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Startups Weekly: What’s up with YC? Plus, mobility layoffs and Airbnb’s grand plans

sudshr47 March 9, 2019

In this week’s startups newsletter: Y Combinator president Sam Altman is stepping down, Marie Kondo is raising VC and Munchery has finally filed for bankruptcy.

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Venture investors and startup execs say they don’t need Elizabeth Warren to defend them from big tech

sudshr47 March 8, 2019

Responding to Elizabeth Warren’s call to regulate and break up some of the nation’s largest technology companies, the venture capitalists that invest in technology companies are advising the presidential hopeful to move slowly and not break anything. Warren’s plan called for regulators to be appointed to oversee the unwinding of several acquisitions that were critical […]

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VCs have growing appetite for “AgriFood”

sudshr47 March 7, 2019

Venture investors are pouring billions of dollars into feeding their hunger for food and agriculture startups. Whether that trend line is due to enthusiasm for the sector or just broader heavy investing in the VC space is much less clear. According to a recent report published by AgFunder – a VC and investing marketplace focused […]

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Pioneer Square Labs is invigorating Seattle’s startup ecosystem

sudshr47 March 6, 2019

How the startup studio’s “validation engine” has made it one of the best company builders in the business.

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500 Startups Japan becomes Coral Capital with a new $45M fund

sudshr47 March 5, 2019

The 500 Startups Japan crew is going independent. The VC firm announced a $30 million fund in 2015, and now the follow up is a new $45 million fund called Coral Capital. Helmed by James Riney and Yohei Sawayama, just like 500 Startups Japan, Coral will essentially continue the work the U.S. firm made in Japan, […]

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Online learning startup Skill-Lync promises India’s mechanical engineers a job, or their money back

sudshr47 February 26, 2019

You might hear stories that TechCrunch favors venture-backed companies, or will only write about startups that have raised from certain VCs. Well, I can tell you that is totally untrue. In fact, it couldn’t be further from the truth. Speaking for myself, I really enjoy talking to successful bootstrapped companies. Raising money can be a […]

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Thailand’s Jitta raises $6.5M to develop an algorithm-powered wealth fund

sudshr47 February 14, 2019

Jitta, a Bangkok-based fintech startup, has announced a $6.5 million Series A round as it prepares to launch an investment fund for consumers in what would be a first for the Thai market. The deal is one of the largest Series A in Thailand for some time and it was led by Beacon Venture Capital, […]

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Investors are still failing to back founders from diverse backgrounds

sudshr47 February 13, 2019

The large majority of venture dollars are invested in companies run by white men with a university degree, according to a new report by RateMyInvestor and Diversity VC. This new data reveals that despite the lip service investors have paid to backing founders from diverse backgrounds, much, much, more work needs to be done to actually […]

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Startups, demo tables are still available for TC Sessions: Robotics+AI

sudshr47 February 12, 2019

TechCrunch is known for helping startups get to the next level by providing a platform for them to showcase their work at a demo table. Startup demo tables for TechCrunch Sessions: Robotics + AI on April 18 are still available for any early-stage robotics or AI startup with $3M or less in funding. This is your chance […]

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Taali takes its popped water lily snacks from Y Combinator to the world

sudshr47 February 11, 2019

Aditya and Aarti Kochhar Kaji didn’t set out to start the snack food business Taali Foods when they were studying for their business degrees at Harvard. The couple both hail from Mumbai and met at the University of Pennsylvania . They were married before starting at Harvard’s Business School and initially were interested in other areas […]

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How to prepare for an investment apocalypse

sudshr47 February 8, 2019

Micah Rosenbloom Contributor Micah Rosenbloom is a venture partner at Founder Collective. More posts by this contributor Business school grads and quants are winning the battle to create the next P&G Startups need to respect the laws of retail physics Unlike 2000 and 2008, everyone in the startup world is expecting a crash to come […]

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How students are founding, funding and joining startups

sudshr47 February 6, 2019

Shawn Xu Contributor Share on Twitter Shawn Xu is a managing partner at The Dorm Room Fund. There has never been a better time to start, join, or fund a startup as a student.  Young founders who want to start companies while still in school have an increasing number of resources to tap into that […]

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