AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 30, 2023

In addition to his rich experiences working in the venture capital (VC) and private equity (PE) sectors, Joseph has also sharpened his investment acumen through his multiple years in the audit and stock-broking industry before deciding to finally launch his cross-border investment firm, Kairous Capital , in 2015.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

When Christian Lawless founded Conversion Capital in 2015, fintech was only starting to take off. Today, Conversion Capital is announcing that it has raised $122 million for its third fund — more than six times the size of its previous fund — to back early-stage fintech and infrastructure startups.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

Existing backer Bain Capital led the extension, with participation from previous investors such as Access Ventures, CLSA Capital Partners Lending Ark Asia, D3 Jubilee Partners, 500 Global, Kakao Investment, TBT Partners and IBX Partners. That means the outfit’s requirement capital is around $1.5 million (75.9 million (326.8

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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. Gorra intends to use the new capital to continue technology development on those tools, to add to Rebag’s workforce of 150 people and expand its marketing.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Under the 2015 Paris Agreement, a total of 196 countries have endorsed the goal of maintaining global temperature rise by 1.5c. seed capital to strengthen its platform first appeared on AsiaTechDaily - Asia's Leading Tech and Startup Media Platform. This means cutting greenhouse-gas emissions by 50 percent by 2030, Rialucky said.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2021

billion won) Series C round led by Bain Capital with participation from Goldman Sachs. million (100 billion won) since it was founded in 2015. South Korea-based peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platform PeopleFund announced today it has closed a $63.4 million (75.9 The latest funding brings the total raised by PeopleFund to about $83.6

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 28, 2024

Qualgro (Quality & Growth), a leading venture capital firm in Singapore, focuses on tech startups excelling in Data/AI, Software, and B2B sectors at Series A and B stages.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Crowdfunding has become an increasingly popular way for companies to raise capital, and investors are taking notice. Groundfloor , the first real estate crowdfunding platform to gain regulatory approval, announced today that it raised its first round of institutional capital since 2015. “These are heavy RegTech lifts.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

Company founder and CEO Peter Sobotta founded ReturnLogic in 2015 after a long career in reverse logistics. The new capital gives ReturnLogic a total of $11.5 He started paying attention to the new generation of modern e-commerce companies showing up over the past five years. Now it is ready to expand and took in $8.5

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

Nowsta attracted venture capital for its approach to help employers better engage with their hourly workforces in this increasingly hybrid work environment. Joining GreatPoint in the financing were VMG Catalyst, Rally Ventures, Tribe Capital and existing investors Green Visor Capital, Compound Ventures and Clocktower Technology Ventures.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

Would you like to work with private equity and venture capital funds? There are relatively few jobs directly inside private equity and venture capital funds, and those jobs are highly competitive. Venture Capital. Asian Venture Capital Journal (free trial). annually between 2015 and 2020, its market size topping $1.3B

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 8, 2015

In the last six months, VCs have invested more than $57B according to Mattermark data , which puts 2015 on pace to exceed 2000 as the year the most venture capital will be deployed, ever. Which sectors are benefitting from all these venture dollars?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2016

At the Upfront Summit in early February, we had a chance to have many off-the-record conversations with Limited Partners (LPs) who fund Venture Capital (VC) funds about their views of the market. In fact, if you add the capital flows of the past ten years, there have been just shy of $50 billion in net cash outlays.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

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. Evernote’s chief operating officer, appointed in June 2015, left after just a few months.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 1, 2015

And what does it mean for 2015? Great companies attract more capital and great companies raise enough to ensure they can achieve the right milestones for the next round. As for 2015, the data indicates seed investors are concentrating their investments in fewer deals, but willing to invest more. But what of 2014?

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 13, 2015

Each year, starting in mid-2012 through mid-2015, these sectors have grown their investment dollars by more than 145%, according to Mattermark data. In addition, founders have raised capital to transform many of the fundamental industries: transportation, hospitality, lending, health insurance, and banking.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 1, 2023

While many have gotten their burn rates way down, most startups still are losing money and will eventually need to raise capital in 2023. Good businesses with product market fit, positive unit economics, and strong leadership teams will raise capital although it will be at the new normal in terms of valuation.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 25, 2024

Dr. Ramanathan is the Founding Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer of Black Star Fund , an early-stage venture capital fund. Originating from her doctoral research at Case Western Reserve University, she guided CardioInsight through successive growth stages culminating in its acquisition by Medtronic in 2015.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 9, 2014

These public market cash reserves total $430B or so across the top 250 or so public tech companies, a massive war chest that will fuel startup M&A in 2015. In short, there’s a lot of capital available across sectors. I Not surprisingly, this capital isn’t evenly distributed. In fact, cash follows a power law.

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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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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Importantly, investors have raised nearly twice as much capital in 2014 as in 2013 and their coffers are well stocked to finance new and fast-growing companies. 2015 will be an exciting year for Startupland.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Amit Anand is a founding partner of Jungle Ventures and an early pioneer and leader in the development of Southeast Asia’s venture capital industry. billion, about four times more than they did in 2015. The region is also rising in prominence as a destination for investment capital relative to the rest of Asia. times to $8.2

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

These professionals often receive inquiries from founders, equity investment firms and venture capitalists looking for ways to save on or avoid capital gains taxes on future business sales. This change was made permanent by the Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes Act of 2015, signed into law on December 18, 2015.

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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. He is also deeply involved with the Angel Capital Association, where he has served on the Marketing & Membership and Education Committees.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

Maria Lepskaya is a senior associate at Runa Capital , leading investments in different branches of quantum technologies and advanced materials. The company was founded in 2015, and it went public in 2021 through a SPAC at a $2 billion valuation. Image Credits: Runa Capital. Maria Lepskaya. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Sagi Eliyahu co-founded Tonkean in 2015 and has since raised money from some top investors, including Joanne Chen from Foundation Capital. Eliyahu started Tonkean in 2015 as a no-code development platform. The company raised its seed round in 2019, adding Foundation Capital GP Joanne Chen to its board of directors.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 27, 2023

based venture capital firm Sequoia , Chinese private equity firm Boyu, SF Express, and Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund Temasek, is making its debut on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in a somewhat uncertain economic climate. Established in 2015, J&T Express has steadily grown its presence in the logistics sector.

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Continuations

JULY 5, 2021

Today I am continuing my examination of whether or not capital is the binding constraint for meeting humanity’s needs. Even back in the mid 1800s London had sufficient capital to build out a large scale sewer system. We have long had enough capital to provide everyone in the world with clothing. But what about shelter?

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

Previous backers include DST Global, Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital. The new financing brings Bogota-based Rappi’s total raised since its 2015 inception to over $2 billion, according to Crunchbase. Baillie Gifford, Third Point, Octahedron, GIC and SoftBank also participated in the new funding event.

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HPA

AUGUST 17, 2021

Hyde Park Angels is excited to announce our participation in Branch’s $48M Series B round, which was led by Addition Capital. Participation from other investors include Drive Capital, Crosscut Ventures, Bonfire Ventures, Matchstick Ventures and other investors.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Established in 2015, Carro has expanded its operations across Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Japan, and Taiwan. Carro is another firm in the broader trend of tech unicorns exploring IPOs to access additional capital and elevate their market presence.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

million in funding led by Tola Capital. . 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

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

” Both the firms raised capital in their most recent rounds at over $2.5 Image credits: Tiger Global “Returns on capital in India have sucked historically. “As a result, returns on capital for investors like us have been below average … way below. billion valuation. That compares to mid-30s in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Armed with an idea for how to do things differently, the company ran a Kickstarter campaign back in 2015, which drew the attention of its first thousand customers. His first company was CustomMade.com, which raised $30 million in venture capital from First Round Capital, Google and Atlas Ventures in a series of funding rounds.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

From a diversity standpoint, the venture capital financing landscape remains incredibly imbalanced. Since 2015, Black and Latinx founders — who have fewer funding routes available to them to begin with — have raised just 2.4% of total venture capital invested, according to Crunchbase.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 25, 2024

TravelPerk was co-founded in 2015 by a highly seasoned entrepreneurial innovation team. With booking volumes approaching $2 billion and employees now over 1200, the latest lead funder Softbank has come on board with participation from existing investors, Kinnevik and Felix Capital.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

The startup had targeted to raise $100 million last year but only got a fraction of the funding from MOL PLUS, the corporate venture capital of Japanese transport company Mitsui O.S.K. Sendy was co-founded in 2015 by Alloys, Evanson Biwott, Don Okoth and Malaika Judd. But that hasn’t come easy. But that hasn’t come easy.

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