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9 Innovative Startups To Watch For in 2024

Tech.Co

2023 hasn't been an easy year to be a startup. In fact, according to Crunchbase more than 212 startups closed their shutters in the third fiscal quarter alone – the highest number recorded in the firm's history. Yet, while many early-stage startups crumbled under the pressure, diamonds also emerged.

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The top 10 cities for $100M VC rounds in 2018 so far

TechCrunch LA

The SaaS VC gap: China & other markets trail the US. Early-stage SaaS VC slip snaps recovery as public software stocks soar. companies’ largest VC raised in 2018 , and no surprise here: the 10 largest rounds all topped out well north of $100 million. 2018 in perspective. More posts by this contributor.

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Bonfire Ventures secures $230M for two new funds targeting B2B software startups

TechCrunch LA

It says over 85% of its portfolio companies raise follow-on funding — a collective $1.15 billion — and its first fund is “ranked as one of the top 5% of VC funds globally,” while the second fund is in “the top 10% of their respective vintage years.”. TechCrunch: How did you and Mark Mullen start working together?

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Reflections on 2018: Jeb Spencer, TVC Capital

socalTECH

As we close out our contributions for the end of 2018, here's Jeb Spencer of TVC Capital. Two big lessons in 2018. There are at least ten players in the baseball Hall of Fame who spent their careers failing to get a hit close to three out of four times they got up to bat. What was the biggest news for your company in 2018?

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LA's Q3 2018 Seed Deals Steady, Says Report

socalTECH

A new report, from Los Angeles startup investor Amplify LA , says that Los Angeles seed investment deals in Q3 were for the most part steady, with a total of $59.4M raised across 27 Los Angeles startups. The group says its tracking found that the average seed round size was $2.2M for the quarter.

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Creadev seasons Salted with new funding for its QSR brands

TechCrunch LA

Salted , a Los Angeles-based startup creating digitally native quick-service restaurant brands, brought in a new round of $16 million in Series A funding to continue its nationwide expansion. He has been following the company for about 18 months and decided to jump in when the company started raising its A round.

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The Changing Venture Landscape

Both Sides of the Table

I’m over-paying for every check I write into the VC ecosystem and valuations are being pushed up to absurd levels and many of these valuations and companies won’t hold in the long term. Today you have funders focused exclusively on “Day 0” startups or ones that aren’t even created yet. of the fund. By definition?—?I’m