TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2020

For all of the investors preaching that augmented reality technology will likely be the successor to the modern smartphone, today, most venture capitalists are still quite wary to back AR plays. Tipatat Chennavasin, The Venture Reality Fund. Brianne Kimmel, Work Life Ventures. Jacob Mullins, Shasta Ventures.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

Maryam Haque is the executive director of Venture Forward. Bobby Franklin is the president and CEO of the National Venture Capital Association and previously served as an executive vice president for the CTIA – The Wireless Association. A new foreign investment bill will impact venture capital and the US startup ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2021

The company, based in Detroit and founded in 2016 by Dr. David Katz, gives users a clinically tested approach to dietary assessment and management. Diet ID competed against other Detroit-area startups, including Rivet Work , Plain Sight and FixMyCar. The entire pitch-off is embedded above. That video is found below.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Boulder is quickly becoming a startup mecca on par with Silicon Valley — largely due to the Techstars accelerator, which has cultivated the city’s startup ecosystem. Brad Feld helped co-found the venture capital firm with one goal in mind: to help entrepreneurs. “We Boulder, Colorado.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

Coral Capital , a Tokyo-based venture capital firm, announced today that it has closed its third fund, Coral Capital III, raising $128 million (14 billion yen). LINE Ventures merges with YJ Capital, launches $271M fund. The Japanese startup ecosystem is striking its stride now compared to 9 years ago, Riney said.

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StartupNation

AUGUST 4, 2021

One such rising star in our region is 31-year-old Cory Tincher, a senior associate at Detroit Venture Partners. Related: Detroit’s Monica Wheat Strengthens Startup Ecosystem with Equality and Inclusion. His story is both exhilarating and exemplary. Is there something we can do with this?’”.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 24, 2023

Launched in 2022, GGV Capital’s SMBTech 50 demonstrates both the breadth and depth of the sector and the enthusiasm of venture capital investors for these companies. About GGV Capital GGV Capital is a global venture capital firm partnering with founders to build category-leading companies around the world.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2023

However, it’s in Eastern Europe that — I think, at least — that accelerators have their best effect in markets where where the tech startup ecosystem barely exists, if at all. Of course, “your mileage may vary.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Without further ado, here are the five judges who will pick the 2021 Startup Battlefield winner: Kirsten Green is the founder and managing partner of Forerunner Ventures, a San Francisco-based VC firm she formed in 2010. She later assumed the role of chief innovation officer through which she oversaw Northwestern Mutual’s venture arm.

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Startup Catalyst

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

The last time I had visited was mid-2016 when I was getting ready to leave QUT. It still felt the same, even though I had changed so much, QUT had changed so much, and the ecosystem had changed so much. It’s not all startups! Danielle Vaz (2016) is with Deloitte Digital as a Technical Business Analyst.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

The city has undergone infrastructure improvements over the past two decades, tourism has boomed thanks to attractions such as the shipyard where the RMS Titanic was built and Game of Thrones shooting locations, and employment has risen steadily in the city since 2016, according to Northen Ireland’s Department for the Economy.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Austin made headlines in 2021 for being “the place” for startup founders and venture capitalists alike to set up shop. That’s why TechCrunch has chosen to shine a spotlight on the city with a special episode of TechCrunch Live centered on the growing startup scene in Austin, Texas. Register here. It’s free.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

Since Founders Foundation started in Bielefeld in 2016 the startup scene has exploded. We joined the first accelerator and since then 24 startups have been founded and come through its programs. There is a strong business angel community in Bielefeld that has been really supportive of the new startup scene.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 2, 2022

In the fourth industrial revolution era, having succeeded as an economic powerhouse with a technological edge in manufacturing and industries led by large corporations, South Korea is now fostering disruptive innovation through startups. The country strives to create a balance between industrial conglomerates and the startup ecosystem.

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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. Of the $42B invested in startups in 2015, 34% or about $14B was raised in series A and seed rounds. That figure is up from 18% in 2005.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

“We were able to purchase 10% of [business-to-business commerce startup] InfraMarket for $8 million. But the country’s burgeoning startup ecosystem has seen very few exits and many consumer internet startups that listed in the past two years are trading significantly below their listing prices.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 18, 2022

In 2022, the government plans to implement a startup support project worth US$3 billion to create a regional startup infrastructure and allow innovative talents with technical skills to flow into Korea’s startup ecosystem and develop their capabilities to succeed. trillion won (US$6.4 billion).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

Maybe Benioff finally gets Twitter, a company he desperately wanted in 2016, as Casey Newton suggested in The Platformer this week. Phoebe Harrop, principal, Blackbird Ventures. Robbie Paul, CEO, Icehouse Ventures. It won’t be too unrealistic to expect something in 2022. Maybe something SaaS-y like Zoom, Box or Dropbox.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? GCVF is pioneering the future of venture capital and high growth startups for all small communities. —– Indie.vc

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? GCVF is pioneering the future of venture capital and high growth startups for all small communities. —– Indie.vc

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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. 2 A (temporary) venture capital reset? Some limited Partners have requested lower fees (1.5% Higher litigation risks.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 25, 2022

The biggest accelerator program, sponsored by the Korean government, supported by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups (MSS), and organized by the National IT Industry Promotion Agency (NIPA), will be held for 3.5 COMEUP is a global flagship startup event attended by startup founders, investors, VCs, entrepreneurs, and media.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Mark Volchek, founding partner, Las Olas Venture Capital. Parekh, managing partner, Secocha Ventures. Who are key startup people you see creating success locally, whether investors, founders or even other types of startup ecosystem roles like lawyers, designers, growth experts, etc. That’s still missing here.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

As an investor in The Wing, I have no doubt that Audrey can relate the impossible expectations we set for ambitious women and the nearly non-existant margin for error, especially given that the company took off after the 2016 election. It makes me want to quit venture capital entirely. With both leaders, mistakes were certainly made.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 1, 2021

InvestNext is a Detroit fintech startup that has created a platform to streamline how real estate investment firms raise and manage capital. million seed round , led by Hyde Park Venture Partners with participation from Whitecap Venture Partners, DVP, Grand Ventures and ID Ventures. Red Ventures.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 27, 2022

Collaboration will further strengthen ties between startups and corporates in Israel and Singapore. JERUSALEM & SINGAPORE–( BUSINESS WIRE )–OurCrowd, Israel’s most active venture firm, today announced its partnership with the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB), under its Global Innovation Alliance (GIA) programme.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Washington woke up to the possibility of China’s lead in quantum technologies when Beijing demonstrated its capacity in satellite-based quantum communications in 2016. Germany, France, the Netherlands, Austria and Switzerland all have significant quantum research capacities and flourishing startup ecosystems. In fact, the U.K.

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