Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

From 2003-2022 the River Valley Investors operated as a traditional angel group, investing in nearly 100 startups. Ignitepost IgnitePOST is a service that enables sales & marketing teams to boost conversion rates by 15X. Launch413 takes startups to their first $10 million in revenue while providing early returns to investors.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Indian startup FreshToHome, which sells fresh fish and meat to consumers in the South Asian market and the Middle East region, has courted a new backer: Amazon. Amazon, through its India-focused Smbhav Venture Fund , has led a $104 million Series D financing round in the Bengaluru-headquartered startup, the two said Tuesday.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 11, 2023

Register Vietnamese edtech startup MindX has announced raising $15 million in a series B funding round, led by education-focused private equity fund Kaizenvest, to continue its mission of nurturing and empowering Vietnamese innovators through technology.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

Sendy , a Kenyan logistics startup that enabled retailers to purchase FMCGs directly from manufacturers, among other services, is shutting down its operations and exploring a sale of its assets, TechCrunch has learned. Kenyan logistics startup Sendy raises $20M round backed by Toyota Furthermore, the pool of potential buyers is small.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Nigerian mobility tech startup Metro Africa Xpress Inc. ( The startup told TechCrunch that it will use the funding to enter Ghana and Egypt by the end of the first quarter of 2022, and other additional markets in Francophone, East and Southern Africa by the close of the same year. Chinedu Azodoh is the startup’s other co-founder.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

A number of major vendors provide private cellular network services, including AT&T and T-Mobile, as do some startups, including Celona, Anterix and Airspan Networks. ” Co-founded in 2015 by Terje Strand, Ryley MacKenzie and Brian Baird, with Anderson coming onboard in 2020, Expeto doesn’t sell cell service.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

In 2015, there were approximately 3.5 The challenge was the driving force behind Ordr, a startup focused on network-level device security. The startup’s system, which deploys on top of existing infrastructure, uses machine learning algorithms to build a baseline understanding of devices’ behavior and flag suspicious events.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

the free YC Startup School courses). Finally, the talent pool for tech startups has broadened immensely. Factors such as remote work, offshore development, and the steadily growing labor pool of software engineers have enabled startups to hire additional engineering talent, adding yet another catalyst to this vibrant ecosystem.

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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

OCTOBER 6, 2021

In one of the latest developments, Bisu — a Tokyo-headquartered healthcare startup that has built a lab-grade testing device that can be used at home for diagnostics that translate into actionable health data — has raised $3.2 Bisu was founded in 2015 and started business in 2017 when it entered the HAX accelerator program.

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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. He has a deep history of investing in deep tech startups that have gone on to disrupt industries across AI, data, semiconductors, among others.” After emerging from stealth in 2019, Sima.ai

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Two at the forefront are David Friend and Jeff Flowers, who co-founded Wasabi, a cloud startup offering services competitive with Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3). Wasabi launched just a few years ago, in 2015. That’s up from 30% in 2015, the year the analytics firm began tracking the trend.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

But his South Korea–headquartered startup aims to digitize the laundry industry in the country. 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. The outfit also operates laundromats and smart factories to handle washing and drying clothes.

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Feedough

MARCH 18, 2021

Advertisement Uizard – Startup Review By Feedough. The tool enables decision-makers, managers, engineering teams, and business analysts to quickly and effortlessly create interactive prototypes for web and mobile apps without all the noise and complexity of traditional design software. Here are her thoughts on the startup –.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Spain’s government has agreed on the details of a draft startup law — passing the baton to the parliament to debate and potentially amend the plan ahead of a vote to turn it into actual law. Startups will also be able to use an online portal to make business declarations and access benefits, per the release.

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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2022

billion JPY) since its inception in 2015. . The startup will use the proceeds to double its headcount and bolster product growth, Shinichi Takatori , chief executive officer of Kyash, told TechCrunch. . According to a report by Nikkei , this marks Block’s first investment in an Asia-based company. million (12.8

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

Thepeer , an African tech infrastructure startup connecting businesses’ wallets, has raised a $2.1 The news comes a year after the startup raised $220,000 in pre-seed from a handful of angel investors, including Paystack CTO Ezra Olubi and Edenlife CTO Prosper Otemuyiwa. million seed round led by the Raba Partnership.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

Novoloop , a plastic upcycling startup, said Wednesday it has raised a $10 million Series A extension round co-led by South Korean chemical firm Hanwha Solutions and Taizo Son’s Mistletoe. The startup says the investors of Series A are in the decarbonizing energy, textiles, construction and other industries across Europe, Asia and the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2023

Kurly , a South Korean startup that provides next-day grocery delivery service, just announced that it has called off its plan to go public amid worsening economic situations that have put startups’ market debuts on hold. The startup passed the preliminary listing screening on August 22, 2022.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

A Seoul-based proptech startup called Rsquare built a data-driven platform to digitize the process, enabling tenants to compare multiple properties and find an office. Rsquare has invested in a Vietnamese proptech startup Propzy in 2020 and an Indonesian proptech company Mamikos in 2019.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Funding of women-founded startups remains significantly lower than those that are gender-mixed While women entrepreneurs are making significant strides in startup formation, they continue to struggle to gain access to funding on par with men. venture firms allocated only 22% of their deals to female-founded startups.

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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

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Getsafe , the digital-first insurance startup that initially launched with an app for home contents insurance, has closed $30 million in Series B funding. Getsafe has raised a total of $53 million to date since being founded in May 2015. Swiss Re, the reinsurer giant, led the round.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Fusion will also enable Carro to easily embed and control insurance journeys for customers. Founded in 2015, Carro is Southeast Asia’s largest used car marketplace. This journey is now available for Carro in Singapore and Malaysia.

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Startup Catalyst

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Why QUT and Startup Catalyst have stayed friends. QUT has been a supporter of Startup Catalyst for four years. It was just quite extraordinary to give students the opportunity to go to Silicon Valley, see what’s happening in firms, and to do a startup weekend in the middle. It’s not all startups! Where are they now?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

The maker of a smart home fitness trainer experienced an explosive increase in sales, and now the six-year-old San Francisco-based startup is gearing up for its next stage of growth. Tonal is adding $250 million of new funding in a Series E round valuing the startup at $1.6 The Tonal EC-1. to meet demand.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

Zeals , a Tokyo-based startup that lets businesses communicate with their customers via its chat application, said Thursday it has secured $27.2 Founder and CEO of Zeals Masahiro Shimizu pointed out that the startup has communication designers using its internal no-code bot builder to customize its service for users. million (3.5

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

The startup is announcing the acquisition of Morocco-based B2B e-commerce and distribution platform WaystoCap for an undisclosed amount. Niama El Bassunie co-founded WaystoCap with Mehdi Daoui, Anis Abdeddine and Aziz Jaouhari Tissafi in 2015. MaxAB, the Egyptian B2B food and grocery delivery startup, raises $40M for expansion.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Private equity firm Vista Equity Partners announced today that it is taking a majority stake in Drift , a company which aims to be the Amazon of businesses, with a “growth investment” that propels the venture-backed startup to unicorn status. The startup says it is out to ”reimagine the B2B buying experience,” according to Cancel.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

I am sure many of you recall Facebook shutting down its API access back in 2015, or the uproar Apple caused when it decided to change the commission it was charging app developers in 2020. Varo , one of the fastest-growing neobanks, started in 2015 with the principle that a bank could put customers’ interests first and be profitable.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Since its launch in 2015, FreshToHome currently operates in 160+ cities in India and the UAE as it offers more than 2,000 certified fresh and chemical-free products. The post FreshToHome nets $104m in Series D led by Amazon Smbhav Venture Fund first appeared on AsiaTechDaily - Asia's Leading Tech and Startup Media Platform.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

InfoSum, a London-based startup that provides a decentralized platform for secure data sharing between organizations, has secured a $65 million Series B funding round led by Chrysalis Investments. It helps organizations alleviate security concerns, according to the startup, and is compliant with all current privacy laws, including GDPR.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 18, 2023

The company offer of a one-stop payment infrastructure that enables businesses to scale rapidly. In addition to this, the firm also offers facilities that enable the disbursement of funds to banks, eWallets and cards 24/7. The firm enables businesses to accept payments, disburse payroll, run marketplaces and more.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

based distributed, spatial computing startup that’s setting out to build the infrastructure for the burgeoning metaverse, has closed a $30 million seres A round of funding from a high-profile cast of investors including Epic Games and Tencent. Hadean , a U.K.-based

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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.

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TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2022

European insurance tech startup Wefox has raised $400 million in a series D round of funding, giving the German company a post-money valuation of $4.5 “Our model enables Wefox to drive a superior financial profile which puts us on a clear path to profitability.” ” Customer acquisition.

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