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Kaszek Ventures raises $600 million in two funds as Latin America’s startup market booms – TechCrunch

Kaszek Ventures, the investment firm that has been one of the primary architects of the recent boom in startup financing…
6 min read August 29, 2019
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Which public US universities graduate the most funded founders? – TechCrunch

Joanna Glasner Contributor More posts by this contributor Big revenues, huge valuations and major losses: charting the era of the…
2 min read May 25, 2019
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VCs have growing appetite for “AgriFood” – TechCrunch

Venture investors are pouring billions of dollars into feeding their hunger for food and agriculture startups. Whether that trend line…
1 min read March 7, 2019
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Airbnb, Automattic and Pinterest top rank of most acquisitive unicorns – TechCrunch

It takes a lot more than a good idea and the right timing to build a billion-dollar company. Talent, focus,…
5 min read February 23, 2019
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Is Y Combinator’s latest cohort too big? – TechCrunch

Greetings from Chittorgarh, one of my stops on a two-week excursion through Goa and Rajasthan, India. I’ve been a little…
3 min read February 16, 2019
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Spotify gets acquisitive and Instacart screws up – TechCrunch

Did anyone else listen to season one of StartUp, Alex Blumberg’s OG Gimlet podcast? I did, and I felt like…
5 min read February 9, 2019