StartupNation

APRIL 5, 2021

Grants of $5,000 and $10,000 are being given to businesses that anticipate pursuing financing for growth for their “scalable, high-impact solution or idea.” The application deadline for this program is April 16, 2021. The program is set to reopen in September 2021, so get a head start and find out if your business qualifies here.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 21, 2021

Usually, the Extra Crunch Live crew sits down with founders and the investors who finance them to learn how they decided to partner with one another and, ultimately, how startups can get to “yes” when fundraising. Truth be told, everyone loves a good pitch-off. Register here for Extra Crunch Live with defy.vc

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

Usually, the Extra Crunch Live crew sits down with founders and the investors who finance them to learn how they decided to partner with one another and, ultimately, how startups can get to “yes” when fundraising. Truth be told, everyone loves a good pitch-off. Register here for Extra Crunch Live with defy.vc

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

When robotic process automation company UiPath filed to go public in March 2021, the startup had just closed a $750 million round that helped it clinch a $35 billion valuation. “They are the strongest company in the segment and well financed in this growing market,” said Forrester analyst Craig Le Clair. per share.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2022

Equally notable: One-third of all unicorns created in 2021 were fintech companies. billion in venture funding in 2021. How viable will these levers be for fintech companies in 2022 looking to defend their 2020-2021 growth rates? This year, market conditions are dramatically different in every sector, including fintech.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2021

From how Retail Zipline’s Series A pitch deck ticked every box for Emergence Capital to how Coda perfected the growth fly wheel, much to the delight of Madrona’s S. Check out the Startup Alley companies that will exhibit at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 in an episode dedicated to the art of the pitch. We do that by (duh!)

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

In early 2021, that company raised $750 million at a staggering $35 billion valuation. Also participating in Rillavoice’s seed financing are Entrepreneurs Roundtable Fund, Jason Calacanis’s Launch Fund, Broom Ventures, Comma Capital and the NYU Innovation Venture Fund. . Sign up here to get it in your inbox.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

Y Combinator’s summer batch of 2021 features 377 startups from 47 countries. Today, 189 companies will pitch, while the rest will pitch tomorrow. Lemonade Finance (Nigeria). Ayoola Akinkunmi and Olusegun Owoade started Mecho Autotech in 2021 as an on-demand auto maintenance and repairs platform.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Take a look: Finance for Founders. As a founder, you not only have to master your company’s finances, you also have to tackle your own personal finances. Early Stage is back in 2021 and better than ever. Managing your money as a founder comes with a unique set of questions.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

If your company is too nascent to be valued, convertible notes might be a viable way to secure early financing. Bottom line: If your company is on the cusp of an opportunity, convertible note financing could be a way forward, but only if you have a realistic valuation and a plan to reach it. You may need more than one pitch deck.

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TechCrunch

JULY 17, 2022

In 2021, an estimated 21% of all venture deals were fintech. So when you pitch, be sure to point out what makes your company/news stand out. So while we’re still getting pitched (a whole bunch), we more than ever are reviewing pitches with a bigger-picture lens and hope you’ll do the same when you’re doing the pitching.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

How to pitch me: 4 VCs share what they’re looking for in March 2022. The publicly-traded software companies that comprise the Bessemer Cloud Index saw “good growth during the pandemic,” reports Alex Wilhelm in The Exchange, but today, it’s lost almost “50% of its value since it reached record highs in late 2021.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

Usually, the Extra Crunch Live crew sits down with founders and the investors who finance them to learn how they decided to partner with one another and, ultimately, how startups can get to “yes” when fundraising. Truth be told, everyone loves a good pitch-off. Register here for Extra Crunch Live with defy.vc

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

This week, I covered Zeta, a new startup working on joint finances for modern couples. Here’s what I learned : The success of Zeta hinges on the idea that people want to share their finances in an ongoing and meaningful way, and that the world of finance is ready to shift from individualism to collectivism earlier and louder.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Usually, the Extra Crunch Live crew sits down with founders and the investors who finance them to learn how they decided to partner with one another and, ultimately, how startups can get to “yes” when fundraising. Truth be told, everyone loves a good pitch-off. Register here for Extra Crunch Live with defy.vc

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2023

“Do you have control over your finances, both personal and business?” “How Anyone who can confidently answer the 20 questions in this post is ready to pitch an investor, IMO. Pitch Deck Teardown: Prelaunch.com’s $1.5M In a follow-up, he analyzed the pitch deck for Prelaunch.com’s $1.5

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2021

Corporations are not remaining on the sidelines of the fiery 2021 venture capital game, Alex Wilhelm and Anna Heim note in The Exchange. billion in 2019, but in Q1 2021, companies in the category raised $1.1 Corporate venture capital follows the same trend as other VC markets: Up. Image Credits: Nigel Sussman (opens in a new window).

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

But he almost didn’t, when he had trouble securing the necessary financing to pay his tuition. The company attended pitch competition after pitch competition, raising about a total of $100,000, until one day in the summer of 2020 an analyst for musician Jay-Z’s Marcy Ventures happened to be in the audience. “It

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

In 2021, when Syed Haizam Jamalullail launched The Hive Southeast Asia, I saw opportunities in learning and collaborating from such an esteemed group from Silicon Valley, hence I joined the company back in 2021. Early-stage financing between RM500,000 to RM5 million. What mistakes do you see founders make when raising money?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

AEye, a lidar startup that developed its technology for use in autonomous vehicles as well as to support advanced driver assistance systems in passenger cars, is going public through a merger with CF Finance Acquisition Corp. The company said it expects to generate $4 million in revenue in 2021 and a net loss (EBITDA) of $59 million.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

Corporate management startup Ramp confirmed that it has secured $550 million in debt and $200 million in equity in a new financing that doubles its valuation to $8.1 Notably, Founders Fund led the latest equity financing, marking the firm’s fourth time leading a round for Ramp. It then raised $300 million at a $3.9 billion. .

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 28, 2021

2021 marked the second year of COVID and like other crises, the pandemic accelerated change, especially in technology pushing many technologies like SaaS, video conferencing, crypto/web3 deeper into the Perez deployment cycle. Silicon Valley falls to below 20% in all venture financing. Absolutely this happened. Half a point.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 12, 2022

In 2021, we extended a grant to Grand Valley State University’s Veterans Entrepreneurship Lab. It concludes with a Pitch Showcase awarding at least $25,000 in prize money. In 2021, we also established a partnership between Verizon’s Pro Bono Program and the Metro Detroit Black Business Alliance ’s Capital Connect Program.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 21, 2021

They are found across all industries and are useful for entrepreneurs who are beyond the seed stages of financing but are not yet ready to seek out venture capital. Perfect your pitch. Once you have an investor’s attention, a sales pitch is your chance to clinch the deal. Peer-to-peer lenders. It (literally) pays to prepare.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

We’re only two weeks away from TC Sessions: Justice 2021 , a virtual conference focused on making diversity, equity, inclusion and labor as integral to tech as data, software engineers, startups and venture capital. Here are just a few of the outstanding presentations on tap — be sure to read the TC Sessions: Justice 2021 agenda.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

With all of those, Lai said the firm was able to return a “significant amount of cash” back to its limited partners in the fourth quarter of 2021. One of the great things is we can really look at the pitch that we want, and then decide when to swing,” Lai said. “We We don’t have to swing at every single pitch.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Usually, the Extra Crunch Live crew sits down with founders and the investors who finance them to learn how they decided to partner with one another and, ultimately, how startups can get to “yes” when fundraising. Truth be told, everyone loves a good pitch-off. Register here for Extra Crunch Live with defy.vc

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2021

We get into how to build a fundraising process , the concept of soft-circling an investor and what Kunst says is one of her biggest pet-peeves in a pitch deck on the site, but I wanted to give you that sneak peek for now. Secondly, we are already well into planning TechCrunch Disrupt 2021! Pregame Y Combinator Demo Day with Equity.

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TechCrunch

MAY 1, 2022

QED incubated this auto financing company in 2016 and Kevin Bennett became CEO in 2018 and soon after raised its first seed round. It started as MotoRefi, and rebranded in November 2021 to Caribou. Hear how Bennett pitched early investors, and what investors like Holt can provide to mobility companies. Register here for free.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2022

Consumer love, a fickle thing: App Annie: Global app stores’ consumer spend up 19% to $170B in 2021, downloads grew 5% to 230B. The SaaS-friendly fintech platform emerged from stealth this week with $150 million in debt financing and $11 million in seed funding with a Stripe partnership. Image Credits: Bryce Durbin/TechCrunch.

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NZ Entrepreneur

MARCH 16, 2025

Read the interview: Richard Liew: For those who may not know who Ministry of Awesome is – let’s just assume there might be some – can you give us your elevator pitch? You’re also sort of no longer running your classic three-month type accelerator program, which finishes on, say, a demo day. James Burnes: Absolutely.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

In less than 24 hours, thousands of new startup founders from around the world will tune in to day one of TC Early Stage 2021: Operations & Fundraising. Here’s a look at just some of the 22 discussions, topics and presentations happening tomorrow at TC Early Stage 2021. Finance for Founders. Don’t worry about missing out.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

During BloomTech’s last big layoff, in April 2021 , Allred admitted that it’s been difficult to make his for-profit company’s vision of “incentive-aligned education work.” Career Karma, a platform that helps connect students to coding bootcamps, cut staff this year , while Flockjay pivoted away from its bootcamp pitch in 2021.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Data indicate that the pace of startup value creation reached a fever pitch in 2021. According to venture capital data collected by PitchBook , prices spiked for startup equity across the maturity spectrum last year. The result of those rising prices was a huge gain in the pace at which paper wealth was generated. The former, yes.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

sanctions on China for startups in the space, considerations for startups thinking of taking capital from government bodies, how to pitch these investors and more. The NASDAQ Biotechnology Index peaked in 2021. Clearly, CFIUS continues to have important implications on venture financing across all sectors. Robert Mittendorff, M.D,

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

billion in 2022 from 2021, it was still up 52% compared to 2020 and made up 18% of all funding globally, proving that investors still have faith in fintech’s future. Are you seeing more companies raising extensions or down rounds compared to 2021 and 2022? Have fintechs gotten close to growing into their 2021 valuations?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2021

What to expect while fundraising in 2021. Within that time frame, you are pitching your heart out to multiple investors and ideally setting a number of meetings, either virtual or in-person. You’re also busy building and constantly tweaking your narrative (and pitch deck) and managing each of those meetings and the necessary followup.

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