TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Facing a sea of challenges, leaders have clear opportunities to implement critical changes and prepare for better times ahead. We have helped thousands of companies — ranging from seed-round startups and late-stage unicorns to mature public companies — navigate it by implementing practices that can allow them to survive and thrive.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2022

This year, that activity has cooled down, and so have things at this e-commerce startup. “Like many other firms right now, we have course-corrected heading into the new year given the economic environment and we have taken what we think are appropriate steps to account for the uncertain times ahead.” Primer , a U.K.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Last year, Teampay launched a Mastercard-branded corporate card, Catalyst, with spend management features, signaling the startup’s intentions to venture further into the heated corporate card space. Just in January, European startup Moss , which offers corporate credit cards for small- and medium-sized companies, raised $86 million.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

Customer support startup Gorgias raises $25M. Even with all of that growth, the company is monitoring its cash burn rate in this new economic environment. In fact, Gorgias wasn’t planning to raise new venture capital so soon, but Lapeyre said he jumped at the opportunity to work with Transpose Platform and Shopify.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

French startup Riot has raised a $12 million Series A round to iterate on its all-in-one cybersecurity awareness platform for businesses and their employees. The startup originally focused on fake phishing campaigns. Dialogue-based language models like ChatGPT unlock new opportunities. This year, our big move will be AI.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The Information reported in late August that Arctic Wolf was in talks to raise $300 million, making this round a decided success in a punishing macroeconomic environment. This week, Crunchbase further noted that while cyber startups saw more funding in H2 than all of 2020 ($8.9 Through the same period in 2021, startups had around $13.3

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2022

Masha Bucher is the founder and general partner of Day One Ventures , an early stage venture capital firm that backs customer-focused startups and leads their communications. As a founder, how can you navigate this environment and successfully raise a round? Masha Bucher. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2022

The Sydney, Australia-based startup announced today it has raised $3 million for its carbon management platform. Its clients include consulting firms like KPMG Australia and Point B, and solar energy startup 5B. . The startup monetizes by charging professional services and consultancies a flat fee each month based on licenses.

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Startup Blogpost

APRIL 7, 2023

From using the slowdown to innovate to seizing the opportunity to recruit talent cheaper, here are 10 answers to the question, “What are some effective ways a startup can benefit from a recession?” Overall, the success of startups during a recession can, in general, be significantly influenced by innovation.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 13, 2020

But in these days of fast failures, of COVID-based markets drying up, and with the knowledge that 50% of all startups fail anyway within a few years of formation, there is a lot of learning to be had out there. The economic environment changing downward. Failure as an opportunity? So, consider a failure as an opportunity.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Any change is an opportunity to create leverage, and a downturn is no exception,” writes Masha Bucher, founder and general partner of early-stage VC firm, Day One Ventures. In this TC+ post, she discusses the current economic environment and shares “actionable tips for closing pre-seed to Series B rounds.”.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2023

And at a time when other financial players are increasing rates due to the difficult economic environment, Constrafor is able to lower its price to customers and pass on the savings to them, he added. That potential for additional capital gives Constrafor “scalable credit and capital for our business,” Ghauche said.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

As the world moves into economic head-winds and geopolitical uncertainty, European founders must get used to taking tough decisions to ensure the survival of their startups. In this environment a lower valuation is no reflection on you. But once it was over, I had the opportunity to start afresh. It’s market dynamics.”.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

This is Part 2 of a two-part examination of the state of the startup capital market during the past two years. From an investor’s perspective, 2022 witnessed a sudden market reversal from an extreme equity seller’s market to an equity buyer’s market, causing dislocations throughout angel, VC, and startup ecosystems.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Schulman added: “Over the past year, we made significant progress in strengthening and reshaping our company to address the challenging macro-economic environment…While we have made substantial progress in right-sizing our cost structure, and focused our resources on our core strategic priorities, we have more work to do.

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2022

Over the last month, we have seen an increase in the number of startup layoff announcements at companies like Cameo, On Deck and Robinhood. Despite this onslaught of bad news, for now, most startup founders, investors and HR pros don’t see the job market magically improving for hiring departments, at least in the near term.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

French startup Pigment has raised a new round of funding less than a year after raising a $73 million Series B round. While Pigment isn’t disclosing the valuation of the startup, it is going up following today’s deal. Because there was an opportunity and because the current economic environment doesn’t look great.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

based commercial EV startup turned publicly traded company, has lowered its delivery plans from 400 vehicles to 20 as it postpones development of its battery-electric buses and shifts gears to focus on vans. We believe that this opportunity to switch gives us better chances to be successful.”. Arrival, the U.K.-based

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 30, 2014

Because the publicly traded SaaS companies continue to grow and because the economic environment is relatively stable, I’d argue the multiples will revert to right around the median, in the 4-5x range. Some startups may face valuation-to-revenue mismatches when/if they need to raise follow on rounds.

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Startup Blogpost

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The economic environment may be shifting in a way that means employees will need to earn more in order to live comfortably. Use It as An Opportunity to Learn About Your Employees. When an employee asks for a raise, it is important to see this as an opportunity to learn about your employees. Evaluate Finances.

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 24, 2025

Before launching Pivt , Lynn gained valuable experience at Bloomberg LP in London and Autonomy Ventures , where she excelled in securing startup deal-flow, managing teams, and driving value creation for portfolio companies. One of the biggest challenges in growing a startup has been balancing focus with flexibility.

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