TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2022

In times of (capital) abundance, startups can afford to overbuild their sales teams, hire the wrong sales leaders and invest resources in sales strategies that don’t pay off. People talk a lot about building the wrong GTM model, so we won’t belabor that topic, its importance notwithstanding. Who shares your product? Who’s converting?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2023

Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA) , or integrated circuits sold off-the-shelf, are a hot topic in tech. One startup looking to get in on the ground floor is Rapid Silicon, which this week announced that it raised $15 million in a Series A round led by Cambium Capital.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2023

billion that Varo was valued at in September of 2021 when it raised a massive and “oversubscribed” $510 million Series E. In November, it laid off 14% of its staff, or around 1,120 people. The fact that Stripe might raise money to pay off a tax bill raised eyebrows internally here at TechCrunch. That’s down from the $2.5

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Last week, we ran an article by Gaetano Crupi, a partner at VC firm Prime Movers Lab, identifying three pillars required to support a Series B data room : a strategy memo, a pitch deck and a forecast model. Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. Thanks very much for reading, Walter Thompson.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The TC Early Stage April and July bootcamps feature different speakers, topics and content. Got questions about raising Series A funding? Don’t miss Bucky Moore of Kleiner Perkins as he breaks down that complicated topic. Or cut to the chase and apply for the April 2 pitch-off here before the clock hits 11:59 p.m. (PT)

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

It also signified Insight Partners’ first lead investment into an African startup; the $20-billion behemoth took part in Flutterwave’s Series C round in 2021. It had done so by October 2021 off the back of acquiring about 200,000 users and processing $250 million in transaction volume. TechCrunch reached out to Boampong for comment.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2023

VC history is partly to blame here: Finix raised a $35 million Series B led by Sequoia. And from day one, they started off with startups who were really just e-commerce merchants whereas we built for SaaS platforms and marketplaces that had more configurable and scalability challenges that we wanted to be able to support.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

Today the company announced an $8 million Series A led by Acme Capital with participation from existing investors Gagarin Capital and Pine Wave Investments. And it covers a number of industries and topic areas as well,” Goenka explained. They don’t stop there though.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

We’re diving right back in next week with another installment in season two of Extra Crunch Live , our regular interview series with startup founders, venture capitalists, and other leaders from the technology community. This series is for Extra Crunch members, so if you haven’t signed up you can hop on that train right here.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

Gonen and Schein helped advise these individuals on a range of topics, from whether to exercise their stock options, to how to set up an estate plan, to diversification after an IPO. . The Series B brings their total funding raised to $37 million.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

The day after, the firm wrote a $250,000 check into the company, kicking off its seed round and prompting Broughton to drop out of college to focus on growing Altro. “It For example, Altro is focused on educating users through a catalog of over 350 educational audio clips covering topics topics like cryptocurrency, investing and trading.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 24, 2022

“How much time off will they take?” ” I learned I was pregnant a few weeks after my health tech company raised a $14 million Series A in January 2021. There certainly has been progress in recent years, but we cannot deny that we still harbor biases and assumptions about pregnant women in business.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Paul has more on how Epic was able to get in on the $30 million Series A investment and why. From bland to bling : Life insurance is not often an exciting topic, but Strava co-founder Mark Shaw believes he has found a way to “zhuzh” it up with Inclined, a company lending against whole life insurance policies, Mary Ann writes.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

That strategy appears to have paid off as it has now raised a $13 million Series A funding round, taking its total amount raised to $14.5 The raise is reflective of the boom in online events, which saw London-based startup Hopin raise a $40 million Series A last year.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2023

Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. ” Here’s their 21-slide Series A deck: Cover slide Team slide Market context slide (“The revolution of remote work”) Problem slide No. Submit a title and a description for the topic you’d like to talk about before April 21.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

TC Early Stage is our event series all about startups that are… well, early stage. From raising money to marketing the right way to just getting people to care , we go deep on the topics that matter most to founders. Understanding how fundraising terms can affect early-stage startups.

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TechCrunch

JULY 9, 2022

Many, many thanks to Henry Pickavet for putting WiR together while I took a couple weeks off. I wish I could say it was a wonderfully relaxing few weeks off, but I was traveling with a back injury and my 3-year-old … so, yeah, nah. Want it in your inbox? Sign up here. added stuff: Want even more TechCrunch?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

After tech’s massive exodus of talent, we’re starting to see laid-off talent start companies that are ambitious and aspirational in aim. Read my latest piece that digs into this trend of spin-offs in TC+: Tech layoffs are creating a new era of scrappy (and humbled) founders. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

Coderhouse , founded in 2014 by Christian Patiño, is a platform for LatAm professionals to take live, online cohort-based courses in topics such as data, coding, design and marketing. Crehana announced today that it has raised a $70 million Series B just months after a $13 million Series A extension round. Broad but better.

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TechCrunch

MAY 27, 2022

Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. Emily Paxhia joined Anna and me yesterday for a Twitter Space to discuss some of the survey’s topics in greater depth, describing cannabis as “today’s fastest-growing consumer packaged goods category.” Image Credits: Lumigo.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2021

But it can also help with issues like overlapping meetings, or larger meetings were only a few topics are directly relevant to your work — but where you’d like to be able to review the rest of the meeting discussion later, instead of in real-time. That’s one area where Otter.ai When meetings wrap, you can also have Otter.ai

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CIO

MARCH 8, 2024

DEI initiatives] tend to be piecemeal efforts or one-off situations that are not very coordinated or strategic or thought through or sustained. This is the “Map” stage, and once it is complete, users move on to the “GPS” stage, where they are asked a series of questions around workplace culture and DEI.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

In a mere 72 hours, early bird pricing disappears for TechCrunch Early Stage 2021 , our two-part, founder bootcamp series focused on the building blocks you need to grow your company. Pro Tip: each bootcamp stands alone and features different topics, content and speakers. Day two features the TC Early Stage Pitch Off!

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Fintech decacorn Plaid is laying off 260 employees, or about 20% of its workforce, the company announced today. In April of 2021, Plaid raised a $425 million Series D led by Altimeter Capital, which valued the company at around $13.4 Besides Stripe, neobank Chime recently laid off 12% of its staff, or some 160 workers. .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2023

“Most expect the worst,” says Ira Lam, chief legal officer at SuperLayer. “A reactive blanket crackdown on all aspects of crypto, framed as necessary to protect the public from future bad actors, seems imminent.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2022

But what I do know is that the controversy set off a whole other conversation, including claims that this was not the first time Stripe had been accused of less-than-scrupulous behavior. It also resurfaced talk of when Stripe reportedly pressured investor Sequoia to back off from an investment that smelled like competition.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Curious about the ideal process for raising a Series A? The format is unique to most TC Events, in that our speakers are giving presentations around their topics (all attendees will get transcripts and visual assets from those sessions) and then dedicating the majority of their time to audience Q&A. Nailing Your Series A.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2024

It raised a $150 million Series D led by Fidelity Management and Research that values the company at nearly $3.2 The entire venture market was down last year when compared to 2022, as it was still coming off the crazy highs seen in 2021. The $70 million Series B was co-led by OpenAI Startup Fund — along with Kleiner Perkins.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

When the startup raised a Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz in January, part of the reported $100 million funding was said to go to a creator grant program. Monetization, or Clubhouse’s lack thereof, has been a topic of discussion about the buzzy startup since it took off in the early pandemic months.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

Founded in 2010 by John Collison (president) and his brother Patrick Collison (the CEO), Stripe saw the value of building a simple way for developers to integrate payments into any app or site by way of a few lines of code, at a time when digital and specifically online payments were starting to take off.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Von Tobel joins an all-star lineup, which includes experts in the fields of sales, seed and Series A fundraising, recruiting and much much more. These experts will give presentations across a variety of topics, and then answer questions live from the audience.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2022

One of the biggest news stories last week was that Plaid laid off 260 employees , or about 20% of its workforce. Rumblings about Plaid laying off some 200 people started as far back as late May. Hearing and writing about so many high-profile companies laying off workers is sobering for me as a tech journalist. xoxoxo, Mary Ann.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

I had a neat look into the world of mental health startup fundraising planned for this week, but after being slow-motion carpet-bombed by S-1s, that is now shoved off to Monday and we have to pause and talk about COVID-19. You can sign up for the email here. Let’s talk about it. Call it a double-boost. The IPO is well-timed.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

The New York-based firm, started by Joshua Kushner, also led the company’s $70 million Series C in 2014 when it was valued at $3.5 But Stripe has not been immune to the global downturn: In November, it laid off 14% of its staff, or around 1,120 people. Got a news tip or inside information about a topic we covered? Sign up here.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 26, 2022

I was mostly off this past week, so this edition of The Interchange may be slightly less dense than normal. In April, the company laid off 160 people , or 4% of its staff — making it one of a few highly valued Brazilian startups cutting jobs. UK-based B2B BNPL fintech Hokodo raises $40M in Series B funding round. Let’s goooo!

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2023

The company confirmed that it had to lay off 10% of its staff in its second known workforce reduction over the pandemic. Crime-reporting app Citizen lays off 33 employees. News aggregator SmartNews lays off 40% of US and China staff, with further reductions planned in Japan. Pitch Deck Teardown: Mint House’s $35M Series B deck.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2022

Run your startup with the funding you scored using the friends-and-family plan and want to figure out the best path to raising a Series A. Throughout the day three concurrent tracks will offer a variety of topics — think protecting your IP, accelerating user growth, structuring your cap table or receiving feedback on your business pitch.

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