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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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. The Kauffman Foundation found 47% of US tech founders held degrees in STEM while 34% held degrees in business, finance, and accounting. 1) Freebies for Student Tech Founders. Right here.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

Influential entrepreneurs like Paul Graham and Naval Ravikant always preach the need for startups to have founders-turned-investors on their cap table. As Ravikant puts it, “founders want to know that the people they are taking money from have first-hand experience.” . MAGIC Fund has 12 founders who act as general partners.

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Dream It

MARCH 1, 2019

TELUS Ventures led the round with participation from ScaleUP Ventures , Panache Ventures , Ontario Centres of Excellence , and several angel investors. MedStack , a Dreamit HealthTech alum whose platform provides a privacy and security compliance solution for healthcare apps, recently closed a $2.4 million round of funding.

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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

DECEMBER 5, 2022

million in a funding round led by LAUNCHub Ventures and Hoxton Ventures. It’s now raised $16 million in new funds led by Founders Fund, the San Francisco-based VC, whose portfolio boasts names such as Airbnb, Spotify and SpaceX. To date, the company has raised $22 million in equity and $9 million in venture debt.

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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

APRIL 6, 2021

It’s a known fact that the number of venture dollars flowing to Black and Latinx founders is dismally low. 31, Black and Latinx founders had raised $2.3 billion in funding that had gone to all founders up until that point in 2020. . billion venture dollars invested between 2018 and 2019. of the total $87.3

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Mahendra Ramsinghani is the founder of Secure Octane Investments , investing in cloud infrastructure and security startups. His third book “The Resilient Founder” will be released in 2022. For Manu Bansal, founder of Lightup.ai , raising a seed round from a16z was not a very difficult journey. Mahendra Ramsinghani. Contributor.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

2016 YLAI Fellow Marco Mendieta works hard to develop the small-business community of Ecuador and regenerate the economy following the country’s devastating earthquake of 2016. Learn how other #YLAIStrong entrepreneurs are building their resilience and strengthening their businesses in the face of adversity.

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2022

Sydney Thomas , who was the first hire at Precursor Ventures , a seed and early-stage focused fund that backs first-time founders, is starting her own venture firm. She wants to build a fund that backs founders at the pre-seed stage and then doubles down on them in the seed stage.

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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. million in funding — $15 million of which was raised in a Series A led by Menlo Ventures and $3.4 Women in Fintech.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Pan-African venture capital fund 4DX Ventures and unicorn Flutterwave are the investors in the round, and it signifies two particular markers for the pair. CinetPay , a payment gateway that allows e-merchants and merchants to accept mobile money and other forms of payments in Francophone Africa, has secured $2.4

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2020

In 2019, only one Black woman was named partner in venture capital, according to All Raise , a nonprofit focused on accelerating female founders and investors. Thus, hiring the next generation of founders and decision-makers is key (and promoting them is, too). Thomas did not respond to request for comment.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 10, 2023

Possibly the co-founders of Taktile, Dr. Maximilian Eber and Maik Taro Wehmeyer know. Their two plus year old startup just raised $20 million in funding and set up an advisory board comprised of eight unicorn founders and executives. First, both co-founders have an expertise in machine learning and data science and worked at QuantCo.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2023

Along with two other co-founders, Felix Knoll (a “growth leader” at KPMG Studio) and Paul Spicer (a “product owner” at KPMG), and a team of about 25 developers and data scientists, Dambrot spun out the business — Cranium. It goes without saying that of course he would, given he’s got a stake in the venture.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Nathan Beckord is CEO of Foundersuite.com , a software platform for raising capital and managing investors that has helped entrepreneurs raise over $2 billion since 2016. She recommends that other founders do the same. He is also the host of Foundersuite’s How I Raised It podcast. More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2021

It is clear that Black, women, Latinx and LGBTQ+ startup founders face an uphill battle when it comes to getting a share of the VC investment pie in Silicon Valley. It’s working with another Indy based VC firm, Allos Ventures , and Paul Ehlinger from Allos will be a venture partner at Sixty8.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

The round was co-led by pan-African venture capital firm 4DX Ventures and regional telecom operator Orange. Participating investors include existing funds Uma Ventures and Saviu Ventures and new investors Yamaha Motor, LoftyInc Capital, Proparco, Google Ventures, To.org, Kepple Ventures and Enza Capital.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

The city has undergone infrastructure improvements over the past two decades, tourism has boomed thanks to attractions such as the shipyard where the RMS Titanic was built and Game of Thrones shooting locations, and employment has risen steadily in the city since 2016, according to Northen Ireland’s Department for the Economy.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The flow of venture capital in 2020 has been surprisingly strong given the year’s general uncertainty, but while investors have showered plenty of dough on growth-stage companies, seed-stage startups are down 32% last quarter compared to the year before.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 27, 2023

We reconnected in 2016 and began angel investing in startups in New York City.  We summarize these pearls of wisdom in our new book, Smart Startups: What Every Entrepreneur Needs to Know — Advice from 18 Harvard Business School Founders. For the HBS founders we interviewed, there was no “lightbulb moment” for their startup idea.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

. “This problem is especially acute in Africa because it’s particularly nascent, but this platform is designed for founders across emerging markets. Whereas with Pariti, founders get the needed information or resources that are immediately relevant to helping them get to the next stage of the business. A three-way marketplace.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Falck, now the CEO and founder of Swedish autonomous freight company Einride, also worked as the director of manufacturing engineering assembly at Volvo GTO Powertrain. Einride, which he founded in 2016, is his seventh company. . ” Robert Falck.

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Y Combinator

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Though they didn’t have a tech or startup background, LaRon and his co-founder, Dave Salvant, did have the keen ability to recognize an underserved market. “I Part of becoming a founder is accepting that chaos is a given. Squire Co-Founder and CEO Songe LaRon, Squire Co-Founder and President Dave Salvant.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 31, 2016

Q1 venture capital investment remains steady relative to Q4 2015 at about $15 billion, but down from the near records attained in 2015. So, on a historical basis, venture capitalists are still investing at rates substantially above average. 2016 is off to a slower start than 2015. 2016 is off to a slower start than 2015.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

When Aruna ’s founders first met at university, they wanted to find a way to use their studies in information technology to help family members who were running small fisheries. 4 sustainable industries where founders and VCs can see green by going green. Currently we have 21,000 fishermen on the platform, yet there are about 2.7

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 20, 2019

Many are reporting that they’re seeing a more diverse pool of applicants than traditional equity VCs… even though virtually none have a particular focus on women or underrepresented founders. I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2023

Fungible was launched in 2016 by Bertrand Serlet, a former Apple software engineer who sold a cloud storage startup, Upthere, to Western Digital in 2017, alongside Krishna Yarlagadda and Jupiter Networks co-founder Pradeep Sindhu.

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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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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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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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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. Investors saw the potential, apparently.

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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

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Splice , the New York-based, AI-infused, beat-making software service for music producers created by the founder of GroupMe, has managed to sample another $55 million in financing from investors for its wildly popular service. The company’s previous investors include USV, True Ventures, DFJ Growth and Flybridge.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

Founder and CEO Prince Boakye Boampong started the company in 2019. Before Dash, Boampong was the co-founder of OMG Digital, a YC-backed Ghanaian media startup he started alongside Jesse Ghansah — the current CEO of Float — in 2016. . Other investors in the round include Global Founders Capital and 4DX Ventures.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Now, serial entrepreneur Jason Goldberg — who has founded a number of venture-backed startups — is taking the wraps off another live-streaming platform and marketplace. It’s a compelling proposition, even while other startup founders are also chasing after it. million in Series A funding.

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