AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 30, 2023

In addition to his rich experiences working in the venture capital (VC) and private equity (PE) sectors, Joseph has also sharpened his investment acumen through his multiple years in the audit and stock-broking industry before deciding to finally launch his cross-border investment firm, Kairous Capital , in 2015.

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HPA

JANUARY 19, 2024

HPA is excited to announce our participation in Alphathena’s $4M Series Seed Round , which was led by ETFS Capital. The Alphathena platform enables clients to build and optimize investment strategies truly customized to their individual needs at scale,” said John Crosson, HPA Deal Lead. “We

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

Nowsta attracted venture capital for its approach to help employers better engage with their hourly workforces in this increasingly hybrid work environment. Joining GreatPoint in the financing were VMG Catalyst, Rally Ventures, Tribe Capital and existing investors Green Visor Capital, Compound Ventures and Clocktower Technology Ventures.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

The platform enables retailers to run their stores on the iPhone. Company founder and CEO Peter Sobotta founded ReturnLogic in 2015 after a long career in reverse logistics. The new capital gives ReturnLogic a total of $11.5 Now it is ready to expand and took in $8.5 million in equity. Indeed, IBISWorld estimates the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

Maria Lepskaya is a senior associate at Runa Capital , leading investments in different branches of quantum technologies and advanced materials. The company was founded in 2015, and it went public in 2021 through a SPAC at a $2 billion valuation. Image Credits: Runa Capital. Maria Lepskaya. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

Pepea will target early-stage businesses that have been in existence for one to five years, and are generating revenues but yet to raise capital. The fund targets high-impact tech-enabled businesses, “because the combination of tech and brick-and-mortar works best in these environments.

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Revolution

JUNE 15, 2023

Our partnership with CAVA began in 2015, when the Mediterranean fast-casual chain had just a dozen locations in D.C., CAVA’s founders had a vision to bring heritage, heart, health, and innovation to the fast-casual sector. Now their company is trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Maryland, and Virginia.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

The round was lead by Amazon Smbhav Venture Fund and was also participated by existing investors like Iron Pillar; Investcorp or the Investment Corporation of Dubai, which is the principal investment arm of the Government of Dubai; and Ascent Capital, among others. Government’s development finance institution – DFC.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

JIC Venture Growth Investments led the Series E equity funding, with participation from Z Venture Capital , a venture investment arm of Z Holdings, Japan Post Capital and Salesforce Ventures. Mizuho Bank and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group also joined in its debt financing.

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HPA

MARCH 24, 2021

Lee Partners (THL), with participation from Qualcomm Ventures, Volvo Group Venture Capital AB and Zebra Technologies, as well as existing investors Hyde Park Angels , August Capital, CEAS Investments, Hyde Park Venture Partners and Bain Capital Ventures, bringing total capital raised to over $200 million.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Tribe Capital led the round and was joined by NewView Capital and existing investor Nexus Venture Partners. The latest funding gives the San Francisco-based company $40 million in total funding since it was founded in 2015, co-founder and CEO Tim Zheng told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

Sendy , a Kenyan logistics startup that enabled retailers to purchase FMCGs directly from manufacturers, among other services, is shutting down its operations and exploring a sale of its assets, TechCrunch has learned. Sendy was co-founded in 2015 by Alloys, Evanson Biwott, Don Okoth and Malaika Judd. But that hasn’t come easy.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

million in funding led by Tola Capital. . Breyer Capital, General Catalyst, Naval Ravikant and others also put money in the round, which brings B12’s total funding to $28.1 B12 co-founder and CEO Nitesh Banta is a former investor at General Catalyst — having worked at the firm from 2010 to 2015.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2021

MAX started out in 2015 as a delivery startup using motorcycles to fulfil customer orders before venturing into ride-hailing, and later into vehicle subscription and financing services – solutions it came up with based on the data from its first services. “It

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Fintech-focused investor Tonic Private Equity led the Series G round along with returning backers, including Korea Development Bank (KDB), Altos Ventures, Goodwater Capital, Greyhound Capital, Aspex Management, Bond Capital, and DUMAC. Korea Investment & Securities participated in the latest funding as well. million (229.3

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HPA

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

ShipBob , an ecommerce enablement technology company that provides fulfillment by bringing fast shipping options to ecommerce businesses, announced that it raised $68M in a Series D funding round. This round of funding will enable ShipBob to expand its software program, increase its customer base and scale its global fulfillment network.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 18, 2023

Xendit believes that this collaboration will further bolster their ability to empower local businesses to expand regionally while capitalizing on their one integrated payment infrastructure that allows businesses to seamlessly tap into the Indonesian, Philippine, Thai, Vietnamese, Malaysian and other Southeast Asian markets.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Register India’s SaaS-based logistics management platform Shipsy has secured US$25 million funding in its Series B financing round led by Z3 Partners and A91 Partners along with participation from Sequoia Capital India’s Surge. About Shipsy Shipsy was founded in 2015 by Soham Chokshi, Dhruv Agrawal, and Himanshu Gupta.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

The platform helps from research to ordering and enables buyers to source their food and agriculture items at reasonable prices in more than 150 countries. million since its inception in 2015. Its fulfillment solution serves as a middleman for more than 15,000 agricultural products, enabling buyers to source and get delivered on time.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

Paris-originated VC Breega wasn’t enormously well known in the VC world (it only closed its first fund in 2015) until, perhaps, it started attracting attention with its second €110 million seed fund, just under a year go. It’s portfolio now includes a number of scaleups including Moneybox, Cuvva, Coverflex and Libeo.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

AmazeVR , a virtual reality concert platform that enables users to experience their favorite artists’ VR concerts through content generation tools, announced today it has secured $15 million, which was oversubscribed within three weeks. . AmazeVR has raised a total of $30.8 AmazeVR has raised a total of $30.8

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

Family office investments increased by 5x , and corporate venture investments rose 6x , thus opening new capital avenues for founders who found it difficult to raise capital. has nearly quadrupled in the same time period (investments from 2005 to 2015 and total investments through 2021 ). psychedelics or construction).

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HPA

JUNE 29, 2021

The Series E financing was led by Bain Capital Ventures, with participation from Hyde Park Angels, SoftBank, Menlo Ventures, Hyde Park Venture Partners and Silicon Valley Bank. ShipBob , the leading cloud-based ecommerce logistics platform, announced $200 million in funding at over $1B valuation. We look forward to the continued growth ahead.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

The investment was led by Ed Brakeman, a senior managing director at Bain Capital and Hans den Bieman, founder and ex-CEO of Mowi, one of the largest salmon businesses globally. Joseph Rehmann founded Victory Farms in 2015. We run a tech-enabled platform and have scaled 2x faster than any other African fish company.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

Amongst its other prominent investors are Alibaba Entrepreneurship Fund, Sequoia Capital, Qualcomm and SparkLabs Taipei. Founded in 2015, Kneron’s latest product is a neural processing unit that can enable sophisticated AI applications without relying on the cloud.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 17, 2022

Register FOMO Pay , the Singapore-headquartered major payment institution that enables the digital economy with global virtual banking solutions for financial institutions and enterprises, announced that it has secured a $13 million investment in its Series A round led by Jump Crypto.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

It’s been a few years since we dug into what the company was doing , but to bring you up to speed, it was founded in 2015 and offers over 10,000 locally sourced and hard-to-find Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Filipino, Indian and Latin offerings for customers. s founder and CEO, told me. s valuation to $4.1 s board of directors.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Launched in 2015, J&T Global Express has become a major player in the courier and e-commerce delivery sector. billion in funding, with support from investors like Boyu Capital, Hillhouse Capital Group, Sequoia Capital China, and Chinese tech-heavyweight Tencent Holdings. Holding with 26.14 In 2021, J&T secured $2.5

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2021

Baffle was founded in 2015 to help thwart the increasing threats to enterprise assets in public and private clouds. With this investment, we can meet market demand for data-centric cloud data protection that enables responsible digital information sharing and breaks the cycle of continuous data and privacy breaches,” Divatia added.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

In October last year, Sendy, a Kenyan logistics scale-up, wound up its supplies service , which enabled retailers to purchase FMCGs directly from manufacturers, saying it was directing all its focus on its end-to-end fulfillment offering. Months later, the company is ceasing on-ground operations in Nigeria, one of its four markets in Africa.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

Lilt , a provider of AI-powered business translation software, today announced that it raised $55 million in a Series C round led by Four Rivers, joined by new investors Sorenson Capital, CLEAR Ventures and Wipro Ventures. It will also [enable us to add] a sales team to our existing production team in Asia. million.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2022

The round comes from a number of investors including Japan Post Investment Corporation, Block (formerly known as Square), Greyhound Capital, SMBC Nikko Securities, Altos Ventures, Goodwater Capital, StepStone Group, JAFCO Group, Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Capital and others. . billion JPY) since its inception in 2015. .

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Dream It

APRIL 23, 2019

Its initial use cases target pharma companies to enable the creation of voice and chatbot products to improve sales reps’ performance, complement their medical science liaisons, and support clinical trial sites and investigators. The Echo-integrated product enables them to alert staff in a hands-free way if they fall or have an emergency.

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TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2022

Founded out of Berlin in 2015, Wefox sells various insurance products through a combination of in-house and external brokers, bypassing the direct-to-consumer model of insurtech competitors which include rival German startup Getsafe. This represents a 50% increase on last year’s $3 billion valuation at its Series C round.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 25, 2022

Since 2015, Funding Societies has been actively partnering with banks across the region, and our partnership with Bank Index will take FinTech-bank collaboration to the next level,” said Kelvin Teo, co-founder and group CEO of Funding Socities / Modalku. Bank Index shares the vision of empowering and developing SMEs.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The funding brings Flip’s total capital raised to $65million. . Sequoia Capital India, Insight Partners and Insignia Ventures Partners co-led the Series B round. Arriyan, Luqman Sungkar and Ginanjar Ibnu Solikhin co-founded the company in 2015 while studying at University of Indonesia.

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

Ignitepost IgnitePOST is a service that enables sales & marketing teams to boost conversion rates by 15X. 2017 Relativity6 AI for Insurance Advisers, Brokers and Agents helps enable your sales and accounts teams to service and retain clients smarter. Medkairos 1 out of 5 biopsies fail to return a diagnosis. management. economy.

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