American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 14, 2024

Investment Accelerates the Development of SaaS Solutions Suite Featuring API-based Pharmacy and Telehealth Products SAN FRANCISCO, CA – March 11, 2024 – Foundation Health, a pioneering healthcare technology company, today announced the closure of a $6 million seed funding round.

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Hunter Walk

JANUARY 3, 2024

When the founder of WordPress/Automattic says all he wants for his birthday is for you to blog , well, you blog. I’ve known Matt for, gosh, 15 or more years, and although I don’t see him as much as I’d like, I do admire what he’s built here and the spirit with which he lives. And Happy Birthday Matt!

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

billion by 2024. The seed round was led by Pan-African focused VC 4DX Ventures. It also included participation from Raed Ventures, Beco Capital, Breyer Capital and some private investors, including Magnus Olsson, co-founder of Careem. With over 1.25 Today, it is announcing that it has secured $6.4

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 30, 2023

The first launches of the Dorado rocket are slated for mid-2024. VC is a Singapore-based early-stage VC fund investing in technologies of the future and founders that create emergent industries with a global impact. Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Rowe Price, Bessemer Venture Partners, Franklin Templeton and In-Q-Tel. According to CrunchBase, Rigetti has raised just under $200 million in VC capital since it was founded in 2013. .” The transaction values Rigetti at about $1.5 Supernova’s Michael Clifton will join the Rigetti board after the transaction closes.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2023

Bell and Weingarten aren’t your typical meal delivery startup founders. And there are lots of venture-backed players. million in pre-seed funding led by M25 with participation from investors, including Hustle Fund, Pillar VC and The Community Fund. Most items are ready to eat in minutes. Entrée is operating in a crowded U.S.

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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. billion and majority owned by Walmart, doesn’t plan to list until at least 2024, according to a person familiar with the matter. Swaroop’s presentation from 2014. Image credits: Accel).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

Startups and VC At first glance, Boston Dynamics is a strange fit for a show like ProMat, Brian writes. How to spot investment-worthy founders: Look for mindset, competence and confidence , writes Sanjay Reddy. million round and spoke to the company’s founder about 10 tips to de-risk hardware. Aisha has more. million seed deck.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

Startups and VC. AM Ventures raised $100 million for industrial 3D printing , writes Haje. AM Ventures raised $100 million for industrial 3D printing , writes Haje. And Valkyrie looks to raise $30 million for its new crypto VC arm , Anita writes. It’s a question worth asking, as Instacart takes a serious haircut.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2023

In a galaxy far, far away : If you’re a Star Wars fan, Disney+ will debut a new series called “The Acolyte” in 2024. Startups and VC Everyone needs some good competition to get the creativity flowing. Aisha writes that this storyline takes place at the end of the High Republic era before the events of the main Star Wars films.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 4, 2024

The head VC guy seems a little bit… weird. However, there are principles that every founder should know before raising, and we will talk about them from the very beginning of the startup to later stages. Rookie founders want to raise to reduce their risk. Oh, how I’ve wasted my time, and what do I have at the end?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

. “Insurtech startups that do not offer embedded insurance, and rather provide other innovative solutions will still attract VC funding this year, especially if they can show cost-efficient and sustainable growth,” said Nina Mayer, a principal at Earlybird. Wechsler said, “Many firms who dabbled in insurtech (A.K.A.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

The round was co-led by Eni Next, the corporate VC arm of Italian energy giant Eni; along with Neva SGR, the VC company owned by European banking group Intesa Sanpaolo. Existing investors also participated, including Barclays’ Sustainable Impact Capital, CDP Venture Capital, Invitalia, Novum Capital Partners and 360 Capital.

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Hunter Walk

JANUARY 28, 2024

Lots of venture capital transitions underway. Since writing “ Oh S**t, Your VC Just Quit Her Fund! We had one of these early in our existence that in hindsight I wish we were more aggressive in helping the founder recognize the purgatory.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Did you know we’re looking for you and your expertise for our TechCrunch founder summit ? Startups and VC. They are also being hit the hardest by inflation right now, as a result,” says Danielle Forward, CEO and co-founder of Natives Rising in an interview with Mike. PDT, subscribe here. She is working to change that situation.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

trillion by 2024. Even so, according to Merritt Hummer, a partner at Bain Capital Ventures, “B2B marketplaces cannot simply remain stagnant, serving as simple transactional platforms.” Will new SEC equity crowdfunding rules encourage more founders to pass the hat? 4 questions as Airbnb’s IPO looms.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

The headline says it all : We couldn’t help but steal from the TC+ section because Tim ’s headline is just so good: “Nest co-founder Matt Rogers’ new startup is trash.” Startups and VC. TechCrunch+ is our membership program that helps founders and startup teams get ahead of the pack. The company raised $10.8 Big Tech Inc.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

He’s the founder of Manta , a data lineage platform that automatically scans an organization’s data sources to build a map of data flows. Other potential rivals include Monte Carlo and Databand , both of which have raised tens of millions in venture capital. billion by 2024. ” Kratky said.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Holidays, cheer, and daydreaming about what shenanigans we’ll get ourselves into in 2024. Yes, 2024, because clearly we’re just going to skip past all of 2023. Startups and VC. Anja Rath, managing partner, PropTech1 Ventures. PDT, subscribe here. There is officially only 8.3% left of the year. You know what that means!

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2022

SGNL.ai , a company developing enterprise authorization software, today announced that it raised $12 million in seed funding led by Costanoa Ventures with participation from Fika Ventures, Moonshots Capital and Resolute Ventures. billion in venture dollars went into the identity management space in 2021, about 2.5

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2022

New Zealand-based VC firms GD1 (Global From Day One) and Nuance Connected Capital led the round, with additional participation from Shasta Ventures, NZGCP, K1W1, Austrian billionaire Wolfgang Leitner, Alt Ventures, Enterprise Angels, Arkisys and NZVC. Zenno Astronautics founder Max Arshavsky.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Matt reports that the electric Ram 1500 REV is packed with screens and, surprisingly, buttons and knobs, but sadly won’t be available until 2024. White (opens in a new window) / Getty Images Black entrepreneurs face a unique set of challenges, but Captain founder Demetrius Gray raised $107 million after his Y Combinator experience.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 28, 2024

In the last decade, the total number of venture backed software M&A by count has remained relatively constant. The black line shows the linear trend across US venture backed companies with disclosed values of $50m or more. What drives the acquisition market of startups? It’s the big deals. X 2015 20.1% - 2016 43.0%

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Startups and VC. The fresh cash will be put toward several efforts, CEO and co-founder Frederic Lalonde said in a press release, including supporting Hopper’s new social commerce initiatives. More money from more places : Ron explores the story behind the folks who are working to bring more diversity to the venture LP investing pool.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

I asked some investor friends to share, as the title suggests, one thing they wished people better understood about venture capital. There were no ground rules other than to specify that ‘people’ could be founders, politicians, LPs, etc and that it would be default attributed but anonymous if they desired.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Build trust with founders and then offer your own data-backed take on why a founder’s decision might not be the best decision they could make. Talent in 2024. Starting with where the world is today: talk to us a little bit about venture’s lens on talent and how does a venture talent partner assess talent?

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 30, 2023

Mobee projects Indonesian crypto annual trading volume to reach over $100 billion by the end of 2024. The funding round for the exchange was led by leading Southeast Asia VC fund, 1982 Ventures, and strategic Indonesian family offices and individuals.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 3, 2022

Some of Aria’s predictions are : “The main story of 2022, it’s definitely going to be certification,” Sergio Cecutta, founder and partner at SMG Consulting, said. Fresh VC money is drying up and there aren’t likely to be more new entrants into the space. Let’s dig a bit deeper into that last.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2023

As one VC put it: “It’s bad.” We also teamed up with other TC staff and talked to several founders who bank(ed) there to get their perspectives. ” Unlike many other VCs encouraging companies to move their money out of SVB, fintech-focused Restive Ventures’ Ryan Falvey urged people to “stay calm.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

The judges for the pitch-off – Yoon Choi (Muirwoods Ventures), Mar Hershenson (Pear VC) and Gabriel Scheer (Elemental Excelerator) on day one; and Sven Strohband (Khosla Ventures), Victoria Beasley (Prelude Ventures) and John Du (GM Ventures) on day two – largely thought Swyft Cities had a good direction and a very capable team.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

With its recent $7 million seed funding round led by Trucks VC with participation from Maniv Mobility and Wireframe Ventures, Solo AVT is gearing up to finalize the design and build of its first test vehicle, a battery-electric Class 8 truck, and begin testing this summer, the company said.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

The VCs who founders love the most. Managing Editor Danny Crichton spearheaded the development of The TechCrunch List earlier this year to help seed-stage founders connect with VCs who write first checks. ” The VCs who founders love the most. ” Ian Chiu, Owl Ventures. trillion by 2024.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The money came from Lightspeed Venture Partners and GGV Capital with additional funds contributed by Dell Technologies Capital, TechAviv, J Ventures, Cerca, Unusual Ventures, Silicon Valley CISO Investments and individual investors CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz and Microsoft chairman John W.

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American Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Early stage climate tech VC firm Anthropocene Ventures also joins Kind Designs’ seed round. Rapidly growing climate and construction tech startup Kind Designs gained the support of entrepreneur Mark Cuban and VC firm Anthropocene Ventures for its $5 million seed round.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Startups and VC. Starry-eyed newlyweds routinely sign prenuptial agreements without losing their sense of idealism, and startup founders should do the same, advises Yonaton Aronoff, a partner at litigation and employment law firm Harris St. Laurent & Wechsler. ” Why your startup needs a prenup. Carly has more.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2023

So if you want to drive around at your end destination, you need to take the car and you need to take gas with you,” explains Vanessa Clark, CEO and co-founder of Atomos Space. With the current round of funding, the company says it will double the size of the team and launch its first two OTVs in early 2024.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

That’s why so much of our robotics coverage revolves around startups and venture funding. That’s doubly the case if you’re a founder who can see the end of the runway looming on the horizon. Murielle Thinard McLane, Intuitive Ventures: Robotics capitalization strategies will shift. Will we see more closures?

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