TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

Rhys Spence is head of research at Brighteye Ventures, a European edtech-focused fund, where he works with portfolio companies to help address priorities, with a focus on internationalization and HR. Not surprisingly, 2021 saw a boom in edtech investment across a spectra of investors. Image Credits: Brighteye Ventures.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

That said, a paradigm shift of the broader venture landscape could be on the horizon. 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.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The round was co-led by L Catterton, a joint venture between LVMH and Catterton, Entrée Capital and Pico Venture Partners. By providing Niio’s tools to a global community of 6,000 galleries, institutions and artists, Niio’s platform and blockchain enables artists to distribute, manage, monetize and preserve their work.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

million of funding led by Germin8 Ventures and iSelect Fund. million since its inception in 2014. Its grazing insights enable ranchers to maximize productivity, eliminate waste, and validate grazing and animal management decisions in a way that other record-keeping systems can’t touch,” Webb pointed out.

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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. The CEO is Guru Hariharan, who you might remember from retail analytics company Boomerang Commerce , a Startup Battlefield finalist in 2014.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 4, 2022

and they’ve partnered with TechStars, ID Ventures, Bamboo, Wayne State University and others to do just that. Now this company raised over $40 million in funding since they launched in 2014. Their software platform enables investment firms to operate more effectively and provide greater transparency to their investors.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 18, 2014

Fenwick’s report on the state of the venture market and I came across these three data points that summarise one facet of the market in Silicon Valley succinctly: 11 venture backed companies raised funds at a valuation of over $1 billion in Q114, more than did so in all of 2013. The venture market is changing rapidly.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

The funding round is led by global banks HSBC and ING, with participation from Sony Innovation Fund by IGV*, SBI Investment, OCS, Global Brain and DG Daiwa Ventures along with existing investors DN Capital, Dawn Capital, IQ Capital and Amex Ventures. with a goal of launching in 10 more countries by the end of 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. said Mr. Kenny Ho, Head of Investment for Southeast Asia, Alibaba Group.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

If there’s one area that has thus far felt insulated from the global venture downturn, it’s infrastructure. In 2014, Riverwood Capital and Antonio Soares — who now serves as Dock’s CEO — bought out 100% of Conductor and essentially created the company that is Dock today. This is only the beginning for us.”.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The investment, which comes two years after the startup secured $2.3 million in seed funding, was led by Ace Capital Partners and backed by existing investors Sonae IM and Portugal Ventures. health privacy rules HIPAA.

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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. Limited Partners or LPs (the people who invest into VC funds) have taken notice as 2014 is by all accounts the busiest year for LPs since the Great Recession began. On the surface the narratives have been. Why is this?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

HotelOnline , a Kenya-based Yanolja-backed travel technology scale-up that fashions itself as an e-commerce and digital marketing enabler in the hospitality industry, has acquired HotelPlus, a software provider with clients in 22 countries. million in shares in HotelOnline, which was valued at $24 million before the deal.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

Roger Lee is a general partner at Battery Ventures, based in Menlo Park, CA, who focuses on investments in software and consumer tech, including online marketplaces. Justin Da Rosa is a vice president with Battery Ventures in San Francisco. He focuses on consumer internet, online marketplace and software investments.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

Morgan, Gaingels, BMO Technology & Innovation Banking Group and Manulife also participated in the equity investment, along with platform partner and new backer Barclays. For example, he said, more business owners are working to become digitally enabled to meet local tax and invoice compliance systems. .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

Progressive Investment Company Inc., a member of the Progressive Insurance group, led its latest financing, which included participation from existing backers Valar Ventures, Upper90, Contour Venture Partners, Citi Ventures, Third Prime and Parkwood, as well as new investors Gaingels and ALIVE. .

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Enter Skydropx , a Mexico City-based logistics management company that enables businesses to create an end-to-end automated delivery experience for customers that includes over 250 shipping options, track notifications via WhatsApp, estimated delivery times and return management. Skydropx team.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2022

Conductive Ventures led the round and was joined by Storm Ventures, Madrona and angel investors like Hilarie Koplow-McAdams. Existing investors participating in the round included Rally Ventures, Parade Ventures and Vitalize Ventures. The new investment brings the company’s total funding to $18.5

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

Clockwise , a time management and smart calendar tool, has raised $45 million in Series C funding led by Coatue, with participation from Atlassian Ventures and existing investors Accel, Greylock Partners and Bain Capital Ventures. The trio met while working at RelateIQ, a company Salesforce bought for $390 million in 2014.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The investment speaks of the company’s value proposition and the real-world application for crypto because it came at a time when the crypto market was in a difficult period. Their ability to work remotely enabled these talents to work flexibly and provide specialized skills to a variety of companies. Remember Me. No account yet?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2023

With that in mind, Sesamm enables businesses to track textual data from across the web — including news portals, NGO reports and social networks — and convert this into actionable insights. Elsewhere, private equity firms can use Sesamm for due diligence on potential acquisition or investment targets. and Asian markets.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 13, 2023

million Series B growth financing led by ABS Capital Partners with participation from existing investors Claritas Health Ventures, as well as Healthworx, the innovation and investment arm of CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, PTX Capital, and Kapor Capital. Over that time, ABS Capital has invested more than $2.5

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Paul’s investment is part of an $8.4 million strategic growth round that also includes Verance Capital, Higher Ground Labs, DD Venture Capital, SW19 Ventures, LinkinFirm and Allievo Capital, as well as existing investors Go4it Capital, Elysian Park Ventures, Alpha Edison and Iconica Partners.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

Firms like Baseline, Felicis, ff Ventures, Founder Collective, Freestyle, HomeBrew, IA Ventures, K9, Lowercase, NextView, Resolute, Rincon, Crosscut and the countless other great firms we all now know didn’t exist. I think they were all brand new or just forming.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

Exotel, which counts Blume Ventures and IIFL Asset Management among its backers, has raised about $100 million in a mix of debt and equity rounds in the last 12 months. For the first time we are enabling this over the cloud with our full-stack platform.”. The bank balance dipped to 14 lacs at a point in 2014-15.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

billion following a $200 million Series E round led by SoftBank’s Softbank Vision Fund 2 , the $30 billion venture fund of SoftBank Group. Joining SoftBank in the investment was new investor Whale Rock and existing investors including Generation Investment Management, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and Spark Capital.

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

Aquiline Capital Partners, a new backer, led the investment, with previous investors Barclays, Chrysalis Investments, Fidelity International Strategic Ventures, DWS, and Natixis Investment Managers also participating. Founded out of London in 2014, Smart emerged in the wake of the U.K. It also claims to have £5.5

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

The Portland, Oregon-based company, which has its tech team in New Zealand, began developing its SaaS customer experience management tools in 2014 for businesses that rely on humans, co-founder and CEO Aaron Ward told TechCrunch. Aaron Ward, CEO, AskNicely. Image Credits: AskNicely.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Bold Capital, Epic Ventures, card-reader/POS hardware maker ID Tech and unnamed individual investors in the fintech space also participated in the financing, which brings the Santa Clara-based startup’s total funding raised to $30 million since its 2014 inception.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 3, 2023

“We want to address the problem of everyone’s limited time, hoping to enable people to access news more efficiently and simply,” Ian says. This article is part of a partnership with Cherubic Ventures. This was what serial entrepreneur Ian Mendiola is trying to achieve with his GenAI-powered news summary app, Gem.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Founder and CEO Thomas Pays started Ozow in 2014 to drive financial inclusion through open banking. All merchants need to have is a bank account and a “smart-enabled device” to receive payments. million from backers such as Kalon Ventures. Ozow is free for individual users. “And From 2016 to 2017, Ozow raised a combined $1.2

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

DeFi network Stellar Enterprise Foundation participated, alongside new investors Kindred Ventures and the J. 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. Safra Group.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Established in September 2023, the DFAB works to increase access to institutional capital for women- and minority-owned startups, providing knowledge, guidance, and insights on ways to best increase capital, access, and investments in New Jersey’s diverse entrepreneurs.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2022

million in pre-seed and seed financing from Contour Venture Partners, Infinity Ventures (from the team that led PayPal Ventures), B Capital, Portage Ventures, Amex Ventures and other prominent venture funds and fintech angels, it tells TechCrunch exclusively. Investors are naturally bullish. “We

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Mobiz , a South African startup integrating hyper-personalization into mobile marketing, has raised a pre-Series A round of $ 4 million from HAVAÍC, Futuregrowth, Launch Africa, Allan Gray E-Squared Ventures, CapaciTech and Endeavor’s Harvest Fund. The investment comes as the startup is ramping up efforts to expand into the U.S.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 19, 2023

Notifi has launched a similar communication infrastructure tool that allows blockchain service developers to integrate code without starting from scratch, enabling notification delivery through familiar communication methods such as text messages and emails and increasing interaction between users. Paul sees “Web2.5”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

Paradigm led the latest funding event while existing backers Addition and Ribbit doubled down on their investment in the company. TIME Ventures, Marc Benioff’s investment fund, also participated in the latest financing, which brings Chainalysis’ total raised to $265 million.

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