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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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Register Centbee, a blockchain payments company based in London, has closed its pre-Series A round with $1 million in investments from Ayre Ventures. The additional investment from Ayre Group will enable the company to scale and grow as well as strengthen its technical and operating capacities.

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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. So here’s a reminder of why 2019 is 10000x better than 20 years ago. “We We’re in a new tech bubble!”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Pan-African venture capital fund 4DX Ventures and unicorn Flutterwave are the investors in the round, and it signifies two particular markers for the pair. Flutterwave’s involvement in the round is a continuation of the unicorn’s partnership with CinetPay that started in 2019, said both companies in a statement.

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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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Impact Hub

MARCH 30, 2020

We could not agree more with the International Women’s Day 2020 campaign theme for this year’s celebrations of female achievement: “An equal world is an enabled world.”. Twelve coaches and 11 mentors from adidas and Impact Hub delivered 580 hours of business support to 11 ventures throughout the program. The winning changemakers.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Register Virtual events platform Airmeet has secured US$35 million in funding in its Series B financing round led by Prosus Ventures , Sequoia Capital India , and Sistema Asia Fund. The funding round was also joined by KDDI Open Innovation Fund, RingCentral Ventures, DG Daiwa Ventures and Nexxus Global alongside existing investor Accel India.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2020

CHAI wants to fix this with an API that enables companies to accept over 20 payment systems. The round was led by Hanhwa Investment & Securities, with participation from SoftBank Ventures Asia (the early-stage venture capital arm of SoftBank Group), SK Networks, Aarden Partners and other strategic partners.

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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. Robotic sheet forming is the first process enabled by Machina’s patented manufacturing platform.

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FundersClub

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Caper announced its $10M Series A led by Lux Capital to fuel expansion of its AI-enabled smart shopping carts for grocery and convenience stores. priced Seed round led by First Round Capital and Susa Ventures for its tenant screening platform for landlords and credit building platform for tenants. We invested in the Seed and Series A.

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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

JULY 15, 2021

One of its players, Taager , is a social e-commerce platform enabling online merchants with end-to-end logistics. The seed round was led by Pan-African focused VC 4DX Ventures. It also included participation from Raed Ventures, Beco Capital, Breyer Capital and some private investors, including Magnus Olsson, co-founder of Careem.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Bain Capital Ventures has named Christina Melas-Kyriazi, a former Affirm executive and angel investor, as its newest partner. Matt Harris, partner at Bain Capital Ventures, agrees. Bain Capital Ventures raised $1.3 Fintech and commerce are certainly two of those areas. billion to fund young startups, and young VC firms, too.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2022

” Among the roles it is hiring for are Head of Data Science / Credit, Fraud, & Pricing and Partner Marketing & Enablement. million seed round from Index Ventures with CoinFund and FJ Labs also participating. over the same period in 2019 — small businesses are thriving and need support. We’re meeting a need.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

million from investors over the last few months, part of which includes a recently concluded $2 million seed round that was led by the Africa-focused venture capital firm 4DX Ventures. Wowzi, which connects social media users with advertisers and provides consumer insights, has secured a total of $3.2 This was preceded by a $1.2

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

” The round led by Insignia Venture Partners, with participation from CCV (Central Capital Ventura, the investment arm of Bank Central Asia, the largest privately-owned bank in Indonesia), and Armand Ventures. Verihubs announced it has raised $2.8

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Impact Hub

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Ahead of this year’s Global Climate Strike (20-27 September) and the Global Goals Week (21-30 September), the Impact Hub network is launching its 2019 Global Impact Report. The 2019 Global Impact Report is the culmination of gathering relevant data from a number of their 16,500 members of 100+ locations in over 55 countries around the globe.

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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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

Rhys Spence is head of research at Brighteye Ventures, a European edtech-focused fund, where he works with portfolio companies to help address priorities, with a focus on internationalization and HR. Even as recently as 2019, the edtech ecosystem could have been likened to a shallow well. Image Credits: Brighteye Ventures.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

We profiled the Austin-based company’s founders Larissa Russell and Fiona Lee back in 2019 when they raised $3 million in a round led by Moment Ventures that also included M12. Both M12 and Moment Ventures returned for the Series A, which was led by Industrious Ventures, and now gives the company $13 million in total funding.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2021

MAX started out in 2015 as a delivery startup using motorcycles to fulfil customer orders before venturing into ride-hailing, and later into vehicle subscription and financing services – solutions it came up with based on the data from its first services.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

So they launched Bay Area-based Wanderlog in 2019 to enable users to gather and record their travel plans. The free itinerary maker and road trip planner takes the best parts of Google Docs and Maps and enables users to import the information and map out the trip. Reservations can also be added, Peter Yu said. Wanderlog demo.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 2, 2023

The 2nd Pangyo Business Support Hub with Drone Enterprise Support Center (Photo = beSUCCESS) In a bid to foster startups and venture companies that will lead the future drone and UAM market, the Korea Institute of Aviation Safety Technology has been operating the Drone Startup Support Center since 2017. Furthermore, NCsoft invested KRW 1.5

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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. This achievement also enables the miniaturization of the dialysis machine to a size that can be conveniently carried in a small bag.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Register Multi-stage global venture capital firm MSA Novo , announced that it has invested more than $16 million in six Indian startups and plans to further inject funds into the Indian startup ecosystem by the end of 2023. Founded by Harburg, MSA Novo is a global venture capital investing systematically across emerging markets since 2019.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 8, 2023

in 17 startups since 2019. By providing a low initial investment and robust deal flow, SDAC enables accredited investors from across the U.S. Angels collaborate with peers, meet interesting founders, and are on the frontlines of exciting new ventures that build businesses, support families and build wealth in communities.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 18, 2023

The funding was led by Real Tech Holdings, a prominent Japanese Venture Capital firm, with the participation of corporate investors, including Mitsubishi Electric, Seeds Capital, Wavemaker Partners, New Keynes Investments, and the State Government of Victoria in Australia. Back in 2019, Hydroleap secured a funding round of US$1.9

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Earth Venture Capital (Earth VC), a global climate tech venture fund with Southeast Asia focus, led the recently concluded funding round that was also participated by KSL Maritime Ventures, the venture capital arm of The Kuok Maritime Group, and existing Ampotech investors like Silicon Solution Ventures and SEEDS Capital.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 3, 2023

Partech Partners, M Venture Partners, AC Ventures, iSeed, and Orvel Ventures. With low utilization rates across private hospital infrastructure, this ‘Airbnb for Surgeries’ solution enables HD to help both healthcare providers as well as patients.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

Since its launch in March 2019 , the accelerator has helped its participating startups collectively raise over $1.7 billion in follow-on funding, the venture firm said, with over 60% of companies from the first five cohorts raising their Series A and beyond. Info Edge Ventures is a co-investor.). 8VC is a co-investor.).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

ManageXR announced today it has raised a $4 million seed round led by Rally Ventures , with venture partner and previous lead angel investor Jay Borenstein joining the company’s board of directors. .

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 31, 2023

The funding also had participation from TKG Taekwang, IBK-STIC Pioneer Fund, and existing investors, including Do Ventures, BAce Capital, and Vulpes, further highlighting the confidence in the startup’s potential. Founded in 2019 by Lam Do and Thu Do, Vuihoc has rapidly grown to serve over 1.1

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2022

million) in venture funding from several notable institutional and angel investors — this includes Manchester City and German international footballer İlkay Gündoğan. Founded out of London in 2019, WeWalk has developed a GPS-enabled smart cane and smartphone app, helping users navigate their surrounding environment.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

Singapore-based Reebelo , a marketplace for affordable and sustainable consumer electronics, has had a passion for keeping electronics out of landfills since it was started by Philip Franta and Fabien Rastouil in 2019. “In It will enable Reebelo to grow its U.S.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

The company, which uses a combination of computer vision and machine learning to create a system that can quickly and accurately inspect vehicles, has raised $100 million in a Series D funding round led by Hanaco VC, a venture capital firm based in New York and Tel Aviv. Existing investors GM Ventures, CarMax, W.R. Ventures L.P.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

The wealth technology company was co-founded in 2019 by Taylor Matthews and Brad Genser, who say Farther is “a new kind of financial institution” catering to high-net-worth professionals building generational wealth but want the freedom of both an automated system and a professional.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

-based online university platform Nexford University has raised $8 million in a Series A round co-led by New Markets Venture Partners and Learn Capital, two prominent edtech venture capital firms in the U.S. The tech-enabled startup, launched by Fadl Al Tarzi in 2019, is filling affordability and relevance gaps in education.

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