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Micro funds offer an opportunity for LPs and startups in niche categories, small markets or emerging geographies.
Valuations have been top of mind this year as VCs navigate their overvalued portfolios and founders scramble to conserve cash and grow into lofty valuations.
New Q3 2022 data from PitchBook on venture capital aggregates in the U.S. make it a bit hard to square reality with the leading narrative.
New data from Carta indicates that valuations for very early-stage startups are holding up better than we might have expected in the current slowdown.
A new report from PitchBook shows that VC activity in the AI sector declined precipitously over the past few months.
Progress in the amount of venture capital funding raised by companies by all-women teams has been slow and daunting, if steady.
How are the myriad issues in China’s economy impacting Chinese startups?
Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but when it comes to getting ahold of an appointment for your hair or another treatment…that’s a different story: The bespoke…
Which is more reflective of the market today: H1 2022 numbers compared to their year-ago comps or the high-impact repricings seen by Instacart, Klarna and others?
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What downturn? Investors remain bullish on HR tech as the Great Resignation slows
HR tech platforms are still getting a lot of investor attention despite headwinds at the macroeconomic level that have the potential to affect their sales.
TechCrunch+ roundup: Convertible note fundraising, fintech’s falloff, how to mark-to-market
If your company is on the cusp of an opportunity, convertible note financing could be a way forward, but only if you have a realistic valuation — and a plan…
Climate tech winners in the second quarter spanned a range of businesses, from renewable energy developers to EV manufacturers and nuclear startups.
Casavo, an Opendoor-style proptech from Italy, raises $410M to expand its instant buyer platform across Europe
Opendoor opened the door, so to speak, to the idea of applying technology to the concept of house flipping to both scale the opportunity and make it considerably more efficient.…
VC firms are holding on to their checkbooks as the investment market slows to a crawl, but fund managers are taking advantage of the lull to fill up their coffers…
There’s perhaps more capital in the private markets than investors really want to admit.
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…
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It’s correction time for Latin American VC activity
Let’s dig into the early Q2 data on venture capital investment into LatAm startups, and then discuss the halo effect — or lack thereof — of Latin American giants like Nubank.
Let’s explore insurtech activity in both North America and Europe, compare recent results and look ahead to what could be coming.
Watching the mega-round venture world contract as the crypto world stays silly is a good reminder that the web3 world is in fact siloed from the rest of the global…
Fintech NovoPayment raises first venture round in 15 years to expand its full-stack banking API platform
The digital transformation of banking and payments services is a red-hot trend that’s shown no signs of slowing down. Banking-as-a-service (BaaS) products like Synapse, Unit and Bond have helped fuel the…
Although there was still ample capital in the market and deal-making appeared strong at the start of this year, we’re seeing stress cracks appear across the startup sector. What gives?
What’s your startup worth with a single-digit revenue multiple? For startups building software in the last few years, the question may sound unnecessarily harsh. It’s not.
Ardoq, the enterprise architecture startup, raises $125M to help organizations make sense of their networks
As organizations continue to build out their digital architecture, a new category of enterprise software has emerged to help them manage that process. Now, Ardoq — which makes enterprise architecture…
One of the bigger impacts of COVID-19 has been that more business than ever before is now being carried out online. To meet that opportunity, today a startup called Apollo.io…
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Are late-stage startup valuations going to suffer this year?
Everyone can run the math on what slowing growth and cash burn are worth on the public markets, and it’s a very different number than it was last year.
Sweden’s Volta raises $260M at a $490M valuation to get its all-electric trucks into production by the end of this year
Volta Trucks — the Swedish electric vehicle startup that believes it can build better urban delivery vehicles and other trucks that are safer and take up a smaller carbon footprint…
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Why 2022 insurtech investment could surprise you
Insurtech startups that can retain a tech multiple have a shot at keeping their valuation intact; those that don’t may struggle.
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Venture capitalists fell in love with Europe last year
Amid this long-lasting startup era, 2021 may go down as the peak venture capital year, especially in Europe.
Losing Chinese corporate venture capitalists entirely, and overnight — which will not happen, mind — would be sharply contractionary but not lethal.
Less than 2% of venture capital funding went to all-female founding teams in 2021, marking a five-year low, new data from PitchBook shows. All-female founding teams did receive 83% more…
