TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Of every 100 deals a VC firm considers, about a quarter get a meeting, and only one ends up securing investment. But investors are looking past superficial metrics for indicators that your product is poised to grow years into the future. If you haven’t been thinking about product-market fit, you don’t have a pitch.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

Choi, the company’s CEO, said in an interview with TechCrunch that in their capacity as investors, the three noticed that in Korea and many other Asian countries, startups were still relying on Excel when managing their cap tables, stock options, stakeholder and other related information. Image Credits: QuotaBook.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2022

In his view, the total addressable market of longevity-related plays is both smaller and potentially much larger than that. Interest in the space seems to be growing rapidly in the VC community, so I spoke with five investors to get a better idea of where longevity tech is headed and just how big the market stands to become.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2023

Venture firms are advising portfolio companies to move money out of SVB Given recent banking-related carnage in the tech and tech-adjacent worlds, there’s concern in the market that not all is well at SVB. We’ve been there for 40 years, supporting you, supporting the portfolio companies, supporting venture capitalists.” More to come.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 6, 2023

Serial entrepreneur and seasoned investor Vinod Khosla has some strong, contrarian advice for the venture capital industry: don’t sit on your founders’ boards. Khosla, who spoke onstage at the Upfront Summit in Los Angeles this week, spoke about the culture of capital. We don’t — no matter how important an issue.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Six active biotech investors we surveyed recently told us that the macro environment has definitely had a big impact on deal flow, valuations and M&A in biotech. However, investors are also being more thorough in their due diligence than in previous years, and not just because of Theranos. China relations is on investors’ minds.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

For an ecosystem that covers a majority of the planet, the oceans have basically been ignored by startups and investors alike. Founders and investors have started to look for opportunities to conserve, and even enhance, the ocean’s resources rather than exploit them. That doesn’t mean that investors aren’t bullish, though.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2023

Maybe the dramatic meltdowns of token Luna and the second-largest crypto exchange FTX scared investors off web3 as a whole? ” When it comes to web3, investors say they’re in it for the long haul by Rebecca Szkutak originally published on TechCrunch. We decided to find out. have been realized in full yet.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

I’m here to talk to you about an existential risk to the future of the Republic and how Hadrian is trying to solve it,” he began. Just a few years ago, many investors thought that cutting a check for a defense-first startup was a proposition that simply didn’t make sense. PitchBook data supports this warming to defense tech.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

Or has the souring of sentiment across the political spectrum only scared investors off? For Oriana Papin-Zoghbi, CEO and co-founder of early ovarian cancer detection company AOA, the sector has tons of potential to grow, but raising capital remains a challenge, as some investors still think of it as a “niche market.”

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Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Despite some predictions about a slowdown in AI investing, investors are showing the same insatiable appetite for the sector they showed last year. The round is just the latest giant AI-related raise as last year’s investor euphoria has clearly carried over to this year. Related reading: AI Compute Startup Lambda Hits $1.5B

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2023

Founded out of Berlin in 2021, Qdrant is targeting AI software developers with an open source vector search engine and database for unstructured data, which is an integral part of AI application development particularly as it relates to using real-time data that hasn’t been categorized or labeled. That Qdrant has now raised $7.5

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

General Atlantic is in talks to invest about $50 million in Acko, two sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch, doubling down on its bet on the Indian insurtech at a time when most investors are treading investment opportunities carefully. An average Indian makes about $2,100 a year, according to the World Bank.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

For starters, Pipe — which has raised more than $300 million from investors since it was founded in 2019 — has just one outside board member in Peter Ackerson, a general partner at Fin Capital who himself became a VC just three years ago. More, detractors seem bent on raising questions about the way the business has been run.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

So when entrepreneurs use unicorn aspirations to pump private company valuations, how can investors plan for a decent return? For starters, venture capitalists need to stop engaging in self-delusion about why a valuation that is too high might be OK. The lead may be an “inside” investor already, committing small amounts or? —?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2022

How to think like an investor: Understanding the actual cost of fundraising. These “VCisms” borne out of an era of plenty have permeated boardrooms and investor meetings everywhere. But what isn’t talked about often is the fact that the data shows us that companies did not, in fact, raise the same amount of capital.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 27, 2021

The pandemic has spurred interest in saving and investment apps around the world , especially ones geared toward newer investors. The seed funding, which was made in two closes, included participation from Saison Capital, Venturra Discovery, 1982 Ventures, 500 Startups, Nextrans, and angel investors like executives at Google and Netflix.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

When I joined Runa Capital almost a year ago, my task was to help our portfolio companies enter the Chinese market, find the right partners and raise funding from Chinese investors. Is it OK to co-invest with Chinese investors? Can Chinese investors bring any value to Western startups? What value can Chinese investors bring?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Public-market investors continued to underestimate how volatile the crypto market is, leaving them to over-index on gains and over-despair on less impressive results. And yet it appeared that public investors were still surprised when that, in fact, happened. Let’s talk about it. Investors were perplexed.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

But there’s one question that many startups and investors are hoping will get answered sooner rather than later: What happens to venture debt? Thankfully, venture capitalists aren’t too worried about the SVB collapse’s impact on venture debt as a whole. based startups. said Ali Hamed, general partner at Crossbeam. “Our

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

The microfinancing platform connects investors with small businesses using mudarabah, a shariah-compliant profit-sharing agreement. But founder Matthew Joseph Martin soon realized that the startup, backed by investors like Boost VC and Tim Draper, was serving a relatively niche market in the States. They must have a solution.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2021

Family offices and accredited investors are eager to get involved in high-quality funds, but face hurdles like access to fund managers. The company, founded by Samir Kaji and Hana Yang in February 2021, is developing an approach to venture capital fund investing that provides a way for investors of any size to participate.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

But those more aligned with the private sphere, such as venture capitalists and private equity investors, perhaps aren’t quite as well-served when it comes to funnelling into the data they need to carry out their due diligence ahead of making a big investment, or tracking and managing their portfolio through to an exit.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

On a recent winter morning in New Delhi, Rajan Anandan and Pieter Kemps were pacing on the floor of a five-star hotel, quizzing a group of over two dozen young startup founders about their goals. Workshops will teach founders about how to think about the total addressable market.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

With such roles, including as angel investors, brainstorming ideas and citing opportunities based on trends and tailwinds within the tech space is inevitable (for instance, Awoyemi co-founded a digital bank for migrants last year that has since pivoted from serving customers to businesses). It’s better for backers, and also for us.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

New investors this time out are Mark Cuban, OneTeam Partners, Ronnie Lott, Justin Rose, the Major League Soccer Players Association and the United States Women’s National (Soccer) Team Players Association, joining a list of existing investors that includes big name athletes like quarterback Drew Brees and pitching legend Nolan Ryan.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

We’re widening our lens, looking for more investors to participate in TechCrunch surveys , where we poll top professionals about challenges in their industry. If you’re an investor and would like to participate in future surveys, fill out this form. Pete Flint, general partner, NFX.

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Crunchbase News

APRIL 18, 2024

Editor’s note: For more Web3 coverage, visit Crunchbase’s Web3 Tracker , where we track startups, investors and funding news in the Web3, cryptocurrency and blockchain space, powered by Crunchbase ’s live, comprehensive data. Startups related to Web3 — defined as those in the crypto and blockchain sectors — raised just less than $1.9

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2023

Here’s another edition of “Ask Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies. Based on your experience, do investors care about the amount of money a startup spends on visas and green cards for their founders? Let me take your second question first.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

Influential entrepreneurs like Paul Graham and Naval Ravikant always preach the need for startups to have founders-turned-investors on their cap table. His platform AngelList has helped individual founders-cum-investors source and participate in deals via collectives. It’s a theme Olubusi also relates to all too well.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

As often as the ‘R’ word is bandied about in tech, a survey of 450 early-stage founders found that only 12% plan to hire fewer workers and 6% have laid people off. This Space is open to everyone: click through to set a reminder and submit your immigration-related questions so we can raise them during the Q&A.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Investors participating include Lever VC, Blue Horizon Ventures, Hatch, Good Startup and Alwyn Capital. Finding the technology Bryson got involved in alternative seafood about five years ago after selling his company, Unata, an e-commerce platform for major grocery stores, to Instacart.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

A growing number of investors have begun suggesting that certain venture-backed startups that have yet to find so-called product-market fit throw in the towel. Is the argument that they will win the trust and respect of investors and so improve their odds of raising money in the future? Do you see a connection? Not at all.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2023

Here’s another edition of “Dear Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies. entity to make it attractive to investors. investors prefer to invest in a parent company based in the U.S. that’s a Delaware C corporation. and stay for up to six months.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Interestingly, many of the region’s rounds are led by or saw participation from investors based elsewhere. Firms such as SoftBank, Tiger Global Management, Tencent, Accel, Ribbit Capital and QED Investors are pouring money into LatAm. One Mexico-based VC even declared that the story was about “talent, not capital.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2023

In the world of venture capital, things are more pronounced: A warm introduction is the only way to get in front of investors at many VC funds. If you spend some time thinking about that, I bet you’d unearth some uncomfortable unintended consequences. Let’s talk about what we can do about it.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2023

It’d only raised about $15 million ahead of its latest cash infusion. million “ pre-Series B ” round led by climate-tech investor TRIREC. The startup said other investors, including SOSV and Equinor Ventures (the VC arm of the Norway-owned fossil fuel giant), also chipped in. ” Rawr?

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