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. billion in VC, “dwarfing the previous record of $14.6 The growing power of digital healthcare: 6 trends to watch in 2022.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 1, 2023

Because most startups avoided raising in 2022, there will be a glut of startup companies in the market for capital this year and while there is plenty of venture capital sitting on the sidelines waiting to be deployed, VCs will be much more selective, instead of funding everything that moves as we’ve done over the last few years.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 11, 2022

Investing in founder-led businesses is comforting to me. Coinbase has reacted by making huge new bets on Coinbase Wallet and Coinbase NFT and is committed to winning in those markets like it did in the investment era of web3. Investing in founder-led businesses is comforting to me.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2023

Investors believe the market correction, which caught up with the continent in the second half of 2022, will spiral into this year. 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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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Instead of late-stage opportunities, they’ll be focusing on early-stage venture in 2022. PitchBook surmises non-traditional VC (aka hot money) comprises 78% of venture dollars invested in 2021. The surge of hedge fund capital into Series C-E investing boosted median pre-money valuations 150% in 2021.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2023

That’s the top-level finding of a new PitchBook report that looked at VC trends toward the end of 2022, specifically Q4, including investments made at the seed, late-stage and nearing-the-exit levels. billion invested across an estimated 7,261 deals,” the report said. But the year was ultimately mixed.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

2021 saw phenomenal returns for our industry and it topped off more than a decade of unprecedented VC growth. The industry has obviously changed enormously in 2022 but in many ways it feels like a “return to normal” that we have seen many times in our industry. The answer is: not much.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 1, 2022

In the three years that have passed since our last summit, we roughly doubled the size of our portfolio, adding 65 new investments. Those of us who work in VC and startups can work remotely and get most everything we need done. USV TEAM POSTS: Samson Mesele — Apr 28, 2022 USV 2022 Funds.

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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 This shows that Africa’s investment landscape is still very promising because it continues to grow, and there’s increasing interest in multiple startup ecosystems, including nascent ecosystems.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Last year, round sizes for climate tech startups quadrupled, with more than 600 investments totaling over $40 billion. The start of 2022 shows no signs of slowing, with more startups jumping into the fray to tackle one of humanity’s biggest challenges. David Frykman , general partner, Norrsken VC.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Our investment in Kickstarter back in 2009 is an excellent example of that. link] A quick thread 1/ — ReFi DAO #GR15 (@ReFiDAOist) September 10, 2022. USV is invested in the Toucan Protocol which is building the web3 infrastructure to bring carbon offsets on-chain and to allow them to be traded/invested/etc using DeFi protocols.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JULY 18, 2022

Those values, on a schedule of investments we publish to our investors every quarter, flow through to our financial statements and capital accounts and establish how much an interest in our partnerships are worth at that time. If you might lose money on an investment, it is always best to signal that ahead of time.

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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. New Q2 2022 data from CB Insights and PitchBook lay bare fintech’s retreat. Nor that as the boom faded, fintech did as well.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 29, 2022

India, which has doubled its pool of unicorns to over 100 in the past two years, has attracted over $75 billion in investments from tech giants Google, Meta and Amazon and venture funds Sequoia, Tiger Global, SoftBank, Alpha Wave, Lightspeed and Accel in the past half decade. Swaroop’s presentation from 2014.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Mar Hershenson , co-founder and managing partner at Pear VC. Mar Hershenson co-founded and serves as managing partner at Pear VC, a seed-stage investment firm in Palo Alto backing companies like Guardant Health, DoorDash, Gusto, Aurora Solar and Branch. David Tisch , managing partner at BoxGroup.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

billion during the same period in 2022. Funding for startups in the Pacific Northwest (PNW) fell precipitously early this year. From January to March, PNW financing dipped 80% to $246 million, down from $1.2 But one venture capital firm is anticipating a recovery.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2023

This dip in funding for venture investors implies that the current startup investing downturn may not turn course anytime soon. Given that the early 2022 months were not that far from the peak of the last startup cycle, this comparison is somewhat specious: we all know that things have slowed down since then.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 28, 2023

“Founders should also evaluate which VC is able to add-value to their growth, rather than just focusing on the amount of money the investor has to offer,” Lou told AsiaTechDaily. Indelible Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in B2B SaaS startups that can scale internationally.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2022

We started 2022 on a relatively high note. And oh, many of you were curiously really curious about the concept of fractional real estate investing. valuation after ‘a nearly 10x’ YoY increase in revenue : The corporate spend startup had doubled its valuation from August 2021 to March 2022. . — Mary Ann.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

Companies with all female-founding teams raised about $800 million, or 2.1%, out of the estimated $37 billion invested in U.S. billion all-female founding teams raised in Q1 2022. of the capital invested thus far this year in U.S. startups in Q1 2023, according to PitchBook. The decline isn’t a surprise. of total funding.

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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.” Against this background, we formed our annual review of European edtech activity for 2022. billion in 2022 compared to $2.5 billion a year earlier. billion in 2021.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

DECEMBER 31, 2023

The end of the 2022/2023 tech/startup downturn happened when two things came together. Markets have settled down and are poised to move higher and we’ve got a new megatrend that will drive innovation, investing, and the economy. To some extent, these two things are related. More on that tomorrow.

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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

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

After years of rosy projections, growth and investor enthusiasm, a new report from PitchBook shows that VC activity in the AI sector declined precipitously over the past few months. quarter over quarter in Q2 2022, with overall investments reaching $20.2 Year to date, VCs have funneled $48.2 billion across 1,340 deals.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

While leagues behind fintech as a whole, insurtech startups have still attracted a significant amount of investment over the last few years — $43 billion between 2016 and 2022, according to a recent report. Do you expect late-stage insurtech investment volume and valuations to fall further than what we have already seen this year?

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 9, 2022

I’ve been asked by portfolio companies and plenty of others about how they should be changing their strategy given the stock market pullback and what they’ve been hearing on “VC twitter”. 3) Do you need to raise a large amount of growth capital in 2022? VCs gonna VC. 4) Are you struggling to get to unit profitability?

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 20, 2022

marked the upside case for most VC software and infrastructure investment memos. 2022 Return Multiple by Round. The silver lining: the median public software company in 2022 is three times as valuable as in 2015, which suggests valuations should settle higher than that era. From 2007 to 2016, $1.5b RM at $1.5b (2015).

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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. Getting to Yes and What Happens Next: An Unfiltered Chat with a Top VC , with Mayfield. 21 online). 2:00 p.m. –

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MARCH 20, 2022

Investing is humbling. At 60, with 35 years of venture investing experience, I still get most things wrong. I bought Bitcoin and went about finding a Bitcoin investment to make. And when I saw what Dapper Labs made with Crypto Kitties, I didn’t think too much about making that investment. That was Coinbase.

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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. Second, the program offers an initial investment without imposing minimum ownership criteria.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 31, 2022

Philanthropy is an incredibly rewarding way to invest in the change you want to see in the world. In our case, that is change we want to see in our home, New York City, and we are committed to investing in programs that leverage community, knowledge, and culture to drive positive change for New York City.

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Revolution

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In 2017, we partnered with iconic leaders in American business to turn the thesis we developed on the road — that great companies can start and scale anywhere when given a chance — into an investment vehicle. In the last decade, we’ve socialized several Rise of the Rest-isms to describe investments that check those boxes.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

According to one source , VC investments in drone companies reached $7 billion in 2021 across 199 deals, up from $2.4 billion in 2022. ” Drone imagery firm DroneBase rebrands to Zeitview, lands $55M investment by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

Portal Innovations , a biotech VC firm based in Chicago, is trying to broaden everyone’s horizons and give opportunities to biotech startups growing out of labs in Chicago, Atlanta, and hopefully beyond. Biotech proved a surprisingly bright spot in 2022’s startup correction “Momentum and an ecosystem is really important. The Bay Area?

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JULY 10, 2022

— Fred Wilson (@fredwilson) April 14, 2022. My partner Albert wrote this yesterday: 1 – restore full API access – anyone should be able to write a full client, including their own timeline algorithm (this could require a monthly subscription) — Albert Wenger (@albertwenger) April 25, 2022.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

For Black founders, who have rarely received more than 1% of total venture capital invested in startups, 2022 wasn’t kind, and 2023 doesn’t look promising given how things are going. 3 Black founders predict little will change in VC in 2023 by Dominic-Madori Davis originally published on TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

Brett Calhoun Contributor Share on Twitter Brett Calhoun is the managing director and general partner at Redbud VC. Amid these turbulent times, the VC accelerator industry has emerged as a stalwart player. Concurrently, the number of funds raised in the eight-year period up to 2022 was 2,700 , up from 883 in 2010.

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