The 5 biggest mistakes I made as a first-time startup founder
First-time entrepreneurs are bound to make some major mistakes. The true measure of a serial entrepreneur, I’d submit, is the ability to recognize those mistakes and adapt.
Get feedback on your pitch deck from tech leaders on Extra Crunch Live
Extra Crunch Live 2.0 launches next week! Among several improvements, we’re thrilled to ramp up the Pitch Deck Teardown. In short, folks can submit their pitch decks to get feedback from investors and founders alike. The importance of the pitch deck...
10 VCs say interactivity, regulation and independent creators will reshape digital media in 2021
The digital media industry will give us plenty to talk about this year.
Fintechs could see $100 billion of liquidity in 2021
We believe one of the most important trends to gain traction in the last three years to be point-of-sale financing, now referred to as Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL).
How VCs invested in Asia and Europe in 2020
Falling seed volume, lots of big rounds. That’s 2020 VC around the world in a nutshell.
8 VCs agree: behavioral support and remote visits make digital health a strong bet for 2021
We asked some of our favorite health tech VCs from The TechCrunch List where we are headed in the next year, what they’re most excited about and where they might be investing.
Wendy Xiao Schadeck becomes Northzone’s first New York partner
Northzone‘s new partner Wendy Xiao Schadeck isn’t new to the firm — she actually joined back in 2015. Before entering the venture world, Schadeck co-founded co-working and childcare startup CoHatchery. And as a Northzone principal, she’s already been...
In 2020, VCs invested $428M into US-based startups every day
Despite a pandemic that sparked a global recession, 2020 was still a record year for venture capital investments into American startups.
It may not be as glamorous as D2C, but beauty tech is big money
Shifting consumer demands within beauty and retail are creating rich opportunities for U.S.-based beauty/consumer tech SaaS companies.
After a record year for Israeli startups, 16 investors tell us what’s next
Israel’s startup ecosystem raised record amounts of funding and produced 19 IPOs in 2020, despite the pandemic. Now tech companies across industries are poised for an even better year, according to more than a dozen investors we talked to in the coun...