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Early-stage VC firm @Defyvc has closed on its third fund of $300 million to invest in pre-Series A funding rounds.
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Early-stage VC firm has closed on its third fund of $300 million to invest in pre-Series A funding rounds.
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Toast now makes 84% of its revenue from fintech solutions compared to 12% from subscriptions.
Similarly, Shopify makes 73% of its revenue from fintech solutions compared to 27% from subscriptions (+ app marketplace)
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Appreciate the work on funding Latino founders
Mariela Salas at , Cheryl Campos & Af from Nancy Torres Marcos Gonzalez at and Laura Lucas
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Venture funding is down all around, but this year’s pullback is hitting Latine-funded companies in the U.S. particularly hard. We take a look at the numbers and speak with leaders in the community.
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To journalists, what are the best tools to keep track of all you read?
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Personal carbon-cutting app Joro raises $10M Series A from Sequoia, Jay-Z’s Arrive tcrn.ch/3DD4KWo by @tdechant
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“There's just been a huge wave of companies asking for extension or convertible notes in order to kick the can down the road, because no one is able to price accurately right now,” said from
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Lightspeed Venture Partners has raised $4.6 billion across two growth funds in 2022, the largest growth funds raised in its 22-year history. We spoke with partner James Ephrati for more detail about the firm’s investment thesis.
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VC funding pullback continues
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Global venture funding reached $25.2 billion in August 2022, the lowest monthly funding amount recorded in the two years since August 2020, according to a Crunchbase News analysis.
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Congrats to Garry news.crunchbase.com/business/initi
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Next year, I'll be going back to Y Combinator as President and CEO.
It's a one in ten billion lifetimes kind of opportunity— YC gave me my start, and I'm deeply grateful to the community.
forbes.com/sites/alexkonr
We've got several amazing reporters who cut their teeth at Crunchbase News.
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Congrats @crunchbase! Crunchbase looks to grow its database of startups with $50M in new cash tcrn.ch/3RKTH2l via @techcrunch
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Planning to write about extension rounds in 2022. Any investors that care to chat about this please DM me
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Looking forward to meeting the startups tomorrow at Connect Europe with fellow media judges Join here bit.ly/3QzgBJd
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Why is everyone raising extension rounds these days?
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So far in 2022 ... funding deals led are up for Vision Fund, Tiger Global, compared to the same time period in 2021
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Investors are sounding the alarm that the funding environment for startups has changed dramatically compared to last year. But are the most active startup investors actually pulling back on their spending in 2022? We look at the data.
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Great to talk with on funding and other unicorns really early
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Proud to say @Initialized is among the top early stage investors with the most number of unicorns funded at seed worldwide.
We fund before it’s obvious. twitter.com/crunchbasenews…
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The Unicorn Board hits $4T and keeps growing
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Want to keep track of the world’s most highly valued startups?
Introducing: The Crunchbase Unicorn Board 
Powered by @crunchbase’s data and updated daily, this list tracks private companies as they reach #unicorn status with a $1B+ valuation
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Powered by @crunchbase’s data and updated daily, this list tracks private companies as they reach #unicorn status with a $1B+ valuation
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Very interesting to highlight active investors in current European Unicorns led by
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Firms @Accel and @IndexVentures are by far the most active investors in European unicorns over time. And their lead persists when it comes to investments in the new crop of 86 companies to join The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in 2021. #unicorn
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For those of you interested in the financial modeling side of early stage VC, I’ll send you a VC exit model template. Drop a 
if you want me to DM it to you!
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Venture investment into cryptocurrency and blockchain companies has gone through the roof in 2021. We spoke with @ShanAggarwal, who leads the @Coinbase venture and acquisition strategy, about the growth of the crypto ecosystem.
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More to come from All Raise in 2022!
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Another record funding month in November 2021 and 48 new unicorns
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November set another new record for global venture funding, with $65 billion raised. We take a deeper look in this monthly recap.
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Thirty startups attained $10B+ valuations globally in 2021 so far, compared to 15 new decacorns in 2020 and five in 2019 ( / Crunchbase News)
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Tiger and Insight lead on funding pace in 2021
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Crunchbase News analysis shows that as more growth investors compete with VCs in startup investing, firms from the Big Apple are gaining traction.
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Seed-stage fund @freestylevc is a year into investing from its $102M fund 5. We spoke with partner @jennylefcourt about what's happening in seed investing, the trends and technologies she's most excited about, and the landscape for female investors.
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They keep investing
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The heaviest spenders in the VC world are showing no signs of paring down by putting more capital to work. The most active startup investors in Q3 participated in a total of 661 funding rounds. We look at the top names and the deals they did.
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One of the first investors in @netflix and @zillow, @TCVTech has also found success playing the long game with its portfolio companies. GP Neil Tolaney discusses growth stage investing, the firm’s new $4B fund, and what TCV is investing in this year.
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I’ll also be doing more work in the freelance world… but after my wedding, which is in only NINE DAYS! 
Lots of exciting changes and I’m really happy about all of them.
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It’s incredible to see @seedcamp continue to prove out they’re the best seed investors in Europe, not to mention the best to work with. Keep it going going team, you’re awesome. @rsohoni @cee @tom_wils @Natashalytton @SiaHouchangnia news.crunchbase.com/news/europe-fi
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Data. Data. Data. You can't change what you don't measure, which is why we keep you posted on industry changes for female founders and funders in tech.
We just updated our All Raise x Crunchbase VC Checkwriter Dashboard, which tracks the progress of female checkwriters.🧵
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18 new crypto-corns this year, per crunchbase
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Seed ecosystem just got strong. Is this the largest seed fund?
and a cross over fund
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with a16z making a seed fund + main + crypto funds, to go full stack all it needs is a SPAC or two
Has a16z done more press since launching its own media property or is it just me?
TechCrunch interview with GP Martin Casado:
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.@IVP knows a thing or two about funding SaaS startups. Partners @parsa_s and @themichaelmiao talk about the metrics they look at when investing in subscription software companies, and how startup founders should be benchmarking company numbers.
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Venture & growth equity is not slowing down in Q3 2021 !
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The furious pace at which venture investment was deployed globally in the first half of 2021 is not slowing down. Crunchbase data shows global funding came in at $61B in July 2021 matching the all-time record set in June. Here's what you need to know 
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Europe grew more than 200% in H1 2021 YoY!
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.A few interesting stats on the EU tech scene - Europe is truly at an inflection point 
@geneteare @Accel
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- Europe is truly at an inflection point
@geneteare @Accel
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Interested in perspectives on this massive increase in global funding in H1 2021.
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Global venture capital funding for the first half of 2021 shattered records as investors put more than $288 billion into deals worldwide.
Here’s a closer look at where the money went, and more: news.crunchbase.com/news/global-vc
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Yeah OK it was a big Series A but how about instead we rename them Series
D - Do what takes round
I - I need scale round
L - Long haul round
U - U gotta win round
T - 3-for-1 split round
I - Don't know what I own round
O - Oh well round
N - Nine figure or bust round
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