AsiaTechDaily

MAY 9, 2022

Register South Korea’s largest accelerator program for foreign startups, K-Startup Grand Challenge (KSGC) , is accepting applications for its 2022 edition. The KSGC program, launched in 2016, supports international startups that want to enter the Korean market and further explore the Asian region. Manufacturing in Asia is huge.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The whole area was accelerated during the pandemic, when many property viewings migrated from physical to virtual, and this trend has continued to tick upward. It’s now raised $16 million in new funds led by Founders Fund, the San Francisco-based VC, whose portfolio boasts names such as Airbnb, Spotify and SpaceX.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

Our airspace is going to get more crowded than ever, but most companies today are concentrating only on hardware development,” said Terra Drone CEO and founder Toru Tokushige , who is also serving as the CEO of Terra Motors, which develops electric vehicles.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

It’s a known fact that the number of venture dollars flowing to Black and Latinx founders is dismally low. 31, Black and Latinx founders had raised $2.3 billion in funding that had gone to all founders up until that point in 2020. . Venture firms rush to find ways to support Black founders and investors.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

The city has undergone infrastructure improvements over the past two decades, tourism has boomed thanks to attractions such as the shipyard where the RMS Titanic was built and Game of Thrones shooting locations, and employment has risen steadily in the city since 2016, according to Northen Ireland’s Department for the Economy.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Building Legacies Out of Movements), an accelerator program for social entrepreneurs of color. Through knowledge sharing and funding, the program cultivates a thriving ecosystem for changemakers to accelerate impact and deliver initiatives at the intersection of sport, equity and creativity for Black and Latinx communities. .

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 10, 2023

Possibly the co-founders of Taktile, Dr. Maximilian Eber and Maik Taro Wehmeyer know. Their two plus year old startup just raised $20 million in funding and set up an advisory board comprised of eight unicorn founders and executives. First, both co-founders have an expertise in machine learning and data science and worked at QuantCo.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

. “This problem is especially acute in Africa because it’s particularly nascent, but this platform is designed for founders across emerging markets. Ayele tells me that in one sense, Pariti is like an unbundled accelerator. When a founder joins Pariti, they run their company through an assessment tool.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Should you try to get your startup into an accelerator program? Neal has seen this industry from just about every angle — as a teacher, advisor, investor and repeat co-founder. How do you make the right impression on the application?

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TechCrunch

MAY 27, 2021

has raised a $7 million round to accelerate its hiring cadence, and built out the go-to-market model for its its engineering and developer-focused hiring service, it recently announced. Boston-based Filtered.ai Filtered later split from the consulting group in 2019, signing a term sheet to raise capital in March of 2020.

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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. There were an average of 35 “megadeals” (with over $100 million raised) per month from 2016 to 2019, according to Crunchbase. And all that is indeed happening. In 2021, that number stands at 126 per month.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

This is where artificial intelligence and voice technology have presented an opportunity for enterprises to overcome the challenges of scale and engagement at their customer contact centers,” co-founder and CEO Skit Sourabh Gupta told TechCrunch. Its product VIVA covers more than 16 languages and 160 dialects.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The First Cheque program plans to leverage the expertise of experienced founders from Jungle Ventures’ current and former portfolio startups. The firm secured $100 million for its second fund in 2016 and then raised $240 million for its third fund in 2019. billion in follow-on capital raised.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

Amazon’s first foray into the world of accelerator programs, designed to help early-stage startups build and launch, was focused on conversational AI back in 2016. Now, seven years later, Amazon has another AI accelerator – this time led by Amazon Web Services with a focus on the newest zeitgeist: generative artificial intelligence.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Image Credits: Co-founders Gloria Lin and Joel Poloney / Bonnie Rae Mills Photography. Last week I wrote about two startups that had female co-founders and CEOs and I was so impressed with them both. This is also at least the fourth construction tech company I’ve written about in the past year with a female co-founder.

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Revolution

JANUARY 19, 2021

2021: The Great Acceleration of the Rise of the Rest & the End of “Silicon X Syndrome.” But from the back half of 2020 into 2021, we are bearing witness to accelerated adoption and transformational change in industry after industry. One characteristic I have discovered and tracked with fascination since 2016?—?in

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HPA

MARCH 3, 2022

HPA has been an investor in Catalytic since the Series Seed investment in 2016. This definitive agreement to acquire Catalytic will enable PagerDuty to take its automation capabilities to the next level by accelerating the delivery of enterprise-wide process automation.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Sopoong , a social impact-focused VC, intends to support environmentally minded tech founders in South Korea and Southeast Asia, while building a bridge between Korean conglomerates and startups in the sector. On top of the accelerator, the firm also launched a six-month fellowship program to foster climate tech entrepreneurship.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

But WaveOne’s website was shut down around January, and several former employees , including one of WaveOne’s co-founders , now work within Apple’s various machine learning groups. Apple wouldn’t confirm the sale when asked for comment.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

Catalyst Fund , a global accelerator managed by BFA Global , announced the 8th cohort for its Inclusive Fintech Program today. The accelerator, backed by the JP Morgan Chase and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, runs the flagship program annually. In 2020, all five countries had representatives in the accelerator.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Opeyemi Awoyemi , one of Nigeria’s well-known serial founders, is back with another outfit. Awoyemi choosing this route is quite interesting, especially as many African founders either launch syndicates or venture capital funds post- or during their entrepreneurial journies. Fast Forward acts as the company’s co-founder.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

4-year founder vesting is dead. In 2020, all the long-term trends forcing change in this sector continued and even accelerated. Among them, millennials decamped from their rentals in crowded cities to accelerate their first home purchases to the benefit of proptech companies and challenger mortgage players alike. Dana Stalder.

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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

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

500 Global, formerly branded under 500 Startups , has an accelerator that competes with YC. Both outfits look to back early-stage founders with money and advice in exchange for equity. YC has backed over 3,500 founders, while 500 Global has backed more than 2,800 founders, according to each institution’s websites.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 3, 2023

Jefferson Chen, Co-Founder, Group Chairman and CEO of Advance Intelligence Group, highlighted the company’s progress in advancing the digital ecosystem across the region since its 2021 raise. Atome continues to solidify its regional leadership, while ADVANCE.AI evolves into an end-to-end risk management platform.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

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. Nicolas Vandenberghe, CEO, and co-founder of Chili Piper said: “When we started we sold the house and decided to grow the company ourselves.

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Jason Malki

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Leadership Transformation: David Ghodsizadeh’s Journey to Empower Technical Professionals Through Storytelling I had the pleasure of interviewing David Ghodsizadeh, the founder of Storytelling 4 Success , who is empowering technical professionals to unlock their full potential through leadership storytelling. The driving force?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

The raise brings Digital House’s total funding raised to more than $80 million since its 2016 inception. Nelson Duboscq, CEO and co-founder of Digital House, said that accelerating demand for tech talent in Latin America has fueled demand for the startup’s online courses. Digital House CEO and co-founder Nelson Duboscq.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

B12 co-founder and CEO Nitesh Banta is a former investor at General Catalyst — having worked at the firm from 2010 to 2015. 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. ” Image Credits: B12.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

Launched in 2016, the company is primarily focused on computer vision software for robotics in logistics and warehouse settings — clearly a hot category as more companies look to automate their back end. The company plans to use the funding to expand operations internationally to keep up with the accelerated demand for robotics.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Meanwhile, XM Cyber CEO and co-founder Noam Erez sees the advantages of being part of a large corporation, even if it lacks a technology focus. “For XM Cyber customers, this means that with the financial backing of Schwarz, we will be able to accelerate product innovation, scale and extend our global reach.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 20, 2019

Many are reporting that they’re seeing a more diverse pool of applicants than traditional equity VCs… even though virtually none have a particular focus on women or underrepresented founders. For more background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A new option for founders who care about control.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

China’s autonomous vehicle industry first started seeing some traction around 2016, when a bunch of ambitious startups mushroomed following advances in lidar, computing and machine learning. Regardless, these founders’ ambitions kept them on the path, and the industry is finally seeing a resurgence in China. Hongquan Jiang.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

According to local media reports , Bielefeld’s has experienced a tech boom in recent years, with accelerators like the local Founders Foundation (backed by the Bertelsmann Foundation) and Garage 33 (at the University of Paderborn) attracting a new wave of young company founders to the East Westphalia-Lippe region.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Founded in 2016, navigation is at the heart of what London-based SLAMcore does. There’s also been a fair amount of financial interest in the firm, as the pandemic has radically accelerated the adoption of robotics and automation over the last couple of years. Today it’s announcing a $16 million Series A.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Co-founder and CEO Gary Sangha says that the proceeds will be put toward fueling the expansion of LexCheck’s contract review tech, specifically focusing on R&D and sales and marketing. “I founded LexCheck to increase revenue by simplifying and accelerating commercial contracting processes across an entire organization.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

That compares to revenue of $100 million in 2016. Offerpad also says it has had “positive per-home contribution margins” since 2016. . Offerpad says that by partnering with Supernova to become a public company, it expects it will be able “to accelerate its growth to capture more” of the market. billion in 2020.

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