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JUNE 23, 2022

Steve Sloane is a partner at Menlo Ventures where he invests in inflection-stage companies. Derek Xiao is an investor at Menlo Ventures focused on soon-to-be breakout companies at the inflection stage. Image Credits: Menlo Ventures. The story repeats as enablers follow disruptors across each category of supply chain business.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

We are clearly the creators of this category and the leaders in it. When we came out with this, with the vector database category, nobody knew what the hell we’re talking about. And so it’s very easy to bet on the leader of a category that is already formed,” Liberty told TechCrunch.

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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 Venture rounds and younger startups form only part of the picture, though. million in Q3 2022.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Especially if you name your firm Conviction, as Sarah Guo did after leaving Greylock following a decade of investing for the well-known venture group. Think of venture in innings. But what happens when you want to disrupt a category that has been around the block a few times? Guo’s comments were edited lightly for clarity.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2023

People are already memeing that venture capitalists have pivoted from crypto to AI, hunting, as they’re wont to, for the next big thing. For startups stuck in a now passé category, watching venture dollars flow elsewhere cannot feel great, even if such evolutions in capital flows are normal. And the clock is ticking.

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TechCrunch

MAY 1, 2023

million from investors, including Human Capital and MaC Venture Capital, last year. Instead, Love launches first as a wellness marketplace that features an initial 200 curated products, like supplements, health testing kits and essential oils, among categories including reducing stress and gut health. Love previously raised $7.5

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2023

Guest columns fall into two categories: TechCrunch+: Strategies and tactics for building and scaling startups. In light of recent successes by firms like Supply Change Capital, Cake Ventures and Adverb Ventures, Rebecca Szkutak looked into whether these wins have kicked off a sustainable trend in venture fundraising.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

While venture funding in fintech slowed last year, companies in the space were still the top recipient of venture dollars worldwide. In fact, storied venture firms Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) invested more in fintech than any other category in 2022.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

Vessel Capital , a web3 venture fund, has emerged from stealth with $55 million in assets under management to invest in infrastructure and applications, the firm exclusively told TechCrunch. On a high level, we really wanted to build a new type of venture fund,” Uddin said. “A

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2023

D espite the slowdown in venture capital activity, there’s still a mountain of money flowing through startups today. TechCrunch+ is launching a series of posts looking at recent, notable venture rounds, exit activity and other news that relates to the financial side of building new technology companies. Deal counts have also been down.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

of all venture capital allocated, a figure that stands at 1.9% It has long been a worry that, as the venture market slows, the most marginalized groups would be pushed aside as investors retreat to old networks and deals that feel most familiar to them from the founders they don’t hesitate to trust. Last year, women raised around 2.4%

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2022

million in a funding round led by LAUNCHub Ventures and Hoxton Ventures. Existing investors LAUNCHub Ventures, Hoxton Ventures, HCVC (Hardware Club) and Change Ventures also participated. To date, the company has raised $22 million in equity and $9 million in venture debt.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

” The company aims to address a lot of different categories of business risk, with the ultimate goal of increasing resilience for the companies it works with. “At the heart of it, we are building a new category. “And as a result, we see that as an emerging new compliant-by-design category. . government.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2023

The comedown from the venture capital boom of 2021 has shaken up much of the startup world, but the dearth of capital has shown up sharply in one particular niche: fintech. Early 2023 data is still trickling in, but we’ve yet to hear from anyone that venture funding to fintech will rebound. billion from $139.8 billion a year ago.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Venture capitalists get flooded with startup pitches, which can make it difficult for founders, especially those building in crowded categories, to stand out. Sheel Mohnot, co-founder, Better Tomorrow Ventures. Of course, this could mean a lot of things.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

A lot of no-code products fall into this category. As a startup founder, you really need to understand how venture capital works. The red flags fall into three categories: Your company is 100% dependent on another product or company. So do you have a company or merely a feature?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

Now it is paving the way to foray into the wealth management category. Existing investors Sequoia Capital, Blume Ventures, Beenext, DSP Group, Arkam Ventures, WEH Ventures and HDFC Bank also participated in the new round, which brings its total to-date raise to over $65 million.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

million in a Series A2 round and is on a mission to lead in the new category of “functional soda” by offering a better-for-you product that also tastes good. They then decided to quit their jobs and do Poppi full time, even gaining a deal from CAVU Ventures co-founder Rohan Oza on Shark Tank in December 2018.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

Lightspeed Venture Partners also invested in the new financing round, which is $75 million in equity and $75 million in debt. “The time it takes for D2C brands to go from 0 – 100Cr (about $13 million) in revenue has more than halved over the past few years,” said Harsha Kumar, partner at Lightspeed Venture, in a statement. “We

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2022

As the global startup market digests a changing valuation environment and climate for venture investment, not every sector is taking the same amount of damage. Instead, it’s the tried-and-true software-as-a-service (SaaS) category that appears to be in the best shape to fend off a slowdown in private-market investment.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

This category is very dog-dominated — dog owners spend, on average, $1,480 per year, while an average of $902 is spent annually by cat owners; therefore, there are a lot of dog-focused products, including food. “It However, we’re still really alone in bringing fresh food to the category and to cat parents.

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Crunchbase News

APRIL 30, 2024

Another $100 million round, for audit automation provider DataSnipper and led by Index Ventures , closed a few weeks prior to that. Overall, more than $450 million in venture funding this year alone has gone to companies in accounting-related categories in the Crunchbase dataset.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2021

The fourth quarter of 2020 was as busy as you imagined, with super late-stage startups reaching new valuation thresholds at a record pace, and total venture capital funding in the United States recording its second-best result of all time. We need to narrow our lens and peer more deeply into standout categories to understand how the U.S.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

The companies that took their first venture capital during the craze decided to join forces with other well-capitalized competitors. To give TechCrunch+ readers a better understanding of what education investors are looking for today, seven leading venture capitalists in the category answered a series of questions about the sector’s future.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2022

“It’s kind of crazy that having CI/CD tooling in place, a DevOps function and Automated Testing are the only categories that are above 50%,” Boldstart Ventures partner Shomik Ghosh told TechCrunch. ” The rise of platform engineering, an opportunity for startups by Anna Heim originally published on TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

The 10 speakers — in each category — who receive the most votes will present their topics at the show. You pick the sessions you want at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 Specifically, you help decide which of the 17 roundtable discussions and 15 breakout sessions will earn a spot on the Disrupt agenda.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

Data indicates that more than $37 billion went into developer tools startups last year, a huge sum for any category. You might think that with venture capital piling into the technology business model category and a number of recent IPOs to point to, the market for such work would be hotter than ever.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Just as it seemed the venture capital boom of 2021 was slowing down, the startup and VC worlds spun on their axes practically overnight, birthing a new dynamic where “growth at all costs” was quickly replaced by a more measured and careful approach to business and investing. This year’s been eventful for investors and founders alike.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2022

In 2019, I led the sales team and growth strategy for a venture-backed AI company called atSpoke. Maintain a link to categories that are well known in early messaging, even if the category is not the core of your value proposition or why people will eventually sign a contract. Salesforce created the category they dominated.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The round was co-lead by Perfect Hexagon Commodity & Investment Bank and Ascendo Ventures, with participation from the corporate venture arms of PChome, KKday and Wistron. For example, both SoftBank-backed Klook and PickTime now also offer local bookings for many categories that overlap with FunNow.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2023

It is now ‘warming’ up to ocean conservation,” Daniela Fernandez, managing partner of Seabird Ventures, told TechCrunch. Our planet is 70% ocean, so the urgency of facing and solving climate change can only be properly addressed if we include the ocean in the equation,” said Rita Sousa, partner at Faber Ventures.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

Sanjay Aggarwal Contributor Share on Twitter Sanjay Aggarwal is a venture partner at F-Prime Capital focused on frontier technology investment opportunities. However, the category’s meteoric rise preceded an even more meteoric fall over the last 18 to 24 months.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Sindhya Valloppillil is the founder and CEO of Skin Dossier, a venture partner at Next Gen Ventures, a freelance writer and formerly a beauty industry executive and marketing professor. For big brands and retailers, personalization is expected to be the top category for tech investment this year. Sindhya Valloppillil.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Bain Capital Ventures led the round and was joined by other investors, including Primary Venture Partners, Correlation Ventures, Company Ventures, Habitat Partners (Red Antler) and the Sequoia Scout Fund.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

Since the end of the first quarter, we’ve seen several players in the broad startup category announce new capital, including Clearcover , Alan , Next Insurance and The Zebra. The Exchange divides insurtech startups into three categories: neoinsurance providers, insurtech marketplaces and insurtech enablers. So, please, walk with us!

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The company has now raised more than $100 million in total funding since its inception in 2021, and says it will use the new capital to continue developing its platform and buying up more direct-to-consumer brands in categories like home and living, mom and baby, and beauty and personal care.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

It plans to accelerate its omnichannel and international distribution with a new Series A of $10 million from Insignia Ventures Partners. Ulta Beauty launches a fund, showcasing the resilience of corporate venture capital. Founded 10 years ago, Konvy is now Thailand’s top beauty e-commerce platform.

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