AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Data from the Global Sustainable Investment Alliance highlights a staggering 605% increase in Sustainably-Themed Investing in 2020 compared to 2016. For instance, South Korea’s Ministry of Economy and Finance, in collaboration with related agencies, introduced the K-ESG guidelines in 2021.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

million to fund product innovation and accelerate its growth in the markets that need board management tools the most. million in Series A-1 financing from existing investors led by Base10 Partners, VisionTech, and Collina Ventures and its new investor IU Ventures. The online board management portal announced that it closed $2.6

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 28, 2024

Boulevard Capital delivers fast funding to help salons, spas, barbershops, and medspas accelerate business growth LOS ANGELES – March 20, 2024 – Boulevard ( www.joinblvd.com ), provider of the client experience platform purpose-built for appointment-based, self-care businesses, today announced the launch of Boulevard Capital.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

There’s no question that we are in the middle of a long-running and accelerating venture bull market. Outliers — unusually large financings with high valuations relative to the company’s maturity — are as old as the industry itself. But these days, there are more of them, and the outliers are more extreme than ever before.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 6, 2016

The startup fundraising market in 2016 has been difficult to characterize. VCs invested about $2B in January and February 2016. Without a fixed definition of a seed round, this number can move as the market includes a greater or lesser number of financings in this colloquial term.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

500 Global, formerly branded under 500 Startups , has an accelerator that competes with YC. Unlike YC, 500 Global has geographic-specific accelerator programs, similar to Techstars, with focus on areas like Aichi, Japan, Cambodia, and Alberta, Canada. But the company, which was founded in 2016, has raised $2.4 The moonshots.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2023

Following his treatment, Choi and his doctor Tyler Rim, a vitreoretinal surgeon, founded Mediwhale in 2016. SBI Investment led the latest financing with new investor Woori Venture Partners and previous backers BNK Venture Capital, Innopolis Partners and IPS Ventures participating.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Revenue has grown “over 50x” since the company’s 2016 funding. Over time, B12’s model has evolved as the pandemic accelerated digital everything, including payments. The firm first invested in the company in 2016, leading its $12.4 .” Image Credits: B12. million funding round.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

This brings the company’s total financing to $54 million. The company will use the capital raised to accelerate product development. Launched in 2016, Chili Piper’s software for B2B revenue teams is designed to convert leads into attended meetings. How Atlanta’s Calendly turned a scheduling nightmare into a $3B startup.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

Kenya-based agritech Apollo Agriculture , which helps farmers access high-quality farm inputs, financing and markets, plans to double the number of farmers it is serving by the end 2022 and to introduce other products that deliver more value per acre of land. The agritech is scouting for growth opportunities in East and West Africa.

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A Smart Bear

JANUARY 4, 2018

This week we closed $250M in financing from Silver Lake , the premier technology private equity firm. Of course a nice chunk is primary capital, i.e. for the company balance sheet, to invest in growth initiatives, security and quality, and advancing our existing strategic priorities through acceleration and de-risking.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 23, 2023

In 2012, it surpassed Melbourne, Australia; in 2014, it surpassed Osaka, Japan, and Sydney, Australia; in 2016, it overtook Seoul, South Korea; and in 2018, for the first time, it outranked Tokyo, Japan. The hallmark of the festival resides in its prowess to beckon luminaries from finance, technology, academia, and governmental echelons.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Einride today announced a $500 million tranche of financing as it looks to expand its autonomous and electric trucks into new markets globally. Founded out of Stockholm in 2016, Einride initially developed a cab-less self-driving cargo truck that can also be controlled remotely by human operators if required.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

In 2016, Andrew Hoag, formerly a senior manager at Verisign and a web project lead at NASA’s Ames Research Center, founded Teampay , a platform that attempts to automate the software purchasing process for companies. Today, Teampay has hundreds of customers and significant venture capital financing behind it.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

Riverwood Capital, a Menlo Park-based private equity firm, and existing backer early-stage Argentina-based venture firm Kaszek also participated in the financing. The raise brings Digital House’s total funding raised to more than $80 million since its 2016 inception. How nontechnical talent can break into deep tech.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

This week, I covered Zeta, a new startup working on joint finances for modern couples. Here’s what I learned : The success of Zeta hinges on the idea that people want to share their finances in an ongoing and meaningful way, and that the world of finance is ready to shift from individualism to collectivism earlier and louder.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Collectively, these companies are looking to serve what is predicted to be a near-$1 billion industry within five years, a figure that could accelerate as food prices continue to rise and the impact of climate change becomes more widespread. Growth industry. based Better Origin is all about transforming food waste into insect feed.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

Founded in 2016, New York-based Petal offers two Visa credit card products aimed at underserved consumers with little to no credit history. Specifically, Petal offers “modern” Visa credit cards, along with a mobile app, designed to help people “responsibly” build credit and manage their finances. .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2021

Though the round was acquired before going into the accelerator program, the Belarus-based pair wanted to wait to publicly share the milestone. It was originally founded as CloudBusiness in 2016 and developed accounting automation and management of business finances for small and mid-size businesses.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 28, 2022

Growsari plans to leverage funding to accelerate its national expansion. Notable existing investors that joined this round of funding included the International Finance Corporation (IFC), KKR, which led the Series C round, and Pavilion Capital of the Temasek Group, along with almost all existing investors.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

” Kirzner founded Lightbits in 2016 to solve the perennial storage/compute utilization problem. Lightbits previously offered a custom-designed acceleration card to offload memory management and data transfer tasks from servers’ CPUs. As a result, the demand for Lightbits accelerated during the pandemic.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

The commitment is contained under the 24/7 Carbon-free Energy Compact , by leading energy buyers, suppliers, equipment manufacturers and governments, representing a global effort to accelerate the uptake of carbon-free electricity as a way of averting the perilous effects of climate change.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2021

TechCrunch also covered the company’s $51 million round back in 2016 and its $80 million raise from 2017.). Singh told TechCrunch that business at Druva is accelerating. Our coverage of the company’s 2016 round noted that the company could go public within a year.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. The Kauffman Foundation found 47% of US tech founders held degrees in STEM while 34% held degrees in business, finance, and accounting. 3) Accelerators. Right here. million in cash and prizes.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

The company generated a lot of hype after it announced in 2016 that it had developed a lidar that cost $250 or less (for reference, around the same time Velodyne was selling a lidar sensor for $75,000). Others include AEye, which will merge with CF Finance Acquisition Corp. Quanergy has had a bumpy road to the NYSE. billion valuation.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The funding round was also backed by existing investors including Blackbird Ventures, Main Sequence Ventures, Clean Energy Finance Corporation, Skip Capital, Uniseed, SpringCapital, Malcolm and Lucy Turnbull, and others. Since launch in 2016, Morse Micro has focused on long-range, low-power wireless connectivity.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

Ayele tells me that in one sense, Pariti is like an unbundled accelerator. In a typical accelerator, founders will need to go through an intense program where they are loaded with information on all the things a startup will likely need to know at some point in their growth. .” ” It doesn’t end there. ”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Then last November, Jiko revealed it was pivoting from that consumer-focused model and “accelerating its business-to-business strategy,” as reported by Banking Dive. million since its 2016 inception. And now the startup announced it has raised $40 million in a Series B funding round to help it meet demand.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

and Nigerian-based company is announcing a financing round of $3.15 RxAll was founded in 2016 by Adebayo Alonge , Amy Kao and Wei Lui. So far, RxAll has stayed alive by winning grants and prize monies at competitions, with some equity financing from the likes of Africa-focused accelerator Founders Factory Africa.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2022

“Our investors recognize the significant opportunity in front of us due to companies’ accelerated spending on SaaS subscriptions, costly renewals and lack of visibility across the enterprise,” Christopher said. full disclosure: TechCrunch’s parent company).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

Before becoming a VC firm, Savannah Fund started as an accelerator program in Kenya. However , in 2016, Savannah transitioned into venture capital investing, focusing on seed and Series A stages within $25,000 to $500,000 checks. Startups who got accepted participated in cohorts for three months and received up to $30,000 in funding.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

When it comes to financing a startup, the most important — and hardest — check to land is the very first one. ” We’ll walk through her theses, which range from future work and edtech, and double-click into what she needs to see in terms of metrics and product upon first pitch.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

The San Francisco-based operations execution company raised $27 million in Series C financing, led by Golub Capital, to continue developing its application to automate operation procedures like tracking food safety, public health protocols and changing market conditions.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

Founded out of London in 2016, Jiminny offers companies the technology to gain insights into how well their sales or customer support teams are engaging with their clients across voice, video, email, and messaging. recently securing $125 million in financing , while Gong hit a $7.25 million in a series A round of funding. ”

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

“My work with startups and the ecosystem began in 2016 when I founded Startupmedia to help startups and the ecosystem tell their stories and school myself in starting/scaling businesses. This gave me a front-row seat to the world of tech/innovation, and I began making some personal angel investments along the way.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Flux also went through the Techstars-powered Barclays accelerator in its very early days. However, not all corporate accelerators lead to great outcomes as corporates are notoriously risk-adverse.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

million that was raised in a seed round led by Brick & Mortar Ventures and First Round Capital – to advance on its effort to “reimagine construction finance.” Accel and Lightrock India co-led the Bengaluru-headquartered startup’s Series C financing round, reports Manish Singh, our man on the ground in the country. Love to see it!

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