AsiaTechDaily

MAY 2, 2022

K-Startup Grand Challenge launched in 2016 In April 2016, the K-Startup Grand Challenge (KSGC) was started. The program is supported by the National IT Industry Promotion Agency (NIPA) and is a leading program funded by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups. were chosen from the pool of applications.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

Founded in 2016, Terra Drone develops drone software, hardware and uncrewed aircraft system traffic management solutions. The firm acquired a Netherlands-based drone company, Terra Inspectioneering , in 2018 and invested in Belgium’s drone company Unifly in 2016. . million Series A in February 2021. . and Southeast Asia.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Flip , an Indonesia-based fintech startup, announced today it has raised $48 million in a Series B to accelerate its growth. Flip is Insight Partners’ first investment in Indonesia. . Indonesian savings and investment app Pluang gets $20M in pre-Series B funding. The funding brings Flip’s total capital raised to $65million. .

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A Smart Bear

JANUARY 4, 2018

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. The majority of the funds pay back our early investors who believed in us enough to trust us with their money.

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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. Besides the 3.5-month

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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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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Their heightened interest is reflected not just in their demand for ESG reports but also in surging investment volumes. Data from the Global Sustainable Investment Alliance highlights a staggering 605% increase in Sustainably-Themed Investing in 2020 compared to 2016.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 18, 2023

The funding was led by Real Tech Holdings, a prominent Japanese Venture Capital firm, with the participation of corporate investors, including Mitsubishi Electric, Seeds Capital, Wavemaker Partners, New Keynes Investments, and the State Government of Victoria in Australia. Hydroleap was founded in 2016 by Mohammad Sherafatmand, a Ph.D.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Today, one of the more promising hopefuls building an investing service in the UK is announcing a significant growth round after seeing a surge of attention this year in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. Unlike the investors on its platform, this Series B is coming from a list of big-name strategic players and VCs. and globally.”.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

Terra Drone said today it has raised $14 million in Series C funding from Wa’ed Ventures , the venture capital arm of Saudi Aramco , marking the VC firm’s first investment in Asia. It declined to comment on its post-money valuation.

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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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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

How can you get free money and other support for your business idea? . We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. You could also live in a local “hacker house” for community support, e.g., Edyfi , The Garden , or Womxn Ignite. Right here.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

UVeye’s automated vehicle inspection technology may have started out as a system to detect security threats , but the six-year-old Israeli startup has found deep interest and investment from the automotive sector. Since its founding in 2016, the company has raised $200 million in investment capital. Ventures L.P.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

It’s not a tech company this time — Awoyemi co-founded online jobs site Jobberman (which was acquired by ROAM Africa in 2016) and Whogohost, a bootstrapped hosting platform — but instead, a venture studio: Fast Forward Venture Studio. “First, we’re more hands-on than funds and incubators or accelerators.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 6, 2016

The startup fundraising market in 2016 has been difficult to characterize. This posts analyses US headquartered information technology companies which VC-led investment rounds, except for the $793M Series C in Magic Leap , which I excluded as an outlier. VCs invested about $2B in January and February 2016.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The round was led by Zoom and Cisco Investments. In total, Austin-based Mio, which was founded in 2016 and participated in the Y Combinator Winter 2016 class, has now raised $17 million. million Series A funding round. Image Credits: Mio. Image Credits: Mio. ”

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

with co-investment from OSF Ventures, Sony Innovation Fund, and Dreampact Ventures. We are grateful for strong investor support and our team’s dedication. The grant reported in this press release is supported by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) of the NIH under Award Number 2 R44 DC17422-02.

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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. A lot of things can happen in China because of government support, but not necessarily elsewhere. Hongquan Jiang.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

InnovaFeed , a vertical insect farm operator that’s rearing insects for animal and plant nutrition, has raised $250 million in a series D round of funding led by Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund. To support this push into the U.S. Growth industry. InnovaFeed at work. Image Credits: InnovaFeed.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 3, 2023

To date, the Group has raised over $700 million and secured over $1 billion in capital to support its credit book. “This new investment will help accelerate our program of using AI technology to streamline consumer transactions and enable greater and fairer access to credit and financial products and services.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

According to Crunchbase, firms have invested more than $1 billion in legal tech companies, an uptick from the $512 million invested last year. “At a time of macroeconomic challenges, companies need a solution that accelerates key business processes,” Sangha told TechCrunch in an email interview.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 31, 2022

Register Today, May 31, 2022, Tuesday, is the last day for startups to apply for the biggest accelerator program, sponsored by the Korean government – K-Startup Grand Challenge (KSGC) 2022. The program, which is also supported by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups (MSS), is organised by the National IT Industry Promotion Agency (NIPA).

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. We’re currently evaluating about 20 companies a month and issuing term sheets to 25% of them; those that fit our investment criteria. Investment Criteria: B2B SaaS or tech-enabled services with proven, recurring contracts.

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Dream It

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The startup will use the funding to enhance product capabilities and accelerate sales growth with key hires. The healthcare industry veteran, worked on the company’s original development team in 2016. With that momentum, TrekIT Health was able to secure foundational investment from Ben Franklin Technology Partners last year.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The round was led by Tiger Global with participation from returning investors Sequoia Capital India & Southeast Asia, and new investors DST Global Partners and Shopify (marking the e-commerce platform’s first venture investment in a startup operating in the Southeast Asia region). WATI’s last round of funding was an $8.3

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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. Image Credits: Husk Power Systems.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

Launched in 2016, the startup works with a network of agents, who recruit farmers and retailers to its platform. Since the close of a $6 million series A in 2020 , Pollak said Apollo has grown 10 times, accelerated by product financing. And so that’ll be both continued expansion across Kenya but also expansion into new markets.”.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

a Chinese blank-check firm affiliated with the country’s largest state-owned investment conglomerate. After closing, the transaction will inject the lidar company with around $278 million in pro forma net cash, including $40 million in private investment in public equity (PIPE) funding. Quanergy has had a bumpy road to the NYSE.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 18, 2022

Register South Korea’s leading accelerator program K-Startup Grand Challenge (KSGC) , considered ‘a gateway’ to do business in Asia, invites global startups to participate. Strong Government Support: The Korean government is constantly improving the country’s infrastructure. trillion won (US$6.4

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 29, 2023

Register Gitai, a Tokyo-based startup, has recently closed a 4 billion yen funding round to accelerate the development of its remotely-controlled robots for space exploration. Gitai, a startup founded in 2016, has been at the forefront of developing robots specifically designed for space exploration.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Andy Stinnes , general partner at Cloud Apps Capital Partners , leads early-stage investments in cloud businesses and serves as active board member and adviser, offering operational support for portfolio companies based on his 20+ years in executive roles in business software. Andy Stinnes. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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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. What’s their focus?

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 25, 2022

The biggest accelerator program, sponsored by the Korean government, supported by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups (MSS), and organized by the National IT Industry Promotion Agency (NIPA), will be held for 3.5 billion) invested by the South Korean government. Guidance & assistance by top Korean accelerators During the 3.5-month

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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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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 30, 2022

The new funding will support Seedbox’s rapid growth and allow the company to scale its operations with investments in upgrading its technology platform, enhancing its product suite, and expanding its team, according to the announcement.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

It will focus on deepening its offerings, including the design of new solutions, while accelerating the go-to-market strategy for its existing Wi-Fi HaLow chips and modules. Since launch in 2016, Morse Micro has focused on long-range, low-power wireless connectivity.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2021

. “As we get closer to a post-pandemic world, the need to create hybrid event experiences is going to quickly accelerate as people start venturing out to attend physical events. Socio was founded in 2016 and raised around $7 million in investment capital, according to Crunchbase data.

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