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A look back at the year that the Sub-Saharan African startup scene found its stride
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African tech in 2017 was about the normalization of market events mostly absent even a decade ago.
Topics: ventures, scene, startup, african, yearandelas, uganda, subsaharan, york, stride, venture, expansion, zuckerberg, vc, tech, look. -
Alfred Lin, the Sequoia VC and former Zappos COO, thinks this retail startup could be a generation-defining brand
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When the storied venture firm Sequoia likes a deal, it will sometimes not only lead one of its financing rounds but fund it exclusively — no matter how that impacts earlier investors. Given the firm’s powerful brand, it’s hard to complain (too much), even if it means that earlier backers see their stakes diluted. Such […]
Topics: sequoia, retail, lot, earlier, generationdefining, brand, farahi, dolls, venture, thinks, company, customers, million, vc, kill, startup, zappos, coo, lin, techcrunch. -
Alibaba Group VC unperturbed by China’s slowdown
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Alibaba Group VC Joseph Tsai says the firm is unperturbed by China’s economic slowdown.
Topics: vc, group, economy, economic, chinas, tsai, cent, unperturbed, growth, slowdown, alibaba, compared. -
Charts: Global Venture Capital Funding 2021
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Global venture capital funding more than doubled in 2021 to a whopping $621 billion. Financial technology companies received the most, followed by retail tech providers.
Topics: investments, vc, regions, capital, venture, positivity, global, charts, q4, record, billion, technology, funding. -
Chinese sellers on Amazon in hot demand by VCs and e-commerce roll-ups
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Chinese merchants selling on Amazon are having a moment. The scruffy exporters are used to roaming about suburban factory areas and dealing with constant cash flow strain, but suddenly they find themselves having coffee with top Chinese venture capital firms and investment representatives from internet giants, who come with big checks to hunt down the […]
Topics: hot, techcrunch, bbg, china, rollups, ecommerce, europe, brand, demand, amazon, brands, sellers, vc, chinese, selling, vcs. -
Despite booming consumer demand, VC interest in e-commerce startups falls in 2020
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Walmart reported earnings this morning. Most of the numbers are immaterial to you and I, having little to nothing to do with the world of private capital and startups, but one metric did leap out: In its quarter ending July 31, Walmart’s U.S. “e-commerce sales” grew by 97% compared to the year-ago quarter, with what […]
Topics: grew, interest, exchange, techcrunch, startups, quarter, results, walmarts, booming, capital, vc, falls, demand, venture, despite, ecommerce, consumer. -
Diving deep into Africa’s blossoming tech scene
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Jumia may be the first startup you’ve heard of from Africa. But the e-commerce venture that recently listed on the NYSE is definitely not the first or last word in African tech. The continent has an expansive digital innovation scene, the components of which are intersecting rapidly across Africa’s 54 countries and 1.2 billion people. […]
Topics: tech, startup, diving, formation, deep, continent, blossoming, hubs, world, digital, vc, africas, techcrunch, african, scene. -
Extra Crunch roundup: Antitrust jitters, SPAC odyssey, white-hot IPOs, more
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Some time ago, I gave up on the idea of identifying a thread that could connect each story in this weekly roundup. There are no unified theories for technology news.
Topics: markets, crunch, companies, techcrunch, public, jitters, week, visa, ipo, roundup, antitrust, whitehot, ipos, vc, spac, extra, vcs, plaid, odyssey, alex. -
Extra Crunch roundup: Inside DoorDash’s IPO, first-person founder stories, the latest in fintech VC and more
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One of my favorite series of Monty Python sketches is built around the concept of surprise: Chapman: I didn’t expect a kind of Spanish Inquisition. [JARRING CHORD] [Three cardinals burst in] Cardinal Ximénez: NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition! I was reminded of this today when I needed to reschedule a few stories so we could cover DoorDash’s S-1 […]
Topics: recent, ipo, left, founders, roundup, firstperson, doordashs, edtech, fintech, inside, covid19, techcrunch, latest, extra, founder, vc. -
Getting Funded: How Gender Bias Affects Women Founders
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Jennifer Freitas walked into a bank to secure a business loan. She was only 29 at the time but was in a better financial position than most of her peers: no debt, and enough money in her account to guarantee the loan. Still, she was denied—unless her dad co-signed. 62% of women entrepreneurs report that they experience some form of gender bias during the funding process. Through the stories of Jennifer and other women, we dive into the funding gender gap.More
Topics: business, bank, getting, gender, men, founders, affects, vc, women, gail, bias, mom, funded, funding, businesses. -
In conversation with Sasha Astafyeva, Atomico’s new consumer-focused investment partner
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European VC firm Atomico announced this week that it has hired Sasha Astafyeva as a new investment partner. Astafyeva previously spent three years as a principal at Felix Capital . In her new role, she’ll lead “sourcing, due diligence, and management” of consumer tech companies, according to a company statement. Originally from Ukraine, Astafyeva was […]
Topics: consumerfocused, consumer, terrible, sectors, investment, conversation, atomicos, think, sasha, astafyeva, world, online, current, vc, techcrunch, partner. -
Jumia, DHL, and Alibaba will face off in African ecommerce 2.0
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The business of selling consumer goods and services online is a relatively young endeavor across Africa, but ecommerce is set to boom. Over the last eight years, the sector has seen its first phase of big VC fundings, startup duels and attrition. To date, scaling e-commerce in Africa has straddled the line of challenge and […]
Topics: vc, african, jumia, techcrunch, online, dhl, africa, market, konga, services, ecommerce, startup, nigeria, alibaba, face. -
Markai raises $4M from Pear VC, Sea Capital and others to buy Chinese e-commerce brands
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China has attracted yet another e-commerce roll-up to enter its gargantuan e-commerce market. Markai, founded by two Stanford business school grads, has joined the fray to buy out Chinese brands seeking global consumers. So-called brand roll-ups, or e-commerce aggregators, have cropped up in Europe and the U.S. over the past few years. Usually venture-backed, they […]
Topics: aggregators, brands, supply, chinese, ecommerce, brand, team, raises, china, vc, small, sellers, spencer, capital, pear, sea, techcrunch, markai, buy. -
Pan-European VC fund Target Global is opening an office in Barcelona
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Hola Barcelona. Target Global, a pan-European VC firm with €700 million under management and a broad investment canvas spanning SaaS, marketplaces, fintech, insurtech and mobility, is opening an office in the Catalan capital. Investor director, Lina Chong, will lead the expansion into Spain, having relocated to Barcelona from the fund’s Berlin headquarters. They’re setting up […]
Topics: paneuropean, barcelona, fund, startup, global, target, opening, tech, techcrunch, vc, startups, mobile, saas, local, growth, office. -
Partners at B2B European VC henQ discuss remote work’s biggest advantages
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HenQ, an Amsterdam-based VC that invests in European B2B software startups typically at seed and Series A, recently disclosed the first close of its fourth fund at €70 million. The final close is expected to top out at between €75-€85 million later this year, and the firm has already begun backing companies out of the […]
Topics: remote, vc, works, henq, seed, startups, b2b, invest, software, customers, techcrunch, nordics, business, european, biggest, partners, focus, discuss. -
Southeast Asia e-commerce startup iPrice raises $4M led by chat app Line’s VC arm
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iPrice, a service that aggregates Southeast Asia’s e-commerce websites in a single destination, has pulled in new funding led by messaging app Line’s VC arm, Line Ventures. The round is officially undisclosed, but TechCrunch understands from a source close to negotiations that it is worth around $4 million. Existing iPrice backers Cento Ventures (formerly known as […]
Topics: iprice, number, ecommerce, lines, million, led, site, chat, company, asia, ventures, vc, destination, southeast, raises, mobile, startup. -
TechCrunch+ roundup: Less VC for SV, 2022 marketing predictions, GTM research strategies
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The fact that the Bay Area's share of startup funding is shrinking shouldn't be cause for alarm — it's good news for the entire country.
Topics: customer, management, writes, customers, strategies, gtm, marketing, great, techcrunch, vc, investment, factors, visa, roundup, predictions, research, growth, sv. -
TechCrunch+ roundup: VC advice for CEOs, 2022 e-commerce trends, OpenSea’s valuation
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This is a fantastic time to launch a startup, but if you're trying to grow one — well, winter is coming.
Topics: valuation, ecommerce, spac, privacy, ad, startup, public, vc, startups, marketing, advice, trends, data, predictions, techcrunch, ceos, openseas, writes, roundup. -
TechCrunch+ roundup: VC ‘bottom feeders,’ valuation calculator, think like an investor
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Farmers don't get embarrassed when the price of corn drops; similarly, there's no reason for startup founders to lose their joy because publicly traded tech stocks are undercutting their valuations.
Topics: feeders, vc, think, startup, technology, valuation, writes, roundup, investors, war, techcrunch, tech, calculator, sonalker, investor, founders, valuations, post. -
The 8-Figure Business Built on Vinyl Records and Subscriptions
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Matt Fiedler co-founded Vinyl Me, Please, a subscription-based vinyl-membership business, to give people the tangible connection to music they craved. After the first five years of bootstrapping, the business brought in over $11 million in revenue, and signed up more than 30,000 subscribers.More
Topics: subscriptions, 8figure, experience, approach, way, matt, built, music, record, vinyl, brand, vc, records, business. -
Why VC funding is falling out of favor with top D2C brands
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Venture capital, from my vantage point, has lost its sheen for a lot of product-based brands. They’re not destitute and desperate for financing.
Topics: techcrunch, favor, ive, brands, slow, venture, interested, vc, funding, productbased, theyre, falling, businesses, d2c, founders. -
Why a startup with $10M in annual revenue took 18 months to get VC funding
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Back in 2006, Joseph Heller went to China where he spent the next decade learning about the manufacturing business. Based on that experience he eventually built a startup called The Studio. The idea was to help connect people with a small business idea to manufacturers in China in a fully digital way. By 2016 he […]
Topics: idea, china, heller, small, company, took, built, months, manufacturing, annual, million, vc, funding, business, 10m, startup, techcrunch, revenue. -
Will China’s coronavirus-related trends shape the future for American VCs?
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There may be dark horses waiting to break out when this pandemic is over. Paraphrasing "A Tale of Two Cities," this is the worst time, but also maybe the best time.
Topics: future, china, coronavirusrelated, deals, usbased, american, investment, chinas, slowdown, trends, techcrunch, week, vcs, shape, vc, venture.