American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

But progress is being made as seen in the rising number of women-led venture funds that focus on funding women entrepreneurs. In addition, Crunchbase reports that w omen-founded venture firms in the U.S. venture firms allocated only 22% of their deals to female-founded startups. billion of total venture capital.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

In 2023, the industry attracted substantial investments, with strong financial inclusion and blockchain technology gaining acceptance in some countries. This investment came from a consortium of regional investors, including Northstar Group, Alpine Ventures, Patamar Capital, and January Capital.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

Amit Jain, the former head of Uber’s Asia Pacific division, revealed his new venture, Zamp Finance , that aims to simplify the process for businesses to invest their excess capital in US Treasury bills to hedge against bank failures and other uncertainties. TechCrunch reported about the investment talks in May.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

s development finance institution, Commonwealth Development Corporation (CDC) Group, formally changed its name to British International Investment. As part of the name change, the development finance institution (DFI) announced that it surpassed its pledge to invest £2 billion in Africa over the last two years.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2021

On Tuesday, DeHaat , an online platform that offers full-stack agricultural services to farmers, said it has raised $30 million in a new financing round as the Indian firm looks to maintain its accelerated growth despite the pandemic. We wrote about DeHaat last year, when it had raised a $12 million financing round.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 21, 2024

. $82M Series A financing. According to the announcement the funding was co-led by Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation, Cure Ventures and The Column Group, with participation from Euclidean Capital and Saisei Ventures. Denali Therapeutics (NASDAQ: DNLI), Juno Therapeutics (acquired by Celgene for approx. $9B)

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

One of KNN3’s better-known customers is Mask Network, which enables users to send cryptocurrencies on Web 2.0 million in a seed funding round led by the crypto-focused venture capital firm HashGlobal and Liang Xinjun, former vice chair and CEO of Chinese conglomerate Fosun International. In the U.S., KNN3 said it has raised $2.4

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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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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 6, 2022

Register Transport Capital , a globally-recognised investment management and advisory firm focused on the maritime and aviation industries, has launched its new venture capital arm named TC Ventures. Germany-based Turtle (www.go-turtle.com) turtle.com) is building the leading digital job marketplace for the maritime industry.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

For one thing, the processes remain largely manual, with financing in this sector remaining reliant on emails, spreadsheets and documents in a variety of formats. Old-school systems probably didn’t quite do it for old-school oil and gas investments, but they damn sure don’t cut it for newer, greener, more sustainable technologies.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

based Susa Ventures led this latest tranche of investment. Other investors include TLcom Capital (the sole investor from its $1 million pre-seed round in 2020), newly joined Accenture Ventures and some angel investors. Before starting Okra with Peterside, she worked with JP Morgan, Fidelity Investments and Daimler Mercedes Benz.

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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. million in funding for its first two startups.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 30, 2024

million in Series A financing led by East Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on Southeast Asia. This funding will enable Mesh Bio to expand its digital twin technologies to healthcare providers in Hong Kong and […] The post East Ventures Leads $3.5M Singapore-based health-tech startup Mesh Bio has secured $3.5

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Small molecules: the OGs of the therapeutic arsenal Amidst all this rapid progress, small molecules—the original heroes of the therapeutic arsenal, the original enablers of the “pill” form of drugs we all have in our medicine cabinets—continue to represent ~60% of all new FDA approvals.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 14, 2023

Register Indonesian startup, Finfra, has secured $1 million in new funding to expand its embedded finance offerings. Finfra aims to address this gap by providing the necessary technology infrastructure for online businesses to offer embedded finance products.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

The funding round closed with $104M in fresh investments for the world’s largest and fully integrated online consumer brand for preservative and antibiotic-residue free fresh fish and meat. Shan Kadavil, CEO & Co-founder, FreshToHome, said that they are very excited to have Amazon Smbhav Venture Fund lead Series D.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

But as a relatively young population, most of them have minimal equity market and investment exposure. The company has raised a $20 million Series A round to democratize investing in the Middle East and North Africa. and Europe, up to half of the population invests in financial instruments. One such is Egypt-based Thndr.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

Austin’s venture capital scene has been hot for years now, but a pair of local investment firms just closed on new funds aimed at injecting more capital into startups in Austin and elsewhere. Axios reported that this was 211% over the number of dollars invested in 2020. ?.

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David Teten VC

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

We’re proud to share the next in PEVCtech ’s periodic series on the tech and analytics stack of investment management firms. We’re fortunate to interview William Stringer, Founder of Chisos Capital , a structured finance company. My background is finance, investments and operations. Q: What’s your background?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

Investments began flooding into robotics around this time. Slowed investments have been compounded by continued economic woes and the recent bank collapses have further shaken confidence. What role have the pandemic, slowing economy and recent bank crisis had on your investments?

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2022

Egyptian fintech Paymob , which enables merchants to accept digital payments online and in-store, announced today it has raised $50 million in Series B funding. PayPal Ventures, the global corporate venture arm of PayPal, New-York-based venture capital Kora Capital, and London-based Clay Point led the round.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

Some are more for fun, and the financing options for those types of buys — such as motorcycles and ATVs — are more limited. The company, which offers “instant” financing for large recreational purchases, boasts impressive financials in a startup world whose inhabitants are mostly unprofitable.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

We decided to do this raise right now because we grew so much in the past year that there’s an unlimited opportunity to go out and be the infrastructure that enables all institutions to onboard digital assets,” Douglass said. The capital will be used to build new product lines, and although Amberdata has existing deals in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

And today, the Santa Rosa, California-based startup is announcing it has raised $75 million in a Series C funding round led by Khosla Ventures toward its efforts to help address those inventory shortages with its technology. It also realized that at the pace it was scaling, it needed to double down on its tech investments.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The rapid adoption of digital payments has become a great challenge for finance teams. He worked a Melio, a business-to-business (B2B) payments platform for small companies, where he saw finance teams become the victims of their own success. According to one report , teams spend as much as 40% of their time processing transactions.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Embedded finance — the idea of offering financial products where customers are already congregating via white label solutions and APIs – isn’t an entirely new concept. Leading the round is Force over Mass, and VR Ventures. Liberis, the embedded finance provider for SMEs, raises additional £70M in debt.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 30, 2023

The round was led by Menlo Ventures, following a seed round in 2021 of $5.1 Building this infrastructure in-house has required massive investments in engineering, beyond the reach of most companies. Accuracy and automation to eliminate manual billing errors and give finance teams detailed revenue reporting.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Finantier , a Singapore-based open finance startup, wants to streamline that data with a single API that gives financial services access to user data, with their consent. It also includes machine-learning-based analytics to enable credit scoring and KYC verifications.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

NFX and existing backers Pear and Mexico-based Wollef (formely known as Jaguar Ventures) doubled down on their investment, which values Melonn “in the neighborhood” of $100 million post-money and brings the Bogota-based startup’s total raised to $24 million since its November 2020 inception. So, just how does it work? “The

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

based fintech that provides finance for small businesses as an alternative to a traditional bank loan or extended overdraft , has replenished its own coffers with £70 million in funding. Providing the financing are previous backers British Business Investments, Paragon Bank and BCI Europe, along with new partner Silicon Valley Bank (SVB).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

Nigerian startup Xend Finance uses decentralized finance (DeFi) to address currency devaluation. This gave birth to Xend Finance.” Not only is Xend Finance trying to protect credit unions from fluctuation, but it is also changing how they operate. Image Credits: Xend Finance. Image Credits: Xend Finance.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Pakistan’s embedded finance platform Neem has raised $2.5 If you look at the embedded finance space, it is a $167 billion opportunity,” Shaikh said in an interview with TechCrunch. Owing to COVID, the strong growth in digitization has helped Neem embed its finance services across private and public sectors.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2022

million in equity and $25 million in debt financing. Fasanara Capital led the investment and was joined by Kube Ventures, ODX, Toehold Ventures, Wharton Fintech, Lightspeed Venture Partners Scout Fund, PRMM Inmobiliaria and a group of angel investors. million in a pre-seed round of equity and debt.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

There’s a lot of fintech news out there and it’s my job to stay on top of it — and make sense of it — so you can stay in the know. — Mary Ann Storied venture firms Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) invested more in fintech than any other category in 2022, according to research from CB Insights.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Coming out of stealth today with $150 million in debt financing and $11 million in seed funding, Arc is building what it describes as “a community of premium software companies” that gives SaaS startups a way to borrow, save and spend “all on a single tech platform.”

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Register An India-based tech-enabled global platform that offers environmental, social, and governance (ESG) and accounting and reporting consulting, has officially announced the launch of its operations after it also earned $12.5 The founding round was led by Nexus Venture Partners, a leading Silicon Valley-India venture capital firm.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Register Startup founders need to be authentic and prepared when they get the chance to meet prospective investors, according to Rex Fong, founding partner at investment and advisory group Capitale Ventures. Fong’s Capitale Ventures is an investment and advisory group with expertise in complex, cross-border transactions.

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