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Has a startup finally found one of food science’s holy grails with its healthy sugar substitute?February 26, 2021 at 9:50 AM  Tags: Food, TC, Y Combinator, Europe, Chef, New York, Colorado, California, China, India, New York City, Tech, European Union, Taiwan, United States, United Kingdom 83 people like this. Like Eat this, exercise now; new personalized software predicts and helps prevents blood sugar spikesFebruary 22, 2021 at 11:54 PM  Tags: Health, TC, Stanford, Tech, SaaS, Venture Capital, Marissa Mayer, Jerry Yang, Felicis Ventures, Marc Benioff, Ame Cloud Ventures, Mike, Hashemi, Michael Snyder, SignalFire, Steve Chen 147 people like this. Like Eat this, exercise now; new personalized software predicts and helps prevent blood sugar spikesFebruary 22, 2021 at 11:54 PM Tags: Health, TC, Stanford, Tech, SaaS, Venture Capital, Marissa Mayer, Jerry Yang, Felicis Ventures, Marc Benioff, Ame Cloud Ventures, Mike, Snyder, Hashemi, Michael Snyder, SignalFire 118 people like this. Like Extra Crunch roundup: Optimized SaaS pricing, recruiting growth experts, VC surveys, moreFebruary 19, 2021 at 5:47 PM  Tags: Startups, TC, Transportation, Labor, Finance, San Francisco, Tech, Getty Images, SaaS, Venture Capital, Rover, Alex, Robinhood, Coinbase, Gamestop, Felicis Ventures 146 people like this. Like 01 Advisors, the venture firm of Dick Costolo and Adam Bain, has closed fund two with $325 millionFebruary 15, 2021 at 4:46 PM Dick Costolo and Adam Bain, renowned early Twitter execs who served as company’s CEO and its chief operating officer, respectively, have quietly closed a second venture fund just one-and-a-half years after disclosing they’d secured $135 million for a debut fund under their firm, 01 Advisors.
According to an SEC filing, they wrapped up their second fund late last week with $325 million in capital commitments from 81 investors.
We’ve reached out to the firm and hope to share more soon. In the mean...Tags: TC, Twitter, Dick Costolo, Israel, San Francisco, Tech, Virgin Galactic, Venture Capital, SEC, DST Global, Bain, Felicis Ventures, Adam Bain, Browns, SPAC, Kovacs 35 people like this. Like Felicis’ Aydin Senkut and Guideline’s Kevin Busque on the value of simple pitch decksFebruary 12, 2021 at 4:09 PM Even though Kevin Busque is a co-founder of TaskRabbit, he didn’t get the response he was hoping for the first time he pitched his new venture to Felicis Ventures’ Aydin Senkut. Nonetheless, he said the outcome was one of the best things that could have happened.
“I’m kind of glad that he didn’t invest at the time because it really forced me to take a hard look at what we were doing and really enabled us to become Guideline,” said Busque. “That seed round was an absolute slog. I think I spent se...Tags: Startups, TC, Funding, Tech, Venture Capital, Felicis Ventures, Kevin Busque, Kevin, Busque, ECL, Aydin Senkut, Senkut, Guideline, Felicis, Extra Crunch Live, Felicis Ventures Aydin Senkut Nonetheless 32 people like this. Like At Extra Crunch Live, Felicis’ Aydin Senkut and Guideline’s Kevin Busque will look back on the Series B deal that brought them togetherFebruary 8, 2021 at 11:31 AM Aydin Senkut is a Swiss Army knife of an investor. He has been on the Midas List for the past seven years, with early investments in companies like Shopify, Rovio, Fitbit, Ayden, Credit Karma, SoundHound and more.
One such investment is Guideline, an enterprise tech company focused on giving small businesses a simplified way to offer affordable 401ks to employees. Guideline has raised nearly $140 million from investors such as Tiger Global Management, Greyhound, Generation Investment Management,...Tags: Google, Startups, TC, Tech, Asia Pacific, Venture Capital, EC, Felicis Ventures, Kevin Busque, Swiss Army, Busque, Aydin Senkut, Senkut, Guideline, Felicis, Extra Crunch Live Announcement 15 people like this. Like Literati raises $40M for its book club platformJanuary 27, 2021 at 9:00 AM  Tags: Google, Amazon, Startups, TC, Dick Costolo, Austin, Nba, Richard Branson, Malala Yousafzai, Book Club, Oprah, General Catalyst, Curry, Felicis Ventures, Adam Bain, Shasta Ventures 64 people like this. Like Mosaic raises $18.5M Series A from GC to rebuild the CFO software stackJanuary 14, 2021 at 12:00 PM  Tags: Google, Fundings & Exits, Startups, Finance, Ipo, Funding, Tech, ERP, Anaplan, Palantir, Felicis Ventures, Cfo, Mosaic, Everlaw, XYZ Ventures, Ross Fubini 123 people like this. Like Robot lawyer startup DoNotPay now lets you file FOIA requestsDecember 10, 2020 at 1:00 PM  Tags: Security, Startups, US, Articles, Tech, United States, Andreessen Horowitz, Felicis Ventures, Series A, Freedom of Information Act, Browder, Joshua Browder, Coatue Management, DoNotPay, TechCrunch Browder 132 people like this. Like ultimate.ai scores $20M for a supportive approach to customer service automationDecember 3, 2020 at 5:00 AM Ultimate.ai, a virtual customer service agent builder, has closed a $20 million Series A round of funding, led by Omers Ventures with participation from Felicis Ventures and existing investors HV Capital, and Maki.vc — bringing its total raised to date to $25M+.
The European startup’s flagship claim for the data-ingesting bot-builder platform is it’s capable of automating up to 80% of customer support interactions.
The focus, as tends to be the case for all these customer service conversational ...Tags: Google, Fundings & Exits, Startups, TC, Europe, Berlin, Tech, Artificial Intelligence, Ai, North America, Felicis Ventures, Helsinki, Finnair, Markus, ARR, Maki 6 people like this. Like Kyklo raises $8.5M to bring electrical distributors onlineNovember 13, 2020 at 10:43 AM  Tags: Fundings & Exits, Startups, Ecommerce, Enterprise, Funding, Tech, Cto, Felicis Ventures, Jungle Ventures, Ia Ventures, Kyklo, Fabien Legouic, Ducrocq, Sundeep Peechu, Remi Ducrocq Kyklo, Schneider Electric Ducrocq 67 people like this. Like Woven adds to its calendar app’s $20/mo premium planOctober 22, 2020 at 10:00 AM  Tags: TC, Facebook, Time, Tech, CIO, Google-calendar, Felicis Ventures, Battery Ventures, Zoom, Campos, Productivity Software, Web Conferencing, Teleconferencing, Groupware, Tiny Capital, Facebook CIO Tim Campos 54 people like this. Like Popmenu earns raves from investors for its marketing and delivery software for restaurantsOctober 15, 2020 at 9:05 AM  Tags: TC, Los Angeles, Tech, Atlanta, Tripadvisor, Felicis Ventures, Sweeney, CareerBuilder, Koch, Brendan Sweeney, Bedrock Capital, Commissions Inc, Popmenu, COVID, Base10 Partners, Milan Koch 142 people like this. Like Verkada adds environmental sensors to cloud-based building operations toolkitSeptember 15, 2020 at 9:00 AM As we go deeper into the pandemic, many buildings sit empty or have limited capacity. During times like these having visibility into the state of the building can give building operations peace of mind. Today, Verkada, a startup that helps operations manage buildings via the cloud, announced a new set of environmental sensors to give customers even greater insight into building conditions.
The company had previously developed cloud-based video cameras and access control systems. Verkdada CEO and...Tags: Security, Startups, TC, Cloud, Enterprise, Sensors, Iot, Felicis Ventures, Verkada, Filip Kaliszan, Kaliszan, TechCrunch Operations 35 people like this. Like PicnicHealth raises $25 million for its patient health record management serviceSeptember 1, 2020 at 9:05 AM PicnicHealth, the startup that’s looking to give patients a way to manage their care in one place and pharmaceutical companies access to patient records for real world data, has just raised $25 million in financing to grow its business.
Founded in 2016 by a former international development worker and Crohn’s Disease patient, Noga Leviner, PicnicHealth’s initial pitch was around giving patients the ability to manage and coordinate their own care. It’s something that Leviner, a person with a chron...Tags: Health, TC, Stanford, US, Articles, Tech, United States, Healthcare, Disease, Director, Felicis Ventures, Slow Ventures, Paul Buchheit, Crohn, Pharmaceutical, Sam Lessin 48 people like this. Like A must-see conversation on the state of VC, this year at DisruptAugust 29, 2020 at 1:36 PM On a surface level, the world of venture capital doesn’t look to change much year to year. But in truth, the industry is very much in flux, with many firms grappling with a lack of diversity, dealing with succession questions, and confronting a growing pipeline of aging portfolio companies — to name just a few of the issues of the day.
In fact, one of the biggest shifts in the industry — one that’s years in the making but with no end in sight — is its atomization. Once a clubby industry, the lan...Tags: Washington, Boston, Tech, Unilever, Walmart, Zynga, Nea, Felicis Ventures, Alphabet, Comcast Ventures, Grayson, Lo Toney, Desktop Metal, Toney, Rachel Holt, Lux Capital 14 people like this. Like Kudo raises $6M for its real-time translation and video conference platformJuly 22, 2020 at 12:25 PM SaaS is hot in 2020. Tooling that is hot in 2020. And we all know that anything related to video chatting in particular is on fire this year. In the midst of all three trends is Kudo, which just raised $6 million in a round led by Felicis.
But Kudo’s video chatting and conferencing tool with built-in support for translators and multiple audio streams wasn’t initially constructed for the COVID-19 era. It got started back in 2016, so let’s talk about how it got to where it is today before we tal...Tags: Fundings & Exits, Startups, Video, Tech, Felicis Ventures, Kudo, Niki Pezeshki, Recent Funding, Zabetian, COVID, Fardad Zabetian Kudo 27 people like this. Like This startup just raised $12 million from top VCs to offer financial planning as an employee perkJune 11, 2020 at 8:08 PM Companies increasingly recognize that one of the greatest stresses for their employees is financial wellness. Even at innovative tech startups, people typically bump up against the limits of how much they know about wealth management pretty fast.
But providing financial education to a workforce, which has become increasingly common, is largely useless as most employees will tell you. The information can be hard to navigate, and it’s often not personalized in a way that addresses an employee’s ci...Tags: Startups, TC, New York, Funding, San Francisco, Tech, Financial Planning, Watson, Origin, General Catalyst, Felicis Ventures, Red Swan Ventures, Founders Fund, Citi, Northstar, Matt Watson 36 people like this. Like Jeremy Conrad left his own VC firm to start a company, and investors like what he’s buildingMay 29, 2020 at 3:49 PM When this editor first met Jeremy Conrad, it was in 2014, at the 8,000-square-foot former fish factory that was home to Lemnos, a hardware-focused venture firm that Conrad had cofounded three years earlier.
Conrad — who as a mechanical engineering undergrad at MIT worked on self driving cars, drones and satellites — was still excited about investing in hardware startups, having just closed a small new fund even while hardware was very unfashionable and remains challenging. One investment his te...Tags: Fundings & Exits, TC, Real Estate, California, Germany, New York City, San Francisco, Tech, Mit, SaaS, Robotics, Felicis Ventures, Airware, SUNNYVALE, Bloomberg Beta, Quartz 6 people like this. Like Cybersecurity insurance startup Coalition raises $90M Series CMay 20, 2020 at 10:31 AM This morning, Coalition announced that it has closed a $90 million Series C. The funding comes around a year after the cybersecurity insurance startup raised a $40 million Series B that TechCrunch covered at time.
The startup’s new, larger funding round was led by Valor Equity Partners and included participation from Greyhound Capital and Felicis, along with “existing investors,” per the company. Coalition told TechCrunch that its Series C was raised at an $800 million pre-money valuation, makin...Tags: Travel, Fundings & Exits, Startups, TC, Australia, San Francisco, Coalition, Felicis Ventures, Matta, UK Europe, Valor Equity Partners, Greyhound Capital, Customers Coalition, Joshua Motta 50 people like this. Like Venture capitalists reveal the startups that changed everything in the past decade (UBER, SFIX, AMZN, TEAM)May 2, 2020 at 4:10 PM  Tags: Google, Startups, Uber, Australia, Washington, Wikipedia, Israel, US, Trends, Walmart, Sydney, Square, Silicon Valley, Waze, Kalanick, Robinhood 146 people like this. Like $4 million richer, Walrus.ai has a pitch for companies looking for QA-testing toolsApril 27, 2020 at 12:00 PM The co-founders of Walrus.ai, a new software company which raised $4 million in a new round of financing fro Homebrew, Felicis Ventures and Leadout Capital, started their business with one problem.
Jake Marsh, Ogden Nathan, and Scott White had a problem had left Wealthfront to launch a new service that would solve what they saw as a key problem with new business workflows. Their idea was to integrate the disparate software silos that different parts of their former business used to complete a...Tags: TC, Tech, Software, Engineering, Computing, Cypress, Software Development, Software Testing, White, Wealthfront, Felicis Ventures, Software Engineering, Mabel, Homebrew, Scott White, Walrus 5 people like this. Like A buzzy healthcare startup that raised $50 million from Andreessen Horowitz 3 months ago just cut staff amid the coronavirus pandemicApril 20, 2020 at 1:11 PM  Tags: Navy, US, San Francisco, Trends, Healthcare, Andreessen Horowitz, Felicis Ventures, Babylon Health, PitchBook, Komodo, Sundeep Peechu, Komodo Health, Oak HC FT IA Ventures, Peechu 119 people like this. Like A productivity startup just raised $50 million at a $2 billion valuation during the market meltdown. Here's how a VC won over the notoriously shy startup after a years-long chase.April 6, 2020 at 10:56 AM  Tags: Google, Google Drive, Microsoft, California, San Francisco, Trends, Microsoft Office, Silicon Valley, Sequoia Capital, Felicis Ventures, Index Ventures, Business Insider, Angellist, Bay Area, Index, Valley 85 people like this. Like VCs dish on why they backed Notion, the productivity startup that just raised $50 million at a $2 billion valuation during a market meltdownApril 5, 2020 at 10:54 AM Tags: Google, Google Drive, California, San Francisco, Trends, Microsoft Office, Silicon Valley, Sequoia Capital, Felicis Ventures, Index Ventures, Business Insider, Angellist, Bay Area, Valley, Cannon, Goldberg 97 people like this. Like Startups Weekly: SaaS companies feel the churn but hope for a brighter tomorrowApril 4, 2020 at 2:00 PM  Tags: Apple, Google, TC, Facebook, Tech, Rebecca Minkoff, Alex, Crowdstrike, Felicis Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Healthtech, Alex Wilhelm, Jon, Danny, Josh Constine, Connie Loizos 88 people like this. Like ‘A perfect storm for first time managers,’ say VCs with their own shopsApril 1, 2020 at 9:09 PM Until very recently, it had begun to seem like anyone with a thick enough checkbook and some key contacts in the startup world could not only fund companies as an angel investor but even put himself or herself in business as a fund manager.
It helped that the world of venture fundamentally changed and opened up as information about its inner workings flowed more freely. It didn’t hurt, either, that many billions of dollars poured into Silicon Valley from outfits and individuals around the globe ...Tags: Google, Tech, General Motors, Lp, Silicon Valley, Intuit, Hudson, Felicis Ventures, Ron Conway, Credit Karma, Fika, Ho, Conway, Gosh, Charles Hudson, Precursor Ventures 33 people like this. Like “A perfect storm for first time managers,” say VCs with their own shops (and who have advice)April 1, 2020 at 9:09 PM Until very recently, it had begun to seem like anyone with a thick enough checkbook and some key contacts in the startup world could not only fund companies as an angel investor but even put himself or herself in business as a fund manager.
It helped that the world of venture fundamentally changed and opened up as information about its inner workings flowed more freely. It didn’t hurt, either, that many billions of dollars poured into Silicon Valley from outfits and individuals around the globe ...Tags: Google, Startups, TC, General Motors, Lp, Venture Capital, Silicon Valley, Intuit, Hudson, Felicis Ventures, Ron Conway, Credit Karma, Fika, Ho, Conway, Gosh 4 people like this. Like With a string of hits behind it, Felicis Ventures wraps up its newest fund with $510 millionMarch 11, 2020 at 9:00 AM Felicis Ventures, the early-stage, Menlo Park-based venture firmed founded nearly 15 years ago by Aydin Senkut, has closed its seventh and newest fund with $510 million in capital commitments.
That’s almost twice what Felicis raised for its last fund, which had initially closed in 2018 with $270 million in capital commitments but wound up garnering $310 million when all was said and done. As notably, both funds are a far leap from where Felicis started in 2006, when Senkut, a former internationa...Tags: Google, Startups, TC, Australia, San Francisco, General Motors, Cisco, Venture Capital, Silicon Valley, Canva, Plaid, Intuit, Adyen, Shopify, Ottawa, Felicis Ventures 45 people like this. Like |
