TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

After all, AI is costly — Gartner predicted in 2021 that a third of tech providers would invest $1 million or more in AI by 2023 — and debugging an algorithm gone wrong threatens to inflate the development budget. million in total venture capital. With Galileo, which today emerged from stealth with $5.1

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Via TechCrunch by Arman Tabatabai: Venture capital has been flooding the various subverticals under the robotics umbrella in recent years, and the construction space is one of the largest beneficiaries. Matt Murphy and Grace Ge, Menlo Ventures Which trends are you most excited about in construction robotics from an investing perspective?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Mage , developing an artificial intelligence tool for product developers to build and integrate AI into apps, brought in $6.3 While collaborating with product developers, Dang and Wang saw that while product developers wanted to use AI, they didn’t have the right tools in which to do it without relying on data scientists.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JULY 13, 2022

investment from leading global agricultural companies to support commercialization of. The recent funding includes investment from Ospraie. Ag Sciences (OAS), Bunge Ventures, the for-profit, global investment arm of Bunge. The global phosphatic fertilizer market is expected to reach $78B by 2025. Phospholutions Inc.,

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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. Other statistics include job projections from various channels: 44 million jobs if internet penetration reaches 75%, 3 million jobs from online marketplaces by 2025 and 1.7

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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 by 2025, per Markets and Markets — up from $17.4 billion in 2019.

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Angel Capital Association

DECEMBER 14, 2023

This is the time of year when we reach out to our angel community seeking nominations for both the Angel Capital Association’s FY 2025 Board of Directors and committee volunteers to help ACA continue to grow and support our work on angel investing.

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Angel Capital Association

DECEMBER 11, 2023

This is the time of year when ACA reaches out to our angel community seeking nominations for both the Angel Capital Association’s FY 2025 Board of Directors and committee volunteers to help ACA continue to grow and support our work on angel investing.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2022

Successful private capital firms long ago ditched their spreadsheets and moved to digital tools for accounting and other middle-office tasks as part of a larger trend toward improving efficiencies, controls and operational transparency. Richard Change. Contributor. Richard Change is the co-founder and managing partner of PFA Solutions.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

in terms of vehicle sales, said Tuesday it will invest $300 million in Momenta to accelerate the development of AV tech for future GM vehicles in China. As TechCrunch’s Rita Liao notes, “mega-fundraising has become common in the capital-intensive autonomous vehicle world.” GM, the largest automaker in the U.S. Here in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

The e-commerce market in Latin America has been gaining traction over the past two years and is poised to double in size and be valued at more than $100 billion by 2025. With this new funding, the company aims to invest in technology development, build operations in Brazil and Chile and launch some embedded finance products and services.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Rafizi emphasized that the development of startup companies holds great importance in speeding up Malaysia’s economic transition toward technology and digital-based industries. The move aims to create a conducive environment for technopreneurs and supports the broader vision of strengthening the venture capital ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

100 million, diversified : MassMutual launches $100 million fund to invest in diverse founders , Dominic-Madori reports. million to help developers securely connect software services , Kyle reports. Track the revenue : Ron reports how Reef.ai is helping companies track and expand net revenue retention.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

JIC Venture Growth Investments led the Series E equity funding, with participation from Z Venture Capital , a venture investment arm of Z Holdings, Japan Post Capital and Salesforce Ventures. The latest round brings its total funding raised to $41.4 million, the company said without disclosing its valuation.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2022

Bluu Seafood , a German company developing lab-grown seafood, debuted its fish sticks and fish balls this week. Still, she doesn’t expect to get the pork loin into the hands of consumers until 2025, with commercial plants coming online in 2026, followed by mass production in 2027. Image Credits: Novel Farms.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 30, 2022

Register Kickstart Ventures , one of the most active venture capital firms in the Philippines, celebrates its 10th anniversary with a renewed commitment to invest in startups across the Philippines, and in major innovation hubs in Southeast Asia and beyond. on its first year.

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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. The company aims to refine its ultra-portable peritoneal dialysis (PD) device, gearing it up for the impending final pivotal trial in the United States, scheduled for 2025.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 8, 2023

Register F88 Investment Joint Stock Company (F88) has raised additional investments amounting to $50 million from a recent fundraising that was led by Vietnam-Oman Investment Fund (VOI) and Mekong Enterprise Fund IV(MEF IV). Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet?

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

rang the opening bell on the NASDAQ stock exchange, signifying the start of their new chapter in life as a public traded company after successfully completing a merger with Novus Capital Corporation. Having the opportunity to learn from the founders you back is by far one of the most rewarding parts of being a venture capital investor.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 1, 2023

The investment round was led by Quest Ventures Asia Fund II, an early-stage venture capital fund managed by Singapore-based Quest Ventures Pte Ltd. Additional investors include Worldwide Management Solutions and Qhazanah Sabah Berhad (QSB), the strategic investment arm of the Sabah state government.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Register Committed to accelerate the digital transformation of the world’s fourth largest population, Privy has partnered with KKR , a leading global investment firm. Other participants are existing investors MDI Ventures , GGV Capital and Telkomsel Mitra Inovasi, and new investors including Singtel Innov8.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The round was led by Altos Ventures , along with strong support from BonAngels Venture Partners, Access Ventures, Mahanusa Capital, Prodigy Investment, and Pearl Abyss Capital. Proceeds from this round will be used for future product developments and hiring across new divisions as Plugo expands operations.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2021

million Series C round to beef up its machine learning-based platform development and hire staff. . The latest round was led by Hana Financial Investment, along with Nice Investment. Returning backers Smilegate Investment, KT Investment, Shinhan Capital and Korea Development Bank also participated.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2021

Today, Israeli startup Vdoo — which has been developing AI-based services to detect and fix those kinds of vulnerabilities in IoT devices — is announcing $25 million in funding, money that it plans to use to help it better address the wider issue as it applies to all connected objects. billion by 2025 from $12.5

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

The Canada-based company was founded by Nick Saltarelli, his wife, Lezlie Karls and her brother, Jake Karls in 2018 after coming from different careers in areas like product development and marketing. million, and with the latest investment, has a $35 million pre-money valuation. Mid-Day Squares previously raised $7.5

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Fintech-focused investor Tonic Private Equity led the Series G round along with returning backers, including Korea Development Bank (KDB), Altos Ventures, Goodwater Capital, Greyhound Capital, Aspex Management, Bond Capital, and DUMAC. Korea Investment & Securities participated in the latest funding as well.

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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 fits perfectly into our investment thesis which is focused on platforms and software in the enterprise adoption cycle.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

The venture capital and private equity database today launched VC Exit Predictor, a tool trained on PitchBook data to attempt to suss out a startup’s growth prospects. ” PitchBook certainly isn’t the first to develop an algorithmic tool to inform investment decisions. PitchBook believes so.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

companies will spend upward of $100 billion on AI R&D per year by 2025. At a startup or scaleup, the focus is often more on concrete product development than research. Before investing in staffing an AI research lab, consider this advice to determine whether you’re ready to get started. Ideally, there’s a way to do both.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

New York-based Luxor Capital, which led the company’s €37 million Series B in September 2021 , is also leading this round. Real estate investment firm Byggmästare Anders J Ahlström (like Volta, based in Stockholm), supply chain services giant Agility, and B-FLEXION (formerly Waypoint Capital) also participated.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

I’m interested in hearing what investors from Intel Capital , GM Ventures and Snow Bull Capital have to say about the industry and what strategic mobility investors are looking for in a startup. This week, the company said it was investing $1.4 Speaking of Stellantis, LG Energy also said it would invest more than $4.1

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

As the demand for AI-powered apps grows, startups developing dedicated chips to accelerate AI workloads on-premises are reaping the benefits. A recent ZDNet piece reaffirms that the AI edge chip market is booming, fueled by “staggering” venture capital financing in the hundreds of millions of dollars. “I founded Sima.ai

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

The search for solutions to the challenge has given rise to startups like Doppler, which offers a service that developers can use to manage and secure secrets — specifically app secrets — “at scale” in enterprise environments. And it automates secret syncing, requiring developers to update secrets only once.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2023

Two years ago, startups developing software that helps draft, manage and review contracts raised over $70 million in venture equity. Gartner predicts that legal tech spending — which includes CLM — will increase threefold by 2025. VCs see a rich opportunity in tools to manage the contract lifecycle.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Register Xurya Daya Indonesia (Xurya), a solar power rental and installation startup, received additional series A funding from global trading and investment company Mitsui & Co., ” According to Eka Himawan, Xurya plans to allocate funding for the expansion of solar power development have tripled since the beginning of 2022.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The grant was from the Reboot Representation Tech Coalition , a group of 21 tech companies which aims to double the number of Black, Latina, and Native American women receiving computing degrees by 2025, by making philanthropic investments in relevant programs.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2023

Bruce Hamilton, founder, Mech Ventures: We are contemplating decreasing our check size so we can double our number of investments from 75 to 140. This is for a few reasons, most of which are rooted in the continued importance and investment in our core market category of cybersecurity, safety, security and privacy.

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