AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 28, 2023

Register Startup founders are often too focused on the amount of money they can get from an investor that they mostly fail to see the value that other investors have to offer to grow their businesses further. Sharon Lou, venture partner at Indelible Ventures , considers this as one of the top mistakes that founders commit when raising funds.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

AC Ventures (ACV) , a venture firm focused on early-stage startups in Indonesia and the rest of Southeast Asia, has reached the first close of its fifth investment fund (Fund V). The fund is targeting $250 million and has raised 65% of that capital so far, mostly from limited partners who invested in ACV’s previous funds.

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Dream It

JULY 31, 2019

The product should be live if we hope to raise capital. Being self-sustainable has given us a new perspective on startup funding, especially compared to what I experienced on my first accelerator run. Here are some truths about what accelerators can be for startups: A small filter. The plan-sort of worked.

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TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2021

Based in Sydney and Auckland, Dovetail is a full-service venture studio that works closely with founders who have a great idea, but may lack technical backgrounds. million USD) fund that will be used for seed, Series A and Series B rounds in 15 of the most promising companies that have gone through its venture studio program.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

InstaDeep , a Tunis and London-based enterprise AI startup that creates decision-making systems for solving real-world problems, has raised $100 million in Series B financing led by Alpha Intelligence Capital and CDIB. InstaDeep was founded by Karim Beguir and Zohra Slim in 2014. Karim Beguir (InstaDeep CEO).

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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”).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

When much of the shopping shifted online during the global pandemic, startups developing software and other products to aid the transition began to garner attention from venture capital firms. Startup Battlefield Company Boomerang Commerce. He exited the company to Lowe’s in 2019. Where Are They Now?

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Series A+ was led by Oriza Greenwillow Technology Fund, a venture capital fund set up jointly by Greenwillow Capital Management Pte Ltd, which is an MAS-licensed fund management company that is based in Singapore, and Oriza Holdings, an investment firm from China, Willowmore said in a statement.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 1, 2019

In 2014, I published a post called Do Startup Require Less Capital to Succeed than 10 Years Ago ? In the analysis, I created a metric, the return on invested capital (ROIC). ROIC is the number of revenue dollars that one venture dollar bought. Startups going public from 2006-2009 showed a median ROIC of 0.42.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2021

TechCrunch has covered Acceleprise several times over the years, including a look at its mid-2020 accelerator startup batch from its three accelerators. The firm has long focused on business-to-business SaaS startups, helping them get their start in a competitive global software market. The new seed vehicle totals $13.2 Reasonable.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2014

We’ve been dying to tell you all for a while that we had raised a new venture capital fund and of course given SEC filing requirements the story was somewhat already scooped by the always-in-the-know Dan Primack a few weeks ago. Will our strategy change now that we have 40% more capital? . We raised $280 million.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

That said, a paradigm shift of the broader venture landscape could be on the horizon. the free YC Startup School courses). 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.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

ThreatX , a vendor selling API protection services to mainly enterprise clients, today announced that it raised $30 million in a Series B funding round led by Harbert Growth Partners with participation from Vistara Growth,406 Ventures, Grotech Ventures and Access Venture Partners.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Over the past month a colleague ( Chang Xu ) and I sifted through data on the venture capital industry (as we do every year) and made a bunch of calls to VCs and LPs to confirm our hypotheses. As a result of the IPO window shifting we saw a massive inflow of public-market capital into the latest stages of venture.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 20, 2023

Register Singapore-based private equity firms Capital Square Partners (CSP) and Basil Technology Partners (BTP) have publicly announced a partnership that seeks to build a leading regional technology investment platform. Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2022

Startups, like Fudo , stepped up with technology to get restaurants back on their feet. 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. That has venture capitalists taking notice.

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Revolution

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

While a few iconic brands including Uber, Airbnb, and Square emerged successfully from the last downturn, most venture-backed companies struggled during this period, and many ended up pursuing M&A strategies. Startup founders can start positioning themselves now to be acquired in that wave.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Travel booking startup Hopper today announced that it closed a $96 million follow-on investment from Capital One, bringing the company’s total raised to $740 million. Travel app Hopper raises $96M from Capital One to double down on social commerce by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Early-stage fintech-focused venture firm Better Tomorrow Ventures has raised $225 million for its second fund — triple the amount it raised for its debut fund that closed in September of 2020. BTV is a venture firm that boasts two successful fintech founders as its partners.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 4, 2023

The US startup M&A market in Q4 2022 was one of the quietest in the last 20 years. US venture-backed M&A fell from $34.6b During a down-market, young startups who face a radically more challenging fundraising market than six months ago more often choose a quick sale. in Q4 2021 to a paltry $2.1b in Q4 2022.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

Synthesis Capital , the one-year-old London-based food technology and alternative protein investor, closed its first fund with over $300 million in capital commitments. In addition, having that government backing from early adopter countries, like Singapore and the Middle East, is also helping to advance some of that, she added.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Though some businesses may never be truly sustainable, a venture firm in Seoul argues that emerging climate-tech startups will help big manufacturers do better overall. 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

DECEMBER 13, 2022

One of the ways that those pots of cash are being invested is through venture capital, which means the money flows to the coasts — New York, Boston, Silicon Valley. We spoke with the Gener8tor founders about why they are passionate about thinking about the startup ecosystem a little differently. Image Credits : Gener8tor.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

billion venture capital firm is entering the crypto market with a new $110 million fund dedicated to the sector that it will operate jointly with Ledger , a French startup focused on digital asset security, Cathay co-founder Dennis Barrier told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

Kaszek Ventures , one of Latin America’s first venture firms, has raised $975 million across two funds. Specifically, the São Paulo-based firm has closed on Kaszek Ventures VI, a $540 million early-stage fund and Kaszek Ventures Opportunity-III (KVO-III), a $435 million vehicle for later stage investments.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Even in a non-hell year, running a successful startup is a tremendous lift. It’s not a fun task, but it seems worthwhile to commemorate the startups that have closed up shop over the past 12 months. The startup even returned some of its $75.5 We’ve put this list together for several years now. Atrium (2017-2020).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

We lied when we said that The Exchange was done covering 2021 venture capital performance. Yesterday, we dug into preliminary Q3 data for the Chinese startup market. This morning, we’re looking back at just what startups in New York City managed in the first half of the year. Some startups, at least.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

Olumide Soyombo is one of the well-known active angel investors in Nigeria tech startups and Africa at large. Since he began angel investing in 2014, Soyombo has invested in 33 startups, including Stripe-owned Paystack , PiggyVest, and TeamApt. Non-traditional startup founder to an angel investor.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Owl Labs , a startup developing a linuep of AI-powered meeting hardware, today announced that it raised $25 million in a Series C round led by HP Tech Ventures (HP’s venture capital arm) with participation from Sourcenext, Matrix Partners, Spark Capital and Playground Global.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Practice pitching your startup on this week’s TechCrunch Live. I have two amazing guests and they bring along a lot of startup pitching experience. Andrew has been investing in startups at Sequoia since 2014. She knows what it takes for a business to get startup capital. Not selected for this show?

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StartupNation

JANUARY 4, 2022

Tune in to the Business Beat, below, for details on three of these promising startups: Tune in to News/Talk 760 AM WJR weekday mornings at 7:11 a.m. Top Detroit Startups and Tech Companies to Watch in 2022. How the Midwest Startup and Tech Scene Boomed in 2021. So, Paul, tech startups are alive and well in our region.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Mixpanel was a hot startup in 2014 when it nabbed a $65 million Series B on an $865 million valuation, a sizable B round and valuation for those days. billion valuation from Bain Capital Tech Opportunities. How Mixpanel got its startup groove back by focusing on its core product.

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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. The roadmap to startup consolidation in Southeast Asia is becoming clearer.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In 2014, more than 40% of U.S. seed- and early-stage venture dollars went to Bay Area startups. In recent years, Bay Area startups have accounted for a smaller percentage of U.S. VC investment, according to “Beyond Silicon Valley,” a new report co-produced by venture firm Revolution and PitchBook.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

This January, Germany’s largest vaccine maker BioNTech announced that it had agreed to acquire Tunisian-born and London-headquartered AI startup InstaDeep for up to £562 million, including a performance-tied £200 million tranche investment. As such, most startups have had to domicile abroad to access funding.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Register Japan’s Financial Services Agency plans to double the cap on the amount of money retail investors can invest in unlisted startups. At present, through crowdfunding, retail investors have a limitation of investing a maximum of 500,000 yen annually in individual unlisted startups. Furthermore, around 32.9% While the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

SiCepat , an end-to-end logistics startup in Indonesia, announced today it has raised a $170 million Series B funding round. Founded in 2014 to provide last-mile deliveries for small merchants, the company has since expanded to serve large e-commerce platforms, too. million round.

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