Remove perennial
article thumbnail

Music licensing marketplace Songtradr raises $50M

TechCrunch

The oversubscribed round — which features Regal, Aware Super, Perennial, Argo and Greencape — follows a $30 million raise last August , bringing the Los Angeles company’s total funding to north of $100 million. Music licensing marketplace Songtradr this morning announced a $50 million Series D.

article thumbnail

Which Categories of Seed Startups are Thriving? Which Aren't?

Tomasz Tunguz

Software - up more than 3x, Software is a perennial category. Vertical farming, novel protein sources which replace meats, branded water in a can that resembles beer so you won’t be lampooned at a party. Consumer preferences are evolving and startups are rising to meet the demand. Cooling Spaces.

startup 112
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

What Happens When Startups Turn from Their Innovation Stage to Operational Excellence?

Both Sides of the Table

These are the hard problems we’ll have to address in the year ahead along with the perennial, “ When should we raise more money? Raise too soon and likely take on more dilution, wait and get valuation up (as our metrics continue to rise) but then run to a point where you have a lower cash balance and place more risks on the business.

article thumbnail

New York City’s enterprise tech startups could be heading for a superheated exit wave

TechCrunch

Gone are the days when the New York startup ecosystem, perennially in Silicon Valley’s shadow, was more hype than substance. (In The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Read it every morning on Extra Crunch or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday. In recent news, Work-Bench recently raised a new $100 million fund.).

article thumbnail

Deci snaps up $21M for tech to build better AI models based on available data and compute power

TechCrunch

” With adequate training data being another perennial problem in AI, Deci is also working to give a boost on the data side of the equation. There is a gap, between the algorithm and the supply of the hardware. So, we need to have some convergence based on what hardware we have. Deci is bridging or even closing that gap.”

article thumbnail

A new kind of PE fund plans to roll-up German startups into potential unicorns and bigger exits

TechCrunch

European startups have always suffered from the perennial startup problem: how to exit? However, in Europe the problem has always been particularly acute. How many large European industrial or corporate giants acquire or acqu-hire? Not that many and not nearly enough. It’s part of the reason so many European startups end up heading to the US.

startup 85
article thumbnail

SOS raises 3.4M to add some pizazz to your local tampon vending machine

TechCrunch

They met as colleagues at financial services company State Street, and combined forces to solve the perennial problem of broken, out-of-stock tampon machines. .” The two-woman founding team and the company’s co-CEOs are Susanna Twarog and Robina Verbeek. SOS vending machine. Image Credits: SOS.