TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Founded by Tanya Van Court, who lost over $1 million in the 2001 bubble burst, the platform teaches financial literacy to children of all ages, helping them learn economic concepts, lingo and the principles of financial health. This latest round was oversubscribed, giving Van Court the opportunity to be super selective about her investors.

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Gust

OCTOBER 20, 2011

These angel investors generally invest $25,000 to $100,000 in a round totaling $250,000 to $1,000,000. For this round of investment, the angels collectively purchase 20-40% of the equity of the company and are seeking a return on investment of 20-30X in a period of five to eight years.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

Mikal is an early-stage investor at Wavemaker Partners investing in startups across North America, MENA and Asia and author of the newsletter Emergent , analyzing one fast-growing startup in an emerging market every week. Mikal Khoso. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Unlocking Pakistan’s potential.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at Harvard Business School, to weigh in on what we are seeing, and while they’re trying to make sense of things, too, they noted a couple of things that could impact the velocity of deal-making that we’ve been seeing. “Not That’s new.”. Image Credits: Overlooked Ventures.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

The benefits of building a diverse startup team are overwhelming; from increased creativity and faster problem solving, to a greater diversity of thought opening up new market opportunities and more revenue streams, to better understanding the customer base and building better products… the list goes on.

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Feedough

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

As the entrepreneurs are hardly making any money to pay their personal bills, they devote a great deal of time and energy in making elaborate pitches for raising investment capital. To capitalize on this excellent growth opportunity, some entrepreneurs tend to make significant changes in a model that has been working reasonably well for them.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Originally created in the mid 1990’s to help with the imprecise problem of how to value early stage companies, especially those in technology, I developed what soon became known as “The Berkus Method” when published in the popular book, “Winning Angels” by Harvard’s Amis and Stevenson with my permission in 2001.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Morgan, and was a managing investment partner at SoftBank. Latin American venture capital and growth investments through 2018 had averaged less than $2 billion per year. As a banker covering technology, I thought there was an opportunity to invest in the region and decided to quit my job at J.P. Jennifer Queen.

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OurCrowd

MAY 4, 2020

“Historically, investing in times of economic downturns – such as after the Internet bubble burst in 2001 and 2002, and after the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009 — has proved lucrative because you’re buying at a discount. That’s a very good entry point for new investors,” Medved says. Read more here.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

How you invest your time is just as important as how you invest your money Who’s #OpenToWork? “We also made sure to check their LinkedIns twice: once in early 2021, when there were practically no tech layoffs, and again in early 2023, in the wake of the worst round of tech layoffs since 2001.”

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Juyeol has been with Lockton Korea since 2001. “We are excited to welcome Ben and his team to Lockton Korea, adding expertise and marketing capabilities in reinsurance and retail will unlock further opportunities for the company to deepen partnerships with the country’s leading financial institutions. million in 2021.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2022

Tekever — based, fittingly, in historic maritime superpower Lisbon, Portugal — was founded back in 2001 and has only been offering commercial services since 2018. It invested in a Brazilian drone company, Santos Lab, several years ago, giving it a foothold in that part of the world.

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StartupNation

JUNE 29, 2021

million investment into a retail behemoth that he sold to Viacom for $8.4 The history of Blockbuster provides a classic example of a company that seized opportunity on a grand scale but never transitioned to operational excellence. billion just eight years later. For years, it was Hollywood’s largest customer.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2020

It goes a little something like this: After moving to California in 1996 at the age of 20, Gorny eventually founded a web hosting company in 2001 after working for tech companies during the dot-com boom. We rounded off with what’s up with TikTok stars investing in tech startups. We also talked about the DoorDash and C3.ai

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

MAY 22, 2018

Recuperators were the only real competitive technology in 2001, but they were expensive and inefficient. Ben Franklin Technology Partners ( www.cnp.benfranklin.org ), an institutional seed investor funded by the Commonwealth, also saw the company’s potential and made its first of three investments.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

The benefits of building a diverse startup team are overwhelming; from increased creativity and faster problem solving, to a greater diversity of thought opening up new market opportunities and more revenue streams, to better understanding the customer base and building better products… the list goes on.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

After all, the money could be invested in something more impactful. VCs would return capital to LPs because they don’t see attractive investment opportunities that are good fits with their mandate, fund size, [and so forth]. Now, if you were to tell me VCs were starting to return capital to LPs, I could see some parallels.

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Click below to invest. No, we are not going back to the future As we ride the 2021 market roller coaster through wreckage and recovery, accompanied by a raging bull market in tech stocks, some people are wondering whether we might be re-living the dreadful dot-com boom and bust of 2000-2001. Click here to see the technology in action.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. Partners make investment decisions. ” In VC terms that means the key questions you need to answer are, is this investor: Geographically focused and have they invested in my geography before? Meet in person.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

2001, a Starbucks Odyssey : In August, Starbucks got things percolating with plans for a blockchain-based loyalty program and NFT community. Here, have a fresh battery : Magna enters the micromobility and battery swapping market with a $77 million investment in Yulu, Rebecca reports. The TechCrunch Top 3.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

In addition, he created Ecliptic Capital, a $100 million evergreen investment fund that could grow to $150 million by the end of the year. Ecliptic Capital provides seed-stage, and early-stage investment to startups. The whole ‘90s were the early days of the Internet and I saw a lot of opportunity,” Whurley said.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

For those of us who’ve invested in early-stage companies, especially technology startups, we have confronted a universal problem. There are many ways to project the value of a company for purposes of pricing an investment, but all rely upon the revenue and profit projections of the entrepreneur as a starting point.

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David Teten VC

OCTOBER 31, 2024

We’re happy to share the latest in PEVCtech’s series profiling how investment managers are using AI, tech, and analytics to generate alpha. We have over $400 million of capital under management, our current portfolio is around 20 companies, but so far we have invested in over 40 companies since 2015.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 15, 2019

The opportunity to impact that change was clear if I invested the time and energy. Since joining EO in 2001, Bubu Andres has made a mark at all levels of the organization, both as a passionate member of EO Philippines and in various leadership positions. I also wanted to show the world what Filipinos can do—Philippine pride.

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