TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Israel’s startup ecosystem raised record amounts of funding and produced 19 IPOs in 2020, despite the pandemic. SaaS models and cloud technologies have eliminated some of the barriers for Israeli companies and enable companies to quickly set up and set up a proof of concept. The cliche VC answer: strong team, big market.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

history is going to reshape the startup ecosystem for years to come. Who’s most vulnerable, who stands to benefit, and what are some of the long-term implications for VC? Hopefully, after Silicon Valley Bridge Bank winds up its operations, a viable business will move in. But that’s just one street corner.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

Regarding the landscape for women overall within the startup ecosystem, she said she hopes it will get better. Malika Jacobs , the founder and CEO of the SaaS human resource tool Myriad, is currently looking for her first-round investment and used the Funding Finder during beta to help her.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 29, 2022

But as the local startup ecosystem closes one of its toughest years, it’s now staring at another question that it has long been able to brush off as benign: exits. About half a dozen consumer tech Indian startups have gone public in the past year and a half and all of them are performing poorly on the local stock exchanges.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

We want our founders to focus on building without the pressure of a VC looking for a quick exit,” Riney told TechCrunch. Riney and Sawayama, who were co-founders of 500 Startups Japan, launched their first fund in partnership with 500 Startups in February 2016.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2021

” Katai also shared his impressions of Romania’s startup ecosystem, suggestions for maintaining top-of-mind status with customers, and reinforced the often-overlooked need to continually repurpose content to grab mindshare. Why global investors are flocking to back Latin American startups. That’s worth something.”.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

One of the first decisions we had to make in setting up our new VC fund, Versatile Venture Capital , was our CRM and marketing technology infrastructure. . I’m very interested in the tech stack of private equity/VC firms , both to improve the efficiency of Versatile VC and also as a focus area for our investing.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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Startup Catalyst

AUGUST 15, 2018

There’s an entire ecosystem that I would say sits within the broader startup ecosystem: the scaleups. You would call a business a startup when they’re getting to be cash flow positive or at least getting some decent monthly recurring revenue. I guess this is part of the whole purpose of Startup Catalyst.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 4, 2024

The head VC guy seems a little bit… weird. Early-stage VCs and investors have one objective, finding hero startups in the sea of zero ones, the ones that will eventually turn into a zero-dollar valuation sooner or later. That one hero startup will cover all the losses of all other investments that will fail.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

A hallmark of that spirit is quite visible these days in the country’s flourishing startup ecosystem, which has expanded rapidly in the past few years, to say the least. However, the global slowdown has impacted startups’ growth in the country, just like everywhere else in the world. How has your investment strategy changed?

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

At that time, most VC activity was dominated by the now-defunct Austin Ventures and Sevin Rosen Funds. ATX will be the first midcontinent VC to have top decile performance two funds in a row,” he told TechCrunch. “It It is a true reflection of the vibrancy in the Texas ecosystem and having an operator approach at early-stage VC.”.

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 26, 2022

Our timing was brutal: the Box S-1 coincided with the start of a major market correction for SaaS stocks, and our newly revealed financials made us a natural poster company for that change in sentiment. We originally filed to go public in March of 2014, and didn’t actually become a public company until January of 2015.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 21, 2023

Click the links below to see the top founders, VCs, builders, researchers and policy makers who will share their insights on the hot topics, current trends, future technology and more across seven breakthrough sectors on seven stages. AI Stage Fintech Stage Hardware Stage SaaS Stage Security Stage Space Stage Sustainability Stage 3.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2023

Series, which offers corporate bank accounts, is getting inundated with inbound messages, entire portfolios of VC firm — and the pace of inbound is ramping up by the hour. The CEO says their inbox is like a second application portal. “We’re wiring short term non-dilutive financing to many of these founders right now.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The entire startup ecosystem gets downright jittery when China brings any new regulation into force — their livelihoods depend on it, after all. But it seems there’s no slowing the thrust of VC investment in China. China’s changing regulatory environment isn’t stopping a venture capital frenzy.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2023

. “For people working at those startups, that means some (in some cases, all) of their employee stock options spent 2022 underwater,” writes Secfi CEO Frederik Mijnhardt. Here’s some candid advice for late-stage startup workers: Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. Image Credits: Getty Images.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

Arc , a company that aims to give SaaS startups “a way to borrow, save and spend” in one place, has raised $20 million in a Series A round of funding. The startup graduated from Y Combinator in March. The company says that on average, its revenue has grown by 250% every month since the fourth quarter of 2021.

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 7, 2022

Top investment opportunities Startup of the Week: Workspot’s secure cloud desktop Binah.ai: World’s first blood pressure via video InsideTracker guides users to longer, healthier lives Israel hits new VC record of $25.6 Israel hits new VC record of $25.6 IPOs and a startup ecosystem now numbering 9,000 different companies.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

The easiest way to work with and for VC funds is to become a part-time scout, getting paid for sourcing investments. How to find a job as a VC scout. VC recruiters list and compensation data. How to negotiate a partner role at a VC or private equity firm. Syllabus for how to launch, manage, and invest a VC fund.

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OurCrowd

MAY 20, 2022

That’s all about to change with the Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle revolution – and it’s making its way into the startup ecosystem. PMI Américas, a leading global payment services provider, has chosen the AI-based SONAR SaaS solution from OurCrowd’s ThetaRay to monitor global cross-border payments on PMI’s platform.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2021

To unpack this rare gem of Europe’s startup scene, we spoke to eight area investors. Among the trends they identified are startups in B2B, business automation processes, e-commerce, AI, SaaS and COVID-19-related solutions, as well as “smart” everything: factories, cities, offices, etc. elíková , partner, Nation1.vc.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Who are key startup people you see creating success locally, whether investors, founders or even other types of startup ecosystem roles like lawyers, designers, growth experts, etc. Where do you see Miami’s startup scene five years from now? David Goldberg, general partner, Alpaca. That’s still missing here.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

What industry sectors is your tech ecosystem strong in? The Vilnius startup ecosystem is mainly dominated by startups developing business management systems (B2B, SaaS) and financial technologies. VC investors: Rokas Peciulaitis (Contrarian Ventures). Jone Vaituleviciute, Dmitrij Susunov (Startup Wise Guys).

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Angel Capital Association

AUGUST 13, 2021

Our Leadership Team started noticing something interesting around 2010: many of our customers were VC-backed startups. It made sense because a common playbook for consumer-facing startups was to build the product, prove PMF, raise capital from investors, and then deploy some/much/most of that capital in paid media to grow quickly.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

So, in keeping with our mission, we present to you today a list of Ukrainian tech companies and initiatives you can support, the products you can use, and the startups which you – if you’re an investor – can look at funding. Secured seed finding from SMRK VC. Deus Robotics Ukrainian Startup Deus Robotics secured a $1.5M

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

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. It is unclear if VCs will agree to these terms, but LPs believe they now have more leverage. Smaller VC fundraises?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Pariti , the Kenya-based community-led marketplace building the digital infrastructure for startup ecosystems in emerging markets, has raised $2.85 Pariti seed funding will allow it to build SaaS workflows to aggregate multiple forms of raising capital, from traditional equity and debt to DeFi solutions. based Harlem Capital.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2023

Deel, for example, is making over $120 million available to support its customers, and Brex’s CEO leapt into action, trying to raise over $1 billion to cover bridge loans to keep startups running. Adopting is what we do : The startup ecosystem may rely on the banks, but it was also nimble on its feet in reacting to the crisis.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Susan is the founder of multiple SaaS platforms. She serves on the boards of several AI startups and nonprofits, including the KQED Public Media Network and her own organization, Democracy 3.0. Traditional VCs typically manage large capital pools and invest across a spectrum of startups.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

That said, Norway’s VC community has been somewhat dormant for a while. Our portfolio is heavy on SaaS, which has weathered things well. In some cases yes, including our e-commerce SaaS companies and my recent Bitcoin exchange investment (MiraiEx). Dignio (SaaS/medtech). What’s your latest, most exciting investment?

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Here’s what I said: In your career in tech and VC, how has your focus on ESG responsibility changed over time? – StratiFi is the first low-cost, intuitive, and scalable portfolio hedging SaaS platform for investors. How do you leverage your VC expertise in politics? What should VC leaders do to eliminate such biases?

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Here’s what I said: In your career in tech and VC, how has your focus on ESG responsibility changed over time? – StratiFi is the first low-cost, intuitive, and scalable portfolio hedging SaaS platform for investors. How do you leverage your VC expertise in politics? What should VC leaders do to eliminate such biases?

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