Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2015

So Why Did We Invest? The backend services to enable scrolling, click-and-watch, scroll forward with minimal buffering, etc. Imagine if your friends could all contribute the Burning Man 2015 album and create a group story. Mark Suster (@msuster) April 23, 2015. Yes, we’ve only launched on iOS for now. L1I6RUWYJu.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 19, 2023

Register Singapore-based online used car platform, Carro, has announced its strategic investment in Driven Communications, a digital content agency based in Malaysia. The financial details of the investment have not been disclosed, but the deal is expected to be finalized within two months.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

We remain confident in the long-term trend that software enables and the value accrued to disruptive startups; we also recognized that in a strong market it is important to ring the cash register and this doesn’t come without a concentrated effort to do so. The answer is: not much.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 25, 2022

Register Funding Societies (also known as Modalku in Indonesia), Southeast Asia’s leading SME digital financing platform, officially announced its investment into Bank Index (Bank Index Selindo), an Indonesian national Bank, alongside Carro, a Southeast Asian automotive marketplace platform.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 18, 2023

LTD , one of the largest security integration companies in the world, according to Forbes Global 2000 , has made a primary equity investment of $192 million in the two companies, $100M in Eagle Eye Networks and $92M in Brivo. The SECOM investment underscores that cloud and AI are the future of physical security,” said Drako.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

Impact investor Goodwell Investments and Oxfam Novib , a Dutch foundation and Oxfam International affiliate, have set up Pepea, a €20 million ($21.7m) fund, to provide financing to early-stage startups in Kenya, Uganda, and Ethiopia. Pepea’s long-term plan is to improve the quality and affordability of these necessities.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

The funding round closed with $104M in fresh investments for the world’s largest and fully integrated online consumer brand for preservative and antibiotic-residue free fresh fish and meat. Shan Kadavil, CEO & Co-founder, FreshToHome, said that they are very excited to have Amazon Smbhav Venture Fund lead Series D.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

million investment to help revolutionize healthcare efficiency worldwide. Real-time location awareness of patients, staff, and medical equipment combined with Rideshare-like intelligence of task allocation, current path of motion, and optimal route determination enables smart, automated orchestration of patient care.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Investment allows company to develop new medical devices critical to cutting-edge surgeries and medical diagnostics. million Series A Preferred investment in Access Optics, a Broken Arrow-based global manufacturing leader of micro-scale surgical imaging products. OCTOBER 26, 2021. T: (918) 625-3160. william@olsfventures.com.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Investments are made in high-growth companies with women leaders, following their successful completion of the firm’s Expert Sift process. Backstage Capital : founded by Arlan Hamilton, Managing Partner, the firm invests in the very best founders who identify as women, People of Color, or LGBTQ.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 18, 2023

As its first strategic move in Malaysia, Xendit has announced that it is investing in local fintech player, Payex, which is a Bank Negara Malaysia licensed payment gateway provider. “We The company offer of a one-stop payment infrastructure that enables businesses to scale rapidly.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 11, 2023

Founded in 2015, MindX has graduated over 35,000 students of all ages, many now with successful technology careers in nearly 20 countries. MindX also continues to receive debt financing from Beacon Fund, an impact investment firm that focuses on women-owned and women-led businesses in Southeast Asia.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2021

The founders consist of Jake Arnold, a celebrity interior designer (who has worked with John Legend, Rashida Jones and Cameron Diaz among, others) and YC-alumni, Leo Seigal, who previously founded and sold Represent.com to CustomInk for $100 million in 2015. Where top VCs are investing in D2C. So he joined Seigal to create The Expert.

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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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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 13, 2019

Using the proliferation of newly GPS-enabled mobile devices to enable taxi hailing and beat out stagnant incumbent providers was always going to be a big win for consumers. It provided a better service than existing cabs were going to be able to do for at least several years—cutting out lots of unnecessary overhead in the system.

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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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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. Maria Lepskaya. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Take IonQ, a U.S.-based

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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

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

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

The new round from Cowen Sustainable Investments (CSI), labeled a Series B, follows the company reaching profitability in April 2020 and gives Quip more than $160 million in total funding since the company was founded in 2015. The company showcased its service at TechCrunch Disrupt NY’s Startup Alley in 2015.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2022

The fintech works with partner companies such as Twiga and MarketForce, which integrate its credit scoring APIs in their platforms to enable their customers to get real-time loan offers. Pezesha said it is currently working with more than 20 partner companies that have enabled it to extend loans to over 100,000 businesses to date.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The investment will enable us to transform the lives of hundreds of thousands of drivers across the continent, accelerate international expansion, and continue our pioneering initiatives in the mobility space,” said MAX co-founder and CEO Adetayo Bamiduro.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

InfoSum, a London-based startup that provides a decentralized platform for secure data sharing between organizations, has secured a $65 million Series B funding round led by Chrysalis Investments. The investment comes less than a year after InfoSum closed a $15.1 million Series A round co-led by Upfront Ventures and IA Ventures.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

Enter LiquidStack , a company that’s spinning out from the cryptocurrency hardware technology developer Bitfury Group with a $10 million investment. In a statement, LiquidStack said its technology could enable at least 21 times more heat rejection per IT rack compared to air cooling — all without the need for water.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

with co-investment from OSF Ventures, Sony Innovation Fund, and Dreampact Ventures. In 2015, PhotoniCare was the winner of a grant from the National Capital Consortium for Pediatric Device Innovation (NCC-PDI), an FDA-funded consortium led by Children’s National Hospital. . – September 3, 2020 – PhotoniCare, Inc.,

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Korea Investment & Securities participated in the latest funding as well. Profitability would also go a long in enabling the company — which is eyeing a potential initial public offering in the near term — to do so successfully.) . billion won) and $175.8 million (229.3 million since its December 2021 launch.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. I believe that Revenue-Based Investing (“RBI”) VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Jack Zhang, the co-founder and CEO of Airwallex, said that their investment in building a senior leadership team demonstrates their continued confidence and commitment to grow their business in APAC and globally. Airwallex continues to scale to new heights.

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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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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

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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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Launched in 2015, J&T Global Express has become a major player in the courier and e-commerce delivery sector. During its latest funding round, J&T Global Express attracted investments from key players. This funding round enabled J&T to strengthen its financial position in preparation for its Hong Kong IPO.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Started in 2015, FreshToHome is one of the largest players battling for a slice of the $100 billion Indian fish and meat market. An investment in FreshToHome could be Amazon’s way to concede the meat and fish market to the startup for the time being. The new round takes FreshToHome’s all-time raise to over $250 million.

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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. It has raised $26.5

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

As the name suggests, Urban Innovation Fund invests in companies building technology to shape the future of cities, while VMG targets commerce. The firm invests in companies working on issues of livability, sustainability or economic vitality and often have a lot of regulatory and political challenges. billion earlier this year.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

In 2015, there were approximately 3.5 Pandian Gnanaprakasam and Sheausong Yang — who between them had tenures at Cisco, Aruba Networks, and AT&T Bell Labs — co-founded Ordr in 2015 to address what they call the “visibility gap” in enterprise networks. . billion internet of things (IoT) devices in use.

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