TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

Paris-originated VC Breega wasn’t enormously well known in the VC world (it only closed its first fund in 2015) until, perhaps, it started attracting attention with its second €110 million seed fund, just under a year go. It’s portfolio now includes a number of scaleups including Moneybox, Cuvva, Coverflex and Libeo.

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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. . We’re thrilled that investors are grasping this and are supporting us as we innovate and grow.” .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

McKinsey expects the chemical and pharma industries to be the first potential users of quantum computing, enabling the accurate simulation of larger numbers of atoms and molecules, which is not possible today using classical supercomputers. The company was founded in 2015, and it went public in 2021 through a SPAC at a $2 billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Taing founded Bokksu in 2015 and launched a Japanese snack subscription service in 2016. The funding was led by Valor Siren Ventures , with participation from Company Ventures , St. Cousair , World Innovation Lab (WiL), Headline Asia and Gaingels. . Bokksu ships its grocery products to the U.S. Canada, the U.K,

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

It enabled them to see and understand firsthand the issues associated with exchanging large proprietary 3D files from vendors like Autodesk and Trimble. The companies that dominate this space have existed for many years, and Stefanescu said they have had little motivation to innovate around file-sharing or open source.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The round was led by Unusual Ventures, with Unusual’s John Vrionis joining the board. While Arrikto has stayed off the radar since it launched out of Athens, Greece in 2015, the founding team of Venetsanopoulos and CTO Vangelis Koukis already managed to get a number of large enterprises to adopt its platform. .

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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

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

David Perry and Jason Goldberg co-founded the company in 2015 and built a cross-store selling and influencer commerce platform that is used by more than 7 million influencers and 30,000 brands, like Blendjet, Arizona Iced Tea and Chubbies Shorts. It grew by over 500% in the last year, Perry said.

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Dream It

APRIL 23, 2019

Dozens of healthcare-focused voice tech startups have popped up in the last few years which are backed by top tier venture funds. Healthymize ’s product enables passive, ambient remote monitoring of people with conditions like COPD, asthma, and pneumonia to identify potential flare ups and prevent hospitalizations.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

Stephen Harper, the country’s prime minister from 2006 to 2015, famously quipped that the region suffered from “ a culture of defeatism.” VC firms have taken notice: notable investors in Atlantic Canadian startups include Breakthrough Energy Ventures , a fund supported by Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson. venture capital.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Sequoia Capital India, Insight Partners and Insignia Ventures Partners co-led the Series B round. It gives us the resources we need to fuel and accelerate our mission to build innovative solutions that simplify money movement in Indonesia,” said Rafi Putra Arriyan , co-founder and CEO of Flip. .

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 21, 2022

This opportunity to acquire the CitiBusiness loan portfolio could not have come at a better time for us; it is a complementary fit for our existing business and will enable us to rapidly expand our customer base and loan book,” said Validus co-founder and executive chairman Vikas Nahata.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Venture capital firms Invenfin , Base Capital, Savannah Fund, P1 Ventures, Luno and FireID took part in the round, including some high-impact angel investors. We feel there needs to be a standard platform for which people innovate and build their products and integrate with.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2021

million (100 billion won) since it was founded in 2015. The new law enables the licensed P2P lending startup to operate as an authorized financial institution to lend, raise capital from international and domestic institutions, and provide loan referral services to its customers. PeopleFund.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2015

We recently released the video sharing app Ferris and announced that Upfront Ventures led the funding in the company in our seed round of $2 million and I personally joined the board. The backend services to enable scrolling, click-and-watch, scroll forward with minimal buffering, etc. Mark Suster (@msuster) April 23, 2015.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

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. “Sima.ai’s software and hardware platform can be used to enable scaling machine learning to [a range of] embedded edge applications.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

Participating investors in Thepeer’s seed round include RaliCap, Timon Capital, BYLD Ventures, Musha Ventures, Sunu and Uncovered Fund. George Rzepecki, its founder, in a statement, likened Thepeer’s move to unify Africa’s wallet ecosystem to how Flutterwave entered the fragmented card and mobile money payments space in 2015.

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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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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 12, 2023

As Tonal’s CEO, Zell has the confident support of Orady and key investors, enabling her to see a clear path forward for growth and profitability. “As The funding round through the company’s existing investors was led by private equity firm L Catterton , with Cobalt , Dragoneer , Kindred Ventures and THVC also participating.

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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. ” Immuta was co-founded in 2015 by Steven Touw and Carroll, who began his career as a U.S.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

with co-investment from OSF Ventures, Sony Innovation Fund, and Dreampact Ventures. million Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The competitive NIH SBIR program funds early-stage small businesses seeking to commercialize innovative biomedical technologies.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2023

Wellthy is a startup aimed at helping caregivers be more equipped to deal with all aspects of their various responsibilities by serving as a self-described “tech-enabled care concierge.” Todd Boehly, chairman and CEO of Eldridge, b elieves Wellthy has helped to both define and drive innovation in the caregiving market.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The tight labor market, driven in part by “ The Great Resignation ,” is highlighting the need for more tech-enabled tools for connecting employers with available workers. The holiday shopping season kicked off last week with some lackluster results , but employers are still in dire need of workers.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

Today, it has raised a $15 million extension from existing investors — RMBV, IFC, Flourish Ventures, Crystal Stream Capital, Rise Capital, Endeavour Catalyst, Beco Capital and 4DX Ventures — bringing its total Series A fundraise to $55 million. But both companies agreed to work together rather than compete with each other.

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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. In 2019, about 300 deals were venture-backed. It has an estimated 67 VC funds, with 18 of them started since 2015. Giuseppe Donvito , partner, P101 Ventures.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2023

” PhonePe was founded in 2015 and within a year was acquired by e-commerce giant Flipkart. We are excited to partner with the PhonePe team to help enable the next generation of digital innovation in India.” The two parted ways last month and now Flipkart no longer owns a stake in the payments firm.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 17, 2021

This is more than double what Nylas had raised up to now ($55 million since being founded in 2015), and when it last raised — a $16 million Series B in 2018 — it said it had “thousands of developers” among its users. Now, that number has ballooned to 40,000, with Nylas processing some 1.2

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

A lot has changed in the markets since then, so this feels like a good outcome for the startup, which was founded by Paul Sawaya and Roger Lee in 2015. Some of the large banks have already been active, and the others need to ask themselves whether they are serious about innovation and digital transformation.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2021

However, a fter his experience using N26 while visiting a friend in Berlin in 2015, his eyes opened to the possibilities of digital banking in Egypt. Like any digital bank globally, Telda enables customers to create a free account to send and receive money. Image Credits: Telda. There are many parallels between Brazil and Egypt.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

Venture capital firms continue to raise new funds, at what seems like lightning speed. Two firms stuck out in recent days, including Urban Innovation Fund , which closed with commitments of $101 million for its Fund III and $20 million Opportunity Fund, and VMG Catalyst ‘s $400 million Fund II. billion earlier this year.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. I believe that Revenue-Based Investing (“RBI”) VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem. Venture debt investors , who typically use a structure like this sample term sheet teardown.

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Onevest

MARCH 19, 2015

The SEC seems quite okay with postponing finalization until October 2015. Otherwise called the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, the legislation modifies a series of laws that enable startups to seek funds using methods that have been illegal since FDR's Securities Act of 1933. Accredited investors are only 1% of the US population.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

Munich-based AM Ventures just closed a $100 million fund focusing specifically on the early growth stages of industrial and commercial 3D printing applications. AM Ventures’ co-founders and managing partners, Arno Held (left) and Johann Oberhofer (right) Image Credits: AM Ventures. Somehow we just ended up in VC.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Contact: William Paiva, Managing Partner, OLSF Ventures. BROKEN ARROW, OK – OLSF Ventures (OLSF) recently led a $4.5 OLSF Ventures was joined in the investment by Plains Venture Partners, managed by i2E Management Company, Inc. Atento Capital ; Cortado Ventures ; Sante Accel Ventures and Angel investors.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2022

Egyptian fintech Paymob , which enables merchants to accept digital payments online and in-store, announced today it has raised $50 million in Series B funding. PayPal Ventures, the global corporate venture arm of PayPal, New-York-based venture capital Kora Capital, and London-based Clay Point led the round.

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FundersClub

JUNE 12, 2017

Venture capital investing offers different challenges than those associated with tech entrepreneurship, but Alex Mittal, co-founder and CEO of FundersClub, approached the sphere of venture capital the same way he did as a tech founder previously: is there a better way to do this? There are a lot of inefficiencies in VC.

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Don Dodge

APRIL 6, 2015

I remember the Demo Day in 2007 where DropBox presented to about 30 Boston area Angels and Venture Capital investors. Dropbox is expected to IPO in 2015 at a valuation exceeding $10 Billion. You will present in front of hundreds of the most successful Angel investors and Venture Capital investors.

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