AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Register Japan’s Financial Services Agency plans to double the cap on the amount of money retail investors can invest in unlisted startups. At present, through crowdfunding, retail investors have a limitation of investing a maximum of 500,000 yen annually in individual unlisted startups. counterpart in structure and scope.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

Today we’re wrapping our multi-week exploration of the global venture capital market’s second-quarter performance. At a glance, the Latin American venture capital and startup market appears similar to what we’ve seen from other growing ecosystems. A venture capital wave. billion was invested. billion across 526 deals.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

NextView Ventures, a Boston-based venture capital fund, has raised an $89.6 The NextView Ventures team did not immediately respond to request for comment. The fund, which has offices in New York as well as Boston, invests in consumer and software-as-a-service enterprise startups at the pre-seed and seed stage.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Investment apps in Southeast Asia are attracting a lot of funding, and now some are raising fast follow-on rounds, too. The latest round’s lead investor is Valar Ventures, which also led Syfe’s Series A, marking the fintech-focused venture capital firm’s first investment in an Asian startup. million led by Valar Ventures.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

The venture capital boom of 2021 was not built from merely traditional VC money. And amid all the noise, record-setting totals, and rapid-fire dealmaking, corporate venture investors were busy, investing gobs of parent-company cash into far-smaller concerns. How quickly is corporate venture capital investment accelerating?

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 11, 2017

Comparing 2017 averages to seven year highs, we observe Series A, Series B, and Series Seed round sizes are effectively at their all-time highs, ignoring some minor differences. In 2016, venture capitalists reduced their investment in staff companies by 1 ⁄ 3 , falling to $2.8 billion from $4.2

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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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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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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2022

While many funds are returning to more conservative check-writing , with a focus on profitability and business fundamentals, crypto remains a sector in the spotlight that attracts dedicated billion-dollar funds and investment terms that remind us more of 2021 than 2022. Influx of cash-rich attention.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Intudo Ventures , the “Indonesia-only” investment firm, announced today it has closed its third fund, totaling $115 million. Called Intudo Ventures Fund III, it was raised in less than three months and oversubscribed. Chan pointed to crypto-exchange Pintu as a good example of Intudo’s investment thesis.

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FundersClub

JUNE 1, 2017

" Boris Silver of FundersClub shares his key takeaways about the digital currency/token space from the inaugural Token Summit in NYC in " My 6 Takeaways from Token Summit 2017. Want to invest in the best startups? Not a subscriber to FC weekly? Click here to subscribe. Sign Up for FundersClub.

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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. " Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures draws parallels between ICOs and private investment rounds and lists some key points to think about regarding ICOs in " Buyer Beware.

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Jason Malki

AUGUST 3, 2023

Sebastian led Innovation Management in 3 verticals before becoming a corporate intrapreneur in the automotive industry in 2017, where he created numerous in-house startups, going through ideation to scale-up stages. Since 2018, he is investing with an emerging tech VC focused on web3 and managing early-stage deal flow.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Funds will be used for commercialization and expansion PHOENIX, October 25, 2023 – Planatome, a medical device company that applies atomic-level polishing from the semiconductor industry to create advanced surgical blades that lead to better patient outcomes, today announced the closing of its $5M Series A equity investment round.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

CoreWeave , an NYC-based startup that began as an Ethereum mining venture, has secured a large tranche of funding as it continues to transition to a general-purpose cloud computing platform. Magnetar contributed $111 million, with the remainder of the investment being split between Nvidia, Friedman and Gross.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 11, 2022

Register Chinese venture capital firm Qiming Ventures Partners announced the closing of its latest funds totalling $3.2 Fund VIII is led by Managing Partners Duane Kuang, Nisa Leung, William Hu, and Gary Rieschel, with full support of investment and administration teams based in Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, and Hong Kong.

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TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2021

Based in Sydney and Auckland, Dovetail is a full-service venture studio that works closely with founders who have a great idea, but may lack technical backgrounds. million USD) fund that will be used for seed, Series A and Series B rounds in 15 of the most promising companies that have gone through its venture studio program.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

In a bid to position its brand as more tech-forward — and, in the process, foster new culinary innovations — Chipotle today announced the launch of Cultivate Next, a venture fund run by Curt Garner, the restaurant chain’s chief technology officer. Venture funds alone put more than $39.3

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Seedstars Africa Ventures , the pan-African early-stage fund for startups, has appointed Bruce Nsereko-Lule as its new general partner, to help it deploy more capital and provide the much-needed technical support for founders across the continent. Image Credits : Seedstars Africa Ventures. Chandaria Capital backed 38 startups .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 19, 2021

The round was co-led by African early-stage VC firm Future Africa and Japanese but Africa-focused VC Kepple Africa Ventures. Other investors include Acuity Ventures, Aidi Ventures, Assembly Capital, Kairos Angels, Nama Ventures, RallyCap Ventures, and Remapped Ventures. You have to be as simple as possible.”

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

OCTOBER 15, 2020

I wrote yesterday , about the quarterly numbers for VC investing activity: If this was a student coming home with a report card, it would be straight As. Firms invested a total of $434 million in Q3—the lowest figure since the second quarter of 2017, according to PitchBook data.

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2022

Sydney Thomas , who was the first hire at Precursor Ventures , a seed and early-stage focused fund that backs first-time founders, is starting her own venture firm. Her firm doesn’t yet have a website or a name, but she’ll spend the next few months heading into builder mode before opening up the inbox for investments.

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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. Madore of Hacked about their new venture, Prism, which is a trustless means of holding multiple assets, and also the blocksize debate in " Podcast #1: Erik Voorhees from ShapeShift.io

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2023

Image Credits: Semgrep Evans said when the company launched in 2017, he had this vision of doing something like this and set out to build it, but they were having trouble building something specifically for developers. And then we also have a vertically integrated SaaS solution that sits on top of that,” Evans explained.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2022

The tech industry loves generalizations — and don’t worry, I enjoy my fair share too — but as the downturn continues to play out, it’s increasingly important to think about the structural changes that may be forming in the venture capital landscape. Venture firms, unlike unicorns, often don’t have hundreds of employees to cut.

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Revolution

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In 2017, we partnered with iconic leaders in American business to turn the thesis we developed on the road — that great companies can start and scale anywhere when given a chance — into an investment vehicle. In the last decade, we’ve socialized several Rise of the Rest-isms to describe investments that check those boxes.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 19, 2022

intends to use the funding to investment in technology and scale its business operations and teams in the United States, India and the Middle East. The founding round was led by Nexus Venture Partners, a leading Silicon Valley-India venture capital firm. Uniqus Consultech Inc. The post Uniqus Consultech raises $12.5M

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Each had different yet complementary skills — Michael Famoroti , an economist; Bode Ogunlana , a software engineer; Abdul Abdulrahim , a data scientist; and Preston Ideh , a corporate lawyer — and in 2017, they launched a media startup to address the dearth of information and data-driven insights in the West African country. .

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FundersClub

JULY 13, 2017

" Albert Wenger of Union Square Ventures introduces continuous random variables to further his lessons on probability in " Uncertainty Wednesday: Continuous Random Variables. Want to invest in the best startups? " Founder and Operator Thoughts. " Did You Know? Not a subscriber to FC weekly? Click here to subscribe.

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

We named this summit after a report we wrote with Pitchbook at the end of 2021 to explore the impact of the pandemic on investment patterns. 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. Seed- and Early-Stage U.S,

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 22, 2022

Register Finhay , Vietnam’s premier digital investment platform , has secured $25 million in its Series B funding round co-led by Openspace Ventures and VIG. We believe a massive opportunity exists in Vietnam, which has an enterprising population hungry for the chance to invest smartly. With more than 2.7

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

With this in mind, Aptiv might have a more long-term reason to invest strategically in a scalable system architecture that functions under the hood of autonomous vehicles. The tech, which was originally launched in 2017, is already in over 2 million passenger vehicles worldwide, including Hyundai vehicles.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Burns left Twitter in 2017 to join GV, formerly known as Google Ventures. Read on for a Q&A with Burns about her investment thesis, role change and plans as partner. TechCrunch: Before you were in venture, you held product roles at Venmo and Twitter. Her hope has now been met with recognition.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 2, 2022

Register Insignia Ventures Partners , a Singapore-based venture capital investor , said it will be more aggressive on “next-decade sunrise sectors” in the region after it announced raising $516 million for three venture funds. The venture capital investor announced the close of its latest funds totalling $516 million.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

million in a seed-funding round co-led by Acrew Capital and Boldstart Ventures with participation from Knollwood Capital, Pelion Ventures and Aviso Ventures. Ahmed became acquainted with Swanson while working at Swanson’s last startup, DataScience.com, which was acquired by Oracle in 2017.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2023

The global supply chain was one of the major industrial casualties of the pandemic, so it perhaps goes without saying that companies tackling issues related to the global supply chain would remain an alluring proposition for otherwise hesitant venture capitalists.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

When SoftBank announced its first Vision Fund back in 2017 , TechCrunch gawked at the size of the fundraising vehicle and its $100 million minimum check size. billion in a blizzard of deals , SoftBank left the venture capital market changed. Noting a few of its early deals, we wrote that “the party is just getting started.”

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