TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Image Credits: Co-founders Gloria Lin and Joel Poloney / Bonnie Rae Mills Photography. Last week I wrote about two startups that had female co-founders and CEOs and I was so impressed with them both. This is also at least the fourth construction tech company I’ve written about in the past year with a female co-founder.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2021

Foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley has announced that he is stepping back from his full-time role at the company. In 2016, Crowley moved to an executive chairman position. He’ll remain on the Board of Directors as co-chair with Factual founder Gil Elbaz. That SDK enables many different possibilities.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 28, 2024

For years, the self-care industry has been underserved by lenders who understand little to nothing about how these unique businesses work,” said Matt Danna, co-founder and CEO of Boulevard. Traditional small business loans have only been accessible to business owners who don’t actually need them.

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HPA

MARCH 3, 2022

HPA has been an investor in Catalytic since the Series Seed investment in 2016. This definitive agreement to acquire Catalytic will enable PagerDuty to take its automation capabilities to the next level by accelerating the delivery of enterprise-wide process automation.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

million pre-seed funding it has raised from the Founders Factory Africa, FrontEnd Ventures, Adaverse, Gullit, Five35, Renew Capital, Changecom, XA Network, Ajim Capital, Artha Ventures, Daba Finance, Google Black Founders Fund, and several angel investors.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2023

” “Fungible’s technologies help enable high-performance, scalable, disaggregated, scaled-out data center infrastructure with reliability and security,” Girish Bablani, the CVP of Microsoft’s Azure Core division, wrote in a blog post.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 3, 2023

Its ecosystem of AI-powered, credit-enabled products and services includes buy now pay later platform Atome, digital lending platform Kredit Pintar, SaaS provider ADVANCE.AI, and ecommerce merchant services platform Ginee. Atome continues to solidify its regional leadership, while ADVANCE.AI

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Called Moxie , it connects fitness instructors of all stripes with existing and new students, then enables them to stream classes on a subscription basis — and to keep 85 percent of the revenue for themselves. It’s a compelling proposition, even while other startup founders are also chasing after it.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

First off, from Kenya, Koa enables users to save and invest, gaining control over their finances. Lami is an insurance platform and API that enables more individuals and businesses to access insurance coverage. For example, founders in our previous cohort were all male. Here are the startups in the 8th cohort.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 28, 2023

Sunrate offers a smart global payment and treasury management platform, enabling businesses to streamline their B2B payments and financial operations. Mr. Paul Meng, the co-founder of Sunrate, expressed his appreciation for the investments made by new and existing prestigious investors.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

But WaveOne’s website was shut down around January, and several former employees , including one of WaveOne’s co-founders , now work within Apple’s various machine learning groups. Apple wouldn’t confirm the sale when asked for comment. So what might Apple want with an AI-powered video codec?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

“Our airspace is going to get more crowded than ever, but most companies today are concentrating only on hardware development,” said Terra Drone CEO and founder Toru Tokushige , who is also serving as the CEO of Terra Motors, which develops electric vehicles. million Series A in February 2021. .

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 17, 2023

The partnership is set to infuse Jungle Ventures with the expertise of the HealthXCapital team, enabling the firm to diversify its investment portfolio and expand its existing healthcare-related investments. This move is expected to reinforce Jungle Ventures’ foothold in the healthcare sector across Southeast Asia and India.

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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. Time will tell on that front.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Hisham Elhaddad, Onsi Sawiris and Fady Yacoub co-founded the venture capital firm in 2016 after emigrating to the U.S. We’re a young entrepreneurial team where almost every investment team member has a STEM background, so we speak the same language as the founders we partner with,” Elhaddad told TechCrunch. “We from Egypt 11 years ago.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

Co-founder and CEO Reymund Rollan told TechCrunch that GrowSari raised again because it wants to expand its fintech offerings for store owners and build its supplier marketplace, including commodities. It also enables retailers to offer telco top-ups and bill payments. KKR invests $45M into GrowSari, a B2B platform for Filipino MSMEs.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 2, 2023

Chosen companies receive support, including a 40-80% rent subsidy, public laboratories, indoor drone testing grounds, and meeting rooms, enabling them to concentrate on technological advancement. Regulations were relaxed, and test sites were created, enabling industrial companies to conduct test flights. billion in 2014 and KRW 4.8

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 28, 2022

Established in 2016, GrowSari is a tech-enabled B2B platform that supports small physical retail stores in the Philippines (including sari-sari stores, carinderias, pharmacies, and other roadside and market shops) with convenient tools to grow and maximize their earnings. The post B2B ecommerce startup GrowSari raises $77.5m

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

This new fund triples the firm’s assets under management and will enable the pair to invest in another 25 to 30 companies, with 50% reserved for follow-in funding, Lemann, co-founder and managing partner, told TechCrunch. MAYA has “made a few investments” from the new fund already, Lemann said, but did not disclose any company names.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

If economists tried to measure the cost of the malaise that the election of 2016 left, we'd undoubtedly see billions, if not more, lost in worker productivity. Pre-sales would enable companies to exist off the financing of the fans most passionate about their vision for products. These two realities are linked.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 23, 2023

Since its inception in 2016, CompAsia has evolved into a comprehensive solution that enables customers to trade in or acquire electronic devices and offers financing options. The company aims to address customer concerns related to transparency when engaging in such transactions. .

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

We were just launching our diagnostics and telehealth in August, and now we are building on that,” Umar Afridi, CEO and co-founder of Truepill, told TechCrunch. “We The company’s “big focus is continuing the vision of transforming healthcare,” said Sid Viswanathan, president and co-founder of Truepill.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

LiveOak Venture Partners raised its largest fund to date, $210 million for Fund III, which will enable the Austin-based, early-stage venture capital firm to double down on Texas founders. More than $90 billion was invested into Texas-based companies since 2016, according to Crunchbase data. In 2021, $14.2

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Speak , an English language learning platform with AI-powered features, today announced that it raised $27 million in a Series B funding round led by the OpenAI Startup Fund , with participation from Lachy Groom, Josh Buckley, Justin Mateen, Gokul Rajaram and Founders Fund. ” Image Credits: Speak. . ” Zwick added.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

Since its founding in 2016, the company has raised $200 million in investment capital. “Automated inspection of vehicles enabled by advanced computer vision and AI is in its first innings, but will completely transform the auto industry,” Lior Prosor, partner at Hanaco VC, noted in a prepared statement. Ventures L.P.

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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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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

Many teachers and parents in Indonesia rely on WhatsApp to keep in touch, creating “multiple groups that often become messy and highly ineffective, and result in confusion or lost threads,” says Rizky Aniez, the co-founder and chief executive officer of Gredu.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

Investors who participated in the round include Johnson & Johnson Foundation , Newton Partners (via the Imperial Venture Fund), and Founders Factory Africa. 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.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

B12 co-founder and CEO Nitesh Banta is a former investor at General Catalyst — having worked at the firm from 2010 to 2015. It’s a trend I’ve seen more broadly and we think professional services is the next category that needs an SMB enabler, and that’s really what we’re trying to do.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

million in total funding since the company was founded in 2016, founder Obi Omile Jr. The app also enables barbers, perhaps for the first time, to have a list of clients and keep notes and photos of hair styles, as well as track visits and spending. The latest funding gives theCut $5.35 told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The company has evolved from a point solution into a comprehensive student engagement platform that has proven to be incredibly sticky,”said Vivi founder and executive chairman, Dr. Lior Rauchberger. “Vivi has created demand overseas in a way that’s pretty unique – and largely by word of mouth.

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Dream It

MAY 18, 2020

Wellth graduated from Dreamit’s Healthtech program in 2016. Market Opportunities "Our mission has always been to seek out and support the patient populations that need help the most,” said Wellth CEO and Co-founder Matthew Loper. Today, we announced a $10M Series A round co-led by yabeo and Boehringer Ingelheim.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2023

Mediwhale co-founder and CEO Kevin Choi discovered that he had lost nearly half of one of his eyes from glaucoma when he was 24, which is rare in young people. Following his treatment, Choi and his doctor Tyler Rim, a vitreoretinal surgeon, founded Mediwhale in 2016. “There were no [initial] symptoms for me to recognize.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

“It will enable us to access a deep source of feedstock and significantly increase our production capacity.” On top of that, InnovaFood creates organic fertilizers out of insect poop to boost plant and crop growth. Growth industry. ” InnovaFeed isn’t alone in its endeavor to use insects for animal protein. .

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

It will also support the development of new consumer and enterprise products to enable Indonesians and businesses to access a wider range of services securely and accelerate broader digital transformation. Marshall Pribadi, CEO and Co-Founder of Privy, said he is thrilled to welcome KKR as among their new investors.

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Jason Malki

AUGUST 1, 2023

Tim was previously the CEO / founder of Hyperpilot, which is a startup backed by top funds like NEA and Bessemer aiming to run Kubernetes on autopilot that achieves 5–10x cost and performance benefits. If you had to share, “words of wisdom,” with a Founder who’s about to start their own startup, what would they be? and Jasper.ai.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

By 2016, Shanbhag says that hundreds of schools were using Namecoach’s software and services. Shanbhag hinted at capabilities beyond pronunciation guidance coming down the pipeline, including prompts to enable warm interactions in sales scenarios and feedback to help users improve their conversations more generally.

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