TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

We have the latest from how the technology world is responding to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a review of the Theranos show, notes from New Zealand venture capital and more. Soon every company will also be a VC : The boom in venture capital activity that the world saw in 2021 did not fail to impact large companies.

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JUNE 28, 2010

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). Operates a ‘Voice and Visual Mobile Advertising Network’ called MobileAd Xchange that delivers in-call voice advertisements and follow-up visual engagements (SMS, MMS).

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APRIL 16, 2011

That’s why I was so interested in having “ The Gotham Gal &# come on This Week in VC ( video link on YouTube , download iTunes, episode 15) ) and dispel those myths. After seeing “The Social Network&# there is an increased attitude amongst this generation (of women) that … why not go into startups?

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OCTOBER 21, 2009

On the third Wednesday of every month I co-chair a meeting called the SoCal VCA (venture capital alliance), which represents participants from all of the top venture capital firms in Southern California as well as prominent members of the Tech Coast Angels (TCA). 2009 has been the worst year for M&A in a decade.

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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. 1/ Social Network Interference. That so far may not be good enough. 2/ The Scooter Phenomenon.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 23, 2012

That they own a large piece of The Discovery Network? download from iTunes for free) or just skipping to the bits you like. They are best known for their magazine titles such as The New Yorker, Wired, Vanity Fair and Vogue. But did you also know that they are a large cable operator? That they own Reddit?

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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. How do you keep an audience as a blogger and on the network of StackExchange? With StackOverflow, Joel raised money through venture capital. Distinct Communities. It’s important not to have content drift.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

Over the past decade, venture capital has become synonymous with entrepreneurship. Working inside another organization can build your skills, your network, and even inspire great product ideas. SaaS founders often emphasize vanity metrics, like user acquisitions and total downloads. Be patient and stick to your own path.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

Ah, but Bird doesn’t have network effects! Of course you can have a few competitors and still find enough charges but once you’ve gotten 2–3 big players in any city it’s hard to imagine many more players building out as efficient of a charger network as the early innovator. There is nothing viral! Anybody can launch a scooter service!

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

A download link is sent to you automatically by Gust once you create your profile, and the book is exactly what it says. There’s no use banging your head against a VC’s door with a social network venture if they only invest in biotech companies. Gust takes advantage of the cloud, and you should, too.

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Haystack

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Spotify will also get into commerce like its social network peers, but that’s a subject for another post.] This premium tier also allows users to download content to their device for offline viewing.) However, podcasts are not songs, of course, and therefore not subject ot the same licensing, restrictions, or scarcity.

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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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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

By: Nick Zasowski, Director at Global Startup Studio Network Startup studios are gaining steam across the angel investing landscape. As the Global Startup Studio Network (GSSN) researched last year, the early signs of studio data are just the beginning for the growing expectations.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

Cent was founded in 2017 as an ad-free creator network that allows users to offer each other crypto rewards for good posts and comments — it’s like gifting awards on Reddit, but with Ethereum. These are lofty goals for a $3 million seed funding round, but there are aspects of Cent’s Beta platform that make it promising.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 16, 2023

The collaboration not only facilitates the company’s expansion endeavors but also leverages the global network, regional footprint, and banking expertise of HSBC Singapore to amplify Atome’s reach and impact in the Philippine market.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Your Guide to the Season’s Hottest Gifts from Dell: Download Now and Save up to 39% Off. Venture capital (VC) investors in the Valley further compound this notion by consistently channeling their funds into high-risk, high-return companies with plans to disrupt entire industries. Airbnb is another great example.

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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. Meanwhile, downloads for its popular Videoleap video editing apps jumped 70% since the start of the pandemic, as TikTok adoption also grew.

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2022

E4E Africa, a South African venture capital firm, led the round, which welcomed participation from other firms such as Strat-Tech, Next Chymia, Untapped Global and Codec Ventures and angels like Ashwin Ravichandran and Kanyi Maqubela. million in seed funding a year after closing an undisclosed pre-seed round.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Building a network within the financial industry allowed them to seamlessly navigate the intricacies of Japanese business collaborations. Habitto has continued to see an increase in downloads. This article is part of a partnership with Cherubic Ventures. Speed is also a crucial factor.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2022

The phrase may be meant to make people with imposter syndrome remember the importance of a simple cold emails, but it often comes off as a rebranded way to remind people that exclusive networks rule the world. Consumer love, a fickle thing: App Annie: Global app stores’ consumer spend up 19% to $170B in 2021, downloads grew 5% to 230B.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 12, 2017

Only a handful of next-generation, venture backed software companies are larger: Salesforce, Workday, Palo Alto Networks. To compare the differences between a bootstrap and a venture business, I’ve created a very basic financial model on Google spreadsheets. With those caveats, let’s continue. These are just a few.

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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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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. One of Expectful’s closest competitors is Peanut, a social network for moms used by over 1.2

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OurCrowd

JULY 31, 2019

The question is, how can MNCs tap into the tech network? The number of Israeli companies raising between $10M and $20M has more than doubled since 2015, which is a testament to the country’s buzzing venture capital activity. This is an excerpt from OurCrowd’s Q2 Innovation Insider, download it here.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

For example, a mobile gaming company might pay Play2Pay $100 for every user that downloads their app from the Play2Pay app and plays the game for a period of time (such as two hours). Those developers and brands pay to access Play2Pay’s mobile audience in order to promote their products and services.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

TC: Can you talk about some of the business metrics that made these people decide to commit to the venture? million downloads over the last year or so. TC: Is the plan to evolve this into a full-fledged social network? EB: When we talk about it being a social network, 100%. We want to optimize for very different things.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Facily claims that its app is now one of the top three most downloaded in Brazil, one of the fastest-growing apps in the country (according to App Annie) and the fastest-growing e-commerce food app globally ever. It credits an asset-light business model and logistics network as factors behind its success.

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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. Later, the goal is for this system to transform into a network of partners. “We 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

JULY 16, 2021

Don’t make me download anything. If you keep your network up to date, you can literally go search who do you know who’s a computer scientist ? Do not send me something that is a video. Do not send me something that is a one-pager. Do not send me something that’s 100-pager. [I I want] 10 slides.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Before we jump into our daily download of startup doings, a few call-outs from today’s coverage. And, as always, there are even more rounds and deals and announcements to read up on: Charli D’Amelio + Lightbricks : From TikTok to venture capital, the world of influencers and investors is converging. Startups/VC.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Your Guide to the Season’s Hottest Gifts from Dell: Download Now and Save up to 39% Off. Venture capital (VC) investors in the Valley further compound this notion by consistently channeling their funds into high-risk, high-return companies with plans to disrupt entire industries. Airbnb is another great example.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2022

Mozilla today launched a paid subscription to its Mozilla Developer Network , offering additional features starting at $5 per month. TechCrunch reports that Q1 2022 saw some 37 billion downloads and $33 billion worth of consumer spending. It raised the round from a single investor, a “major sanitation solution provider.”

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 5, 2015

Downloaded Meerkat yet? This creates the need for friendly network management. Venture Capital & Technology' It''s the new new thing. The app is five days old and getting in with all the right names in the Valley. The company has been around for a few years, but this is a new product for them.). Some will, some won''t.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Pydantic , the popular Python library and open source data-validation framework used by some of the world’s biggest companies, has a new commercial namesake and the backing of one of Silicon Valley’s most storied venture capital (VC) firms. Pydantic Services Inc. emerges from stealth today with $4.7

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Just the other day, I took a meeting with an entrepreneur who had a great mobile app with lots of downloads. When someone e-mails me and says, "I have 75,000 downloads of my app in the last few weeks" I'm not going to stop and ask how many kids they have or how old they are. That, I didn't get. That's the great thing about tech.

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Angel Capital Association

AUGUST 28, 2023

About Sage Growth Capital Sage Growth Capital is a venture capital firm that provides revenue-financed capital exclusively. 2 There are complex ways to perhaps change RFC returns to capital gains from interest income. We launched our first fund in Q4 2019 and have invested $5.6

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

He also nails the reason why venture capital is still necessary to grow large businesses quickly in a world where the costs of running startups have fallen dramatically. Growing too slowly is particularly dangerous in a business with network effects, which the best startups usually have to some degree.” And headlines.

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