Venture

Kristen Craft brings fresh fundraising strategy to TC All Stage

Raising in 2025 doesn’t look anything like it did in 2021 — and that’s exactly the point. At TechCrunch All Stage on July 15 at Boston’s SoWa Power Station, Kristen Craft, Head of Business Development at Fidelity Private Shares, will lead a roundtable session titled “It’s Not 2021 Anymore. Navigating the 2025 VC Landscape,” happening […]

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Jesse Draper’s Halogen Ventures closes $30M Fund III to focus on ‘future of family’

Halogen Ventures closed a $30 million Fund III to invest in early-stage startups building in the “future of family,” as reported first by Fortune.  The firm was founded in 2015 by Jesse Draper, the daughter of famed venture capitalist Tim Draper. She explained to Fortune that the fund will focus on the physical and financial

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Brad Feld on “Give First” and the art of mentorship (at any age)

Brad Feld has spent decades operating by a simple principle: give without expecting anything in return. This philosophy goes beyond traditional pay-it-forward thinking, he says. It’s about helping others, knowing only that meaningful connections and opportunities will emerge organically over time if you do. The entrepreneur and VC, who began angel investing in the 1990s,

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The All-In Podcast’s $1,200 tequila has already sold out

The VCs, pod bros, and self proclaimed “besties” of the All-In Podcast launched their own tequila brand Saturday night and it promptly sold out, according to liquor ecommerce sites. Their version of the Mexican spirit cost a jaw-dropping $1,200 apiece but only 750 bottles were made. The stacked poker-chip container was inspired by the “besties”

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Katie Haun on the GENIUS Act and what it may mean for the future of crypto

This week on StrictlyVC Download, we’re bringing you to our recent event in Menlo Park. TechCrunch’s editor in chief, Connie Loizos, was joined by Katie Haun, founder and CEO of Haun Ventures, who shared an inside look at her contrarian “harpoon strategy” that targeted distressed crypto assets during the depths of crypto winter. They explored everything from

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Learn what makes a pitch land at Disrupt 2025

Perfect your pitch for maximum impact. Investors hear hundreds of pitches, but only a few stand out. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, hear directly from Medha Agarwal, general partner, defy.vc; Jyoti Bansal, CEO and co-founder, Harness; Jennifer Neundorfer, co-founder and managing partner, January Ventures as they share what grabs their attention, what turns them off, and

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The Disrupt 2025 Builders Stage agenda now live and taking shape

Startups don’t build themselves. The Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, taking place October 27-29 at San Francisco’s Moscone West, is where investors, operators, and founders come to talk tactics — the nitty-gritty of getting something off the ground and making it work. This year, we’re bringing some of the sharpest minds in the game

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The stablecoin evangelist: Katie Haun’s fight for digital dollars

In 2018, when Bitcoin was trading around $4,000 and most Americans, at least, thought cryptocurrency was a fad, Katie Haun found herself on a debate stage in Mexico City opposite Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist who had dismissed digital assets as near worthless. As Krugman focused on Bitcoin’s wild price swings, Haun steered the

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