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. Venture funding does remain elusive , but here are some tricks for startup founders to hack the system. Funding for Black entrepreneurs in the U.S.

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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. Here are some of the startups in the venture studio portfolio.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 28, 2023

The funding was led by Prosperity7 Ventures, a growth fund associated with Aramco Ventures, and included additional investment from SoftBank Ventures Asia. With its latest funding infusion, Sunrate is poised to capitalize on this significant market growth.

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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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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. Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet?

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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. And really, this was where my race became an obstacle.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

As an investor in The Wing, I have no doubt that Audrey can relate the impossible expectations we set for ambitious women and the nearly non-existant margin for error, especially given that the company took off after the 2016 election. It makes me want to quit venture capital entirely. It’s an embarrassment to the ecosystem.

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Dream It

MAY 18, 2020

Wellth , a platform designed to improve treatment adherence using behavioral economics, announced the closing of their $10M Series A round, co-led by yabeo and Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund ( BIVF ). Wellth graduated from Dreamit’s Healthtech program in 2016.

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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. These predictions weren’t entirely off the mark.

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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2022

However, for all their effort and importance to the tech ecosystem, raising significant venture capital seemed elusive to startups in Africa’s digital media landscape that rely on grants and personal funding to scale. million in seed funding to expand its audience and build new verticals.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

The Baylor New Venture Competition is a business plan and elevator pitch competition for college students from around the globe. The CMU Venture Challenge is an international startup competition open to undergraduates from across the United States. Alumni Ventures Group runs a network of VC funds focused on specific universities. .

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Register Singapore’s Jungle Ventures has announced the launch of First Cheque@Jungle , a new program aimed at investing in startups during their pre-seed and seed stages. The First Cheque program plans to leverage the expertise of experienced founders from Jungle Ventures’ current and former portfolio startups.

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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. Scale AI’s name bespeaks the magnitude of its endeavors supported by top venture capital firms and tech giants. Existing investor Accel led the current round.

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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. CardinalStone Capital Advisers , a Lagos-based investment firm, led the Series A investment. ” Image Credits: Appzone.

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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. million in its Series A funding round.

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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. When most people think of venture capitalists, they often think of investors, the people writing checks to fund startups. But that image is only one part of venture 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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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 24, 2023

Register Mark & Company, led by CEO Kyungpyo Hong, has announced the establishment and management of a new venture investment fund in partnership with Yoonmin Creative Investment Foundation, chaired by Minseop Sung. Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet?

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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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StartupNation

JANUARY 4, 2022

and they’ve partnered with TechStars, ID Ventures, Bamboo, Wayne State University and others to do just that. 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. And they’re on their way.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2021

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. We profiled the company at the beginning of its journey in 2016 and then again in 2017 when it raised $2 million. The company raised an additional $8.5

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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

MARCH 9, 2021

A group of former Microsoft executives and engineers — Anoop Gupta , Aravind Bala , John Tippett , Vikas Manocha — founded SeekOut in 2016. Existing backers Madrona Venture Group and Mayfield also participated in the financing, which brings SeekOut’s total funding since inception to $73 million.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Data about startups is helpful to understand directional trends and how the flow of capital works and changes over time. But as ventures as an asset class grows and the documentation around raises gets thornier, the data can sometimes be missing a big chunk of what’s actually happening on the scenes. Want this in your inbox each week?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Though some businesses may never be truly sustainable, a venture firm in Seoul argues that emerging climate-tech startups will help big manufacturers do better overall. I spoke with Sopoong chief executive Max Sang-Yeop Han , a serial entrepreneur who joined Sopoong in 2016 and acquired the firm in 2019, to learn about the VC’s plans.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 2, 2023

The investment round was led by SBI Ven Capital, with participation from Kyobo Securities, NTUitive, Trihill Capital, East Ventures and PT Tap Applied Agri Services. from 2016 to 2021 and is forecast to grow at 12.9% The cold chain market in Indonesia grew at a Compound Annual Growth Rate of 10.7% between 2021 and 2026.

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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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Given the widespread desire among the enterprise at present to cut costs just about anywhere, particularly in software spend, it’s perhaps no surprise that venture firms have been won over by startups like Zylo , whose platform finds and manages SaaS spend for mainly corporate customers. Zylo today announced that it raised $31.5

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

In 2016, Andrew Hoag, formerly a senior manager at Verisign and a web project lead at NASA’s Ames Research Center, founded Teampay , a platform that attempts to automate the software purchasing process for companies. Today, Teampay has hundreds of customers and significant venture capital financing behind it.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Taing founded Bokksu in 2015 and launched a Japanese snack subscription service in 2016. The funding was led by Valor Siren Ventures , with participation from Company Ventures , St. The fresh capital will also enable Bokksu to accelerate its primary business lines: subscription, market and grocery. Canada, the U.K,

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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. They announced on Monday, November 14, the signing of definitive agreements that will allow KKR to participate as the lead investor in the $48 million Series C funding round.

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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. employee/co-working space member engagement, and financial management tools through web and mobile applications. which accounts for 45% of its customers, followed by circa 15% in the U.K.;

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

EvolutionIQ today announced that it raised $21 million in a series A round led by Brewer Lane Ventures with participation from FirstRound Capital, FirstMark Capital, Foundation Capital, Altai Ventures, Asymmetric Ventures and insurance carriers Reliance Standard Life, New York Life Ventures, Guardian Life and Sedgwick.

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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. Apollo uses the satellite imagery data of farms and AI to rate the credit-worthiness of farmers. It plans to use the new funding to refine its technology and deliver more products and services to farmers.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

From 2016 to 2017, Ozow raised a combined $1.2 million from backers such as Kalon Ventures. TechCrunch reported in this piece that African venture capital raised during the first half of 2021 was about twice the funds raised in H2 2020. million in angel and seed rounds, and up until now, its total raise stood at $3.7

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 24, 2023

Launched in 2022, GGV Capital’s SMBTech 50 demonstrates both the breadth and depth of the sector and the enthusiasm of venture capital investors for these companies. About GGV Capital GGV Capital is a global venture capital firm partnering with founders to build category-leading companies around the world.

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