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Investors in social media company Snap are reeling this afternoon as the stock has endured a bit of a meltdown following its release of Q2 earnings yesterday. The stock price…
As funding gets harder to come by, your risk tolerance may change, but your process for evaluating investors should not.
Investing in private markets has long been reserved for the ultra-rich. Thanks to tech startups, though, the process is becoming much more accessible for those who aren’t members of the…
If an early-stage startup is ready to raise money but its valuation hasn’t been established yet, a convertible note can serve as a good fundraising option.
Three firms discuss their funds and any concerns that limited partners had brought up during the fundraising stage.
Venture capital fund Headline has been investing in tech startups since — get this — 1999, which might tempt headline writers, perhaps unfairly, to apply the word “dinosaur,” if the…
Raising venture capital is rarely an easy lift for startups, but 2022 is turning out to be a more challenging year than we’ve seen for some time. As venture capital…
While many of Indonesia’s investment apps are focused on hooking first-time investors with low fees and starting deposits, PINA is targeting the middle-to-upper classes with wealth management services. The app…
Sequoia Capital reportedly raising two funds, and despite slower VC environment, it’s not alone
This news comes out just over a month after the venture capital giant warned founders to expect a longer economic recovery.
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Most startups were overvalued before 2021, and now it’s causing problems
In a normalizing market like this one, once-inflated valuations can become a big problem, particularly for founders, employees and early investors.
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MAYA Capital closes second fund with $100M for early-stage Latin American startups
This new fund triples the firm’s assets under management and will enable the pair to invest in another 25 to 30 companies.
In order to effectively mitigate sanction risks, PEs are doing due diligence on their LPs and investing in the management of compliance programs and policies at their portfolio companies.
Edtech up-skilling platform Degreed has acquired Learn In, which creates talent resource hubs for employers to better spin up education services for their teams. While we’d nearly always cover a…
TechCrunch+ roundup: Non-dilutive biotech capital, long-term angel investing, WayRay’s $80M pitch deck
As a veteran startup worker who has been laid off during economic downturns, it’s dissonant to hear investors say this is a good time to launch a software startup. They’re…
On an institutional level, the onus for change lies on those with the power to make it happen.
Bill Gates offers guidance on what climate technologies he’s looking to fund
Bill Gates joined us at TechCrunch Sessions: Climate 2022 to discuss his priorities in terms of investment projects and technological breakthroughs needed to help effectively address climate change.
Next time an investor asks “How can I be helpful?” give this approach some consideration.
Project A Ventures launched 10 years ago in Berlin when a handful of a ex-Rocket Internet players decided they’d try their own hand at this startup stuff. Since then they’ve…
Amid rising uncertainty about how financing will look for tech in the months and maybe years to come, one of the newer kids on the VC block in Europe is…
Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is our…
Bonfire Ventures aims to help B2B software startups make it to Series A.
As it turns out, we don’t just have a diversity problem in tech employment. We have a diversity problem in tech investment as well.
Data intelligence startup Near, with 1.6B anonymized user IDs, lists on Nasdaq via SPAC at a $1B market cap; raises $100M
The IPO window has all but closed for technology companies in the wake of a massive downturn in the market, but an opening still remains for some, in the form…
The fund aims to make blockchain investing easier through asset allocation, risk management and position sizing in crypto.
A much-anticipated market downturn may finally be here, and investors have been preparing for it by diversifying their portfolios away from the traditional stock and bond holdings, and into alternative…
Investing app Robinhood is on a roll with announcing new features as it looks to appeal to more customers amid dwindling transaction revenue. Less than a week after unveiling plans…
TechCrunch+ roundup: Psychedelic investor survey, 6 issues VCs look for, hiring on a budget
If you can envision a solution that solves a customer’s problem, it helps to have technical skills if you want to bring it to market. But that’s not a requirement.
Web3 startup Syndicate‘s goal is to demystify the DAO (decentralized autonomous organization). Its “Web3 Investment Clubs” product, which TechCrunch covered in January, lets users spin up an investment group with…
Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This was a…
For every story I hear about a huge round that came together in two weeks, I meet 20 great founders who hustle for months and can’t raise a penny.