AsiaTechDaily

JULY 4, 2023

Register Former executives of Fave, Joel Neoh and Audra Pakalnyte, have joined forces to launch First Move, an early-stage fund specifically focused on supporting startups that cater to consumers in Southeast Asia. Neoh’s involvement with Prenetics dates back to 2014, when he became its initial angel investor.

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A Smart Bear

JANUARY 4, 2018

Of course a nice chunk is primary capital, i.e. for the company balance sheet, to invest in growth initiatives, security and quality, and advancing our existing strategic priorities through acceleration and de-risking. We have never been in a stronger position. We remain steadfast in our commitment to continuing to increase all of the above.

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Dream It

APRIL 23, 2019

That’s why in this article, you’ll get a comprehensive look at the startups using voice technology to make healthcare better, along with some of the VC’s and accelerators that are backing them. million adults in the United States experienced a voice problem in 2014. Another study estimated that approximately 17.9

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2021

Started in Chemnitz, Germany in 2014, Staffbase has managed to onboard more than 1,000 clients, including Adidas, Audi, BHP, Deutsche Post DHL, Groupon, Hitachi, Ikea, Johns Hopkins University, McKesson, Paulaner, Suncor, Viessmann and Volvo, among others. Existing investors Insight Partners and e.ventures also participated in the round.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Sopoong , a social impact-focused VC, intends to support environmentally minded tech founders in South Korea and Southeast Asia, while building a bridge between Korean conglomerates and startups in the sector. On top of the accelerator, the firm also launched a six-month fellowship program to foster climate tech entrepreneurship.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

Many of these LPs also participated in AppWorks’ $50 million second fund in 2014. Founded in 2009, AppWorks started its accelerator program before launching a $11 million debut fund in 2012. A lot of our accelerator alumni startups are by first-time founders, so they need help all the way from seed stage. for the other funds.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

But issues around pricing, flexibility to innovate and a lack of local tech support always come up. Since its inception , the Google for Startups Accelerator alumnus claims to have led Africa’s fintech sector in some global firsts from the continent. This is where Appzone has found its sweet spot. Four years later, it raised $2.5

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 24, 2023

A recent survey by the Gyeonggi Business & Science Accelerator of 1,642 businesses in the valley revealed that content-focused companies constitute about 10%, with 161 firms in total. 7 at the Business Support Hub in the 2nd Pangyo Techno Valley, a must-attend for gaming aficionados. By 2025, investments summing up to 171.9

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

Founded in 2014, Zeals currently serves more than 400 enterprises, including Toyota dealerships, Shiseido and NTT Docomo. Zeals focuses on promotions to enable its users to increase revenue by attracting more customers while other competitors offer mainly customer support services, Shimizu added. Image Credits: Zeals.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Yuriy Gankin, co-founder and chief science officer at Quantori, says the founders back up these claims with decades of experience in this market, including helping launch and build a company called GGA Software Services, which also focused on the life sciences market, and was acquired by EPAM in 2014.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 29, 2019

When Revolution first started the Rise of the Rest Road Trip in 2014, our goal was simply to provide greater visibility for entrepreneurs?—?and and the individuals and organizations that support them?—?in Talent : As we build out our portfolio support platform, we are laser-focused on talent?—?helping

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Back in 2014, when I first covered Lydia , I called it the Venmo for France — they had only raised €600,000 back then. Lydia also supports direct deposit as you get your own IBAN in the app. Transactions have doubled over the past year, which means that usage is accelerating. It seems like Jhawar agrees with that take.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Zeitview was founded in 2014 with the goal of bringing a new resource to businesses: the sky. After serving in the military, Burton did a short stint at Goldman Sachs and made the leap in 2014 to launch Zeitview. He claims to have personally flown the company’s first 100 or so drone missions.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

London-based Divido , a white-label platform for retail finance that integrates with e-commerce platforms (but can also support omni-channel) so retailers can offer consumers a “buy now, pay later” option at the point of sale, has bagged a $30 million Series B to fund international expansion.

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HPA

JUNE 29, 2021

Founded in 2014 out of Chicago, ShipBob was launched through Y Combinator by co-founders Dhruv Saxena and Divey Gulati , two entrepreneurs who saw a need for more efficient shipping for ecommerce businesses. We built ShipBob to solve that pain point,” said Saxena.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

He is also an angel investor, and via CcHub’s accelerator programme and a partner fund called Growth Capital Fund , Tijani has invested in more than 40 startups. But before CcHub launched its $500,000 accelerator programme and Aboyeji founded Andela in 2014, Jason Njoku of iROKO had already begun to invest in startups.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Female-founded venture firms have shown strong support for female-founded startups accounting for 28% of their deal counts from 2016 to October 2021 in startups with at least one female founder. In addition, Crunchbase reports that w omen-founded venture firms in the U.S. raised approximately $7 billion in 2021 , up 59% year over year.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2021

But Tang wasn’t satisfied and eventually sold ELEX Technology to a publicly listed company for about $400 million in 2014. 2014 might have been the last year it was economically feasible to start such a business due to the soaring cost of acquiring customers and the strength of incumbents,” he said. Other investors noticed as well.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

“Digital art has become an accepted, mainstream medium with the market accelerating largely due to the explosive growth of NFTs,” said Niio CEO and co-founder Rob Anders. The NFT market is just getting started, but where is it headed?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2021

This forced retailers to accelerate their online strategies, finding new ways to capture shoppers’ attention without in-store samples. will also be part of the investment firm’s Launch with GS , a $500 million investment initiative to support a diverse, international cohort of entrepreneurs. ” Perfect Corp.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

The company was self-funded until 2014, when McDerment decided to bring on outside investors and raised $30 million from Oak Investment Partners, Accomplice and Georgian Partners. When it came to billing clients, he found Word and Excel frustrating to use and felt like they weren’t built to create professional-looking invoices.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2022

Co-founder and CTO Juan Manuel Cuello had the idea for Fudo back in 2014 after working as a developer at Restorando.com, an Open table-like company that was acquired by The Fork. It also grew 10x to support 10,000 restaurants. As such, the company is also making it more accessible, charging between $25 and $50 per month.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

The Series E was led by Insight Partners , the venture capital firm known for its ScaleUp program to help tech companies accelerate their growth. Founded in Sydney in 2014, the company is now expanding into Southeast Asian and Western European markets. How to do remote work right, from the teams that know it best.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

The company was founded in 2014 as a marketplace for on-demand services and skilled labor in the energy industry. In a statement, Workrise spokesperson Dan Bank told TechCrunch: In recent months, Workrise has engaged on a go-forward strategy supporting skilled workers in the energy industry. billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

Since he began angel investing in 2014, Soyombo has invested in 33 startups, including Stripe-owned Paystack , PiggyVest, and TeamApt. The idea was to invest $25,000 and take the startups through a three-month accelerator program culminating in a Demo Day. It’s funny how things have changed since then.”

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Gust

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) October 7, 2014. I have come to realize that since the great tech boom started in 2009 and given the massive increase in first-time angels, first-time seed funds, first-time accelerators … the market is just filled with well-intentioned, but inexperience advice. Whom you take advice from really matters.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

million since its inception in 2014. Webb founded AgriWebb with John Fargher (chief revenue officer) and Kevin Baum (chief executive officer) in 2014. The startup said today it has raised another $6.8 million of funding led by Germin8 Ventures and iSelect Fund. In total, AgriWebb has raised $27 million in Series B and about $29.3

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2021

The Series B will be used to accelerate growth and expand to Brazil and nine other markets in Central America. From now until 2060, people will need servers and ways to move money, and we knew that the existing payment infrastructure couldn’t support that,” said Schwarzkopf. “We never thought that we would return home [from the U.S.]

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The startup provides dashboards from where users can build AI-powered workflows for tasks like claims processing, customer support and appointment scheduling, letting organizations automate both business processes and front-office, customer-facing tasks (if the sales pitch is to be believed). After all, Jiffy.ai

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

“It is still small-scale, and the most important thing we are doing that other companies should do is focus on the design, engineering and full-scale installations of vessels and the supporting systems to make a lot of it,” said Josh Tetrick, co-founder and CEO of Eat Just, which sells lab-grown chicken meat in Singapore.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Augury, founded in 2011 but out of stealth since 2014, has now raised $106 million, and we understand from a source close to the company that the valuation is in the range of between $200 million and $300 million. We are happy to support Augury and join it on its exciting journey.”. Up-and-coming enterprise startups in NYC.

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Impact Hub

APRIL 15, 2022

Looking to accelerate inclusiveness in Europe’s entrepreneurial and incubation environment , Impact Hub teamed up with partners to enhance Business Support Organisations’ skills, methods and approaches towards different under-represented groups. The accessibility of the content and sessions is also a guaranteed point (e.g.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

” “The funding will allow Owl Labs to continue its accelerated growth … Owl Labs will use the investment to support product development and increase global adoption of the company’s products, including the [Owl Labs’] product line,” Weishaupt told TechCrunch in an email interview.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The broad-brush goals for the strategy are to increase growth in startup investments; attract and retain talent; promote scalability; and inject innovation into the public sector so it can bolster and support Spain’s digital development. We accelerate also that path — into innovative entrepreneurship system.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Demetri Themelis and Tom Petry co-founded Knock in 2014 after renting “in super competitive markets” such as New York City, San Francisco and Seattle. . Our software supports property management companies, which operate high-density apartment buildings that people live and work in,” he told TechCrunch. Image Credit: Knock.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 17, 2019

When the time came, he recognized that Canada was a missing geography for Eventbrite, and positioned the company to capture that market and accelerate an acquisition. Get support from trusted people. Founder Jayesh Parmar always looked at his options for exiting while building his business. Don’t do an exit off the side of your desk.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2022

“This investment will massively accelerate our US expansion, boost our growth and reinforce our team and the development of our technology. This move further supports our mission of building the global leading platform for contextual advertising, offering an effective solution for cookieless advertising on the open web.”.

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