TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

Less than 2% of venture capital funding went to all-female founding teams in 2021, marking a five-year low, new data from Pitchbook shows. So how is it that despite the recent boom in startup funding, the venture capital industry is actually becoming an even tougher place for women to raise money?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 17, 2023

Back when Silicon Valley Bank was still pitching a package of financial moves to its customers, it noted in a presentation to its own investors that “elevated client cash burn” was “pressuring [its] balance of fund flows.” The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Let’s explore.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2023

But after spending hours watching YC’s Winter 2023 Demo Day pitches this week, we also couldn’t help but try to connect the dots: Are Scandinavian startups making waves at Y Combinator? And yet, these three countries create more than their fair share of startups compared to their larger European peers.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

As the markets turned early this year, insurtech left most generalist investors’ playbooks almost as fast as Metromile and its peers’ plummeting valuations. The bulk of the buyers, however, would likely be companies involved in insurance themselves – either insurtechs acquiring some of their peers or legacy players.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

It seems Boston is faring well, and part of the reason for that appears to be that remote pitching is still a trend. Recent data published in the Pitchbook-NVCA Venture Monitor shows that Boston had roughly the same share of the number of VC deals in the U.S. We especially see this in the AI and security markets.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 12, 2023

A 2020 report by the International Finance Corporation (IFC) revealed that despite women constituting 30 percent of the region’s entrepreneurs, they receive a mere eight percent of venture capital funding. Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

Vijay Chattha is a general partner in VSC Ventures and is the founder and CEO of VSC, a communications and content platform for early-stage technology startups. Capital was hard to come by, and founders had to practically beg VCs to back their company. More posts by this contributor. Jay Kapoor. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

with $15 million to Prove It The venture capital world has started firing up a few cylinders again and looking for businesses that it believes will help us all succeed in ways that resonate with new ways of working as we begin to return to work. 92% of consumers trust peer recommendations , while only 22% of brands are trusted.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

In late 2020, a group of Stanford students banded together to create Stanford 2020, a venture fund solely to invest in their fellow classmates’ ventures. Now, two years later, the leader of that club, Steph Mui, is trying to replicate that playbook in the form of a venture-backed startup, and solo entrepreneurship.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Within that time frame, you are pitching your heart out to multiple investors and ideally setting a number of meetings, either virtual or in-person. You’re also busy building and constantly tweaking your narrative (and pitch deck) and managing each of those meetings and the necessary followup. The right pitch deck.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

Since then, many of the key trends and themes we surfaced have come to pass: Airtable clinched an $11 billion valuation in December 2021 after raising a $735 million Series F with help from Salesforce Ventures and Michael Dell’s MSD Capital. Renato Valente, general partner, Iporanga Ventures. Seems like a long time ago.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Snippets of advice, tactics, and tools I used to raise an oversubscribed round during an economic downturn Image: Author I’m writing this blog post on the heels of closing our oversubscribed round during what’s been described as the worst time in history to raise capital. Taking on venture capital is not for everyone.

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David Teten VC

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

We’re fortunate to interview William Stringer, Founder of Chisos Capital , a structured finance company. Chisos is a structured finance company that provides startup and brand capital to entrepreneurs, athletes and creatives. Q: Who are your closest peers, and how do you differ? Q: Please give us an overview of Chisos.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 13, 2021

Empirically, few small emerging investment managers hire placement agents, particularly in venture capital. million venture fund. It would make life a lot easier for emerging managers if they could outsource the entire fundraising process. But can you? In the the end, they reached their hard stop of $130m. Signaling. .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2023

“These deals were traditionally harder to track than primary venture capital deals, as they don’t generally get announced, but a new fleet of startups is shining light on them,” such as Caplight, Notice, Birel and Hive Markets. A robotic taxi drove me home a few nights ago, and it was just fine. Is robotics mainstream now?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Notably, Metromile saw its valuation decline over 85% and was subsequently acquired by peer Lemonade , and it hasn’t been alone in losing a lot of value and being eyed by peers and incumbents. To take the pulse of all things insurtech, we spoke with: Martha Notaras , general partner, Brewer Lane Ventures.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

I''ve included a short list below of a few 1-2 sentence thoughts, predictions, or generally crazy ideas that I don''t think are shared by my peers about where the space is going to give you a sense of what my perspective is. Those are going to be the reporters who are most likely willing to write about you. 3) Split up the story.

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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. Meetings should have a clear purpose, but instead, they’ve become a way to measure status and reinforce what is colloquially referred to as CYA culture. Walter Thompson. Senior Editor, TechCrunch.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

I had witnessed a number of early-stage tech startups in LA raise seed capital from the Bay Area and relocate. We formed a partnership with some of our favorite early stage investors and friends including Jim Andelman at Rincon Ventures and Peter Lee at Baroda. We had a specific goal in mind. We announced Fund I in 2011.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The following is a list of helpful resources for an entrepreneur starting a small business: Public & Private Grants to Small Businesses Having sufficient capital is a major challenge for starting and growing a business. Search out resources that are timely to starting and growing a small business. Learn more here.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . See Bessemer Venture Partners’ A comprehensive guide to security for startups. (To see the video above, please click the image, and then click on the Play button.). 1) Manage the firm .

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

“High-performing IT teams — which could deploy and push code to production faster than their peers — experienced 60 times fewer failures and recovered from them 168 times faster,” he writes in TechCrunch+. . Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. But they also have options. People talk! yourprotagonist.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

2) National Black MBA Association Scale-Up Pitch Challenge. The National Black MBA Association Scale-Up Pitch Challenge is another great source of funding for minority start-ups. You do NOT have to have funding to start a business but you can definitely bootstrap it. If you have a suggestion to add to the list, just let me know.

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TechCrunch

JULY 2, 2021

In fact, Mighty — led by founders Ben Goldhirsh, who previously founded GOOD magazine, and Dana Mauriello, who spent nearly five years with Etsy and was most recently an advisor to Sidewalk Labs — hopes to woo families with the pitch that it operates at the center of fintech, ed tech, and entertainment. Now, a year-old, L.A.-based

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

The idea is simple enough: several female VC partners at top funds will hold 1-hour meetings with 40 promising female entrepreneurs looking to get advice on their business and pitch in a friendly, non-judgmental, safe environment. My partner Kara wrote a great post on the topic that you should read. It’s a very sensitive age for a girl.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 5, 2021

You know you’ll require startup funding, but aren’t sure where to start. Will you self-fund and bootstrap? Will you take investment from others? There are several ways to fund your business, and there’s a process to work through which type of funding is best suited for your particular circumstances. On the road to funding. For veterans.

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Haystack

OCTOBER 2, 2019

2/ Pitch Deck Design: There’s a robust debate about slide decks. What I will say is many institutional investors require them, and fair or not, most investors view the pitch deck as a proxy for how the founders will present to customers. ” Startups, don’t outsource your BD. It wasn’t directed at anyone.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Advancements in technology, new capital accessibility, and evolving ways of working have begun to democratize the international investor community. Source: DocSend’s VC Fundraising Report If expanding your network and practicing your pitch are important to you, you may benefit from pitching a larger pool of investors.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 8, 2011

If* you believe that a good venture capitalist should have launched their own company and exited, then I simply don't have that track record. The other day, I got interviewed for Business Insider. At least it's not a weird fold in the back or a dent at the top. All hat and no cattle as they say. This guy has done nothing.". And you know what?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

However, our research indicated that the web3 investment landscape is growing increasingly competitive as venture capitalists become more educated. Mercedes Bent, partner, Lightspeed Venture Partners. Jai Das, co-founder, president and partner, Sapphire Ventures. 7 investors discuss web3’s present and peer into its future.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 13, 2021

Empirically, few small emerging investment managers hire placement agents, particularly in venture capital. million venture fund. I’ve worked with a significant number of placement agents and other capital-raising intermediaries of multiple types. But can you? In the the end, they reached their hard stop of $130m.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 27, 2010

Not only that, there’s a hugely disproportionate amount of time spent on pitching for money for these paper ideas. Not only that, there’s a hugely disproportionate amount of time spent on pitching for money for these paper ideas. Step #2: Pitch investors. ” It’s true. It’s a recipe for failure.

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TechCrunch

JULY 9, 2021

“The venture capital market is racing ahead, foot on the gas, middle finger out the window, hair on fire.” The SPAC parade continued apace this week as Nextdoor announced it would go public via a blank-check company, with the community social network making its pitch based on scale, claiming users in one in three U.S.

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Haystack

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Spotify will also get into commerce like its social network peers, but that’s a subject for another post.] As I was scrolling through Twitter today and saw the rumors around Gimlet, the podcast media company, being acquired by Spotify for $200M in cash, I knew I had to stop, write this post, and share some thoughts on what’s going on.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2009

This is part of my blog series “ Pitching a VC.&#. I’ve sat through a lot of VC pitches and having been CEO of an enterprise software firm for many years I’ve also sat through many customer meetings with sales teams. They seemed to agree with everything I said.&#. Far better that you noodle with them.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 24, 2018

Entrepreneurship, to me, still requires a special alchemy — a founder overcoming adversity, an investor concentrating a portfolio on something his or her peers (and LPs) do not yet understand. .” Entrepreneurs and investors both need risk in order to reap a reward. The following is my opinion. I believe risk-taking matters a lot.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . See Bessemer Venture Partners’ A comprehensive guide to security for startups. (To see the video above, please click the image, and then click on the Play button.). 1) Manage the firm .

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