TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

based investment fund Talanton and Swiss investor AlphaMundi Group. Novastar Ventures , which co-led the firm’s Series A round, and Blink CV also made follow-on investments. Kenya’s Victoria Commercial Bank offered $3 million debt financing, $1 million of which is mezzanine financing – a debt that can be turned into equity.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

Japanese startup ispace has raised $46 million in a fresh round of Series C funding as it looks to complete three lunar lander missions in three years. The first mission, which ispace aims to conduct in the latter half of 2022, is being furnished by earlier financing. Ispace’s total funding now stands at $195.5

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A Smart Bear

JANUARY 4, 2018

The Silicon Valley-oriented technology press outlets don’t cover us because we’re not in San Francisco, even though we’re more successful than most of the startups they cover. This week we closed $250M in financing from Silver Lake , the premier technology private equity firm. Every day, 5% of the entire online world (roughly 3.5

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Now, the Los Angeles-based startup Spotter wants to help creators scale their channels faster by offering them large sums of up-front cash in exchange for the future ad revenue from their existing uploads. Since its launch in 2019, some of YouTube’s biggest creators like MrBeast and Like Nastya have struck deals with Spotter.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 1, 2023

Register Saudi Arabia-based debt and investment company Manafa announced raising $28 million in a Series A funding round co-anchored by STV and Wa’ed Ventures. It provides financial products tailored to fulfill the needs of small and medium enterprises in various sectors by offering debt and equity financing based on a crowdfunding model.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

In March 2019, SoftBank Group International made headlines when it announced the SoftBank Innovation Fund, which started out with a $2 billion commitment to invest in tech startups in Latin America. billion into Latin American startups in the first half of 2021. Why global investors are flocking to back Latin American startups.

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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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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

million jobs due to Google’s $1 billion investment in the continent. The continent’s investment story. The report first highlights the growth of venture capital on the continent over the past six years; within this period, investments in African startups have grown 18x. This is compared to 37%, 70% and 66% in the U.S.,

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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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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

Cathay Innovation is hoping to secure the bag in a new investment partnership with a company that secures crypto assets. While it’s somewhat unconventional for a startup to launch a venture arm, it’s a lot more common in crypto — Uniswap, FTX, and Binance are three prominent examples.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 23, 2023

In 2012, it surpassed Melbourne, Australia; in 2014, it surpassed Osaka, Japan, and Sydney, Australia; in 2016, it overtook Seoul, South Korea; and in 2018, for the first time, it outranked Tokyo, Japan. The forte of FinTech Week lies in its ability to forge a symbiotic relationship between financial giants and agile startups.

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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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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

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. Making sense of Klarna.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

million in a Series E round of funding, as well as $50 million in debt financing. Existing backer Accomplice led the equity financing, which the company described as “an inside round” that propelled FreshBooks to unicorn status with a valuation of “over $1 billion.” . 1Password first became a unicorn in 2019.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

In this challenging fundraising environment, more startups than ever are turning to alternative financial solutions such as debt. Despite the negative connotation associated with debt, a startup should not view it as an act of desperation during downturns, as TechCrunch’s Kyle Wiggers and Alex Wilhelm have recently noted.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 29, 2022

In 2014, Prayank Swaroop made a pitch to the storied venture firm Accel, where he worked as an associate, about future marketplaces in India. At the time, Flipkart and Snapdeal were the only two e-commerce startups in India that had shown a semblance of scale. Swaroop’s presentation from 2014. Image credits: Accel).

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The investment is the largest-ever Series A round for the region, and it values Wave at $1.7 Four big-name backers jointly led the round — Sequoia Heritage, a private investment fund and a subsidiary of Sequoia; Founders Fund; payments upstart Stripe; and Ribbit Capital. Wave , a U.S. Image Credits: Wave.

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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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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

Insilico Medicine, a Hong Kong-based company that has been using artificial intelligence to discover new drugs since 2014, has completed a fresh round of funding. Insilico is headquartered in Hong Kong, which has in recent years emerged as an attractive hub for biotech startups. It has nominated eight preclinical candidates since 2021.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

This may seem like a great time to launch a SaaS startup, but the landscape is crowded with well-designed applications that promise “blazingly fast and delightfully simple” experiences, according to seed-stage investor John Chen of Fika Ventures. Telehealth startup Doximity filed to go public earlier today.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

Zeals , a Tokyo-based startup that lets businesses communicate with their customers via its chat application, said Thursday it has secured $27.2 JIC Venture Growth Investments led the Series E equity funding, with participation from Z Venture Capital , a venture investment arm of Z Holdings, Japan Post Capital and Salesforce Ventures.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

a startup focused on in-home care for older adults, after selling chat service Meebo to Google for about $100 million in 2012. An Ex-Googler Launches An In-Home Care Startup Called Honor And Raises $20 Million. Perceptive Advisors led the debt financing with a “significant” commitment from Ares Management funds.

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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

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Founded by Sheel Mohnot and Jake Gibson in November of 2019, San Francisco-based Better Tomorrow Ventures ( BTV ) has allocated $150 million to invest in startups at the pre-seed and seed stages. It has also reserved $75 million for an opportunity fund for follow-on investments. It’s committed to three so far.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

We live in a world with a stereotypical representation of what a startup founder looks like, so it’s no wonder that a large portion of the population feels underrepresented. A Gender Gap Grader study shows that women represent 9 percent of developers in the startup ecosystem. Here are four startup myths that hold innovation back.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

Digital mortgage lender Better.com has raised a $500 million round from Japanese investment conglomerate SoftBank that values the company at $6 billion. The financing is notable for a few reasons. For all its controversy, when SoftBank invests, people pay attention. We’ll do it when it’s right,” he said.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

The startup has raised $110 million in a growth funding round led by U.K.-based Existing backers Riverwood Capital, Viking Global Investors and Sunley House Capital also participated in the financing. LAVCA — the Association for Private Capital Investment in Latin America — recorded a preliminary total of $2.7

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

But in terms of influence, speed and number of investments made since 2021, Tiger has led the pack alongside Sequoia. billion for its Private Investment Partners 14 fund. Its lead investment in Flutterwave, which valued the fintech at $1 billion in March 2021, was a return from a long hiatus in investing in Africa.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

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. pre-money valuation you certainly would want to exercise your right to continue investing if you had prorata rights. more than 5 years ago?—?and and hasn’t abated.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Last week a company we enthusiastically backed, uBeam , led by a very special entrepreneur, 25-year-old Meredith Perry , announced a $10 million round of financing. In fact, the headline of one read, “How Putting $10m into uBeam illustrates everything that is wrong with tech investing today.” Startup Lessons'

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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. Oprah Winfrey also invested in the round, bringing Maven’s total known funding to date to $200 million. The company was founded in 2014 to help working women plan and start families.

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Ian Hathaway

JANUARY 6, 2020

Over the next eight years, Facebook would attract half a billion users and nearly $7 billion in venture capital investment, on its way to a May 2012 IPO that valued the company at more than $81 billion. businesses that were started during a recent eight-year period (2007-2014). This restricted-use dataset at the U.S.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The recent investment for ShopBack Group , which runs a shopping and rewards platform across Asia Pacific, came from Australia’s Westpac Banking Corporation. As part of the equity investment, the Singapore-based group will enable Westpac customers to access exclusive offers and deals when they shop via ShopBack.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

He launched BlocPower in 2014 with the goal of replacing fossil fuel-burning heating and cooling systems with cleaner, more efficient electric air source heat pumps, water heaters and solar panels. As of January, BlocPower had updated more than 1,200 buildings in 26 cities, and the work continues. Donnel Baird, CEO and founder at BlocPower.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

Founded in 2014, Blossom Finance was first intended for Muslim entrepreneurs in the United States. But founder Matthew Joseph Martin soon realized that the startup, backed by investors like Boost VC and Tim Draper, was serving a relatively niche market in the States. Indonesia emerged as the best choice. out of its 33.6

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The Australian startup, which builds a livestock management platform for ranchers and farmers, wants to digitize farm records and the meat production process from the cow to the consumer and drive the industry’s animal and environmental welfare transparency. The startup said today it has raised another $6.8

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