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. Aileen Lee , founding partner at Cowboy Ventures.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

seed- and early-stage venture dollars. She identified several factors pushing investors in major tech hubs to venture outside their own backyards in search of opportunities. 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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

This was another blockbuster year for global venture funding, with 2021 breaking records across the board. Beyond being awash in capital, the VC industry has also seen a historic number of exits. VCs are paying close attention to the opportunities that are materializing not just in Silicon Valley, but all over the world.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2022

VC funding into Europe (including the U.K.) was up in the first quarter of 2022, CB Insights and Crunchbase data show. But Europe isn’t the only place where VC funding didn’t decline. Q1 2022 was no different in that regard. As we noted earlier this week, this was also the case in Africa – unlike the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2023

Over the last year, the venture industry has had a tough time. 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. So how were most venture funds actually performing?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

Photo by Scott Clark for Upfront Ventures (no, Evan is not standing on a box) Last year marked the 25th anniversary for Upfront Ventures and what a year it was. 2021 saw phenomenal returns for our industry and it topped off more than a decade of unprecedented VC growth. What do you do with a $650 million platform?

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JULY 18, 2022

USV TEAM POSTS: Mona Alsubaei — Jul 13, 2022 XFuel Albert Wenger — Jul 11, 2022 The Meaning of Machine Creativity. That is because we maintained a conservative bias throughout the last few years and resisted the efforts of some to get us to behave differently. And that feels good and right to me.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MARCH 14, 2022

There is a lot of criticism of venture capital in web3. Bitcoin did not have or need venture capital. Ethereum did not have or need venture capital. So why would any web3 project need venture capital? In the age of community-funded projects, why would a web3 project want to take funding from venture capitalists?

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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

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 We also have a very wide top funnel such that in 2022, we made initial contact with over 2,500 startups and ideas, and eventually only partnered with less than 1% of that top of the funnel.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Instead of late-stage opportunities, they’ll be focusing on early-stage venture in 2022. Hedge funds’s big chip stacks have become a market force in venture during the last three years. PitchBook surmises non-traditional VC (aka hot money) comprises 78% of venture dollars invested in 2021.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

million seed round led by MaC Venture Capital. Serena Ventures, Omidyar Group’s Luminate Fund, Melo 7 Tech Partners and Cascador (Empowering Economic Growth Foundation) participated. It also expects revenues to double from last year as half-year revenues for 2022 have already surpassed full-year revenues for 2021.

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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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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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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 25, 2023

Rhys Spence Contributor Share on Twitter Rhys Spence is head of research at Brighteye Ventures, a European edtech-focused fund. But 2022 was the year when this “spending” slowed and was instead more widely rebranded and accepted as actually being “borrowing.” billion in 2022 compared to $2.5

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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

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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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 21, 2022

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? A founder’s guide to startup due diligence What are your chances of actually getting funded by a top VC? Let’s get to it. Sign up here.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Brian Walsh is the head of WIND Ventures , the venture capital arm of Copec. What you should know about working with corporate venture investment committees. SPACs are the construct VCs need to fund clean tech. The macro environment changed in 2022, and three major trends drove downward near-term trends.

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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.

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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

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Ivan writes that BeReal won “app of the year” for 2022 in Apple’s annual App Store Awards. Startups and VC. The venture market is in the middle of a downturn, but there are still plenty of emerging fund managers. Early-stage founders still have currency: Fundraising in times of greater VC scrutiny. The TechCrunch Top 3.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 11, 2024

The great bull market of 2010 – 2021, fueled by cheap capital, caused a nearly unprecedented rise in the valuations of speculative assets, from real estate to angel and venture equity. With war, inflation, supply chain disruption, epidemics and the end of nearly free capital, the twelve-year party ended in 2022.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

That global venture capital slowed down in Q1 2022 might no longer be news to you. According to CB Insights’ latest State of Venture report , the amount of funding flowing into U.S.-based However, their European, Canadian, and African counterparts attracted more dollars in Q1 2022 than they did in the previous quarter.

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2022

The pace at which venture capitalists are deploying funding across the globe slowed yet again in April. Venture capital dollar volume, as tracked by Crunchbase News in a new report , peaked in November 2021. That the venture capital industry is pulling back should not be a surprise. A mixed but meaningful dip.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

billion during the same period in 2022. But one venture capital firm is anticipating a recovery. Fuse, a Bellevue, Washington-based early-stage venture outfit focused on PNW companies, today […] Funding for startups in the Pacific Northwest (PNW) fell precipitously early this year.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2022

We started 2022 on a relatively high note. Venture capital was still readily available. valuation after ‘a nearly 10x’ YoY increase in revenue : The corporate spend startup had doubled its valuation from August 2021 to March 2022. Mega rounds were still taking place! Decacorns were born. and it wasn’t pretty.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

As I wrote then: I don’t think a VC firm should manage to a pacing number. In the last two years, the VC business has been operating at a blistering pace, the fastest I’ve witnessed in my 35 years in the business (including the 99/00 era). But even so, the VC business has turned into a sprint.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

The picture forming from Q1 2023 venture data is one of measured decline compared to the end of 2022. And March brought with it something akin to a boomlet in domestic venture activity, which could become an even brighter spot if the last bits of first-quarter data further bolster the month’s totals.

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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. Yoon Choi — Muirwoods Ventures. “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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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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Rebecca Mitchem is a partner at Neotribe Ventures , which invests in early- to growth-stage companies developing breakthrough technologies. Over the last several years, VC money has been abundant and relatively cheap. Image Credits: Neotribe Ventures. Source: PitchBook data from 2012-2022. Rebecca Mitchem. Contributor.

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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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

In addition to an asset-price correction during a general venture capital slowdown, web3-focused tech upstarts have also had to deal with a series of intra-industry crises that have, at times, dominated technology headlines. Crypto VC deployment still slow as investors wait for even lower valuations. The Terra/Luna mess comes to mind.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

“I do not believe the insurtech market to be dead, because it is still a multi-billion-dollar market,” Hélène Falchier, partner at Portage Ventures, told TechCrunch. To take the pulse of all things insurtech, we spoke with: Martha Notaras , general partner, Brewer Lane Ventures. David Wechsler , principal, OMERS Ventures.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 28, 2023

Sharon Lou, venture partner at Indelible Ventures , considers this as one of the top mistakes that founders commit when raising funds. “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.

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