TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

Enter LiquidStack , a company that’s spinning out from the cryptocurrency hardware technology developer Bitfury Group with a $10 million investment. In a statement, LiquidStack said its technology could enable at least 21 times more heat rejection per IT rack compared to air cooling — all without the need for water.

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HPA

MARCH 24, 2021

Lee Partners (THL), with participation from Qualcomm Ventures, Volvo Group Venture Capital AB and Zebra Technologies, as well as existing investors Hyde Park Angels , August Capital, CEAS Investments, Hyde Park Venture Partners and Bain Capital Ventures, bringing total capital raised to over $200 million.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

AmazeVR , a virtual reality concert platform that enables users to experience their favorite artists’ VR concerts through content generation tools, announced today it has secured $15 million, which was oversubscribed within three weeks. . AmazeVR has raised a total of $30.8

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

InfoSum, a London-based startup that provides a decentralized platform for secure data sharing between organizations, has secured a $65 million Series B funding round led by Chrysalis Investments. The investment comes less than a year after InfoSum closed a $15.1 million Series A round co-led by Upfront Ventures and IA Ventures.

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Revolution

JUNE 15, 2023

Our partnership with CAVA began in 2015, when the Mediterranean fast-casual chain had just a dozen locations in D.C., CAVA’s founders had a vision to bring heritage, heart, health, and innovation to the fast-casual sector. Now their company is trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Maryland, and Virginia.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2021

MAX started out in 2015 as a delivery startup using motorcycles to fulfil customer orders before venturing into ride-hailing, and later into vehicle subscription and financing services – solutions it came up with based on the data from its first services. “It

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 18, 2023

As its first strategic move in Malaysia, Xendit has announced that it is investing in local fintech player, Payex, which is a Bank Negara Malaysia licensed payment gateway provider. “We The company offer of a one-stop payment infrastructure that enables businesses to scale rapidly.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Apollo.io , which is developing sales intelligence and engagement software for business-to-business companies, brought in $32 million in Series B funding to continue with its go-to-market acceleration approach. As part of the investment, Sri Pangulur, partner at Tribe Capital, joined Apollo.io’s board.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

As the demand for AI-powered apps grows, startups developing dedicated chips to accelerate AI workloads on-premises are reaping the benefits. He has a deep history of investing in deep tech startups that have gone on to disrupt industries across AI, data, semiconductors, among others.” After emerging from stealth in 2019, Sima.ai

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

B12 co-founder and CEO Nitesh Banta is a former investor at General Catalyst — having worked at the firm from 2010 to 2015. Over time, B12’s model has evolved as the pandemic accelerated digital everything, including payments. The firm first invested in the company in 2016, leading its $12.4 ” Image Credits: B12.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Korea Investment & Securities participated in the latest funding as well. Profitability would also go a long in enabling the company — which is eyeing a potential initial public offering in the near term — to do so successfully.) . billion won) and $175.8 million (229.3 billion in 2018. billion in November.)

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

According to Crunchbase, firms have invested more than $1 billion in legal tech companies, an uptick from the $512 million invested last year. “At a time of macroeconomic challenges, companies need a solution that accelerates key business processes,” Sangha told TechCrunch in an email interview.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 11, 2022

His appointment come as Airwallex aims to rapidly accelerate its growth globally and in the APAC in 2023. I am incredibly excited to grow my role within the company and look forward to accelerating our growth and continuing to build our momentum globally and across APAC,” Kai said on his appointment.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 17, 2022

Register FOMO Pay , the Singapore-headquartered major payment institution that enables the digital economy with global virtual banking solutions for financial institutions and enterprises, announced that it has secured a $13 million investment in its Series A round led by Jump Crypto.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

The platform helps from research to ordering and enables buyers to source their food and agriculture items at reasonable prices in more than 150 countries. million since its inception in 2015. Its fulfillment solution serves as a middleman for more than 15,000 agricultural products, enabling buyers to source and get delivered on time.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

Interestingly, Assent was bootstrapped for the first five years of its life — from 2010 to 2015. Specifically, it works to help complex manufacturers proactively identify and manage risk, accelerate market access and growth and promote brand reputation. ” Canada’s startup market booms alongside hot global VC investment.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The latest funding was led by QUAD , with participation from ASICS Ventures Corporation , 15th Rock Ventures, Pacifico Investments and SOSV. Bisu was founded in 2015 and started business in 2017 when it entered the HAX accelerator program. The seed funding brings its total raised to $4.3

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

with co-investment from OSF Ventures, Sony Innovation Fund, and Dreampact Ventures. The company was also a member of the 2016 Dreamit Ventures accelerator program and recently took first place at the 7th Annual Insight Product Development 2019 HealthTECH Startup Competition. . – September 3, 2020 – PhotoniCare, Inc.,

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Flip , an Indonesia-based fintech startup, announced today it has raised $48 million in a Series B to accelerate its growth. Flip is Insight Partners’ first investment in Indonesia. . Arriyan, Luqman Sungkar and Ginanjar Ibnu Solikhin co-founded the company in 2015 while studying at University of Indonesia.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. We’re currently evaluating about 20 companies a month and issuing term sheets to 25% of them; those that fit our investment criteria. Investment Criteria: B2B SaaS or tech-enabled services with proven, recurring contracts.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2023

General Atlantic led the first tranche of the investment. We are an Indian company, built by Indians, and our latest fundraise will help us further accelerate the Government of India’s vision of digital financial inclusion for all,” said Sameer Nigam, founder and chief executive of PhonePe, in a statement. billion in late 2020.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Newly appointed CEO Bart Omlo says that the proceeds from Kontent’s first external investment will be put toward expanding the company’s marketing and sales teams, opening a new office in New York and supporting product development. Over time, the product evolved into a comprehensive digital experience platform for marketers.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

The round was led by Gojek’s investment arm Go Ventures, with participation from returning investors AC Ventures and East Ventures. An obvious comparison to KitaBeli is Pinduoduo, the fast-growing Chinese e-commerce player that launched in 2015 as a group-buying service for fresh produce, and also focuses on growth in smaller cities.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Deepgram’s speech AI is the core enabling technology behind many of our customers’ applications, and the demand for speech understanding grows as companies seek greater efficiency.” ” Launched in 2015, Deepgram focuses on building custom voice-recognition solutions for customers such as Spotify, Auth0 and even NASA. .”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

million Series B investment today led by 01 Advisors, with participation from Index Ventures and Zoom Apps Fund. The company records and transcribes each interview, which is conducted over Zoom, enabling the interviewer to concentrate solely on the candidate, and not on taking notes or other tasks.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

Last November, the company also acquired Wevo, an enterprise integration platform-as-a-service (iPaaS) provider that focuses on Latin America, while last May, it picked up eBridge, another iPaaS service that focuses on enabling data integration between on-premises and cloud e-commerce and CRM systems. Its 25 employees will all join Jitterbit.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

The company plan to strengthen its capabilities in local commerce with Danggeun Pay, or Karrot Pay, which is set to launch this year, and Danggeun’s platform Karrot enables approximately 300,000 local SMB partners to go digitalized by offering offline to online (O2O) service.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Taing founded Bokksu in 2015 and launched a Japanese snack subscription service in 2016. The fresh capital will also enable Bokksu to accelerate its primary business lines: subscription, market and grocery. The online grocery space has been growing and drawing major investments for the past few years. Canada, the U.K,

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Indeed, the Italian Ministry of Economic Development and the Italian Trade & Investment Agency in London have even been known to fund Italian entrepreneurs abroad to help them gain more experience. This has seven different funds under management, including a VC fund-of-funds, “Series A/B matching” funds and acceleration funds.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Private equity firm Vista Equity Partners announced today that it is taking a majority stake in Drift , a company which aims to be the Amazon of businesses, with a “growth investment” that propels the venture-backed startup to unicorn status. It is not yet profitable, as it is focused on growth, he added. So far it has made three.). .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

According to the 2015-founded startup it’s matched over 1M jobs across Germany and the Netherlands to date. “We are launching Zenjob in the UK this year and continue our investment in new European markets. “Due to the heavy demand we will expand our offers in knowledge work and office jobs.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

TechCrunch has been covering the demo days of the seed-stage venture firm Pear VC since 2015. “We want to focus on building products and finding customers” while the startups are participating in its accelerator program, he insists. There we are in the front row in 2016 , surrounded by investors, typing away.).

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Fin was founded in 2015 by Andrew Kortina, co-founder of Venmo, and Facebook’s former VP of product and Slow Ventures partner Sam Lessin. It’s different for enterprise customers, though, to understand that investment and what they are spending their money on as they use tools to get their jobs done,” Cummack added. raises $5.6M

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

If you’re wondering where you’ve heard Meyer’s name, you may remember him from 2015 when he was building Fresco News , a crowdsourced network for breaking news, or as co-founder of Homebound , where he is still an advisor. Fresco News Aims To Build A Crowdsourced Network For Breaking News. Ghost Financial card app.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

As valuations soar and IPOs accelerate, the public is taking on more startup risk. Investing in companies that have astronomical valuations based on expected growth can work out really well. ” As valuations soar and IPOs accelerate, the public is taking on more startup risk. “The public is now at risk.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The London-based startup was actually founded back in 2015, launching the first version of its product in 2016 — so years before the COVID-19 pandemic struck and triggered a temporary shuttering of physical offices everywhere, followed by a slow and (still) partial reopening. 15% in the EU; 15% in APAC and 10% elsewhere.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The round is the first sizable funding that Oslo-based, but very distributed, Superside has raised — it was founded as Konsus back in 2015 and had picked up only $5.5 Their platform is intuitive and enables speed, and the dedicated team model ensures everyone thoroughly understands our brand and day-to-day needs, allowing for scale.”.

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