AsiaTechDaily

MAY 11, 2023

James Jung, the CEO and founder of beSUCCESS Media, took the opportunity to introduce the company and its initiatives to the participants, which included startups, corporates, media representatives, and organizers.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

In any job you either find leadership opportunities for your best people BEFORE they ask or other people start asking them to become leaders somewhere else. The core of the investing job of course is investing dollars into startup companies and helping as a mentor, advisor and board member on the companies in which you’ve invested.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 21, 2020

According to Accenture, 80 percent of B2B companies try to innovate around CX , but fail to generate a satisfactory return on investment. Opportunities to Innovate: Addressing Challenging B2B Customer Experiences through Digital Products. What does it take to design innovative digital customer experiences that predictably win?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 11, 2023

Private Property swiftly emerged as the most frequented “for sale by owner” property site in Africa, attracting external investment, orchestrating numerous acquisitions, and scaling with remarkable speed. “You don’t solve a problem by thinking alone,” Adriaanse said.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2021

Long before SoftBank launched its $2 billion Innovation Fund in Latin America, and before Andreessen Horowitz began actively investing in the region , Sao Paulo-based Kaszek has been putting money into promising startups since 2011, helping spawn nine unicorns along the way.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

The new capital infusion gives Miro $476 million in total funding since the company was founded in 2011 by Andrey Khusid and Oleg Shardin. It’s a great opportunity to better explain ideas, problems and design solutions.”. He is also looking at M&A opportunities. I call it ‘building a plane while flying.’”.

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Source Link

MARCH 30, 2022

Creating inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystems can help close the wealth gap , as entrepreneurship offers one of the greatest opportunities for personal wealth building. However, it’s important to consider what barriers entrepreneurs of color face that may keep them from being able to benefit from investment and support resources.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

Business writer Gordon Pitts pinpoints 2011 as the game-changing year for the Atlantic startup scene. In his book “Unicorn in the Woods: How East Coast Geeks and Dreamers are Changing the Game , ” Pitts recounts how in March 2011 Salesforce purchased New Brunswick-based social media monitoring company Radian6 for approximately $300 million.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 22, 2019

Craig Hall, the writer of Boom: Bridging the Opportunity Gap to Reignite Startups , shares his view on the current state of entrepreneurship in the U.S. . In 2011, I heard a speech by Mark Zandi [chief economist of Moody’s Analytics] revealing that entrepreneurship in the U.S. What prompted you to write Boom ? was in trouble.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 29, 2020

This isn’t the first time Amir Bassan-Eskenazi and Ran Oz have launched a startup together — they also founded video networking company BigBand Networks , which won two technology-related Emmy Awards, went public in 2007 and was acquired by Arris Group in 2011. And the opportunity should still be massive as offices reopen next year.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

OMERS Ventures’ Principal Michelle Killoran has long been looking for a construction tech startup to invest in. Founded in 2011, the firm presently has about $1.6 The space is intriguing to her, but so far, she has not come across a company whose model has been compelling enough to convince her to pull out her checkbook.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

Angel investments in 2022 equaled those from 2006 to 2011 combined. Family office investments increased by 5x , and corporate venture investments rose 6x , thus opening new capital avenues for founders who found it difficult to raise capital. Crowdfunding witnessed a 2.4x growth from 2020 to 2021.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

More specifically, Capital first reported that The Family suspects Ammar of diverting €3 million that was supposed to be invested in several startups through syndicates. According to her, other people working for The Family have asked several times to see documents that proved that investments went through.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 12, 2016

I even punted on the fundraising by adding them to the Open Angel Forum in February, 2011, giving everyone else an opportunity to do the deal, without leading it myself. Today, they just announced a $94mm round of funding.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Tan will be taking over the role from Geoff Ralston, who has been with YC since 2011. Thus entrepreneur is no stranger to early-stage investing – nor the famed accelerator to which he will soon run. Wolf, who was previously president and partner, will continue to invest and lead all of Initialized’s operations.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

The MaC Venture Capital founding managing partner hadn’t actually seen Wonderschool’s original pitch deck before investing in the remote education startup. That was happening when I first moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2011. At my first fund, Cross Culture [Ventures], we were interested in investing in early childhood care.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at Harvard Business School, to weigh in on what we are seeing, and while they’re trying to make sense of things, too, they noted a couple of things that could impact the velocity of deal-making that we’ve been seeing. “Not That’s new.”. Image Credits: Overlooked Ventures.

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Haystack

APRIL 10, 2018

. “Pre-Seed” is somewhat of a controversial term in the investing world, triggering reactions questions its validity, its effectiveness, and even its contribution. Ask 101 seed investors for their definition of “pre-seed” or the various phases in seed and you’ll get 101 answers.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 1, 2014

So, if you''re going to argue that the process of venture capital is inherently unfair to women, here''s the logic that you *should not* use: "Less than 3 percent of the 6,793 companies that received venture capital from 2011-2013 were headed by a woman, according to a study from Babson College released Tuesday.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

CircleCI CEO Jim Rose says part of the reason for taking on $200 million in two years is because even though the company was founded in 2011, the continuous delivery approach is still really just getting started. 4 enterprise developer trends that will shape 2021. . 4 enterprise developer trends that will shape 2021.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Our third fund is a significant milestone for BPEA Credit, which has been investing in the mid-market space in India for more than a decade, offering consistent and attractive returns,” commented Kanchan Jain, Head of BPEA Credit.

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Y Combinator

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Brad was co-founder and CEO of Perfect Audience, an ad network funded by Y Combinator in 2011, acquired by Marin Software in 2014 and used by companies like Eventbrite, Atlassian, and New Relic to market to more than a billion people. If you’re considering new opportunities, create a profile with YC and reach out to Ryan directly.).

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2021

And because a birthday sounds like a good opportunity to share some metrics, the portfolio companies have reached a valuation of $2 billion together — only 18 months after reaching $1 billion. When we started in 2011, there was an existing model that was Rocket Internet. eFounders says it is focused on building the future of work.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Pangyo offers many companies the opportunity to enter the global market as a beauty industry cluster. In the biotech industry, cosmetics, pharmaceutical, biotech, and healthcare companies are all located in Pangyo. There are various beauty companies in Pangyo , including Cosmecca Korea, Cosmax, Pharma Research Products, Huons, and Medipost.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

They met and bonded over both having type 1 diabetes — Westermann was diagnosed over 25 years ago — and started the MySugr app for diabetes self-management in 2012 ( they won a TC pitch-off back in 2011 ). 9am.health will also invest in advancing its virtual screening ability and expand the types of medication it can offer.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

Accel has been investing in e-commerce for a very long time. So we pre-emptively asked them to let us invest.”. ThornTree Capital and returning backers Kaszek, Qualcomm Ventures and others also put money in the round, which brings Nuvemshop’s total funding raised since its 2011 inception to nearly $130 million.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

As head of the Building and Construction Trades Council from 2011 to 2013, Walsh worked with business and community leaders to promote high-quality development. He created a program called Building Pathways that has become a model for increasing diversity in the workplace and providing good career opportunities for women and people of color.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Frumtak , a VC firm in Iceland, first invested in Controlant in 2011. In September Controlant secured $15 million in Series B funding to drive the market expansion of its real-time Cold Chain as a Service platform. It has largely Iceland-based investors, including Sjova and VIS.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2021

Bezos Expeditions — Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ personal investment fund — and Whale Rock Capital joined the round, adding $40 million to a $60 million raise led by Sequoia about one month prior. Jeff Bezos’ investment fund is backing a startup hoping to be the AWS for SMB accounting. So here we go.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

But founder Zach Sims , who began the company in 2011 as a Columbia student, says that Codecademy’s growth, and hunger for new capital, isn’t due to a pandemic bump. “A He also wants to “invest deeply” in a paid product it launched in the wake of the pandemic, Codecademy For Business.

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Hunter Walk

JUNE 26, 2023

500 Startups was looking to add someone with an enterprise background to their investing team, so I made the leap into venture at the start of 2017. At 500, I had the opportunity to work with early-stage founders from around the world and quickly realized that this was where I wanted to spend my time. As to “why Canada?”,

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

Speaking about the equity investment, Powered by People co-founder and CEO Ella Peinovich said, “We are going to continue building up our technology…we have new vendor tools we are launching this quarter that will help streamline and automate things to help these businesses take on bigger orders and grow.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2021

Sift was founded out of Y Combinator in 2011, and has raised a total of $157 million over its lifetime. 12 top cybersecurity VCs discuss investing, valuations and no-go zones. “By Sift says that its models become more intelligent with every customer that it integrates.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

By 2011 the market had started to change dramatically. We announced Fund I in 2011. And since we all knew that Sam’s dealflow and judgment were sound we empowered him to make early-stage, accelerator-like investments in early-stage entrepreneurs under the Upfront brand. You may enjoy looking at that last link.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 1, 2013

In a year, I went from an idea and a track record to more than $5mm of limited partner commitments, six investments in incredible entrepreneurs (to be announced when I get my new website up), and a ton of opportunity to create innovation in New York City. More sleep in 2013 will have mental health effects beyond the time investment.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The new investment values Tala north of $800 million, according to a source close to the company. In 2011, Shivani Siroya founded Tala after leaving her job as an investment banking analyst. I do think that, across all of our markets, we’re really seeing that many fintechs are coming in and seeing the same opportunity.

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StartupNation

APRIL 20, 2021

Since I first invested in his prior company back in 2011, we’ve shared meals and wine, successes and frustrations. “At I met Greg in the spring of 2011 when he approached me to invest in his new idea. Greg and his wife, Nikki, are dear friends of ours, so I’ve had a front-row seat to his incredible ascent.

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