TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2023

Earlier this month, we reported that investors’ sentiments surrounding venture capital activity going into this were more reserved than upbeat. But before that, there was shared optimism that African startups would raise more VC funding last year than in 2021 when the continent, for the first time, passed the $4-5 billion threshold.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 1, 2021

Happy 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. The second half of 2021 will be marked by two conflicting trends. We will see it accelerate in 2021.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

One element of the 2021 venture capital apotheosis that doesn’t get enough attention is corporate venture capital. As with other forms of venture capital, CVC has pulled back some this year. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. ” More on that in a moment.).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

Venture capitalists went hard in 2021. Data collected from a number of sources indicates that last year set venture capital records around the world. From dollars invested to deal volume, sectors and geographies posted their strongest performance and excelled on essentially every continent.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

That means we’re gearing up for a wave of venture capital data that will start to drop in less than two weeks’ time. Because Q1 2022 was replete with deals that got started back in 2021, when venture economics were spitting out very different valuations and deal sizes than we see today. Recall that U.S.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2023

One of the quieter conversations in venture capital has only grown louder, in my DMs and interviews, over the past few months: The known bias in venture capital has been a branding issue for some of the emerging, diverse fund managers just now splashing onto the scene. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2021

The world of venture capital investing is a relatively small one, and relationship-based to boot. The company, founded by Samir Kaji and Hana Yang in February 2021, is developing an approach to venture capital fund investing that provides a way for investors of any size to participate. Enter Allocate.

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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

JANUARY 14, 2023

It took me a while, but I’m realizing that my startup love language is discussing any attempts to standardize the opaque and often informal world of venture capital. There are funds that invest entirely based on data. Monique Woodard has closed $17 million for her debut fund at Cake Ventures. Talking points. Chat soon, N.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

After a blockbuster year for venture capital funding in 2021, the flow of capital to Indian startups seemed like it would buck global trends in early 2022, but dried up in the second half of 2022. How has your investment strategy changed? Focus on the core business and deprioritize experimental investments.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Venture capital data thus far in the third quarter indicates that investment into blockchain-focused startups is on pace to contract dramatically compared to recent quarters and the heady 2021 period.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

The first quarter of 2022 brought a historically huge sum of investment for global startups, with the three-month period outclassing any quarter in 2018, 2019, and 2020, according to CB Insights data. But despite the fact that Q1 2022 posted historically elevated results, venture capital investment decelerated from Q4 2021 levels.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

From a global perspective, the venture capital market for startup investment is slowing. Data shows that venture investment totals are falling, with the second quarter adding to declines seen in the first quarter of this year. market from PitchBook to lean on.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2022

For those of us who cover the venture capital industry, two narratives are ubiquitous: There’s the story of how much capital has been invested of late; you’ve seen the data — 2020 and 2021 set nearly every record around the world for private-market investment. And worth doing? Definitely.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

companies with all female founders are raising less capital this year than the last amid current economic woes. of all venture capital allocated, a figure that stands at 1.9% The direct line between the venture haves and have-nots has always been stark, but there is some good news on the front. through Q3 of this year.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2021

It’s no surprise that the venture capital market was incredibly active in the United States during the first quarter of 2021, but precisely how strong has only recently become clear. According to a report from PitchBook , venture capitalists unleashed a wave of capital in the first three months of the year.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2021

In light of the mega-deal , The Exchange dug into the AI venture capital market. This morning, we’ll start with a look into recent venture capital activity in the AI/ML market and its historical context. Then we’ll talk to Zetta Ventures’ Jocelyn Goldfein and a few companies in the AI space. A venture capital rush.

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Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

When 10 of us founded Screendoor in 2021 this was the plan. Lisa Cawley joins us from the LP side of the table, already having experience evaluating and investing in emerging managers as well as a broad set of venture models. In today’s vast venture capital landscape, it’s ALPHA!

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Andy Areitio is a partner at the early-stage fund TheVentureCity , a new venture and acceleration model that helps diverse founders achieve global impact. When you’re running your own venture — especially if it’s your first — it’s unlikely you will find the time to deep dive into how venture capital firms work.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

In the wake of the busy 2021 IPO cycle, The Exchange wanted to better understand why some tech companies choose to list in Europe over the United States. The question is pertinent thanks to rising venture capital activity on the continent. The first quarter of 2021 saw record investment in the region, to the tune of $21.4

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

Although Africa’s venture capital totals remained afloat in the first quarter, some investors and tech stakeholders think there’s still a good chance the continent will join the rest of the world in a slowdown. Funding data shows the African ecosystem has already seen inflows of around $2.7 billion in the first half of this year.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The venture capital industry is built on signals. The startup, launching publicly today, is building a rating system for the venture capital industry. Revere declined to share any customer names but said that one of its first customers was a sizable investment consultant. So far, Revere has raised $5.62

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

In this piece , I spotlighted what influenced this venture capital growth — which, at the time, was pegged at a little over $4 billion. African tech took center stage in 2021. The number of deals in 2021 grew 73% year-on-year from 244 deals in 2020. In 2021, Nigeria retained the first spot ($1.8

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2021

No matter what slice of the mobility market you’ve claimed as your own — AVs, EVs, data mining, AI, dockless scooters, robotics or the batteries that will charge and change the world — you won’t find a better place to showcase your extraordinary tech and talent than TC Sessions: Mobility 2021. TC Sessions: Mobility 2021 takes place June 9.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The Exchange is digging into the Chinese venture capital market this week, but getting folks to chat about business and China on the record is turning out to be slightly harder than we anticipated. Global venture capital fundraising is at an all-time high, with many countries seeing record results. And with some U.S.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

I asked some investor friends to share, as the title suggests, one thing they wished people better understood about venture capital. A common misconception is that building a tech company automatically warrants venture capital, and vice versa. We tend to invest in unconventional people, ideas, and markets.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

That’s what early data appears to say about the global venture capital market in Q1 2022. In comparative terms, the dataset shows that the global venture market in Q1 2022 was in fact larger in dollar terms than its year-ago comp. And if that happens, the exuberance of 2021 could become the hangover of 2022.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The venture capital market has skewed later and larger in recent quarters, something you might have felt in the rapid recent pace of new unicorn formation. It’s possible to see how venture is trending towards bigger, later-stage rounds in other pieces of private market data. 2020’s venture capital market.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 2, 2021

My big question for 2021, and the one that is on every startup’s mind, is how will a cataclysmic event such as a global pandemic show up in post-pandemic innovation? Take trends like the rise of building in public or the unbundling of venture capital. Attending CES 2021? Image Credits: John Coletti / Getty Images).

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

Earlier this week, The Exchange wrote about the early-stage venture capital market , with the goal of understanding how some startups are raising more seed capital before they work on their Series A, while other startups are seemingly raising their first lettered round while in the nascent stages of scaling.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Strategic investment fund BankTech Ventures invests in companies that are developing innovative technologies that enhance the ability of community banks to serve their customers. The Fund just announced their investment commitment of $13.5 as of December 31, 2022, according to the FDIC.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2022

You know the broad outlines: After a lengthy period of growth, capital investment and aggressive business practices, China’s central government spent much of 2021 reining in its technology sector. We were surprised to see it as 2021 entered its final months , just as we were surprised when we got the full-year numbers.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

In April 2021, TechCrunch published a venture capitalist’s take that “ the era of the European insurtech IPO will soon be upon us.” With venture capital data collected for TechCrunch by PitchBook and notes from active insurtech venture capitalist Florian Graillot of Astorya.vc , we now know a lot more.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Brian Walsh is the head of WIND Ventures , the venture capital arm of COPEC, a leading energy company in Central and South America and the U.S. WIND Ventures provides mobility, energy and retail startups and scaleups with access to Latin America. The arbiters of investment. Brian Walsh. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

If you are parsing the public-market carnage this morning, you might expect that Chinese venture capitalists would pull back their investment cadence. One key surprise in 2021 was the fact that despite a regulatory barrage from the central government , Chinese startups had a pretty good year when it came to raising capital.

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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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

Multi-asset social investment network and Robinhood competitor eToro has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Gatsby — a fintech startup which also aimed to go head to head against Robinhood — for $50 million in a cash and common stock deal. The company first filed for regulatory approval in December of 2021.

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