TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

We’re thrilled to have him on TechCrunch Live this week, along with Chris Howard, founding partner at Fuel Capital, which invested in Convoy’s seed round. As you’ll hear, in 2014 and 2015, freight was ready for reinvention. Convoy launched at the right time, CEO Chris Howard told me. Join the event here.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

Network effects have evolved, moving away from the traditional physical spaces to digital ones. 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. the free YC Startup School courses).

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 15, 2024

Charting the Path to Success in Tech Investing: An Exclusive Interview with GoAhead Ventures’ Founding Trio GoAhead Ventures (“GoAhead”) is a Silicon Valley based venture capital firm founded by three Stanford graduates: Takeshi “TK” Mori, Clancey Stahr and Phil Brady (the “Managing Partners”). How did you break into tech investing?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

NYX was acquired by L’Oreal in 2014 for about $500 million. Ko said Summer International differentiates by owning its own distribution network and it also has a network of live commerce and social commerce distributors, mainly micro influencers based in Southeast Asia. “It

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

An alternative payment network with connected wallets allowing a mobile money user to transact with a bank account would fix this problem, and that’s the premise of Ghana-based fintech Dash. I was blown away by the ubiquity and convenience of mobile money in 2014 when I visited Kenya for the first time.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 10, 2023

” Joining as new investors are Malaysian pension fund company Kumpulan Wang Persaraan (KWAP), Swiss asset management firm responsAbility (rA), and venture capital investor startup 500 Global. The company has also collaborated with fish and shrimp farming communities, managing a network of 12,000 farms.

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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. billion in 2022.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

We are significantly increasing our client base, while capitalizing on the combined strengths of both companies, creating a force to reckon with in East Africa’s hospitality industry,” HotelOnline co-founder, Havar Bauck , told TechCrunch. Integrating these resources, prepares the ground for our accelerated expansion in Africa,” said Bauck.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2023

Along with increasing regulatory scrutiny and skeptical investors, capital deployment has pulled back significantly from the highs of 2021, which has left many young startups struggling to raise funds. This capital crunch is affecting the Bitcoin ecosystem as well. The crypto industry has not had a great run over the past year.

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

Pharmacies in Southeast Asia were largely fragmented, mom-and-pop shops operating in silos when the company — originally known as mClinica — was incorporated in Singapore in 2014. Meralli told TechCrunch it is easiest to think of SwipeRx as a LinkedIn meets Amazon for pharmacies. Certainly, SwipeRx — which raised $6.3

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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. Today, the investor is announcing the launch of Voltron Capital , a Pan-African venture capital firm he co-founded with Abe Choi , a U.S.-based Voltron Capital will be managed on AngelList.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

AppWorks , the Taipei-based venture capital firm focused on Taiwan and Southeast Asia, announced today it has closed its oversubscribed third fund, raising $150 million. Many of these LPs also participated in AppWorks’ $50 million second fund in 2014. AppWorks’ total assets under management (AUM) is now $212 million.

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Revolution

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

When deal-making slows, VC dollars typically favor the perceived market leader, starving other venture-backed businesses in the same space of capital. During the early recovery, however, VC-backed M&A rebounded and skyrocketed: Annual deal values eclipsed $30 billion in 2010, holding steady before ballooning above $70 billion in 2014.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

There has been much discussion in the past few years of the changing structure of the venture capital industry. The rise of alternative sources of capital (crowd funding and the like). 15 years ago we were at the peak of Internet hype with the launch of many over-capitalized businesses with a market size & opportunity was limited.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Web3 investors TCG Crypto and Jump Crypto led the funding round with the participation of Big Brain Holdings, Formless Capital, Blocore, Mask Eco Fund, crypto angels, and syndicates. He also started his blockchain career at Stanford in 2014 when the overwhelming majority of people were diving into artificial intelligence.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

” in 2014 the data seems pretty conclusive because LA has now become the fastest growing tech startup region by numbers of companies being started and those of us here have noticed this pace accelerating. Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

“It is a significant signal for large South Korean corporates participating as limited partners of environmental and climate tech-focused venture capitals like us,” Han said. The early-stage VC had already set up five social impact funds and backed 81 startups since 2020, after Han acquired the firm in December 2019.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Investors include China’s Alibaba Group as well as existing investors DPDgroup’s GeoPost , Facebook co-founder Eduardo Savering’s B Capital Group , Monk’s Hill Ventures, and Zamrud, a sovereign wealth fund controlled by Brunei, based on its statement. Ninja Van raises $30M to build a regional logistics network in Southeast Asia.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

Founded in 2014 to provide last-mile deliveries for small merchants, the company has since expanded to serve large e-commerce platforms, too. SiCepat focuses in particular on e-commerce and social commerce, or people who sell goods through their social media networks. million packages per day in 2020.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2021

Founded in 2014, Great Deals is an e-commerce enabler that helps brands like Abbot, L’Oréal and Unilever build their online retail operations in the Philippines. The investment by Fast Group, which has a fleet of more than 2,500 vehicles and 90,000 stores in its distribution network, marks the beginning of a strategic partnership.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

The company was acquired by Salesforce in 2014 for $390 million and later became Salesforce IQ. Ironclad launched in 2014 and today the company has raised more than $180 million and, according to reports , is valued just under $1 billion. Extra Crunch Live has left room for you to network (you gotta network to get work, amirite?).

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

I had witnessed a number of early-stage tech startups in LA raise seed capital from the Bay Area and relocate. Sam is an uber-networker, savvy, helpful, product-oriented leader who had a great eye for young entrepreneurs and a passion about helping them. But by 2014 much had started to change. We had a specific goal in mind.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

Maven announced that it has raised $110 million in a Series D financing co-led by Dragoneer Investment Group and Lux Capital. The company was founded in 2014 to help working women plan and start families. Deena Shakir, partner at lead investor Lux Capital, said this was her largest check to date into a startup.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

DeFi network Stellar Enterprise Foundation participated, alongside new investors Kindred Ventures and the J. Existing investors IVP, Revolution Growth and Lowercase Capital also joined the round that brings Tala’s total funding raised to a little over $360 million. Safra Group. For us, it really kind of matches both things.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

million in growth capital for its fraud protection, privacy and compliance analytics platform that monitors connected television and mobile advertising. million Series A round raised back in 2014, Jalal Nasir, founder and CEO of Pixalate, told TechCrunch. Pixalate raised $18.1 million to date. This includes a $4.6 This includes a $4.6

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2021

The investors in this round include Egyptian VC Foundation Ventures, Y Combinator, MSA Capital, CRE Ventures, Alter Global, Jameel Investment Management Company (JIMCO) , B&Y Ventures Partners and Access Bridge Ventures. Flextock currently serves the Egyptian market.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

It’s tough in the current economic climate to hire and retain engineers focused on system admin, DevOps and network architecture. Hostway developed software to power cloud service provider hardware, which went into production in 2014. MetalSoft spun out from Hostway, a cloud hosting provider headquartered in Chicago.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

That includes Palo Alto Networks acquiring competitor TwistLock for $410 million in 2019. StackRox was founded in 2014 and raised over $65 million, according to Crunchbase data. Investors included Menlo Ventures, Redpoint and Sequoia Capital. Another competitor, Aqua Security, which has raised $130 million, remains independent.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

The company was founded in 2014 and has its own sidechain technology, Liquid Network, as well as bitcoin mining operations and hardware wallets for Bitcoin and other assets. It most recently raised $125 million in January and has raised more than $400 million to date.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

(March 5, 2024) – The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) held the first in-person meeting of the Diversity Finance Advisory Board (DFAB) last week, bringing together a diverse group of investors, entrepreneurs, and mentors for presentations and networking sessions.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

This isn’t the first time we’ve talked about de Raphélis Soissan, as she used to be an entrepreneur herself and I first covered her startup, Clustree, back in 2014. He worked for Mangrove Capital Partners and Idinvest, which is now part of Eurazeo. The next step is a proper seed fund with more capital.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This acquisition integrates RLP’s payment services more deeply within the LINE ecosystem, including LINE MAN, LINE SHOPPING, LINE App, and Wongnai’s extensive network of merchants. The companies revealed the collaboration in a joint statement released on Thursday.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

New investor Franklin Templeton joined existing backers — including Founders Fund, Bedrock Capital, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Moore Strategic Ventures, 137 Ventures and Brookfield Growth Partners — in putting money in the round. The company plans to use its new capital to continue to expand into new markets.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

The report also pinpoints other metrics such as fixed and mobile broadband connections and mobile cellular network coverage. These markets make up 32% of Africa’s population, 51% of the continent’s mobile network connections, 50% of its professional developers and 51% of its GDP. The continent’s investment story.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Funders across these three rounds include Access Industries, HighPost Capital, CoVenture, GPS Partners and Crossbeam Venture Partners. “So us helping them build the business and reinvest the capital is really critical.” ” Spotter’s average size of a deal is around $1.5

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Baillie Gifford led the equity financing, which brings Honor’s total equity raised to $325 million since its 2014 inception. The funding news comes just two months after Honor revealed it had acquired global home care provider Home Instead in a move that greatly expands its senior care network. Rowe Price Associates Inc.,

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

Founded in 2014 by James Paterson and Benji Meltzer, Aerobotics is currently focused on building tools for fruit and tree farmers. For Aerobotics, it raised $600,000 from 4Di Capital and Savannah Fund as part of its seed round in September 2017. million, according to Aerobotics.

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