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. I spoke with Sopoong chief executive Max Sang-Yeop Han , a serial entrepreneur who joined Sopoong in 2016 and acquired the firm in 2019, to learn about the VC’s plans.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

The easiest way to work with and for VC funds is to become a part-time scout, getting paid for sourcing investments. How to find a job as a VC scout. VC recruiters list and compensation data. How to negotiate a partner role at a VC or private equity firm. Syllabus for how to launch, manage, and invest a VC fund.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Now, investors see New Zealand as a country with a track record of building companies with global exits in SaaS, health tech and deep tech. In 2020, VC investments totaled NZD $127.2 According to Crunchbase, money raised by New Zealand startups increased 30%, from around $1 billion to $1.3 or Australian) VCs or the government.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

Haris Khurshid, general partner at Chalo Ventures , launched a $50 million second fund focused on investing in Pakistani startups and a smaller percentage in Latin American startups. This allows Pakistani startups to scale faster throughout the country and expand into other markets.”. It’s been a busy day for new funds.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 28, 2023

Register Startup founders are often too focused on the amount of money they can get from an investor that they mostly fail to see the value that other investors have to offer to grow their businesses further. Indelible Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in B2B SaaS startups that can scale internationally.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

Early-stage venture capital fund Newtopia VC launched Monday with $50 million to invest in tech startups based in Latin America. The fund will invest between $250,000 and $1 million in startups at the seed stage to help them achieve the milestones needed on the path to raising a Series A.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Luis Daniel Arbulú, partner at Salkantay, told TechCrunch via email that the fund is “the country’s largest VC fund” as per PitchBook and Crunchbase data. counterpart in those that were synergistic to the ones in Europe — for example, tech, healthcare and enterprise SaaS. VC fundraising gets weird as autumn nears.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2021

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. As we entered 2021, I wrote about the big question on every startup’s mind for 2021: How will a cataclysmic event such as a pandemic show up in post-pandemic innovation? And the startup of the week is….

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David Teten VC

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

It’s hard enough to raise capital from VC, private equity fund, and family offices. The vastly larger universe of B2B companies, many of which have teams focused on pushing VC and private equity funds to evangelize their product to their portfolio. See my list of due diligence questions for VC and private equity funds. .

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

There are plenty of reasons why Vilnius, Lithuania’s capital city, has an increasingly visible startup sector. The country’s startup-friendly regulatory environment, a beautiful medieval town center, over 20 business hubs and accelerators and strong rankings in intellectual property production are most obvious at a high level.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

Given the school’s past in spinning out successful startup founders, it unsurprisingly had no trouble raising $1.5 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. You can’t buy a community, so make it worth it.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Pariti , the Kenya-based community-led marketplace building the digital infrastructure for startup ecosystems in emerging markets, has raised $2.85 This led to a significant increase of interest from local and international investors for African startups. million seed, the company confirmed to TechCrunch today. based Harlem Capital.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

So, in keeping with our mission, we present to you today a list of Ukrainian tech companies and initiatives you can support, the products you can use, and the startups which you – if you’re an investor – can look at funding. But over 90% of Ukrainian startups say they need financial support to survive the war.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Last year was a good 12 months of firsts for African tech startups. It turns out that while later-stage investors, mostly international VC firms, grabbed headlines by writing immense checks, pre-seed and seed-stage investors were instrumental to the growth of the continent’s tech ecosystem. billion, according to data from Partech.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Register The landscape of software development is undergoing a transformative shift with the rise of no-code tools, and Korean startup Skylink is at the forefront of this revolution. CEO Gong envisions a future where no-code startups gain global traction, and Skylink is already targeting the North American market.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2015

Try to imagine if you *didn’t* already know Amazon and the company walking into VC meetings telling people they were going to disrupt the selling of all goods starting with books but then extending into electronics, apparel, toys and so forth. Today’s asset – real estate – is tomorrow’s albatross. ” Ha.

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Jason Malki

AUGUST 2, 2023

Prior to Azibo, he was the founder at Nodabl, an HR-tech SaaS startup. Vikas’ first startup role was at Factual, an enterprise location data company, where he joined as one of the earliest five business hires, and helped grow them to eight-figures in revenue — first in a generalist role and then as the head of marketing.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Last November, we surveyed 13 of the top robotics-focused VCs to find out which areas of robotics are exciting them most going into 2020. One of the most common areas of attention respondents highlighted were startups focused on construction and manufacturing. Are there startups that you wish you would see in the industry but don’t?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

But, speaking as someone who’s worked at several startups, Extra Crunch stories contain actionable information you can use to build a company and/or look smart in meetings — and that’s worth something. ” The VCs who founders love the most. API startups are so hot right now. API startups are so hot right now.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2021

Cisco announced this morning that it intends to acquire Indianapolis-based startup Socio , which helps plan hybrid in-person and virtual events. Indy VC firm Sixty8 Capital launches $20M fund aimed at underrepresented founders. The two companies did not share the purchase price.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

But if I’m so optimistic about the world of Creators, what’s going on with the startups formed over the last few years to help this market succeed – why are so many struggling? Handful of temporal factors turbo’ed the amount of dollars and number of startups in the Creator Economy space.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

Startup pitches with promises to provide various services to Africans — across different sectors — are commonplace now. Trade has the least startup activity in a market that received $5 billion in VC funding last year. The continent is also home to more than 1.2

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Register MoveinSync, an innovative Indian startup specializing in workplace commute solutions, is currently in discussions with investors for a new round of funding. The Indian startup plans to prepare for an Initial Public Offering (IPO) within the next two to three year. They aim to secure between $50 to $60 million.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

history is going to reshape the startup ecosystem for years to come. Who’s most vulnerable, who stands to benefit, and what are some of the long-term implications for VC? Hopefully, after Silicon Valley Bridge Bank winds up its operations, a viable business will move in. But that’s just one street corner.

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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. Data lakes become the dominant data architecture across businessn intelligence & observability workloads as more startups leverage Amazon S3 free replication.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 6, 2021

Product manager might be one of the most grey roles within a startup. Hiring continues to be one of the hardest parts of building a startup, and those early employees can define the trajectory, culture and eventual success of it. It’s a slight asterisk to the common narrative of how startups pivot every other day.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

Sequoia Capital and Bain Ventures are among the high-profile investors that have backed the venture firm Kearny Jackson’s second fund, the early-stage focused firm said Wednesday as it gears up to invest in more startups. It has also roped in Sunil Chhaya , formerly a VC at Menlo Ventures, as a co-GP.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

Editor’s note: Get this free weekly recap of TechCrunch news that any startup can use by email every Saturday morning (7 a.m. What happens to high-flying startups if the pandemic trade flips? (EC). As public investors reprice edtech bets, what’s ahead for the hot startup sector? (EC). Subscribe here. Across the week.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

StudyFree — which connects students with international educational opportunities via a community-driven B2C SaaS model — has raised a $3 million seed investment round led by I2BF Global Ventures, TMT Investments and Techstars. Also participating was PandaDoc CEO Mikita Mikado and Google’s ex-director of product, Andrey Doronichev.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

What is the True Sentiment of VCs? I recently survey more than 150 VC friends from all stages and geographies what they thought about the market by asking “Which of the following statements best describes your mood heading into 2016?” ” “This will be great for VCs and bad for entrepreneurs.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2023

Apply to Startup Battlefield 200 anyway — and announce your public debut at TechCrunch Disrupt! Startups and VC Many apps today assume that data lives in only one location, typically a single cloud database. TechCrunch+ is our membership program that helps founders and startup teams get ahead of the pack. Big Tech Inc.

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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

JUNE 29, 2022

The Mumbai-based startup announced today that it has raised $36 million in equity and debt led by Varanium Nexgen Fintech Fund, DMI Sparkle Fund, along with returning investors Chiratae Ventures and Dream Incubator Japan. Some SMEs don’t want to get (or have access to) equity funding, but also want to stay away from high-interest bank loans.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Austin made headlines in 2021 for being “the place” for startup founders and venture capitalists alike to set up shop. That’s why TechCrunch has chosen to shine a spotlight on the city with a special episode of TechCrunch Live centered on the growing startup scene in Austin, Texas. It’s a city of unicorns and tech giants.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

is the latest startup to grab some venture capital dollars as the travel industry gets back on its feet amid the global pandemic. Starta VC led the round and was joined by Liqvest.com, Mission Gate and a group of individual investors like Bas Godska, general partner at Acrobator Ventures. YouTravel.Me Today YouTravel.Me

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

If the past few years, and even the past week , has reminded us soundly of anything — it’s that the startup world will never be predictable. To meet the changing startup landscape, we’re refreshing and re-imagining TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 in a big way, with more of what you love and new ways to accelerate your growth.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

“Challenger” startups in banking and insurance have upended their industries, and picked up significant business, by building more customer-friendly tools and services — more personalized, easier to access and usually competitively priced — than those typically provided by their bigger, incumbent rivals.

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