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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 11, 2023

Private Property swiftly emerged as the most frequented “for sale by owner” property site in Africa, attracting external investment, orchestrating numerous acquisitions, and scaling with remarkable speed. That summer, he completed a three-month software development bootcamp in Chicago called Starter League.

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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. This begs the question: Who exactly is investing in Southeast Asia? Regional VC investment grew 5.2 Venture capitalists.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 31, 2020

With this in mind, ThrivingDollars has been addressing the need for financial literacy in Jamaica by simplifying and disseminating quality financial education that covers key topics such as budgeting, saving, debt management, and elimination, investing, insurance, and retirement and estate planning.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Held this past spring in Las Vegas, the speed dating-style event connects companies with promising developers. Zappos also offers opportunities to learn about its company culture, which you can apply to your business. “We This presents out-of-towners with opportunities to connect with fellow startup leaders and potential investors.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

AUGUST 18, 2020

Invest in yourself, and your hard work will blossom.”. In the time since TransWave’s beginnings, Neish has made sure to focus on setting up roles of ‘ambassadors’ to support the work of the organization and provide more opportunities for the local community. “I TransWave has come a long way since its formation in 2015.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The 2nd Pangyo Techno Valley was constructed by Korea Land and Housing Corporation (LH) and Gyeonggi Housing and Urban Corporation (GH) on the sites of Siheung-dong and Geumto-dong, Sujeong-gu, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, with the industrial complex plan approved in November 2015.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

The new funding was led by Alkeon Capital, an American investment firm, and included participation from new investors like Korea Development Bank, and returning backers Altos Ventures and Greyhound Capital. The app launched as a Venmo-like peer-to-peer money transfer platform in 2015, before adding more services.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2023

But is it possible for a smaller open source project to find its way into this land of commercial opportunity? 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

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. EdgeQ , Kneron , and Hailo are among the dozens of upstarts vying for customers, the last of which nabbed $136 million in October as it doubles down on new opportunities. “I founded Sima.ai

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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. This represents a potential switching opportunity to modern CMS solutions.”

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Andreessen Horowitz

JANUARY 23, 2024

And I am grateful for the entire partnership, especially Marc and Ben, for giving me the opportunity of a lifetime when they promoted me to be General Partner , ending the firm’s long standing rule of 9 years to only hire general partners who had been CEO’s or founders. Kobold Metals – My first deal as a general partner.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The five-year development plan utilizes $25 million from the New Jersey Economic Development Authority. Since 2015, HAX started investing in more industrial & health startups and today make up 90% of our new investments,” HAX partner Garrett Winther told TechCrunch. companies working toward their seed round.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

with co-investment from OSF Ventures, Sony Innovation Fund, and Dreampact Ventures. Most recently, Mr. Hydar served as Vice President of Sales at Kent Imaging where he led product launches to commercialization and developed strategic partnership agreements to expand company awareness and market presence. i2E Management Company, Inc.

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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. Navenio’s location technology is developed from world-class University of Oxford science.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

Founded in 2015, the Boston-based startup started making waves a few years back as a spinout of MIT mechanical engineering students. Invest more in training and development to support team members to become Head Coaches. The deal is expected to close in Q3.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2015

Mark Suster (@msuster) March 14, 2015. Hunter Walk (@hunterwalk) March 14, 2015. Josh Elman (@joshelman) March 14, 2015. 2/ it shows how big the opportunity for live video, and owning the “go live now” network can be. . Josh Elman (@joshelman) March 14, 2015. Josh Elman (@joshelman) March 14, 2015.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

API transformation company Jitterbit today announced that it has acquired PrimeApps , a Turkey-based low-code application development service. Jitterbit CEO George Gallegos would only say that he believes it’s “a great deal compared to the billion-dollar opportunity.” Its 25 employees will all join Jitterbit.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2023

Updated to note that the Microsoft investment closed in January. A source tells us Founders Fund is also investing. This is separate to a big investment from Microsoft announced earlier this year , a person familiar with the development told TechCrunch, which closed in January.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The Bangalore-based startup’s Series B was led by London-headquartered private equity firm Apis Partners (which invested through its Growth Fund II), with participation from existing investors Y Combinator and Smilegate Investments. The new round brings the startup’s to-date raise to $42 million.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

The new funding will feed into parcelLab’s global expansion plans and new product development. Founded in 2015 by Tobias Buxhoidt (CEO), Julian Krenge (CTO) and Anton Eder (COO), the startup has managed to bag such customers as Lidl, to which it provides automated personalized shipping messages.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

TX Zhuo is the managing partner of Fika Ventures , focusing on fintech, enterprise software and marketplace opportunities. He previously held roles investing at Vulcan Capital and Madrona Venture Labs. More posts by this contributor. Strike first, strike hard, no mercy: How emerging managers can win. Colton Pace. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

The startup has also developed its own applicant tracking system and some companies use the platform directly for their hiring processes. Five other investors are joining Welcome to the Jungle’s cap table — blisce/ , Cipio Partners , Groupe ADP , Kostogri (Betclic CEO Nicolas Béraud’s investment company) and RAISE Sherpas.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

Gloat , an internal marketplace for corporate talent, today announced that it raised $90 million in a Series D round led by Generation Investment Management, bringing the startup’s total raised to $192 million. ” Reuveni founded Gloat in 2015 alongside Amichai Schreiber and Danny Shteinberg. Vice President Al Gore.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Instrumental was launched by two former Apple mechanical engineers in 2015. The solution they developed involves several key pieces. The new Series C investment was led by BAM Elevate with help from existing investors Canaan, Root Ventures and Eclipse Ventures. The company reports it has now raised over $80 million.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

According to Boyle, they realized there was an opportunity to improve the tooling in the Salesforce ecosystem, which led them to found Gearset. From a dashboard, developers can deploy changes to Salesforce environments, configure automated pipelines to deliver updates, and view an audit history of all deployed changes.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2023

While its corporate name technically remains Elearningforce, the company transitioned to the LMS365 brand back in 2015, intended to reflect its focus on Microsoft. ” LMS365’s first external investment was led by New York-based Blue Cloud Ventures, with participation from Singapore’s Kamet Capital and existing shareholders.

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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. However, in June 2020, the Italian government sponsored a €1 billion investment program aimed at the native startup ecosystem, creating a new venture arm: CDP Venture Capital.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The Seattle-based startup said Thursday it has raised $150 million from institutional investors including Morgan Stanley’s Counterpoint Global Fund, Fidelity Management & Research Company, TPG’s global impact investing platform The Rise Fund and funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

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. From a diversity standpoint, the venture capital financing landscape remains incredibly imbalanced.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

Angel investments in 2022 equaled those from 2006 to 2011 combined. Family office investments increased by 5x , and corporate venture investments rose 6x , thus opening new capital avenues for founders who found it difficult to raise capital. Crowdfunding witnessed a 2.4x growth from 2020 to 2021.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The Manila and Singapore-based startup announced it has raised $1 million in seed funding, led by Wavemaker Partners with participation from ADB Ventures, the Asian Development Bank’s venture arm, to expand in Asia and add features to its platform, including a self-serve version that is slated for release in January 2022. and raises $77M.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

The DockerSlim open source project developed several years ago from a desire to remove some of that complexity for developers. At the time Quest built DockerSlim in 2015, he was working with Docker containers and he wanted a way to automate some of the lower level tasks involved in dealing with them.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

According to Statista, the average enterprise uses 110 software-as-a-service apps today, up from eight in 2015. Ojansuu recognizes his bias — he co-founded Happeo , a startup developing intranet software to connect employees with company tools. ” Using Happeo’s editing tools to build an intranet portal.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Founded in 2015, London-based Sensat is one of a number of so-called “digital twin” software companies that serve construction, mining, energy and similar industries with tools to replicate their physical footprint in the digital sphere. million funding round was led by National Grid Partners (NGP), the investment arm of U.K.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2022

The executive has a background in strategy and management consulting that progressed into a career in product development for top tech companies like Google and Amazon. “I saw a massive opportunity and few people going after it,” Lewis told TechCrunch. At least, not at first. TechCrunch+ is having a Memorial Day sale.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

When Brian Schiff, Sam Krut and Jacob Cooper founded the company in 2015, they were still undergraduates at Cornell University and it was initially an Uber-like social transportation app to help people find rides on college campuses where the transportation giant wasn’t operating. The funding round he refers to is $6.5

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