Y Combinator

DECEMBER 20, 2022

In 2022, most of the world freed itself from the shackles of the COVID pandemic, everyone struggled with inflation, and a war broke out in Europe. As we continue to live in troubled times, economic and otherwise, this amount of capital alone will usually be sufficient to tide thrifty startups over until better times.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2021

As someone who covers Southeast Asia startups and funding stories, the best word I can think of to describe 2021 is “whoa!” A close look at Singapore’s thriving startup ecosystem. As a global financial center, one could argue that Singapore’s startup ecosystem is in a category of its own when compared to its neighbors.

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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. Tune in to the Business Beat, below, for details on three of these promising startups: Tune in to News/Talk 760 AM WJR weekday mornings at 7:11 a.m.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2023

Betting early on the next big startup is enough to cement the entire return of a fund (and then some) — and help that plucky investor make a name for themselves. 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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Y Combinator

AUGUST 23, 2022

The list includes private and acquired companies valued at $150M or more as of July 31, 2022, and is sorted by valuation (YC’s public companies are featured here ). 63 companies have been added to the list since our last update in February 2022. Congrats to all of the YC founders who are building these amazing companies!

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2022

TC Sessions: Mobility 2022 goes big, live and in-person on May 18-19 in San Mateo, California. This two-day deep dive — dedicated to mobility tech, early-stage startups and the investors who fund them — is a prime networking opportunity you don’t want to miss. Looking for a co-founder to help you build your mobility-centric startup?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Medium is on the lookout for some 2022 roundup stories. And it’s been a turbulent year for startups and entrepreneurs; look at the tech-scape (and the stock prices) for a reminder. We’d love to read your takes on what 2022 meant for you as an entrepreneur or, more broadly, for the startup environment. 2022 in bad dates?

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Ann Arbor continues to be one of the top growing tech ecosystems around the country with some of the best startups to watch. This was a year like no other for Ann Arbor startups, so we’ve spent lots of time keeping up with all the news from Ann Arbor tech companies. Small Ann Arbor startups to watch in 2022.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Exhibiting your early-stage startup at TC Sessions: Mobility 2022 in San Mateo, California on May 18-20 is one of the fastest ways to discover new opportunities and accelerate your growth potential. You might just find the co-founder or engineer who can help you put the proverbial pedal to the metal. You do the math.

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Revolution

MARCH 8, 2023

population, but in 2022, companies with solely female founders garnered just 2% of the total capital invested in venture-backed startups. The long and short of it: Female founders face systemic barriers to founding, funding, and scaling their businesses. Women represent 50.5% of the U.S. That ticked up to 15.4%

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

5 investors discuss Boston’s resilient tech ecosystem Boston’s university-to-startup pipeline defies downturn to grow and diversify In order to build a startup culture, a city or region needs some key elements in place – like an innovation engine to drive startup ideas. As such, Silicon Valley remained the tech standard bearer.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2022

TC Sessions: Mobility 2022 goes big, live and in-person on May 18-19 in San Mateo, California. This two-day deep dive — dedicated to mobility tech, early-stage startups and the investors who fund them — is a prime networking opportunity you don’t want to miss. Looking for a co-founder to help you build your mobility-centric startup?

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

Black founders raised 1.3% So far this year, Black founders have raised a smaller 1.2% The past few months have seen private market investors reduce their investment pace as a possible recession looms, but that 1% figure has barely budged, meaning economic rain or shine, it’s always a challenging time to be a Black founder.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 5, 2022

Register Korea Startup Forum (KSF) is calling for startups from all around the world to join COMEUP Stars at COMEUP 2022. COMEUP Stars are promising startups that are bound to lead the global startup ecosystem and are hand-picked annually by professional judges consisting of well-known VCs and founders.

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Hunter Walk

JANUARY 6, 2023

If 2022 was the year of the startup layoff, 2023 is going to be the year of the wind down. It will suck — for team members, for founders, for customers of these companies, and for their investors — but by the end of the year we’ll have gotten through the toughest part of the correction. 2022 is done.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 23, 2022

2022 in My Rearview: 5 Key Learnings From My First Year as a Startup Advisor The year started with a retrospective of my career, and became an incredible startup journey Credits: Greg Hillson, INSCYD Knowing that not much is for sure is a crucial skill in today’s world. And: I wanted to share those learnings.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

TC Sessions: Mobility 2022 goes big, live and in-person on May 18-19 in San Mateo, California. This two-day deep dive — dedicated to mobility tech, early-stage startups and the investors who fund them — is a prime networking opportunity you don’t want to miss. Looking for a co-founder to help you build your mobility-centric startup?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

If you’re itching to get your game-changing product out of the garage, onto the streets or into customers’ driveways, we not-so-humbly suggest that you do whatever it takes to attend TC Sessions: Mobility 2022 in San Mateo, California on May 18-19. Is your company interested in sponsoring or exhibiting at TC Sessions: Mobility 2022?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 6, 2023

Catch co-founder Kristen Anderson tweeted Monday that the health and retirement benefits company she and co-founder Andrew Ambrosino started six years ago is shuttering. Anderson, whose Twitter profile now reads “failed fintech founder,” received an outpouring of support to her tweet. We still believe that.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Supply chain management software startup Slync , which was at one point valued at $240 million, hasn’t had the easiest go of it lately. During all this, the startup lost its chief marketing officer, chief revenue officer and chief financial officer. But lots of startups do the same. billion in 2022.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

TechCrunch Disrupt 2022 kicks off in just four days, startup fans. How to Activate Your Profile: Look for an email in your inbox titled “Time to log into TechCrunch Disrupt 2022” and follow the directions. Startup Battlefield 200. How Banks and Fintech Startups Can Effectively Co-Thrive , with Wells Fargo.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 24, 2021

This week, Bill Taranto, president of Merck’s Global Health Innovation Fund, wrote a TechCrunch+ article that explored six digital health trends his corporate VC fund is tracking as we enter 2022. Between Q1 and Q3 2021, healthcare startups landed $21.3 The growing power of digital healthcare: 6 trends to watch in 2022.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 31, 2022

Register Today, May 31, 2022, Tuesday, is the last day for startups to apply for the biggest accelerator program, sponsored by the Korean government – K-Startup Grand Challenge (KSGC) 2022. Born2Global Center reports that Korea’s top 60 startups and the K-Global 300 startups are located in the Pangyo Startup Campus.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2022

If you’re itching to get your game-changing product out of the garage, onto the streets or into customers’ driveways, we not-so-humbly suggest that you do whatever it takes to attend TC Sessions: Mobility 2022 in San Mateo, California on May 18-19. Is your company interested in sponsoring or exhibiting at TC Sessions: Mobility 2022?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Founders – pitch on stage with TechCrunch. We’re on the hunt for early stage founders creating innovative companies in space or space-related industries. Pitch your space tech startup. Now founders – apply to pitch on the same stage as these space tech luminaries. It’s simple: Be an early-stage startup.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

TechCrunch is excited to announce the six companies pitching in person and onstage at TC Sessions Mobility 2022. Hailing from around the United States and the globe, founders will pitch on the main stage, for four minutes, followed by an intense Q&A with our expert panel of judges. Startups pitching on the main stage.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 3, 2022

SaaS has cemented its place in the epicenter of startup and Big Tech life, but it’s already being disrupted by the usage-based pricing movement. More startups are offering their services via a developer hook or API, and charging for customer usage over, say, a set number of seats for a predetermined period of time.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 25, 2022

Register K-Startup Grand Challenge(KSGC) 2022 edition has opened its doors for global startups to do business in South Korea. The startup accelerator program, launched in 2016, supports foreign startups that want to enter the Korean market and further explore the international markets.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

As director of Techstars’ startup pipeline, Saba Karim spends much of his time touting the ways entrepreneurs can benefit by joining an accelerator. But is it the right choice for every founder? If you’re not living and breathing your startup, you’re going to struggle anyway,” says Karim. yourprotagonist. ” Nik Milanovi?

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

This question sits atop most founders' lips and boardroom agendas. Instead of late-stage opportunities, they’ll be focusing on early-stage venture in 2022. Across Series A to Series E rounds in the US, hedge funds participated in 63% of startup financings worth more than $200B in 2021.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

The second day of Y Combinator’s Winter 2022 Demo Day is now behind us, and the TechCrunch team is recovering from watching hundreds of pitches in quick succession. Today we’re taking a look at AI startups, open source-focused companies, and, yes, more favorites. Here are TC’s favorite YC Demo Day startups, part 2.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

We reached out to 10 growth marketing experts to find how they were preparing for 2022 and to ask they had any New Year’s resolutions to share. Help TechCrunch find the best growth marketers for startups. Here’s the full list of who we spoke to: Jonathan Martinez , founder, JMStrategy. was high on their to-do list.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Without a doubt, a good, friendly introduction — ideally from a founder they’ve already invested in — is the best way to get on the radar of an investor. The VC might know their kids’ school teacher pretty well, for example, but the school teacher may not have a lot of startup or investing experience.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2022

We started 2022 on a relatively high note. Here were my top 15 most-read stories on the TechCrunch site in 2022: ‘We probably pissed away $200 million,’ Better.com CEO told employees in layoffs meeting : A collab with the brilliant Zack Whittaker , where we got to hear for ourselves Vishal Garg address employees.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

But 2022 was the year when this “spending” slowed and was instead more widely rebranded and accepted as actually being “borrowing.” These conditions are not conducive to inducing confidence for investors or founders. Against this background, we formed our annual review of European edtech activity for 2022.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 5, 2022

Over the past week, I’ve analyzed the nearly 500 responses from founders who responded to the 2022 Market Conditions Survey. The survey results review the trends in the public market, in founders’ minds, and the private market. Top 10 Insights from the 2022 Startup Sentiment Survey.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

Exhibiting your early-stage startup at TechCrunch Disrupt this year looks a whole lot different than any previous year, and it’s really big news. For the first time ever, TechCrunch will invite a curated cohort of 200 early-stage startups — officially known as the TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 200 — to TC Disrupt.

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