HPA

JUNE 7, 2023

HPA is excited to announce our participation in Blumira’s $15M Series B Round , which was led by Ten Eleven Ventures, and joined by Mercury Fund, RPS Ventures, and Duo Security co-founder Jon Oberheide. Read more about the round on Blumira’s website. The post Blumira Raises $15 Million Series B Round appeared first on HPA.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

Payments company Checkout.com isn’t just a unicorn — it has closed a $1 billion Series D funding round. Following today’s round, the company is now valued at $40 billion. With its Series C round , the company raised $450 million at a $15 billion valuation — it represents a 167% valuation jump in 12 months, which is not too bad.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 2, 2023

High valuations quickly became one of the first things new investors looked to when it was time to raise additional capital, whether that was through a private round of funding or an IPO. ” It’s easy to see why down rounds seem out of the question for many startup founders.

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HPA

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

equity round, which was led by Hyde Park Venture Partners and included other notable investors. Read more about the round in Chicago Inno. Round appeared first on HPA. We are excited to share that Hyde Park Angels participated in K4 Mobility’s $5.6M Congrats to the whole K4 team! The post K4 Mobility Raises $5.7M

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Stellar Sleep’s $6 million seed round brought on board top investors that include the round’s lead Initialized Capital with participation from Y Combinator , Lombardstreet Ventures, Switch Ventures, Moonfire Ventures, Scrum Ventures, 8vdx, and Goodwater.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

Down rounds, or a funding round in which a startup raises capital at a lower valuation than its last investment, have become more common than the venture community has seen in nearly half a decade. According to data from Carta , down rounds nearly quadrupled in number in Q1 2023 compared to a year earlier.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2022

When it comes to types of venture capital instruments, party rounds are as controversial as they come. A party round is an early-stage financing round, usually occurring between the pre-seed and Series A stages, that includes a laundry list — or “party” — of individual investors. Are there too many cooks in the kitchen?

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Bain Capital Ventures Partner Jeff Williams will join Halycon as Chief Revenue Officer The calvary is on its way, with ransom platform Halcyon just announcing its closing of a $40M Series B funding round led by Bain Capital Ventures (BCV). He has had prior roles in other ventures that had successful exits.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Two months after taking on a monster $125 million Series A that propelled the company into unicorn territory, package delivery company Veho is back with another huge round — this time $170 million in Series B. Leading the round this time was Tiger Global, with SoftBank Vision Fund 2 participating. billion valuation. billion valuation.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Register EdgeCortix , a Japan-based fabless semiconductor development and design company specializing in edge artificial intelligence (AI), announced the successful conclusion of its $20 million funding round. EdgeCortix has also partnered with Renesas Electronics Corporation , a prominent provider of advanced semiconductor solutions.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

Masterschool , which describes itself as a “network of tech career-training schools,” today announced that it has raised a $100 million seed funding round (yes, that’s correct — a $100 million seed round).

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2022

Every startup wants an extension round, but there aren’t enough to go around. Investors can afford to offer bridge rounds to founders who are struggling to keep their heads above water, but metaphorically, everyone would still get wet, reports Rebecca Szkutak. “I Miranda Halpern: Following a logical progression.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Chipper Cash , an African cross-border payments company, has raised $150 million in a Series C extension round led by Sam Bankman-Fried’s cryptocurrency exchange platform FTX. Well, Serunjogi can confirm that Chipper Cash is indeed one now, as this extension round takes its valuation slightly above $2 billion. stocks to Ugandans).

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Register Singapore-based biotechnology firm Automera has successfully secured $16 million in a Series A funding round. The funding round was co-led by Accelerator Life Science Partners (ALSP) and ClavystBio, a Temasek-backed accelerator focusing on global health solutions.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 27, 2023

million in a seed funding round, as announced on Tuesday. The round was led by venture capital firm Betatron Venture Group, with participation from Forge Ventures and Indonesian tobacco magnate Michael Sampoerna. This funding comes shortly after Baskit ‘s pre-seed funding round of $1.5

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

To kickstart its operations, the startup has closed a $13 million seed round, financing which co-founder Matt Gialich says will fund Astroforge through its first two missions, including an initial demonstration flight that’s scheduled to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rideshare mission next year.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 14, 2023

The individuals, who requested anonymity due to the confidential nature of the information, indicated that this new funding round would come after a S$150 million investment secured last year from 65 Equity Partners, a subsidiary of Singapore ‘s state investment entity, Temasek Holdings.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

million (€3 million) funding round from a hundred business angels. Overall, this isn’t the biggest funding round of the year. Image Credits: Roundtable Vast acquires Launcher in quest to build artificial gravity space stations Roundtable raises funding round on Roundtable by Romain Dillet originally published on TechCrunch

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2023

million seed round led by CSA Partners. Other investors in the round include gANGELS, gener8tor and angel investors Daniel Rotman, Adie Akuffo-Afful and Ogo. seed round to help artists sell directly to fans by Dominic-Madori Davis originally published on TechCrunch Creative platform EVEN raises $2.2M

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 2, 2023

The funding round, led by VentureTECH SBI, aims to accelerate the growth of Bayo Pay’s core business and bolster its B2B2X white label Digital Payment-as-a-Service solutions, supporting the rise of fintech startups in Malaysia. Register VentureTECH SBI and VentureTECH have jointly invested 10 million Malaysian ringgit ($2.4

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 9, 2023

million seed round. Million Seed Round</strong> appeared first on American Entrepreneurship. The funds will be used to expand its workforce and enhance the platform’s functionality so it is capable of handling additional machine learning (ML) tasks. In May 2022, CB Insights named Openlayer to its annual AI 100 ranking.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 18, 2023

Register Singapore’s telehealth startup, ORA, has successfully raised $10 million in its recent Series A funding round. With this latest injection of capital, the round brings ORA’s total funding raised to over $17 million.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

Pangea , a Providence, Rhode Island-based startup that connects youthful talent and businesses in need of freelance labor, announced this morning that it has closed an oversubscribed $2 million seed round. IDEA Fund Partners’ Lister Delgado led the round. million, but wound up raising more. What will Pangea use the money for?

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 27, 2023

Register Auros , a crypto-native algorithmic trading and market making firm that operates in New York and Hong Kong , has raised $17 million in its latest funding round. The post Trading platform Auros receives $17m in latest funding round first appeared on AsiaTechDaily - Asia's Leading Tech and Startup Media Platform.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Dutchie , a four-year-old, Bend, Oregon company that charges cannabis dispensaries a monthly fee to create and run their websites and manage orders, is on a roll this year, raising its second large round of funding — this time a $350 million Series D at a $3.75 billion valuation. billion valuation.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The pre-IPO round was led by SCBX and a new investor Lombard Asia , a Southeast Asia’s growth-focused private equity manager. The post Thai digital platform MONIX closes pre-IPO round with $20m funding first appeared on AsiaTechDaily - Asia's Leading Tech and Startup Media Platform.

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HPA

AUGUST 10, 2021

Hyde Park Angels is excited to announce our participation in Hologram’s $65M Series B round , which was led by Tiger Global. Bullpen Capital, NextView Ventures, and Mucker Capital also participated in the round. Congrats to the Hologram team for this new round of funding! We look forward to the continued growth ahead.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 27, 2021

Now Infina , which calls itself the “Robinhood of Vietnam,” is announcing an oversubscribed $2 million seed round. Ajaib raises $65M Series A extension led by Ribbit Capital, increasing the round’s total to $90M. The company notes that only about 3.2% of people in Vietnam have invested in stocks.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2023

TechCrunch+ is launching a series of posts looking at recent, notable venture rounds, exit activity and other news that relates to the financial side of building new technology companies. Remarkable rounds of the week Etoro reloads at $3.5B And if needed, raise a down round, because life > death.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

Earlier this month, the company closed on a third round of funding to drive its long-term goal to go beyond Shopify and take its tools across all e-commerce marketplaces. Cartechini broke the total down into three rounds but didn’t disclose amounts. He considers the newest one similar to a Series A.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 30, 2024

Elev8, Seed Capitals, and existing shareholders also participated in the round. Series A Round for Singapore’s Mesh Bio in Healthtech Boost first appeared on AsiaTechDaily - Asia's Leading Tech and Startup Media Platform. Singapore-based health-tech startup Mesh Bio has secured $3.5

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TechCrunch

JULY 18, 2022

However, if you were in the process of raising a round or just embarking on your next fundraising circuit, that can be a tall order. One of the biggest lessons I’ve learned is: Err on the side of caution and secure the financing you need to be considered “alive” as a company, even if that means taking a flat or down round.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 13, 2023

Register Supermom, one of Southeast Asia’s largest parenting networks, announced that it closed its oversubscribed Series A funding round with investments amounting to S$8 million (about $6 million).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

It’s worth pointing out that the region saw more edtech deals happening in the second half than in the first half of 2022, but they were simply smaller and more early-stage rounds at lower valuations. 2022 European edtech report: Smaller rounds and fewer deals, but more angel activity by Ram Iyer originally published on TechCrunch

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2023

Spatial Labs , a web3 infrastructure and hardware company, announced today the closing of a $10 million seed round led by Blockchain Capital with participation from Marcy Venture Partners, the firm co-founded by Jay-Z. He said it took around six months to close his round. He’s already part of a somewhat rarified club.

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