TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

That situation can lead to a huge waste of time for startups that want to sell to enterprise customers: a business development black hole. We conducted the survey at the tail end of Q3 2020. In other words, they’re driving a Dodge, and most tech entrepreneurs are driving a DeLorean equipped with a flux-capacitor.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 1, 2021

The Covid Pandemic will end in the developed world in 2021. As I wrote yesterday , I think the trends that were accelerated in 2020 will not reverse in 2021, although the slope of the adoption curves will likely flatten a fair bit. But having a point of view is very helpful when operating in a world that is full of uncertainty.

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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. It was expected that these figures would increase in 2020. For 2020, the number dropped to $1.43 However, that figure isn’t the only yardstick.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JUNE 1, 2020

Posted by Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative – YLAI on Wednesday, May 20, 2020. First Round Review from First Round Capital. ” Your reading and listening choices can help you change your perspective and develop a new worldview. Richie shares his mnemonic for developing new relationships: START.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

Would you like to work with private equity and venture capital funds? There are relatively few jobs directly inside private equity and venture capital funds, and those jobs are highly competitive. Venture Capital. Asian Venture Capital Journal (free trial). annually between 2015 and 2020, its market size topping $1.3B

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

It certainly makes some bold claims, saying, “Quantori’s data engineering and data science platform for drug discovery and development aims to build a new data integration and high-performance computational environment for global and early-stage biopharma companies. Today’s investment came from Boston-based Flint Capital.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 5, 2020

This year’s IWD falls on 8 March, 2020, and its focus is #eachforequality, which recognizes that equality is not a women’s issue—rather, it’s an economic issue. For starters, I think we’re going to see a major shift in the way that women-owned start-ups raise capital.

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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. This latest raise propels the companys valuation to an impressive $4.8

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American Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

We are proud to help creators grow their businesses – whether it’s helping creators access funding with a small working capital solution, or helping creators get paid in real-time to their debit card.” Software and app developers design and build digital tools, apps, or software. 1 Marketplaces Survey (March 2020).

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JANUARY 15, 2020

2018 YLAI Fellow Alex founded El Árbol English School in Costa Rica, an institution where students of all ages learn English and develop critical thinking skills. Creating unique lesson plans. After taking courses on his scholarship, Alex taught in Costa Rica for years before receiving his master’s degree in the United States.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

One of the questions we discussed is, “How much capital should a startup raise?” ” Fred & I are both in agreement that there is a tension between capital constraints and creativity. Perhaps that’s rational capitalism at its extreme. But it’s not who I am.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 22, 2023

Cocoon Capital, an investment firm from the same country, led the round. Frontline Industrial Software, co-founded by Luis Martinez and Ruiqi Ding, has developed advanced construction planning simulation and optimization software. Will Klippgen, Managing Partner of Cocoon Capital, shared his excitement for the new investment.

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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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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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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

At our mid-year offsite our partnership at Upfront Ventures was discussing what the future of venture capital and the startup ecosystem looked like. No blog post about how Tiger is crushing everybody because it’s deploying all its capital in 1-year while “suckers” are investing over 3-years can change this reality.

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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

APRIL 23, 2019

For example, voice-powered ecommerce reached approximately $2 billion in 2017 and Gartner predicts that about 30% of web browsing will happen via voice (and without a screen) by 2020. Insurers, pharma companies, CROs, and academic medical centers have developed applications with Orbita.

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Dream It

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The healthcare industry veteran, worked on the company’s original development team in 2016. 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

OCTOBER 13, 2022

To help fuel continued growth, the startup is announcing it has raised $67 million in a Series B funding round that included participation from Battery Ventures, Don Griffith, NFL player Drew Brees, Ferst Capital Partners, FinTLV, Next Play Capital, Operator Stack, Redpoint Ventures, Tencent and Tom Williams. million since inception.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 14, 2021

With that money, she hired a developer to build a chatbot for her app, which was mostly being used via Facebook Messenger. Then an earthquake hit Mexico City and that developer lost everything — including his home and computer — and had to relocate. “I Funding for mental health-focused startups rises in 2020.

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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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Dream It

JULY 29, 2020

Read more --> [link] — TrekITHealth (@TrekITHealth) July 29, 2020 Market Context TrekIT Health CEO Subha Airan-Javia, MD points out, “EHRs have traditionally been built to optimize the business of healthcare, which of course, is important. In his prior role as President of Qualcomm Life, Valencia built Qualcomm Inc.’s

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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

AUGUST 30, 2022

The company was started in 2020 by CEO Tamara Chayo, a chemist and Thiel Fellow, who had family in the medical and textile industries and saw firsthand the need for PPE. and continues development of its full-body suit. She explained that the decision to go after venture capital was to gain partners that would help the company grow.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

But most of these companies and developers find it difficult to access real-time banking data. Other investors include TLcom Capital (the sole investor from its $1 million pre-seed round in 2020), newly joined Accenture Ventures and some angel investors. Nigeria is becoming Africa’s unofficial tech capital.

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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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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 hope that many other EO members join forces.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 12, 2025

Coordinated by Delaware Prosperity Partnership and innovation-supporting partners from throughout the Delaware business community and beyond, Startup302 launched in 2020 and has provided $800,000 in funding to 52 ventures since 2021. Thanks to sponsors, there is no charge to enter.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

In June of 1999, Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins invested $25 million into an early-stage company developing a new search engine called Google, paving the way for a revolution in how knowledge online was organized and shared. on developing the product, which was initially intended to protect product designs from theft.

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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. It was a frustrating development because I was counting on them to be a part of the first close. 2020: “Hold my beer.” I don’t really have a particular goal with this post. I’m just sharing. You cannot die today. Give me six months.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2021

The global venture capital ecosystem is inequitable. In the United States’ mature venture capital market, an entrepreneur’s race, gender and age help determine who has access to capital. Yes, the world is not uniformly developed. Yes, venture capital startup hubs can take decades to reach maturity.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

From a diversity standpoint, the venture capital financing landscape remains incredibly imbalanced. of total venture capital invested, according to Crunchbase. The current system capitalizes women and minority founders at 80% less than businesses overall. saw almost no progress in venture capital funding from 2013 to 2020.

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TechCrunch

JULY 5, 2022

South Korean AI chip developer Rebellions has raised a $22.8 The Pavilion Capital-backed AI chipmaker has raised about $72.8 million since its inception in 2020. . Temasek’s Pavilion Capital backs South Korean AI chip maker Rebellions with $50M investment. The global AI chip market is projected to reach $194.9

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The investment comes barely six months after Chipper Cash closed its first Series C round of $100 million, led by SVB Capital , the corporate venture capital arm of SVB Financial Group. It fundamentally allows developers to leverage the company’s infrastructure to collect and disburse payments into Chipper wallets.

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2022

Gupta said that the proceeds will be used to scale Evabot’s operations, product development and growth, as well as its investments in AI to build “fully automated” gifting experiences. million in capital to date, which includes a previously undisclosed $3 million seed round. Today, Evabot announced that it raised $10.83

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

In an email interview with TechCrunch, CEO Simon Taylor said that the proceeds will be put toward expanding HYCU’s 300-person team with a particular focus on customer success and partnerships as well as funding the development of new products and services, including a software-as-a-service product. billion in 2020.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) contribute heavily to the economic success of many countries, particularly those in the developing world. According to the company, the number of small businesses that were fully cashless jumped 300% from March to July 2020. In Yoco’s case, it’s Dragoneer Investment Group.

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