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). Coral Capital’s total assets under management (AUM) is now $275 million. LINE Ventures merges with YJ Capital, launches $271M fund.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

Nathan Beckord is CEO of Foundersuite.com , a software platform for raising capital and managing investors that has helped entrepreneurs raise over $2 billion since 2016. Momentum is the single most important factor that helps startup founders raise capital. More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Venture capitalist Soraya Darabi of TMV will join us today to discuss strategies early-stage startup founders can deploy to get their first “yes” from an investor — and which founder mistakes often lead her to say “no.”

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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. Austin wasn’t an overnight success.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

But what about those minority founders who don’t have family, friends or connections to lean on for the first $250,000? Venture funding does remain elusive , but here are some tricks for startup founders to hack the system. Realize you are up against an outdated system.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2021

It is clear that Black, women, Latinx and LGBTQ+ startup founders face an uphill battle when it comes to getting a share of the VC investment pie in Silicon Valley. That led to the development of a startup incubator focused on Black founders and later a pitch competition.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

It’s a compelling proposition, even while other startup founders are also chasing after it. Not deterred, in late 2016, Goldberg launched a messaging app called Pepo that enabled anyone to create and join live messaging communities and that raised around $3 million from investors, including Tencent.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

You’ve decided to launch a technology-enabled startup with a positive social impact! Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! There are many VCs with a stated focus on social impact; for full lists see Impact Capital Managers and InvestorFlow.

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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. When fundraising, New Zealand startup founders should play the “Kiwi card” Image Credits: Jami Tarris (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. Senior Editor, TechCrunch+. yourprotagonist.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

What we saw in 2015 and 2016 is the world moving in a direction where that complexity was unavoidable, whether in a heightened interest in being able to do things like breakdown by customer ID or this exploding complexity that was about to come onto the scene driven by Kubernetes, microservices and containers. .”

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

Consiglieri to startup founders and investors alike, attorneys assist in the negotiation and are privy to the terms of investment. The median growth in startup valuation has fallen from a high of 74% in Q2 2016 to 39% in Q4. Attorneys witness the changes in the fundraising market from a unique vantage point.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

You’ve decided to launch a technology-enabled startup with a positive social impact! Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! There are many VCs with a stated focus on social impact; for full lists see Impact Capital Managers and InvestorFlow.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The issue of women startup founders not receiving equitable venture funding is a shortfall of the West: It’s here, everywhere in the U.S., of all venture capital, according to PitchBook data. of all venture capital, according to PitchBook data. of venture dollars allocated to all-female U.S.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

And startups such as Grammarly, Ajax, People AI and Preply, backed by some of the world’s biggest VCs, are scrambling to support employees and operations amid the invasion. What I’m hearing from sources is that startup founders are mainly offering financial assistance to employees who are in Ukraine or neighboring countries.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Some light reading for the new year : Anna and Alex collected them and now share some of the books startup founders and venture capitalists could not put down this year. Startups and VC. Happy reading! Image Credits: anisah priyadi (opens in a new window) / Getty Images.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Starry-eyed newlyweds routinely sign prenuptial agreements without losing their sense of idealism, and startup founders should do the same, advises Yonaton Aronoff, a partner at litigation and employment law firm Harris St. ” Why your startup needs a prenup. . ” Why your startup needs a prenup.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

What is your sense as to how the new administration will change business, corporate and startup founder immigration to the U.S.? “The huge sum of money, however, was itself dwarfed by the amount of liquidity that American startups generated, some $290.1 In 2020, VCs invested $428M into US-based startups every day.

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