Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

It was 2009 and it was terribly difficult to get any financing (if you can remember a time like that!) But by 2014 much had started to change. And since we all knew that Sam’s dealflow and judgment were sound we empowered him to make early-stage, accelerator-like investments in early-stage entrepreneurs under the Upfront brand.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Give direct feedback to entrepreneurs on their businesses or if we’re not investing why it’s not a fit for us. Investing early in the lifecycle of a startups history where we can have the biggest impact on strategy & team development and deliver the highest returns if we are successful.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 28, 2021

Here’s the difference: A hobby or side hustle involves a discretionary investment of time and money. When I moved to Washington State in 2014, I initially registered my business as Julia L F Goldstein Communications. You’re in charge of operations, sales, marketing and finance. But I could change my perspective and my goals.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

Some are more for fun, and the financing options for those types of buys — such as motorcycles and ATVs — are more limited. The company, which offers “instant” financing for large recreational purchases, boasts impressive financials in a startup world whose inhabitants are mostly unprofitable.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

Friederike Grosse-Holz, a director at impact investment firm Blue Horizon, said lab-grown meat is “a little like a moonshot,” but predicts that 11% of the seafood, meat, eggs and dairy consumed globally in 2035 will come from alternative sources. Use alternative financing to fuel VC-level growth without diluting ownership.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

One area I’ve had much discussion with the companies in which I’ve invested in is bringing on board an operationally focused CFO. A great finance leader is on top of your numbers with such precision that you don’t have to worry about it. We brought in Cynthia Stephens to head up finance at Invoca.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

That player, Crowdz , recently secured $10 million in financing co-led by Citi and Dutch growth equity firm Global Cleantech Capital, with participation from Bold Capital Partners, TFX Ventures and Augment Ventures. Put simply, Crowdz started out by giving small and medium-sized businesses a way to sell invoices for financing to funders.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Last week a company we enthusiastically backed, uBeam , led by a very special entrepreneur, 25-year-old Meredith Perry , announced a $10 million round of financing. In fact, the headline of one read, “How Putting $10m into uBeam illustrates everything that is wrong with tech investing today.” We checked safety.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Was Paul Graham right in his “high resolution” financing post? But that’s hardly fair compensation when your former cube mate gave you $25,000 of money she didn’t really have to invest in you, took tons of risks with her money, and now has to pay a VC price for that money a year after she invested it.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 27, 2014

I believe the middle isn’t being “gutted” but rather is being supplemented by “opportunity funds” and “growth funds” that sit side-by-side “core funds” allowing the firms to stay small and nimble while still being able to grab prorata rights of their best early-stage investments.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2022

FlapKap , using its revenue-based financing platform (RBF), is helping these stores solve the growth-destructive challenges emerging online stores encounter when trying to meet customer demands. and witnessed the rise of revenue-based financing platforms in the country and the West, including Clearco and Wayflyer.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The investment is the largest-ever Series A round for the region, and it values Wave at $1.7 Four big-name backers jointly led the round — Sequoia Heritage, a private investment fund and a subsidiary of Sequoia; Founders Fund; payments upstart Stripe; and Ribbit Capital. Wave , a U.S. Both were Series C rounds.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

It’s not dissimilar to venture capital investments — you give a promising company (or person) the money that they need to grow, assuming that eventually, you’ll recoup your investment and turn a sizable profit. “Six months later, they [do another deal] because they see the success of reinvesting in themselves.”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

London-based Divido , a white-label platform for retail finance that integrates with e-commerce platforms (but can also support omni-channel) so retailers can offer consumers a “buy now, pay later” option at the point of sale, has bagged a $30 million Series B to fund international expansion. Making sense of Klarna.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

The first mission, which ispace aims to conduct in the latter half of 2022, is being furnished by earlier financing. The Series C was led by Japanese VC firm Incubate Fund, with additional investment from partnerships managed by Innovation Engine, funds managed by SBI Investment Co., Ispace’s total funding now stands at $195.5

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

million jobs due to Google’s $1 billion investment in the continent. The continent’s investment story. The report first highlights the growth of venture capital on the continent over the past six years; within this period, investments in African startups have grown 18x. This is compared to 37%, 70% and 66% in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

In March 2019, SoftBank Group International made headlines when it announced the SoftBank Innovation Fund, which started out with a $2 billion commitment to invest in tech startups in Latin America. The Japanese investment conglomerate has dramatically ramped up its investing in the region, and so have a number of other global investors.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 1, 2023

Register Saudi Arabia-based debt and investment company Manafa announced raising $28 million in a Series A funding round co-anchored by STV and Wa’ed Ventures. It provides financial products tailored to fulfill the needs of small and medium enterprises in various sectors by offering debt and equity financing based on a crowdfunding model.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

The reality is you must be great at HR, PR, finance AND product. I invest heavily in relationships with journalists both because I like them and respect their profession and I know that there is a benefit to me in the long run if I’m not transactional in my relationships. ” Many CEOs act like VPs of product or CFOs.

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Gust

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Cautionary note: No competent VC is actually fooled when you show up after raising $6M in seed financing and say you’re now raising an A! Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) October 7, 2014. 5 million was always the classic definition of an A-round between the late nineties (crazy financings aside) and say 2007. Reblogged via [link].

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

With small amounts of money invested (sub $3 million) the risks are reasonably low for most VCs and the consequences of bad decisions or decisions a VC has limited say in is tolerable. And somebody who isn’t thinking necessarily thinking about how to maximize their ownership in your next round of financing. Experience.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2013 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2014; Slack in 2015; took a break in 2016, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; and last year, 2017, was Coinbase. 5/ The Enduring Allure Of Platform Potential: Revenue is important.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Years ago, Americans spent most of their disposable income on food but consistent investment in retail infrastructure has changed that. Since 2014, Twiga Foods has been using technology to build supply chains in food and retail distribution on the continent, starting with Kenya. for instance, costs about $400 in Kenya.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Clearly, Alexandria, Virginia-based QED was investing in fintech before fintech was “cool.” As evidence of that, the firm led Credit Karma’s Series A in 2009; led Remitly’s Series A in 2014 and participated in Nubank’s Series A in 2014. That’s especially true as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to (sadly) rage on.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The new investment values Tala north of $800 million, according to a source close to the company. However , unlike the last financing round where Tala raised $100 million debt financing in addition to its $110 million Series D, the microlender only raised equity this time.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In 2014, more than 40% of U.S. VC investment, according to “Beyond Silicon Valley,” a new report co-produced by venture firm Revolution and PitchBook. Since launching the platform in 2014, Case and his teams have invested in 194 companies across 89 cities. But that was a long time ago.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

Digital mortgage lender Better.com has raised a $500 million round from Japanese investment conglomerate SoftBank that values the company at $6 billion. The financing is notable for a few reasons. For all its controversy, when SoftBank invests, people pay attention. We’ll do it when it’s right,” he said.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Founded by Sheel Mohnot and Jake Gibson in November of 2019, San Francisco-based Better Tomorrow Ventures ( BTV ) has allocated $150 million to invest in startups at the pre-seed and seed stages. It has also reserved $75 million for an opportunity fund for follow-on investments. The personal finance company went public last year.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

Founder, Founder, Founder At Upfront we talk regularly about how 70% of our investment decision in Seed and A rounds is the quality of the entrepreneur and 30% is the quality of the idea. Yes, you have to figure out how to finance inventory and sure, it’s harder to iterate products when it involved physical production?—?but

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

JIC Venture Growth Investments led the Series E equity funding, with participation from Z Venture Capital , a venture investment arm of Z Holdings, Japan Post Capital and Salesforce Ventures. Mizuho Bank and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group also joined in its debt financing. The latest round brings its total funding raised to $41.4

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Derek Zanutto is a general partner at CapitalG , Alphabet’s independent growth fund, where he invests in data, security and SaaS-based enterprise software. Our team wanted to invest in the company on behalf of my private equity firm, but was utterly daunted by its “eye-popping” $1 billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 29, 2022

In 2014, Prayank Swaroop made a pitch to the storied venture firm Accel, where he worked as an associate, about future marketplaces in India. Swaroop’s presentation from 2014. The vast majority of Indian investors were too late to make investments in the web3 space. Image credits: Accel). Take crypto, for instance.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 23, 2023

In 2012, it surpassed Melbourne, Australia; in 2014, it surpassed Osaka, Japan, and Sydney, Australia; in 2016, it overtook Seoul, South Korea; and in 2018, for the first time, it outranked Tokyo, Japan. The hallmark of the festival resides in its prowess to beckon luminaries from finance, technology, academia, and governmental echelons.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

Insilico Medicine, a Hong Kong-based company that has been using artificial intelligence to discover new drugs since 2014, has completed a fresh round of funding. As part of the deal, Insilico also received an equity investment from Fosun Pharma, which has financed over 60 startups, according to startup database IT Juzi.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

based investment fund Talanton and Swiss investor AlphaMundi Group. Novastar Ventures , which co-led the firm’s Series A round, and Blink CV also made follow-on investments. Kenya’s Victoria Commercial Bank offered $3 million debt financing, $1 million of which is mezzanine financing – a debt that can be turned into equity.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

a nonprofit dedicated to fostering the growth of startups and entrepreneurs in Oklahoma, is proud to announce surpassing the $100 million mark in total investments. These investments, collectively over $100 million, have provided vital early capital to help startups throughout the state to thrive. i2E, Inc., About i2E, Inc.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

Roger Lee is a general partner at Battery Ventures, based in Menlo Park, CA, who focuses on investments in software and consumer tech, including online marketplaces. He focuses on consumer internet, online marketplace and software investments. Contributor. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor. Justin Da Rosa.

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