StartupNation

MAY 26, 2021

On today’s Business Beat, Jeff talks about how Michigan leads the nation in the biggest increase in venture capital investing and how venture capital is furthering innovation in our state. Venture capital is the type of capital used to invest in companies, startup companies, and fuel their growth.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The venture capital market has skewed later and larger in recent quarters, something you might have felt in the rapid recent pace of new unicorn formation. That number was up from 92 in 2019 and 66 in 2018. Venture capital in Europe during Q4 2020 set a record for dollars invested , some $14.3 So was January.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2020

“More than 50% of our founders still are in their current jobs,” said John Vrionis, co-founder of seed-stage fund Unusual Ventures.

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DECEMBER 16, 2019

This year we dove headfirst into the rise of corporate venture capital, the changing nature of venture capital education, and the important task of startup ecosystem building. In 2018, we saw this trend reach new heights with more corporate venture capital (CVC) funds than ever.

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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. The result was an uneven landscape in which capital flowed more toward men than was normal historically. That was in an upmarket.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Register Singapore-based venture capital firm Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia and India (VVSEAI) has successfully concluded its fifth funding round, raising $541 million. The figure represents an 80% increase compared to the amount raised for its previous fund, VVSEAI Fund IV, in 2019.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

NextView Ventures, a Boston-based venture capital fund, has raised an $89.6 The NextView Ventures team did not immediately respond to request for comment. Despite the pandemic, Boston’s startup scene has continued to attract record numbers in venture capital volume. In Q3 2019, New England drove 9.3%

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 22, 2023

GenAI, Developer-and Data Stack-Focused Companies Dominate List as well as 80% of ET30 founders are Millennials Five years ago, Wing Venture Capital introduced their annual Enterprise Tech 30—a list of the most promising, private enterprise tech private companies across all stages of maturity. years in 2019.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 17, 2023

Register Singapore-based venture capital firm Jungle Ventures has announced its merger with HealthXCapital , an early-stage VC firm specializing in healthcare investments. This move is expected to reinforce Jungle Ventures’ foothold in the healthcare sector across Southeast Asia and India.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Intudo Ventures , the “Indonesia-only” investment firm, announced today it has closed its third fund, totaling $115 million. Called Intudo Ventures Fund III, it was raised in less than three months and oversubscribed. When we gave him the term sheet, six months later in March 2019, Bitcoin was at $3,000,” he said.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 1, 2023

Register Thailand’s health-tech company, HD , has secured investment from FEBE Ventures , a well-known venture capital firm headquartered in Vietnam. The investment from FEBE Ventures will enable HD to strengthen its marketplace further. Last month, the global healthcare venture platform VentureBlick secured US$2.6

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Haystack

DECEMBER 30, 2018

My predictions for 2019. Ok, let’s move on…for 2019’s prediction, I tried to keep it simple and cook up big questions that are on most peoples’ minds, and offer my two cents on them. As to 2019…here are the big FAQs out there: When will companies start going public? Not in 2019. I predict: soon!

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StartupNation

APRIL 26, 2021

Smith discuss the 2021 Midwest Venture Showcase , a partnership between the Midwest Growth Capital Symposium (MGCS) and InvestMidwest , which will showcase 57 companies actively seeking funding to an audience of top-tier investors, entrepreneurs, researchers and business executives. The virtual event runs April 27 to 28, 2021.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

in 2019 and quickly gained investments from some of the top fintech venture capital firms. Along with Matt Sueoka, Global Head and SVP of Amex Ventures Stephany Kirkpatrick will speak on what it takes to get financing in the fintech space. Stephany Kirkpatrick launched Orum.io PDT/2:30 p.m.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 30, 2023

After slowing way down last spring, venture outfits disclosed a stunning $8 billion in new capital commitments in the span of just five days. billion ; Cowboy Ventures announced two funds totaling $260 million ; and FJ Labs also disclosed two funds totaling $260 million. Is venture funding already back?

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

Venture capital (VC) firm Lifeline Ventures today announced a fresh €150 million ($163 million) fund aimed at early-stage startups across Finland. Lifeline Ventures has also backed unicorns such as open source enterprise infrastructure company Aiven , which hit a valuation of $3 billion last year. when invited to do so.

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Dream It

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

The Dreamit Fall 2019 cohort at Kickoff Week in Philadelphia. Our team at Dreamit is thrilled to announce the new cohort of startups for our Fall 2019 Securetech , Healthtech , and Urbantech programs. Photo credit: Bob Stasio, Dreamit (@BobStasio).

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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

JUNE 7, 2022

Sarah Guo is the latest woman to depart their position at a venture capital firm with plans to launch one of their own. Guo becomes the latest woman to leave a position at an established venture firm to become an emerging manager amid a wave of women spinning out to launch their own funds.

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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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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Public stocks, bonds, private equity, real estate, venture capital, etc. In venture capital, there were something like 30,000 companies that raised venture capital in 2019. And within each category, there are so many different investment opportunities.

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Revolution

MAY 21, 2019

Venture funding and government funding routes for growth are not mutually exclusive. link] The Rise of the Rest Class of 2019 was originally published in Revolution on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. What can your city teach Silicon Valley?

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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

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

APRIL 5, 2023

To date, Cranium, which launches out of stealth today, has raised $7 million in venture capital from KPMG and SYN Ventures. Research into the topic has exploded, with more than 1,500 papers on AI security published in 2019 on the scientific publishing site Arxiv.org, up from 56 in 2016, according to a study from Adversa.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

As a turbulent week in the capital world, we’re taking a look at something a bit slower moving: venture capital trends in Africa during 2020. The Exchange has long explored quarterly and yearly data regarding the North American , European and Asian venture capital markets , along with data on particular startup categories.

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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. But in action, every member on a venture team has a varying range of investment autonomy, decision-making authority and weight at the firm.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The sheer volume of capital flowing into LatAm fintech startups may appear overheated, but several reasons explain why the flood makes sense. But there are several factors in play that make the booming venture capital totals these companies are raising more reasonable than they might initially appear.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2023

million Series A in mid-2019 and a massive $65 million Series B in March 2021. Perhaps Substack can grow just fine without venture dollars by Alex Wilhelm originally published on TechCrunch From there, the startup’s ability to raise new funds quickly accelerated, with Andreessen Horowitz leading Substack’s $15.3

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 31, 2023

Register Indonesian digital bank Superbank , supported by Grab, Singtel, and Emtek Group, is collaborating with Singapore’s Genesis Alternative Ventures to offer a financing package of $40 million for startups in Indonesia. Genesis recently closed an $80 million fund, heralding it as the region’s pioneering venture debt fund.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2020

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. The Seoul-based startup announced today it has raised a $60 million Series B.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JULY 15, 2020

I suspect what we will see is a very active venture capital market, quite the opposite of what was initially expected. Venture deal activity slowed in the second quarter, with $34.3 Venture deal activity slowed in the second quarter, with $34.3 So Q2 was down from Q2 2019 but almost flat with Q1 2020.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 24, 2023

Register Startup Island TAIWAN, an initiative backed by Taiwan’s National Development Council, recently joined forces with domestic venture capitalists and listed companies to present a significant event showcasing the prowess of Taiwanese digital tech startups.

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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.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

There’s no question that we are in the middle of a long-running and accelerating venture bull market. The venture alphabet soup of “A, B, C rounds” suggests it’s all the same, just one after the other, but it is not. In fact, the venture bull market affects different stages very differently.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2022

There has been much talk as of late of a slowdown in venture funding. For example, Brex announced last week that it provided $10 million in growth capital via venture debt to Zesty.ai, a leading provider of predictive data analytics in the climate risk space. We’re seeing pretty big market changes.

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Ian Hathaway

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Last month, I published an analysis of venture deal activity in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic, which demonstrated that despite early warnings of an impending collapse, the pace of venture deal activity in the first half of 2020 was more or less on par with 2019. We now have fresh data to extend that analysis.

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