TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Startups are raising fresh capital amidst a pandemic — and then raising again ( and again ). A VC rebound. The pandemic’s bite was felt in the second quarter when, if one subtracted the capital raised by Reliance Jio, VC investments fell by 9% compared to Q1 2020 and 23% compared to the year-ago second quarter.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Sopoong , a social impact-focused VC, intends to support environmentally minded tech founders in South Korea and Southeast Asia, while building a bridge between Korean conglomerates and startups in the sector. Korean VC Sopoong closes $8M fund for startups focused on environmental impact by Kate Park originally published on TechCrunch.

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Dream It

DECEMBER 19, 2019

NeuroFlow ( Healthtech - Fall 2019 ) is a platform for getting patients with behavioral health issues better by supporting clinical teams with collaborative and measurement-based tools in all care settings. million Series A financing round led by San Francisco-based Builders VC. This week, the company announced a $7.5

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Despite the growth in awarded venture capital (VC) funds, a staggering disparity remains between the amount of total VC funds invested in entrepreneurs and the portion of those funds invested in ventures founded and/or led by women—particularly women of color. I am no stranger to this gender gap within the VC space.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The venture capital market appears to be getting later, larger and more expensive. But for smaller players, is the shift toward bigger, more mature rounds undercutting their ability to attract capital and reach scale? Late-stage deals made Q3 2020 a standout VC quarter for US-based startups. billion in total capital raised, +$1.3

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

But despite my privilege, I’m also confident that my Black heritage made it more difficult for me to raise venture capital. Today — and the data proves this — if you are a white male, you have an unfair advantage when looking to raise venture capital. At the time, I didn’t even know that raising venture capital was a possibility.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

I have had the great pleasure of working with Matt Blumberg and the senior leadership team of USV’s former portfolio company Return Path (which was sold in 2019) for much of the last twenty years. Bolster also will allow venture capital firms and startup investors to participate in its platform as super users.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Consider companies like Robinhood, and its epic capital run this year on the back of huge revenue growth , or Chime, which also raised huge sums while riding a tailwind provided by the savings and investing boom. Overall fintech deal volume dipped 24% compared to Q3 2019, totaling 451 global deals. Now, into our four mega-trends.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

2021 saw phenomenal returns for our industry and it topped off more than a decade of unprecedented VC growth. When we get involved in Seed investments we usually represent 60–80% in one of the first institutional rounds of capital, we almost always take board seats and then we serve these founders over the course of a decade or longer.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 3, 2021

In the wake of the murder of George Floyd and nationwide protests, venture capital firms are making newfound commitments to invest in, or at least evaluate, potential investments that are led by diverse founders. Let’s not even mention Andreessen Horowitz’s paltry $2.2 So, what exactly do those action steps look like? Sourcing deals.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 12, 2020

When I started leading deals at First Round Capital, I sourced investments in 8 companies. I kicked off the idea to my current LPs that there would be another fund in February of 2019. She wound up pulling through—but yeah, after my wedding, things in 2019 kind of sucked. I’ve had to start muting libertarian VC Twitter.

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StartupNation

JULY 28, 2021

In 2019, venture capital investment into U.S. So, while it comes as no surprise that 2019 was also a record year for female founders securing these dollars, many would be shocked to learn this funding amounted to a mere 3.4% Alternatives to VC funding for female founders. at its all-time high. .

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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. From varying sources, it is estimated up to $2 billion went into African tech startups in 2019. Venture capital investment in Africa predicted to reach a record high this year.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

DECEMBER 31, 2019

— Steven Kane (@stevenkane) December 26, 2019. 2/ The massive experiment in using capital as a moat to build startups into sustainable businesses has now played out and we can call it a failure for the most part. And so I will. 1/ The emergence of the big four web/mobile monopolies; Apple, Google, Amazon, and Facebook.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2022

Women in VC have caught the entrepreneurial bug. Sydney Thomas told Natasha Mascarenhas last week that she was leaving Precursor to capitalize on an opportunity she couldn’t ignore either. In 2019, she noticed a growing number of solid early-stage companies trying to solve problems in the care economy.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Public stocks, bonds, private equity, real estate, venture capital, etc. In venture capital, there were something like 30,000 companies that raised venture capital in 2019. We can say that we are looking to back trusted brands that increase access to capital, wellness, and knowledge , and we do.

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Dream It

APRIL 26, 2019

Cybersecurity Venture Funding News Deepwatch, which provides managed security services, closed a $23 million Series A led by ABS Capital Partners. Sequoia Capital led the round. Mangrove Capital Partners led a $6 million investment in security operations center services provider CyberHat.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

The dynamics that play into this forecast, aside from the impact of COVID, include a youthful population (the youngest globally), rising smartphone adoption and internet penetration that has led to a burgeoning tech ecosystem backed by local and international VC dollars. from 2010 to 2019. and Latin America’s 2.8%.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

VC has been invested over the past decade according to race, gender and educational background makes for grim reading — with all-ethnic teams and female entrepreneurs receiving just a fraction of available funding versus all-white teams and male founders. female entrepreneurs face in accessing VC funding versus male counterparts.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

New Zealand, a country of just under 5 million people, has historically flown under the radar of venture capitalism. That’s changed so much the last couple of years partly because the government’s been putting more initiatives into attracting international capital. In 2020, VC investments totaled NZD $127.2

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2022

“Venture capital” is semantically equivalent to “dangerous money,” which is part of its mystique. Essentially, VC is a high-stakes extreme sport in which top players can accumulate startling amounts of wealth and power. But where does all that money actually come from, and how do VCs actually make money?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2021

Meet Singular , a new VC firm based in Paris that just finished raising its initial fund. While Singular is based in Paris, the firm plans to build a true European VC firm with its headquarters in Paris. Singular started fundraising in late 2019 and early 2020. These are historic VC investors.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 4, 2021

In June of 2019, I got a cold e-mail with a single link: “My name is Braeden Kelekona and I’m the founder of Kelekona, a drone service for passengers and cargo. It seemed unrealistic—not that all startups aren’t in some way realistic—but VCs generally communicate communication style with competency. Below is a link to the pitch video.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

NextView Ventures, a Boston-based venture capital fund, has raised an $89.6 NextView Ventures was launched in 2010 by Rob Go , a former partner at Spark Capital; Dave Beisel , who clocked time at Venrock and Masthead Venture Partners; and Lee Hower, a former investor at Point Judith Capital. A hot Boston VC Summer.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

But most venture-backed startups are “still overwhelmingly white, male, Ivy-League-educated and based in Silicon Valley,” according to a study conducted by RateMyInvestor and Diversity VC. Or will we have to repeat the same conversations about representation failings within VC funds? Think of the worst-case scenario.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2022

There’s a new VC fund in town — at least if you live in Paris. Meet Resonance, a new $150 million fund (€150 million) backed 100% by Otium Capital. You may already be familiar with Otium Capital. But part of the venture team at Otium left to create their own fund in 2019 — Frst.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

million seed round led by MaC Venture Capital. In 2019, the company embarked on one such project as it developed Nigeria’s first real-time election database. Nigerian data and intelligence company Stears raises $3.3M, backed by Mac VC and Serena Ventures by Tage Kene-Okafor originally published on TechCrunch.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

seed and they are writing $1.25m of it you can expect them to require a board seat) The competitive landscape (If you have several sources of capital you can likely politely decline the board request or can grant them a seat but ask for it to be “common appointed” and those revokable if you need in the future). But it’s quite rare.

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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). 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

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The venture capital scene in Africa has consistently grown, with an influx of capital from local and international investors reaching unprecedented heights in recent years. Did African startups raise $496M, $1B or $2B in 2019? Investments did pick up, and from July, VC funding on the continent had a bullish run until December.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

Despite a pandemic that sparked a global recession, 2020 was still a record year for venture capital investments into American startups. According to data shared by PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association, investors poured $156.2 venture capital market in 2020 was hot, it was not newly so. But while the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

But in 2019, various policymakers across different parts of the continent signed the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Agreement — a framework for Africa to be a single market for trade and services — to make intra-trade less painful (side note: the agreement is yet to make any significant impact.). .

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

Venture capital (VC) firm Lifeline Ventures today announced a fresh €150 million ($163 million) fund aimed at early-stage startups across Finland. For example, London’s Playfair Capital closed a $70 million pre-seed fund, while France’s Emblem and Ovni Capital each announced new €50 million ($54 million) funds.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Year-in, year-out, the gender gap in venture capital investment continues to be a problem women founders face. There has been little movement in the amount of VC dollars going to women-founded companies since 2012. VC funds must look at ways they can bring in more women decision-makers, all the way up to the top.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Earth Venture Capital (Earth VC), a global climate tech venture fund with Southeast Asia focus, led the recently concluded funding round that was also participated by KSL Maritime Ventures, the venture capital arm of The Kuok Maritime Group, and existing Ampotech investors like Silicon Solution Ventures and SEEDS Capital.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2023

billion such companies picked up in 2020 and 2019, respectively. In 2019 and 2020 Black web3 founders raised $2.5 Data visualization by Miranda Halpern , created with Flourish VC funding to Black web3 founders popped last year, bucking trends by Dominic-Madori Davis originally published on TechCrunch billion and $4.2

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 31, 2023

Through a joint announcement, the entities unveiled their intention to combine conventional bank credit with venture capital investment, all while ensuring minimal equity dilution for shareholders. He stated that VC funding experienced a substantial decline of 60% in Q3 2022 compared to the previous year’s corresponding period.

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