TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The coronavirus pandemic disproportionately reduced venture capital funding for female founders last year, despite a greater boom in fundraising thanks to megafunds and the advent of Zoom investing. billion across 2,661 deals through the first three quarters of 2021, almost doubling 2019’s total of $23.7

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2023

When SoftBank announced in 2019 that it had allocated $5 billion to investing in Latin American startups, it felt like an inflection point for the region. billion of that capital has been allocated across more than 80 investments, according to Juan Franck, managing partner of the SoftBank Latin America Funds.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 16, 2024

(April 15, 2024) – Last week, the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) Board approved the creation of the New Jersey Green Bank (NJGB), which will make investments in the clean energy sector that will help advance the state’s efforts to make an equitable transition to 100 percent clean energy.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Marking its 5th anniversary, COMEUP 2023 is gearing up to become a grand global startup festival, surpassing previous editions in terms of scale and significance. This dynamic zone will feature IR pitches for investment attraction, conducted on a dedicated stage, and thought-provoking conferences.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2023

trillion by the end of the decade “to advance long-term solutions that address climate change and contribute to sustainable development.” Of that, it’s earmarking $1 trillion specifically for climate investments. At first, ESG (environmental, social, governance) investing felt like a supplemental action at many investment firms.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2021

Bezos Expeditions — Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ personal investment fund — and Whale Rock Capital joined the round, adding $40 million to a $60 million raise led by Sequoia about one month prior. That raise came after a $40 million Series B in April 2019 co-led by Stripe and Index Ventures that valued the company at $355 million.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

There are enough SPACs on the hunt today that they would be noisy even if they were not time-constrained investment vehicles. The company has raised a number of private rounds, including a $126 million deal in August of 2019 that valued the company at $454.3 from 2019 to 2020. This brings us back to Chamath’s two deals.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 3, 2024

Angels often make their first real impact post-investment by helping a portfolio company develop a “real” Board, by insisting on documented processes, key metrics and measures and a more rigorous approach to corporate oversight and accountability. The median number of Director seats held by angel groups for their 2022 investments was 4.5,

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

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. million in two rounds and the company will use the investment to expand its data infrastructure across Nigeria. . In total, Okra has raised $4.5

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HPA

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

HPA first invested in the $4M round that NOCD completed in 2019 and invested again in the $12M Series A in 2020. The funds will be used to expand NOCD’s community, reach people earlier in their treatment journey, and offer additional services to assist with their long-term health.

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HPA

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

HPA first invested in the $4M round that NOCD completed in 2019 and invested again in the $12M Series A in 2020. The funds will be used to expand NOCD’s community, reach people earlier in their treatment journey, and offer additional services to assist with their long-term health.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2021

Druva last raised a $130 million round led by Viking in mid-2019 at around a $1 billion valuation. Normally we’d note that that sounds like IPO fodder, especially as Druva passed the $100 million ARR threshold back in 2019. Our coverage of the company’s 2016 round noted that the company could go public within a year.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

Guesty , which has created property management software for hosts on short-term rental platforms like Airbnb and Vrbo, is announcing that it has raised $50 million in Series D funding. In short-term rentals, there’s no public player — you can bet your money that we are eyeing that target.” In the U.K.,

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

To understand how much growth has occurred, African startups raised a meagre $400 million in 2015 compared to the $2 billion that came into the continent in 2019, according to Africa-focused fund Partech Africa. Did African startups raise $496M, $1B or $2B in 2019? billion in 2019. billion and $1.8 Behind the numbers.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

We first emphasized this issue in a 2019 piece: Did African startups raise $496M, $1B or $2B in 2019? It also defines African startups as companies with their primary market, in terms of operations or revenues, in Africa — not based on HQ or incorporation. How African startups raised investments in 2020.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The investment comes just months after the company secured a combined $60 million asset and equity financing. Since launching as a spinout from Affirm in 2019, Resolve says it has seen “overwhelming” demand for its B2B buy now, pay later (BNPL) billing offering for business purchases. . Image Credits: Resolve.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2021

Ajaib Group , an online investment platform that says it now runs the fifth-largest stock brokerage in Indonesia by number of trades, announced it has raised a $25 million Series A led by Horizons Ventures, the venture capital firm founded by Li Ka-Shing, and Alpha JWC.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

today compared to 40%+ in the U.S,” and his firm expects the two numbers to “converge in the long-term.” And in case you’re worried that we’re comparing to an unfairly COVID-impacted year, in 2019 the numbers were $5.3 billion was invested. billion (again) from 614 individual deals. With some $7.2

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 1, 2022

A spokesperson of 42dot told TechCrunch that the startup is in talks with Hyundai Motor, but cautioned that terms including stake size and deal valuation hadn’t materialized yet. billion (12 trillion WON) for connectivity and autonomous driving software investment. Hyundai currently owns a 20.4% million) in 42dot.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

Jakarta-based investment app Pluang announced that it has raised $55 million led by Accel. Pluang’s last round of funding was a $3 million Series A in 2019. . Pluang’s last round of funding was a $3 million Series A in 2019. . The app is also launching a new features that will users to invest in fractional U.S.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

Initialized Capital led the round — the company’s first funding since its 2019 inception. Since launching as a spinout from Affirm in 2019, Resolve says it has seen “overwhelming” demand for its B2B buy now, pay later (BNPL) billing offering for business purchases. She views them as experienced and determined. “

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Korea Investment & Securities participated in the latest funding as well. Profitability would also go a long in enabling the company — which is eyeing a potential initial public offering in the near term — to do so successfully.) . billion won) and $175.8 million (229.3 million since its December 2021 launch.

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Jason Malki

AUGUST 1, 2023

Essence started in 2019 and backed amazing companies like Motherduck, Modal, Warp.dev, Sardine.ai How did you break into tech investing? After exiting Hyperpilot to Cloudera, like many other exited founders I started to angel invest into other founders I already know or met during my own founder journey. and Jasper.ai.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

This rapid innovation has been fueled by an unprecedented amount of investment. Despite the recent slowdown, venture capital investment in the biotech sector in the US ballooned to nearly $25 billion in 2022 from just under $4 billion in 2000. Pharma R&D investment likewise increased from $38 billion in 2000 to $83 billion by 2019.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2021

Duolingo is likely entering a period in which it will have to invest heavily in features like pronunciation, efficacy and new apps — which could come at a steep upfront cost. Starting with Duolingo’s growth in total active users , guess how fast they rose from 2019 to 2020. million MAUs at the end of 2019 to 33.5

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

Dinardo and his co-founders, Ed Butterworth and Nick Eales, started the company in 2019. All veterans of Salesforce, they saw how underserved the consumer goods industry was in terms of moving to digital. and in Europe, invest more in R&D and execute the Salesforce playbook,” he said. That is what this round is about.”.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

By leading with business integrity—and investing in strong governance, an ethical culture, corporate citizenship, and compliance—organizations not only build trust, but also outperform,” said Erica Salmon Byrne, Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Chair, of Ethisphere. The evaluation covers five years from January 2019 to January 2024.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

In a year marred by the coronavirus pandemic, it seems that early-stage startups on the African continent are continuing to see some notable growth, both in terms of their business and from investors looking to back them. . Other investors include Pave Investments and US-based angel investor, Chris Schultz.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Incredibly, prior to the investment, ProsperOps had only raised around $800,000. “This investment allows us to expand the scope of the work we perform for our customers and continue growing our engineering and sales teams.” Growth Partners with participation from Active Capital and other unnamed investors. a few months).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

Savings and investing app Acorns has raised $300 million in a Series F funding round that values the company at nearly $2 billion. New York-based Acorns had last raised more than three years ago — a $105 million Series E round in January of 2019 at an $860 million valuation. billion SPAC with Pioneer Merger Corp. ” .

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The fund, which closed a $400 million investment vehicle in November 2019, has noticed that more and more startup employees are thinking about entrepreneurship as the pandemic has shown how much room there is for new innovation. To gain a competitive advantage, Unusual is investing small checks into founders before they’re full-time.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

In 2019, it sold its enterprise business and decided to focus strictly on a developer audience with a set of commercial and open source tools. Today, the company announced a $105 million Series C investment on a $2.1 We had multiple term sheets that were all competitive. billion valuation. billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The Middle East-based startup, founded by Eslam Ahmed Hussein and Pulkit Ganjoo in 2019, has raised $14.3 Al Rajhi Partners, Arab Bank, Amana Capital and Palm Drive Capital and existing backers Signal Peak Ventures and Knollwood Investment Advisory also participated in the new round. million to date. Car subscription offerings.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Indeed, the Italian Ministry of Economic Development and the Italian Trade & Investment Agency in London have even been known to fund Italian entrepreneurs abroad to help them gain more experience. Milan tends to attract the lion’s share of VC funding — in 2019, startups located there received €311 million, according to NGP Capital.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

Founded in 2009, Helsinki-based Lifeline Ventures has invested in around 115 companies to date, with more than a dozen exits to its name including activity-tracking app Moves , which Facebook acquired back in 2014; food delivery company Wolt, which DoorDash snapped up in a $8.1 billion for a majority stake in 2016. when invited to do so.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2020

In comparison, there were about 200 million K-12 students in 2019 in China, according to the Ministry of Education (link in Chinese). Zuoyebang offers online courses, live lessons and homework help for kindergarten to 12th grade students, and claims about 170 million monthly active users, about 50 million of whom use the service each day.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2021

These short-term loans allow the companies to build credit with Bespoke, which then offers better terms on subsequent loans and products. This is Sweat Equity Ventures’ (SEV) first investment into a cannabis company. Casa Verde Capital previously invested in Bespoke Capital, including in a $7 million round in 2019.

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