TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The venture capital market has skewed later and larger in recent quarters, something you might have felt in the rapid recent pace of new unicorn formation. It’s possible to see how venture is trending towards bigger, later-stage rounds in other pieces of private market data. 2020’s venture capital market.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

It’s a new year – 2016. We’re a national venture capital investment firm but with our roots firmly in Los Angeles. 2016 is going to be a tough year. So spending time thinking about what your leadership style is, whether it’s effective and what you could do to improve it can yield dividends.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 29, 2024

Born Ready, a venture capital fund focused on Web3 initiatives has partnered with Catalyze Research to introduce the Catalyze Futureverse Ecosystem Fund. Futureverse was established in 2016 by Aaron McDonald and Shara Senderoff, and in […]

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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

APRIL 27, 2021

Bobby Franklin is the president and CEO of the National Venture Capital Association and previously served as an executive vice president for the CTIA – The Wireless Association. A new foreign investment bill will impact venture capital and the US startup ecosystem. More posts by this contributor.

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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. But its DPU architecture was difficult to develop for, reportedly, which might’ve affected its momentum.

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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

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Wherever we looked, we’ve found venture capital flowing in record quantities. Zoom showed up in Denver back in 2016 , notably, The city is also attracting folks in what we might call tech’s middle tier. Denver, our focus this morning, is similar. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 7, 2023

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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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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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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 17, 2023

Register Singapore-based venture capital firm Jungle Ventures has announced its merger with HealthXCapital , an early-stage VC firm specializing in healthcare investments. HealthXCapital’s maiden fund of $20 million, launched in 2018, has had Jungle Ventures as a limited partner.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 24, 2023

Launched in 2022, GGV Capital’s SMBTech 50 demonstrates both the breadth and depth of the sector and the enthusiasm of venture capital investors for these companies. About GGV Capital GGV Capital is a global venture capital firm partnering with founders to build category-leading companies around the world.

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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

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

As a private company, Coupang has raised billions , including capital from American venture capital firm Sequoia and Japanese telecom giant SoftBank and its Vision Fund. Observe its yearly revenue totals from 2016 through 2020: 2016: $1.67 Coupang’s surging scale. billion (+43.7%). billion (+68.8%).

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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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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 23, 2024

Business analytics platform CB Insights released their State of Fintech 2023 Report which indicates the fintech sector experienced a greater downturn than the broader venture capital market—which reported that Q4’23 was “the harshest quarter for global VC in 6 years”. Globally, fintech funding was down 50% year over year to $39.2

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

China’s autonomous vehicle industry first started seeing some traction around 2016, when a bunch of ambitious startups mushroomed following advances in lidar, computing and machine learning. “Back then, if you told people you were doing Level 2.5 or 3 [the human driver is expected to take over], you would be scorned.

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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

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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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

AUGUST 11, 2021

The Exchange was curious about the impact of the Chinese government’s actions on the venture capital market. Could regulatory changes shake up the venture model that helped grow the country’s largest tech concerns? But first, a reminder of how well China’s venture capital market was performing as 2020 eased its way into 2021.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

It won’t be the last venture group to pull back from an expansion of its traditional investing remit. During the COVID-19 pandemic’s first years, the pace at which venture capital firms could raise money expanded. venture capitalists saw their capital inflows more than double from $23.5 billion in 2016.

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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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Knife Capital , a South African venture capital firm, is raising a $50 million fund for startups looking to raise Series B financing. The first fund, known as Knife Capital Fund I or HBD Venture Capital, was a closed private equity fund managed by Eben van Heerden and Keet van Zyl. and Europe.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

According to the Latin American Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (LAVCA), Rappi focused on delivering beverages and first, and has since expanded into meals, groceries, tech goods and medicine. A16z’s initial investment in July 2016 was the Silicon Valley firm’s first investment in Latin America, according to LAVCA.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

Lemann and Saggioro met in 2016 when Lemann was an angel investor and Saggioro was testing different business models at Harvard. What united them was the realization that not only was technology going to be a disruptor and innovator in Latin America, but also that there was not much capital committed to finance companies in the early stages.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 2, 2022

Seven venture capital firms participated in the latest round: DS Asset Management, Industrial Bank of Korea, Hanwha Investment & Securities, S&S Investment, Toss investment, Korea Asset Investment & Securities and Venture Field. “The

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 24, 2023

MegaStudy, the anchor investor, is a prominent venture capital firm that has consistently demonstrated a keen interest in fostering innovation and supporting emerging businesses. ” Established in 2016, the Yoon Min-chang Investment Foundation has emerged as a leading institution for early-stage investments.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

Notably, two of the main investors are not venture capital firms but instead are two large tech companies: Latin American e-commerce giant Mercado Libre and San Francisco-based software developer Globant. The raise brings Digital House’s total funding raised to more than $80 million since its 2016 inception.

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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

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. “We’re still seeing lots of startups being founded, in Finland specifically.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 28, 2024

In 2014, 2016, 2020, 2021, these big mergers drove the figures into the tens of billions. X 2015 20.1% - 2016 43.0% X 2015 20.1% - 2016 43.0% Multi-billion dollar acquisitions, the blue bars, are the largest contributors to this swing. Year Share Good Year 2012 18.4% - 2013 25.9% - 2014 65.5% X 2019 23.4% - 2020 61.1%

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Reports say healthtech in Africa should reach a market value of over US$11 billion by 2025 and Reliance Health is looking to play a pivotal role in the continent reaching that capitalization. The company was founded in 2016 by Femi Kuti , Opeyemi Olumekun and Matthew Mayaki. year-over-year revenue growth from 2016.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

Ojansuu and Hanhirova launched Happeo ’s first incarnation, “Universe,” in early 2016. To date, Happeo has raised $47 million in venture capital, including a $26 million Series B round co-led by Endeit Capital, Smartfin and Evli Growth Partners that closed today.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

It also included returning investors Mirae-Asset Naver Asia Growth Fund and Z Venture Capital. It expanded into five markets before shutting down its operations in Taiwan and the Philippines in 2016. The round was led by Naver Financial Corporation and Gafina B.V., It continues to operate in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

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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