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

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Some of India’s biggest fintech startups are making deeper inroads into soundboxes, unveiling new push to the pocket-sized devices whose chimes are fast becoming the new ‘ka-ching’ for millions of Indian merchants.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

You’ll enjoy lots of complimentary bennies, including exhibition space in virtual Startup Alley, event passes, tickets to future TC events, a private reception with members of the Startup Battlefield alumni community, access to the CrunchMatch networking platform and a free subscription to Extra Crunch.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Commenting in a statement, Ka?an It’s now being valued at $2.1BN, pre-money — and touts the Series C as largest funding raise of a non-listed business in the European grocery delivery sector. Gorillas, the on-demand grocery delivery startup, raises $290M and ‘surpasses’ $1B valuation.

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 16, 2020

– Location: Li Ka Shing Center Room 120, 291 Campus Drive, Stanford, CA. The list will be updated and more announcements will be made as locations are added. Tuesday, Jan 21 – Stanford University – hosted by Stanford Biotech Group. – Time: 6 pm. – Sign up for the fireside.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2021

Fun fact: the firm’s name comes from a combination of their two last names: Ka-Szek. MercadoLibre co-founder Hernán Kazah and the company’s ex-CFO, Nicolas Szekasy, founded Kaszek a decade ago after leaving LatAm’s answer to Amazon. Kaszek founded its first fund in 2011, raising $95 million, an impressive sum at that time.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Here’s a few of the stories worth taking a closer look at, though: Ka-ching : Catherine reports that Sequoia Capital Southeast Asia backs cross-border payments startup Tazapay. Startups and VC It’s been a pretty slow day on the news front today — I think everyone has a case of the Fridays today.

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OurCrowd

JULY 25, 2023

The company is currently building its network of around 260 satellites and is planning to commence service in 2027, when it sets out to become the world’s first global low earth orbit constellation delivering Ka-band connectivity to clients in the […]

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Its investors include Khosla Ventures and Li Ka-Shing. Based in San Francisco and formerly known as Hampton Creek, Eat Just has received total of about $220 million in funding, according to Crunchbase. Alternative protein companies have raised a whopping $1.5 billion through July of this year.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 29, 2022

Srividhya Srinivasan, Baskar Subramanian, and Srinivasan KA set out in 2008 to revolutionize global content distribution and monetize the media sector. After their previous firm, Impulsesoft, was bought by NASDAQ-listed SiRF; they co-founded Amagi.

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OurCrowd

MARCH 14, 2021

founder Bill Gates and Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing. OurCrowd portfolio company H2Pro “joined the race to make cheap green hydrogen after securing investments from funds backed by Microsoft Corp. Japan’s Sumitomo Corp. and automaker Hyundai Motor Co. also invested,” Bloomberg reports.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

The Canberra, Australia-based company has raised $11 million from Horizons Ventures, the firm backed by Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing (also a backer of Impossible Foods), and Main Sequence Ventures, an investment firm founded by Australia’s national science agency, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

South Korea’s Hanwha Impact led the Series B round and was joined by existing backer Hong Kong-based Li Ka-Shing’s Horizons Ventures , CEO Hyunjun Park said in an interview with TechCrunch. The startup announced today it has secured a $35 million Series B round to continue developing its DNA-based data computation tools.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

Horizons Ventures, the venture capital firm of Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing and an early investor in Facebook and Spotify, recently led Fertilis’s seed round of AUS$2.75 Two-year-old Fertilis’s technology to automate cell culture with micro medical devices has won support from some investors. million ($1.98

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