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. In a statement, LiquidStack said its technology could enable at least 21 times more heat rejection per IT rack compared to air cooling — all without the need for water.

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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.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

Enter Assent Compliance — a Canadian company focused on supply chain sustainability management. Interestingly, Assent was bootstrapped for the first five years of its life — from 2010 to 2015. ” Canada’s startup market booms alongside hot global VC investment. While half a billion dollars raised in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

The investment was led by Ed Brakeman, a senior managing director at Bain Capital and Hans den Bieman, founder and ex-CEO of Mowi, one of the largest salmon businesses globally. Joseph Rehmann founded Victory Farms in 2015. We run a tech-enabled platform and have scaled 2x faster than any other African fish company.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 11, 2022

With the continued growth and expansion of Airwallex, Kai will play a pivotal role in increasing the company’s revenue growth in a scalable and sustainable manner. Airwallex continues to scale to new heights.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Through an on-demand mobile app that enables users to place an order to pick up and drop off their laundry and dry cleaning within 24 hours. New investors such as KB Securities, Hanwha Securities, Badgers Investment and Pebbles Investment and strategic investor Musinsa, a Korean fashion platform, also participated in the round.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2023

Founded out of London in 2015, Superscript constitutes two core insurance businesses: an online-only “self-serve” platform that’s available to U.K. “Historically, many investors have mirrored the tech-investment models and focused on acquisition,” Shearer added.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

The platform enables retailers to run their stores on the iPhone. Company founder and CEO Peter Sobotta founded ReturnLogic in 2015 after a long career in reverse logistics. This is why increased investment for technical upgrades is flowing into this area of the supply chain,” Saran said.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

DCJ and Yadea will jointly invest $50 million in an operating company to develop new two-wheel vehicles with their own branding that use the Gogoro Network, including its batteries, drivetrains, controllers and other components. Giving EV batteries a second life for sustainability and profit.

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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.” Once lone rangers, Q1 Labs and Radian6 are now surrounded by thriving copycats in a self-sustaining ecosystem. Soon, the region’s hard-luck narrative stuck.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

In total, it has raised $409 million since being founded back in 2015. Another investor in this slice of the Series D, Gillian Tans, ex-chairwoman and CEO of Booking.com — who is investing in a personal capacity — is joining the board of directors alongside Joel Cutler, an early investor in Stripe, Airbnb and Kayak.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

-based last-mile delivery provider, has raised £4 million in funding, as it looks to invest in its product off the back of 300% revenue growth during the last 12 months. The company had previously raised £1 million in two rounds, including £500,000 from publicly-listed Auctus Alternative Investments.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

When quizzed on whether Pulse was more like a feature that the big tech platforms could just build themselves, rather than a sustainable business in its own right, Singh was adamant that Pulse could thrive as a standalone product. For starters, there is the fact that Pulse had been focused exclusively on Slack status updates.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2021

In a four-part series, he explores the origins and operations of Bowery Farming, a profitable startup that has raised almost $500 million since 2015 to create new tech and facilities that raise leafy greens sold in nearly 900 markets. Now that remote work has become the norm, remote investment in the area has dialed up as well.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

He does direct [investing] now, too. But he’d been trying to invest with Y Combinator for many years., The other thing that was true back then was it was commonplace for YC partners to invest in YC companies. And once that got up and running in 2015, that’s when I decided to spin out.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

We want to invest in early-stage technology enabled startup businesses – upfront in the funding cycle. In fact, 90% of our investments are either Seed or A-round investments (10% are B-round). We’re a national venture capital investment firm but with our roots firmly in Los Angeles.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 6, 2015

Withthe two venture backed IPOs though August 1, 2015, the trend shows no signs of abatement. First, the acquisition channels startups use to acquire customers address many more potential customers and enable far more cost effective marketing than twenty years ago. In 2014, a startup needed $54M.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 14, 2016

2015 is the end of an era, the era of startup growth at any cost. Inexpensive equity dollars enable capital-intensive companies to amass the warchest necessary to dethrone incumbents. To sustain these growth rates and reach the levels of market liquidity they have, startups like Uber and AirBnB require massive amounts of cash.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

The new round from Cowen Sustainable Investments (CSI), labeled a Series B, follows the company reaching profitability in April 2020 and gives Quip more than $160 million in total funding since the company was founded in 2015. The company showcased its service at TechCrunch Disrupt NY’s Startup Alley in 2015.

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Don Dodge

APRIL 6, 2015

Angel investing in tech startups is a gut wrenching and risky business. Most of them lose, but sometimes you invest in a “unicorn” and make 100 times your money or even more. But if you invest smartly, and spread your risk over a large portfolio, the winners will pay for all the losers and return a nice overall profit.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

As the name suggests, Urban Innovation Fund invests in companies building technology to shape the future of cities, while VMG targets commerce. The firm invests in companies working on issues of livability, sustainability or economic vitality and often have a lot of regulatory and political challenges. billion earlier this year.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 13, 2019

Using the proliferation of newly GPS-enabled mobile devices to enable taxi hailing and beat out stagnant incumbent providers was always going to be a big win for consumers. It provided a better service than existing cabs were going to be able to do for at least several years—cutting out lots of unnecessary overhead in the system.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

Investing internationally, the firm went from a de facto family office to a multi-LP VC firm. It lists Headmade Materials , LightForce Orthodontics and Conflux Technology among some of its marquee investments. The fact that portfolio company founders are now investing in our fund is great validation of our exceptional effort.

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Y Combinator

MAY 22, 2019

I’m excited to have Vidit Aatrey, CEO and co-founder of Meesho, which was founded in 2015, and you went through YC in 2016. Adora Cheung [02:13] – Most of these people, before Meesho existed, did they even have a business or most of them you have enabled them to even have a business in the first place?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

However, the pandemic has shown an increased need for investment and focus on solutions that work on human and planetary health. Starting in 2015, IndieBio has provided resources to founders solving complex challenges with biotech, from fake meat to sustainability. Bronson was immediately put to the test.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Previous backers 83North, Highland Europe, Goldman Sachs Growth Equity, EQT Ventures and Vintage Investment Partners also followed on. Since launching with 10 restaurants in its home city in 2015, five years on Wolt has expanded to 23 countries and 120 cities, mostly in Europe but also including Japan and Israel. “We

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