TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

The funding was led by Insignia Ventures Partners, with participation from returning investors Beenext and Integra Partners. Founded in 2016, Brankas goal is to “democratize access to financial and identity data.” Brankas , an open banking startup for Southeast Asian markets, is entering the new year with a $20 million Series B.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Bengaluru-based artificial intelligence SaaS voice automation company Skit, formerly known as Vernacular.ai, developed its AI-based voice automation platform VIVA, short for Vernacular Intelligent Voice Assistant, which enables corporations to automate 90% of their call center operations powered by Natural Language Understanding (NLU) technology.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

” WaveOne was founded in 2016 by Lubomir Bourdev and Oren Rippel, who set out to take the decades-old paradigm of video codecs and make them AI-powered. It’s an effective approach, but new codecs require new hardware specially built to accelerate compression or decompression, making improvements slow to propogate.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 18, 2023

The funding was led by Real Tech Holdings, a prominent Japanese Venture Capital firm, with the participation of corporate investors, including Mitsubishi Electric, Seeds Capital, Wavemaker Partners, New Keynes Investments, and the State Government of Victoria in Australia. Hydroleap was founded in 2016 by Mohammad Sherafatmand, a Ph.D.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

Terra Drone said today it has raised $14 million in Series C funding from Wa’ed Ventures , the venture capital arm of Saudi Aramco , marking the VC firm’s first investment in Asia. It declined to comment on its post-money valuation.

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Dream It

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Accelerated digital innovation has catapulted the world into unprecedented growth. million back in 2016. In fact, Strategic Cyber Ventures reports that cybersecurity startups got at least $5.3 billion in venture capital funding last year. Cymulate Founded in 2016, this Israel-based startup recently closed a $7.5

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

The company, which uses a combination of computer vision and machine learning to create a system that can quickly and accurately inspect vehicles, has raised $100 million in a Series D funding round led by Hanaco VC, a venture capital firm based in New York and Tel Aviv. Existing investors GM Ventures, CarMax, W.R. Ventures L.P.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 2, 2023

The investment round was led by SBI Ven Capital, with participation from Kyobo Securities, NTUitive, Trihill Capital, East Ventures and PT Tap Applied Agri Services. from 2016 to 2021 and is forecast to grow at 12.9% The cold chain market in Indonesia grew at a Compound Annual Growth Rate of 10.7% between 2021 and 2026.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 2, 2022

A Korean startup called AIMMO , which uses software and humans to label and categorize image, video, sound, text and sensor fusion data, built an AI data annotation platform, enabling the data labeling faster for enterprises. . AIMMO declined to comment on its valuation.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The whole area was accelerated during the pandemic, when many property viewings migrated from physical to virtual, and this trend has continued to tick upward. million in a funding round led by LAUNCHub Ventures and Hoxton Ventures. To date, the company has raised $22 million in equity and $9 million in venture debt.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2023

Following his treatment, Choi and his doctor Tyler Rim, a vitreoretinal surgeon, founded Mediwhale in 2016. SBI Investment led the latest financing with new investor Woori Venture Partners and previous backers BNK Venture Capital, Innopolis Partners and IPS Ventures participating. FDA clearance and implement U.S.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Shipping and logistics remain profitable tech ventures. A startup with a freight shipping platform for small- and mid-sized shippers, MyCarrier raised $22 million in a venture round led by NewRoads Capital with participation from Greycroft and Lerer Hippeau.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

Launched in 2016, the startup works with a network of agents, who recruit farmers and retailers to its platform. That could be new crops that enable customers to earn more money,” said Pollak, who co-founded Apollo with Benjamin Njenga and Earl St Sauver. The agritech is scouting for growth opportunities in East and West Africa. “We

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

To solve the problems of traditional electronic media, a startup in Boston, Catalog , was founded in 2016 by MIT scientists including co-founder and CEO Hyunjun Park, developing an energy efficient, cost competitive, and more secure data storage and computation platform by using synthetic DNA.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

By 2016, Shanbhag says that hundreds of schools were using Namecoach’s software and services. Shanbhag hinted at capabilities beyond pronunciation guidance coming down the pipeline, including prompts to enable warm interactions in sales scenarios and feedback to help users improve their conversations more generally.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 4, 2022

It’s 2022 and already local VCs, angel investors, startup founders, incubators and accelerators, and more are pushing hard to make their startups go. and they’ve partnered with TechStars, ID Ventures, Bamboo, Wayne State University and others to do just that. How the Midwest Startup and Tech Scene Boomed in 2021.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. The Microsoft Student Accelerator , though it has the word “accelerator” in its name, is a free, 4-month boot camp teaching students advanced analytics and AI, Azure and cloud fundamentals, and web apps and APIs.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Flip , an Indonesia-based fintech startup, announced today it has raised $48 million in a Series B to accelerate its growth. Sequoia Capital India, Insight Partners and Insignia Ventures Partners co-led the Series B round. The funding brings Flip’s total capital raised to $65million. .

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 10, 2023

Taktile ignited this transformation by enabling companies of all sizes to more easily build, run and evaluate automated decision flows—without requiring developers to write complex code. As a result, client decision making is more proactive, enabling them to deal with a constantly changing environment. This is big!

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

In 2016, Andrew Hoag, formerly a senior manager at Verisign and a web project lead at NASA’s Ames Research Center, founded Teampay , a platform that attempts to automate the software purchasing process for companies. Today, Teampay has hundreds of customers and significant venture capital financing behind it.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2022

According to a 2016 survey commissioned by CyberArk, 40% of organizations store admin passwords in a Word document. “Third-party apps [are] able to work on encrypted ‘Vaultree’d’ data as if it’s decrypted, enabling unlimited, easy collaboration,” Lasmaili said. Vaultree this week closed a $12.8

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 25, 2022

Neso Brands said it will help eyewear brands grow by leveraging synergies across the Lenskart Group to accelerate international expansion. Bjorn Bergstrom has vast experience from consumer scale-ups, venture capital and management consulting. Neso Brands also announces that Bjorn Bergstrom has joined the founding team as CEO.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2022

But with an edge computing setup, the data can be processed on-site, eliminating cloud computing costs and enabling processing at greater speeds and volumes (in theory). ” Ouissal co-founded Zededa in 2016 alongside Erik Nordmark, Roman Shaposhnik and Vijay Tapaskar. million in venture capital.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The funding round was also backed by existing investors including Blackbird Ventures, Main Sequence Ventures, Clean Energy Finance Corporation, Skip Capital, Uniseed, SpringCapital, Malcolm and Lucy Turnbull, and others. Since launch in 2016, Morse Micro has focused on long-range, low-power wireless connectivity.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

“It’s a trend I’ve seen more broadly and we think professional services is the next category that needs an SMB enabler, and that’s really what we’re trying to do.” Revenue has grown “over 50x” since the company’s 2016 funding. The firm first invested in the company in 2016, leading its $12.4

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The company, founded in 2016, provides 24/7 live chat and telehealth, ship-to-home prescriptions, vet-curated items in its e-commerce marketplace and educational content and programs. The San Francisco-based company previously raised $18 million in a Series B round in March.

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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. 2018 Libboo Accelerating great stories and big ideas. 2017 Relativity6 AI for Insurance Advisers, Brokers and Agents helps enable your sales and accounts teams to service and retain clients smarter. management.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Clarifai wants to bring artificial intelligence into the lives of developers, business operators and data scientists so they can automate and accelerate their model development. The Series C funding enables Clarifai to scale its global team of 100 employees with plans to double that by next year. Clarifai product pipeline.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Taing founded Bokksu in 2015 and launched a Japanese snack subscription service in 2016. The funding was led by Valor Siren Ventures , with participation from Company Ventures , St. The fresh capital will also enable Bokksu to accelerate its primary business lines: subscription, market and grocery. Canada, the U.K,

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2022

As a later-stage company, Bucketplace will use the new injection of funding to accelerate its growth in South Korea and enter into new markets, such as Japan, Southeast Asia and the U.S., When the app launched in 2016, interior designers and home improvement hobbyists could post photos of their homes to share their remodeling experiences.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

One clear differentiator is that the company functions as an enabler (at payment rails and the core infrastructure) within banking and payments. It went live with its mobile and internet banking service in 2016 and launched an instant card issuance product in 2017. Appzone clearly plays a different game from other African fintechs.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

The fresh capital will enable Nreal to accelerate its global expansion and double down on the company’s consumer business in the U.S., Gentle Monster, which entered China in 2016 and partnered with Huawei in 2019 to make smart glasses, opened its 17th store in Beijing in early August for further expansion in China.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

The round is led by Berlin’s Cherry Ventures , with participation from various angels. By 2016, the product had grown from something Mencel and Zawadzki’s agency used internally into a platform used by developers around the world. million in seed funding.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Telus Ventures led the round, with participation from new investors Rethink Impact, Citi Impact, Doon Capital, Stardust Equity and Portfolia Food & AgTech Fund, and existing investors, including Spark Capital, Cultivian Sandbox, Astia Fund and Radicle Growth. Today, the company announced $23 million in Series B funding.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Leading the Series A round is venture capital firm Accel, with participation from Visionaries Club, 20VC and existing investor HTGF. Taxdoo data can also be exported to a seller’s accounting system, enabling them to more easily collaborate with local tax advisors. Taxdoo is based out of Hamburg, Germany.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

TechCrunch has been covering the demo days of the seed-stage venture firm Pear VC since 2015. There we are in the front row in 2016 , surrounded by investors, typing away.). “We want to focus on building products and finding customers” while the startups are participating in its accelerator program, he insists. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

Investors who participated in the round include Johnson & Johnson Foundation , Newton Partners (via the Imperial Venture Fund), and Founders Factory Africa. During his time at Accra in 2016, he met Quao, a trained pharmacist in Ghana at a hackathon whereupon talking found out that their interests in medical testing overlapped.

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