TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2023

This is my last Startups Weekly issue, a newsletter that I’ve written every week for over two years. I’ll be moving on to a new publication, continuing to report on venture capital and startups. While this will be my last Startups Weekly, it’s not the end of this newsletter. Now let’s get into a newsletter!

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TechCrunch

JULY 5, 2022

One easy complaint to make when it comes to venture capital is that it’s mostly not. Venture-ous, that is. During the last decade, for example, a huge portion of venture capital investment went into software-as-a-service companies, some of the least risky private technology companies out there. But why now? Worth some $4.5

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

The number of so-called unicorns minted in a particular period was a workable indicator of how hot the venture capital market was at the time. Read it every morning on TechCrunch+ or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday. This means that the boom in venture capital totals was, to some degree, a unicorn bonanza.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2023

But venture capital investment into this category slowed down significantly starting in the second half of 2022: going from 42 rounds worth $336 million in Q2 2022, to only 19 rounds worth $110.2 Read it every morning on TechCrunch+ or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday. million in Q3 2022.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

Sam Parr, founder of HubSpot-acquired newsletter and media brand The Hustle, doesn’t watch “Succession” because “it’s too real” (and because he prefers watching comedy compared to behemoth business billionaires fighting). So far, half of the members are venture backed, half are bootstrapped.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2023

I write this twice-weekly newsletter on a tight deadline, so when I saw a press release that started with “Silicon Valley Bank, Santa Clara, California, was closed today,” I realized I might need to pivot. Startups that find the right tools to drive growth while optimizing vendor and cloud expenses can enhance short-term gross margins.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Ophelia Brown Contributor Share on Twitter Ophelia Brown is the founder of Blossom Capital , an early-stage venture fund. Across social media, in newsletters and at events, it’s been hard to escape charts on measuring CAC, cash burn, growth and efficiency. In 2022, you’ve been told to forego growth and pursue profitability.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2023

Read it every morning on TechCrunch+ or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday. So while we consider its results through 2021, it’d be wise to remember that the company was growth-oriented at the time. Substack’s growth model is expensive, if effective Substack’s gross revenue scaled by over 400% to $11.9

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 21, 2023

Read it every morning on TechCrunch+ or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday. Instacart, the heavily venture-backed grocery delivery and software company, is expected by some to file for its IPO as early as this week, aiming for an early-September debut. Happily, some companies are expected to actually go public before 2023 ends.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Read it every morning on Extra Crunch or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday. ” The NerdWallet IPO is a liquidity event for several investing groups, including Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), which owns 17.5% of Class A stock ahead of the company’s public offering, RRE Ventures (6.5% million in 2020.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

Today we’re wrapping our multi-week exploration of the global venture capital market’s second-quarter performance. At a glance, the Latin American venture capital and startup market appears similar to what we’ve seen from other growing ecosystems. Read it every morning on Extra Crunch or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

As is common from the bank’s publications, it’s a dense riff of charts and notes, ranging from economic data and trade figures to venture capital statistics. Read it every morning on TechCrunch+ or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

Those backers include Kaszek Ventures, Clocktower Ventures, SoftBank Latin America Fund and DILA Capital, among others. Since then, we have just gotten more ambitious and continued to grow so we needed more money to fuel more growth,” Schwarzkopf said in an interview with TechCrunch. Sign up here to get it in your inbox.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2023

But there are other ways to make the investing public happy, including smashing growth and profitability expectations. Read it every morning on TechCrunch+ or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday. A recent report on software spend from Battery Ventures that we previously discussed contains even more bullish data.

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2022

That hit is leaving plenty of venture firms in a tough spot and likely questioning their commitment to the sector. This lack of volume, specifically from growth firms, could make scaling a crypto business more difficult in the coming years if the sector is indeed on the cusp of a “crypto winter.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

Welcome to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. Alex and I spent quite a bit of time this week diving into Battery Ventures’ “State of the OpenCloud 2022” report. ” Are investors really paying more for profits than growth today? .” Want it in your inbox every Saturday?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 6, 2021

Miranda Halpern spoke to Amsterdam-based coach Ward van Gasteren for our latest growth marketing interview , which is free to read. Marketers should be there to continue where the growth hackers left off: Build out those strategies, maintain customer engagement, and keep tactics fresh and relevant.”. TX Zhuo, partner, Fika Ventures.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The venture capital market appears to be getting later, larger and more expensive. Read it every morning on Extra Crunch , or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday. Venture capital getting later and larger was something we saw repeatedly in our examinations of what happened in Q3 2020 more broadly. More big, and more late.

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2022

A trio of PayPal Ventures alumni has raised $158 million for Infinity Ventures , a new early-stage venture firm dedicated to investing in fintech startups globally. Jeremy Jonker, Jay Ganatra and Mario Ruiz left PayPal Ventures in May 2021 and had their first close last June and final close by October 2021.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Not only are venture capitalists raising more capital than ever , but new methods of financing startup activity are maturing. Venture debt is not new, but twists on this model are taking new prominence in how startups pay for their growth, for example. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Let’s talk about it.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 21, 2022

An Indian upstart, co-founded by a group of journalists, that seeks to disrupt how people follow news and what they consume has raised funds as it prepares to accelerate its growth and broaden its offering. Its newsletter goes out at 8 AM and asks just five to seven minutes of reader time, said Narayanan. But unlike the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2022

With another year of venture capital records in the books, it’s time to look forward. Global data was clear: The 2021 venture capital startup investment cycle was record-breaking ; around the world, startups raised more money than ever before, with individual geographies posting all-time hauls. Africa had a killer year.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Copper , a digital banking service aimed at teens, has raised $29 million in Series A funding in a “preemptive” round led by Fiat Ventures. Raise, a youth-oriented crowdfunding platform that has raised over $90 million in venture funding. The way Fiat Ventures learned of, and then sought to invest in, Copper was not a traditional one.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

The venture capital boom of 2021 was not built from merely traditional VC money. And amid all the noise, record-setting totals, and rapid-fire dealmaking, corporate venture investors were busy, investing gobs of parent-company cash into far-smaller concerns. How quickly is corporate venture capital investment accelerating?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The boom in venture capital fundraising that the technology startup market has enjoyed since the back half of 2020 has been eye-popping. But while the venture capital game seemed to turbocharge in recent quarters, there’s noise coming from the other side of the spectrum: bootstrapping. Let’s talk about it. Bootstrapping today.

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TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2022

This week, a spate of tech companies – largely those valued above $1 billion from their venture capital investors – announced reductions in their workforce. Growth is tricky, and a part of a founder’s job is to moonshot their way to scale, but we also need to remember that change was inevitable. Start here.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

By now it’s common knowledge that 2021 is shaping up to be a breakout year for the startup and venture capital worlds, surpassing years of strong results in a long-term bull market for tech-focused business upstarts. African startups will set fresh venture capital records this year, for example. A venture capital run for the ages.

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TechCrunch

MAY 30, 2022

Fans will get discounts for future events too,” said King, who has 14 years’ experience in strategy, growth and innovation consultancy, and entrepreneurship. MARA raises $23M from Coinbase Ventures and FTX to build Africa’s portal to the crypto economy.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2023

Read it every morning on TechCrunch+ or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday. As TechCrunch recently reported, Salesforce proved that SaaS growth could still come in above expectations, unicorns Instacart and Klarna are posting solid operating results, and software-focused corporate valuations are recovering.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

But that doesn’t mean that the same pace of online commerce growth that the world saw during the pandemic will be maintained. Read it every morning on TechCrunch+ or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday. Pinduoduo’s slowing growth. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. billion in revenue.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2021

Turning the page from the early-stage venture capital market to the super late-stage exit market, this morning we’re talking about endpoint security company SentinelOne’s IPO in the context of Sprinklr’s own. Read it every morning on Extra Crunch or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday. The price of growth.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

The folks over at Battery Ventures have compiled a lengthy dive into the 2020 software market that’s worth our time — you can read along here; I’ll provide page numbers as we go — because it helps explain some software valuations. Read it every morning on Extra Crunch , or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Read it every morning on TechCrunch+ or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday. That project was continued by a venture capital firm, dubbing startups that reached the nine-figure revenue mark “centaurs,” for obvious reasons. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. What can we learn from them?

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

For SaaS companies, growth may no longer be enough. Venture capitalist and SaaS sage Jason Lemkin shared notes yesterday on Monday.com’s recent earnings report. Read it every morning on TechCrunch+ or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday. ” In growth terms, then, Monday.com had a whip-ass first quarter.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

But there are several factors in play that make the booming venture capital totals these companies are raising more reasonable than they might initially appear. Read it every morning on TechCrunch+ or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday. billion, respectively, 2021 stands apart from other years in terms of growth.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

We’ve spent so long staring at record venture capital results around the world from Q2 that it’s nearly Q3. There’s so much money sloshing around the venture capital and startup worlds that it’s hard to recall what they were like in leaner times. Read it every morning on Extra Crunch or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday.

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