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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

“Teaming up with Bending Spoons will [accelerate] the delivery of improvements across our teams, professional, personal and free offerings.” Between 2010 and 2015, Evernote raised hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital from investors including Sequoia, Meritech Capital and Japanese media company Nikkei.

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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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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

Other investors in the extension include Valo Ventures, SOSV, Far Eastern Group’s corporate venture arm Drive Catalyst, Alante Capital and S Cap. Founded in 2015 by Jeanny Yao and Wang, both discovered the massive problem of plastics starting with a field trip to the Vancouver South Waste Transfer Station.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Here’s where MLOps is accelerating enterprise AI adoption. This evolution has played a key role in helping companies adopt and employ ML and AI, according to Ashish Kakran, principal at Thomvest Ventures. Accelerating AI adoption. Here’s where MLOps is accelerating enterprise AI adoption. Integration with ML tools.

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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

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 Chinedu Azodoh is the startup’s other co-founder.

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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

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 brings its total funding raised to $41.4 million, the company said without disclosing its valuation.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Microtraction , an early-stage venture capital firm based in Lagos, Nigeria, saw funding nearly quadruple for its portfolio. ” Badamosi, who returned to Nigeria from the UK in 2015, worked as the general manager for Starta Africa, an online community for African tech entrepreneurs. The rest were unannounced.

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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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Italy’s ecosystem for tech venture capital and startups has been in development for years and has made decent strides in the last decade. Rome has more than 20 incubators/accelerators and many established VCs; because of its lower costs compared to other European cities, it’s become a major base for startups.

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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. A recent ZDNet piece reaffirms that the AI edge chip market is booming, fueled by “staggering” venture capital financing in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

ArcTern Ventures leads, joined by Ecosystem Integrity Fund, Northvolt, and existing investors Emeryville, CA (February 6, 2023) – Liminal , a battery manufacturing intelligence company, today announced a $17.5 This syndicate demonstrates significant and accelerating progress towards our goal of facilitating a clean energy future.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

It requires accelerators and incubators and coworking spaces to help nurture early ideas, and it needs VC firms investing across stages. Cait Brumme, CEO at early stage tech accelerator MassChallenge says that Boston was not immuned to the vagaries of investment cycles in 2022. Greg Dracon, a partner at.406 billion in 2019. “I

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 5, 2015

They''re a career accelerator, which is a pretty neat concept--doing what YC and Techstars do for startups, but for your career. Anyway, 2015 marks a couple of big career anniversaries for me. Ten years ago, in 2005, I started working for Union Square Ventures as their first analyst. Venture Capital & Technology'

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the company’s growth. Mental health startups are raising spirits and venture capital. The startup was founded in 2015 by Kim, who had overcome depression by getting therapy while studying in the United States. Moreover, Atommerce will increase access to the mental care ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

million since its inception in 2015. The new valuation represents about 440%, or 5.4x, increase over Tridge’s postmoney valuation of $500 million in July 2021 when it raised $60 million in its Series C from Korean venture capital firm Forest Partners. With this investment, we will accelerate overseas expansion plans.”.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Truist — one of the nation’s largest financial institutions — has acquired Long Game , a 12-person fintech startup that has raised over $20 million in venture capital, executives have told TechCrunch exclusively. For one, Long Game participated in FIS’s Fintech Accelerator Program. million raise in 2017.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

The report, which included analysis from McKinsey & Company, says its assertions are backed by an acceleration in strong market fundamentals and the impact of the pandemic. 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.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

More venture capital is flowing into meal delivery service companies as consumers seek out better-for-you food choices. That has attracted venture capitalists’ attention and led to some recent cash infusions, including Shef and WoodSpoon for homemade items, and Little Spoon and Serenity Kids in the baby food arena.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The event has accelerated the use of telemedicine, virtual care, and drug delivery, thus fuelling investor interest in the sector. In 2015, the three co-founders launched Kangpe, a telemedicine-focused startup in Nigeria with a “doctor in your pocket” slogan. Reliance previously raised a $2 million seed round months post-YC in 2017.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

NightDragon led the funding with participation from Snowflake Ventures as well as existing investors Dell Technologies Capital, DFJ Growth, IAG, Intel Capital, March Capital, StepStone, Ten Eleven Ventures, and Wipro Ventures. Fortunately for Immuta, venture capital sees big opportunities in data privacy.

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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

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Similar to attracting a big investor lead for its B round — Menlo Ventures — it has partnered with Index Ventures to lead the C round. Menlo participated again and was joined by Headline and A Capital. It is rare to see a company accelerate growth at the stage they are at.”. Hiring talent is the No.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The Series A funding is led by Runa Capital with Flashpoint Venture Capital and LAUNCHub Ventures also participating. employee/co-working space member engagement, and financial management tools through web and mobile applications. which accounts for 45% of its customers, followed by circa 15% in the U.K.;

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

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

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

We profiled Rebag back in 2015, when its name included two “g’s,” (gotta love URL availability) and had raised $4 million in seed funding to go after incumbents like The RealReal. The market for venture capital is active and favorable, and we seized on that opportunity to accelerate funding,” he added.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Breyer Capital, General Catalyst, Naval Ravikant and others also put money in the round, which brings B12’s total funding to $28.1 B12 co-founder and CEO Nitesh Banta is a former investor at General Catalyst — having worked at the firm from 2010 to 2015.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

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

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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. Brad Feld helped co-found the venture capital firm with one goal in mind: to help entrepreneurs. “We Boulder, Colorado.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2023

Bahadur said the company’s closest competitor is baby subscription box company Lovevery, which has raised $126 million in venture-backed funding since it was founded in 2015. The company got into the XRC Labs accelerator program and also signed a deal with a large U.S. She decided to go after venture capital, raising $1.2

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

When Christian Lawless founded Conversion Capital in 2015, fintech was only starting to take off. In the years since Conversion was founded, fintech has essentially exploded — driven by a pandemic-induced, accelerated digital transformation on the part of financial services companies all over the world.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 26, 2018

First, there are fewer seed investors participating in the market than in 2015, about 40% fewer. The largest accelerators in the US buck the trend, however. Third, all but one of the most active venture capital funds have reduced their seed investment activity. The lines in gray trace the investment counts by firm.

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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. A lot of top firms show up, including from NEA, Lux Capital and Sequoia Capital. For example, Mark Suster of Upfront Ventures and Kirsten Green of Forerunner Ventures helped advise Pear’s newest batch of companies.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 4, 2021

Gil Dibner, the general partner at Angular Ventures noticed : “… we live in an era where there are tremendous short-term benefits to successful pseudo entrepreneurship. American universities, however, decreased their reliance on full-time tenured or tenure-track staff, from 45% in 1975 to 29% in 2015. In other words, you have a Ph.D.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2021

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. In 2010, five firms were founded and in 2015 four additional firms were founded, then from 2014-2019, two or more firms were founded each year.

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