TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Aiven , a Finnish startup that helps companies combine various open source technologies with public cloud infrastructure resources, announced a $60 million investment on a $2 billion valuation today. The news follows a $100 million investment in March at an $800 million valuation, a hefty increase in such a short time.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 13, 2015

Earlier this week, we examined the trends in the major categories of startup investment including eCommerce, Software, Social Networking and Education. Where are founders finding unique opportunities to innovate? The rest of the list controverts the notion that startups and investors pursue only incremental innovations.

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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

MAY 18, 2023

LTD , one of the largest security integration companies in the world, according to Forbes Global 2000 , has made a primary equity investment of $192 million in the two companies, $100M in Eagle Eye Networks and $92M in Brivo. The SECOM investment underscores that cloud and AI are the future of physical security,” said Drako.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 28, 2024

She advances that research and analysis have shown that “investing in women and girls benefits everyone”. French Gates executes her vision through Pivo tal which she established in 2015 to fund and advance social progress through venture capital investments, philanthropic grantmaking, advocacy funding, and partnerships.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 25, 2024

TravelPerk continues to innovate, integrating AI across the product stack to deliver a world-class experience for customers and travelers. We are excited to partner with TravelPerk and support the next stage of growth,” stated Stephen Thorne, Investment Director for SoftBank Investment Advisers.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 6, 2023

This strategic move reflects the growing recognition of Investree’s innovative lending platform, which has earned the trust and support of notable investors in the region. After this substantial investment, Investree and JTA International Holding have swiftly established a collaborative venture called JTA Investree Doha Consultancy.

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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. “We

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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. As part of this, he is a trainer for the Ann & Bill Payne’s ACA Angel University, including the Fundamentals of Angel Investing and Risks courses.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Incubators such as the one Zappos’ CEO Tony Hsieh started a few years ago are also a great way to jump-start your innovative ideas, receive mentoring, network, etc. The city made major strides in 2015, and with oil and gas investors looking to profit elsewhere, more money will be flowing into the area’s startups in 2016.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

WINTER For starters when we conducted our annual VC & LP survey in December of 2016 to prepare our annual Upfront State of the VC Industry report we found that twice as many VCs cut their investments in 2016 relative to 2015 with > 30% of VCs having cut investments. On stark graph should give you a sense of the picture.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

billion, about four times more than they did in 2015. This begs the question: Who exactly is investing in Southeast Asia? Alibaba has backed Akulaku, M-Pay (eMonkey), DANA, Wave Money and Mynt (GCash), while Tencent has invested in Voyager Innovations (PayMaya), SHAREit, iflix, Ookbee and Sanook. Venture capitalists.

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Revolution

JUNE 15, 2023

CAVA’s founders had a vision to bring heritage, heart, health, and innovation to the fast-casual sector. Our partnership with CAVA began in 2015, when the Mediterranean fast-casual chain had just a dozen locations in D.C., Balancing discipline with innovation: Running a restaurant is hard. Maryland, and Virginia.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

Partners Investment and Murex Partners co-led the new funding, with participation from Smilegate Investment, Quantum Ventures Korea , ABC Partners , Everrich Group, GS Group’s corporate venture capital firm GS Futures , We Ventures, Base Investment and Dunamu & Partners. AmazeVR has raised a total of $30.8

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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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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

The funding round closed with $104M in fresh investments for the world’s largest and fully integrated online consumer brand for preservative and antibiotic-residue free fresh fish and meat. Shan Kadavil, CEO & Co-founder, FreshToHome, said that they are very excited to have Amazon Smbhav Venture Fund lead Series D.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2021

Lynk announced today that its “knowledge-as-a-service” platform will be integrated into UBS ’ investment process. The startup has offices in New York, Hong Kong, Singapore, Mumbai, Shanghai and Toronto, and serves about 200 enterprise clients, including Fortune 500 corporations, investment firms and government agencies.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Valour, a Zug, Switzerland-based issuer of investment products, brought in Biggs, the former Private Banking Global Head of Innovation for HSBC, as CEO after recently launching Bitcoin Zero , a fee-free, digital asset ETP product that trades on the NGM stock exchange. Tesla buys $1.5B

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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

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. This funding will allow the Kenyan-based company to expand its business into Rwanda, DRC and Tanzania.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2015

As a user a felt immediately frustrated by this move and said so, in stead wishing that Twitter would win based on innovation. Mark Suster (@msuster) March 14, 2015. Hunter Walk (@hunterwalk) March 14, 2015. Josh Elman (@joshelman) March 14, 2015. Josh Elman (@joshelman) March 14, 2015. Exciting time.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. I believe that Revenue-Based Investing (“RBI”) VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem.

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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. The round was led by Oxford Science Enterprises, and saw Navenio’s existing investors, including G.K.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Limited Partners (LPs) who invest in VC funds have continued to pour money into venture – with the market returning to pre-recession levels. Don’t be fooled by the slight dip in 2015 – the size of funds & timing of deals in market in any year can skew the data set. Some Likely Conclusions.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 11, 2022

The seed round was led by Go-Ventures and Kreasi Terbarukan TBS, the investment arm of energy companies Toba Bara Sejahtera. Fairatmos, a Jakarta-based firm, plans to use the new investments to strengthen its platform by providing new digital innovations in the carbon market and outreach to more communities and project developers.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

The round was led by Faering Capital and Premji Invest. Founded by three IIT Kharagpur graduates in July 2015, Smallcase offers a platform to help introduce a new generation of investors to the Indian equity markets. It says a user can start making their investments in just two clicks after signing up for the service.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

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. New Jersey no doubt has a vested interest in welcoming hardware startups with open arms.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

5 investors discuss Boston’s resilient tech ecosystem Boston’s university-to-startup pipeline defies downturn to grow and diversify In order to build a startup culture, a city or region needs some key elements in place – like an innovation engine to drive startup ideas. It also has a long history of innovation and a rich tech legacy.

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Andreessen Horowitz

JANUARY 23, 2024

I’ve developed my own method of investing and have learned to trust my insights even when they aren’t obvious. I could not sleep and found their approach to solving the climate crisis as innovative, commercial, and most importantly, inevitable. Jeff Jordan, my coach who shared his hard earned operating and investing insights with me.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Airwallex is truly on the forefront of driving innovation and change in the digital economy. Jack Zhang, the co-founder and CEO of Airwallex, said that their investment in building a senior leadership team demonstrates their continued confidence and commitment to grow their business in APAC and globally.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Founded in 2015, Freshly is a New York City-based startup that offers healthy meals delivered to your home in weekly orders, which can then be prepared in a few minutes in your microwave or oven. Nestlé USA just announced that it has acquired Freshly for $1.5 food market and further positions Nestlé to win in the future.”

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 28, 2015

In response last week’s post on The Fastest Growing Areas of Startup Investment in 2015 , in which Bitcoin topped the list, I received many questions about the underlying dynamics of this startup segment. Using Crunchbase data, I analyzed BTC investment patterns over the past 4 years. Which regions? Which stages?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Drugstoc was founded in 2015 by Opara and Yehia, but its history dates back to 2010 when the duo founded Integra Health, a hospital management company based on Yehia’s master’s degree project. In response, the co-founders created and piloted a tech-based platform in 2015 linking manufacturers with distributors.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

Existing backer Redpoint eventures , which first put money in Olist in 2015, also participated in the latest round. With this latest infusion, Olist has now raised more than $126 million since its 2015 inception. This round is reportedly its last before the company plans to go public, according to Bloomberg.

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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. The company, which was formerly known as Allied Control Limited, restructured as a commercial operating company headquartered in the Netherlands with commercial operations in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

Sennder’s new investment will mean it can expand in European markets. Since its founding in 2015 by David Nothacker, Julius Köhler and Nicolaus Schefenacker, the company has grown to 800 employees and seven international offices. .” Digital freight forwarder Forto raises another $50M in round led by Inven Capital.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The strategic investments comes as Applied EVE seeks to accelerate its software development for next generation mobility. The recent investment is another step to strengthen the relationship between the two companies and realise synergies like manufacturing and new business models.

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