TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2021

Thomas Rush is founder of Bootstrapp and Head of Investment Platform at ConsenSys Mesh. Revenue-based investing ( RBI), also known as revenue-based financing, or revenue-share investing, 1 is a natural next step for the private equity and early-stage venture investment industry. Share on Twitter.

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A Smart Bear

JANUARY 4, 2018

Of course a nice chunk is primary capital, i.e. for the company balance sheet, to invest in growth initiatives, security and quality, and advancing our existing strategic priorities through acceleration and de-risking. The majority of the funds pay back our early investors who believed in us enough to trust us with their money.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 18, 2023

LTD , one of the largest security integration companies in the world, according to Forbes Global 2000 , has made a primary equity investment of $192 million in the two companies, $100M in Eagle Eye Networks and $92M in Brivo. The SECOM investment underscores that cloud and AI are the future of physical security,” said Drako.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The week’s top investment deals from OurCrowd. Green light for cleantech investment. Green light for cleantech investment. Annual investment in cleantech increased tenfold from about $400 million a year to peak at $4.3 4: Cybersecurity and Pandemic-Accelerated Digital Transformations. Introductions. Read more here.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Register Continuum raised a total of $36 million to accelerate the expansion of 100 percent recycled commercial metal powder production to meet the growing customer demand for sustainable materials. Ara’s investment allows us to supply the industry’s growth with a sustainable solution,” said Phil Ward, Continuum’s CEO.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Boulder is quickly becoming a startup mecca on par with Silicon Valley — largely due to the Techstars accelerator, which has cultivated the city’s startup ecosystem. The Country Music Association started a music-tech accelerator, but the city is also the healthcare hub of America. Boulder, Colorado.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

Dan Lewis launched Convoy in 2015 into an established industry dominated by several legacy businesses. 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.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Investments are made in high-growth companies with women leaders, following their successful completion of the firm’s Expert Sift process. Backstage Capital : founded by Arlan Hamilton, Managing Partner, the firm invests in the very best founders who identify as women, People of Color, or LGBTQ.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

Drive Capital, Crosscut Ventures, Bonfire Ventures, Matchstick Ventures and HR Tech Investments LLC, a subsidiary of Recruit Holdings Co., With the latest investment, Minneapolis-based Branch has brought in a total of $58 million in equity funding since its 2015 inception. The raise marks Branch’s first since 2017.

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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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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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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 9, 2022

Register South Korea’s largest accelerator program for foreign startups, K-Startup Grand Challenge (KSGC) , is accepting applications for its 2022 edition. month support, the top startup teams can also look forward to getting further assistance to expand to Asia and investment from prominent VCs. Besides the 3.5-month

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

Partners Investment and Murex Partners co-led the new funding, with participation from Smilegate Investment, Quantum Ventures Korea , ABC Partners , Everrich Group, GS Group’s corporate venture capital firm GS Futures , We Ventures, Base Investment and Dunamu & Partners. AmazeVR has raised a total of $30.8

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

About Funding Societies Founded in 2015 by Kelvin Teo and Reynold Wijaya, Funding Societies empowers MSMEs in Southeast Asia. The post Online Lending Platform Funding Societies raises US$294 million to accelerate its expansion plans in Southeast Asia first appeared on AsiaTechDaily - Asia's Leading Tech and Startup Media Platform.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

He is founder of Arowana , a B Corporation which invests in, operates, and grows sustainable companies. “We need all the help we can get,” Jobs said, while the audience loudly booed after he announced that arch-rival Microsoft had invested $150 million in Apple. People and Culture. Monthly hires increased tenfold.

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Angel Capital Association

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Steve joined QCA in 2015, where he chairs QCA’s marketing committee and co-leads the group’s “Ascent” membership program. As part of this, he is a trainer for the Ann & Bill Payne’s ACA Angel University, including the Fundamentals of Angel Investing and Risks courses.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

million investment to help revolutionize healthcare efficiency worldwide. The investment enables Navenio to build upon its proven technology platform and demonstrated customer value to accelerate momentum in healthcare and beyond. Goh Ventures, Big Pi Ventures, George Robinson, and the University of Oxford, participate.

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Impact Hub

AUGUST 19, 2020

Back in 2015, the members and team co-created the ‘Food Talks’ quarterly event series, in which leading industry thinkers explore the major issues affecting the food system. The post Accelerating Sustainable Food Business Solutions to Reshape Our Cities appeared first on Impact Hub. Photo: Kina Mama.

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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 25, 2021

Founded by Yele Badamosi in 2017, Microtraction arrived on the continent’s early-stage investment scene with all intent to be “the most accessible and preferred source of pre-seed funding for African tech entrepreneurs.” Other investors include Pave Investments and US-based angel investor, Chris Schultz.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Michael Seibel was chief executive of Y Combinator’s accelerator up until 2020, when the accelerator evolved from a more traditional partnership to no longer having multiple CEOs. YC says that no one else’s role at the accelerator has changed with today’s executive shakeup.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Delivery has become one of the fastest growing verticals for robotics investments amid pandemic-related shutdowns. There’s been plenty of interest in the category over the years, but COVID-19 has accelerated interest on all sides of the equation. Among this category, however, Agility stands out — in more ways than one.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

SOSV notes that, while HAX’s earliest focus was on wearables, in more recent years, the accelerator has largely shifted to industrial and healthcare, which currently comprise 70% and 20% of its portfolio, respectively.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

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. The latest round will help Zeals accelerate new product development, diversify go-to-market channels and support overseas expansion.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

Warehouse logistics one of the fastest growing verticals for robotics investments amid pandemic-related shutdowns. There’s been plenty of interest in the category over the years, but COVID-19 has accelerated interest on all sides of the equation. Among this category, however, Agility stands out — in more ways than one.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

It needs a couple of successful exits, which in turn drives angel investing as entrepreneurs growing increasingly wealthy look to help new founders building companies reach their own goals. It requires accelerators and incubators and coworking spaces to help nurture early ideas, and it needs VC firms investing across stages.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

from Seoul when she was a child and started a global accelerator in 2015. Chang’s plan is to deploy capital into 30 new investments and keep some back for follow-on investments. Kim, whose fund invested in Roblox, Coupang, Delivery Hero and Krafton, said via email that “the VC world needs more people like Claire.

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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

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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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2021

Lynk announced today that its “knowledge-as-a-service” platform will be integrated into UBS ’ investment process. The startup has offices in New York, Hong Kong, Singapore, Mumbai, Shanghai and Toronto, and serves about 200 enterprise clients, including Fortune 500 corporations, investment firms and government agencies.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2023

COSS is accelerating In general, the trends in commercial open source (COSS) are encouraging. And investments in open source products have almost tripled from 58 deals in 2015 to 144 deals in 2021. Judging from these numbers, investments and star dynamics, COSS is in a sweet spot at the moment.

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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. The company, which was formerly known as Allied Control Limited, restructured as a commercial operating company headquartered in the Netherlands with commercial operations in the U.S.

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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 million funding round.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

With the recent funding, Atommerce plans to enhance artificial intelligence and machine learning technology for its platform and invest in digital therapeutics specialized in mental illness. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the company’s growth. million Series B, which was three times oversubscribed within two months.

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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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