TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

Many of us are moving around these days a lot less than we used to — because of COVID, we’re working from home instead of an office; and we are traveling and going out less. The round is coming from an interesting mix of strategic and financial investors. Placer has confirmed that the round values it at $1 billion.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 5, 2021

You know you’ll require startup funding, but aren’t sure where to start. SBA Local Assistance : Provides you with a list of local Small Business Development Centers that you can contact to find grant opportunities. If your business sells a unique product, consider using a crowdfunding site like Kickstarter or Indiegogo to raise funds.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Applications in the metaverse often feel like more of a marketing gimmick than something that a critical mass of consumers would use, let alone pay for. But turn to the enterprise and there appears to be a very lucrative opportunity that’s well into finding traction.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2021

The startup announced today that it has raised a $6.3 million Series A led by Monk’s Hill Ventures. Participants included Korea Investment Partners and Golden Equator Capital, 8VC, ICU Ventures and Taurus Ventures. Lending startup Portal Finance nabs $200 million for small business loans in Latin America.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

It’s that time of year, time to look back and reflect on the most significant storylines in the tech, startup, and VC world. And, with that warning, I offer to you, the big stories in the startup and investing ecosystem of 2018, written in ascending order of importance and magnitude…. 6/ Venture Capital In Expansion Phase.

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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. Startup failure is easy to hold up as a type of martyrdom for progress, especially if the founders are starting out scrappy in the first place and trying to save the world. Subscribe here.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

Today, another YC-backed startup, Afriex — but from the Summer 2020 batch — is raising a $1.2 This is in contrast to better-known platforms like Western Union and Wise that use traditional banking systems. The SoftBank Opportunity Fund , a subsidiary of the SoftBank Group, targets founders of color in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The company brought on chief science officer Frank Rossi, who has a PhD at Cornell, to create its core product, which requires a mix of tech and science to work. As customers use Sunday’s lawn-care products, the startup also uses aerial imagery to check on the status of users’ lawns throughout the experience.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

A slew of startups in the United States are focused on streamlining that process for people. A mix of new and existing investors also participated in the round, including Advent, Altimeter, DST, Silver Lake, Soros, Tarsadia, Tiger Global, Andreessen Horowitz, Caffeinated, Fifth Wall, Monashees, QED and Vulcan, among others.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JANUARY 2, 2024

Out of 14 applicants, eight finalists were selected to participate in Ben Franklin Technology Partner’s TechCelerator Business Bootcamp , a program designed to help entrepreneurs explore the likelihood of success for a startup business idea. Over the past ten years, the program has helped create dozens of new tech startups.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

Since launching the venture firm Backstage Capital in 2015, Arlan Hamilton has invested millions in more than 195 companies led by underrepresented founders, from a duo taking on auto insurance to a team rethinking how we virtually learn. Runner is a labor marketplace that connects startups with operations people looking for part-time work.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 6, 2024

On the flip side, athletes, entertainers, and C-level executives also ask what they should expect when investing in technology startups and working with founders looking to build the next big thing. For Founders Make It Make Sense Venture capital is where innovation meets investment.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

The funding — which closed in May — is being co-led by AirTree Ventures and Five Sigma, with SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Salesforce Ventures, Blue Cloud Ventures, Larsen Ventures, Scott Shleifer and John Curtius from Tiger Global, TEN13, M12 (Microsoft’s venture fund), Madrona Venture Group, SEEK and Y Combinator also participating.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

This may seem like a great time to launch a SaaS startup, but the landscape is crowded with well-designed applications that promise “blazingly fast and delightfully simple” experiences, according to seed-stage investor John Chen of Fika Ventures. Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 6, 2021

Assembling a startup team is harder than assembling 10 IKEA dressers, and the stakes are much, much higher. Starting with the assumption that 90% of startups will fail and the most successful ones take an average of six years to IPO, founders must make careful decisions about whom they invite to join the core team. Enterprise AI 2.0:

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Italy’s ecosystem for tech venture capital and startups has been in development for years and has made decent strides in the last decade. Put off by high taxes and paperwork in their home country, many Italian entrepreneurs moved to places like London in years past to startup. In 2019, about 300 deals were venture-backed.

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Revolution

JUNE 10, 2019

In fact, according to the 2018 year-end report by CREtech , funding for “proptech” startups has surged with over $20 billion invested across early and late stage venture rounds in the last two years?—?quickly quickly making real estate technology one of the fastest growing venture asset classes.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 3, 2023

Some businesses require very little capital and the founder can self-finance the enterprise and retain 100% of its ownership and control from ignition through liquidity event (startup through sale). It might be useful to list some of the ways in which you can raise money for growth with and without outside investors.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

based savings and investing startup Acorns has acquired London-based GoHenry , a startup focused on providing money management and financial education services to 6- to18-year-olds in an all-equity deal, the two companies announced today. The combined valuation of the company, as well as further financial terms, were not disclosed.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

Some of the greatest areas of innovation opportunity are at the intersection of sectors historically segregated , e.g., computational biology. We use Asana at Versatile VC for managing tasks and projects with other collaborators in our teams. Use their software for interactive data visualization and modern business intelligence.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2021

While the world continues to await the arrival of safe, reliable and cost-effective self-driving cars, one of the pioneers in the world of autonomous vehicle software has raised some substantial funding to double down on what it sees as a more immediate opportunity: providing technology to industrial companies to build off-road applications.

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Startup Blogpost

AUGUST 25, 2023

How to Balance Vision and Execution in Startup Leadership Balancing vision with execution is a key challenge for startup leaders. To strike a balance between our startup’s overarching vision and daily operations, I introduced the “Vision-to-Task Framework.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Storm clouds for late-stage startups : To close out a cheery week on a high note, TechCrunch dug into late-stage valuations in light of public market declines. In short, it appears that a host of startups raised new capital last year when valuations – and therefore revenue multiples – were hot. Startups/VC. The TechCrunch Top 3.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Michael Helander, the CEO and president of OTI (pictured, above), said that the process of coming up with the material was something that OTI could not have done without building and using its own quantum computing-based algorithms — the platform that it is looking to productize alongside this specific material.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2021

million in 2017 and its first Series B round in April 2020, from backers that included South Korea-based Shinsegae Information & Communication, Woomi Construction, SL Investment, KDB Capital, Shinhan Capital, Enlight Ventures, CKD Venture Capital, and Breeze Investment, Ha said. The company had raised Series A funding of $1.8

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Today, there’s a wall of new exciting things to look at…including, among other things, an opportunity Neesha has for you if you’re running a space startup: Apply to pitch onstage at TC Sessions: Space 2022 ! Startups and VC. TechCrunch+ is our membership program that helps founders and startup teams get ahead of the pack.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

Transpose Platform and Shopify led the round and were joined by previous investors Jason Lemkin of SaaStr, Rajeev Dham from Sapphire Ventures, CRV and Alven. Customer support startup Gorgias raises $25M. It’s been a few years since we profiled the company , whose total funding to date is $72.4

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

Social commerce startup Flip is mixing live commerce mobile apps with real customer reviews to improve the buying experience and opportunity for the creator economy. Today, the Los Angeles-based company closed on a $28 million Series A led Streamlined Ventures. In total, Flip raised $31.5

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

The investment round was led by Vulcan Capital, with participation from Prosus, Caldecott Music Group and K3 Ventures. The company says that over 40 million creators currently use BandLab. The app’s tools for creating music include a Mix Editor, royalty-free sounds, Mastering and SongStarter, or royalty-free compositions.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2023

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription “Starting a tech company today costs 99% less than it did 18 years ago when Y Combinator was started,” says Brett Calhoun, managing director and general partner at Redbud VC.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 2, 2023

Having founded multiple startups across various industries, I firmly believe having the right co-founder(s) is the most significant determinant of startup success. Without further ado, here are the five actionable steps that I’ve used to find, assess, and partner with the right co-founder.

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TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2022

European insurance tech startup Wefox has raised $400 million in a series D round of funding, giving the German company a post-money valuation of $4.5 Wefox’s Series D round, which is compromised of equity and debt, was led by Mubadala Investment Company, with participation from LGT, Horizons Ventures and Omers Ventures.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2023

After raising $100 million at a valuation of over $2 billion last year, the Australian ed-tech startup Go1 is making an acquisition and getting some investment to expand its reach and technology to serve the market of corporate online learning. “We see generative AI as a big opportunity,” he said.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

The round is led by Redseed Ventures, with participation from Baring Vostok, Kismet, Flyer One Ventures and Alexander Nevinsky, a partner at New York-based I2BF. The new funding will be used to further expand the reach of its online courses. Ireland, the U.S., Ireland, the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2021

Today one of the startups building tools to do just that is announcing a round of funding, underscoring the opportunity and its own growth within that. The funding is being co-led by Advent International and Ten Eleven Ventures. Ten Eleven, meanwhile, is a VC that specializes in cybersecurity startups.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

It felt like an opportunity in the market for products to help people,” she told TechCrunch. Fast-forward to today, and Purely Elizabeth, which has since added pancake/waffle mix and oatmeal, is one of the top brands in the breakfast category. What we put in our mouths is one of the most important things we can do.”.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

And this time, the name of the startup describes quite well what it does. 360Learning lets you learn from your peers with an easy-to-use platform that lets you create and share courses with your peers. Existing investors Bpifrance’s Large Venture fund, XAnge and Educapital are also participating in today’s funding round.

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