TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2022

Global data was clear: The 2021 venture capital startup investment cycle was record-breaking ; around the world, startups raised more money than ever before, with individual geographies posting all-time hauls. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. CB Insights data indicates that European startups raised $93.3

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

I’ve worked at early-stage startups where we relied on our best guesses to shape product pipelines and develop marketing strategies. With a product advisory council (PAC) , early-stage startups can tap into the their users’ hive mind. How to build a product advisory council for your startup. on Tuesday, Jan.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Last year was a good 12 months of firsts for African tech startups. 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 billion, according to data from Partech.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 21, 2022

You’ll receive the best practical startup advice straight to your inbox every week. In this week’s edition, we discuss: Approaching the funding raising process from a VCs point of view The future of cryptocurrency in 2022 Is your side hustle profitable or a waste of time? You should be also be assessing the VCs.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Decades after Palo Alto’s first garage startup, talent and capital has become more evenly distributed: This year, Bay Area startups only attracted 27% of all U.S. Silicon Valley’s share of US VC funding falls to lowest level in more than a decade. 3 disruptive trends that will shape marketing in 2022.

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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 18, 2022

Beyond being awash in capital, the VC industry has also seen a historic number of exits. Regardless of the macroeconomic challenges ahead, I anticipate startup funding will continue at an accelerated pace this year. As of Q4 last year, cumulative dry powder stood at a record $222 billion, according to PitchBook.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Winter may hve arrived early for AI and machine learning startups. 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. Deal value growth in AI startups was down 27.8% billion across 1,340 deals.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Imagine a drumroll, folks, because we’re about to announce the last tranche of investors and thought leaders who will choose which outstanding startup takes the title of Startup Battlefield champion, along with the $100,000 prize and serious bragging rights. Mar Hershenson , co-founder and managing partner at Pear VC.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2023

Many feared that the bull market had pushed valuations to unsustainable heights and would result in a windfall of startup down rounds and cash burn, which would have a negative impact on VC fund performance. A recent PitchBook report looked into fund performance across VC funds at all stages regardless of maturity.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2022

Bearing those factors and others in mind, Ben Parr, president and co-founder of e-commerce marketing platform Octane.ai, shared his e-commerce predictions for 2022 : Personalization and zero-party data become critical. ” My prediction: We’ll be running many articles in 2022 with tactics for zero-party data collection. .”

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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 billion in VC, “dwarfing the previous record of $14.6

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 22, 2023

Register HYU Holdings has partnered with Singapore’s early-stage fund Farquhar VC to help early-stage university startups scale and thrive in overseas markets. The partnership will allow HYU Holdings, a Hanyang University-based investment-holding company, to work closely with Farquhar VC to help South Korean startups to go global.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Funding for startups in the Pacific Northwest (PNW) fell precipitously early this year. billion during the same period in 2022. 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

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. The most recent startup, Pyxis Oncology , was spun out of the University of Chicago. where do you travel to in your mind?

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 18, 2022

Register South Korea’s leading accelerator program K-Startup Grand Challenge (KSGC) , considered ‘a gateway’ to do business in Asia, invites global startups to participate. The program’s 2022 edition started accepting applications on April 15, and the last date for the application stage is May 31, 2022.

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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

MAY 17, 2022

TechCrunch is excited to announce the six companies pitching in person and onstage at TC Sessions Mobility 2022. Startups pitching on the main stage. “Yoon has been a Venture Investor and strategic partner to many Silicon Valley startups/founders for 18 years prior to Muirwoods. ” Mar Hershenson — Pear VC.

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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. PitchBook surmises non-traditional VC (aka hot money) comprises 78% of venture dollars invested in 2021.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 29, 2022

At the time, Flipkart and Snapdeal were the only two e-commerce startups in India that had shown a semblance of scale. But as the local startup ecosystem closes one of its toughest years, it’s now staring at another question that it has long been able to brush off as benign: exits. Swaroop’s presentation from 2014.

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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. the free YC Startup School courses). Angel investments in 2022 equaled those from 2006 to 2011 combined.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Ivan writes that BeReal won “app of the year” for 2022 in Apple’s annual App Store Awards. M&A action : Manish reports that India-based fintech CRED is acquiring CreditVidya, a SaaS startup specializing in underwriting first-time borrowers. Startups and VC. The TechCrunch Top 3. You can sign up here. Big Tech Inc.

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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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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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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

This is Part 2 of a two-part examination of the state of the startup capital market during the past two years. From an investor’s perspective, 2022 witnessed a sudden market reversal from an extreme equity seller’s market to an equity buyer’s market, causing dislocations throughout angel, VC, and startup ecosystems.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2022

Even if you didn’t experience this first-hand as a startup founder or employee, the sheer amount of funding dispersed just last year proves my point. mostly in Silicon Valley), and they came from a combination of private equity, investment banks and growth VC firms. Funding startup trends. This year’s a bit different.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2023

Even as Y Combinator reveals the latest startups in its cohort for this winter , we have poor news for founders: the global venture capital market shrank in Q1 2023, and it would have been even worse if it were not for a few mega deals, according to Crunchbase (disclosure: my former employer) and PitchBook reports. Up is good, right?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

That global venture capital slowed down in Q1 2022 might no longer be news to you. based and Asian startups did decline, in line with the global trend. based and Asian startups did decline, in line with the global trend. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Mexico: $258 million, down 59% from Q4 2021.

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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

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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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Register Multi-stage global venture capital firm MSA Novo , announced that it has invested more than $16 million in six Indian startups and plans to further inject funds into the Indian startup ecosystem by the end of 2023. We are incredibly bullish on investing in India.

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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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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 20, 2022

When Aileen Lee published “Welcome to the Unicorn Club” - the article that coined the word unicorn for a $1b startup - the average public SaaS company commanded a market cap of $1.5b. marked the upside case for most VC software and infrastructure investment memos. The largest startups kissed $100b in market cap and higher.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 1, 2023

I want to focus this post on the macro environment for tech, startups, web3, and climate because that is where my head is at right now. With that macro view in mind, what would that mean for tech, startups, and web3? Startups are going to have a tough year in 2023.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 11, 2024

With war, inflation, supply chain disruption, epidemics and the end of nearly free capital, the twelve-year party ended in 2022. What some have called “startup apocalypse,” began with a decline in the S&P 500 (losing 20% of its value by Q4) and similar declines in other public markets. And did we see lower returns in 2022?

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

The first quarter was a hot time for crypto-focused startups. According to a recent dataset from CB Insights , crypto startups raised more capital than ever before in Q1 2022 and set records across a host of other metrics. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Decentralized finance startups raised $2.1

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

billion on M&A in H1 2022, 39% more than a year earlier. ” Going private: A guide to PE tech acquisitions Biotech proved a surprisingly bright spot in 2022’s startup correction Image Credits: Getty Images The hard science and regulations that govern biotech companies sets them far apart from other startups. .”

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