Startup Grind

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

I would definitely recommend UCL educate program for that side. Investment: It’s extremely challenging to raise for an EdTech startup and you will find very few VCs who focus on only EdTech investment. Product Stage: Now, you have secured some investment or decided to bootstrap and have a live product with many users/customers.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Rustic Canyon is an LA-based, but geography-agnostic VC that is currently investing from a $200 million fund. They were originally founded inside of Times Mirror and had a huge string of major investment success before spinning out as a fully independent fund. The investment will be used for product development initiatives.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

By definition, you read blogs. I know that I have not yet earned these kudos based on investment returns (although my partners have. GRP Partners last fund is the single best performing VC fund in the US (prequin data) for its vintage year). I use WordPress. They’re more light weight and easier to use.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Here are the investors in their own words, for any TechCrunch reader who is interested in hiring, investing or founding a company in the country. What trends are you most excited about investing in, generally? What’s your latest, most exciting investment? Oh, and one more thing. We just launched Extra Crunch in Israel.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 20, 2019

A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. Revenue-Based Investing (“RBI”) is a new form of VC financing, distinct from the preferred equity structure most VCs use.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

And while most of its growth to date has been organic, it will be using some of the funding potentially to bring some inorganic growth into the mix. But Go1’s ambitions extend beyond that: It also plans to use some of the funding to further explore how it might extend its platform beyond corporate learning as well.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 6, 2014

I like to get a mix of people who have reported to the candidate, whom the candidate has reported to (2x) and peers. Another strategy I have used is to go to LinkedIn and search through people who used to work for the company as a way of surfacing up old names of people either to be references or to suggest references.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2021

Use discount code CZECHIA to save 25% off a 1-year Extra Crunch membership. Respondents said they invest around 50% inside Czechia and 50% across Central and Eastern Europe, while some are more focused across CEE generally, with some percentage of the fund supporting startups that have scaled to the U.S. Innovative. More than 50%?

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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. ” The VCs who founders love the most.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

In the wake of a $300 million investment from General Motors in September, Momenta, an autonomous driving solution provider from China, announced today an additional $500 million added to its Series C round. The new injection brings the total of the startup’s Series C to over $1 billion.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

A startup tapping into the concept of the circular economy, where people don’t buy items outright but pay an incremental amount to use them temporarily, has raised some funding to scale its business in Europe and beyond. And, it plans to invest in more innovation around its rental services.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Plume’s CEO and founder Fahri Diner said the startup will be using the money to continue building out its software platform, inking and servicing more deals with carriers and generally expanding its horizons. Insight was the sole backer in its last round, investing $270 million at a $1.35 billion valuation in the startup.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Most investors reject the opportunity to invest and being told “no” hurts. Mix in humor to show your personality. Once you are rejected, an investor rarely makes an investment in the future. Consider a website that separately contains useful materials, depending on the cycle of your business. We understand.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Now, a Spanish startup called Penpot — which is taking a new approach to design collaboration through an open source platform that brings designers and developers into the mix simultaneously — says that it’s been seeing a huge amount of adoption since the Figma deal.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

In fact, it’s been used for decades in aerospace applications, to power everything from satellites to the International Space Station and the Hubble Telescope. The investment comes around a year after EnerVenue raised a $12 million seed. The legacy technology also uses a ceramic separator, another high cost.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

General Atlantic led the round, with past investors Bessemer Venture Partners, Battery Ventures, Eight Roads and Entrée Capital among the others investing. The funding will be used in part in an effort to tap more growth internationally to complement that existing base. G.Network, Revolut and Cazoo — are in the U.K.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 19, 2020

There are a lot of examples of developing million-dollar products that no one wanted to use. If you invest a lot in the idea that your customers don’t care about, you waste your priceless resources: money and time. Estimate the users’ flow and clarify how people will use your product. choose MVP development !

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2021

The startup plans to use the funding to expand into new markets, to hire more people and to continue adding more maintenance/repair services and partnerships into its wider home-warranty-by-subscription proposition. The funding it’s announcing today will be used in part to enhance how those monthly plans work.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 17, 2021

Now, three alums that worked with data in the world of Big Tech have founded a startup that aims to build a “metrics store” so that the rest of the enterprise world — much of which lacks the resources to build tools like this from scratch — can easily use metrics to figure things out like this, too.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Regie.ai , a startup using OpenAI’s GPT-3 text-generating system to create sales and marketing content for brands, today announced that it raised $10 million in Series A funding led by Scale Venture Partners with participation from Foundation Capital, South Park Commons, Day One Ventures and prominent angel investors.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

But the foot traffic and location analytics startup saw growth in new categories, including consumer packaged goods (CPG) and hedge funds that use its tech to perform due diligence. The new capital will be used on research and development and expanding Placer.ai’s sales and marketing teams.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Editor’s note: Get this free weekly recap of TechCrunch news that any startup can use by email every Saturday morning (7 a.m. It’s definitely on track to be Ohio’s biggest tech IPO to date. Aside from a little of everything, we ran through: The fall of Quibi , and who lost money in the mix. Subscribe here.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The funding is being led by a strategic investor, Accenture Ventures — the investment arm of the systems integrator and consultancy behemoth — with Alexander Capital Ventures, Saatchi Invest, Ronald Lauder and other unnamed investors also participating. ” Yet “home office” remains the operative phrase.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

Venture-built indexes of startups and other firms have proved useful tools in recent years, led by Bessemer’s cloud index , which is now also a tradable ETF on Nasdaq. To start, though, let’s talk definitions. You will have your own definition of what an API-first, or API-led startup is. What’s GGV built?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The Series A round is led by family-owned investment company Heartland, with Boston-based international VC fund Flint Capital also participating, along with gaming firm Playrix and existing investors Baring Vostok Capital Partners and LVL1 among others. unicorn goPuff is also in the mix — having acquired UK startups Fancy and Dija.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Borkowski confirmed it is “definitely” an up round for the company. Everywhere else, Brainly is currently free to use. (In “In the western world, online education wasn’t a big investment area [pre-COVID] and that has changed a lot, with huge adoption by students, parents and teachers,” he said.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Kandji , the startup building an Apple device management business, has been doing pretty well for itself with rapdily growing revenue, a fat valuation and lots of investment capital rolling in. It quickly followed with a $60 million Series B last April. In fact, revenue has grown over 700 percent in the last year.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 27, 2022

The company has picked up $35 million in a Series B round of funding — money that it will be using for product development, as well as to strengthen its ecosystem with more investment into community, developer relations and cloud programs across more markets. “It’s not in our near future, but definitely an option.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2022

RS: If you look at a decade ago when I worked for the Tor Project and they got funding, we set out to teach reporters how to use the Tor Browser. That’s definitely still a part of what I do. It’s something that I’m more excited about and ready to invest in. We need to have more of a conversation around that.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

On the Extra Crunch stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 , we convened a distinguished panel of growth experts: Jenifer Ho, vice president of marketing at Elation Health; Shoji Ueki, head of marketing and analytics at Point; and Nik Sharma, the owner of Sharma Brands, a notable DTC growth marketing consultancy and investment shop.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JULY 8, 2021

There are many different paths to success and many different definitions of how to succeed in business. No matter what your definition of success is, some of the ingredients of success will be the same. Not a mentor, not a paid consultant but a sounding board who’s directly invested into the growth of YOUR (and their) business.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 28, 2022

( Any views expressed in the below are the personal views of the author and should not form the basis for making investment decisions, nor be construed as a recommendation or advice to engage in investment transactions. ) It is trivially easy to spot a policy that uses confidence intervals rather than outcomes at the extreme.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

She went to doctor after doctor without a definitive diagnosis and decided to take to the internet to find some answers. Proceeds will be used to expand distribution, scale Poppi’s team of 50 currently and marketing. The drinks retail for $2.49 1 spot based on four-week data from SPINS ending June 13, 2021.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

By drawing on multiplayer gaming culture, the startups are using spatial technology, animations and productivity tools to create a metaverse dedicated to work. In the middle sits a mix between work and play, which is where Branch hopes to live. So for me, it’s not hard at all to use it. The biggest challenge ahead?

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TechCrunch

MAY 1, 2021

This time we’ll hear from Accel’s John Locke regarding his investments in The Zebra — which recently raised even more capital — and the insurtech space more broadly. Locke said that the venture market for insurtech investments is “definitely more aggressive” this year than last. Fair enough. Various and sundry.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

The investment was led by Union Square Ventures and included participation from Eniac Ventures, Human Capital and Flexport. Kaden joins Rick Zullo from Equal Ventures on the board and told TechCrunch via email that excess inventory “filled the news and it definitely spikes in more volatile markets, but it is in fact part of any market.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Its software is used across some 130 countries, although the majority of the consumers engaging in the events themselves are based out of North America and Europe, Simpson said. investments at Alibaba. Then creators could customize the journey end to end, and keep the experience all in one place, and invest in their own growth.”

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