TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

Africa’s fintech space has gained proper attention over the past few years in investments but it is not news that startups still battle with offering high-quality products. It went live with its mobile and internet banking service in 2016 and launched an instant card issuance product in 2017. ” Image Credits: Appzone.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

From varying sources, it is estimated up to $2 billion went into African tech startups in 2019. African startups nearly raised $1.5 Predictions were made on how much the continent’s startups would raise in December. In Africa, the first two unicorns were Jumia (in 2016) and fintech giant Interswitch (in 2019).

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Online learning platform Vedantu has raised $100 million in a new financing round and has become the latest Indian startup to become a unicorn following a year of strong growth. Existing investors Coatue Management, Tiger Global, GGV Capital and WestBridge also “strongly” participated in the round, the startup said.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

According to Startup Genome , Beijing, London, Silicon Valley, Stockholm, Tel Aviv are some of the world’s best startup ecosystems. Startup ecosystems from emerging markets excluding China and India didn’t make the organisations’ top 40 list last year. ” It doesn’t end there.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

Riverwood Capital, a Menlo Park-based private equity firm, and existing backer early-stage Argentina-based venture firm Kaszek also participated in the financing. The raise brings Digital House’s total funding raised to more than $80 million since its 2016 inception. Global players have succeeded for many years in our region.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Y Combinator’s latest batch — W22 — features 414 startups from 42 countries, representing more than 80 sectors. India, with 32 startups, is the second-largest demographic represented in the new batch, while Nigeria is third, having delivered 18 startups. As usual, the U.S. has the most representation. beU delivery.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2022

African startups raised between $4 billion to $5 billion in 2021, according to various reports. 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.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

Kenya-based agritech Apollo Agriculture , which helps farmers access high-quality farm inputs, financing and markets, plans to double the number of farmers it is serving by the end 2022 and to introduce other products that deliver more value per acre of land. The agritech is scouting for growth opportunities in East and West Africa. “We

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

You’ve decided to launch a technology-enabled startup with a positive social impact! Now the bad news: some venture capitallists have a bias against startups with an explicit positive social impact, on the grounds that they have a smaller addressable market, and that the founders are not sufficiently focused on creating shareholder wealth.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

The startup, currently with operations in Nigeria, Tanzania and India (Uttar Pradesh and Bihar), has set an ambitious goal of installing at least 5,000 mini-grids by 2030 and in the process make 1 million connections – half of which will be micro, small and medium-sized enterprises. Image Credits: Husk Power Systems.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2020

One of the biggest trends in the world of fintech in the last several years has been the emergence (and surging popularity) of startups building platforms that help more people take a more proactive role in the world of financial services. And what’s more, the new playing field means a new opportunity for new players.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Funding of women-founded startups remains significantly lower than those that are gender-mixed While women entrepreneurs are making significant strides in startup formation, they continue to struggle to gain access to funding on par with men. venture firms allocated only 22% of their deals to female-founded startups.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Delve into his story as it unfolds with lessons from filmmaking, startup ventures, and the fascinating world of technology innovations and investing. “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.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The decentralized reality of office work after the COVID-19 pandemic continues to drive plenty of startup activity. The startup has just closed a $10 million Series A to continue building out its workplace management SaaS for landlords and office managers — which offers features like resource scheduling (booking meeting rooms etc.),

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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

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

But turn to the enterprise and there appears to be a very lucrative opportunity that’s well into finding traction. Today, one of the early movers in building solutions for that market is announcing a round of funding to double down on the opportunity. “We are very fond of what we do at this size,” he said.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

This would be easy to detect: among their portfolio companies, do startups with female founders outperform those without? First Round Capital found that among its portfolio companies, startups with female founders outperformed those without by 63%.” . 100x investment opportunities only come along in VC occasionally.

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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

MAY 25, 2021

Managing Editor Jordan Crook interviewed Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky to discuss the future of travel and what it was like leading the world’s biggest hospitality startup during a global pandemic. Embedded finance will help fill the life insurance coverage gap. Embedded finance will help fill the life insurance coverage gap.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 9, 2022

Register South Korea’s largest accelerator program for foreign startups, K-Startup Grand Challenge (KSGC) , is accepting applications for its 2022 edition. month all-paid residency program invites global startups to participate in this program known as an entry point for business in the Asian market. Besides the 3.5-month

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

This would be easy to detect: among their portfolio companies, do startups with female founders outperform those without? First Round Capital found that among its portfolio companies, startups with female founders outperformed those without by 63%.”. Diverse Executive Teams returned 3.3x, while White Executive Teams only returned 2.0x.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

A growing cohort of startups including Alan, Tractable and Snapsheet offer tools to help customers navigate through the insurance claims process. And in 2016, he joined Waymo, Google parent company Alphabet’s autonomous car division, as a machine learning engineer. ” Market opportunity. The EvolutionIQ team.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

The startup has raised $110 million in a growth funding round led by U.K.-based Existing backers Riverwood Capital, Viking Global Investors and Sunley House Capital also participated in the financing. VCs say there are more startup opportunities to chase in Latin America.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Recently, some startups such as Lami , Ctrl and Naked have sought to take on each regional market by storm, armed with the necessary capital to scale. But it was a series of personal experiences that prompted CEO El Tohfa to look into the opportunities in the market. million seed round to provide insurance services for Egyptians.

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TechCrunch

JULY 31, 2022

During his two years at the firm, Salisbury went on to back the likes of now-decacorn Deel and Tally , two companies he had gotten to know through the Cambrian community he’s built up since 2016. Bell, a corporate finance attorney and a former White House policy advisor for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, in a press release.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Laura Lorek has lived in the Austin area since 2000, where she's been writing about established companies like Dell, NI, IBM, Apple, Oracle, Google, Meta and tech startups like Opcity, now Realtor.com, Homeaway, now VRBO, RetailMeNot, Indeed.com, Homeward, OJO Labs and others. He returned to Austin to launch a cybersecurity startup, Symbiot.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

TC Sessions: Mobility will feature speakers on the main stage, a bevy of startup exhibits, demos, networking and a live pitch-off with a pretty sweet prize. Buy your general admission or early-stage startup demo package today before prices increase. How to Land Early-Stage Funding. TechCrunch Mobility Pitch-off.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 20, 2019

Revenue-Based Investing (“RBI”) is a new form of VC financing, distinct from the preferred equity structure most VCs use. … While we do lots of work in these areas due to the attractive opportunity set, we are not an impact investor, and impact qualification is not a criterion that we use in evaluating or funding companies.

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Y Combinator

JULY 24, 2020

require payment financing, invoicing/approvals, inventory management) and requirements differ from vertical to vertical. As a result, B2B buyers are looking for online platforms to help with the discovery, purchase, and financing of new products. Everlane, Dolls Kill).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

TC Sessions: Mobility will feature speakers on the main stage, a bevy of startup exhibits, demos, networking and a live pitch-off with a pretty sweet prize. Buy your general admission or early-stage startup demo package today before prices increase. How to Land Early-Stage Funding. TechCrunch Mobility Pitch-off.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

This would be easy to detect: among their portfolio companies, do startups with female founders outperform those without? First Round Capital found that among its portfolio companies, startups with female founders outperformed those without by 63%.” . 100x investment opportunities only come along in VC occasionally.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

You’ve decided to launch a technology-enabled startup with a positive social impact! Now the bad news: some venture capitalists have a bias against startups with an explicit positive social impact, on the grounds that they have a smaller addressable market, and that the founders are not sufficiently focused on creating shareholder wealth.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2022

TC Sessions: Mobility will feature speakers on the main stage, a bevy of startup exhibits, demos, networking and a live pitch-off with a pretty sweet prize. Buy your general admission or early-stage startup demo package today before prices increase. How to Land Early-Stage Funding. TechCrunch Mobility Pitch-off.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

million Series A financing led by i2E Management Company Inc., PhotoniCare has developed a patented imaging platform that provides growth opportunities beyond otology (study of the ear). . – September 3, 2020 – PhotoniCare, Inc., with co-investment from OSF Ventures, Sony Innovation Fund, and Dreampact Ventures.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

VI: Revenue-based financing: The next step for private equity and early-stage investment. This is a summary of: Revenue-Based financing: State of the Industry 2020. —– Greater Colorado Venture Fund (GCVF) is a $17M seed fund that invests in high growth startups in rural Colorado using equity and Flexible VC structuring.

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OurCrowd

MAY 23, 2021

Startup of the Week: BionicHIVE’s robot warehouse. Startup of the Week: BionicHIVE: Elon Musk hails “robot future”. OurCrowd portfolio company Phantom Auto , a California-based startup focusing on remote vehicle operation, will provide logistics equipment heavyweight Mitsubishi Logisnext Co. Introductions. Learn More.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

VI: Revenue-based financing: The next step for private equity and early-stage investment. This is a summary of: Revenue-Based financing: State of the Industry 2020. —– Greater Colorado Venture Fund (GCVF) is a $17M seed fund that invests in high growth startups in rural Colorado using equity and Flexible VC structuring.

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