TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

EnCharge AI , a company building hardware to accelerate AI processing at the edge , today emerged from stealth with $21.7 million in Series A funding led by Anzu Partners, with participation from AlleyCorp, Scout Ventures, Silicon Catalyst Angels, Schams Ventures, E14 Fund and Alumni Ventures.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2020

In 2018, Leslie Feinzaig , the founder of Female Founders Alliance , launched a free, equity-free accelerator for women called Ready, Set, Raise. The goal was to provide under-networked female founders the coaching and connections needed to raise money. The class will begin October 19th.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Booz Allen Hamilton, the Virginia-based, defense-focused IT consulting firm, today announced the launch of a corporate venture capital arm, Booz Allen Ventures, that will initially put $100 million toward “strategic” defensive and offensive technologies. In the U.S.,

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 3, 2021

In the wake of the murder of George Floyd and nationwide protests, venture capital firms are making newfound commitments to invest in, or at least evaluate, potential investments that are led by diverse founders. million donation-based fund intended to grow to $15 million to invest in “underserved” founders. Sourcing deals.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 13, 2021

million in a Series B round led by Index Ventures, along with new investors BMW i Ventures and Unbound. Existing investors Latitude and Marchmont Ventures also participated. Motorway says it has sold 65,000 cars since its launch in 2017 and seen sales hit £50 million in May 2021 alone, £2.5 We have found that in Motorway.

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FundersClub

JUNE 15, 2017

technology startup founders and how that affects the gender diversity of the employees they hire in " The 2017 US Startup Team Gender Diversity Study. " Founder and Operator Thoughts. What are the most common mistakes you have seen growth stage founders make? " Investor Thoughts.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

Drive Capital, Crosscut Ventures, Bonfire Ventures, Matchstick Ventures and HR Tech Investments LLC, a subsidiary of Recruit Holdings Co., The raise marks Branch’s first since 2017. It started off with earned wage access and then began accelerating payments for workers. 7 VCs look into the future of fintech.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

. “We help doctors diagnose diseases earlier than otherwise they would by being their true assistant,” said Sandeep Gudibanda, co-founder and chief executive of HealthPlix, in an interview with TechCrunch. Founded in 2017, the startup has already empowered more than 10,000 doctors who treat 2.5% to 3x next year.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

With that in mind, we reached out to founders, investors and executives in the city to get an inside look at the state of the current tech startup ecosystem. Ignite NI emerged as an important native incubator and accelerator. Here’s who we spoke to: Cormac Quinn , founder & CEO, loyalBe. Alan Carson , CEO, Cloudsmith.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Especially if you’re a first-time founder (but even if you’re an experienced serial entrepreneur), it can be hard to spot the potential pitfalls that might lead you astray before you even really get rolling. When you’re just starting out building your company, there’s obviously a lot that can go wrong.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Q-CTRL , a Sydney-based startup that provides quantum control engineering solutions, announced today it has raised a $25 million Series B led by Airbus Ventures with participation from Ridgeline Partners, Main Sequence Ventures, Horizons Ventures, SquarePeg Capital, Sierra Ventures, DCVC, Sequoia Capital China and InQTel. .

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 19, 2022

Contributed by Robert Young, an EO Nashville member, who is the founder and CEO of Covert Results , a private investigation and security firm. He’s also the founder of Operation Rose , a non-profit focused on solutions to prevent and combat human trafficking. It was time to retire and start a new venture.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 2, 2022

The country also organizes the biggest startup festival, COMEUP, a 3-day extravaganza with lectures, panel talks, mini-events, and relevant topics for startups, attended by global and domestic startups, experts, mentors, innovators, media, venture capitalists, etc. So that’s why we are here,” said Aykan Ekici, Co-Founder of Khenda.

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Hunter Walk

JUNE 26, 2023

Chris Neumann (of Canada’s Panache Ventures ) checks these boxes so I asked him to come on my blog (currently less consistent, hopefully still the other two) for Five Questions. Hunter Walk: So why venture capital, why early stage, and why Canada? After DataHero was acquired, I felt like it was time to try something new.

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FundersClub

JUNE 8, 2017

Tomasz Tunguz of Redpoint Ventures dives into how figuring out how to become an apprentice is key to developing great judgement in " Apprenticeship. " Founder and Operator Thoughts. " Investor Thoughts. " Erik Voorhees of ShapeShift.io (FC Portfolio) chats with P. Talks About New Trustless Asset Portfolio Prism.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Before launching the fund, Google proved helpful in startups’ journeys via its Google for Startups Accelerator Africa program. The accelerator program has supported more than 80 startups in seed to Series A stages with equity-free mentorship and resources. Collectively , they have raised over $100 million in venture capital.

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

Consequently, the Bay Area experienced a surge, capturing over one-third of all early-stage venture funding in the U.S., marking its highest level since 2017. There’s a cottage industry of folks figuring out how to stack tax credits from the inflation Reduction Act to accelerate sustainable initiatives. Seed- and Early-Stage U.S,

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 10, 2023

Possibly the co-founders of Taktile, Dr. Maximilian Eber and Maik Taro Wehmeyer know. Their two plus year old startup just raised $20 million in funding and set up an advisory board comprised of eight unicorn founders and executives. First, both co-founders have an expertise in machine learning and data science and worked at QuantCo.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

The round was led by Pelion Venture Partners , with participation from returning investors DNX Ventures (the Japan and US-focused enterprise fund that led Macrometa’s seed round), Benhamou Global Ventures (BGV), Partech Partners, Fusion Fund, Sway Ventures and Shasta Ventures.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

With a focus on designing, building and growing mobile and web apps, Appetiser’s co-founders Jamie Shostak and Michael MacRae were endorsed by several clients who worked with them from the earliest days of their projects. This accelerates user acquisition. “Every startup has to start with an idea.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

SPH Media is on a path to broaden its readership base throughout Southeast Asia and accelerate its ambition of becoming a regional hub for business and tech news and events. Tech in Asia (TIA) founder and CEO Willis Wee, expressed his optimism regarding the acquisition by SPH Media, emphasizing the strategic advantages it offers.

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HPA

MAY 5, 2023

HPA is excited to announce our participation in Bloomfilter’s $7 Million seed round , which was led by Magarac Venture Partners. of venture debt. We are excited to partner with MVP and others to make this vision a reality,” said Andrew Wolfe, co-founder and co-CEO of Bloomfilter. The funding included $5.5M

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Before starting Nestcoin, founders Yele Bademosi and Taiwo Orilogbon led the charge at Bundle Africa, one of the continent’s well-known crypto trading platforms. He referenced his time at Microtraction, an early-stage investment firm he founded in 2017 to back African startups.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 30, 2018

According to the NVCA 2017 Yearbook , in 2004, 77% of global VC fundraising went to US VCs, and 85% of global VC dollars went to US startups. Venture capitalists like us are investing in three overlapping models of international startups: Companies founded overseas. As of 2017, 421 companies have passed through the program in 6 U.S.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2022

Venture capitalists and founders across all fundraising stages spoke to current investment strategies when it comes to investing in this cohort of startups. These structures were popular in the 2017-2018 [Initial Coin Offering] days and have become less prevalent today.”. Yet, things are accelerating across the board in crypto.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

Founded by Mark Straub and William Bares in 2017, Smile Identity is a major player in Africa’s ID verification and KYC compliance industry. Costanoa Ventures and Norrsken22 back Smile Identity in $20M Series B round Here’s also how it fits into Smile Identity’s current growth strategy from a product but geographic-led standpoint.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The 10 or so founders chosen for Converge will receive $1 million each and admission to five weeks of office hours, workshops and events with OpenAI staff, as well as early access to OpenAI models and “programming tailored to AI companies.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

We are also improving our technology as we start our expansion into other countries in Africa,” Amitruck founder and chief executive officer Mark Mwangi told TechCrunch. By the time I was leaving Pictet in 2017, I was part of a team of four running a €5 billion ($5.6b) portfolio, but then I wanted more out of life.

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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. The latest round brings its total funding raised to $41.4 million, the company said without disclosing its valuation.

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Startup Catalyst

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

In November 2017 we delivered our first Investor Mission, heading to San Francisco for an intensive week meeting with angels, VCs, corporate venture programs, accelerators, startups, pitch events, and dinners. The mission was led by Steve Baxter, an investor on Shark Tank and the current Queensland Chief Entrepreneur.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Sota Kimura, co-founder and CEO of SmartRyde, founded SmartRyde in 2017 after he experienced trouble getting a taxi from the airport to the hotel when he traveled abroad, Kimura told TechCrunch. SmartRyde announced today it has secured a $1.6 It will also use the funding for global expansion, Kimura said.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Food Market Hub co-founders Anthony See and Shayna Teh. The startup announced today it has closed a Series A round of $4 million from Go-Ventures, whose cornerstone investor is Gojek, and SIG. Many restaurants still rely on spreadsheets to track their inventory of produce, meat and other ingredients. million so far.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . See Bessemer Venture Partners’ A comprehensive guide to security for startups. Delian Asparouhov, Founders Fund, says on the home page of Matchbox.vc: “Ladies and Gentleman, welcome to 2020.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

They include lead investors Vostok New Ventures and Endure Capital and participating investors JAM Fund (led by Tinder co-founder Justin Mateen), YC Continuity Fund, a large unnamed Saudi-based fund, Shorooq Partners, 4DX Ventures and logistics giant Flexport.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2022

Pensando CEO and co-founder Prem Jain framed the deal in terms of being able to grow faster inside the larger organization than it could on its own. “Joining together with AMD will help accelerate growth in our core business and enable us to pursue a much larger customer base across more markets,” he said. .

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 30, 2020

The startup raised a total of $107 million from investors, including Highland Capital Partners, White Star Capital, Insight Venture Partners and Nestlé itself, which led the Series C in 2017. “It’s an evolution brought on by the pandemic but taking hold for the long term.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2022

Applicants must be alumni of the Y Combinator accelerator. The group, called Orange DAO , is an effort to build out a venture structure which can scout out and back young crypto startups. It was formed this fall with a few dozen YC alums, but has grown in recent weeks to attract more than 1,000 YC founders.

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