TechCrunch

JUNE 24, 2022

Most biotech founders who are looking to raise in this environment assume that dilutive capital is their only option, but that’s short-sighted, writes James Coates, Health and Human Performance principal at Decisive Point. ” 3 tips for biotech startups seeking non-dilutive capital to weather the downturn. .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Linda Greub Contributor Share on Twitter Linda Greub is the co-founder and managing partner of Avestria Ventures. When most people think of venture capitalists, they often think of investors, the people writing checks to fund startups. But that image is only one part of venture capital. Which LPs are you targeting?

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 7, 2023

I had the pleasure of interviewing Faye Sahai, Founding Managing Partner at Telosity Ventures. Faye Sahai is Founding Managing Partner at Telosity Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund investing in digital wellness and mental health. Pitch smarter, not harder. The global wellness market is $4.75

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

All of those may likely qualify as purchases you could make through a Flexible Spending Account (FSA) or Health Savings Account (HSA). Sika’s customers are companies that sell health-related products but struggle to capture customers’ FSA and HSA dollars because of the multitude of pain points associated with the process.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Register Healthcare infrastructure, digital health, pharma, and foodtech will be among the industries that will impact the world in 2-3 years, according to Angel Low , principal at early-stage venture capital investor and studio The Hive Southeast Asia. The Hive Southeast Asia is a recipient of Dana Penjana Nasional.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

Focus on mental health : Tage spoke with investors who say that if founder mental wellness is tied to innovation and success, then there needs to be a light shown on it , especially during this difficult capital crunch environment. Their company, Chargel, has now raised $2.5 million in seed funding , Annie writes. Catherine has more.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Go pitch a VC with an idea, and they''ll tell you to build it. We''re doing things in personal health, mobile, and physical products that we never could have done ten years ago. Venture Capital & Technology' Go to them with a prototype and they''ll tell you to launch it. Launch it, and they''ll tell you to get more users.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Besides, there were a limited number of places where I could do my job in venture capital anyway—and while I might be a go to for a pitch from super early stage pre-seed and seed founders looking for quick answers and decisive term sheets in New York City, the reality is that I would be pretty far down the list in the Valley.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2023

If you hear about a venture firm or startup winning, raising, flailing or, oh I don’t know, booting an executive because of internal happenings, tell me. Pitch decks and term sheets welcome too. No pitches, please. Happy to talk about anonymity and explain more of my process and what I’m looking for. Give it a listen.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2021

Toyota AI Ventures, Toyota’s standalone venture capital fund, has dropped the “AI” and is reborn as, simply, Toyota Ventures. So while Toyota Ventures’ investment approach isn’t changing, it’s broadening the scope of startups it will consider investing in. . “AI Is there a creed in venture capital?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Improve your pitch: Startup Battlefield isn’t just thrilling to watch; it’s a masterclass in how investors think. All right, here are the final five business Brahmins who will help judge the Startup Battlefield pitch competition. He also served on the National Venture Capital Association board of directors.

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StartupNation

JUNE 1, 2021

The investment platform I founded and run, VenturePole, is the investment partner of HealthInc, the health tech accelerator of Startupbootcamp, the biggest startup accelerator organization in Europe. The winners receive support, including an investment, to accelerate and scale their ventures. Be the learn-it-all. Keep it short.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Kenyan startup Ponea Health is out to change that with its healthcare marketplace offering that brings everyone together, Annie reports. Hit the other deck : Haje talked with the DocSend team about looking at 320 pitch decks, and what statistics tell us makes a great pitch deck. Theodora Lau, founder, Unconventional Ventures.

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Dream It

APRIL 23, 2019

Dozens of healthcare-focused voice tech startups have popped up in the last few years which are backed by top tier venture funds. Boston Children’s Hospital has piloted or promoted dozens of voice applications and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center has supported the development of platforms like Sopris Health and Aiva Health.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

Contestants pitch their legal product idea for a chance to win $5,000, tutoring, and more. The Baylor New Venture Competition is a business plan and elevator pitch competition for college students from around the globe. Student teams pitch and compete for more than $1.5 The competition has prizes totaling $115,000.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Silicon Valley law firm Cooley recently reported that it “handled 298 disclosable venture capital financings for Q3 2022, representing $8.1 billion of invested capital, continuing a downward trend for both metrics and representing the lowest for both since Q4 2019.” Yet, November was also when U.S.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

It’s hard to pin down where Shein is from,” answered Richard Xu from Grand View Capital, a Chinese venture capital firm. Investor Marlon Nichols and Wonderschool’s Chris Bennett on getting to the point with a pitch deck. Image Credits: MaC Venture Capital / Wonderschool. for nearly two years.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2022

“Venture capital” is semantically equivalent to “dangerous money,” which is part of its mystique. “The corollary of that is that I suspect a lot of founders don’t really know how venture capital works.” As a startup founder, you really need to understand how venture capital works.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Not all teams end up pitching at demo day. If the teams feel they want to focus on building their traction or PMF, they can choose to pitch at a later demo day,” Kim said. Amondycare : Amondycare’s app lets mental health therapists manage their workflows and administrative work from patient appointments to sales.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Dig into the pitches yourself, as there’s never a bad time to check out some super-early-stage startups.” How will investors value Metromile and Oscar Health? Last Friday, health insurance company Oscar Health announced its plans to launch an initial public offering. Image Credits: Bryce Durbin/TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2023

I’ll be moving on to a new publication, continuing to report on venture capital and startups. I’m thrilled to share that Haje Jan Kamps , a longtime reporter and the creator of our amazing Pitch Deck Teardown series, will be taking over Startups Weekly. I love seeing early pitch decks and term sheets too.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 6, 2024

For Founders Make It Make Sense Venture capital is where innovation meets investment. All proceeds from the event went to the 15 and the Mahomies Foundation to support initiatives that focus on health, wellness, communities in need of resources, and other charitable causes close to Mahomes’ heart and philanthropic goals.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

Adam Lewis pitches the platform he founded eight years ago, Apploi , as the solution. And there’s plenty of venture capital in the health tech industry, with Silicon Valley Bank reporting that health tech companies raised $39.7 billion in 2021.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Matias Serebrinsky is a partner at PsyMed Ventures, a venture fund expanding access to psychedelic medicine and mental health tech. Greg Kubin is a partner at PsyMed Ventures and co-host of Business Trip. He co-hosts Business Trip, a podcast about psychedelic entrepreneurship. Greg Kubin. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 4, 2022

Do you think whatever misogyny is driving their paternalistic approach to women’s health is going to somehow morph into a vote of confidence for you in the face of criticism from other board members? What happens when you miss your milestones—which is inevitably going to happen? No company is up and to the right the whole time.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

The pitch: Spathios says it’s a marketplace to book short-term venues and spaces. The pitch: FairStreet aims to help seniors enroll in the right health insurance by providing the software platform that independent Medicare agents can use to run and scale their businesses. Founders: Pol Hevia (CEO), Joaquim Tresserra (CTO).

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2021

From how Retail Zipline’s Series A pitch deck ticked every box for Emergence Capital to how Coda perfected the growth fly wheel, much to the delight of Madrona’s S. Check out the Startup Alley companies that will exhibit at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 in an episode dedicated to the art of the pitch. We do that by (duh!)

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2022

“Investors would be so hamstrung by the complexities of this patient population that we wouldn’t even be able to pitch our product.” It was a game of immense trial and error,” she said, adding that she pitched 272 investors and got 12 on Euphoria’s pre-seed cap table. ” Kate Anthony, founder, Euphoria.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

As startups and venture capital grow in tandem, fundraising has gone from a formal affair on Sand Hill Road to a process that can happen anywhere from Twitter to Zoom. Vise CEO Samir Vasavada and Sequoia’s Shaun Maguire break down the art of the pitch. Image Credits: Sequoia Capital / Wolfe + Von / TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Now, the company has a new name, Supplant, and $24 million in venture capital financing to start commercializing its low-cost sugar substitute made from the waste materials of other plants. “Sugar is a massive consumer of water and in contrast, there’s big sustainability pitch for what we do.

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Revolution

APRIL 2, 2019

Meet the companies that will pitch Steve Case and the Revolution team on the upcoming Rise of the Rest Road Trip. At each stop, we will host a fireside chat, a community celebration, and a pitch competition where eight startups will compete for a $100,000 investment from Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2022

For those of us who haven’t memorized economic frameworks: The Rule of 40 is a metric investors developed to gauge the health and growth potential of SaaS startups. And if you have ever discussed an idea for starting a company with a friend, think about working on a pitch deck. Pitch Deck Teardown: Wilco’s $7 million seed deck.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2021

Here’s what to know: The growth of venture capital as an asset class has a role to play in this whole mess and has kept the nest warm for many startups. As I start to cover digital health, one of the biggest questions I ask and get asked is where telehealth goes from here. 4 strategies for building a digital health unicorn.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2022

In the first half of this year, 30 funds received almost two-thirds of all new venture capital raised, according to PitchBook. It’s a high-stakes balancing act with significant risk, but considering the upside for category winners and the health of the planet, “the potential market is enormous,” reports Tim De Chant. Team slide.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Venture capital funds focusing on niche sectors are “in,” according to Connie , and Will Ventures is here for it. Here’s the first batch of Battlefield companies that pitched onstage on this fine California Tuesday — and if you’re curious, Neesha revealed the 20 companies that are presenting on the Disrupt Stage earlier today.

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TechCrunch

JULY 8, 2022

I haven’t tracked this figure nationally, but the amount of venture capital invested in San Francisco-based startups reportedly fell by 65% between May and June 2022. Pitch Deck Teardown: Enduring Planet’s $2.1M Pitch Deck Teardown: Enduring Planet’s $2.1M

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

I covered one demo day in person, spending most of my time backstage where founder teams practiced their pitches. But how did it affect the company’s financial health? Deep tech founders face special challenges when pitching investors: they usually don’t have a product, customers or revenue. last week. .”

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