TechCrunch

OCTOBER 17, 2020

If one founder ends up quitting a year or two before the last cliff, they still own a large share of the cap table through many rounds to come. The departing founder might consider that fair, but the remaining founder(s) are the ones adding on the additional value — and resentment is not the only issue.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 22, 2010

Other founders, “as a privately held company we don’t disclose our valuation.&# Me, “dude, I’m not a journalist. Investors own 25%, the founders own 75%. Investors will always want to get their money out of the company before founders, which in the case where the company is sold for a low price is fair.

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 6, 2023

echPetHub’s Clemens is Leading Innovation in the Pet Tech Industry I had the pleasure of interviewing Lorien Clemens, co-founder and CEO at PetHub , Inc., She joined PetHub in June of 2011 as the modern pet ID tag startup was in its beginning stages. the first networked database in the U.S. for pets and pet parents.

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The Seraf Compass

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

As a mentor and startup advisor, one of the most common fund-raising questions founders ask you is: can my co-founder and I pitch the company together? I suggest you tell them to strongly resist the temptation. It is a very bad idea. Tell them that some roads are better walked alone.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 18, 2009

Yesterday I wrote a blog post ( here ) in which I urged people to not have too many founders. These situations are only compounded if you have 3 or more founders. I know that many people reading this will be in companies with 3+ founders and aren’t having any friction. They agreed to all be co-founders.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

We had Farb Nivi , who is the founder & CEO of Grockit , a website that enables online group learning. Farb is the founder & CEO of Grockit.com. Current round: $3.35mm in Series A by TomorrowVentures (Eric Schmidt’s personal investment vehicle), Saban Ventures, Founder Collective, SK Telecom Ventures. LibreDigital.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2023

Y Combinator’s Demo Day took place this week , and although the event itself was virtual-only, 86% of the founders in YC’s winter 2023 batch lived in SF while participating. As a result, “the average Black founder raises less than around $1,000 from family and friends,” reports Dominic-Madori Davis.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 22, 2023

GenAI, Developer-and Data Stack-Focused Companies Dominate List as well as 80% of ET30 founders are Millennials Five years ago, Wing Venture Capital introduced their annual Enterprise Tech 30—a list of the most promising, private enterprise tech private companies across all stages of maturity.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2023

VCs to recommerce startups: Let’s pop some tags Image Credits: Kinga Krzeminska (opens in a new window) / Getty Images Thanks in large part to Gen Z’s interest in sustainable shopping, recommerce is soaring to new heights, and VCs are looking for the come up. You can sign up here.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 8, 2021

As the co-founder and CEO of PropFuel , Dave is a one-of-a-kind entrepreneur dedicated to creating a place for unique conversations with successful founders and business leaders. But this typically comes with a hefty price tag. Dave Will, an EO Boston member, is the host of the EO 360° podcast.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 24, 2023

Contributed by Chris Kirksey, an EO member in Austin who is the founder and CEO of Direction , an SEO software and services company that helps entrepreneurs set their online strategy in the right direction to accelerate sales, grow the business, and dominate your market. Accompany each subtask with relevant details and deadlines.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

The company emerged from stealth last August when it announced it had raised $4 million in a seed round l ed by Founders Fund that valued it at $20 million. Founders Fund doubled down on its investment, also putting money in the latest round along with Abstract Ventures, Maple VC, Hyphen Capital, Blank Ventures and angel investor Elad Gil. .

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Startup Blogpost

JANUARY 27, 2023

Chris Coote, Founder & CEO, California Honey Vapes Not Having a FAQ Page Not having a FAQ page is a common mistake. This material should consist of well-written and original product descriptions, photographs of high quality, and relevant meta tags. Hamza Usmani, Head of content, SEO-Audits.io

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

More recently, it’s launched a solution focused on connected TVs, where co-founder and CEO Yan Liu said there’s no standard measurement. So instead of relying on tags, TVision has built up a panel of connected TV watchers. “There’s no good currency, per se, in the industry.”

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Revolution

APRIL 6, 2021

Lindsay, her co-founders, and team are rock stars with a rare passion, unique product, and category-defining vision of Amplified Marketing.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

If you’ve decided that you need US$20 million to retire, but your current cash flow doesn’t warrant that price tag, it could make sense to wait until business picks up before pursuing a deal. The value of your business will be at least partially determined by company cash flow.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2021

Using tags and notes, the videos become more searchable and easier to find. For example, you can tag a co-worker in a meeting in which they got an unexpected shout-out. Now, the two co-founders are trying to take one of GitHub’s internally loved features and bring it, and more, to the mainstream.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2020

The Controlant platform involves screen-based IoT tags, which link to GSM networks and then feed into web and mobile apps. Last week the governor of New York held up a box (see image above and video below) containing the vaccine, with an unidentified tag that looked like a Controlant GSM tracking device.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Customers connect their data, it is placed into various verticals and tagged in different ways. Varos founders, from left, Gil Shaked, Yarden Shaked and Lior Chen. Until a month ago, it was just the three founders, but the company now has a team of seven, mainly in product and design.

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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. That’s really what this whole journey is about,” CEO and co-founder Emrah Gultekin explained. million, according to the company.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

He would be — he’s the co-founder of Lang.ai , a startup developing a platform that automatically tags customer conversations to resolve service issues ostensibly more quickly. ” Lang isn’t alone in using AI to auto-tag customer service messages. “Automation in customer support is not new. .”

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Sometimes that’s venture capital generally (like last year’s conversation with Reid Hoffman ) and sometimes it’s in a space where I’ve invested (like mobility and city innovation with Bird’s Travis VanderZanden , one of our portfolio founders.) Between the heavy hitters at the helm, the more than $1.4B

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2022

WATI founders Bianca Ho and Ken Yeung began working together in 2016, building Clare.AI, an omnichannel AI digital assistant for large Asia enterprises. WATI founders Ken Yeung and Bianca Ho. WATI’s last round of funding was an $8.3 WATI also has integrations with platforms like Zoho, Shopify and Google Sheets.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Theranos’s founder Elizabeth Holmes will find out her lot next week , while Peloton’s founder gave up on exercise equipment and is selling rugs now. Image Credits: GPC Smart Tags (opens in a new window). Jacquelyn writes that Framework Ventures co-founder says DeFi gives hope following FTX collapse. The TechCrunch Top 3.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Investors [and founders] will follow a power-curve, like any other data set. If you keep all your relationships in one place, then you’ll need to use tags or another identifier to isolate the folks that really matter to you. We looked for systems which used tagging as their core data model, instead of categorization.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

It’s not about necessarily building something for a hardcore buyer today,” co-founder and CEO Alex Perelman told TechCrunch. “We The feed shows videos of homes on the market, as well as a price tag. Both Perelman and his co-founder Nathan Shinder previously worked at PeerStreet, a real estate tech company based in Los Angeles.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Learn from the founder of The Meet Group Image Courtesy of Geoff Cook Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. Today’s guest is Geoff Cook, the founder of the Meet Group which was acquired by ProSieben for $500m. They created the popular apps of MeetMe, Tagged, Skout, LOVOO, and Tagged.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

It also includes resources that chefs tap into daily, like ingredient yields and unit conversion, a menu cost calculator and automated allergen tagging and nutrition analysis. Angel investors backing the company include Snap’s former head of product Bobby Lo, Shef founders and Bento Box founder and CEO Krystle Mobayeni.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

The firm’s two flagship vehicles, Greycroft Partners VII and Greycroft Growth IV, closed on more than $980 million, according to co-founder and managing partner Dana Settle — cash that’ll be put toward investing in both early- and growth-stage enterprise and consumer businesses. You can sign up here. Big Tech Inc.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2022

At the time of the acquisition, Prosus said the high price tag was justified because of the scalability of the combined businesses. The move to terminate the deal has come as a surprise to BillDesk founders and its investors, according to three people familiar with the matter. Why is the $4.7 It would have meant a $1.4

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

It also results in a product that doesn’t need bulky components like ionization chambers, and an overall smaller and lighter weight system relative to the spacecraft — key considerations in space, where every gram of payload has a high price tag. “It

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2021

Popl co-founder and CEO Jason Alvarez-Cohen, a UCLA grad with a background in computer science, first realized the potential for NFC business cards through a different use case — a device he encountered in someone’s home while attending a party. . To date, Popl has sold somewhere over 700,000 units and has generated $2.7

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 17, 2014

I was scanning the SXSWSocial network for anyone that had tagged themselves "Brooklyn". I had no idea she was a founder with a startup. She pounded the pavement for months looking for other investors who also wanted to take a shot at a first time founder team on a towercutting project. But handy isn''t why I backed it.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

NayaPay CEO and founder Danish Lakhani told TechCrunch that the super-app allows people residing in Pakistan to send and receive money, split bills and make payments conveniently from smartphones. We are very bullish on fintech in Pakistan. Image Credits: NayaPay.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Other notable investors participating in the round include founder of Stitch Fix Katrina Lake, CEO of Italic Jeremy Cai, CTO of Molekule Dilip Goswami and ex-CEO of Misfit Wearables Sonny Vu. . Why isn’t there a crib that can monitor for signs of waking,” wondered Radhika Patil, the co-founder and CEO of Cradlewise.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Omneky automatically adds tags to each ad using computer vision and text analysis. All of this is integrated into our AI to generate content that is on brand,” Omneky founder and CEO Hikari Senju told me in a call before TechCrunch Disrupt. But it gets more interesting once you start diving a bit deeper. Image Credits: Omneky.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

There’s a lot of moving pieces and a lot of fragmentation across tools,” explains Runway co-founder Gabriel Savit , who met his fellow co-founders — Isabel Barrera , David Filion , and Matt Varghese — when they all worked together as the first mobile app team at Rent the Runway. Image Credits: Runway.

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