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

OCTOBER 14, 2022

It’s not a tech company this time — Awoyemi co-founded online jobs site Jobberman (which was acquired by ROAM Africa in 2016) and Whogohost, a bootstrapped hosting platform — but instead, a venture studio: Fast Forward Venture Studio. Here are some of the startups in the venture studio portfolio.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 28, 2023

The funding was led by Prosperity7 Ventures, a growth fund associated with Aramco Ventures, and included additional investment from SoftBank Ventures Asia. Additionally, Sunrate aims to venture into new markets, including the Middle East, further extending its global presence.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

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. Venture funding does remain elusive , but here are some tricks for startup founders to hack the system. Funding for Black entrepreneurs in the U.S.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

But progress is being made as seen in the rising number of women-led venture funds that focus on funding women entrepreneurs. In addition, Crunchbase reports that w omen-founded venture firms in the U.S. venture firms allocated only 22% of their deals to female-founded startups. billion of total venture capital.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 8, 2025

The company announced it has received a strategic equity investment from Samsung Ventures Investment Corporation (Samsung Ventures). This investment highlights Samsung Ventures commitment to future healthcare technology and recognizes Pisons potential in neurocognitive assessment and tracking capabilities.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Register Established in 2016 and headquartered in New York, SoGal Ventures is a venture capital firm dedicated to early-stage investments in diverse founding teams, operating in both the United States and Asia. Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet?

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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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 19, 2024

By the time I founded Equifund in 2016, I was deeply familiar with the landscape and felt prepared to tackle the challenge. Weren’t entrepreneurs tired of the golden handcuffs of venture capitalists and bankers? The problem I was solving was so clear to me. What could go wrong?

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JUNE 30, 2020

2016 YLAI Fellow Marco Mendieta is working hard to develop the small business community of Ecuador and regenerate the economy following the devastating earthquake of 2016. By Jewelle Saunders. What factors led you to create Misión Ecuador and what is its mission? With the support of the U.S.

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Dream It

MAY 18, 2020

Wellth , a platform designed to improve treatment adherence using behavioral economics, announced the closing of their $10M Series A round, co-led by yabeo and Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund ( BIVF ). Wellth graduated from Dreamit’s Healthtech program in 2016.

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Revolution

JANUARY 19, 2021

One characteristic I have discovered and tracked with fascination since 2016?—?in Silicon X Syndrome So if cities are like startups, what “startup-ish” characteristics might they exhibit? And that’s a good thing. That difference?—?the the unique DNA of each city?—?is is core to its competitive advantage.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

As an investor in The Wing, I have no doubt that Audrey can relate the impossible expectations we set for ambitious women and the nearly non-existant margin for error, especially given that the company took off after the 2016 election. It makes me want to quit venture capital entirely. With both leaders, mistakes were certainly made.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The company was founded in 2016 by Femi Kuti , Opeyemi Olumekun and Matthew Mayaki. year-over-year revenue growth from 2016. Other investors involved in the round include Partech, Picus Capital, Tencent Exploration, Africa Healthcare Master Fund, P1 Ventures, Laerdal Million Lives Fund and M3 Inc. Image Credits: Reliance Health.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2022

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. million in seed funding to expand its audience and build new verticals.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

The company’s popularity has made it from bedroom DJs to the Goldman Sachs boardroom as the financial services giant joined MUSIC, a joint venture between the music executive Matt Pincus and boutique financial services firm Liontree in leading the company’s latest $55 million round. Steve Martocci at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2016.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Two years ago, the African tech ecosystem saw newfound attention from global players that translated to the continent’s best year of receiving venture capital. Venture capital investment in Africa predicted to reach a record high this year. In Africa, the first two unicorns were Jumia (in 2016) and fintech giant Interswitch (in 2019).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

” WaveOne was founded in 2016 by Lubomir Bourdev and Oren Rippel, who set out to take the decades-old paradigm of video codecs and make them AI-powered. Prior to the Apple acquisition, WaveOne attracted $9 million from backers including Khosla Ventures, Vela Partners, Incubate Fund, Omega Venture Partners and Blue Ivy.

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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

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. Terra Drone-owned Unifly, a UTM provider, also has a presence in Europe and North America.

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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. They were joined by Cisco Investments, DFJ Growth, Intel Capital, ServiceNow Ventures, AMD Ventures, WCM, Amazon, Elad Gil, and Meta.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 4, 2022

and they’ve partnered with TechStars, ID Ventures, Bamboo, Wayne State University and others to do just that. And last but not least, InvestNext launched in 2016, a Detroit-based fintech startup whose mission is to transform the process in which investment firms raise and manage capital. And they’re on their way.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

million in Series A-1 financing from existing investors led by Base10 Partners, VisionTech, and Collina Ventures and its new investor IU Ventures. The online board management portal announced that it closed $2.6 This brings Boardable’s total Series A funding to $10.6

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 24, 2023

Register Mark & Company, led by CEO Kyungpyo Hong, has announced the establishment and management of a new venture investment fund in partnership with Yoonmin Creative Investment Foundation, chaired by Minseop Sung. Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet?

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

When the autonomous car company Cruise got quickly snapped up by GM in 2016 jaws dropped at the $1b+ reported price (we were small investors in Cruise). And in venture, one thing is true about huge exits…. There you go. Once the acquiring company CEO and Board is framing the transaction this way the startup has won.

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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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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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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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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 9, 2021

A group of former Microsoft executives and engineers — Anoop Gupta , Aravind Bala , John Tippett , Vikas Manocha — founded SeekOut in 2016. Existing backers Madrona Venture Group and Mayfield also participated in the financing, which brings SeekOut’s total funding since inception to $73 million.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 31, 2023

Register The tally of recognized startups and acquisitions, burgeoning to 84,012 in 2022 from a mere 452 in 2016, is a testament to the positive impact of investment incentives and simplified business regulations, as highlighted by the Economic Survey 2022-23.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2021

. “As we get closer to a post-pandemic world, the need to create hybrid event experiences is going to quickly accelerate as people start venturing out to attend physical events. Socio was founded in 2016 and raised around $7 million in investment capital, according to Crunchbase data.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Uber participated in the round as a strategic investor, alongside Delivery Hero-backed DX Ventures, 7-Eleven’s corporate venture arm 7-Ventures and Wavemaker Partners’ food automation-focused venture studio Wavemaker Labs. . “Our goal is to put robots in every major U.S.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Other participants are existing investors MDI Ventures , GGV Capital and Telkomsel Mitra Inovasi, and new investors including Singtel Innov8. They announced on Monday, November 14, the signing of definitive agreements that will allow KKR to participate as the lead investor in the $48 million Series C funding round.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

But as ventures as an asset class grows and the documentation around raises gets thornier, the data can sometimes be missing a big chunk of what’s actually happening on the scenes. The company’s primary backer was Lore, who sold his company Jet.com to Walmart in 2016 for $3.3 Sign up here. Data on startups is dreadful.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Taing founded Bokksu in 2015 and launched a Japanese snack subscription service in 2016. The funding was led by Valor Siren Ventures , with participation from Company Ventures , St. We are thrilled to partner with Bokksu as they scale their business,” said Jon Shulkin, partner and fund manager of Valor Siren Ventures. “In

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

Launched in 2016, the startup works with a network of agents, who recruit farmers and retailers to its platform. Apollo uses the satellite imagery data of farms and AI to rate the credit-worthiness of farmers. It plans to use the new funding to refine its technology and deliver more products and services to farmers.

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