TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

“In a turbulent economic environment, security will remain a top priority for companies. ” NeSmith, now executive chairman, was the company’s CEO until August 2021, when Schneider assumed the role after serving as Arctic Wolf’s president and chief revenue officer. raised close to $15.9 billion of debt.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

In this TC+ post, she discusses the current economic environment and shares “actionable tips for closing pre-seed to Series B rounds.”. We need to unlearn the lessons of the 2021 fundraising bubble. We need to unlearn the lessons of the 2021 fundraising bubble. Does your startup have a data room?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Image Credits: Pitchbook Boston had a steady investment growth trajectory until it dropped off (like everyone else) in 2022 as investment overall slowed in an uncertain economic environment. Cait Brumme, CEO at early stage tech accelerator MassChallenge says that Boston was not immuned to the vagaries of investment cycles in 2022.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

We’ve covered the dry powder that venture capital firms are sitting on and also how difficult it is to raise funding in this economic environment. It was way harder than venture capital as a founder,” Teran told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

Sifflet was founded in June 2021 by Salma Bakouk, an ex-Goldman Sachs VP in the sales and trading department. “In the current economic environment, where companies are faced with difficult decisions, data-driven decision making is the norm and data incidents are simply not tolerated.”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

“Today, affordability for rentals is front-and-center in every aspect of our current economic environment. Stake has grown 10x in the last year and experienced 30% growth every month since it closed a seed round in September 2021, and booked annual recurring revenue is over $2 million,” Hobbs said. ”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

The early innings of the pandemic netted edtech massive investments of more than $10 billion in venture capital investment globally in 2020 and $20 billion in 2021. This move toward extension rounds illustrates a level-setting of expectations from founders around fundraising in the current economic environment.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The funding comes on the heels of a Series B of £48 million, which closed with a $20 million injection in May 2021 (a number that bumped up to $25 million after we published our story). “Given the tough economic environment, we wanted to make sure we have the capital to do this.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Schulman added: “Over the past year, we made significant progress in strengthening and reshaping our company to address the challenging macro-economic environment…While we have made substantial progress in right-sizing our cost structure, and focused our resources on our core strategic priorities, we have more work to do.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

But that metric is imperfect, as companies don’t raise at the same time and the economic environment can drastically change from one year to another. It could also mean that tech companies are now valued at a lower revenue multiple compared to 2021. It has become much harder to close a new funding round.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2022

By going the debt route, Icertis avoids having to answer the tricky question of valuation in an especially challenging economic environment. billion as of March 2021 and reportedly as high as $5 billion earlier this year, but valuations in tech are on a steep downswing.) Icertis was valued at $2.8

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

In a keynote address Zennström gave a blunt assessment of the economic environment, while unpacking how he failed several times in his own career during tough economic conditions. Technology investment in Q3 is around 30% down on the same period in 2021. In this environment a lower valuation is no reflection on you.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Over $2 million has been deployed since 2021). It’s not unheard of to see firms yank term sheet offers after committing due diligence or in response to a worsening economic environment, despite the fact that it can ruin a round.

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 10, 2022

This is the type of deal that we have wanted to offer YC founders for years — and with the recent success of YC companies, including ten IPOs in 2021 and more to come this year, we are now able to do so. We still invest $125,000 for 7% and now also invest an additional $375,000 on an uncapped safe with an MFN 1.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

Its most recent fundraise was in May 2021 when it raised $320 million on an eye-popping $9.5 But in today’s economic environment, investors are not looking at growth at all costs as they were in 2021. Klaviyo is as good a candidate as any, a company that has raised a boat load of cash. billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 27, 2022

The exact number of how many people were affected is not known, but when TechCrunch reported on its last raise in May of 2021, the company said that it had 400 employees. If that is still the case today, then about 72 people were let go.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

million in the second quarter of 2021. The company has faced several delays since going public in March 2021 through a $660 million SPAC deal with CIIG Merger. For the second quarter, Arrival reported a loss of $89.6 million, compared with a loss of $56.2 The adjusted EBITDA loss for the period was $76.2 million, compared with a $41.2

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 25, 2022

internal network) statistics for Bitcoin as well as the macro economic environment. LUNA’s price fell approximately 73% in five days in May 2021. Dylan LeClair ( @DylanLeClair_ ): Senior Analyst at digital asset fund UTXO Management and expert in on-chain (i.e., Smaller projects, like LUNA, saw their prices plummet even more.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 6, 2023

According to the company’s spokesperson, Alerzo was breakeven in Q3 2021, before the company, present in just Ibadan and Lagos at the time, undertook major expansion and overhired nationwide, buoyed by its $10 million+ Series A financing round. Alerzo raises $10.5M Alerzo raises $10.5M

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

To his point, a 2021 survey by cloud infrastructure security startup Ermetic found that enterprises with over 20,000 employees experienced at least 38% cloud data breaches due to unauthorised access. CEO Stephen Cobbe says that the proceeds will be put toward product development and expanding the size of Opal’s 25-person team.

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 24, 2025

Recognized as a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree in 2022 and a Forbes Next 1000 recipient in 2021, Lynn also serves on the Board of Trustees at her alma mater, Franklin & Marshall College , and the nonprofit Only7Seconds , which tackles youth loneliness. Another challenge has been navigating the uncertainty that comes with scaling.

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