Smart Hustle Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Congrats to Alice , the first platform powered by AI that works as a personal business adviser to small business owners, for securing its series A investment found. Smart Hustle covered Alice here , in 2017. Terms of the financing have not been disclosed.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Startup SG Founder The Standards, Productivity and Innovation Board Spring (SPRING) consolidates various startup assistance programs. Startup SG Tech Grant Startup SG Tech, a key initiative for technological firms in Singapore, underwent enhancements in 2017 to facilitate better cash flow for successful applicants.

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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. From Sendwave to Wave.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Yet as we enter February 2017 the VC funding markets are booming, Snap, Inc has filed for its IPO, AppDynamics was just purchased for $3.7 But the reality is that “global warming” massively blunted the effects of winter and my prognosis for VC fundings of entrepreneurs in 2017–2018 is now very sunny indeed.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Biggs explored the potential for blockchain technology to help solve humanitarian challenges through her venture, Proof of Purpose, in 2017, and her TEDx speech on Blockchain Technology that year is considered by many in the blockchain space to be one of the best in the genre.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. Since 2017 we’ve managed $3 million in revenue-based financing, which helps cash-strapped technology companies grow. Investment Criteria: B2B SaaS or tech-enabled services with proven, recurring contracts. Alternative Capital. “

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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. CI Security, a seven-year-old, Seattle, Wa.

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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. ADDX is on a mission to democratise the private markets.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Founded in 2017, Arizona-based Aira didn’t waste any time proving out its technology. version of FreePower on the horizon, and Jawad having just joined our board, this is an inflection point for Aira.”. The news also sees Axon CFO Jawad Ashan joining Aira’s board of directors. With so many partnerships in our pipeline, a 2.0

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2021

Investment app StashAway has raised a $25 million Series D led by Sequoia Capital India, with participation from returning investors Eight Roads Ventures and Square Peg. After regulatory approvals for the funding are completed, Sequoia Capital India managing director Abheek Anand will join StashAway’s board of directors as part of the round.

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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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

million Series A round back in 2017, but it also raised $20 million in Series B funding in 2019. As part of the investment, Josh Zelman, vice president at Insight Partners, will join Bitrise’s board, while Matt Koran, also vice president at Insight, will act as a board observer.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

This financial leader could well have come through the finance org at another startup or at a larger company but they often also can come from strategy consulting (Bain, BCG or McKinsey) or through investment banking (Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, etc.). Seriously, this happens.

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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

“Allianz Malaysia is one of the very few corporates that has been at the forefront in driving digital innovation in Malaysia , and as one of the earliest regional VCs to set up shop in Malaysia, Gobi is very proud to have them on board as one of our key LPs,” said Gobi co-founder and chairman, Thomas G.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 16, 2021

Sikka, 54, resigned from the top role at Infosys in 2017 after months of acrimony between the board and a cohort of founders. AI startup investment is on pace for a record year. Fei-Fei Li (co-director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI) has joined Vianai Systems’ advisory board.

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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

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. These are relevant localized data that have long been left out of the bigger pool of KYC and fraud prevention.

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HPA

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Bess Goodfellow is focused on enterprise and consumer investments. Bess has also been involved in the firm’s investments in Clearcover, Provi, and Catalytic. In addition, she manages the organization’s sourcing activity, analyzes market data and trends, and captures investment performance.

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Secure Docs

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Total volume and value were almost equal to the third-quarter average for 2017-2019. Equity investments are down across the board, and M&A activity is no exception. Roughly 5,100 deals totaled $730 billion in Q3 2022. The drop in activity is less dramatic than it seems, thanks to a record-breaking year last year.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

However , some venture firms have taken this up a notch by bringing founders to create a fund and invest together. Since the firm’s first fund launched in 2017, MAGIC has invested in 70 companies at pre-seed and seed stages across these emerging markets. The interesting bit? ” MAGIC Fund 1 was $1.5

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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 We chose Softbank Investment Advisers because of their shared vision,” said Luk in a statement. “We

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

She will also take a seat on Deputy’s board of directors. She is also a board member of Lemonade and Kiva. Between its formation in 2008 and 2017, Deputy didn’t have a CEO, until Ahmed stepped into the position after the startup’s first funding round. Deputy says it has surpassed $100 million AUD (about $69.5

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2021

Tech investments in emerging markets have been in full swing over the past couple of years and their ecosystems have thrived as a result. Some of these markets like Africa, Latin America, and India, have comprehensive reports by publications and firms on trends and investments in their individual regions. Such a task is Herculean.

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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. The new investment, which closed in May, gives the company $23 million in total funding since it was founded. million in seed funding. At the time, it had grown revenue by 2.5x

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 29, 2018

We hardly invent any new technologies and don’t invest enough in research and development,” Suhail says. “I The first-ever FALAK UTS launched in May 2017 as a two-day summit on innovation and disruption. In 2017 there were 200 attendees. I want to encourage more innovative thinking.”. Promoting Disruption.

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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. Image Credits: All Trails.

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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. Instead, Uber handed over its equity in ATG and invested $400 million into Aurora.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

Titan , a startup that is building a retail investment management platform aimed at the new generation of “everyday investors,” has closed on $58 million in a Series B round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). for ‘next generation’ investment management. It values the company at $450 million. Titan nabs $12.5M

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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. I’m not sure when I first knew the startup I invested in last year was doomed. Needless to say, this was not one of my more successful investments. Uplevel your board and exec team.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Nemrow and Will Bewley founded the San Francisco-based company in 2017. “In As part of the investment, Rexhi Dollaku, partner at Base10 Partners, joins the Woflow board of directors.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The company was acquired by Snapchat in 2017 , and spun out into Foursquare in 2019. As part of the investment, Matt McIlwain, managing director at Madrona Venture Group, is joining Read’s board of directors. The trio previously worked together at location analytics startup Placed, where Shim was also CEO. Read Dashboard.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The round was led by SignalFire, and the company reported that today’s investment represents 5% of its value. Oana Olteanu from SignalFire will be joining the board under the terms of the deal, which includes warrants of $12 million in additional investment at the same price.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2020

billion following a $1 billion investment last year from Toyota, DENSO and SoftBank’s Vision Fund. Instead, Uber is handing over its equity in ATG and investing $400 million into Aurora, which will give it a 26% stake in the combined company, according to a filing with the U.S. Uber wasn’t a party to either arbitration.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Board meetings at @amplehills are dangerous. A post shared by Charlie O'Donnell (@ceonyc) on Dec 20, 2017 at 8:06am PST When you're Ample Hills Creamery , the #1 rated ice cream shop in the country you can pretty much throw everything you've been told about fundraising out the window. Did that seed make this round our Series A?

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The investment accelerates the commercialization and adoption of Pryon’s AI-enhanced knowledge management platform for private and public sectors. As part of the Series B round, Carolyne LaSala from Good Growth Capital and Elizabeth Stein from USIT joined Pryon’s Board of Directors.

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