AsiaTechDaily

JULY 19, 2023

The funding is expected to help Lazada support local merchants, equipping them to navigate the intensifying rivalry in the local market. TikTok’s CEO, Shou Zi Chew, has announced substantial investment plans in Southeast Asia, recognizing the region’s rapid growth potential.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 15, 2023

Register Olympic gold medalist Greysia Polii has made an investment in Ayo Indonesia, a Jakarta-based sports tech company, joining its seed round. Polii’s interest in the world of investments follows the growing trend of renowned athletes supporting sports technology companies.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2023

Honeycomb was founded in 2016 by two former Facebook engineers to create a new way of looking at application monitoring based on the internal tooling they had seen at Facebook. Today the company announced a $50 million investment, a large sum in today’s tightening VC landscape.

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Jason Malki

AUGUST 3, 2023

Currently, he is a venture specialist for emerging technologies at Schaeffler and manages start-up ecosystems for partnering and investments. Since 2018, he is investing with an emerging tech VC focused on web3 and managing early-stage deal flow. How did you break into entrepreneurship and tech investing?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2016

While there is much discussion about VCs starting to pull back on their investments into startups, the LPs we surveyed don’t expect to slow the pace of investment into VC funds themselves – at least for the foreseeable future. The Biggest Area of Concern is Late Stage Investments.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

Black Innovation Alliance and Village Capital today announced Resource, a national initiative aimed at boosting the efforts of entrepreneur support organizations (ESOs) led by, and focused on, founders of color. Resource aims to give local accelerators and incubators support in the form of training and community.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 15, 2021

In 2016, Jen founded a new business with the same mission to help women entrepreneurs. Invest in yourself – This advice is unique to women. Smart Hustle Small Business Podcast · How One Thriving Leader Supports Women Business Owners. Jen mentioned that the big motivator behind this business was to help women find jobs.

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Dream It

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

That means that we can lend to high-potential students across socio-economic groups, or to talented women whose families may not be able to – or even want to – support their educational aspirations.” We underwrite based on students’ future earning potential, so we’re not limited by a student’s family wealth or lack thereof.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

The open source product proved so popular that he launched a company to support it in 2017, and began building a commercial product for users with enterprise requirements. When they released the commercial version, they sold their first license the following day because people in the community wanted to support them financially.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JULY 28, 2021

STATE COLLEGE, PA – Fourteen companies located in central and northern PA recently received an investment from Ben Franklin Technology Partners that will allow them to further develop and commercialize new products, processes, or software applications. We Invest in Innovation. We Invest in Innovation. Visit [link].

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

African payments company Interswitch has secured a $110 million joint investment from LeapFrog Investments and Tana Africa Capital to scale its digital payment services across the continent , the two private investment firms said in a statement Wednesday. Nigeria’s Interswitch confirms $1B valuation after Visa investment.

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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

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Flip is Insight Partners’ first investment in Indonesia. . The startup obtained a license from Bank Indonesia (BI) in 2016 to provide financial services, including interbank transfers to more than 100 domestic banks, international remittances, e-wallet top-ups, salary transfers and business solution products.

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A Smart Bear

JANUARY 4, 2018

Of course a nice chunk is primary capital, i.e. for the company balance sheet, to invest in growth initiatives, security and quality, and advancing our existing strategic priorities through acceleration and de-risking. The majority of the funds pay back our early investors who believed in us enough to trust us with their money.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

When I began investing a little over five years ago, it felt like the conventional wisdom was that one had to invest in the Bay Area to harvest venture-like returns. So, about two years ago, as a Bay Area resident, living right off Sand Hill Road, started intentionally investing outside the Bay Area.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Their heightened interest is reflected not just in their demand for ESG reports but also in surging investment volumes. Data from the Global Sustainable Investment Alliance highlights a staggering 605% increase in Sustainably-Themed Investing in 2020 compared to 2016.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

“When we went out to raise the fund, the way we size them is bottoms up: looking at how many partners we have, the average investment size they make, how many investments we make in a year and how many years we want to be out. For example, he said his first investment was in cloud monitoring platform DataDog after it had $1.7

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Today, one of the more promising hopefuls building an investing service in the UK is announcing a significant growth round after seeing a surge of attention this year in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. Unlike the investors on its platform, this Series B is coming from a list of big-name strategic players and VCs. and globally.”.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JANUARY 9, 2019

billion between 2012 and 2016. Every dollar invested by the state into Ben Franklin generates $3.90 Ben Franklin does this by serving as a powerful ally for startups and innovation-led companies and by providing the essential support they need to thrive and succeed.”. in additional state taxes, the analysis found.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Investment allows company to develop new medical devices critical to cutting-edge surgeries and medical diagnostics. million Series A Preferred investment in Access Optics, a Broken Arrow-based global manufacturing leader of micro-scale surgical imaging products. Supportive environment. OCTOBER 26, 2021. T: (918) 625-3160.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

OCTOBER 21, 2021

2016 YLAI Fellow Liziane Dranka Silva has realized the necessity of marketing and rebranding to expand and specify the target clientele of her company. . As Brazil descends into an economic crisis made worse by the pandemic, Liziane feels immense pressure to ensure that her company and its supporting nonprofits are “very efficient right now.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The investment is the largest-ever Series A round for the region, and it values Wave at $1.7 Four big-name backers jointly led the round — Sequoia Heritage, a private investment fund and a subsidiary of Sequoia; Founders Fund; payments upstart Stripe; and Ribbit Capital. Wave , a U.S. Both were Series C rounds.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Female-founded venture firms have shown strong support for female-founded startups accounting for 28% of their deal counts from 2016 to October 2021 in startups with at least one female founder. In addition, Crunchbase reports that w omen-founded venture firms in the U.S. raised approximately $7 billion in 2021 , up 59% year over year.

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

About $1B has been invested in early stage SaaS startups as of November 1. The chart above shows the early-stage investment dollars by buyer within the organization. Series A investments totaled $207 million for the first nine months while series B investments touched $720 million. Series B medians were $19.0M

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 6, 2016

The startup fundraising market in 2016 has been difficult to characterize. This posts analyses US headquartered information technology companies which VC-led investment rounds, except for the $793M Series C in Magic Leap , which I excluded as an outlier. VCs invested about $2B in January and February 2016.

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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. Hydroleap was founded in 2016 by Mohammad Sherafatmand, a Ph.D.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 30, 2018

Why are more US VCs investing in international startups? Take a look at The Fortune Unicorn List : of the top 100 most valuable unicorns in 2016, 39 are currently based outside of the United States. This implies that the US is still the center of the VC industry, even while there is more opportunity for US VCs to invest abroad. .

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Source Link

MARCH 30, 2022

However, it’s important to consider what barriers entrepreneurs of color face that may keep them from being able to benefit from investment and support resources. Consider how you can partner with trusted organizations in your community to reach underrepresented groups who need customized support.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JUNE 7, 2019

Ashna Mahepal, founder of Young Help Suriname (YHS) , is a member of the YLAI Network and 2016 YLAI Fellow. Starting as a project manager with a background in engineering, Ashna launched YHS to develop and implement community projects supporting the U.N. Most YHS projects are supported through strategic partnerships.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

With Knife Fund III called the African Series B Expansion Fund, the firm seeks to directly invest in the aggressive expansion of South African breakout companies. It also plans to co-invest in companies across the rest of Africa. In 2016, the VC firm launched its current 12J offering with Knife Capital Fund II.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 2, 2023

The 2nd Pangyo Business Support Hub with Drone Enterprise Support Center (Photo = beSUCCESS) In a bid to foster startups and venture companies that will lead the future drone and UAM market, the Korea Institute of Aviation Safety Technology has been operating the Drone Startup Support Center since 2017.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

with co-investment from OSF Ventures, Sony Innovation Fund, and Dreampact Ventures. We are grateful for strong investor support and our team’s dedication. The grant reported in this press release is supported by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) of the NIH under Award Number 2 R44 DC17422-02.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

The startup has ramped up hiring to help support that growth. MotoRefi has raised $60 million since its inception in 2016. MotoRefi’s platform is available in 46 states and Washington, DC, with plans to be live in all 50 states by the end of the year. Its workforce has now popped to 250 employees.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 16, 2021

2016, the Surface Transportation Investment Act, which includes multiple provisions that will allow the continued development of hyperloop in the United States, with bipartisan support. WASHINGTON DC, June 16, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Today, the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee passed S.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 24, 2021

The number of low-income students attending college is increasing: According to a 2016 report from the Pew Research Center , the total share of undergraduate college students who come from low-income families increased from 12% in 1996 to 20% in 2016. More posts by this contributor. 10 Men Making Waves For Women In Tech.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

He left JP Morgan in 2016 with a drive to start his own company. The company will continue to invest on the payments side and to promote cross-border payments. Our core business will always be lending and our core investments will be payments and technology, but then we will extend to other services that our clients want.”.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Sopoong , a social impact-focused VC, intends to support environmentally minded tech founders in South Korea and Southeast Asia, while building a bridge between Korean conglomerates and startups in the sector. If participating fellows succeed in founding a startup, Sopoong could make a seed investment, Han said.

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