TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2020

VCs expect the companies they invest in to use data to improve their decision-making. So why aren’t they doing that when evaluating startup teams? Sixty percent of startups fail because of problems with the team. Instinct matters, but a team is too big a risk to leave to intuition. I have founded two companies.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

The company’s service has garnered enough attention to pick up a pretty sizable new round from investors led by GGV Capital and a return investment from the Slack Fund. Throughout their negotiations last year, the teams used Yac to conduct due diligence, according to Mitchell. million in a new round of funding.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

AllSpice , a collaborative hub designed for hardware development, came out of private beta on a mission to build a DevOps ecosystem inspired by GitHub. They bonded over frustrations at their respective jobs in what seemed like a hardware industry left behind to rely on PDFs and email to get things done versus software development.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

However, it appears that even though VCs are proceeding more cautiously than before and taking their time with due diligence, they are still investing. CB Insights recently found that two of the largest global VC firms, Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, actually backed more fintech companies in 2022 than any other category.

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CIO

OCTOBER 24, 2024

A substantial 36% of IT professionals surveyed by Dice.com believe that the primary purpose of many AI projects they’ve worked on is to show investors, board members, or outside stakeholders that the company is doing something with AI. Many of the company’s clients have questions about what AI projects they should launch, he says.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2022

If I look at my portfolio, my companies that are active on Twitter actually do have an easier time raising money because investors feel like they know them.”. A prep checklist for startups about to undergo technical due diligence. Development process. Engineering team contributions. monetization.”. Product roadmap.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The company, with bases in both Austin and Australia, was started in 2009 and facilitates exits for millions of online business owners, some that operate on e-commerce marketplaces, blogs, SaaS and apps, the newest data integration being for Shopify, Blake Hutchison, CEO of Flippa, told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

Instabug , a startup that aims to help mobile developers monitor, identify and fix bugs within apps, has raised $46 million in a Series B funding round led by Insight Partners. The company declined to reveal its current valuation. Gabr went on to share that in 2021, the company’s software sat within 2.7 billion issues. .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

But with the pandemic bringing in utter confusion and panic, companies downsized as investors re-strategized, and due diligence slowed during the first few months of the year. “When these companies evolve to go global, we still count them as African companies.” billion and $1.8

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

“We were at this trajectory as a company where we had a semblance of product-market fit,” said Bapu, reflecting on the summer of 2021. “When I walked out of the meeting, I went immediately to one of my partners, and was like, ‘Finally, I found the company that is following the right approach,” she said.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

I can name more movies that feature flying cars than I can eVTOL companies, but that’s changing. Last year, boosters poured billions into eVTOL as companies like Joby Aviation, Archer and Lilium used SPACs to rake in cash to fund R&D and test flight programs. As my company continues to grow, I’m considering coming to the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2023

I have recently been a part of a few M&A processes at companies I work closely with. These transactions involved private companies selling to larger companies (public and private) and were all-cash transactions. This inspired me to chronicle best practices and considerations for founders who are selling their company.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

The spectrum of companies coming out of IndieBio has always been pretty wild, and its latest batch definitely doesn’t disappoint. As the early-stage, biology-focused accelerator arm of SOSV, IndieBio gives the companies in its program $250,000+, mentorship and full access to a biology lab to bring their ideas to life.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

According to a 2021 survey (albeit from an edge computing services vendor), 77% of companies said that they expect to see more spending for edge projects in 2022. Managing a fleet of edge devices across locations can be a burden on IT teams that lack the necessary infrastructure. ” Those are lofty promises. .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

“Most of the companies we have seen have an AI component to support the discovery or development processes,” Francisco Dopazo, a general partner at Humboldt Fund told TechCrunch recently. When evaluating ‘AI for drug discovery companies,’ I view AI as a tool,” Shaq Vayda, principal at Lux Capital, told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2023

But dealmaking is idiosyncratic: a few investors might be content to make a deal over coffee, but early-stage teams still need a sturdy pitch deck or memo they can leave behind. If you haven’t already spoken to scores of customers or created a contact spreadsheet with at least 25 investors who’ve backed companies like yours, it’s too soon.

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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Unlike established companies that can afford deliberate, hierarchical decision-making, startups operate in an environment where rapid execution is essential for survival. Development pace: Is code typically shipped in days/weeks, or does it take months/quarters? Team deterioration: Losing top talent to more dynamic organizations.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 8, 2021

There are a growing number of BaaS companies, which all essentially have the same end goal — to make it faster and easier for fintechs and other companies to launch financial services and products. . But Productfy, unlike many other BaaS companies, is not just focused on developers.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2024

At N2Growth, we recognize that the Chief Operating Officer is indispensable to the executive leadership team. This role is not merely about managing daily operations; it involves strategically aligning people to operational processes with the company’s long-term vision.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

99 Twitter problems, and Apple might have one : It’s no secret that Elon Musk thinks Apple’s 30% IAP (“inventor assistance program” to those of us not up on tech lingo) transaction charge to developers is “a lot.” The company already let go of about 2,000 people last November. The TechCrunch Top 3. Get yer Nutanix! by Ron and Alex.

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CIO

JULY 22, 2024

“The outcome of the review may still be the same decision but necessary to review,” Gupta said, adding that DishTV is already re-evaluating its cloud strategy in a phased manner after the Crowdstrike incident. Organizations and CISOs must review their cloud strategies, and the automatic updating of patches should be discouraged.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Antler is an early-stage venture capital firm which can also be described as a “company builder.” ” It helps founders build complementary co-founding teams, provides support with deep business model validation and a global platform for scaling their businesses. Melalite Ayenew is the firm’s tech partner.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

CEO Ross Rich says that the new funds, which bring Accord’s total raised to $17 million, will be put toward the startup’s engineering, sales and marketing teams. The brothers say that they discovered the challenges of modern B2B sales firsthand as their teams scaled from a handful of reps to thousands on the go-to-market team.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Hebbia , a startup developing AI-infused search tools, today announced that it raised $30 million in a Series A round led by Index Ventures with participation from Radical Ventures. is TechCrunch’s parent company) and Raquel Urtasun, a former head of AI research at Uber. Of note, among the investors was Yahoo!

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

In fact, even some of the excesses of 2021 were eclipsed when the number of investments on the continent rose higher in 2022 than they had a year earlier, boosted by early-stage firms flocking to fund startups in the wake of landmark exits of homegrown companies like Jumia and Paystack. How does this affect the investment landscape?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

But the foot traffic and location analytics startup saw growth in new categories, including consumer packaged goods (CPG) and hedge funds that use its tech to perform due diligence. The new capital will be used on research and development and expanding Placer.ai’s sales and marketing teams.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

Between June to July, several ex-employees of Egyptian startups, including Capiter , wrote posts about layoffs at their respective companies even though the employers never addressed them publicly. Other companies include OPay Egypt, elmenus, ExpandCart and Brimore. The company had only a month runway as of August, they said.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2021

Its software platform helps private companies digitize and manage cap tables, perform due diligence and issue equity to employees. Qapita was founded in 2019 by Ravi Ravulaparthi, Lakshman Gupta and Vamsee Mohan, and has since grown its team to 30 people.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2023

The potential of AI tools like ChatGPT creates a similar dilemma — should companies license large language models without modifications, or customize them and pay much higher usage rates? Now, bootstrapping founders can iterate without developers to keep costs down and extend their runway. Thanks very much for reading TC+ this week!

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

Smile Identity , a KYC compliance and ID verification partner for many African fintechs and businesses, has acquired Inclusive Innovations, the parent company of Appruve , a Ghanaian developer of identity verification software.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 4, 2021

And while social justice was, rightly, the initial impetus, companies are finally waking up to the business case for diversity initiatives. Recent research by McKinsey shows that organizations with the most ethnically diverse teams are 36% more likely to financially outperform those with the least. What are their cultural drivers?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

The family is teaming up with Doug Renert of Tandem Capital and producer Jeff Beacher of Beacher Media Group on the fund, which aims to back high-growth companies with strong end-user brands, including those in the direct-to-consumer space, fintech, edtech, healthcare, insurtech and other B2B2C platforms. . Image Credits: Step.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

The company has raised $100 million in a round of funding led by Novator — the European firm that’s backed Deliveroo, Stripe and Tier, among others — with Burda Principal Investments and General Catalyst, and individuals including Ilkka Paananen of Supercell, Miki Kuusi of Wolt and Matt Mullenweg of Automattic also participating.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 17, 2022

Both the developments were first reported by Bloomberg News.). The post, written by the Sequoia team, said that it may often appear that investors don’t do enough due diligence, but reminded that when investments are made at seed or during a later time within the early stage, “there is hardly a business to diligence.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 3, 2023

Yuval Krigel is an associate at YL Ventures who focuses on deal sourcing, technological due diligence and providing value-add support to the firm’s portfolio companies. Founding teams at early-stage companies that focus on solving these problems will continue to attract investor interest.” Yuval Krigel.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

Tooling around : Two years ago, two former Palantir engineers started Kurtosis, a crypto-focused developer tool system, and have now raised $20 million in fresh funding to hire a team to get a new product out in the next year, Jacquelyn reports. Diving into due diligence. See you tomorrow! The TechCrunch Top 3.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

But startup-land is different: before a founding team can breathe life into their great idea, someone must first show investors exactly how that idea solves an existing problem and generates enough revenue that it’s worth the risk and paperwork. 6 technologists discuss how no-code tools are changing software development.

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