Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

Venture Financings we Discussed. SGN games downloaded +17mm times on mobile devices. Current round: $2mm Series B from Tomorrow Ventures (Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google) and Lars Hinrichs (Xing founder). Current round: $8.5mm Series-C led by Jafco Ventures with DCM , Emergence Capital, and August Capital participating.

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David Teten VC

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Do they get to download the data regarding the people and/or companies with whom they were in contact?Giving Upon leaving the firm, individuals [may]/[may not] download or retain any data from the CRMwithout explicit permission from the [General Partner]. Giving this permission reduces the incentive to create a personal data solo.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

While operating Fablic, the trio found that many users still used cash to pay and manage their day-to-day finance. The founders wanted to address the issue in the consumer finance industry in Japan and launched SmartBank. In addition, it will soon release services for parents and kids to manage finance together, the startup says.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 2, 2010

I’m not even going to bother downloading Venture Economics data because I know it’s going to be garbage—most angel rounds aren’t tracked very well. Chris Dixon said on a panel a month or so ago that when big venture firms write small checks, they’re not investing, they’re playing for the option value. Try to prove one thing.

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Gust

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Last week , we took the plunge and began dissecting an example term sheet for a convertible debt financing round piece by piece. Readers may find it helpful to download the sample term sheet from my firm’s website and follow along with the commentary. Same, except at the option of the noteholders (per the term sheet example above).

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Gust

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Last week , we gave some attention to the “why” behind convertible note financing for early stage startups. For those playing at home, you may find it helpful to download the sample term sheet from my firm’s website and follow along with the commentary. Amount of Financing : Up to $600,000 may be issued.

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Gust

OCTOBER 26, 2011

As we conclude our convertible note financing series, there are assorted terms commonly seen in term sheets and deal documents that are worth touching on briefly. The Note Purchase Agreement and Convertible Promissory Note are essential documents for any convertible note financing.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 4, 2023

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David Teten VC

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

We’re fortunate to interview William Stringer, Founder of Chisos Capital , a structured finance company. Chisos is a structured finance company that provides startup and brand capital to entrepreneurs, athletes and creatives. My background is finance, investments and operations. Q: What’s your background?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Juno used your modem to to download and send email, and it was paid for by placing ads in the email client. There’s a big business in Finance working with Excel, but that’s an outlier. With StackOverflow, Joel raised money through venture capital. Twitter had a fundamentally flawed strategy from the beginning.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

As part of its latest stunt, MSCHF, a venture-backed creative studio that’s smarter and more audacious than most, is poking a little fun at the venture industry itself — and perhaps publications like TechCrunch, too. Push Party’s round was financed by Founders Fund, with Principal Trae Stephens driving the deal.

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Gust

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Readers joining this series in progress may find it helpful to download the sample term sheet from my firm’s website and review the earlier posts covering the basics. Suppose the notes converted as if the acquisition were an eligible financing round. a) payable upon demand as of the closing of such transaction; or. (b)

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

Until recently it was headquartered 2 blocks from our offices in Santa Monica so we literally saw it emerge under our feet and we proudly invested in the last 3 rounds of financing. Today the company officially announced its most recent round of capital ?—?having having raised $300 million?—?less Do you buy one?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Depression and anxiety were taking a serious toll on peoples’ well-being even before COVID-19, and the pandemic prompted more interest (and venture capital) in mental health startups. ThoughtFullChat is available for download through the App Store and Google Play , or through insurers and employee benefit programs.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

To begin with, it is important to understand some basic facts about the world of entrepreneurial finance: There are many more entrepreneurs than there are investors, with the result that only one company out of every 400 that seeks venture funding actually receives it.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

At the age of 14, Jacklyn Rome saw firsthand how divorce can impact families, and how arguing about finances both during and after the process can impact children. Roughly 30% of Ensemble’s downloads were organic in people discovering the app in the App Store, she said. The experience stuck with her. For now, the app is free.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

That platform, called Flink , attracted the attention of Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm Accel, which just led a $12 million Series A for the company. Mexico’s ALLVP, Clocktower, Kevin Efrusy and Oskar Hjertonsson and existing backer Raptor Financial Group participated in the financing as well.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 16, 2023

Atome Financial, a prominent consumer financing platform in Southeast Asia, empowers consumers across the region with versatile deferred payment options, intelligent savings solutions, and rewarding shopping experiences through its mobile application, Atome.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2022

Consumer love, a fickle thing: App Annie: Global app stores’ consumer spend up 19% to $170B in 2021, downloads grew 5% to 230B. The SaaS-friendly fintech platform emerged from stealth this week with $150 million in debt financing and $11 million in seed funding with a Stripe partnership. Image Credits: Bryce Durbin/TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

London-based venture capital firm Anthemis co-led the growth round alongside crypto-focused fund Dragonfly Capital. Consumer finance app Djamo eyes Francophone Africa expansion, backed by new $14M round.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

Your Guide to the Season’s Hottest Gifts from Dell: Download Now and Save up to 39% Off. industry, financing, patenting, location) and outcomes (i.e. At the same time, according to research by All Raise, only 15 percent of all venture capital funding is allocated to female founders. Myth 1: Startup founders are young .

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

But he almost didn’t, when he had trouble securing the necessary financing to pay his tuition. By 2021, the app had gone viral after Jay-Z’s Marcy Ventures wrote a blog post about it. “We We had over 200,000 downloads and shot up to the top 10 in the App Store,” Broughton recalls. By the time it raised its $2.5

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

million led by pan-African venture capital firm TLcom Capital. Other VC firms such as Global Founders Capital (GFC), Golden Palm Investments, DFS Labs, Ulu Ventures, Plug and Play and Soma Cap also participated in the seed round. T he next step was to capture value.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Vest’s platform is live and its app is available for download on iOS and Android in all of Latin America except for Panama, and in the U.S. It also provides in-app content to educate on investing fundamentals and provide insight into current events and economic trends as well as native multi-lingual support.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The new round was co-led by New York-based VC firm Insight Partners and Hanaco Venture Capital and includes new investors Migdal Insurance, Altshuler Shaham, and Shavit Capital. Existing investors Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Clal Tech, Harel Insurance and Finance, and Greycroft, also participated.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 12, 2017

To compare the differences between a bootstrap and a venture business, I’ve created a very basic financial model on Google spreadsheets. You can download this model or clone it in your Google docs to play around with it. Reverting to the original question, when should a profitable company raise capital, if ever?

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

Users can download the Phantom wallet to their browsers to interact with applications, swap tokens and collect NFTs. The crypto wallet startup has banked a $9 million Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), with Variant Fund, Jump Capital, DeFi Alliance, Solana Foundation and Garry Tan also participating.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Some studies have indicated that 16% of non-white business owners overall report a negative impact on their profits, specifically due to a lack of access to capital. Your Guide to the Season’s Hottest Gifts from Dell: Download Now and Save up to 39% Off. Diversity is the key to unlocking both.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2022

Those hints included the revelation that the startup had generated just $600,000 in revenue for all of 2021 despite raising $120 million in venture capital earlier in the year (in a round led by Stripe) and rumors that the company was having trouble raising more funds, and as a result, might be seeking a buyer.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Most recently, Facily closed on a $250 million Series D that was led by DX Ventures and Berlin-based Delivery Hero , with Citius as co-anchor investor. Glade Brook led its $63 million Series C financing, which included participation from Tiger Global Management and Hill House. That investment values the startup at $850 million.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

“Derivatives trading has been a pillar of traditional finance for a long time, but DeFi has not been able to achieve the capital efficiency and throughput required to make decentralized derivatives trading viable, until now.”. For now, Vega is still under development.

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abovethecrowd.com

JANUARY 30, 2015

UberPool builds on the incredible scale that the company has already achieved, and can leverage the existing base of millions of customers that have already downloaded the application. ecommerce Finance Internet marketplaces Mobile Regulation Twitter Uber Uncategorized Venture Capital Web/Tech UberPool UberX' Jeff Bezos.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

million seed in August 2020 from Zetta Venture Partners and ING Ventures and since then has been on the radar of venture capital companies. Since then, its software has been downloaded almost 750,000 times, growth of about 30% per month. SeMI raised a $1.2 SeMI intends to deploy the new funding into hiring U.S.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The stress of her pregnancy led Walton to download Expectful, a meditation and sleep app for new mothers. Walton helped it raise its first millions in venture capital, making her one of the few dozen Black female founders to do so. Expectful raised $3 million in a seed financing round led by Harlem Capital.

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Angel Capital Association

JULY 31, 2023

This is Part I of a two-part series on Revenue-Financed Capital (RFC) for angels. ACA member Sage Growth Capital hosted a meet-up of attendees who were interested in RFC at the recent ACA Summit in Las Vegas. And perhaps more importantly, is this form of capital appropriate for their portfolio companies?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

Because much of this population is of a lower-income demographic, downloading an app can be cost-prohibitive and difficult. A number of angel investors also participated in the financing. Its aim is to expand access to quality grocery products at wholesale prices in the region, starting with its home city of São Paulo.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 13, 2021

Today, Argentine personal finance management app Ualá announced it has raised $350 million in a Series D round at a post-money valuation of $2.45 The company, which has aimed to provide more financial transparency and inclusion in the region, says that 65% of its users had no credit history prior to downloading the app.

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