American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 27, 2024

Women-founded startups show measurable positive results compared to those of men Alumni Ventures (AV), the most active venture firm in the U.S. Serving as America’s largest venture firm for individual investors, AV’s dedicated fund will now make investments in companies founded by highly accomplished women entrepreneurs.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

As the technology industry retrenches and venture capital firms tighten their standards, savvy founders should consider this counterintuitive question: Even if my vision is compelling enough to secure funding, should I take it? Would it have been better for many of them to have not taken excessive levels of venture capital in the first place?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

Yonit Wiseman , associate at YL Ventures, champions the Israeli cybersecurity community through technological due diligence and provides value-add support to the firm’s portfolio companies. Israeli cybersecurity startups in 2021 raised a stunning $8.84 Image Credits: YL Ventures. Image Credits: YL Ventures. Yonit Wiseman.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

Rhys Spence is head of research at Brighteye Ventures, a European edtech-focused fund, where he works with portfolio companies to help address priorities, with a focus on internationalization. Edtech deal flow in 2021 looks set to match or even outpace 2020 levels, per the report: At $9.4 Image Credits : Brighteye Ventures.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Feels like it was just yesterday that we were talking about the digital marketing trends to look out for in 2021. Unfortunately, many companies won’t be able to withstand the pandemic, but for those that do, customers will want to check online and confirm that they are still open before venturing out in public. Video reigns supreme.

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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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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. Lowering friction feels like the mantra with which we all need to enter 2021.

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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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StartupNation

AUGUST 2, 2021

On today’s Business Beat, Jeff discusses venture capital investment, which was at a record high throughout the first half of 2021 and is experiencing greater gains through all stages in North America, according to Crunchbase. That’s topped only by March 2021, which saw more than $54 billion in venture capital investment.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

Rhys Spence is head of research at Brighteye Ventures, a European edtech-focused fund, where he works with portfolio companies to help address priorities, with a focus on internationalization and HR. Not surprisingly, 2021 saw a boom in edtech investment across a spectra of investors. billion in 2021 from $15 billion in 2020.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

Today we’re wrapping our multi-week exploration of the global venture capital market’s second-quarter performance. At a glance, the Latin American venture capital and startup market appears similar to what we’ve seen from other growing ecosystems. A venture capital wave. billion in 2021’s first six months from 414 deals.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2022

He is building Picus’ Berlin office focusing on early-stage technology ventures. Post-money valuations were inflated by market expectations in 2021, but they were also inflated by the underlying mechanics of the valuation model itself. The miracle year of 2021. Bastian Hasslinger. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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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. Larger venture capital funds are also a driving force behind the pricing dynamics uncovered by the data.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Here are my predictions for 2021. And IPOs represented the largest share of venture-backed exits in dollar terms in the last decade. 2020 venture-backed M&A volumes are basically the same as 2019, but I think the spirit of my prediction suggested 2020 would eclipse 2020, which it hasn’t.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

“Tell me something I don’t know,” was my first reaction when reports on venture capital in 2022 hit my inbox this month. The point, as often with data, is that we can now confirm what was merely intuition until Q4 actually closed: 2022 saw fewer exits and venture deals than 2021. billion, 35% less than in 2021.

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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. Then, the disparities between venture funding studies were stunningly clear. . African tech took center stage in 2021. In 2021, Nigeria retained the first spot ($1.8

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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. The up-and-down CVC world is not putting some folks off.

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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. When Bank Tech tapped Carey Ransom as its first Managing Director, the firm valued his extensive 25-year career in software and venture capital.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Matt McIlwain is an early-stage venture investor at Madrona Venture Group who has been investing in AI technologies for nearly a decade. 4 ways startups will drive GPT-3 adoption in 2021. In 2021, this technology will power the launch of a thousand new startups and applications. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

The venture capital boom of 2021 was not built from merely traditional VC money. And amid all the noise, record-setting totals, and rapid-fire dealmaking, corporate venture investors were busy, investing gobs of parent-company cash into far-smaller concerns. How quickly is corporate venture capital investment accelerating?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2021

When we penned the intro for this piece last year , little did we know that — in many ways — we’d still be deep in it by the time 2021’s feature rolled around. 2021 also largely lacked the kind of blockbuster crashes we saw last year, courtesy of names like Quibi and Essential. Abundant Robotics (2016-2021).

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 18, 2023

30 Investments to date in the areas of AI, autonomy, cybersecurity and space Shield Capital was launched in 2021 by the Managing Partners Philip Bilden and Raj Shah, both of whom have deep experience in technology and investing, driving their passion to support founders of frontier technologies.

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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. For Ashutosh Sharma, head of India investments at Prosus Ventures, it is paramount for startups to ensure their existence at this time.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The coronavirus pandemic disproportionately reduced venture capital funding for female founders last year, despite a greater boom in fundraising thanks to megafunds and the advent of Zoom investing. billion across 2,661 deals through the first three quarters of 2021, almost doubling 2019’s total of $23.7 That was in an upmarket.

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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. billion invested in 2,424 deals.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2021

The global venture capital ecosystem is inequitable. In the United States’ mature venture capital market, an entrepreneur’s race, gender and age help determine who has access to capital. Yes, venture capital startup hubs can take decades to reach maturity. But there are other limiting factors: geography, for example.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 15, 2023

Register Singapore-based Decentralized Gaming Ventures, a venture builder in the web3 gaming space, has secured a substantial seven-figure investment round. Hashed, a prominent Korean venture fund, is the primary contributor to this funding. Over the past year, Venture Builder has supported releasing 15 games in the market.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Now we are staring down the end of 2020 and looking toward what we all hope is a better, safer 2021. No matter what 2021 has in store, founders can still take proactive steps to help them succeed in their fundraising efforts. What will this new year bring? We’ll interact through a mix of the old and the new.

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StartupNation

APRIL 24, 2021

Later in the show, Jeff chats with Phyllis Ellison about an upcoming event, the 2021 Midwest Venture Showcase , that will surely interest startups, entrepreneurs and investors in the Southeast Michigan region. To learn more about the Midwest Venture Showcase, visit the official website. Stay tuned.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2021

TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 takes place September 21-23, and we’re here to call out just some of the awesome content we have scheduled over three very busy days. You gotta pay to play: Buy your pass to Disrupt 2021 here and open a door to opportunity. You gotta pay to play: Buy your pass to Disrupt 2021 here and open a door to opportunity.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Akin to many startup markets around the world, Europe has seen its venture capital totals rise, its unicorn ranks swell, and even a few major public exits. The Atomico/Dealroom report details that the total value of tech M&A in Europe through the third quarter of 2021 has crossed the $100 billion mark.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 16, 2023

In The Figures that Will Move the Venture Capital Market in the Next 3-5 Years , I wrote about the correlation between interest rates & venture capital investing. The correlation is strong enough to build a simple prediction of early stage venture capital activity in 2023. correlation to -0.51. for only 2 variables.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 23, 2020

This year has shaken up venture capital, turning a hot early start to 2020 into a glacial period permeated with fear during the early days of COVID-19. Boston could start 2021 as the number-two place to raise venture capital in the country. billion in venture capital during the third quarter. billion in venture capital.

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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 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

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

We’re less than two weeks away from TC Sessions: Justice 2021 , a day-long deep dive into the state of diversity, inclusion and equity in tech. TC Sessions: Justice 2021 takes place on March 3. We connect consumers and businesses to enable high-quality, ethical and transparent data exchange. Founded by Paroma Indilo.

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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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