TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Crowdfunding has become an increasingly popular way for companies to raise capital, and investors are taking notice. Groundfloor , the first real estate crowdfunding platform to gain regulatory approval, announced today that it raised its first round of institutional capital since 2015. “These are heavy RegTech lifts.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 16, 2016

There aren't many people who get the chance to analyze venture capital fund return data. Well, CB insights lists somewhere in the neighborhood of 500 active VC firms as of 2013--meaning firms that did 4 or more deals that year. or be an institution big enough to see a ton of different funds over time.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Today, the Palo Alto-based company announced $12 million in Series A funding in a round led by Headline, with participation from Storm Ventures, Global Founder Capital, Zoom Apps Fund, Operator Partners, Industry Ventures and existing investors K9 Ventures, Dragon Capital and Twin Ventures. CEO Kothadiya was previously with [24]7.ai,

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 21, 2024

a16z crypto is a venture capital fund that has been investing in crypto and web3 startups — across all stages — since 2013.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

AUGUST 19, 2020

Rosario Diaz Garavito, the founder of The Millennials Movement , didn’t look to be labeled as an entrepreneur and a leader in her community when she began her small social media movement promoting youth volunteerism in 2013. When she returned to Peru in 2013, she launched The Millennials Movement and began offering resources on volunteerism.

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Ian Hathaway

APRIL 28, 2020

One of them, Mark Kvamme , left Sequoia Capital to found Drive Capital in Columbus, Ohio; but that was back in 2013. It is already well-advertised that venture-backed startups (the recipients of venture capital) are highly concentrated by geography. However, The Times is massively overselling the reality.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 4, 2023

a16z crypto is a venture capital fund that has been investing in crypto and web3 startups — across all stages — since 2013.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

Appier ’s initial public offering on the Tokyo Stock Exchange yesterday was a milestone not only for the company, but also Sequoia Capital India, one of its earliest investors. Anand met them in 2013, soon after their pivot to big data and marketing, and Sequoia Capital India invested in Appier’s Series A a few months later.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2021

These included Blue Horizon , CPT Capital , EF , Fifty Years , Hemisphere Ventures and Horizons Ventures. That pattern tracks well with data from PwC, which found that 2,700 unique investors had backed 1,200 startups in its State of Climate Tech 2020 report covering the 2013-2019 period.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JUNE 14, 2021

Dogecoin was initially introduced in late 2013 and 7 1/2 years later it has amassed a market cap of $43bn and is one of the most popular crypto assets in the world. The market capitalizations that these meme assets trade at make no sense on any fundamental analysis. I thought “what is he doing?”

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

how on Earth could the venture capital market stand still? One of the most common questions I’m asked by people intrigued by but also scared by venture capital and technology markets is some variant of, “Aren’t technology markets way overvalued? With the enormous changes to our economies and financial markets?—?how Of course we can’t.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Something happened in the past 7 years in the startup and venture capital world that I hadn’t experienced since the late 90’s — we all began praying to the God of Valuation. How might our next phase of the journey seem brighter, even with more uncertain days for startups and capital markets? They were a way to gather cheap capital.

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500

MARCH 18, 2020

I first met Flavio in 2013, when he co-invested alongside 500 Startups in Olist, one of Brazil’s largest online marketplaces–which recently raised a Series C round. Olist’s founder was in our San Francisco accelerator program, and in his next round of funding turned to Flavio, who was then president of Walmart.com in Brazil.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

Raising venture capital is rarely an easy lift for startups, but 2022 is turning out to be a more challenging year than we’ve seen for some time. As venture capital continues its slowdown after an aggressive 2020 and record-breaking 2021 , it’s clear that early-stage founders looking for their first dollars will require a new approach.

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Hunter Walk

DECEMBER 27, 2022

When Homebrew Started Investing Its Own Money, The Reaction From Our Venture Capital Peers Surprised Me [Part One]. As they piled more LPs into more fund vehicles, and then deployed that capital faster than ever, it’s not a surprise that everyone involved is now dealing with the after-effects of a decade-long gorge.

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Hunter Walk

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Hunter Walk: You started at Instacart in 2013, just a year after it was founded, which obviously turned out to be an epic decision. Nilam Ganenthiran : The story of me joining Instacart in 2013, is actually rooted in an epic bad decision. Rafa runs Background Capital, and is one of the best partners for early company builders I know.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 17, 2020

Then I found out that the creators of this new game had received venture capital funding and were going to turn it into a business. Crypto was helpful for me back in 2013 and 2014 when I was going through one of those periods. It was as fun to play it as it was to play Turntable back in the day. Then I woke up.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2020

million, led by Blossom Capital. Also participating was New York-based FirstMark Capital and Frst , as well as angel investors including Paul Melchiorre, former CEO of business planning giant Anaplan, and David Clarke, the ex-CTO of Workday, another business planning incumbent.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

We discussed five trends in the seed market and the outlook for 2013. These are the five most important trends for 2013, in my view. In the past year, micro-VCs have doubled the capital they invest each year to $1.6B. As a result of these two pools of capital entering the market, seed rounds are approaching Series A sizes.

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Dream It

JULY 31, 2019

The product should be live if we hope to raise capital. A program to get your company 'accelerated'- selling faster, moving faster, which does not necessarily translate to capital. 4- Any startup can raise venture capital I've also seen a misconception on business types, versus their ability to raise venture capital.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 26, 2017

If those startups raised twice the amount of capital then the figure would be 2. Agricultural Technology (AgTech) boomed in 2013, but has not recovered after substantial drop from its one-year high. Machine learning startups continue to raise ever more capital, as do big data companies.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

The round was led by Tiger Global, with participation from returning investors like ICONIQ Growth, CapitalG, FirstMark Capital, Battery Ventures, Snowflake Ventures and Dawn Capital. Founded in 2013, Dataiku is used by data scientists, but also designed for business analysts and other people with less technical backgrounds.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Or more simply, the company aims to solve SMBs’ working capital needs through its credit and payments offerings. Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP) led Fundbox’s Series D financing, which brings the company’s total equity raised to $410 million since its 2013 inception. billion in working capital, the executive added.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

From a diversity standpoint, the venture capital financing landscape remains incredibly imbalanced. of total venture capital invested, according to Crunchbase. The current system capitalizes women and minority founders at 80% less than businesses overall. saw almost no progress in venture capital funding from 2013 to 2020.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

According to CrunchBase, Rigetti has raised just under $200 million in VC capital since it was founded in 2013. We plan to use this capital to accelerate our product development and accelerate our goal to bring this transformational computing capability to every major industry.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2021

Ironhack raised its latest round from Endeavor Catalyst , a fund that invests in entrepreneurs from emerging and underserved markets ; Lumos Capital, which was formed by investors with a long history in education technology; Creas Capital, a Spanish impact investment firm; and Brighteye, a European edtech investor.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

As a partner at Wing Venture Capital, Zach Dewitt focuses on early-stage investments in transformative enterprise technologies. After winning the 2013 TechCrunch Meetup and Pitch-off , I decided to drop out of business school to pursue my startup full time. Zach DeWitt. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

New investors Greenoaks Capital and China’s Tencent co-led the round, which included participation from some existing backers as well. With the extension, the startup has now raised more than $700 million since its 2013 inception. Ribbit Capital led the first tranche of its Series E.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 4, 2023

M&A secures the team greater financial certainty within a more established & better capitalized business. During the 2013-2014, median acquisition prices increased by 50% in less than a year, from $36m to $54m.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Between 2010 and 2015, Evernote raised hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital from investors including Sequoia, Meritech Capital and Japanese media company Nikkei. In 2013, Evernote was reportedly valued at nearly a billion dollars.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

Rafael Ilishayev and Yakir Gola, who serve as co-CEOs, founded the company in 2013 while they were students at Drexel University. The round comes from D1 Capital Partners, Fidelity Management and Research Company, Baillie Gifford, Eldridge, Reinvent Capital, Luxor Capital and SoftBank Vision Fund 1. delivery fee.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 25, 2023

Why companies are headquartering in Singapore for operations across APAC As per the Global Financial Centers Index Survey 2013, Singapore ranks fourth among global financial centers for competitiveness. Wealth management, risk management, and private banking are three of its expected future growth areas.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The silver lining to the horrors wrought by Covid is that the pandemic opened the venture capital community’s eyes to the world of opportunity beyond the traditional tech startup hubs of California, New York, and Massachusetts. In 2013, Indianapolis-based ExactTarget was acquired by Salesforce for $2.5

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

Iterative , an open-source startup that is building an enterprise AI platform to help companies operationalize their models, today announced that it has raised a $20 million Series A round led by 468 Capital and Mesosphere co-founder Florian Leibert. He noted that the industry has changed quite a bit since then. ”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

Now, the blockchain aficionado who got his start in trading Bitcoin in 2013 is joining the ranks of a growing group of solo GPs raising venture funds built on their own name and reputation. Iyer has raised $20 million in what he says was an oversubscribed round for his inaugural fund, Canonical Capital, he told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The round — which also includes a strategic investment from Capital One Ventures, Crowdstrike Falcon Fund and Gaingels — brings Corelight’s total raised to $160 million, following a $50 million Series C in October 2019, a $25 million Series B in September 2018 and a $9.2 million Series A in July 2017.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

Enza Capital participated, alongside some unnamed angel investors. They began informally with handwritten contracts, but progressed into using technology to scale the solution from 2013 when it rebranded to Tugende. . Because of the nature of its business, Tugende needs a steady influx of debt capital. Image Credits: Tugende.

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