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

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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David Teten VC

AUGUST 20, 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. In addition, their portfolios look far more diverse than VC industry norms. Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

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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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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

So you’re interested in raising capital from a Revenue-Based Investor VC. Which VCs are comfortable using this approach? This structure offers some of the benefits of traditional equity VC, without some of the negatives of equity VC. Investment Criteria: B2B SaaS or tech-enabled services with proven, recurring contracts.

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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

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. On top of that, InnovaFood creates organic fertilizers out of insect poop to boost plant and crop growth.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The event has accelerated the use of telemedicine, virtual care, and drug delivery, thus fuelling investor interest in the sector. Investment has also trickled down to Africa, with large checks going into growth-stage startups. The company was founded in 2016 by Femi Kuti , Opeyemi Olumekun and Matthew Mayaki.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

Existing investors Base10 Partners and Gradient Ventures (Google’s AI-focused VC) also participated. 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.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 4, 2022

It’s 2022 and already local VCs, angel investors, startup founders, incubators and accelerators, and more are pushing hard to make their startups go. It’s a VC-backed startup whose mission is to connect people looking to hire in-home chore, help from local young people ready to serve. WJR Business Beat Transcript.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

This morning marked the kickoff of VC firm 500 Global’s Fall 2022 Demo Day, which saw over a dozen startups give their best pitches to prospective investors — and customers. 500 Global, formerly branded under 500 Startups , has an accelerator that competes with YC. But the company, which was founded in 2016, has raised $2.4

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2021

Indy VC firm Sixty8 Capital launches $20M fund aimed at underrepresented founders. “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. Slido allows for every voice to be heard — even when you’re not talking.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2022

As a later-stage company, Bucketplace will use the new injection of funding to accelerate its growth in South Korea and enter into new markets, such as Japan, Southeast Asia and the U.S., When the app launched in 2016, interior designers and home improvement hobbyists could post photos of their homes to share their remodeling experiences.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 24, 2019

Written for EO by Manny Padda an entrepreneur, angel investor and philanthropist who won the 2016 Canadian Angel of the Year Award. How do you compete against those VC-backed behemoths in Silicon Valley? Join an international accelerator or entrepreneur group. How do you find investors and partners abroad?

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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. Its startup ecosystem is active and well designed, attracting the attention of investors, accelerators, and incubators worldwide.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

” Axio was co-founded in 2016 by Kannry and Dave White, who say they were inspired by the difficulty companies often have making decisions around cybersecurity investments. ” Axio aims to help businesses answer questions like whether they should invest in cyber controls (e.g.,

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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. ” Pariti’s investor platform. for law school.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The company will use the funds to accelerate its expansion plans into new customer segments and geographic areas, which will require them to build more sidewalk robots to fuel that growth. “7-Eleven and Delivery Hero have now invested into the company so hopefully we will share more about any collaborations that develop.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2022

The $25 million fund bases all of its investments off of one key metric that AngelList has been tracking for years: a startup’s ability to hire. Of course, there are some challenges with leaning on such signals to make investments. This is our data set, let’s see if we can put money into them,” he said. No further due diligence?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Here’s what to know per Danny Crichton and Alex Wilhelm: PSA: most aggregate VC trend data is garbage and Are SAFEs obscuring today’s seed volume are two pieces that explain some of the reasons why the numbers might be flawed today. TechCrunch’s favorites from Techstars’ Boston, Chicago and workforce accelerators.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Joining SoftBank in the investment was new investor Whale Rock and existing investors including Generation Investment Management, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and Spark Capital. As part of the investment, Lydia Jett, founding partner at SoftBank Investment Advisers, will join Andela’s board.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

Plentywaka , a Nigerian bus-booking platform, today announced that it has been accepted into the Techstars Toronto accelerator program. It will join nine other startups in the class of 2021 and secure funding from the accelerator as it sets its sights on global expansion.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

George Church at The New Yorker TechFest in 2016. Colossal has also accelerated lab building projects. Church’s lab has made progress in that regard: In 2017 , the team reported that they had tweaked 45 genes in Asian elephant cells. Image Credits: Craig Barritt / Getty Images. The company employs 48 people, said Lamm.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

million seed investment. . During his time at Accra in 2016, he met Quao, a trained pharmacist in Ghana at a hackathon whereupon talking found out that their interests in medical testing overlapped. Redbird will use the seed investment to grow its operations within Ghana and expand to new markets that remain undisclosed.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

Over the last decade, the rate at which organizations create data has accelerated as it becomes cheaper to store, access, and process data. Manta was founded in 2016 by Kratky, who previously led R&D at Profinit, a data science consultancy based in Czechia. ” Kratky said.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 12, 2022

Your own investment’s value may change because of a change in the value of the underlying asset and/or market preferences. However, few investors can directly impact the value of the underlying asset, except for private equity and venture capital investors with portfolio acceleration strategies. The HFRI Index returned 18.3%

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2021

An initial pilot in 2016 was centered around a bookkeeping tool that enabled traditional microfinance institutions (MFIs) to provide unsecured credit to semi-formal businesses. However, the pandemic helped in accelerating this model, and with this new investment, Numida is poised to grow further.

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FundersClub

JUNE 15, 2017

Jerrod Engelberg of FundersClub hosted a Q&A on FC Live with Brayton Williams of Boost VC , and the full video can now be watched here: Q&A with Brayton Williams of Boost VC — FundersClub Live Series. Want to invest in the best startups? FundersClub Portfolio News. Million Amid Expansion Push.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

TechCrunch has been covering the demo days of the seed-stage venture firm Pear VC since 2015. There we are in the front row in 2016 , surrounded by investors, typing away.). “We want to focus on building products and finding customers” while the startups are participating in its accelerator program, he insists.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Promise, which works with utilities and government agencies to provide flexibility in payments for people who can’t cover their whole water or electricity bill at once, has seen enormous growth over 2021 and raised a $25 million B round to keep accelerating, reports Devin Coldway. It did not disclose the amount of the investment.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Demo days at startup accelerators are a pretty big deal around here. These events aren’t just a chance to review the latest cohort of hopeful entrepreneurs — they also showcase the technology, products and services that will compete for VC and consumer attention over the next few years. That startup was DoorDash, by the way.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

But most venture-backed startups are “still overwhelmingly white, male, Ivy-League-educated and based in Silicon Valley,” according to a study conducted by RateMyInvestor and Diversity VC. Or will we have to repeat the same conversations about representation failings within VC funds? Make serious headway with accelerators.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2022

The company also had some recent undisclosed investment, which ostensibly could have tided Bolt over long enough to, at the very least, remove its vehicles from the streets and properly dispose of or recycle them. . Orange EV raised $35 million in a round led by S2G Ventures and CCI to accelerate the adoption of electric yard trucks. .

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David Teten VC

APRIL 30, 2018

Why are more US VCs investing in international startups? Take a look at The Fortune Unicorn List : of the top 100 most valuable unicorns in 2016, 39 are currently based outside of the United States. Venture capitalists like us are investing in three overlapping models of international startups: Companies founded overseas.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2023

Startups and VC Many apps today assume that data lives in only one location, typically a single cloud database. Thanks to the proliferation of mobile devices and cloud infrastructure — the latter of which accelerated during the pandemic — apps now need to store and process data in more places, from the edge to the public cloud.

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