TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

The future of technology is determined by a handful of venture capitalists. The world’s 10 leading venture capital firms have, together, invested over $150 billion in technology startups. There is a startling lack of diversity within the venture capital sector. We all live in a world shaped by venture capital.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

But most of these companies and developers find it difficult to access real-time banking data. Since 2019, Plaid-esque companies, but with different twists to their offerings, have emerged to solve these issues. based Susa Ventures led this latest tranche of investment. In total, Okra has raised $4.5 guaranteed uptime. .

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TechCrunch

MAY 1, 2023

The startup Cambrian BioPharma is developing a life-changing technology while pioneering a radical approach to a pharmaceutical company. Cambrian BioPharma bills itself as a new pharmaceutical company with a revolutionary approach to developing and managing drug development. Register here. It’s free to watch and participate.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

The startup Cambrian BioPharma is developing a life-changing technology while pioneering a radical approach to a pharmaceutical company. Cambrian BioPharma bills itself as a new pharmaceutical company with a revolutionary approach to developing and managing drug development. Register here. It’s free to watch and participate.

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

From 2003-2022 the River Valley Investors operated as a traditional angel group, investing in nearly 100 startups. For posterity, here are some of the more recent investments… 2022 Hubly Surgical Hubly Surgical has an advanced drill, complete with auto-stop and visual feedback, to make medical drilling safe across underserved settings.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Register Singapore’s Jungle Ventures has announced the launch of First Cheque@Jungle , a new program aimed at investing in startups during their pre-seed and seed stages. The First Cheque program plans to leverage the expertise of experienced founders from Jungle Ventures’ current and former portfolio startups.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

LOS ANGELES, CA – January 26, 2023 – Machina Labs today announced the completion of an investment by Lockheed Martin Ventures (LMV), the venture arm of Lockheed Martin Corporation (NYSE: LMT ), a global security and aerospace company. Machina Labs combines AI and robotics to rapidly manufacture advanced sheet metal products.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

I’ve heard a lot of people question whether there is too much money in venture capital chasing too few great deals. Others believe that new business models are emerging that could replace venture capital all together. We’re in a new tech bubble!” some have pronounced. Valuations are out of control” is the mantra of others.

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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

JULY 21, 2021

Global investment group Eurazeo invested $53 million in Pangaea Holdings for a minority investment in the Los Angeles e-commerce company rooted in creating premium men’s personal care brands. Harlem Capital’s Henri Pierre-Jacques invested in both Pangaea’s seed round in 2019 and Series A in 2020.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Early-stage fintech-focused venture firm Better Tomorrow Ventures has raised $225 million for its second fund — triple the amount it raised for its debut fund that closed in September of 2020. It has also reserved $75 million for an opportunity fund for follow-on investments. It’s committed to three so far.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Despite the growth in awarded venture capital (VC) funds, a staggering disparity remains between the amount of total VC funds invested in entrepreneurs and the portion of those funds invested in ventures founded and/or led by women—particularly women of color. I am no stranger to this gender gap within the VC space.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 17, 2023

Phylicia Koh, vice president at early-stage gaming venture capital firm Play Ventures , said effective fundraising is not only essential for securing necessary capital but also for demonstrating the commitment and resilience of the founding team. . The Singapore-based venture capital firm raised $135 million for its Fund 2.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

million seed round led by MaC Venture Capital. Serena Ventures, Omidyar Group’s Luminate Fund, Melo 7 Tech Partners and Cascador (Empowering Economic Growth Foundation) participated. In 2019, the company embarked on one such project as it developed Nigeria’s first real-time election database. Image Credits: Stears.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Lightspeed Venture Partners led the round with commitments from Cisco Investments, angel investors from the collaboration and security space, and previous investors Neotribe Ventures, Firebolt Ventures and WestWave Capital, the company said. billion in 2019 to $23 billion by the end of this year.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The investment was led by Round13 Captial with participation from Rhino Ventures and Harlo Equity Partners. MARZ plans to use the funding to grow its core VFX business and accelerate the development of its ‘AI for VFX’ technology solutions. million in Series A funding. ” Bronfman wrote.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

Global venture capital firms are pouring money into the semiconductor startups developing the next generation of chips. Sunghyun Park , a former quant developer at Morgan Stanley in New York, launched artificial intelligence semiconductor startup Rebellions with four co-founders to enter this red-hot industry in 2020.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

The funding was led by Insignia Ventures Partners, with participation from returning investors Beenext and Integra Partners. For more about Brankas’ start, see TechCrunch’s 2019 profile of the company , the same year it raised its Series A. Founded in 2016, Brankas goal is to “democratize access to financial and identity data.”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2021

Notably, the 38-year-old Silicon Valley-based venture firm is doubling down on global investing. billion global “Leaders” fund that is focused on later-stage investing that Accel closed in December. Accel expects to invest in about 20 to 30 companies per fund on average, according to Partner Rich Wong.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2022

HSBC Asset Management, the investment arm of Britain’s HSBC Group, has led a seed round of $4 million in Singapore’s customer intelligence and risk assessment startup Bizbaz , the two said Friday. The investment from HSBC, which doesn’t typically back early-stage startups, is noteworthy for Bizbaz.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

VC has been invested over the past decade according to race, gender and educational background makes for grim reading — with all-ethnic teams and female entrepreneurs receiving just a fraction of available funding versus all-white teams and male founders. New research looking into how U.K. Here the report found that 42.72% of U.K.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2021

It was easy to wonder what would become of Docker after it sold its enterprise business in 2019, but it regrouped last year as a cloud native container company focused on developers , and the new approach appears to be bearing fruit. Today, the company announced a $23 million Series B investment.

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Revolution

MAY 21, 2019

At the end of each tour day, we hosted a pitch competition where a local startup received a $100,000 investment from Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund. My advice would be to pick and develop a focus in which you have competency and passion. Venture funding and government funding routes for growth are not mutually exclusive.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2020

billion) after attracting a $200 million (£150 million) investment from Tokyo Gas, for a 9.7% stake, in order to launch a joint venture. Octopus will own 30% of the venture, with Tokyo Gas owning the majority. by 50% (renewables in Japan in 2019 accounted for 18.9% s Octopus Energy has attained a $2.06 In the U.K.,

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Today, the Japanese investment conglomerate is announcing the launch of the SoftBank Latin America Fund II, its second dedicated private investment fund focused on tech companies located in LatAm. According to the firm, that fund has generated a net IRR of 85% — with SoftBank having invested $3.5 SoftBank Group Corp.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The venture capital scene in Africa has consistently grown, with an influx of capital from local and international investors reaching unprecedented heights in recent years. Did African startups raise $496M, $1B or $2B in 2019? Investments did pick up, and from July, VC funding on the continent had a bullish run until December.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2021

Indonesia-based fintech Pluang announced today it has raised $20 million in a pre-Series B round led by Openspace Ventures, with participation from Go Ventures and other returning investors. The company offers proprietary savings and investment products that allow users to make contributions starting from 50 cents USD.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

Signaling that investments in the supply chain sector remain robust, Pando , a startup developing fulfillment management technologies, today announced that it raised $30 million in a Series B round, bringing its total raised to $45 million. billion in 2019. Pando isn’t the only vendor doing this.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

These markets make up 32% of Africa’s population, 51% of the continent’s mobile network connections, 50% of its professional developers and 51% of its GDP. from 2010 to 2019. million jobs due to Google’s $1 billion investment in the continent. million jobs due to Google’s $1 billion investment in the continent.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2021

Thomas Rush is founder of Bootstrapp and Head of Investment Platform at ConsenSys Mesh. Revenue-based investing ( RBI), also known as revenue-based financing, or revenue-share investing, 1 is a natural next step for the private equity and early-stage venture investment industry. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

Like other financial sectors in Latin America, the retail investing space is getting a facelift by local tech startups that are cashing in on the untapped potential for democratizing asset management in the region. we invest way less than you do; by a factor of 10 maybe,” Pineda said, comparing the investment rate in Chile.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2020

In 2019, only one Black woman was named partner in venture capital, according to All Raise , a nonprofit focused on accelerating female founders and investors. The data has shown, shows, and will continue to show how the tech industry fails to invest in underrepresented women of color.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Seven startups begin a six-month program that will make them investment-ready To grow the Orange County, California ecosystem , the RevHub social enterprise incubator was established in 2019. They leave with foundational tools and resources that position them to grow and be investment-ready. EMC Squared is another member.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Denis Kalinin works at venture fund Runa Capital as Asia Business development manager, devoted to connecting the Western and Asian VC worlds and bringing long-term value to both. Is it OK to co-invest with Chinese investors? This figure puts Chinese VC investments only 30% lower than investments by U.S.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

L’Attitude Ventures announced today that it has closed on its first institutional fund, raising more than $100 million from several financial services heavyweights, including a “strategic anchor investment” from JPMorgan Chase. It plans to invest in another 20 ventures, rounding out the portfolio at between 40 and 50 startups.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2021

The round was led by MassMutual Ventures, with participation from Endiya Partners and angel investors including Avaana Capital founder Anjali Bansal and Udaan co-founder Sujeet Kumar. East Ventures co-founder and managing partner Willson Cuaca will join Qapita’s board. Deciding how much equity to give your key employees.

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