotel lobby : Ingrid covers Mews’ $185 million fundraise for its SaaS-based hotel management platform. Is it a plane?

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 7, 2022

Register Omnistream , a Singapore-based data-powered retail solutions startup, has announced raising $7 million in Series A funding led by SIG Venture Capital , the Asian venture capital arm of Susquehanna International Group.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

“While the amount of funding invested in startups in Africa has grown over the years, it is still negligible compared to the need. The nine have equity investment needs of between $25,000 and $100,000. And that is why we are working towards unlocking diaspora remittance as a source of funding,” said Lawi.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 29, 2022

This brings the cumulative total of investments and loans to $23 million since the company’s inception in October 2019. In addition, in the second close, Asuene welcomed Salesforce Ventures which is known for investing in leading SaaS companies globally, and Masayuki Mochida from Tybourne Capital Management as new investors.

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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? It’s the dream for any startup: Udesh and his team had an in-demand product and a successful business model.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2015

. “the ecommerce company gained fauxmentum by raising artificially high amounts of venture capital and spent lavishly on customer acquisition despite long payback periods and questionable LTV” __. We live in heady times. But can sensible management team even do anything about it?

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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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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Greater Colorado Venture Fund raises $25 million dollar fund, in partnership with Colorado Venture Capital Authority; Funds will be used to galvanize, support and expand rural Colorado founders and entrepreneurs in their business building efforts. GCVF will deploy the initial investments from Fund II over the next five years.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Greater Colorado Venture Fund raises $25 million dollar fund, in partnership with Colorado Venture Capital Authority; Funds will be used to galvanize, support and expand rural Colorado founders and entrepreneurs in their business building efforts. GCVF will deploy the initial investments from Fund II over the next five years.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

Click Travel, which is based in Birmingham, was founded all the way back in 1999 — and appears to have raised relatively little venture capital over the years, per Crunchbase. It has also attracted a large amount of external investment (totalling just under $300M) over its shorter run (founded in 2015).

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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. managing director, The Lithuanian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2022

Optimizing time-to-value, using data to calibrate customer touchpoints, and giving every employee “a shared understanding of the customer’s journey” is how PLG giants like Slack and Dropbox carved out their niche, writes Vidya Raman, a partner at Sorenson Ventures. Image Credits: Eoneren (opens in a new window) / Getty Images.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

It announced today $82 million in Series C funding, led by Oak HC/FT, with participation from existing investors Kaszek and Prosus Ventures. The last round follows a $40 million Series B investment last May from Prosus and Kaszek and brings the company’s total funding to about $128.7 That interest didn’t happen before,” he added. “It

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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. How does this affect the investment landscape?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

The cohort has had access to ample capital in recent quarters, giving them a bubble of venture capital that somewhat protects them from rapid changes in the greater economy. Now, everyone is pivoting to more sustainable revenue models. While the bubble is not popping, it’s changing shape.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

The key to being able to run a business that isn’t yet profitable (on operating margin) is availability of capital to finance losses and preferably at a cost that isn’t too punitive to the founders and employees. The reason one would accept losses is when they are investments in fueling faster growth. But LTV / CAC is just one measure.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Around 7,000 tech workers have joined the ranks of the Armed Forces or Territorial Defense Only last month, OneUkraine sprang up from a host of major European tech founders and investors, who plan to provide sustainable humanitarian relief for the Ukrainian people. Main investors include TMT Investments, TLF Ventures, Flyer One and others.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Julio Vasconcellos is the managing partner of Atlantico , a venture capital fund focused on Latin America. Much has been written about Latin American fintechs, which last year drew 40% of the region’s venture capital investment. Julio Vasconcellos. Contributor. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Amit Anand is a founding partner of Jungle Ventures and an early pioneer and leader in the development of Southeast Asia’s venture capital industry. At Jungle Ventures, we have observed the following key trends in how the startup ecosystem is evolving: Moving beyond demand-side innovation. Amit Anand. Contributor.

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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. John Danner , managing partner, Dunce Capital (an edtech and future of work fund with portfolio companies Lambda School and Outschool). Image Credits: Bryce Durbin.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

We just wrapped up a three-day virtual event that included discussions and interviews with some of the most notable people in technology, media, government and venture capital. The whole package: How plastics and sustainability startups achieve success. The whole package: How plastics and sustainability startups achieve success.

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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. “Denver was ready for the Zoom boom, and is reaping the — venture capital — rewards.” How to root out shadow IT and maximize SaaS investments. ” How to root out shadow IT and maximize SaaS investments.

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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. This next wave of the food industry will be how to reduce the middle.”.

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

We’re living in a historic period of very inexpensive venture capital. Here’s a top-down way of thinking about the maximum amount of burn a startup should sustain. Today, the early and growth stage SaaS market prices companies on a forward revenue multiple. forward revenues.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

It’s hard to pin down where Shein is from,” answered Richard Xu from Grand View Capital, a Chinese venture capital firm. Image Credits: MaC Venture Capital / Wonderschool. The wealthy and connected investment firm that backs them will take on the task for its chosen champions.”. a16z’s new $2.2B

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TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2021

” We’ve also received great feedback on a recent guest post about bootstrapping options for SaaS founders written by a founder who’s actually done it. We are in a period of all-time record investment for so-called mega-rounds, or investments of $100 million or more inside the fintech realm.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

He spends most of his time wrestling with fragmented and imperfect private market data in a never-ending effort to derive market-beating investment signals. A sound investment process analyzes both macro trends and fundamental data to assess the probability of various potential outcomes. Shachi Shah. Contributor.

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