TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

But lost in all of the celebration of success and the billions of dollars in venture capital funding are the ideas that did not succeed. Rather, this piece will focus on fintech ideas that received some degree of initial hype and momentum, but ultimately did not live up to their promise.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2023

We're seeing a lot of folks push their capital into just a few squares on the betting table. One way or another, the result is going to be notable. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

I think it’s important that we explicitly discuss something that every VC instinctively knows: The hype around a given business or category has become a form of bias for investors and founders when vetting ideas to pursue. But that’s the rule with mega-hyped markets. The hype-driven race to the bottom. What does that look like?

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

’ To its credit, the new app has perfectly executed on a series of choices designed to fuel day one growth — from its pre-launch TikTok hype cycle to drive App Store pre-orders to its post-launch social buzz, including favorable tweets by its backers. — Chase Stubblefield (@chasestubb) May 25, 2021.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2023

The ecosystem watched as startup funding dried up , held its breath as a $32 billion venture-backed company evaporated almost overnight and witnessed one of the largest startup acquisitions of all time. I would expect international funding into Europe to slow over the coming year as GPs are put under pressure. Probably not.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The company exited stealth a little over a year ago, just as the hype around large language models was really heating up. Biotech and AI startup Cradle is finding success with its generative approach to protein design, landing big customers and a hefty $24 million of new investment. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

The funding will give Cryptoys’ parent company OnChain Studios some capital to build out their vision, which includes a number of NFT-adjacent opportunities including games where users have the chance to earn NFTs through gameplay. The startup announced a $7.5 million seed round — also led by a16z Crypto — in October.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

Still, if Substack’s broader fortunes should change, it would be the second, highly hyped consumer company in a16z’s portfolio to have truly captured the public’s imagination, then lost momentum. Like Substack, the audio-based social network Clubhouse has gathered the bulk of its funding across numerous rounds led by a16z.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

This morning TechCrunch covered an interesting round for Copy.ai , a startup that employs GPT-3 to help other companies with their writing projects. GPT-3, or Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 , is a piece of AI from the OpenAI group that takes text from the user, and writes a lot more for them. As part of the process of covering the Copy.ai

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2022

World Fund, a newcomer in climate-VC land, is taking the lead in a $128 million round for IQM , with hopes the Finnish quantum computing company will one day deliver carbon cuts by the megatonne. World Fund and IQM’s other investors have also implicitly endorsed the idea via their checkbooks.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2022

Poparazzi — an app that turned Instagram’s tagging feature into its entire premise — hyped itself to the top of the App Store using a series of growth hacks not too long ago. BeReal would have the funds. Or, as with BeReal, college ambassadors getting compensated to hype an app to a target demographic.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Back in December, Neeva co-founder and CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy , who previously spearheaded Google’s advertising tech business , teased new “cutting edge AI” and large language models (LLMs), positioning itself against the ChatGPT hype train. “In our upcoming upgrades, Neeva can.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

billion after securing $186 million in Series E funding, led by Wellington Management. Joining Wellington in the round were funds managed by SoftBank, Corton Capital, Valor Capital Group, Goldman Sachs, Globo Ventures and Kevin Efrusy. Goldman Sachs leads $23M in funding for Brazilian e-commerce startup Olist.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2023

It created an opportunity to exit the hype cycle, clearing the way for development that will ensure the growth of the ecosystem in a sustainable way, adding value.” Funding for Black web3 founders has only increased, and the crypto winter proved the most fruitful year. “It wasn’t sustainable and economic correction was needed.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

Rali_cap , an early-stage venture capital firm focused on emerging markets fintech, has launched a $30 million fund. Last month, the firm, formerly known as Rally Cap Ventures, reached its first close of $20 million (its initial target) before increasing the fund size, signaling a strong LP appetite. About 40% are based in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

But that’s ok, we dove deep into the hype and looked at what skeptics are worried about for the new application. federal courts FBI says North Korean hackers preparing to cash out after high-profile crypto hacks Friend.tech hype is skyrocketing, but will it actually reach the stars? federal agencies.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Investors don’t expect the US startup funding market to slow down. Investors don’t expect the US startup funding market to slow down. Despite the hype, construction tech will be hard to disrupt. Despite the hype, construction tech will be hard to disrupt. Walter Thompson. Senior Editor, TechCrunch. yourprotagonist.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

It’s canon in the blockchain world that rapid business cycles are part of the game, with periods of hype and spending followed by periods of lower consumer activity. Read it every morning on TechCrunch+ or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

million in funding, according to Crunchbase. . The whole field of AI-based novel targets has been experiencing significant hype. However, the roots of the hype predate COVID-19. . Zhavorokov is aware that AI-based drug development is riding a bit of a hype wave right now. Previously, the company had raised $51.3

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2023

It’s one of the reasons why so many founders perform inadequate due diligence on their investors, says Talia Rafaeli, a partner with early-stage European VC fund Kompas. TechCrunch+ roundup: Dry powder’s slow fuse, landing page basics, generative AI hype by Walter Thompson originally published on TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

And finally, the Latin American fintech market is seeing exit volume pick up, not only implying that capital can be returned to investors who bid up the region’s startups, but also that funds previously preserved in private-market amber and recently made liquid can be reinvested in startups, creating a virtuous circle.

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The Next Web

MAY 16, 2017

After the long, arduous, ideating-to-prototyping slog, from building and testing to scrapping your way to meet funding goals to creating some sort of momentum and hype through PR, your product has finally been released to the masses. Congratulations. But hold on, young jedi.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

Those specific investments were from Playfair’s inaugural fund which wasn’t focused on any particular “stage” of company. “I’d say probably half the funding in our portfolio is pre-product, pre-traction,” Playfair managing partner Chris Smith explained to TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Natural language processing ( NLP ), while hardly a new discipline, has catapulted into the public consciousness these past few months thanks in large part to the generative AI hype train that is ChatGPT. million seed round of funding, and Heartex which closed a heftier $25 million tranche of funding last year for Labelstudio.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2023

Their previous $10 million fund did so well that the backers have returned and refilled the coffers three times over. Their previous $10 million fund did so well that the backers have returned and refilled the coffers three times over. ” You know who you are!

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2022

And today it’s announcing a new €20M bridging funding round, ahead of the expected (beefier) B. It notes that this (pre-) Series B funding includes the issuance of convertible notes which will lead to equity next year in the full Series B round so a bunch of investors are clearly bought into its sales growth pitch.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 30, 2019

For example, a smart contract to support charity donations might enable the automatic and instantaneous release of funds to a charity once the donor receives proof of a promised action by the charity. Additional Blockchain and Crypto-philanthropy Resources: Crypto-philanthropy: How Bitcoin and Blockchain Are Disrupting the World of Giving.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

One year after raising $16 million , construction technology company Buildots is back to claim another $30 million, this time in Series B funding. This gives the company $46 million in total funding, Roy Danon, co-founder and CEO of Buildots, told TechCrunch. Despite the hype, construction tech will be hard to disrupt.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

We are really fortunate to be investing at this time regardless of the hype.” ” Ascend is announcing the close of $25 million for its second fund. This continues the firm’s strategy from its first fund which raised $15 million and started deploying in 2019. Winfield isn’t fully avoiding the hype though.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

One of the bigger startups in Europe operating a trading platform for cryptocurrency has closed a big round of funding on the heels of very rapid growth, and plans to open its platform to a wider stream of assets. Both have been building a name for themselves as significant backers of crypto startups. No roadshow needed, we will help you.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2023

But as is the case with any transformative new tech, hype is sure to accompany growing adoption, and generative AI has garnered so much attention and money that many VCs already feel the budding sector will be the next bubble. Don Butler, managing director at Thomvest Ventures, feels the bubble is already here. “We

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The Verge

JANUARY 3, 2021

Quibi announced it was shutting down back in October, just six months after its much-hyped launch. The service was headed by former HP CEO Meg Whitman and former Disney chairman and movie producer Jeffrey Katzenberg, who managed to raise almost $2 billion in funding before the app was released.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2022

Down a co-host or not, we tackled a whole slew of topics, including: Katie Haun’s new mega crypto fund and why the blockchain world seems to be so capital-hungry. The simply bonkers pace at which Jeeves, a fintech startup, has accreted value in successive funding rounds. Equity drops every Monday at 7:00 a.m.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

billion in funding to-date (backers include Accel, D1 Capital Partners, Luxor Capital and SoftBank Vision Fund). They include Berlin’s much-hyped Gorillas and London’s Dija and Weezy , and France’s Cajoo , all of which claim to focus more on fresh food and groceries, where margins are arguably tighter.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2021

While the world continues to await the arrival of safe, reliable and cost-effective self-driving cars, one of the pioneers in the world of autonomous vehicle software has raised some substantial funding to double down on what it sees as a more immediate opportunity: providing technology to industrial companies to build off-road applications.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2023

One of the quieter conversations in venture capital has only grown louder, in my DMs and interviews, over the past few months: The known bias in venture capital has been a branding issue for some of the emerging, diverse fund managers just now splashing onto the scene. It’s not surprising: Hyped-up technologies often get outsized interest.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2021

Buzzy “social audio” app Clubhouse has raised a Series C funding round, reportedly valuing the company at $4 billion. This round means Clubhouse has tripled the valuation it attained in January when Andreessen Horowitz led its Series B funding round.

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