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.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 6, 2020

The pandemic of 2020 has tested most sectors of the economy. Many entrepreneurs are reliant on outside funding, whether angel investors, venture capitalists or strategic investors , to keep the venture going. It’s important to enlist the ideas of others that are invested in your venture. A startup is not a lone adventure.

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 15, 2024

“Metropolis has developed a new growth buyout model, demonstrating how innovation and technology can evolve legacy industries for the 21st century,” said Tony Minella, Co-Founder and President of E ldridge Industries , an existing investor in Metropolis that led the recent financing transaction. The financing included $1.05

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Dream It

JULY 29, 2020

Today, the company announced closing $1M in additional seed financing. The round was led by Tech Council Ventures with participation from Boston Millennia Partners Founders Fund and Front Row Fund, who join existing investors including IP Group, Dreamit Ventures, and Ben Franklin Technology Partners.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 28, 2021

During an online business workshop in December 2020, the presenter asked me whether our venture was a hobby or a business. There’s no need for long-term strategy or a plan for growth because there’s no risk if your venture fails to attract clients. You’re in charge of operations, sales, marketing and finance.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

That’s the gap that revenue-based financing platforms like GetVantage want to fill. The Mumbai-based startup announced today that it has raised $36 million in equity and debt led by Varanium Nexgen Fintech Fund, DMI Sparkle Fund, along with returning investors Chiratae Ventures and Dream Incubator Japan.

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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. We’ll just wait until companies that last raised in 2019 or 2020 come to market.” But the way we see it is that in venture right now you have 2 choices? What is a VC To Do?

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MARCH 23, 2020

The three analysts will act as the three founders of a company and we will simulate three rounds of financings and then a sale of the company. As I prepared for it this weekend, I decided to create the bare bones of a google sheet that will have one tab for the cap table and another for the liquidation waterfall.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 30, 2020

For years — decades, even — there was little question about whether you could become a venture capitalist if you weren’t comfortable financially. In fact, five years ago, I wrote that the real obstacle to becoming a venture capitalist has less to do with gender than with financial inequality. You couldn’t.

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Dream It

APRIL 7, 2020

— samir kaji (@Samirkaji) April 7, 2020 To guide startups through the confusion, Dreamit interviewed three leaders helping startups secure emergency funding from different perspectives as bankers, attorneys, and investors. The information on this page was updated on April 6th, 2020. Last Friday was anything but orderly.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

But there’s one question that many startups and investors are hoping will get answered sooner rather than later: What happens to venture debt? SVB was one of the larger, if not the largest, providers of venture debt to U.S.-based “Venture debt has its advantages, more so than ever before,” Bakalar said.

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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. Amazon set the standard there.”.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

APRIL 20, 2020

Since writing that post, we have watched a bunch of our portfolio companies close financings, some on the same terms as provided before the pandemic and some on slightly adjusted terms. USV TEAM POSTS: Albert Wenger — Apr 18, 2020 A Plan for Rapidly Ramping COVID19 Testing. But our experience doesn’t match that scorn.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2021

Over the next few weeks, the venture capital industry will compile and release data concerning its Q4 2020 performance, capping a year that saw the world of private capital freeze , thaw and burn. What happened to fintech venture capital investment in Q4 and 2020? So it was too interesting to not unpack.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Bolster also will allow venture capital firms and startup investors to participate in its platform as super users. USV TEAM POSTS: Hanel Baveja — Sep 1, 2020 Mental Healthcare 3.0. All of this is outlined in the Bolster Founding Manifesto which explains why they started this company.

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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. Take a look!

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TechCrunch

JUNE 20, 2021

More mainstream venture capital firms are jumping on the crypto bandwagon as investors increasingly consider bitcoin an investable asset, despite the recent massive price drops of a few major cryptocurrencies. ” The firm’s past investors Pantera Capital, Coinbase Ventures and Blockchain.com also participated in the new round.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

Bijan Moallemi, Joe Garafalo and Brian Campbell started San Diego-based Mosaic in 2019 after meeting at Palantir Technologies, where they worked on building out that company’s finance organization to 2,500 people and over $750 million in revenue. We are trying to create a Strategic Finance category. It declined to reveal its valuation.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Via TechCrunch by Arman Tabatabai: Venture capital has been flooding the various subverticals under the robotics umbrella in recent years, and the construction space is one of the largest beneficiaries. Last November, we surveyed 13 of the top robotics-focused VCs to find out which areas of robotics are exciting them most going into 2020.

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Source Link

JANUARY 29, 2022

Your local Small Business Development Center (SBDC), which can provide assistance with business planning, access to financing, counseling services and classes. The conversation introduced a new framework for inclusive community development that incorporates cultural understanding, talent development and new venture creation.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

Masa Finance , a hybrid credit protocol and decentralized credit bureau founded by Pngme CEO Brendan Playford in late 2020, has raised $3.5 Decentralized finance’s premise transcends this segment of banked people. Masa Finance is the result of these collective ventures. million in pre-seed funding.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

Raising venture capital is rarely an easy lift for startups, but 2022 is turning out to be a more challenging year than we’ve seen for some time. As venture capital continues its slowdown after an aggressive 2020 and record-breaking 2021 , it’s clear that early-stage founders looking for their first dollars will require a new approach.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

Conductive Ventures raised a $200 million Fund III to continue its focus on investing in founders where other venture capital firms did not see the potential. Conductive Ventures launches $100 million enterprise fund. Conductive Ventures launches $100 million enterprise fund.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

In 2020, all the long-term trends forcing change in this sector continued and even accelerated. Public fintech stocks rose 97% in 2020. The Matrix fintech Index rose 97% in 2020, compared to a 14% rise in the S&P 500 and a 10% drop for the incumbent financial service companies over the same time period. Second, liquidity.

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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

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Early-stage fintech-focused venture firm Better Tomorrow Ventures has raised $225 million for its second fund — triple the amount it raised for its debut fund that closed in September of 2020. BTV is a venture firm that boasts two successful fintech founders as its partners.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

The latest financing brings its total equity raised since inception to about $450 million, with the company raising $100 million across its seed and Series C rounds. million in a seed round of funding that closed in 2018 and was led by ConsenSys Ventures and included participation from SoFi. . million led by Valar Ventures.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 30, 2020

If there’s one thing we’ve learned in 2020, it’s that you really can’t be overprepared. Whether it’s related to your personal finances, business growth or world events, one characteristic many entrepreneurs share is a knack for preparedness.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JULY 15, 2020

I wrote a blog post last week in which I said: The second quarter of 2020 is now behind us and we will see the data on it soon. I suspect what we will see is a very active venture capital market, quite the opposite of what was initially expected. Venture deal activity slowed in the second quarter, with $34.3

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2021

At Upfront we often talk about these as “shots on goal” (a fitting soccer analogy given the EURO 2020 tournament is on right now). We’ve had two companies where we had to bridge finance them several times before they eventually IPO’d We had a portfolio company turn-down a $350 million acquisition because they wanted at least $400 million.

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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. But two months into 2020, the pandemic did an excellent job of lowering expectations as investment activities from local and international investors slowed down.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

In March 2020, the company made headlines for laying off nearly 300 employees in the face of a slowdown in business related to the pandemic. Greenoaks led the financing, which also included “strong participation” from Elad Gil, Base partners and “all key existing financial investors.” The latest financing is notable for a few reasons.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 31, 2023

Register Indonesian digital bank Superbank , supported by Grab, Singtel, and Emtek Group, is collaborating with Singapore’s Genesis Alternative Ventures to offer a financing package of $40 million for startups in Indonesia. This initiative will primarily focus on startups in the series B and series C funding stages.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Merritt Hummer is a partner at Bain Capital Ventures, where she invests in the fintech, e-commerce and proptech sectors. Startups involved in B2B e-commerce such as Faire and Mirakl have burst out of the gates in 2020. Merritt Hummer. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Finances, when you’re co-parenting, are an issue even in the most amicable of divorces. The daughter of divorced parents herself, Jacklyn Rome founded Onward in 2020 with the aim of helping divorced and separated parents more easily manage their shared expenses. Today, Onward — formerly called Ensemble — raised $9.7

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Splice , the New York-based, AI-infused, beat-making software service for music producers created by the founder of GroupMe, has managed to sample another $55 million in financing from investors for its wildly popular service. The company’s previous investors include USV, True Ventures, DFJ Growth and Flybridge.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

million seed round led by MaC Venture Capital. Serena Ventures, Omidyar Group’s Luminate Fund, Melo 7 Tech Partners and Cascador (Empowering Economic Growth Foundation) participated. This is compared to the 80% revenue growth between FY 2021 and FY 2020. Five years on, this startup, Stears , is announcing a $3.3

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