This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Having a better overall portfolio of venture capital by adding funds into the mix. This is above and beyond whatever events and educational opportunities the fund provides for its community, which could also be very useful. What if you added funds to the mix? Access to other investors. But maybe you could do it?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Of course, to solve this, you can look for professionals to add to your team, but what use are your friends then? With no actual influx of capital into your business, you’re looking at a dangerous mix of emotions, finances, and ego. Your Finances Will Be Quite Strained.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. Both are massively funding other LA tech companies through what Fred Wilson once defined as “recycled capital.”

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Dream It

AUGUST 6, 2020

Today, the company announced a $10M Series A financing round led by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and digital health fund Heal Capital , with participation from existing investors Karma Ventures, Inovo Venture Partners, and Dreamit Ventures. The new capital places total funding to date at $15 million.

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health mix-use technology ventures 195

TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2023

based agtech startup that’s using computer vision AI plus farm-sized proprietary machinery to expand crop yields. “They’ve using a depth-sensing camera with the 3D piece in it to determine the size of that head. What is automation good for?

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 5, 2025

Other key investors include Superguts founding investor, Dave Friedberg, through The Production Board, along with Cultivian Sandbox, Strand Equity, Access Capital, Alpha Edison, LivWell Ventures, and Rocana Ventures.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 3, 2019

If you raise $100mm, you can’t put it all to work upfront because the rounds aren’t big enough—so you have to raise more capital. Funds that lead Series A, B, and C rounds have serious capital needs. I created a few fund mix scenarios and estimated what the overall fund return would be given that mix.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

So instead, Meyer, founder and CEO, created Ghost Financial to initially do two things: provide what he touts as “the first cash-back credit card for food and beverage inventory” and use data and technology to underwrite restaurant expansion loans and credit limits for the card. The project is backed by Kelli Jones of Sixty8 Capital.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

6/ Venture Capital In Expansion Phase. Public investors, cross-over investors, and even traditional private equity firms have taken notice, further blurring the lines of what constitutes true venture capital. During this time, there’s financial leverage used in the transaction to help buffer the firm’s cost of capital (e.g.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2017

It’s why raising a round of capital often feels like a hollow victory because it almost feels like a temporary reprieve from the Grim Reaper and in a way every new round just sets the bar higher to clear for the next round of financing or the hope of reaching profitability. One very effective way is to use your broader team.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

Prior to its pre-seed round, Rebundle had raised what CEO and co-founder Ciara Imani May described as six-figures worth of grant, and other non-dilutive capital in an interview with TechCrunch. To create its product, Rebundle uses banana fiber as the core material in extensions that it sells in a variety of colors.

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mix-use venture capital sustainability capital 145

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

I was meeting regularly with entrepreneurs and offering (for better or for worse) advice on how to run a startup and how to raise venture capital from my experience in doing so at two companies. They achieved all of this before they raised even a penny of venture capital. I use WordPress. It really started simply enough.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

This new capital will be used to fund the development of the company’s sixth-generation electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. Wisk said the funds are also going to be used for what it describes as an “intensive growth phase” over the next year. certification process.

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capital transportation energy ventures 87

Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 21, 2021

Startups used to raise once every 18 months. The implication is the most sought after companies often receive offers, whether they are in market raising capital or not. Venture capitalists and boards used to value a company every 18 months. We, as an industry, are marking-to-market much more frequently than we used to.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Now as 2021 comes to a close, Cruttenden’s latest fintech, Ant Money, is announcing it has raised $20 million in funding (a mix of previously unannounced seed and Series A capital) and acquired Blast via a stock-for-stock merger. I think that’s a really big differentiator for us from our competitors.”.

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investing investment founder mix-use 112

Dream It

APRIL 7, 2020

You’ll learn insight to guide your PPP application process from our discussion with Jim Marshall (Silicon Valley Bank, SVB), Kathryn Hickey (PilieroMazza), and Duncan Davidson (Bullpen Capital), which is viewable in its entirety below. It depends on the bank’s capitalization level. Bullpen Capital has agreed to that.

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NZ Entrepreneur

MARCH 16, 2025

So it’s much less about raising capital, it’s much more about business fundamentals. And that’s the other piece I’d say was probably a transitional shift for us. For us, it was not a good use of money. We have teams from across the North and South Island participating in our programs.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MAY 20, 2019

Detail of the handbag Rafael designed using Lenca patterns. “It We are a mix of Spanish, Indian, black and Mayan culture.”. Today Rafael is working with Xiomara and other artisans to market their products, all the while preserving traditional Honduran culture. It was a guide for fabrics and patterns like I’d never seen.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

The pre-seed round, which was completed in just three weeks via virtual meetings, was led by Indus Valley Capital, with participation from Alter Global, Fatima Gobi Ventures and several angel investors from Pakistan, the Middle East and Europe.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

While firms define platforms differently, let’s just say they are the services that a VC offers outside of investment capital and partner time on boards or providing intros. Perhaps the best known new VC platforms of the last 10 years that are done on more modest scales are First Round Capital and True Ventures.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

The investors: Boaz Dinte , managing general partner, Qumra Capital. Adi Levanon Chazan , partner, Flint Capital. Noam Kaiser , partner, Intel Capital. Boaz Dinte, Qumra Capital. This can be professional, personal or a mix of the two. Rafi Carmeli , partner, Viola Growth. Natalie Refuah , partner, Viola Growth.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

The success of Chinese edtech was used to predict the surge of U.S.-based The country has also introduced time caps and tutoring curfews, and notably, forbade the platforms from raising capital through IPOs as well as advertising their programs. When I first started reporting on edtech over a year ago, U.S.-based

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

Long payment cycles, which can take 30-90 days after services or products have been rendered, and little or no capital, of which research says 85% of African small and medium businesses are subject to, are the main culprits of cash flow issues. The seed round was a mix of $7 million equity and $10 million debt.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Augmented reality/mixed reality. At this stage, the corporate customer has already discovered some internal problem or use case that the technology might address. There’s already a clear understanding of at least some of the use cases or problems that need solving, and return-on-investment metrics have been established.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Italy’s ecosystem for tech venture capital and startups has been in development for years and has made decent strides in the last decade. Milan tends to attract the lion’s share of VC funding — in 2019, startups located there received €311 million, according to NGP Capital. Mario Scuderi , partner, CDP Venture Capital.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

of the venture capital investments made at seed, early and late-stage over this decade. “A total of 10 female entrepreneurs of Black appearance received venture capital investment (0.02% of the total amount invested) across the 10-year period, with none so far receiving late-stage funding,” the report notes. population.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

But, speaking as someone who’s worked at several startups, Extra Crunch stories contain actionable information you can use to build a company and/or look smart in meetings — and that’s worth something. Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. ” Ian Chiu, Owl Ventures.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2021

Oxbotica said it plans to use the capital to fuel a raft of upcoming deployments — several that will be coming online this year, according to its CEO — for clients in areas like mining, port logistics and more, with its lead investor bp an indication of the size of its customers and the kinds of projects that are in its sights.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Might come as a surprise, but the audio world, in large part, uses general-purpose tools to discuss and iterate their files, which is extremely inefficient,” Bradley said. Highnote is free to use, and no download is required. There’s also the option to create polls to prompt the listener with questions at a specific time.

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TechCrunch

JULY 3, 2022

This year looks poised to be monumental for equity crowdfunding, which entails raising capital through specific filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including Reg CF and Reg A , from a mix of investors that don’t have to be accredited.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 17, 2023

It’s been a hot minute since TechCrunch checked in on the brand — almost three years, actually — which is carving out a unique niche in the $10 billion functional drink mix market that founder and CEO Lauren Picasso told TechCrunch has “exploded” in the past 12 months. but we are using much better ingredients.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2021

A little over a month ago, Orbillion held its first public tasting event, where meats mixed with its elk, beef and sheep were on offer straight from the petri dish to the table. The company said it would use the cash to bring its first product, a Wagyu beef offering, to pilot production.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

Kehayias says that the funding will be used to expand Mosey’s team, scale the platform, and establish new partnerships. Kehayias notes that most companies rely on a mix of legal, financial and HR consultants to figure out and manage their compliance requirements. Compliance focus. ” Image Credits: Mosey.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Tile , the maker of Bluetooth-powered lost item finder beacons and, more recently, a staunch Apple critic , announced today it has raised $40 million in non-dilutive debt financing from Capital IP. “My philosophy is it’s always good to have a mix of debt and equity. A base plan is $29.99

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Lest there be any doubt some startups are riding high even amid the macroeconomic uncertainty, process mining software vendor Celonis today announced that it secured a whopping $1 billion in additional capital at a $13 billion post-money valuation, a mix of equity ($400 million) and debt (a five-year $600 million credit line).

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

New investor ParaFi Capital led the round alongside existing investor Bloccelerate VC, which led ZenLedger’s Series A last August. “That turns out to be extremely useful for an individual when you do accounting and tax. It also turns out to be very useful for accounting firms.”

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mix-use education capital VC 89

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Singapore’s sovereign fund Temasek and Jack Ma’s Yunfeng Capital are among its institutional investors. and WeRide are among its closest rivals and have also raised a significant amount of capital. Instead, it counts on gleaning data from a network of mass-produced vehicles powered by its solutions.

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