TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

The first quarter of 2022 brought a historically huge sum of investment for global startups, with the three-month period outclassing any quarter in 2018, 2019, and 2020, according to CB Insights data. But despite the fact that Q1 2022 posted historically elevated results, venture capital investment decelerated from Q4 2021 levels.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The American venture capital world has staged an impressive comeback from the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Those tailwinds helped the venture capital world get back into its own game in a big way, leading to Q3 being an outsized quarter for domestic venture capital activity.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 10, 2020

Each quarter, a group of analysts, including me, publish analysis on the trends in the venture capital market. The later rounds were much closer except for Q3 2019 in Series As. There’s a risk to those assessments: the data is incomplete since not all rounds founders close within a quarter are reported in that quarter.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

I asked some investor friends to share, as the title suggests, one thing they wished people better understood about venture capital. I wish more people understood that venture is a people business first and foremost. A common misconception is that building a tech company automatically warrants venture capital, and vice versa.

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Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

And that’s what we had the chance to do in early 2019 when Kate Stern joined Homebrew. Homebrew: Venture capital is no longer as opaque as it was 10 years ago, but a lot of what gets shared is pro-VC content marketing more than the real day-to-day reality. On top of all this, I was settling into San Francisco.

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StartupNation

MAY 26, 2021

On today’s Business Beat, Jeff talks about how Michigan leads the nation in the biggest increase in venture capital investing and how venture capital is furthering innovation in our state. Venture capital is the type of capital used to invest in companies, startup companies, and fuel their growth.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The venture capital market has skewed later and larger in recent quarters, something you might have felt in the rapid recent pace of new unicorn formation. That number was up from 92 in 2019 and 66 in 2018. Venture capital in Europe during Q4 2020 set a record for dollars invested , some $14.3 So was January.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2020

“More than 50% of our founders still are in their current jobs,” said John Vrionis, co-founder of seed-stage fund Unusual Ventures. There were a lot of teams that needed capital to start the journey, but frankly, it would have been over burdensome if they took on $2 or $3 million,” Leary said. “[New

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Source Link

APRIL 14, 2021

Despite the growth in women-owned businesses, venture capital is still funneled to mostly male-owned businesses. of venture capital funds went to women-owned businesses in the U.S. in 2019 , and even less makes its way to minority women. Since 2007, the number of businesses owned by Black women has grown by 163%.

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500

DECEMBER 16, 2019

This year we dove headfirst into the rise of corporate venture capital, the changing nature of venture capital education, and the important task of startup ecosystem building. In 2018, we saw this trend reach new heights with more corporate venture capital (CVC) funds than ever.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 30, 2018

My predictions for 2019. Ok, let’s move on…for 2019’s prediction, I tried to keep it simple and cook up big questions that are on most peoples’ minds, and offer my two cents on them. As to 2019…here are the big FAQs out there: When will companies start going public? Not in 2019. I predict: soon!

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

“Investors are pouring money into Latin America’s logistics and shipping businesses,” our former colleague Jon Shieber wrote in 2019. In February 2019, the Mexican startup was just graduating from Y Combinator, and in Shieber’s words, “sett[ing] itself up to be the Flexport of Latin America.”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

Global venture capital firms are pouring money into the semiconductor startups developing the next generation of chips. Its existing backers Kakao Ventures, GU Equity Partners and Seoul Techno Holdings also participated in the round, Park told TechCrunch. . by the end of this year, Park continued. . billion in early 2021.

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Dream It

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

The Dreamit Fall 2019 cohort at Kickoff Week in Philadelphia. Our team at Dreamit is thrilled to announce the new cohort of startups for our Fall 2019 Securetech , Healthtech , and Urbantech programs. Photo credit: Bob Stasio, Dreamit (@BobStasio). Securetech Startups Healthtech Startups Urbantech Startups.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The latest round of funding was led by Founders Fund with participation from Accel, Shasta, Kapor Capital, Operator Collective and a group of angel investors including executives at companies like Coda, Confluent and Plaid. million seed round in 2019. It gives the company total funding to date of $20 million, which includes a $2.5

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

On the Business Beat, Jeff talks about an influx of venture capital funding into businesses run by women. We’re talking about the venture capital community, the critical source of funding that fuels America’s and the world’s startups with that much needed funding. for the WJR Business Beat.

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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

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. And really, this was where my race became an obstacle.

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OurCrowd

DECEMBER 4, 2019

OurCrowd Sync: São Paulo 2019, which took place on September 25, 2019, was the first in a series of major global events that bring a taste of the flagship OurCrowd Global Investor Summit to a key region. The post Highlights from OurCrowd Sync: São Paulo 2019 appeared first on OurCrowd.

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Revolution

MAY 21, 2019

When a business concept can thrive in an area that is not capital rich, it’s likely that this is a resilient idea, driven by resilient people. We fully intend to capitalize on existing infrastructure, and Florida’s Space Coast has unique launch and integration infrastructure. What can your city teach Silicon Valley? Yes, absolutely.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Spark Capital led the investment and was joined by existing investors Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund, Social Impact Capital and Congruent VC. Since launching the service in 2019, one of the things she has enjoyed is learning alongside the farmers. Fifty percent of every dollar spent goes back to the farmers, Niiro said.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 17, 2019

And with that, I present to you The Breakout Tech Company Of 2019: Superhuman. 1/ Prosumer Is The New Consumer: This trend gained momentum in 2018, but reached warp speed in 2019. 4/ Competitive Financings: As is the case with most breakouts, there was a competitive financing for the company in 2019, ultimately led by a16z.

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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. These predictions weren’t entirely off the mark. billion and $1.5

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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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

Zipmex , a digital assets exchange headquartered in Singapore, announced today it has raised $6 million in funding led by Jump Capital. ” Other cryptocurrency startups that Jump Capital, an American venture capital firm, has invested in include BitGo and TradingView. The cryptocurrency moment.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Acadian Ventures , an early-stage venture capital firm, announced its 2024 Future of Work 100, an annual list of venture-backed startups impacting how work gets done in the future. Easy access to capital over the preceding decade let startups pursue growth over profitability. billion in total capital.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 21, 2024

How can influencers raise capital for companies or funds, without running afoul of restrictions on “general solicitation”? The 2012 bipartisan JOBS Act was supposed to empower funds and individuals to raise capital more openly: to publicly advertise their track record and what they’re selling, just like almost every other industry.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Existing investor Siddhi Capital led the round and was joined by both current and new investors, including Next View Ventures, Riverside Ventures, Silas Capital, Cheyenne Ventures, Shilling Capital, Indico Capital, Mission Point, Gather Ventures and Nextblue Ventures. million seed round.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The coronavirus pandemic disproportionately reduced venture capital funding for female founders last year, despite a greater boom in fundraising thanks to megafunds and the advent of Zoom investing. The result was an uneven landscape in which capital flowed more toward men than was normal historically. That was in an upmarket.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

For those who wielded that role or the coveted CEO position, you were likely to be placed on a pedestal or be viewed as a visionary, aided by a venture capital market that experienced an overextended bull run in the background. Upadhyay is a venture partner at the firm. There are other subtler impacts.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

At that time, CEO Ricardo Weder told TechCrunch that the company, which was founded in 2019, weathered the first year of the global pandemic well, seeing 2020 revenue increase 16-fold. We previously reported on the company last February when it raised $65 million in a Series A round led by General Atlantic. is poised to be a $187.7

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

million in a Series A round led by Silicon Valley VC firm Ribbit Capital. Kaszek Ventures, QED Investors and Greenoaks Capital also participated in the financing, which brings the startup’s total raised to $36.7 million since its 2019 inception.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Venture capital continues to flow into Latin America at a staggering rate. That was three times more than the association recorded in fiscal year 2019. Venture firms in those countries are also raising funds; for example, this month, Colombia-based Marathon Ventures announced its first fund of $26 million.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

NextView Ventures, a Boston-based venture capital fund, has raised an $89.6 The NextView Ventures team did not immediately respond to request for comment. Despite the pandemic, Boston’s startup scene has continued to attract record numbers in venture capital volume. In Q3 2019, New England drove 9.3%

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

NewView Capital led the round with participation from existing investors Blackbird Ventures and W23, and new investor AirTree Ventures. million raised since it was founded in 2019 by Tim Doyle, Benny Kleist, Alexey Mitko and Charlie Gearside. Telehealth platform Eucalyptus raised a $22.3

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Greater Colorado Venture Fund raises $25 million dollar fund, in partnership with Colorado Venture Capital Authority; Funds will be used to galvanize, support and expand rural Colorado founders and entrepreneurs in their business building efforts. Entrepreneurs drive rural communities and the world forward in incredible ways.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Greater Colorado Venture Fund raises $25 million dollar fund, in partnership with Colorado Venture Capital Authority; Funds will be used to galvanize, support and expand rural Colorado founders and entrepreneurs in their business building efforts. Entrepreneurs drive rural communities and the world forward in incredible ways.

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