Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 31, 2023

PE becomes an important buyer of companies growing 10-25%, as it did in 2018, driven by lower debt costs. The share of AI-enabled web searches approaches 50% of all consumer search as consumer behavior patterns evolve, especially on mobile. This innovation reinvigorates very early-stage IPOs.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

This evolution has been accelerated by regulatory changes that are fostering innovation and competition within the financial technology landscape. A diverse range of startups and companies are offering innovative financial solutions to consumers and businesses. The most prominent of these changes was the Fintech Law of 2018.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 18, 2024

Their AI-based innovations will provide the necessary tools for companies, including those in Apollo Fund’s portfolio, to achieve competitive operational improvements across industries. “We 25madison’s innovative DNA combined with Apollo’s focus on building stronger businesses can help transform companies and equip them for the future.”

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 18, 2024

Their AI-based innovations will provide the necessary tools for companies, including those in Apollo Fund’s portfolio, to achieve operational improvements in their highly competitive landscapes across industries.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 23, 2023

CEO Ramin Shirani and a team comprised of highly experienced semiconductor innovators co-founded Ethernovia in 2018 that includes Roy Myers, senior vice president of engineering, Hossein Sederat, chief technology officer, and Darren Engelkemier, vice president of silicon engineering.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 25, 2024

This early commitment from the NJEDA catalyzes additional financing in these innovative startups. Using biometric technologies, Princeton Identity enables businesses and global organizations to simplify identity management, resulting in improved safety and protection. TLA Innovation, Inc. vipHomeLink, Inc.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 21, 2023

The company is the result of the Business sans Border initiative, which aims to create a global ecosystem of MSMEs through trusted credentials, and to enable B2B cross-border trade through financing and fulfillment services.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Sometimes that’s venture capital generally (like last year’s conversation with Reid Hoffman ) and sometimes it’s in a space where I’ve invested (like mobility and city innovation with Bird’s Travis VanderZanden , one of our portfolio founders.) Between the heavy hitters at the helm, the more than $1.4B

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

The funding round is led by global banks HSBC and ING, with participation from Sony Innovation Fund by IGV*, SBI Investment, OCS, Global Brain and DG Daiwa Ventures along with existing investors DN Capital, Dawn Capital, IQ Capital and Amex Ventures. with a goal of launching in 10 more countries by the end of 2019.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

By 2018 I sensed that he was right and we began focusing more on our barbell approach. We live in a hostile world and it’s now a tech-enabled hostile world. At the time I wasn’t 100% sure but he made compelling arguments about how other markets have developed as they matured so I took note. Secrets of Sand Hill Road.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

After delivering over one million subscription boxes of Japanese snacks to customers in more than 100 countries, Bokksu launched a digital marketplace for premium Japanese lifestyle products, Bokksu Market , in 2018. Cousair , World Innovation Lab (WiL), Headline Asia and Gaingels. . Bokksu ships its grocery products to the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

In 2018, three co-founders of Refract, Chong Geng Ng, Michael Chng and Eugene Koh, worked on a gaming-related project and encountered a problem statement: How would one bridge the gap between gaming and physical activity? “We are pleased to support their growth and the development of the overall innovation ecosystem in Singapore.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Fidel API says it has tripled its growth metrics and quadrupled its card base year-over-year since launching in 2018, according to CEO and co-founder Dev Subrata, who declined to reveal hard revenue figures. And then we expose that through a modern API for other developers to innovate on top of.”. Fidel API enables that future.”

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 12, 2019

In 2010, Ravi founded IndiVillage , the first information technology (IT) and information technology enabled services (ITeS) company in India to become certified as a B Corporation. The EO Accelerator program is the catalyst that enables first-stage entrepreneurs to catapult their business to the next level.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 3, 2023

In addition to its payment services, Alchemy Pay has also introduced its innovative NFT Checkout service, which enables customers to acquire NFTs using fiat payment options, making the process as straightforward as any other standard online payment.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

The company has raised a total of $16 million since its 2018 inception. . Sumutasu says its platform enables users to access a fair house valuation in an hour. . Sumutasu , a Tokyo-based proptech startup that offers a direct online real estate purchase service, has secured $8.2 million in equity and $1.6 million in debt. and the U.K.,

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Such innovations have already led to significant decreases in crime rates for early-adopter cities, but to maximize their impact we need wider adoption. What does technology-enabled public safety look like? Furthermore, drones have been saving lives and aiding in investigations for years. police departments in some capacity.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Besides, governments across Asia actively work on fintech regulations to balance innovation and consumer protection. With the new investment, Bunker will invest capital in its innovation and expand regional operations. SkorLife has emerged as a pioneering credit builder in Indonesia, co-founded by Ongki Kurniawan and Karan Khetan.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 19, 2022

The plan is to enable founders to launch and grow early-stage startups in the Southeast Asian region over the next four years. Antler’s 127 investments in Southeast Asia to date are enabling and supporting 785 founders from 75 different nationalities.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

November 2, 2018. If successful, the company and government agency will embark on a contract to develop a final product that will enable the agency to better serve the public. STiR was created by the City of San Francisco in 2014 to partner with technology startups to develop innovative solutions to civic challenges.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Berkeley-based cultured meat company New Age Meats announced Monday it raised $25 million in Series A funding that will enable the company to begin production of its first product offering, a variety of pork sausages, next year. Brian Spears speaking at Hello Tomorrow Singapore. Image Credits: New Age Meats.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 29, 2022

Founded in 2018 and based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Asia Mobiliti is a mobility tech startup with a mission to enable intelligent transit and mobility for the developing world. The company’s goal is to enable mobility-as-a-service at scale across the emerging market regions.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

APRIL 4, 2022

funded programs in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras help farmers expand and diversify their operations, enabling them to provide for their families and feed more people in their home countries. PROINNOVA stands for the Project of Innovative Solutions for Agricultural Value Chains in Guatemala.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

The company announced this morning a $73 million Series B round co-led by Globis Capital Partners and World Innovation Lab (WiL), with participation from existing investors DCM and Global Brain. In December 2018, the company closed a $9 million Series A round led by DCM and followed by Globis Capital Partners and WiL and Global Brain.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

The healthtech company was launched in 2018 by Patrick Beattie , Andrew Quao and Edward Grandstaff. Redbird enables pharmacies in Ghana to add rapid diagnostic testing for 10 different health conditions to their pharmacy services. In 2018, Redbird participated in the Alchemist Accelerator just a few months before launch.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 19, 2023

It was very fulfilling to see how digitalization has helped our rural bank partners to thrive during the pandemic recovery period and enabled our loyal users to access attractive deposit and loan products digitally. . “We are humbled by the overwhelming support from our investors, rural bank partners, and loyal users.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Incubated out of Harvard’s Innovation Lab in 2018, CEO Pascal Kriesche and Morgan Abraham call their company a “healthy smoothie store-in-a-box” that is essentially a robot that mixes fruits, vegetables and add-ins like protein into a smoothie.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Founding Visions that Fuel Innovation Younghak Ahn’s journey into entrepreneurship began with a passion for addressing real-world problems. “We created an educational SaaS that enabled real-time two-way communication between teachers and students through IT. “Events play a crucial role in B2B sales.

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NZ Entrepreneur

AUGUST 22, 2023

He started his first business aged 18 and received the New Zealand Angel Association’s Arch Angel award in 2018 as New Zealand’s top angel investor. One of GEN’s aims is to encourage more entrepreneurial people thinking about innovation that will carry the country forward in a time of rapid and extreme change.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 29, 2022

Register Bright Machines , a technology company pioneering an innovative approach to intelligent, software-defined manufacturing automation, has announced raising $132 million in debt and Series B equity funding. This round of funding brings the total raised by Bright Machines to $330M since the company’s founding in 2018.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

While the concept of CMS has been around for decades, a relatively new innovation — so-called headless CMS — is beginning to attract both market share and the interest of investors. Closing the loop, Contentstack eventually bought the CMS division of Raw Engineering in 2018). billion by 2030, up from $21.5 billion in 2020.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

The judges were impressed with Vyrill’s novel approach and innovative technology around discovering and filtering relevant videos. This enables L’Oréal to identify and utilize the best user-generated videos for the company’s marketing purposes. million pre-seed round in 2018. million already raised.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Mexico repeatedly tops most innovative fintech hub lists, and neobank and digital wallet transactions are consistently increasing — during COVID lockdowns they rose by an estimated 80%. This natural evolution has enabled people to gradually become familiar with fintech as a safe and streamlined solution.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

GrowthSpace was founded in 2018 by Dan Terner, Izhak Kedar and Glass. “Terner realized that there was no effective, outcome-driven employee development platform to enable companies [including his] to better invest in their employees,” Glass said.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 29, 2023

The startup has been providing salary advances and other financial services to underserved employees in the Philippines since 2018, where almost half of the population remains unbanked. With this latest raise, Advance will introduce more innovative financial products and offer its services to more partners in the Philippines and Vietnam.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

There’s an urgent need for a global air traffic management solution to enable safe and efficient drone and urban air mobility (UAM) operations, and Terra Drone aims to be the leading player building the digital infrastructure in the sky.” . We will be able to scale up operations and innovation faster.” .

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