TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2023

That’s the top-level finding of a new PitchBook report that looked at VC trends toward the end of 2022, specifically Q4, including investments made at the seed, late-stage and nearing-the-exit levels. Last year set an annual record for capital raised, in fact, with $162.6 But the year was ultimately mixed.

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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. Korean VC Sopoong closes $8M fund for startups focused on environmental impact by Kate Park originally published on TechCrunch.

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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. For founders opting for VC funding, swift closure of funding rounds is advised to maintain focus on product development.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Knife Capital , a South African venture capital firm, is raising a $50 million fund for startups looking to raise Series B financing. The first fund, known as Knife Capital Fund I or HBD Venture Capital, was a closed private equity fund managed by Eben van Heerden and Keet van Zyl. and Europe.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

Venture capital (VC) firm Lifeline Ventures today announced a fresh €150 million ($163 million) fund aimed at early-stage startups across Finland. billion for a majority stake in 2016. billion for a majority stake in 2016. billion all-stock deal two years ago; and gaming giant Supercell , which Tencent doled out $8.6

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

Bobby Franklin is the president and CEO of the National Venture Capital Association and previously served as an executive vice president for the CTIA – The Wireless Association. A new foreign investment bill will impact venture capital and the US startup ecosystem. Let’s be clear: The venture capital industry has lacked diversity.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

In the VC insider baseball world a discussion has gone on about “VC platforms” over the past 5 or so years. While firms define platforms differently, let’s just say they are the services that a VC offers outside of investment capital and partner time on boards or providing intros.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

Lara Lemann and Monica Saggioro of Sao Paulo–based MAYA Capital take a regional approach to investing, and their strategy is paying off. The investors raised $40 million for their first fund after starting the firm in 2018 and have now closed on $100 million in capital commitments for MAYA’s second fund.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2023

Many feared that the bull market had pushed valuations to unsustainable heights and would result in a windfall of startup down rounds and cash burn, which would have a negative impact on VC fund performance. A fund typically invests the capital for three to five years, which causes its “performance” to drop.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

million in a Series A round led by Silicon Valley VC firm Ribbit Capital. Kaszek Ventures, QED Investors and Greenoaks Capital also participated in the financing, which brings the startup’s total raised to $36.7 Cora , a São Paulo-based technology-enabled lender to small-and-medium-sized businesses, has raised $26.7

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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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Twinco Capital , a Madrid and Amsterdam-based startup making it easier to access supply chain finance, has raised €3 million in funding. Leading the round is Spanish VC fund Mundi Ventures, with participation from previous backer Finch Capital and several unnamed angels.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

The data and research organisation uses factors like performance, capital, market reach, connectedness, talent, and knowledge to produce its rankings. However, a Kenyan B2B management startup founded by Yacob Berhane and Wossen Ayele wants to close the gap on three of the six factors — access to capital, knowledge, and talent.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

Coral Capital , a Tokyo-based venture capital firm, announced today that it has closed its third fund, Coral Capital III, raising $128 million (14 billion yen). Coral Capital’s total assets under management (AUM) is now $275 million. LINE Ventures merges with YJ Capital, launches $271M fund.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

Wale Ayeni , one of Africa’s well-known investors, has a new role as the head of Helios Digital Ventures, the venture capital strategy of private equity firm Helios Investment Partners, TechCrunch has learned. “I’ll call it a mid-cap VC fund. Interswitch receives $110M investment from LeapFrog and Tana Africa Capital.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

participated in four of Scale’s financing rounds, which is all of them unless you include the funding from YC the company secured as part of a cohort in 2016. But Levine saw the kernel of something with huge potential, and despite being a relative unknown in VC at the time, didn’t want to let the opportunity pass him, or Wang, by.

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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. Terra Drone-owned Unifly, a UTM provider, also has a presence in Europe and North America.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

The company, which uses a combination of computer vision and machine learning to create a system that can quickly and accurately inspect vehicles, has raised $100 million in a Series D funding round led by Hanaco VC, a venture capital firm based in New York and Tel Aviv. Existing investors GM Ventures, CarMax, W.R. Ventures L.P.

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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. Partnering with Elizabeth at Stanford, they addressed the stark gender imbalance and inequity in the VC industry.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

That’s why Entocycle is raising another $5 million in a Series A funding round led by Climentum Capital , a European climate-focused VC firm. Lowercarbon Capital and ACE & Company are participating in the round as well. This new French VC firm is partnering with current and former athletes to invest in tech companies.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 11, 2023

billion in follow-on capital raised. First, Cheque@Jungle takes a pioneering approach to early-stage investments with a unique capital allocation structure, ensuring that startups can access appropriately sized funding while minimizing early-stage equity dilution. Over the years, it has consistently grown in size and impact.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

How to make a deal with a VC at a tech conference. His previous company, Uhana, launched in 2016, was backed by NEA and had been acquired by VMWare in three years. In 2016, total VC investments in the U.S. By 2020, the capital deployed had ballooned to $164 billion, according to PitchBook NVCA.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

But that image is only one part of venture capital. But when you’re running a VC firm, especially as an emerging manager, how do you know which investors and limited partners (LPs) to target? The venture capital community has significant influence on what potential LPs see as great investment opportunities.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2023

” The two companies intend to kick off their partnership sometime this year with around $139 million in capital from GAC Toyota Motor Co. — ” Without context, $139 million may sound like a lot, but Pony has raised more than a billion dollars since its founding in 2016. Autonomous-driving company Pony.ai

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

When they were ready to scale their commercial operations in 2016, Udesh Jadanansing and his team decided to raise a seed round. Udesh understood there was an opportunity for growth, the demand is there, but the financial resources to capitalize on it are not. Over the next couple of years, they continued to scale successfully.

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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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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 23, 2024

Business analytics platform CB Insights released their State of Fintech 2023 Report which indicates the fintech sector experienced a greater downturn than the broader venture capital market—which reported that Q4’23 was “the harshest quarter for global VC in 6 years”. Globally, fintech funding was down 50% year over year to $39.2

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 17, 2023

Register Singapore-based venture capital firm Jungle Ventures has announced its merger with HealthXCapital , an early-stage VC firm specializing in healthcare investments. This momentum continued as they raised $100 million for their second fund in 2016, followed by a substantial $240 million for their third fund in 2019.

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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. I have been researching this both to support Versatile VC ’s portfolio companies and also as part of research for my new book, To University and Beyond: Launch Your Career in High Gear. 1) Your school.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

Not every startup wants to raise venture capital. And then there are those that do want to raise VC money but don’t want to use it for specific things. Former Goldman Sachs investment banker Marc Helwani founded i80 in 2016 after investing in early-stage New York-based fintechs in 2014-2015 via his VC fund, Avenue A Ventures.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2021

billion in capital as it prepares to ramp up to an annual production capacity of 150 GWh in Europe by 2030. billion since the company was founded in 2016. Swedish battery developer and manufacturer Northvolt AB has raised $2.75 Swedish battery manufacturer Northvolt receives a $14 billion order from VW.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

VCs invested over $5.5 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. For years it was known primarily for its software scene — in addition to being the live music capital of the world.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

Founded in 2016, Roami sprung from King-Geovanis’s belief that travelers should not be forced to choose between two flawed options: cramped and expensive hotel rooms or inconsistent and unpredictable vacation rentals. The company used to be called Sextant Stays, and focuses on short-term rentals with apartment-style units.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

Savannah Fund , a pan-African venture capital firm, today announced a $25 million fund as it looks to back more early-stage startups on the continent. Before becoming a VC firm, Savannah Fund started as an accelerator program in Kenya. This is the second fund for the nine-year-old Mauritius-headquartered investment firm.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2022

Matias Lonardi, co-founder and CEO of Treggo, started the company with Nicolas Torchio and Joaquin Wagner in 2016. 99minutos clocks in fresh capital for logistics infrastructure in Latin America. Speaking on the competition, Lonardi told TechCrunch that “e-commerce has been so aggressive here.” This gives Treggo a total of $2.8

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2022

South Korean startup Bucketplace , which operates a home decorating and interior app OHouse, is looking to continue capitalizing on that trend with its most recent $182 million Series D round, the startup’s co-founder and CEO Jay Lee said on Monday in an interview with TechCrunch. billion by 2028-end , up from $333.7 billion in 2021.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2021

Indy VC firm Sixty8 Capital launches $20M fund aimed at underrepresented founders. Socio was founded in 2016 and raised around $7 million in investment capital, according to Crunchbase data. Slido allows for every voice to be heard — even when you’re not talking.

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