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. Respondents in the first group were “not exploring or investing” — in other words, “we don’t care about this right now.”

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 10, 2022

Contributed by Mike Stephenson, an EO Vancouver member who is co-founder and CEO of addy , which uses the principles of crowdfunding to make real estate investing accessible to everyone, including Black, indigenous, people of color, LGBTQ2S+ and other underrepresented groups. I think of the different aspects of my identity as touchpoints.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

I edited hundreds of stories in 2020, so choosing my favorites would be an exercise in futility. Managing Editor Danny Crichton spearheaded the development of The TechCrunch List earlier this year to help seed-stage founders connect with VCs who write first checks. 6 investment trends that could emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Zurich tends to take the lion’s share, as the city’s embrace of startups has jump-started development, although Geneva and Lausanne are also hotspots. The country’s Federal Commission for Technology and Innovation (KTI) supports CTI-Startup and CTI-Invest, providing startups with investment and support.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The NYC Fintech Innovation Lab is a program which accepts fintech entrepreneurs to develop their businesses with the assistance of senior execs at the leading NYC banks and insurance companies. A Personal Experiment.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 17, 2021

From time to time, I chart the fastest growing categories of startup investment in the US for seed through Series C. Developer APIs includes a litany of different developer tools and services. Here are 2015 , 2017 , This year, I was certain the categories would have been influenced by COVID19.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

I have been investing in developer tools since the earliest days of my VC career. The first investment I led in the late 80s was a financing that provided the funds to acquire a programming editor called Brief. That investment worked out but we didn’t make a lot of money on it. It was a text-based editor for PCs.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 1, 2021

It helps me invest and advise the companies we are invested in. Like our investing, I will get some of these right and some wrong. The Covid Pandemic will end in the developed world in 2021. We call this “adapting to the climate crisis” at USV, and this will be a huge investable trend for many years to come.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Mihoyo’s Genshin Impact has grossed over $3B in revenue since taking the world by storm in 2020, and in the process also redefined the standard for cross-platform, live-operated role-playing games (RPGs). In 2022, anime games accounted for 20% of total mobile game spend at $17B , not inclusive of PC/console spend.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 22, 2020

We now have over 1,000,000 searchable profiles of developers who are interested in being contacted about a job on Stack Overflow Talent. Almost a million developers found new and useful tools after seeing a company advertise on one of our sites. . Over 40,000 jobs were posted on Stack Overflow Jobs in 2019.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 27, 2021

The pandemic has spurred interest in saving and investment apps around the world , especially ones geared toward newer investors. Most of its users are between the ages of 25 to 40 and looking for alternatives to investing in long-term asset classes like real estate. of people in Vietnam have invested in stocks.

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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 for the debut investment vehicle — waitlist not included. million seed funding round led by Initialized Capital, with investments from GSR, NEA and Canaan.

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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. ” Your reading and listening choices can help you change your perspective and develop a new worldview. After all, they are invested in the success of your shared mission too. Serve – Serve others and offer what you can.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Daimler’s trucks division has invested in lidar developer Luminar as part of a broader partnership to produce autonomous trucks capable of navigating highways without a human driver behind the wheel. Luminar will become a publicly traded company through its merger with Gores, which is expected to close in late 2020.

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Revolution

JULY 22, 2021

Today, we are pleased to announce our seed investment in Anduin , a software company improving invoicing, accelerating collections, and modernizing payments for owners and executives in professional services, such as accounting. The situation was only amplified during the economic downturn of 2020.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The startup is attempting to position itself as being uniquely prepared to work with this market, and today it announced a $15 million seed investment on a post-money valuation of $100 million. Gankin said that the company, which launched in 2020, already has 700 employees, many of whom also have life sciences domain expertise.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

My goal in the interview overall was to capture more of the personal side of Fred since so much of his investment thesis and portfolio work already comes out in his blog. We talk a lot about his schooling, his early jobs as a developer and then as a VC and we talk about his decision to spend winters in Los Angeles.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Make a significant new public investment in expanding and improving New York City’s tech education and training ecosystem. . Prioritize long-term investments in K–12 computing education. . Scale up tech training with a focus on programs that develop in-depth, career-ready skills. .

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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 have now been investing on my own at Brooklyn Bridge Ventures for almost eight years exactly—which is pretty much about the time people say it takes to build up a company to a big exit. I don’t really have a particular goal with this post.

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

From 2003-2022 the River Valley Investors operated as a traditional angel group, investing in nearly 100 startups. For posterity, here are some of the more recent investments… 2022 Hubly Surgical Hubly Surgical has an advanced drill, complete with auto-stop and visual feedback, to make medical drilling safe across underserved settings.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Register The Malaysian Technology Development Corporation (MTDC), a company that is wholly-owned by Khazanah Nasional Bhd, has joined Gobi Partners in co-investing $1.16 MTDC would also like to invite other investors to co-invest alongside us, specifically in the technology sector,” MTDC’s CEO Mohammad Hazani said.

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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. Venture funds would be crazy not to examine this possibility and in turn, invest heavily in women-led businesses.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Even then private market investors can paper over valuation changes by investing at the same price but with more structure so it’s hard to understand the “headline valuation.” 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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 22, 2021

These ups and downs impact us deeply because we are so close to and personally invested in our businesses. In March 2020 when the pandemic hit and the US shut down, the events industry was completely disrupted. I am very proud to say that, since March 2020, we have produced over 130 virtual events. We had to—so we did.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Register Japan’s Financial Services Agency plans to double the cap on the amount of money retail investors can invest in unlisted startups. At present, through crowdfunding, retail investors have a limitation of investing a maximum of 500,000 yen annually in individual unlisted startups. billion yen in 2020.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 7, 2024

Since Wiz’s founding in 2020, their approach has enabled them to deploy rapidly and deliver value to their customers nearly immediately. Today, more than 50% of Wiz users sit outside the security function, underscoring how development teams have embraced the platform. That’s why people love it.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 26, 2025

billion, achieved in under five years since its founding in 2020. The company now boasts over 500 employees, with more than 200 focused on product development and engineering. The company will continue to invest in enhancing its product, expanding global operations, and driving adoption across new markets and verticals.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Serial fintech entrepreneur Walter Cruttenden founded Acorns with his son, Jeff, in 2012 with the goal of helping low- and middle-income households invest and save responsibly. The pair wanted to simplify investing for the millions that have trouble getting started or continuing to invest. He serves as Ant Money’s CEO. “In

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Sivashankar has been a member of EO UAE since October 2020. . When my business plans took a significant turn in March 2020, owing to lockdowns implemented to prevent the spread of Covid 19, my initial feeling was remorse. While GDP in the developed world has grown a robust 3.6 Sylvester Stallone, Rocky Balboa.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 23, 2021

Every business owner wants it, especially after the economic roller coaster and reset of 2020. Calculating your business ratio will show you how much money you can put into strategic investments. Hours of professional development spent per employee. Generate an individual development plan (IDP) for each person.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 3, 2024

Master Your Mindset In 47 years of living and seven as an entrepreneur, I’ve learned the greatest lesson of life is recognizing patterns, and then — more importantly — developing your own. Keep making bigger investments into smaller rooms, where the people in those rooms are making bigger impacts. They live in full abundance.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 20, 2022

Developed dual suppliers for critical items where we were previously dependent on a single supplier. In 2020, we paid US$6,500 for a container to be shipped and delivered. Our margins dropped from 45% in 2020 to 25% in 2021. . RED Product Development Group. . Adjust for margin impact. “In Partner with customers. “As

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

Sources say the company raised at a slightly higher valuation than its last $110 million valuation in 2020. . This undisclosed investment is Google’s third from the $50 million Africa Investment Fund targeted at the continent’s early- and growth-stage startups, which the company CEO Sundar Pichai announced last October.

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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. This new #investmentround marks a significant milestone for Infermedica.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2023

Even as VC funding dries up across the world, development finance institutions (DFIs) are looking to African startups to deploy their dry powder. In addition to backing VC funds in the region, the organization aims to make more direct equity investments in startups, adding to the four African companies it invested in last year.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

But most of these companies and developers find it difficult to access real-time banking data. based Susa Ventures led this latest tranche of investment. 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.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 6, 2021

At the beginning of 2020 we decided to finally kick off our GREENAMBER initiative and go public with it. When we heard about the EO’s initiative to support the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals , we felt on the right path. We hope that many other EO members join forces.

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