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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

But in 2012 a visit to any major college in America will show you the massive increase in aspirations of our young talent to become the next Mark Zuckerberg and build a future Facebook. So it is unsurprising that an over-funding environment and the commensurate returns hangover would have lasted until about – well – 2012.

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Wavemaker Impact announces first close of debut fund at $13m

AsiaTechDaily

And in the next two years, Wavemaker Impact hopes to launch 8 to 12 new sustainability-focused businesses. This partnership combines Wavemaker Impact’s strong venture-building expertise and extensive founder networks with EDB’s access to sustainability-focused corporates and insights on climate needs.

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Egypt’s SideUp raises $1.2M to grow its e-commerce support platform

TechCrunch

Rashed first ventured into entrepreneurship in 2012, after a career in banking, when he founded Ingez an errands company that gave him first-hand experience in running an e-commerce business. They get accessibility to all the services starting from the courier company, warehousing and fulfillment, to marketing services,” he said.

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Ben Franklin Grew Pa.’s Economy by $4.1 Billion, Created 11,407 Jobs from 2012 to 2016: Challenges remain because of state funding shortfalls

Ben Franklin Technology Partners

billion between 2012 and 2016. Pennsylvania’s rich manufacturing history has provided family-sustaining careers for generations of residents,” said Stephen Brawley, President & CEO of Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Central & Northern Pennsylvania. Every dollar invested by the state into Ben Franklin generates $3.90

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Highlights from Berkeley SkyDeck’s virtual demo day

TechCrunch

Founded in 2012, the accelerator is focused on developing early-stage companies tied to the University of California system. This results in operational cost reduction by eliminating the need to replace their existing fleet and yields a safer, more efficient and sustainable transportation system,” CEO Raghavender Sahdev tells TechCrunch.

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13 VCs talk about the state of robotics investing in 2023

TechCrunch

Amazon’s unending drive to outflank the rest of the world birthed an industry with its 2012 acquisition of Kiva. But with the growth of multi-modal AI models, we see a huge opportunity for robotics to become multipurpose because these models enable common sense and require little training.

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AgBiome lands $166M for safer crop protection technology

TechCrunch

was co-founded in 2012 by a group including co-CEOs Scott Uknes and Eric Ward, who have known each other for over 30 years. The change in technology in agriculture is enabling Uknes and Ward to do something that wasn’t possible 10 years ago because there was not enough compute or storage power to discover and sequence microbes. “We