TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

The funding was led by Insignia Ventures Partners, with participation from returning investors Beenext and Integra Partners. Founded in 2016, Brankas goal is to “democratize access to financial and identity data.” Brankas , an open banking startup for Southeast Asian markets, is entering the new year with a $20 million Series B.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

million pre-Series A round to expand its tech-enabled logistics solution across the Francophone region. The round was co-led by pan-African venture capital firm 4DX Ventures and regional telecom operator Orange. Today the company is announcing that it has raised a $4.5

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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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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Sesie Bonsi is the founder and CEO of Bleu , a financial technology platform focused on enabling touchless payment experiences. 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. hit nearly $1.8

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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

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 3, 2022

When you do something well once in venture capital, you want to keep repeating it, and HOF Capital plans to double down on its strategy of focusing on pre-seed through Series A, now with a brand new $300 million fund, its second institutional early-stage fund. from Egypt 11 years ago.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Contact: William Paiva, Managing Partner, OLSF Ventures. BROKEN ARROW, OK – OLSF Ventures (OLSF) recently led a $4.5 OLSF Ventures was joined in the investment by Plains Venture Partners, managed by i2E Management Company, Inc. Atento Capital ; Cortado Ventures ; Sante Accel Ventures and Angel investors.

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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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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. of partners at venture firms , as well. Women make up just 2.4%

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Dream It

OCTOBER 9, 2019

million back in 2016. In fact, Strategic Cyber Ventures reports that cybersecurity startups got at least $5.3 billion in venture capital funding last year. Cymulate Founded in 2016, this Israel-based startup recently closed a $7.5 million Series A funding with Dell Capital and Vertex Ventures at the helm.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 23, 2023

Register Malaysian recommerce platform, CompAsia , has secured series A funding in a round led by Gobi Partners , a Pan-Asian venture capital firm. 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.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 2, 2022

A Korean startup called AIMMO , which uses software and humans to label and categorize image, video, sound, text and sensor fusion data, built an AI data annotation platform, enabling the data labeling faster for enterprises. . AIMMO declined to comment on its valuation.

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Source Link

JULY 8, 2021

StartOut’s 2016 study, “The State of LGBT Entrepreneurship in the U.S.,” also reports that almost 40% of LGBTQ+ entrepreneurs said they chose not to self-identify as members of the LGBTQ+ community, either because it wasn’t deemed relevant or they were concerned doing so might hurt their chances of receiving capital.

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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

JULY 7, 2021

Today it is announcing a $4 million Series A, led by Intudo Ventures, an Indonesia-focused venture capital firm, with participation from returning investor Vertex Ventures. . Founded in September 2016, Gredu is now used by more than 400 schools, with a total of 400,000 users.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

It’s boom times for startups building with or atop AI functionality: The Exchange explored the rise in venture capital dollars for AI startups last week, noting that investment into the business niche set all-time records in Q4 2020, and then successively in quarters one, two and three in 2021. Perhaps it shouldn’t have.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2023

Following his treatment, Choi and his doctor Tyler Rim, a vitreoretinal surgeon, founded Mediwhale in 2016. SBI Investment led the latest financing with new investor Woori Venture Partners and previous backers BNK Venture Capital, Innopolis Partners and IPS Ventures participating. FDA clearance and implement U.S.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Shipping and logistics remain profitable tech ventures. A startup with a freight shipping platform for small- and mid-sized shippers, MyCarrier raised $22 million in a venture round led by NewRoads Capital with participation from Greycroft and Lerer Hippeau.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 25, 2022

Bjorn Bergstrom has vast experience from consumer scale-ups, venture capital and management consulting. Neso Brands is a Singapore-based global eyewear company founded in 2022 to enable the most promising direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands across the world to become brands of the future.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Shota Horii , his twin brother Yuta Horii and Jun Taketani co-founded SmartBank in 2019 after selling their previous startup Fablic, a Japanese online secondhand marketplace, to Rakuten in 2016. The startup offers Charge Now Pay Later, which enables users to borrow up to 50,000 JPY (approximately $365) and charge their account balance.

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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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2022

According to a 2016 survey commissioned by CyberArk, 40% of organizations store admin passwords in a Word document. “Third-party apps [are] able to work on encrypted ‘Vaultree’d’ data as if it’s decrypted, enabling unlimited, easy collaboration,” Lasmaili said. Vaultree this week closed a $12.8

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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. However , in 2016, Savannah transitioned into venture capital investing, focusing on seed and Series A stages within $25,000 to $500,000 checks.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2022

But with an edge computing setup, the data can be processed on-site, eliminating cloud computing costs and enabling processing at greater speeds and volumes (in theory). ” Ouissal co-founded Zededa in 2016 alongside Erik Nordmark, Roman Shaposhnik and Vijay Tapaskar. million in venture capital.

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propel(x)

JULY 11, 2022

Because of the time and investment needed to bring deep tech solutions to market, many startups require significant and sustained capital to get up and running. billion in venture capital in 2021 and $70.7 billion in the first quarter of 2022 alone, according to PitchBook’s Venture Monitor report. Startups raised $342.2

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 15, 2022

The Series B extension financing round was anchored by SIG Venture Capital and backed by CE Innovation Capital and PayU, the payments and fintech business of Prosus. In a statement, the startup said it the fresh capital will enable it to continue building out a leadership team and to invest in product and technology development.

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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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The new focus is buoyed by the close of its $142 million Series D funding round, led by an undisclosed partner, with participation from existing investors Initialized Capital and TI Platform Management. In addition, Tan believes that what Truepill is doing in the direct-to-consumer market is giving people choices. “We

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

All merchants need to have is a bank account and a “smart-enabled device” to receive payments. From 2016 to 2017, Ozow raised a combined $1.2 million from backers such as Kalon Ventures. Having raised more than $3 billion already, the continent is set to trounce historical records of venture capital raised this year.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

When CEO Sahir Berry and his co-founder Mahesh Nair founded NowNow in 2016, they wanted to provide solutions to financial inclusion and job creation, two of the most significant pain points they thought were facing Nigeria and the rest of the continent. This product has been made available to a few small businesses to test in a pilot phase.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

In 2016, he started Seattle-based Zuper , a provider of productivity tools for intelligent field service management and customer engagement. Today, the company announced $13 million in Series A, led by FUSE, with participation from Sequoia Capital India and existing investors Prime Venture Partners and HubSpot.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Leading the Series A round is venture capital firm Accel, with participation from Visionaries Club, 20VC and existing investor HTGF. Taxdoo data can also be exported to a seller’s accounting system, enabling them to more easily collaborate with local tax advisors. Taxdoo is based out of Hamburg, Germany.

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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

DECEMBER 22, 2020

StepZen , a new startup from the crew who gave you Apigee (which was sold to Google in 2016 for $625 million) had a different vision for their latest company. Today, the startup emerged from stealth and announced an $8 million seed investment from Neotribe Ventures and Wing Venture Capital.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

“To enable large data modernization and transformation projects, data lineage is a key component to solving the complexity of vast data infrastructure layers and tracking the flow of data within an organization.” The company said that the proceeds will be put toward expanding its 152-person workforce to 220 by the end of the year.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

It’s not as typical for us to hear, though, about venture capitalists pouring millions of dollars into a traditional bank. Rowe Price Investment Management, Whale Rock and Hanaco Ventures and several other firms. (If At the time of that 2016 raise, Cross River told us that it originated more than $2.4 Track record of growth.

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