TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Image Credits: GPC Smart Tags (opens in a new window). According to Syneroid, a startup that makes smart tags, 10 million pets are lost each year in the United States, but “less than 30% are returned home.” Miguel Fernandez digs into revenue-based financing, offering a new playbook for startup fundraising.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

9 strategies that will help you overcome your fear of fundraising. ” 9 strategies that will help you overcome your fear of fundraising. Price tag : Instacart is acquiring Eversight , an AI-powered pricing and promotions company. TechCrunch+ is our membership program, which helps founders and startup teams get ahead.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The news of a media startup raising money was paired with rumors of an exit for email media darling Morning Brew for a price tag of up to $75 million. Here’s what we got into: A Media Roundup: The Juggernaut raised $2 million in a round that we found to be both cool and timely.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2024

Bank of America has pinned a $107 billion valuation tag on Mukesh Ambani’s Jio Platforms, valuing the Indian telecoms and digital conglomerate 64.6% higher than the $65 billion at which it attracted the likes of Meta, Google and other technology giants in a mammoth fundraising in 2020.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

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. There’s a lot of value in pulling in all of our correspondents into a CRM, but only if most of them are tagged as “acquaintances” so they don’t make the database unwieldy.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

After meeting with hundreds of companies since the start of the downturn, Garg has written a fundraising guide for seed-stage founders who are hoping to reach the next level. The median Series A for developer-tooling companies fell to $47.5 5 metrics Series A investors look for at dev-tools startups. Kirsten has more.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

Lesson: Being profitable-ish and growing is the real startup sweet spot when it comes to fundraising.). Per new investors Rich Wong and Arun Mathew of Accel, Dovetail had burned only half of its total fundraising before they got the chance to invest. And that’s it, until today.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

It has a bit of a hefty preorder price tag — $499. What you need to do differently to fundraise during a downturn. : Hearth Display, that’s who. The startup brought in $2.8 million to turn your whiteboard into a 27-inch display to show off the family’s to-do list, Ivan writes. Why founders need to secure 24+ months of runway.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

The app’s idea was, effectively, to turn one of Instagram’s core features — photo tagging — into a stand-alone experience. But in its case, photo tagging wasn’t an afterthought; it was the full focus. Floodgate’s Ann Miura-Ko joined the board with that fundraiser. Image Credits: Poparazzi.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Sources pegged the price tag at $1.1 The company raised more than $187 million, according to PitchBook data , though its fundraising had slowed in recent years. As you might expect, both parties are putting a happy face on the deal, talking about how they can work together to grow Gainsight further.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Now, a startup called Factorial — one of the bigger players in the area of building HR technology for SMBs — is announcing a big fundraise at a “unicorn” valuation that underscores that trend. Led by Atomico, the round also included GIC as well as past investors Tiger Global, CRV, K-Fund and Creandum.

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JUNE 30, 2010

Growing a company is a process with lots of little iterations over time--just like fundraising. First off, when you have a product launched, even something raw, it's so much easier to keep a product conversation going versus a fundraising one. Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology. Failure was not an option.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2021

The price tag will shock you, but the story tells a bigger narrative about patented technology, and the outsized impact that a tiny startup has on Tesla’s route to batteries. Announcing the TechCrunch Early Stage Marketing & Fundraising agenda. Announcing the TechCrunch Early Stage Marketing & Fundraising agenda.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

At Meta, Triolo spearheaded Facebook’s charitable donations feature, which allows people and charities to launch fundraising campaigns. ModernLoop can also detect and tag calendar events that are moveable, Han says, such as internal one-on-ones and meetings with external attendees. ” Image Credits: ModernLoop.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 1, 2021

– What are your fundraising goals? Adding full lifecycle data and industry exposure tags to that, across such a large number of companies, often enables us to see trends ahead of the market, such as retail decimation a few years ago.” Fundraising. This is an open-ended query and the most important question.).

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Risk-on, risk-off : The startup fundraising game is in flux at the moment, with some investors putting capital to work in companies that have yet to fully form, as the public market takes body blows and earnings disappoint. So they are rebranding themselves with the tag, TechCrunch reports. You can sign up for it here.

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Haystack

JUNE 11, 2018

A stranger (hopefully a future friend, Pietro Invernizzi ) on Twitter tagged me as part of his tweetstorm earlier today about his hope for how VCs and founders should interact around and during a pitch. Don’t drive irrational behaviour in fundraising, spending or selling unless it really is in a company’s best interest.

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APRIL 27, 2010

Sramana Mitra said not to long ago in Forbes : “I have come to observe that most business school programs have an extensive emphasis on fundraising, especially from venture capitalists, and very little pragmatic understanding of what it really takes to get a venture off the ground. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology nextNY.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 1, 2021

– What are your fundraising goals? Adding full lifecycle data and industry exposure tags to that, across such a large number of companies, often enables us to see trends ahead of the market, such as retail decimation a few years ago.” Fundraising. This is an open-ended query and the most important question.).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2021

Before using phone numbers to collect customers’ information, the company used QR codes and NFC tags. We’ll cover every aspect of company-building: Fundraising, recruiting, sales, product market fit, PR, marketing and brand building. Because of its original business model, Koinz had to iterate several times.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

It also wrote a bit more about the fundraise on its own blog.). The cover slide is at the top of this post and just reads “The OS for Grocery” with a few keywords, designed as tags (“order management,” “inventory management” and “analytics”).

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 1, 2016

If it’s a fundraiser, the people who were there last year are likely to be there again this year. If you go with a colleague, you can tag team. Professionals who do it well can generate millions in revenue for their companies. First, do your homework before attending an event. But before you do, check out that person online.

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JUNE 2, 2010

Isn’t it always a risk to go out and fundraise? Knock yourself out in the fundraising and take the extra cash. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology. Without necessarily going to anyone different than you would have two years ago, you can just as easily raise a seed round twice the size with the same group of people.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 2, 2014

The first four tags: web, mobile, enterprise, and software are catchall. Given this trend in 2011, and analogous trends in the ten years of the data set, we can evaluate the changes in ability to fundraise as the number of startups in a category increases. Then on down the list. Though this is just speculation.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Podium is back at the fundraising well this year, adding $201 million to its accounts at a $3 billion valuation (post-money). billion price tag. Podium only wants to talk about its new fundraising and valuation today, apart from some very non-GAAP figures like how many “local businesses” use its service.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

The truth is, for most of you actually reading this, it simply doesn’t apply to you—similar to most of the prescriptive stuff about fundraising written by the top investors. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology. At best, they can counter with some thoughtful points, but saying nothing often makes them seem absent from the conversation.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 17, 2020

The news of a media startup raising money was paired with rumors of an exit for email media darling Morning Brew for a price tag of up to $75 million. Here’s what we got into: A Media Roundup: The Juggernaut raised $2 million in a round that we found to be both cool and timely.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Revenue-based financing: A new playbook for startup fundraising. Revenue-based financing: A new playbook for startup fundraising. Image Credits: GPC Smart Tags (opens in a new window). ” Use IRS Code Section 1202 to sell your multimillion-dollar startup tax-free. Pitch Deck Teardown: Syneroid’s $500K seed deck.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 8, 2022

Instead of worrying about payroll, cash flow, or fundraising, I just had to focus on building a great product and growing its customer base. Between managing my rag-tag team of part-time software developers, attempting to keep customers happy, and trying to sell new ones, I’d been just trying to survive each day. Suddenly, Zcruit?—?the

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OCTOBER 21, 2010

I try to contribute to some of my friends’ run for charity fundraising. Tags: Politics Random Stuff. I run the Brooklyn Bridge Park Kayaking program , which covers kids *and* the environment. I raised $3k last year through my blog via Donor’s Choose. I give to my schools. I try to make the world a better place, too.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2023

It’s an impressive price tag for a job role that would’ve blown minds just one year ago. Image Credits: Getty Images Substack’s newsy week Blogging and media platform Substack opened up a community fundraising round this week, seeking capital from its writers, readers both accredited and unaccredited. million in funding.

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MAY 21, 2010

No one wants to stop the hockey stick growth to fundraise—so if you’re product takes off right off the bat, you might raise a little more to let it run a little further. Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology. In either scenario, what chances is what you think you need to get to the next round. Pre-product? No problem.

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