TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

What do early-stage founders need to know to capture VC interest, and dollars, in a challenging market? It’s a vital question, and it’s why we’ve invited three investors — who we think know their stuff — to share their insight and advice on the TechCrunch+ stage at TechCrunch Disrupt on October 18-20 in San Francisco.

ventures 95

ventures education venture capital disruption 95

David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. I have been researching this both to support Versatile VC ’s portfolio companies and also as part of research for my new book, To University and Beyond: Launch Your Career in High Gear. 1) Your school.

founder 144

founder mentorship peer-to-peer pitching 144

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

In December 2021, a vulnerability in a widely used logging library that had gone unfixed since 2013 caused a full-blown security meltdown. . Boston-based AppMap , going through TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield this week, wants to stop this bad code from ever making it into production. Image Credits: AppMap.

development 94

development disruption creativity energy 94

TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

San Francisco and Paris-based VC firm, Partech led the round. They began informally with handwritten contracts, but progressed into using technology to scale the solution from 2013 when it rebranded to Tugende. . The investment, which, according to the company, was agreed on and structured in 2020, follows the $6.3

financing 103

financing finance transportation support 103

David Teten VC

JANUARY 12, 2022

For example, activist hedge funds, and most private equity and VC funds. A private equity/VC investor can proactively recruit new team members, win clients, or if necessary change management. . I published in 2013 a much earlier version of this in Forbes , and in December 2020 published the final version in Techcrunch.

disruption 52

disruption peer-to-peer strategy venture capital 52

AsiaTechDaily

JULY 7, 2023

In 2013, Ed launched Health2Sync in his home country of Taiwan. “Action is data-driven. ” Standing at ground zero in a healthcare industry primed for disruption After a decade of entrepreneurship, Deng candidly admits that although they are already helping diabetes patients globally, they have yet to achieve their initial goal.

founder 98

founder health disruption hospitality 98

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

More experienced founders exist and specific markets, particularly in the Big Four (Nigeria, South Africa, Egypt and Kenya), show a mix of matured but still open-for-disruption traits. The European VC also led the pre-seed rounds of Kippa and Edukoya. A couple of reasons are behind this sudden surge in unicorn numbers on the continent.

venture capital 139

venture capital capital VC ventures 139

TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

Founded by brothers Gustavo and Mauricio Chamati in 2013, Mercado Bitcoin was the first crypto exchange in Brazil. Crypto is taking advantage of this trend, which is also on display for other asset classes, such as VC and private equity,” Dagnoni said. It’s also 11 times the volume experienced during the same period in 2020.

peer-to-peer 103

peer-to-peer disruption innovation investing 103

TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

Ayeni has a similar function at Helios Digital Ventures: to spot and back disruptive startups in frontier markets, particularly in Africa and the Middle East. . “I’ll call it a mid-cap VC fund. Ayeni and the Helios Investment Partners team declined to comment on the VC firm’s overall fund size.

VC 59

VC venture capital finance financing 59

Angel Capital Association

AUGUST 13, 2021

Our Leadership Team started noticing something interesting around 2010: many of our customers were VC-backed startups. Even though we decided not to pursue this model at InboxDollars, I continued to think about it and eventually decided to start angel investing as a personal hobby in 2013. MY 2013 ANSWER TO “WHY?”

angel investing 69

angel investing investment investing leadership 69

FundersClub

JUNE 12, 2017

’ It’s that line of thinking that leads people to create disruptive companies, to solve problems that were thought to be intractable. They seek a VC model where dogma is less of a drag on the enterprise, and investment discovery can come from a wide network of smaller investors—mini LPs, in a way.

VC 93

VC venture capital networking founder 93

Haystack

MAY 19, 2018

Fast forward to 2013 — we became parents, I started investing, and life as we knew it changed. I found that I didn’t need an escape from work — work is an escape I love — but I needed a break from meetings, interactions, and events that would disrupt my flow state. In those five years, too, my career slowly changed.

coworking 60

coworking transportation networking energy 60

TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

.” Drawing from observations gleaned from working with founders like Spotify’s Daniel Ek, Sebastian Siemiatkowski from Klarna, and iZettle’s Jacob de Geer and Magnus Nilsson, Brenner explains where “VC FOMO” comes from and how it drives dealmaking. Image Credits: Nigel Sussman. Image Credits: Bryce Durbin.

data collection 79

data collection pitching ventures disruption 79

TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

While we anticipate the VC fundraising environment will become more cautious across the board, we don’t see robotics being uniquely impacted. Rodney Brooks (Rethink Robotics) at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2017. We had to fight like crazy in Chicago in 2013 to get approval for that. Yeah, well, I say we were a total artistic success.

construction 77

construction disruption mix-use innovation 77

Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

From an investor’s perspective, 2022 witnessed a sudden market reversal from an extreme equity seller’s market to an equity buyer’s market, causing dislocations throughout angel, VC, and startup ecosystems. It is unclear if VCs will agree to these terms, but LPs believe they now have more leverage. Smaller VC fundraises?

startup 52

startup VC SaaS capital 52

OurCrowd

MAY 20, 2022

EVERY aims to disrupt the $200B egg market by producing egg protein for cooking without chickens. PitchBook has ranked OurCrowd as Israel’s most active investor each year since we were founded in 2013, with investments in more than 330 portfolio companies. I felt deep down that there had to be a better way to do it. Learn More.

energy 36

energy opportunity technology investment 36

American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

of all VC funds raised in 2022 to 17.2%—seen as part of a decade-long trend. Aspect Ventures : co-founded in 2014 by Theresia Gouw and Jennifer Fonstad, the early-stage venture firm uniquely focuses on bridging the funding gap between angels and the larger multi-stage VC platforms through collaboration and diversity.

venture capital 105

venture capital capital ventures health 105