TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

Mental health startup Ksana Health has received $2 million in seed funding led by re:Mind Capital, the mental health VC arm of Christian Angermayer and Apeiron Investment Group. to 13.1%) between 2009 and 2017. Hardorp will also have a seat on Ksana Health’s board. . “We

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Today, the Palo Alto-based company announced $12 million in Series A funding in a round led by Headline, with participation from Storm Ventures, Global Founder Capital, Zoom Apps Fund, Operator Partners, Industry Ventures and existing investors K9 Ventures, Dragon Capital and Twin Ventures.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Startup SG Founder The Standards, Productivity and Innovation Board Spring (SPRING) consolidates various startup assistance programs. These courses are built to enhance innovation by supporting idea generation, business scalability, capital raising, and consumer validation.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 5, 2021

This study was based on a large sample of VC fund level returns from 2009 to 2017 and does not include the last few years which have been particularly strong for the VC sector. The Gotham Gal and I have been investing in the VC funds of managers we know well and have worked with closely on boards of startups for about fifteen years now.

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Dream It

APRIL 26, 2019

In late-March, the United Kingdom's Huawei Cyber Security Centre Oversight Board reported that the company had not fixed critical security flaws in its products, even after promising to patch specific issues back in 2012. billion user records that hackers compromised in 2017. Sequoia Capital led the round.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Today, mobile DevOps company Bitrise announced it secured $60 million in Series C funding, led by Insight Partners, with participation from existing investors Partech, Open Ocean, Zobito, Fiedler Capital and Y Combinator. million Series A round back in 2017, but it also raised $20 million in Series B funding in 2019.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

Founded by Mark Straub and William Bares in 2017, Smile Identity is a major player in Africa’s ID verification and KYC compliance industry. In a February interview , Straub noted that Smile Identity would use the growth capital it had secured to expand its KYC capabilities into the market, among other things.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 23, 2022

The latest investment brings total funds raised by ADDX to around US$120 million, since the company’s inception in 2017. The latest investment brings total funds raised by ADDX to around US$120 million, since the company’s inception in 2017.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2022

Third is a token-first structure, which has a “lean cap table” consisting of the startup founders that’s a pure placeholder on the road to a fully tokenized structure, i.e., the primary capital-raising vehicle, Matta said. These structures were popular in the 2017-2018 [Initial Coin Offering] days and have become less prevalent today.”.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2022

Antos founded Klarity in 2017 with Nischal Nadhamuni whom he met at MIT. Over the last nine months, the company saw its annual recurring revenue grow nine times and over 24 times year over year, prompting Klarity to raise new capital to invest in sales and marketing to scale and continue investing in R&D.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

The round was co-led by BAce Capital, an Ant Group-backed venture firm, and the direct investment unit of Sun Hung Kai & Co Limited. . Founded in 2017, Loship offered one-hour deliveries for a large range of products and services, including food, ride-hailing, medicine and B2B supplies.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Register Pan-Asian venture capital (VC) firm Gobi Partners announced the closing of its US$10 million Gobi SuperSeed II (Gobi SSII) Fund following the participation of Allianz Malaysia Berhad (Allianz Malaysia) as a Limited Partner (LP). So, we are delighted to join Gobi Partners as one of their LPs.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 28, 2019

Over the last year, the SEC has been investigating a significant number of token offerings that took place in 2017. One of the crypto projects that the SEC has been investigating, where I have had a front-row seat, is the Kin project that was birthed by USV’s portfolio company Kik , where I am on the Board.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Within the past two years, Full Harvest’s impact on keeping food out of landfills grew five times, prompting the company to seek additional capital to keep the momentum going. As part of the investment, Jay Crone, investment director at Telus, joined Full Harvest’s board of directors. The company raised an additional $8.5

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

PRIMECAP Management Company, Reinvent Capital, XN, Fidelity Management and Research LLC, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Index Ventures and Sequoia Capital, as well as strategic investments from Uber, PACCAR and Volvo Group. Venture capital at scale. Rowe Price Associates, Inc., Rowe Price Associates.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 7, 2023

Founded in 2017, Rainmaking APAC is a startup development company dedicated to helping businesses launch, build, and scale in their industries. program, a SGD 20 million initiative introduced by the Singapore Economic Development Board. Both Bain and Rainmaking APAC were selected to participate in the Corporate Venture Launchpad 2.0

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2023

And Walker sits on the board of Believer (formerly Future Meat Technologies), which focuses on lab-grown chicken; Greenlight, a firm applying RNA tech to agriculture; and Hazel, which focuses on boosting the shelf life of produce. In 2017, he co-founded Berkeley Yeast to commercialize this technology and its transformative benefits.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The round also included continuing and new participation from Aperture Venture Capital, BootstrapLabs, Breyer Capital, Duke Capital Partners, Good Growth Capital, Omnimed Capital, Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund, and others.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

Ben Herman and Adam Gefkovicz launched Jumpstart in 2017 with a clear mission: to make the world more equitable via a more fair and balanced hiring process. Early Stripe employee and angel investor Lachy Groom and Sequoia Capital co-led the round, which included participation from Four Rivers Capital.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Seeing the modern world of voice technology as more people were outfitting their homes with Amazon’s Alexa, Google Home and voice-controlled televisions, the trio pivoted their business in 2017 to create a similar experience for the world of customer service. Customer care as a service: Outsourcing can help your startup wow clients 24/7.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

Cresicor was a company name Whatley had come up with back in 2017 when he founded the company with his brother Daniel, Stuart Kennedy and Nikki McNeil. As part of the investment, 645 Ventures Managing Partner Nnamdi Okike will join Vividly’s board. million in seed funding. At the time, it had grown revenue by 2.5x

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Nemrow and Will Bewley founded the San Francisco-based company in 2017. “In Craft Ventures is back for the second round, this time in a participatory role with a group of angel investors, with Base10 Partners and Construct Capital co-leading the Series A.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Smart Hustle covered Alice here , in 2017. Founded in 2017 by Elizabeth Gore and Carolyn Rodz, Alice uses AI to connect small business owners to resources from enterprise companies, governments and organizations, providing an online platform that acts as a free business adviser. Terms of the financing have not been disclosed.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As a startup in this phase you often raise capital, get press, hire staff and everything feels possible. With $30 million raised in 2017 ($57 million total) we feel in a great position to execute against our ambitions and truly scale our operations although we know each new phases adds new challenges.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

A month before the COVID-19 pandemic had spread to North America, auto fintech startup MotoRefi — newly armed with nearly $9 million in venture capital — was preparing to bring its refinancing platform to the masses. Liza Benson, a partner at Moderne Venture, will join the board. trillion in auto loans.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 17, 2019

As an EO Vancouver member, he was the 2017 Entrepreneurs’ Organization Global Citizen of the Year Award. And if you’re planning to scale with venture capital, you’d better be ready to set aside the next three to seven years of your life to be head-down in the business. Uplevel your board and exec team.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

The San Francisco-based startup is adding to its capital raise Monday with the announcement of a $12 million Series A round led by David Sacks and Arra Malekzadeh of Craft Ventures. Existing investor Merus Capital, which led Moesif’s $3.5 Existing investor Merus Capital, which led Moesif’s $3.5 Moesif raises $3.5M

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2021

based-Updata Partners led the financing, which also included participation from existing backers previous investors Silverton Partners, Active Capital, Rain Capital and SaaS Venture Partners. The company also plans to use its new capital toward expanding its geographic reach and scaling both direct and channel sales efforts.

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

On the education front, he says the outfit provides online accredited education, drug information, job listings, discussion boards and everything else its community of pharmacists needs to advance professionally and better serve patients. million in Series A funding in 2017 — has the kind of momentum that investors like.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The new capital was led by Third Point Ventures , with participation from existing investors Sapphire Ventures, More Capital, Disruptive AI, Vertex Growth, 40North, Samsung Next and TCP. . Verbit was founded in 2017 by Livne, who previously had a career in law. Boosted by the pandemic, meeting transcription service Otter.ai

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2022

Firework has now taken in more than $235 million in funding since it was founded in 2017 by co-founders Vincent Yang and Jerry Luk. “We Startups like Upmesh and Drip are also attracting some of those venture capital dollars; most recently Drip raised $28.5 The company says it is now valued at $750 million.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

The New York-based company raised a $20 million Series A in a round of funding led by Sonoma Brands and including Global Founders Capital, Monogram Capital, Lakehouse Ventures and Brand Foundry. The new investment gives Mixlab total funding of $30 million, said Fred Dijols, co-founder and CEO of Mixlab.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) led its Series D, which also included participation from return backers TTV Capital, Canapi Ventures, Wells Fargo Strategic Capital, BOND, Fin VC, Goodwater Capital, as well as new investors Wellington Management, Owl Ventures and LionTree Partners. Image Credits: Greenlight.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

Based on nfinite’s performance in the past year, this is an area ripe for both e-commerce and venture capital investors. The new round was led by Insight Partners and included participation from existing investor US Venture Partners and gives nfinite a total of $130 million in venture-backed funding since the company was founded in 2017.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

Existing backer Goodwater Capital doubled down on its investment in Jerry, leading the “oversubscribed” round. Bow Capital, Kamerra, Highland Capital Partners and Park West Asset Management also participated in the financing, which brings Jerry’s total raised to $132 million since its 2017 inception.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

. “This stickiness is manifesting itself in terms of app usage and frequency, and across the board improvements in sign up rates, user-generated content contribution rates, freemium conversion rates, and subscriber retention rates,” he adds. The company had previously raised $75 million from Spectrum Equity in October 2018.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Aurora Innovation, the autonomous vehicle startup backed by Sequoia Capital and Amazon, has reached an agreement with Uber to buy the ride-hailing firm’s self-driving unit in a complex deal that will value the combined company at $10 billion. Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi will take a board seat in the newly expanded Aurora.

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