American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Female-founded venture firms have shown strong support for female-founded startups accounting for 28% of their deal counts from 2016 to October 2021 in startups with at least one female founder. billion of total venture capital. In addition, Crunchbase reports that w omen-founded venture firms in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Sesie Bonsi is the founder and CEO of Bleu , a financial technology platform focused on enabling touchless payment experiences. Crunchbase examined the access to capital in the venture-backed startup ecosystem and proved that many industry leaders still worry that nothing will drastically shift. Sesie Bonsi. Contributor. hit nearly $1.8

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 19, 2024

Instead, it began with 15 years of hands-on learning in capital markets, working closely with entrepreneurs, investors, and bankers. This experience allowed me to identify a critical void in financing companies: building healthy capital stacks and navigating the public offering process. and more articles from the EO blog.

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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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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. In the early stages, it’s really all about the founder/founding team.”

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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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

But despite my privilege, I’m also confident that my Black heritage made it more difficult for me to raise venture capital. Today — and the data proves this — if you are a white male, you have an unfair advantage when looking to raise venture capital. At the time, I didn’t even know that raising venture capital was a possibility.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Déborah, a 2022 YLAI Fellow , is the founder and director of CAPAZ Perú , which develops cultural, educational and social projects for people with disabilities through art programs such as theater and dance. After seeing the success of this play, she decided to expand her research with her team to create a long-form play.

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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. More on that below.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JUNE 7, 2019

Ashna Mahepal, founder of Young Help Suriname (YHS) , is a member of the YLAI Network and 2016 YLAI Fellow. In 2016, when she was selected as a YLAI Fellow, Ashna was able to further develop her ideas, and her YLAI Reverse Exchange became a great success that grew her confidence for undertaking international projects.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Two years ago, the African tech ecosystem saw newfound attention from global players that translated to the continent’s best year of receiving venture capital. Venture capital investment in Africa predicted to reach a record high this year. In Africa, the first two unicorns were Jumia (in 2016) and fintech giant Interswitch (in 2019).

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Reports say healthtech in Africa should reach a market value of over US$11 billion by 2025 and Reliance Health is looking to play a pivotal role in the continent reaching that capitalization. The company was founded in 2016 by Femi Kuti , Opeyemi Olumekun and Matthew Mayaki. year-over-year revenue growth from 2016.

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Dream It

MAY 18, 2020

With 85% quarter-on-quarter and 403% year-on-year enrollment growth in Q1 2020, Wellth plans to use this new capital to support rapid scaling to address larger and broader populations of patients. Wellth graduated from Dreamit’s Healthtech program in 2016.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

It went live with its mobile and internet banking service in 2016 and launched an instant card issuance product in 2017. Nigeria is becoming Africa’s unofficial tech capital. “ Obi Emetarom, co-founder and CEO, Appzone. CardinalStone Capital Advisers , a Lagos-based investment firm, led the Series A investment.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 22, 2024

Scale AI was founded in 2016 by Alexandr Wang and Lucy Guo who since left to launch Passes. It requires bringing together the best minds in engineering, operations, and AI,” said Alexandr Wang, CEO and founder of Scale AI. Scale AI’s name bespeaks the magnitude of its endeavors supported by top venture capital firms and tech giants.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2021

Indy VC firm Sixty8 Capital launches $20M fund aimed at underrepresented founders. Brent Leary, founder and principal analyst at CRM Essentials, says that it’s a smart move to take advantage of the changing events landscape and that this acquisition helps make Cisco a serious player in this space.

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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.

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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. And last but not least, InvestNext launched in 2016, a Detroit-based fintech startup whose mission is to transform the process in which investment firms raise and manage capital.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 31, 2023

Register The tally of recognized startups and acquisitions, burgeoning to 84,012 in 2022 from a mere 452 in 2016, is a testament to the positive impact of investment incentives and simplified business regulations, as highlighted by the Economic Survey 2022-23.

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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. XM Cyber was founded in 2016 and raised $49 million, according to Crunchbase data. The most recent deal was a $17 million Series B in July led by Macquarie Capital.

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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. billion in follow-on capital raised. The firm secured $100 million for its second fund in 2016 and then raised $240 million for its third fund in 2019.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Aditi Shekar, the co-founder, gave me some notes about why the ongoing popularity of Venmo is validation for the company, instead of competition. Data about startups is helpful to understand directional trends and how the flow of capital works and changes over time. As always, you can find me on Twitter @nmasc_ or e-mail me at natasha.m@techcrunch.com.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Linda Greub Contributor Share on Twitter Linda Greub is the co-founder and managing partner of Avestria Ventures. But that image is only one part of venture capital. The venture capital community has significant influence on what potential LPs see as great investment opportunities.

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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. Manny Padda is the founder and chief people connector at New Avenue Capital. As an EO Vancouver member, he was the 2017 Entrepreneurs’ Organization Global Citizen of the Year Award. .

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Register Established in 2016 and headquartered in New York, SoGal Ventures is a venture capital firm dedicated to early-stage investments in diverse founding teams, operating in both the United States and Asia. The firm actively seeks out underrepresented founders from undercapitalized geographies to tackle underserved problems.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 28, 2023

Established in 2016, the company has rapidly gained recognition for its advanced proprietary platform, expansive network, and powerful APIs, empowering companies to operate and expand locally and globally in over 150 countries. With its latest funding infusion, Sunrate is poised to capitalize on this significant market growth.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

A group of former Microsoft executives and engineers — Anoop Gupta , Aravind Bala , John Tippett , Vikas Manocha — founded SeekOut in 2016. SeekOut co-founders (left to right) Anoop Gupta, Aravind Bala, Vikas Manocha and John Tippett. Image courtesy of SeekOut. And it plans to use its own platform to do it.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Austin made headlines in 2021 for being “the place” for startup founders and venture capitalists alike to set up shop. billion across 412 deals in 2021, more than double the amount of capital invested in 2020, according to PitchBook data. Today, Austin is more than just the capital of Texas. VCs invested over $5.5 Register here.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 29, 2023

Global financial institutions, along with existing backers such as Gobi Partners, BitRock Capital, and Sun Hung Kai & Co., This marks the fifth successful fundraising effort since the company’s inception in 2016, bringing the total funds raised to over $97 million. have contributed to the funding.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Founder and CEO Christine Moseley told TechCrunch that a majority of produce companies are still using pen, paper and fax machines to do business. Within the past two years, Full Harvest’s impact on keeping food out of landfills grew five times, prompting the company to seek additional capital to keep the momentum going.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Other participants are existing investors MDI Ventures , GGV Capital and Telkomsel Mitra Inovasi, and new investors including Singtel Innov8. Marshall Pribadi, CEO and Co-Founder of Privy, said he is thrilled to welcome KKR as among their new investors.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 24, 2023

The fund will allocate at least 50% of its capital to support early-stage companies operating for less than three years as part of its investment strategy. MegaStudy, the anchor investor, is a prominent venture capital firm that has consistently demonstrated a keen interest in fostering innovation and supporting emerging businesses.

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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. Sopoong has closed on around $8 million (10.3

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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 founders Ken Yeung and Bianca Ho.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

Jessica Kim , chief executive officer of ianacare , understands these statistics deeply as she made the difficult choice to leave her job in 2016 to care for her mom full time, as do nearly a third of working caregivers. The fresh capital, which gives ianacare a total of $16.7 ianacare announced this morning it has raised a $12.1

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Ruthe Farmer is the founder and CEO of the Last Mile Education Fund , and a global advocate and evangelist for equity and inclusion in technology and engineering. Awards and recognitions predicated on many of the above factors, as well as social capital. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The Series A funding is led by Runa Capital with Flashpoint Venture Capital and LAUNCHub Ventures also participating. “Technology has been on a steady path of enabling flexible work for over a decade and COVID-19 has only served to accelerate the process,” argues Miroslav Miroslavov, co-founder and CEO, in a statement.

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