venture capital

Ibotta’s expansion into enterprise should set it up for a successful IPO

Ibotta's recent partnerships with brands Exxon, Shell and Walmart helped the company reach profitability.

Matter Venture Partners raises $300M first fund to invest in ‘hard tech’

Matter Venture Partners will invest in between 15 and 20 companies with the new fund in the area of "hard tech."

New Summit is raising a new $100 million fund to back climate tech and underrepresented fund managers

The size of the new fund suggests that it is bullish that it can convince LPs to open their wallets based its impact-focused approach.

Marissa Mayer’s startup just rolled out photo sharing and event planning apps, and the internet isn’t sure what to think

When Marissa Mayer co-founded a startup six years ago in Palo Alto, California, expectations were sky high for the former Yahoo CEO and early Google employee. When that startup, Sunshine, revealed tha

Former Nextdoor exec raises $25 million for PipeDreams, a startup rolling up HVAC companies

Dan Laufer swore off ever founding a startup again after he sold apartment rental platform RentLingo in 2021, but Laufer also couldn’t ignore the potential to solve a problem he saw unfolding as

Mallard Bay is the Airbnb for guided hunting and fishing

Mallard Bay is building a marketplace and a vertical SaaS platform for guided fishing and hunting industries.

Liquid Death is just one of many VC-backed beverage startups ready to disrupt Coke and Pepsi

Some of the new venture-backed beverage startups are hoping to upend the industry by creating new drink categories.

1991 Ventures in London joins the growing list of VCs aimed at Ukrainian startups

U.K.-based limited partners Venrex and Samos Investments are this week backing the launch of a new VC primarily aimed at investing in startups led by Ukrainians inside and outside the war-torn count

Investors’ pledge to fight spyware undercut by past investments in US malware maker

On Monday, the Biden administration announced that six new countries had joined an international coalition to fight the proliferation of commercial spyware, sold by companies such as NSO Group or Inte

World Fund closes first €300M climate tech fund, seeking to follow on and back hardware

After three years of efforts, World Fund has finally closed a €300 million first fund, €50 million short of its target in 2021, but still a considerable number given a background of war and econom

Astera Labs’ IPO pops 72% on first day, showing that investor demand for tech with an AI twist is high

Astera Labs started its life as a public company trading at $52.56 per share, up 46% when the bell rang. The company priced its IPO last night at $36 per share, above its raised price range. Astera’

Ramp CEO says the fintech startup is just scratching the surface

Fintech exploded over the last five years. Startups in the category raised more than $350 billion in VC funding from 2019 through 2023, according to data from CB Insights. Despite all that growth, Eri

LACERA decreases venture capital allocation range, but experts say it doesn’t signal a trend

The Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association (LACERA) voted to decrease its allocation range to venture capital at a March 13 meeting. The board of investments voted to decrease its allocat

Late-stage VCs may be preventing their startups from going public in 2024

While some investors are loudly bemoaning that the IPO window can’t stay shut forever, other VCs themselves are actually part of the problem. A lot of standard VC deal terms give investors the a

VC Arjun Sethi talks a big game about selling his company-picking strategies to other investors; he says they’re buying it

Griffin Bank has a license to thrill

Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech (formerly The Interchange)! I’m filling in for Mary Ann, who is on a much deserved break. This week, we look at Griffin Bank getting its license ahead of some heavy hit

VCs will get liquidity in 2024 from the secondary market, not IPOs

If you asked a bunch of VCs at the end of 2023 if the IPO market would finally open again in 2024, most of them would have said yes. We know because TechCrunch surveyed more than 40 of them in Decembe

Ted Schlein’s 2-year-old Ballistic Ventures has already raised a second $360 million fund

After a shakeup at Kleiner Perkins a few years back, one of its star B2B investors, Ted Schlein, started his own firm. Ballistic has already closed a second fund, even bigger than the first.

Enterprise SaaS investment makes a comeback — but not where you’d expect

When we examined venture investment amounts in enterprise SaaS startups, we were surprised at the top categories.

Inclusivity-focused VC Ada Ventures pulls in $80M for second fund

U.K.-based Ada Ventures is an unusual VC. Instead of just talking about SaaS or AI, it hunts down founders addressing inclusivity and diversity. Instead of confusing LPs with this methodology, it’s
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