Category: early-stage

  • Reframe your Metaphors, and other lessons from Y Combinator S21 Day 1

    This post is by Natasha Mascarenhas from Fundings & Exits – TechCrunch After a 17-hour marathon through nearly 200 startup pitches, the Equity team was fired up to get back on Twitter and chat through some early trends and favorites from the first day of Y Combinator’s demo party. We’ll be back on the air…

  • Your funding round isn’t special, but you might be

    This post is by Natasha Mascarenhas from Fundings & Exits – TechCrunch Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. For this week’s deep dive, Alex and Natasha and Danny decided it was time to chat about funding rounds. Yep, everyone’s favorite topic, just in time for the return of our…

  • Equity Live: This is what leadership smells like

    This post is by Natasha Mascarenhas from Fundings & Exits – TechCrunch Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week we did something fun and different and good: a live show! A good number of people came, and asked questions, and altogether, it was…

  • Treasury Prime raises $20M to scale its banking-as-a-service biz

    This post is by Alex Wilhelm from Fundings & Exits – TechCrunch This morning Treasury Prime, a banking-as-a-service startup that delivers its product via APIs, announced that it has closed a $20 million Series B. The capital comes around a year since the startup announced its Series A, and around 1.5 years since it raised…

  • Does SoftBank have 20 more DoorDashes?

    This post is by Natasha Mascarenhas from Fundings & Exits – TechCrunch Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. Natasha and Danny and Alex and Grace were all here to chat through the week’s biggest tech happenings. This week felt oddly comforting from a tech news perspective: Facebook is copying something,…

  • Five Key Insights on the Early to Mid-Stage CFO (And What It Means To Vendors Who Serve Them)

    This post is by Eddie A from Thomvest Ventures – Medium Over the past five years, we have seen a gradual but accelerating transition among CFO leaders within the startup world. What used to be a…Continue reading on Thomvest Ventures »