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JULY 29, 2010

We received so much positive feedback from our This Week in Venture Capital show walking through valuation calculations & term sheets that we decided to do a Q&A show this week to address topics that entrepreneurs want to learn about. In fact, far better if you haven’t raised venture capital.

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APRIL 21, 2010

Tags: This Week in Venture Capital VC Industry. Investors: Greylock (James Slavet). Do you know more about any of these deals? Want to debate them? No competitor bashing, please. But let’s further the discussion in the comments.

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APRIL 28, 2010

Tags: This Week in Venture Capital. There are three “megatrends” as he puts it – real time data, the social web and flash marketing. These are all “billion dollar industries” he says. Read more: TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

On the money side of things, GGV’s Glenn Solomon led the company’s seed round, which also saw participation from Pelion Ventures and Neythri Futures Fund , a collective of South Asian women looking to change the ratio in venture capital investing.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 1, 2021

Almost every private equity and venture capital investor now advertises that they have a platform to support their portfolio companies. Relationships with Venture Partners, Entrepreneurs in Residence , and other non-salaried personnel who can help your companies. Organize events in your vertical.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 14, 2010

If you want to raise venture capital more easily the advice could be quite practical and counter-intuitive. Many companies that are raising B or C venture capital rounds right now raised their initial money in 2005-2008. It is 2010. Or are you sure that they’re really supportive of you?

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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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Revolution

MARCH 6, 2024

Earned media is one of the few ways that early-stage companies building transformative businesses can get in front of massive audiences without a massive price tag. For these individuals, local media can provide an eye-opening spotlight on the innovative companies transforming the economic fabric of their cities.

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Dream It

JANUARY 13, 2021

The venture capital screening call is an important step to get right in due diligence. You’ll want to ensure the description of your company is accurate, funding details are up to date, and that you’ve provided accurate tags on your company profile. To get to partners, often you’ll have to go through the associate first.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

The “developer tools” tag on TechCrunch has been busy this year. You might think that with venture capital piling into the technology business model category and a number of recent IPOs to point to, the market for such work would be hotter than ever. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

When I first started in venture capital, back in 2001, I used to fund funds. I worked for an institutional investor that invested in both venture capital funds and later stage growth deals. My job was to figure out why certain firms were winning and why they might continue to win.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

.” Investors must believe it’s a solid approach, as well, given that Komprise this week managed to close a $37 million funding round from Canaan Partners, Celesta Capital, Multiplier Capital and Top Tier Ventures. ” More than a few organizations seem to be persuaded.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2023

You don’t need to move to San Francisco to launch a startup, but working here does have some advantages: moderate weather, natural beauty, great food, and sure, the world’s largest concentration of venture capital.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

Startups and VC Greycroft, the self-styled “seed-to-growth” venture capital firm, today announced the closing of over $1 billion in capital commitments across new funds, Kyle reports. Tile launches a new cat tracking tag with three-year battery life , Ivan reports. Jagmeet has more. No judgment.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Searching the titles, descriptions and tags of videos was always easy enough, requiring no more than a basic algorithm. It became Twelve Labs , which went on to raise $17 million in venture capital — $12 million of which came from a seed extension round that closed today.

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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.) This is an entirely new way of filming Personalization ?—?to

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

In an effort to help his son, Male immersed himself in the topic and found what he described as an “incredibly fragmented and polarized community and marketplace, inadequate, antiquated solutions with hefty price tags and long wait lines.”. He determined there was “no scientific understanding of what was happening in the marketplace.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Betterment ( $435 million in funding, per Crunchbase) and Personal Capital ( $265 million in raised capital, according to the same data source) are other related plays. Wealthfront raises $75 million to help millennials invest.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

In fact, Gorgias wasn’t planning to raise new venture capital so soon, but Lapeyre said he jumped at the opportunity to work with Transpose Platform and Shopify. However, it has “slowed down hiring on the go-to-market side, assessed where we can cut costs and asked the team to be smart about how we use the cash we have on hand.”.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2021

Turning the page from the early-stage venture capital market to the super late-stage exit market, this morning we’re talking about endpoint security company SentinelOne’s IPO in the context of Sprinklr’s own. Venture capital is easy. If it’s growing sufficiently quickly, the math can pencil out.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

A changing regulatory environment regarding antitrust could limit large future deals, leaving a host of startups with rich price tags and only one real path to liquidity. Those charts belie somewhat how quickly venture capital is changing. Prices are going up as well, as the following chart shows: Image Credits : PitchBook.

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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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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

million pre-seed funding in a round led by Mobility 54; the venture capital arm of Toyota Tsusho and CFAO Group. “We To prevent fraudulent claims, the app comes with geolocation tags, timestamps and other features like crash notification. The startup is now on an expansion drive across the West African country following a $1.5

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

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. . It also has what it describes as a “suite of features” focusing on collaboration and quick sharing.

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MARCH 9, 2010

Tags: Venture Capital & Technology. I don't plan to lose my Ace Hotel mayorship, though. so you'll no doubt find me biking up there for lunch meetings or just starting my day there for breakfast. I can't wait to invite people to meetings at my real office!

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

We’ve tagged each selection with the TechCrunch author who picked it and provided a link to the company, along with notes on what it does – and why we think it’s cool. Let’s have some fun!

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2009

I run a monthly meeting called the VCA that represents the majority of Southern California venture capital firms. Tags: SoCal Stuff Start-up Advice VC Industry.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2021

million in venture capital to date. Investors that have meaningful stakes in the company include NewView Capital, Union Square Ventures, CapitalG, Kleiner Perkins, and General Atlantic, which recently got a spot on the cap table through a secondary transaction. billion price tag. Duolingo has raised $183.3

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MAY 7, 2010

Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology. Baking, like product management, takes practice and it’s a real discipline that deserves respect. The more you practice both, and make sure you use the right tools—the better you’ll become. Measurement tools, in particular, are not to be ignored.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast ( now on Twitter! ), where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. 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. Lots of VCs are raising.

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JUNE 8, 2010

Last week I went to a Girls in Tech talk about women entrepreneurs and venture capital. Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. There was a comment made in the crowd about why women seem to lag men when it comes to networking.

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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. Image Credits: MaC Venture Capital / Wonderschool. Like the US, a two-tier venture capital market is emerging in Latin America. Why Amazon should pay attention to Shein.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. I’d much rather type in “500 Million Friends” in an ad for The Social Network than try to figure out whether that purple squiggly is an “r” or an “n”. Check out their cool video explaining what they do, too….

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AUGUST 2, 2010

That’s what makes venture capital such a risky investment. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology. If you haven’t noticed, but there’s not 100% correllation between interesting technology problems and viabile businesses. Help doesn’t necessarily mean an angel round sized check.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Tags: Venture Capital & Technology. If it doesn’t scale, you’ll wind up with Nebraska soccer moms adding Champion tube socks from Walmart.com. Is that a good thing? Can you design around it? Do you want to?

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MARCH 13, 2010

Tags: Venture Capital & Technology. It’s a scary proposition—one you don’t really have much of a choice other than to jump right into. I have more, but what I really want you to do is come participate in my Core Conversation at SXSW…. Saturday at 5PM, Hilton J. See you there!

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

The company has now raised just over $70 million in total, and it added its new capital at a valuation that it describes as “north” of $700 million. As you can tell by the numbers, this is no ordinary Series A.

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