TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Software founders have never had so many metrics thrown at them by VCs on how to run a business. We’ve never believed that great businesses are built solely on metrics or KPIs. In 2021, the answer would have been to grow as fast as possible, regardless of burn. How aggressively should we grow this year? Fortune favors the brave.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

Not surprisingly, 2021 saw a boom in edtech investment across a spectra of investors. Indeed, edtech investment in 2020 and 2021 equaled the amount raised during the entire 2014-2019 period. Our 2021 funding report , released today, highlights key global growth and activity metrics in edtech with a focus on Europe.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

raised more money from venture capitalists in 2021 than ever. But according to data from PitchBook, less than 2% of VC funding went to all-women-founded teams in 2021. On the bright side, founding teams counting both women and men as members raised 17% of VC investments in Africa in 2021. raise in 2021.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

How to improve retention, growth marketing’s golden metric. How to improve retention, growth marketing’s golden metric. billion in May 2021, reports Jacquelyn Melinek. Have an excellent weekend, Walter Thompson. Senior Editor, TechCrunch+. yourprotagonist. 4 ways to make your engineering team more productive. billion from $2.23

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

After a blockbuster year for venture capital funding in 2021, the flow of capital to Indian startups seemed like it would buck global trends in early 2022, but dried up in the second half of 2022. Red flags are linked to failed background checks or if the business metrics represented don’t check out in diligence.

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TechCrunch

MAY 1, 2021

Marketing in 2021 is emotional and not just transactional (2,200 words/9 minutes). Here’s what to know: On Equity, we talked about how these abysmal metrics were both a predicted but still surprising effect of Zoom investing. Announcing the Agenda for TC Sessions: Mobility 2021. Image Credits: Nigel Sussman. Men, don’t do this.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

Is the trading boom of 2020 and 2021 slowing? Coinbase posted insanely good early-2021 results thanks to a bull run in cryptocurrency prices that drove retail interest and trading fees. Falling revenue and slowing KPM growth is not really the world’s best set of metrics to flash up during an IPO run. The popular U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

Transmit Security broke records last summer with their $543 million Series A, and in Q3 2021, $26.4 Furthermore, recent benchmarks data shows that the businesses garnering these high valuations in 2021 exhibit metrics that significantly outperform their peers from 2018-2020. billion a year earlier. Key takeaways.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2021

In particular, back in February 2021, the company said it managed to generate 250 million downloads. It lets them track and improve the most important metrics of the industry — cost of acquisition, retention and session times. But Homa Games is increasing its release pace as 20 games will be released by the end of 2021.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

Alex looks at Databricks, a company perhaps on the cusp of going public, and opines about what it might mean if it’s worth less today than it was in 2021, and comes to the conclusion that an IPO can wait. You can read more about what startups are worth in the TechCrunch+ section below. Startups and VC.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

In the first quarter of 2021, American consumer cryptocurrency trading giant Coinbase grew sharply, generating strong profits at the same time. For Coinbase, the disclosure of its preliminary Q1 2021 results comes a week ahead of its direct listing, an event that will see the company begin to trade publicly. million, up from 2.8

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

In 2021, the presumed value of software revenues grew, adding to a longer upcycle that pushed tech companies’ valuations into the stratosphere. Since late 2021, however, a decline in tech valuations in private and public markets has entirely shaken up the game. It won’t be one that is attractive to startups.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2023

Sadly, due to rules and the timing of the fundraise, Substack is not required to detail its financials for 2022, and so the startup released hard data for 2020 and 2021 along with certain user-specific metrics for last year. million in 2021 from $2.4 The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. How did that work out?

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TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2022

After a strong 2021 by several metrics, how are women founders faring in the United States? This means that while we often observe aggregates — this dataset marking what could be an all-time peak, for example — we also look at smaller slices of funding activity to better understand who is raising capital, and where.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 24, 2020

So here’s a run down of why you need data to set up a fair annual review process; if not this year, then you can kick-start it for 2021. As a manager you’ll receive full reports once the deadline of the task is reached and get notified whenever metrics start dropping or the goal has been met. Use data to set next year’s goals.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

While the company is mostly active in France, it expanded to London in April 2021. When it comes to metrics, Wecasa expects to generate $23.6 Wecasa expects to add another 3,000 professionals by the end of 2021 for instance. It then added massage, beauty treatments, housekeeping, babysitting and sports coaching.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

As we highlighted in Bessemer’s 2021 Cloud 100 Benchmarks report, the average entry multiple for a top cloud company increased from 9x annual recurring revenue (ARR) in 2016 to 34x in 2021. However, the ARR metric overstates revenues by annualizing annual contract values and crediting the business with annual customer retention.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

But it shouldn’t eclipse gross dollar retention: If you are not tracking both metrics, you could be fighting to add new customers into a leaky bucket. It’s what protects you during really challenging times,” growth stage VC Rene Stewart said in a sponsored talk at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2021. Sign up here.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

This trend continued in 2021, with regional M&A hitting a record high of $124.8 billion in the first half of 2021, up 83% from a year earlier. In Q1 2021, Southeast Asian startups raised $6 billion, according to DealStreetAsia, positioning 2021 as another record year for VC investment in the region.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

According to a 2021 Garden survey , the majority of developers found slow feedback loops during the software development process to be a source of frustration, second only to difficult communication between teams and functional groups. . ” Sleuth isn’t the only platform that uses DORA metrics to quantify productivity.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The layoff is expected to have impacted around 88 employees, using metrics provided in BloomTech’s 2022 diversity report metrics. . During BloomTech’s last big layoff, in April 2021 , Allred admitted that it’s been difficult to make his for-profit company’s vision of “incentive-aligned education work.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

To optimize for growth, study your down-funnel metrics. But the reality is, approximately 95.87% of iOS users drop off after day 30, according to Statista’s 2021 Q3 report. Finding the right metric. When building product features, the focus should be on how to push users to your activation metric.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Along the way we’ll talk BS metrics and how firing a lot of people can cut your cost base. So, if investors get what Uber promises, they will get an unprofitable company at the end of 2021, albeit one that, if you strip out a dozen categories of expense, is no longer running in the red.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2021

million of convertible notes (which we also refer to as a Simple Agreement for Future Equity agreement (SAFE)) in a private financing round in August 2021, we had raised less than $3.0 What a silly non-GAAP metric! Prior to issuing $10.0 million in outside equity since our founding in 2007.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

The company boasts 85,000 active hosts and 160,000 active vehicle listings in over 7,500 cities as of September 30, 2021. In 2021, sales and losses skyrocketed. million in net revenue in the first nine months of 2021, a whopping 207% increase from $107.8 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2021, compared to $51.7

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

The venture capital boom of 2021 was not built from merely traditional VC money. New data from CB Insights makes it clear that 2021 was a colossal period for CVCs, an all-time record by some metrics and a near-record year by others. However, the 2021 result was actually fractionally lower than the 259 built in 2018.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

But a challenge came up in 2021 as he was raising the seed round — the venture funding market got white-hot. By all means, 2021 will top this trend. “A A company’s metrics cannot move materially in such short spans. In 2016, total VC investments in the U.S. were about $80 billion.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2022

From late-2021 highs, the public markets have slashed the value of tech companies large and small, SaaS and otherwise. Instacart said that it set a number of records in 2021, including order volume, gross transaction volume, revenue and gross profit. Read it every morning on TechCrunch+ or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2021

At the time, Brex, which also competes in the corporate spend space, declined to share metrics. After covering the Ramp round in December and noting Divvy’s metrics at the same time, both Airbase ( more here ) and Teampay ( more here ) reached out with numbers of their own.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2021

With one of the highest inflation rates in the world, the country saw prices of food items such as beans grow by over 70% from July 2020 to July 2021. This report says the cost of food in the country has increased 19.57% in September 2021 compared to the same month last year.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2021

If we narrow our gaze to Q1 2021 numbers compared to Q1 2020, we can see that Duolingo’s MAUs rose from 33.5 From Q1 2020 to Q1 2021, Duolingo’s paid subscribers rose from 1.1 That was a slower pace than the company managed more generally in 2020, which matches Duolingo’s slower revenue growth in Q1 2021 than it recorded in 2020.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

In 2021, Alex and I wondered out loud if startups eschewing venture capital could have it all. “Despite the war chest of funding that VC-backed firms raised last year, bootstrapped companies are doing better than VC-backed companies across nearly every metric we analyzed,” the SaaS-focused fintech wrote. Cheaper growth.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 16, 2021

For now let’s focus on Squarespace’s own metrics. Turning to Squarespace-specific metrics, the company’s “unique subscriptions” rose from 2.984 million in 2019 to 3.656 million in 2020. per share for shares granted prior to March 11, 2021.” In 2019, Squarespace generated revenues of $484.8

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

Quan launched its beta product in March 2021, and says it is now working with 12 organizations, over 1,000 paid users and a platform engagement rate of 88%. Hence the reason why issues such as burn-out and toxic corporate cultures have been trending in the wrong way.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 17, 2023

That concept was good enough to get them into Y Combinator as part of the accelerator’s Winter 2021 cohort. Noya would inject its special carbon capture compounds into the tower’s water supply and after the water had done its cooling work, remove the carbon dioxide on the other end. The next year of work was fruitful, by all accounts.

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