Red Rocket

MAY 22, 2024

CB Insights, a leading research organization that tracks venture capital financings, recently released its report on t he state of the venture capital market in 2023. Gone are the days of “unicorn” creation (companies worth more than $1 billion), mega-sized financings, and excessive valuations.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

SPACs are the construct VCs need to fund clean tech. and globally, VC activity in 2022 is well on track to exceed a long-term trend that started in 2006 for total amount invested. Focusing on a narrow slice of the VC pie. What you should know about working with corporate venture investment committees. In the U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Our first big institutional round of VC was $16.5 If you’re business has complicated accounting (like many ad network businesses) and if you’re raised enough money to warrant it – a great VP Finance is worth his/her weight in gold. I was used to being allowed to fly business class and staying at nice hotels.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2022

Seed investors Alpaca VC, Dolby Family Ventures, Timber Grove Ventures and Gaingels all invested above their pro-rata and are joined by Signia Venture Partners. housing market. In particular, the investor gets excited about startups re-inventing energy, transportation, infrastructure, manufacturing, human augmentation and agtech.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Infra.Market, an Indian startup that is helping construction and real estate companies in the world’s second-most populated nation procure materials and handle logistics for their projects, said on Tuesday it has secured its third financing round in the past nine months.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 11, 2014

Is it better to raise your startup’s seed round from only angel investors, or is it better to include a VC or two? For example, VCs may invest larger sums than angel investors. The imprimatur of a VC’s investment in a company might help convince potential customers and recruits. The typical seed round with VCs has 1.6

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Indian fintech startup BharatPe has raised $370 million in a new round of financing as it looks to aggressively scale its business in the next two years. India poised for record VC year as unicorns head for decisive IPOs. The new round — a Series E — was led by Tiger Global and valued the New Delhi-based startup at $2.85

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Three ways VC firms can construct sustainably diverse portfolios. There is some truth to this: VC had its biggest year in 2021 , more than doubling from 2020, which was already a record year for investments. Leslie Feinzaig is the founder and CEO of the Graham & Walker. More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Rachel Holt, co-founder and general partner, Construct Capital. “You have to wonder if every VC worth a damn in the future will have their own raft of SPAC offerings,” says Alex. .” Here’s who she interviewed: Clara Brenner, co-founder and managing partner, Urban Innovation Fund. Dave Clark, partner, Expa.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

Bangalore-based Zetwerk said on Monday it has raised $150 million in a Series E financing round led by New York-based D1 Capital Partners. India poised for record VC year as unicorns head for decisive IPOs. All the products it sells today — ranging from parts of cranes, doors and chassis of machines — are custom-made.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

(co-written with Katherine Boe Heuck , a MBA candidate at MIT Sloan (class of 2022); past intern at Versatile VC ; and a current intern at Metaprop NYC.). We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.” Why are all of the VC home runs from white men, or Asian men in Asia, plus a few Asian men in the U.S.?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Construction is the one of the least digitized industries out there. million that was raised in a seed round led by Brick & Mortar Ventures and First Round Capital – to advance on its effort to “reimagine construction finance.” million in a financing that was led by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel. Love to see it!

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

But this allowed us to develop the company in a self-financed and profitable way,” Utzmann said. In 2015, Effy acquired Quelle énergie , a VC-backed startup that could calculate how much money you would save by isolating your roof, changing your windows and more. Second, Effy could start offering some financing options with partners.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

SPACs are the construct VCs need to fund clean tech. But for CVCs investing off a corporate balance sheet, the IC can include corporate-minded people, such as the CEO or business unit leaders, who generally tend to be detached from the venture mindset and the requirements for operating in the VC world.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2023

Everyone has a story, but they all sound a bit similar: A female VC is launching a fund, and she’s either compared to every other female VC with a fund, expected to only invest in female founders or have a diversity, equity and inclusion angle as a core thesis. The whole show was a hoot. TechCrunch is coming to Boston on April 20.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2023

Kyle Wiggers says several trends are driving VC interest in the future of work: In a down market, investors are looking for sustainable growth, “which tend[s] to be found among longer-lasting, ironclad business-to-business contracts for software tool suites.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

A great VC will do so much more for you than just write a check. The best founder and VC relationships are based on trust and partnership; it should be a relationship that’s nonjudgmental, supportive, and constructive. In many ways, it’s like finding the right spouse. Choose someone who can help with your blind spots.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

It predicts biological features from new genetic sequences to build new therapeutic vectors and generates new therapeutic constructs.” These included public databases, proprietary data and datasets from our partners. WhiteLab Genomics is similar, but it’s working with both gene and cell therapy companies.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

Categories like construction, agriculture and health care, among others, were very much looking to automate. Robotics was in a nice little bubble when the VC slowdown began, as well, though not even it was immune. It’s just a financing question. Investments began flooding into robotics around this time.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Backing the Dublin-based company, which targets mid-sized businesses that operate multi-entities, is Finch Capital, the fintech focussed VC that recently outed its third fund. million in funding. Finch Capital launches third fund to invest in European fintech at Series A and B.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

Embedded finance will help fill the life insurance coverage gap. There’s latent demand for life insurance currently unaddressed by much of the financial services industry, and embedded finance can be the solution. Embedded finance will help fill the life insurance coverage gap. Deep Science: Robots, meet world.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

An easing of laws around the construction of accessory dwelling units (ADUs) around the U.S. And it just closed on $15 million in a Series A funding round led by proptech-focused VC firm Fifth Wall to grow its business. has opened up opportunities for companies that build such structures. Cottage is one such company.

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Haystack

JANUARY 16, 2019

The more I discover about going beyond just writing checks into startups — concepts like portfolio construction, cross-fund management, and new fund formation — the more I realize how critical the parlay is. Let’s focus on the noun first. Of course, if the fund does well, that investment compounds nicely.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 7, 2024

$210 million financing by global Investors brings breakthrough technology to California Global cleantech leader Aymium, the top producer of renewable biocarbon products, just closed $210 million of financing to build a biocarbon production facility in Williams, California. having recently closed a $50 Million Series B funding round.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

David Teten is founder of Versatile VC and writes periodically at teten.com and @dteten. 15 steps to fundraising a new VC or private equity fund. Katherine Boe Heuck is a MBA candidate at MIT Sloan (class of 2022), a past intern at Versatile VC and a current intern at Metaprop NYC. David Teten. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

It makes angel, pre-seed and seed investments into B2B SaaS startups in sectors like finance, healthcare, cybersecurity, supply chain, construction and real estate. The graduates of this program were 58% women and 85% underrepresented, and many have gone on to full-time jobs or internships in VC and tech.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

Breakthrough Energy Ventures, a climate-focused VC firm linked to some of Earth’s wealthiest individuals, has joined a $44 million bet on solar startup Terabase Energy. ” Terabase also makes software tools to manage the design and construction of solar farms.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

. “The biggest challenge has been around scaling my team’s time, particularly around managing a growing portfolio at a time when founder support is critical,” said Ariana Thacker, founder of Conscience VC. Ariana Thacker , solo GP and founder, Conscience VC. So how are these first-time fund managers going to fare?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

financing back in 2005, “climate change” was some future event. To tackle the crisis, capital must flood in and even more so than in the past few encouraging years, during which climate tech VC investment increased 40x between 2013 and 2019. Contributor. Share on Twitter. When I started getting involved in clean tech 1.0

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

Jumba, a Kenyan construction tech startup, is looking to diversify its deposit holdings, with co-founder Kagure Wamunyu telling TechCrunch the startup is opening an additional account with a “bigger bank” in the U.S. We don’t have (in Africa) a financial system that is remotely mature enough to deal with startup financing.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Buy now, pay later (BNPL) has quickly established itself as the go-to method of financing for a variety of purchases, particularly online. This financing model has primarily been available to customers shopping online, but customers outside the U.S. healthcare, home construction, etc.). Which products or services are innovating?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Rather than compete with the VC ecosystem, Price’s strategy is to complement the biggest VC firms by building companies with them, he said. .” Meanwhile, Price expects most of the check sizes to be between $500,000 and $1.5 million for early-stage companies and $2 million to $3.5 million in later-stage companies.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

The round was led by European VC btov Partners, with participation from FJ Labs, Enterprise Fund (a syndicate of former Atlassian & Docker executives) and Dr. Stefan Heitmann (founder & CEO of MoneyPark and PriceHubble) among others. in pre-seed financing from a number of angels — bringing its total raised to date to $5.5M. .

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FundersClub

OCTOBER 20, 2021

We'd like to congratulate FundersClub portfolio companies on their ongoing progress, as well as to welcome aboard their new VC investor partners. Jerry , a consumer app for car insurance, financing, repairs, and more, announced a $75M Series C led by Goodwater Capital. We invested at Seed, Series B, and Series D.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Here’s Part V: VC is a profession! There are many ways to make (and lose) money in this asset class, to construct a portfolio, to source and win investments, and to help (or not) founders build companies. That part can be learned! [ Lily Lyman / Underscore VC ] [Hunter: 100% regarding run your own playbook.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

Startups and VC. If you fund it, they will build : Constrafor is a SaaS construction procurement platform with embedded financing. Every time I explain what a SPAC is to someone, they go, “Wait, how is that legal?” It seems like some folks in government agree, Connie reports, with Sen.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

A long-time fan of “The Karate Kid,” I find my style’s a bit more Miyagi-Do , but, in reflecting upon my last few years as a founding GP at a young VC firm, I see some parallels between what it takes to win as an emerging manager and the mantras by which the Cobra Kai school abides. Angel/seed pre-money valuations by quartile.

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