TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2023

Founded out of Cork in 2017, Workvivo has amassed a fairly impressive roster of customers too, including Amazon, RyanAir and Bupa. Interestingly, it also received an angel investment from Zoom founder, chairman and CEO Eric Yuan back in 2019 , making today’s announcement perhaps a little less surprising.

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Angel Capital Association

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Rob’s personal philosophy and growth strategy involves leveraging the expertise, relationships, and capital of angels around the world. Fast forward several years, and Rob leveraged his success with Evity to start Savara, using his own money and $1M from 10 angels. Every round of funding was oversubscribed.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Whimsical , a startup creating tools for workplace collaboration, announced Tuesday its first funding round, a $30 million Series A investment led by Accel. Accel partner Daniel Levine said he first began hearing about Whimsical a few years ago and officially met the team in 2020.

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Haystack

AUGUST 18, 2019

Back in 2017, Fred Wilson noted the strategic importance of the seed stage , writing: Seed is really hard. Making angel investments, raising small seed funds. They’ve all accepted that this is a new world of capital abundance and that the pistons driving the global economy are technology and network effects.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

In 2017, they began investing some of Gettinger’s gambling winnings, and then later Teran’s Managed by Q proceeds, building a portfolio of over 100 angel investments, which included Bowery Farming, Electric.ai They also had to prove that they could translate their angel investing experience into leading rounds. “It’s

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

The amount of VC capital being funneled into Latin American startups has surged since 2017, with angel investment close behind. However, much of this investment comes from local and regional investors. Every top university in Brazil has a pool of angels. investors remain shy.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

In 2017, the two officially incorporated the company. ” Ojansuu says — for what it’s worth — that the sales pitch convinced Rajeev Suri, the former CEO of Nokia, to make his first-ever angel investment in a Finnish company. ” Using Happeo’s editing tools to build an intranet portal.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The round was led by Deciens Capital and included participation from DNX Ventures, Reciprocal Ventures, Unusual Ventures, Chaos Ventures and Magic Fund, as well as small investments from Sequoia, Lightspeed and Canaan Partners. The startup itself was founded in 2017 by CEO Kelly Nyland and COO Rhenee Bartlett , both previously of Snap.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Brett Hurt is an example of a successful founder who continues to help the city’s startup scene flourish by also acting as an active angel investor. Today, Austin’s angel investing space is incredibly robust.”. Miller co-founded Spot Insurance , a health insurance tech startup, in 2017.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

Gotter left the media company in 2017, an exit that afforded him the chance to take up angel investing full-time and pursue new projects. Gotter has cut checks in Paystack, Flutterwave and betPawa and co-runs Spark, an investment vehicle he launched with Njoku.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Siemiatkowski also shares what’s next for the company as it ventures further into the world of retail banking after gaining a bank license in 2017. We also learn how, under his watch and as the company began to scale, Klarna missed the next big opportunity in fintech, instead being usurped by Adyen and Stripe.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

Aurient Investments – Angel investment group with a diverse investment portfolio. I believe we will see the strongest seed-stage companies from 2017-2020 becoming established companies within our tech scene to match the influx of FDI companies from further afield.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 8, 2019

In the first of a three part series on early stage business investment, we asked serial entrepreneur and investor Josh Comrie what three key things New Zealand entrepreneurs must get better at when it comes to seeking angel investment. I made my first investment in the stock market when I was 12 years old.

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Angel Capital Association

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Chris and his bipartisan team advocated successfully for full 100% deductibility of capital gains taxes on early stage start-up investing (Section 1202), which became law in late 2015 as part of the Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes Act (PATH Act). ACA is also lobbying in support of the Helping Angels Lead Our Startups (HALOS) Act of 2023.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 5, 2021

This arrangement makes use of the special purpose vehicle (SPV), or sidecar, to pool funds from multiple investors, with minimum investments around $250. Spawning the new micro-angel, equity crowdfunding has witnessed the number of investors participating in successful offerings increase from 77,558 in 2017 to 147,448 in 2018 ( CFCA ).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Siemiatkowski also shares what’s next for the company as it ventures further into the world of retail banking after gaining a bank license in 2017. We also learn how, under his watch and as the company began to scale, Klarna missed the next big opportunity in fintech, instead being usurped by Adyen and Stripe.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Tripledot has been profitable since the end of its first year of operation (it was founded in 2017), now has close to 30 million monthly active users across its titles, and last year tripled revenues (without disclosing the actual figure). “Thi s fundraising is for M&A,” he told TechCrunch in an interview. .”

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