AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Delve into his story as it unfolds with lessons from filmmaking, startup ventures, and the fascinating world of technology innovations and investing. ” In 2018, Crossworks Myanmar was born, initially intended to hire talent for Jeshua’s ventures.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

It was only a year ago that many in the Venture Capital industry were predicting that “winter was coming” and to be fair the author of this post was chief amongst them. But the reality is that “global warming” massively blunted the effects of winter and my prognosis for VC fundings of entrepreneurs in 2017–2018 is now very sunny indeed.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

Austin’s venture capital scene has been hot for years now, but a pair of local investment firms just closed on new funds aimed at injecting more capital into startups in Austin and elsewhere. It was a great place to live and work, and I believed that over time, it would be a growing venture opportunity.”.

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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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Payments infrastructure company Stronghold has launched a venture capital arm to deploy $100 million of its balance sheet capital in startups and funds in three core strategies — underrepresented founders, fintech, and web3, CEO Tammy Camp told TechCrunch in an interview. It has raised $3.3 billion, the company says.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

When Christopher Male’s son was diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in 2018, the long-time investor found himself in unfamiliar territory. “At The fund’s mission is to “revolutionize the status quo for diagnosing treating and living with autism through a venture-capital model.” He then launched his own venture fund.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

MarketForce , the retail B2B and end-to-end distribution platform founded in Kenya, has raised $40 million in Series A funding for its merchant inventory financing and expansion across Africa. Existing investors that took part in the round include Reflect Ventures, Greenhouse Capital, Century Oak Capital and Remapped Ventures.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Contact Financial Holding, Egypt’s non-bank consumer finance provider, has invested $9 million in the country’s ecommerce super-app Wasla , setting the stage for the rollout of new online shopping capabilities, products and regional expansion. And the final step is integrating financing or buy-now-pay-later solutions directly within that.

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TechCrunch

JULY 30, 2021

Outvio , an Estonian startup that provides a white-label SaaS fulfillment solution for medium-sized and large online retailers in Spain and Estonia, has closed a $3 million early-stage financing round led by Change Ventures. This is the startup’s first institutional round of funding after bootstrapping since 2018.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

IgniteXL Ventures, a fund founded by general partner Claire Chang, closed on its first fund of $10 million aimed at backing diverse early-stage founders in the beauty and wellness industry. Chang formed igniteXL in 2018 and started fundraising over a year ago. Claire Chang, general partner at igniteXL Ventures.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 2, 2023

Register China has announced the extension of favorable taxation policies for venture capital firms and individual angel investors investing in tech startups. Initially introduced in 2018, the policies have now been extended until the end of 2027, as stated in a joint announcement by the Ministry of Finance and State Taxation Administration.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 1, 2023

Register Saudi Arabia-based debt and investment company Manafa announced raising $28 million in a Series A funding round co-anchored by STV and Wa’ed Ventures. Manafa was founded in 2018 by Abdulaziz Al-Adwan and Arm Murad. Established in 2014, Wa’ed Ventures manages a portfolio of more than 40 start-ups.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 4, 2023

MoveinSync’s Strategic Funding Round This financing round is intended not only for growth but also to provide an opportunity for some of its early investors to partially exit. Among the interested investors is Bessemer Venture Partners. million trips each month.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The funds will also be used to extend vehicle financing credit to over 100,000 drivers in the next two years. The startup introduced vehicle financing in 2018, and in just over two years, CFO Guy-Bertrand Njoya told TechCrunch, the churn rate by drivers affiliated to them has crashed to “close to zero.”. “We

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2022

Bonfire Ventures , a Los Angeles venture capital firm, invests in seed-stage business-to-business software companies and aims to change the odds so that more than the average 33% of companies in this sector make it to Series A. The third managing director, Brett Queener, joined in 2018 after a career at Salesforce and Siebel Systems.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

London-based Divido , a white-label platform for retail finance that integrates with e-commerce platforms (but can also support omni-channel) so retailers can offer consumers a “buy now, pay later” option at the point of sale, has bagged a $30 million Series B to fund international expansion. Making sense of Klarna.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 7, 2020

We are 12 years into the longest bull market in US history and this bullishness has powered the venture market. Investors deployed $117 billion in 2019 up from $106 billion in 2018. However, you couldn't characterize the venture market as conservative today with a straight face. It's been go, go, go for nearly a decade.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

This investment came from a consortium of regional investors, including Northstar Group, Alpine Ventures, Patamar Capital, and January Capital. GFC, Money Forward, Alpine Ventures, Patamar Capital, and nine angel investors also contributed to the funding round.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Noorjit Sidhu is an early-stage investor at Plug & Play Ventures , focused on investments across data infrastructure and cloud, artificial intelligence, financial services, and the future of learning and work. The binary views are reminiscent of those we saw during the ICO frenzy in 2018. Noorjit Sidhu. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In 2018, he and Akintola Adesanmi — who was no stranger to how rent worked in Nigeria and also desired to effect change — brainstormed Spleet , a platform that partners with apartment owners to list their properties and offers renters options to pay rent monthly, quarterly and biannually. monthly to finance rent payments.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The funding round was spearheaded by Lion X Ventures and Vickers Venture Partners, with participation from Advanced MedTech and Eckuity Capital. In October 2018, the company concluded its first-in-human study with no recorded severe adverse events, showcasing the safety and efficacy of the technology.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2021

There’s a new venture studio in the world that looks rather different from earlier venture studios from a structural standpoint. It’s also a world that many venture firms continue to approach warily. And it’s work that comparatively few venture firms right now fully understand, Chou suggests.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

Sequoia Capital and Bain Ventures are among the high-profile investors that have backed the venture firm Kearny Jackson’s second fund, the early-stage focused firm said Wednesday as it gears up to invest in more startups. It has also roped in Sunil Chhaya , formerly a VC at Menlo Ventures, as a co-GP.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

Pan-African venture capital firm TLcom Capital led the round. New investor Capria Ventures and existing investors Lateral Frontier Ventures, Enza Capital and Ingressive Capital participated. CEO Emmanuel Okeleji and CTO Deji Lana didn’t build SeamlessHR from the get-go.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

Pencz and Florian Hagenbuch founded Loft in early 2018 and today serve as its co-CEOs. This latest financing brings Loft’s total funding raised to an impressive $700 million. In addition, Loft has also raised more than $100 million in debt financing through a series of publicly listed real estate funds.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

In 2018, he started a pre-school chain based in the U.K. pre-seed for its small business finance management app. Berlin and San Francisco-based 468 Capital led the round, while Presight Ventures and Jigsaw VC participated alongside angel investors such as Laurin Hainy of FairMoney and Leonard Stiegeler of Pulse.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

Growth equity firm Prysm Capital led the financing, which brings the round total to $435 million. The company was founded in 2018 with a mission “to replace the outdated infrastructure being used across capital markets,” starting with a prime brokerage platform for institutional investors, said Chris Pento, co-founder and CEO.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Financial infrastructure startup Fidel API has raised $65 million in a Series B funding round led by Bain Capital Ventures. Developers use the company’s tools to power a range of features, including digital receipts, omnichannel attribution, loyalty and rewards, expense management and personal finance management. .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

Despite a pandemic that sparked a global recession, 2020 was still a record year for venture capital investments into American startups. According to data shared by PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association, investors poured $156.2 venture capital market in 2020 was hot, it was not newly so. But while the U.S.

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HPA

APRIL 13, 2021

The financing round was led by Eldridge, with participation from existing investors including Hyde Park Angels; LightBank; American Family Ventures; Cox Enterprises, owner of AutoTrader and Manheim auto auctions; and OMERS Ventures, the venture arm of a Canadian pension fund; as well as additional new investors.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 3, 2023

million in a funding round backed by We Ventures, IBK Capital, Lindeman Asia Investment, and BCD Labs. It will also finance new product innovations and improvements, and partnerships to offer the most reliable platform on the market. Register South Korea -based startup SeaVantage has announced raising $1.3 founder of SeaVantage. .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2022

Munich Re Ventures led the round and was joined by TriVentures, MS&AD Ventures and ORIX and existing investors Aspect Ventures, Mindset Ventures, at.inc/ and OurCrowd. The latest round gives the company $150 million in total funding, which includes $100 million in a credit facility announced in 2018.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 20, 2023

The post-Covid surge in venture capital pushed valuations & activity to record breaking heights. The red is a linear model based on data from 2010 to 2018 that predicts activity rates for each financing series of US & Canadian software companies. [1] Since then, investing activity dropped precipitously.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

million Series A, led by original design manufacturer Wistron Corporation, with participation from Hive Ventures, Top Taiwan Venture Capital Group and Silicon Valley Taiwan Investments. InfuseAI , a MLOps startup based in Taiwan, announced today it has raised a $4.3

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 21, 2023

The round was led by Ant Group, CerraCap Ventures, and EDBI. 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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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

It’s a sign that certain investors are continuing to bet on emerging biotechnologies — which often take longer to prove profitability compared to other verticals — at a time venture funding is cooling. Insilico is headquartered in Hong Kong, which has in recent years emerged as an attractive hub for biotech startups.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Tunde Balogun co-founded the startup, formerly RentSmallSmall, with Naomi Olaghere and Pidah Tnadah in 2018 after returning to Nigeria from the U.K. For tenants, it’s the comfort of managing their finances better by paying monthly rent and the respite that comes with not transacting with housing agents that SmallSmall provides.

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