TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

This proved to be a winning strategy — at least at first. 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

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Two years ago, the African tech ecosystem saw newfound attention from global players that translated to the continent’s best year of receiving venture capital. Venture capital investment in Africa predicted to reach a record high this year. These predictions weren’t entirely off the mark.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. We also sat down and talked about what the big challenges for 2013-2016 would be for the company and we are in the fortunate position of our major issue being how to handle growth. In the Early Days.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Adopt a “hire slow, fire fast” mentality for your expansion strategy. Our team at Heartcore Capital use the following framework and learnings to guide internationalization strategies for our portfolio companies. Don’t be afraid to pull the plug if things don’t work out. Complexities and costs will multiply.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners (UTEC) , a deep-tech investment firm, announced the first close of its fifth fund, which is expected to total 30 billion JPY (or about $275 million USD) by June 2021. The firm’s first check size is about $500,000 to $5 million, and it also usually provides follow-on capital.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Venture capital is no exception and the outcomes of every venture portfolio will likely follow a power law distribution. Unicorns were hard to come by when Aileen Lee penned her now-famous article in 2013. There is nothing mysterious about the power law dynamic in venture. Your fund size is your strategy.

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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]. During the last several years venture firms approached fundraising like trips to an All-You-Can Eat buffet: fast, frequent, and without regards for the digestive impact. a buffet of money, digital art [DALL-E].

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2023

Venture capital funding in the region “dried up in the second half of 2022,” so he inquired about their current pace of dealmaking, which investment trends they’re watching and how founders can reach them. Fellow first drew notice in 2013 with a Kickstarter campaign to fund production of its Duo coffee maker.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Bybit and BitDAO partner Mirana Ventures co-led the round alongside Alameda. Fidelity International Strategic Ventures , DRW Venture Capital , Alumni Ventures , and Jump Capital also participated. . The Chicago-based company, which launched in April 2020, raised a $1 million seed round in September 2020.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

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. We’re receptive to the idea but our core strategy is to focus on organic growth and our own innovation and accelerate that,” Braga said. Why raise more money so soon?

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

Since launching in 2013, South African fintech Yoco has positioned itself as the go-to platform to access offline payments among merchants in the country. Yoco’s strategy as the foremost card payments provider in South Africa lies in creating access and removing barriers to adopting digital financial services.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The company, which brings over 800,000 customers into the Canva fold, raised about $1 million in venture capital, according to Crunchbase. The new acquisition was not part of the venture round dollars — Obrecht said talks with Flourish began prior to the raise.

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TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2021

People can think of us as the technical co-founder, responsible for driving and executing product strategy, design and the development of scalable products,” Dovetail co-founder Nick Frandsen told TechCrunch. Dovetail is currently raising a $10 million AUD (about $7.5

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

Other investors include Northstar, Social Capital, Novastar and TO Ventures. mPharma was originally founded in 2013 by Rockson , Daniel Shoukimas and James Finucane to manage prescription drug inventory for pharmacies and their suppliers, retail pharmacy operations and provide market intelligence to hospitals, pharmacies and patients.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

In 2013, he flirted with an idea for a platform that could help people pay for songs on their phones. If Ajebutter22 plans to change his strategy as he makes more angel investments, setting up a formal structure like Zagadat Capital — which Mr Eazi references as a collective — will be essential.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

Some ultra-wealthy investors have made a windfall investing in alternatives using tax-advantaged accounts, a strategy billionaire Peter Thiel used to grow his Roth individual retirement account from $2,000 to $5 billion in 20 years, tax-free, ProPublica reported last year. .

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TechCrunch

JULY 9, 2021

It’s somewhat of a field-of-dreams strategy, with just 60,000 people signed up currently on Giggl, one third of them monthly active users, Zog tells us. Hearo has a more narrow strategy in that the company is “all about watching,” says Lerner. Indeed, it only recently graduated from the LAUNCH accelerator program.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

is the head of Strategy for Esquire Digital and the editor of Today’s Esquire. When I imagine what this project could become in the next couple of years, I think back to late 2013, when Y Combinator announced the SAFE (simple agreement for future equity). Aron Solomon. Contributor. Aron Solomon, J.D., More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2020

While Sketchy’s strategy might seem odd, it’s actually well-known. To charge this growth and break into new content verticals, Sketchy is taking venture capital on for the first time in its seven-year history. For example, it uses a countryside kingdom to explain the coronavirus, or a salmon dinner to explain Salmonella.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2021

. “For startups with revenue, RBI may be a good option because, even though the startup may not be profitable, it can reduce dilution — especially for founders,” said Emily Campbell of The Campbell Firm PLLC, a law firm that represents serial entrepreneurs and venture-backed businesses. Increasing popularity of RBI.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? Of course, one could rebut that by saying traditional VC is all about investing in outliers: Seth Levine analyzed data from Correlation Ventures (21,000 financings from 2004-2013) and writes that “a full 65% of financings fail to return 1x capital.

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TechCrunch

JULY 9, 2021

Since its founding in 2013, NS1 has raised more than $100 million to build an engineering team and robust product portfolio that’s expanded to include DDI, which helps companies manage internal networks. “The venture capital market is racing ahead, foot on the gas, middle finger out the window, hair on fire.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

When Cowboy Ventures’ Aileen Lee coined the term “unicorn” in 2013, startups valued at $1 billion were rare creatures: there were just 39 of them at the time. The age of the centaur: $100M ARR is the new cloud valuation milestone. Image Credits: itsabreeze photography (opens in a new window) / Getty Images.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

While one might wonder what the parallels between food delivery and housing might be beyond fulfilling consumers’ needs, CEO Doherty said the rental market in 2021 looks a lot like the food delivery market in 2013. “In Census, that represents roughly 10% of renters in the greater Austin metro,” Maurais said.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? Image Credits: Versatile Venture Capital (opens in a new window). Seth Levine analyzed data from Correlation Ventures (21,000 financings from 2004-2013) and writes that “a full 65% of financings fail to return 1x capital.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2021

Urbanbase, founded in 2013 by chief executive officer and a former architect Jinu Ha, has now raised $20 million (approximately 23 billion won) in total. billion in 2021, based on Strategy Analytics’ report. million (13 billion won) in a Series B+ round as it scales up. Existing investors did not join this round.

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Haystack

JANUARY 12, 2020

Rather, this short blog is filled only with my own observations from being in the middle of the evolving seed market since 2013. There are risks, of course — new investors and funds are entering the market with smaller funds, novel Twitter strategies, and a hunger and desire to get ahead of the best founders.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

Wale Ayeni , one of Africa’s well-known investors, has a new role as the head of Helios Digital Ventures, the venture capital strategy of private equity firm Helios Investment Partners, TechCrunch has learned. Before the IFC, Wale led venture capital early-stage investments for Orange in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

But the company has raised about $12 million so far with investment from Sesame Ventures (the Sesame Workshop venture capital arm), and angel investors like Robert Langer, a co-founder of Moderna (now Luminopia’s board director), and Jeffrey Dunn, the former president and CEO of Sesame Workshop. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

There is an unmet need of $260 billion to $320 billion for women-owned company funding, according to a 2013 study conducted by the International Finance Corporation. Venture investors have extraordinary power to impact broader society norms. Let’s delve into the numbers — and why your deal flow may not be diverse enough.

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

In 2013, we are in the midst of a critical platform transition from the browser-based Internet to mobile applications platforms like iOS and Android. 40 Checkout Page Strategies to Improve Conversion Rates. “Conversion Rate” is a misleading term. Even this does not tell the whole story. Video: Learn more about Sailthru.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 12, 2022

However, few investors can directly impact the value of the underlying asset, except for private equity and venture capital investors with portfolio acceleration strategies. Rolling ten-year returns have steadily declined across hedge fund strategies. The HFRI Index returned 18.3% annually over the last twenty years.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 10, 2016

For all the talk about late stage rounds, megarounds and unicorns, early stage startups are benefitting disproportionately from near-record years of venture capital investment. The 35% attained in 2013 share for early investment ties the 1996 record. Perhaps the strong IPO year in 2013 enticed investors.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2021

Snider got his start out of school as an associate with Bain & Company and later as an associate with Bain Capital before becoming the first business hire at the real estate company Compass and getting promoted to COO and CFO after the company’s $25 million Series A raise in 2013.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? Of course, one could rebut that by saying traditional VC is all about investing in outliers: Seth Levine analyzed data from Correlation Ventures (21,000 financings from 2004-2013) and writes that “a full 65% of financings fail to return 1x capital.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2022

We’ll discuss general pitching strategies and talk about what he’s looking for at the moment before we take questions from the audience, so please click here to set a reminder so you can join the conversation. April 5 Twitter Space: “How to Pitch Me” with Arvind Gupta. On Tuesday, April 5 at 2:30 p.m.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

The report added that this was the highest number it had recorded since it began tracking relocation trends in 2013. What is its ESG (environmental, social and governance) strategy ,’?” Moreover, as Monday.com’s new London office suggests, hunkering down and hiding isn’t really a long-term strategy.

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