TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

The world’s 10 leading venture capital firms have, together, invested over $150 billion in technology startups. There is a startling lack of diversity within the venture capital sector. We all live in a world shaped by venture capital. Unfortunately, this is true of the broader venture capital sector as well.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

Amid these turbulent times, the VC accelerator industry has emerged as a stalwart player. Fueled by a zero-interest landscape in 2020, it has surged, giving rise to an ever-growing array of funds. growth from 2020 to 2021. Importantly, the traditional accelerator model has enjoyed the fruits of these potential paradigm shifts.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 26, 2025

billion, achieved in under five years since its founding in 2020. With this new capital, Island has now raised approximately $730 million to date, indicating the confidence investors have in its transformative technology and market trajectory. As AI adoption continues to accelerate, Island is helping establish a new industry standard.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

But in recent years, corporate docs are being drawn up in English to facilitate communication both inside Switzerland’s various language regions and foreign capital, and investment documentation is modeled after the U.S. Today, pitch competitions, incubators, accelerators, VCs and angel groups proliferate.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

billion in the same period of 2020. That is 226% growth in 2020 thus far… How high-quality is DoorDash’s revenue? In the first three quarters of 2019, the company had gross margins of 39.9%, and in the same period of 2020 the figure rose to 53.1%, a huge improvement for the consumer consumable delivery confab.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The unicorn’s impending liquidity event will enrich a host of venture capital firms that bet on its eventual maturity. But notable in DoorDash’s impressive results is the impact of COVID-19, accelerating secular trends already in place, and boosting the unicorn’s growth. — Alex and Walter. .

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 10, 2025

million Series A funding of Gridware led by Sequoia Capital. Barat joined two fellow University of California-Berkeley graduate students Abdulrahman Bin Omar and Hall Chen to launch Gridware in 2020. A significant step forward has occurred in modernizing Americas power grid with the recently announced $26.5

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500

JUNE 9, 2020

Supply chains have been disrupted, businesses have had to close or operate at limited capacity for months, and even founders have had to expand their fundraising timeframes as we saw in our 2020 Female Founders Data Report. As a VC firm, we’ve had to adapt many aspects of our business as well.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Skit announced today it has closed $23 million Series B round to accelerate its growth in domestic and global markets including the US and South East Asia and enhance its voice automation platform. The company said it has quadrupled its amount of revenue and numbers of customers in 2020-2021 since its previous fundraising, $5.1

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

If nothing else, the 2020 pandemic has shown everybody—particularly business owners and entrepreneurs—the value of being prepared and ready to pivot. However, I did not expect that our hands would be forced in this manner, leading to an incredible acceleration of decentralised workforces and processes. Are my key relationships strong?

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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. Originally published July 2020. So, what exactly do those action steps look like? Let’s take a deeper look. Sourcing deals.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Wish’s S-1 (which is filed under its corporate name ContextLogic) is of particular interest given that COVID-19 and the global pandemic have changed consumer behavior around the world in 2020. It appears to have accelerated its growth. In the same period of 2020 the company’s top line grew to $1.75 billion and $1.73

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

In 2020, all the long-term trends forcing change in this sector continued and even accelerated. Among them, millennials decamped from their rentals in crowded cities to accelerate their first home purchases to the benefit of proptech companies and challenger mortgage players alike. Public fintech stocks rose 97% in 2020.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

Prior to this round, the company brought in $250 million in Series D funding in May 2020. The new funding will accelerate the rollout of those systems, as well as co-create another 10 supply networks with retail and supply partnerships by the end of the year.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

Vessel Capital , a web3 venture fund, has emerged from stealth with $55 million in assets under management to invest in infrastructure and applications, the firm exclusively told TechCrunch. The fund is “evergreen” and has the potential for the capital pool to be increased, he added. It will be deployed over a five-year period. “We

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

With the new cash, which brings ThreatX’s total raised to $52 million, CEO Gene Fay tells TechCrunch that ThreatX will “accelerate” investments in platform development while scaling sales and marketing initiatives. ThreatX was co-founded in 2014 by Bret Settle and Andrius Useckas.

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Dream It

AUGUST 6, 2020

Today, the company announced a $10M Series A financing round led by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and digital health fund Heal Capital , with participation from existing investors Karma Ventures, Inovo Venture Partners, and Dreamit Ventures. The new capital places total funding to date at $15 million.

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Dream It

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The startup will use the funding to enhance product capabilities and accelerate sales growth with key hires. TrekIT aims to ramp up deployment in Q1 2020, providing their unique application to additional hospital systems. About Dreamit Ventures Dreamit Ventures is an early stage venture fund and startup accelerator.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Sales in this area topped $100 billion in 2020 , driven by the 48 million dogs and cats that were adopted over the past three years. The big story in 2020 was that everyone needed telehealth services for themselves, and we saw that transfer to pets and then exacerbated by the industry,” he added. Pets are big business.

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2022

Back in early 2020, an online layoff tracker — Layoffs.FYI — was built to collect and tabulate startup layoffs. Back in 2020, we saw the startup market crumble in what felt like days; the current downturn, in contrast, has been building since late 2021. Startup layoffs are back, and the damage is starting to add up.

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2022

Onramp Funds , an Austin-based company providing financing to e-commerce sellers, secured $42 million in equity and credit to expand its working capital offering. CEO Eric Youngstrom founded the company in 2020 after a career at multicarrier shipping software company ShippingEasy. Onramp Funds web platform. Image Credits: Onramp Funds.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The “last time” was a $15 million Series D round in 2020, also led by Novator. What happened was that the company ended up with two strong years of revenue growth — 50% in 2020 and 70% estimation for 2021 — basically close to triple the amount of growth over the two-year period, he said. “It

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2021

billion won) Series C round led by Bain Capital with participation from Goldman Sachs. South Korea has passed the first law in the world dedicated to digital lending, ‘The Marketplace Lending Act’, in August 2020 to regulate marketplace lenders, protecting P2P consumers. million (75.9 PeopleFund.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 24, 2020

But the expected comeuppance of high-burn, high-growth startups fueled by cheap capital provided by venture capitalists raising ever-larger funds , failed to arrive. Venture capital as an asset class has survived the pandemic’s stress test. The American seed market in 2020. Instead, the very opposite came to pass.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

billion between July 2020 and June 2021, per research by New-York based research firm Chainalysis. The Connecticut-based venture capital and holding company has over 60 crypto and blockchain subsidiaries and investments across 30 countries, including LUNO, CoinDesk and Bitso. million pre-seed to that end.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

The company’s new valuation is $800 million — more than triple what Petal was valued at when it announced a $55 million Series C round in September of 2020, according to a source familiar with the transaction. To date, Petal has raised more than $240 million in equity capital and more than $450 million in debt financing.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 6, 2021

A vast number of our members are capitalizing on their business success in order to tackle the world’s greatest obstacles. At the beginning of 2020 we decided to finally kick off our GREENAMBER initiative and go public with it. We started 10 years ago by using only alternative energy in our offices. Find your own way.

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

rang the opening bell on the NASDAQ stock exchange, signifying the start of their new chapter in life as a public traded company after successfully completing a merger with Novus Capital Corporation. Having the opportunity to learn from the founders you back is by far one of the most rewarding parts of being a venture capital investor.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 8, 2021

As we get into our dive into Q3 2021 venture capital numbers, one region in particular has our attention: Europe. While venture capital gains in markets like India, Latin America and the larger African startup ecosystem have proved impressive, Europe has posted strong results of its own. Let’s talk Europe!

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 30, 2020

According to Nestlé’s press release, Freshly is now shipping more than 1 million meals per week across 48 states, with forecasted sales of $430 million for 2020. Freshly is an innovative, fast-growing, food-tech startup, and adding them to the portfolio accelerates our ability to capitalize on the new realities in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

The Exchange is on a trip around the world, poking our heads into various startup markets to better understand how different geographies are faring during a historic boom in venture capital activity. Globally, the venture capital world is afire , pushing record sums into upstart technology companies. But big numbers can be distorting.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

. “But the pandemic, which had a devastating effect on so many businesses that relied on in-person trade, accelerated the need for businesses to accept payments online.” According to the company, the number of small businesses that were fully cashless jumped 300% from March to July 2020.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

In late 2020, a group of Stanford students banded together to create Stanford 2020, a venture fund solely to invest in their fellow classmates’ ventures. million seed funding round led by Initialized Capital, with investments from GSR, NEA and Canaan. million for the debut investment vehicle — waitlist not included.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Crunchbase examined the access to capital in the venture-backed startup ecosystem and proved that many industry leaders still worry that nothing will drastically shift. Make serious headway with accelerators. I would suggest looking out for accelerators explicitly searching for minority founders by using platforms such as F6S.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2020

A few more notes from Alex Wilhelm : Datto’s CEO Tim Weller told TechCrunch in a call that the company will still be well-capitalized after the public offering, saying that it will have a very strong cash position. Announcing the agenda for TC Sessions: Space 2020. Rocket Lab’s Peter Beck is coming to TC Sessions: Space 2020.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

A portion of the capital — $10 million — was debt, while the rest was a Series A equity tranche led by Georgian Capital Partners. million in capital. The company previously closed a seed round in April 2010 and a small venture round in February 2020; the Series A is its first round since the latter.)

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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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