TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Like the startup ecosystem itself, accelerators change with time. Y Combinator, perhaps the best-known startup accelerator, has also evolved. Like much of the venture capital landscape, Y Combinator has shrunk slightly this year. Where is Y Combinator startup-hunting in 2022? The current cohort of startups in the U.S.

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

However, by 2022 (with most pandemic restrictions in the rear view mirror and financial markets facing challenges), investors began gravitating towards perceived safe havens, as reflected in the data. Consequently, the Bay Area experienced a surge, capturing over one-third of all early-stage venture funding in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

SparkLabs Korea , a Seoul-based seed to early-stage accelerator, held a demo Day on Thursday for its 19th cohort of companies. The latest demo day marks its tenth year after SparkLabs launched its accelerator program in December 2012. and Asia. . Not all teams end up pitching at demo day. Its monthly subscription fee is ~$20.

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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.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Backed by international LPs, Southeast Asia-focused venture firms like Alpha JWC , AC Ventures and Jungle Ventures raised their largest funds yet. Indonesian venture capital firm Alpha JWC closes $433M third fund. Golden Gate Ventures forecasts a record number of exits in Southeast Asia.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

One of the ways that those pots of cash are being invested is through venture capital, which means the money flows to the coasts — New York, Boston, Silicon Valley. For the past decade, Gener8tor has been working to shift that by spinning up accelerators in local communities that have money but are underserved in terms of startup support.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2022

As venture capital grew around the world , tracking the fintech market was a fine way to understand the general health of the VC world; when venture was getting bigger, so too was fintech fundraising. So it is not a huge surprise that fintech had a big part to play in the venture boom that is now behind us.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 29, 2021

The acceleration of venture capital and the burgeoning check sizes in the last few years has led to a decline in traditional due diligence. Throw in the concept of Tiger Global bringing pre-diligence to deal making, and preemption is becoming the norm, with venture players rapidly changing how they make decisions.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 4, 2022

On today’s episode of the Business Beat, Jeff highlights a few companies mentioned by Cronicle Tech News as hot tech companies to watch in 2022 in the Great Lakes region. Top Detroit Startups and Tech Companies to Watch in 2022. for the WJR Business Beat. Listeners outside of the Detroit area can listen live HERE. 2, Guardhat.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

Collin Wallace Contributor Collin Wallace is a Techstars managing director leading the Silicon Valley-based accelerator program. Would it have been better for many of them to have not taken excessive levels of venture capital in the first place? They seek venture funding to increase sales and marketing. People problems?

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2023

Better Tomorrow Ventures’ Sheel Mohnot landed some of his biggest wins before he ever started a venture firm. The investor previously worked as a partner at 500 , previously known as 500 Startups, where he raised and ran a dedicated fintech fund as well as helped build an accelerator. million valuations. YC is built for scale.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

For the first time, the sector attracted over 1,100 unique investors in 2022, which in turn resulted in a record fundraising haul of $6.5 In Africa, incubators, accelerators, angels and seed investors easily outnumber larger funds — simply because it’s much harder to raise a large fund here. billion, according to data from Partech.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The start of 2022 shows no signs of slowing, with more startups jumping into the fray to tackle one of humanity’s biggest challenges. We spoke with: Alex Bondar , partner, Acre Venture Partners. Joshua Posamentier , co-founder and managing partner, Congruent Ventures. Valerie Shen , partner and COO, G2 Venture Partners.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

But today we’re highlighting the demo day for a new wave of crypto projects and teams who participated in the latest cohort for Alliance DAO, a web3 accelerator and builder community. It raised its seed round in April and is backed by GGV Capital, Qiming Venture Partners, Infinity Ventures Crypto, SKy9 Capital and others.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 29, 2022

In 2014, Prayank Swaroop made a pitch to the storied venture firm Accel, where he worked as an associate, about future marketplaces in India. Indian venture funds have historically gotten most exits by the way of mergers and acquisitions. Many venture investors are now increasingly chasing opportunities to back banks instead.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Check out some of the Ann Arbor companies with the biggest growth, best funding and most innovative products to watch into 2022. Small Ann Arbor startups to watch in 2022. It accelerates enrollment and improve retainment of trial participants. DocNetwork. Who manages recruiting and tracking clinical trial patients?

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 20, 2023

as of December 31, 2022, according to the FDIC. Strategic investment fund BankTech Ventures invests in companies that are developing innovative technologies that enhance the ability of community banks to serve their customers. Funding supports innovative technology companies that are taking community banks into the future.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Co-led by Coatue and Andreessen Horowitz , the round also saw participation from Bessemer Venture Partners. Tackle says it plans to use its new funding to accelerate the execution of its product roadmap, scale its go-to-market (GTM) teams, expand its global reach, and continue to innovate. billion valuation.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 18, 2022

Venture capitalists have continued to invest at similar prices & similar round sizes in the most sought after companies. Market prices accelerate faster with single-winner auctions. I think the market will settle in Q3/Q4 at a 40-60% decline to Q1 2022 & volumes will increase again in early 2023. Publics are down 70%.

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Revolution

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

We dive deeper into the definition in our 2022 Annual Report. This trifecta serves as a catalyst for accelerated growth and long-term viability. AgTech Accelerators : The Yield Lab, Biogenerator Labs, and other accelerators are helping startups scale and commercialize their technologies.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

However, things are moving on the legal side of the market — it appears medical cannabis still carries most of the momentum, and it is only accelerating. Viken Douzdjian , managing partner and co-founder, Argonautic Ventures. Will Gibbs , principal, Octopus Ventures. Viken Douzdjian, managing partner, Argonautic Ventures.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

In November, we reached out to marketers to learn how they would spend a $25,000 budget in Q1 2022. We followed up with a few marketers from our previous survey and reached out some more to see how they would spend a $75,000 budget in summer 2022. Jonathan Metrick , chief growth officer, Portage Ventures. A B2B startup?

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 7, 2023

This was followed by a seed round in April 2022, generating $2.1 to Accelerate Live Commerce Expansion first appeared on AsiaTechDaily - Asia's Leading Tech and Startup Media Platform. BintanGo’s prior funding included a pre-seed round of $500,000 conducted in June 2021, just ahead of its launch in September of the same year.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Aileen Lee , founding partner at Cowboy Ventures. A founding partner at Cowboy Ventures, Aileen Lee leads a team that backs seed-stage technology companies reimagining work and life through technology, what they call “life 2.0.” He also served on the National Venture Capital Association board of directors.

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2022

And the same dataset indicates that the second quarter has already matched the first quarter’s cuts; in numerical terms, Layoffs.FYI counted just under 9,300 startup layoffs in Q1 2022 and around 8,700 thus far in Q2. Looking at the data on a per-month basis makes it clear that the pace of startup layoffs is accelerating.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

It came out of stealth mode last September with $4 million in seed funding from a group of backers that included Grit Ventures, GV and Village Global. Having just raised funding, Bucher wasn’t expecting to raise again so soon, but when he saw the outlook for 2022 that agtech was going to be the No.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Head of Global Operations of The Founder Institute, the world’s largest pre-seed startup accelerator, and the Co-Founder & COO of the Vet-Tech Startup Accelerator. The Fund’s team values the unique experience that veterans bring to startup ventures.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 11, 2024

He then took key software engineering positions in technology-driven companies before co-founding Cake in 2022 with Skyler Thomas who previously was the Distinguished Technologist/Director of Strategy of Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

million in new funding raised at the end of 2022. The future of car ownership: Building an online dealership New funding helps CarmaCare accelerate its ‘healthcare-for-your-car’ service by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 8, 2021

As we get into our dive into Q3 2021 venture capital numbers, one region in particular has our attention: Europe. While venture capital gains in markets like India, Latin America and the larger African startup ecosystem have proved impressive, Europe has posted strong results of its own. Let’s talk Europe!

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2023

The Exchange loves a demo day, so we keep an eye on accelerators as best we can. As we wait for the first presentations to begin, this is a good time to take a quick look at the early-stage venture market that companies from accelerators of all stripes will operate in this year. Have we seen any signs of recovery from Q4 2022?

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Register The Merah Putih Fund , an Indonesian government-backed venture capital firm, has successfully secured $300 million in the first phase of its inaugural fund. The initiative brings together five state-owned venture capital companies, each with a corporate focus.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The funding round was co-led by Accelerator Life Science Partners (ALSP) and ClavystBio, a Temasek-backed accelerator focusing on global health solutions. Accelerator Life Science Partners (ALSP) is an early-stage life science accelerator and investment firm dedicated to nurturing innovative biotechnology companies.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2023

Venture capitalists may control capital, but one currency that they’re always in search of is an elusive, evolving one: deal flow. The venture firm, which just closed a $150 million fund in May 2022 , is launching what it describes as a common application for pre-seed startup founders.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

He has opinions on bigger batch sizes , a growing standard deal , competition, the power of venture capital and why startup founders should be prioritizing more than just a check after Demo Day. Michael Seibel is synonymous with Y Combinator’s growth over the past decade. The questions and answers were edited lightly for clarity.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Register Singapore’s Jungle Ventures has announced the launch of First Cheque@Jungle , a new program aimed at investing in startups during their pre-seed and seed stages. The First Cheque program plans to leverage the expertise of experienced founders from Jungle Ventures’ current and former portfolio startups.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

Other investors in the extension include Valo Ventures, SOSV, Far Eastern Group’s corporate venture arm Drive Catalyst, Alante Capital and S Cap. Novoloop’s proprietary ATOD (Accelerated Thermal Oxidative Decomposition) technology enables plastic waste like polyethylene to transform into high-performance chemicals and materials.

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