TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2022

The tech industry loves generalizations — and don’t worry, I enjoy my fair share too — but as the downturn continues to play out, it’s increasingly important to think about the structural changes that may be forming in the venture capital landscape. The autonomous vehicle startup raised $1 billion after launching in 2017.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 16, 2021

Joining us onstage as a judge for TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 ‘s Startup Battlefield will be Yasmin Razavi, general partner at Spark Capital. In 2017 she joined Spark, and since then has led investments in Marqueta, Deel, Rapyd, Niantic, Capitolis and Earnin.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

It went live with its mobile and internet banking service in 2016 and launched an instant card issuance product in 2017. Nigeria is becoming Africa’s unofficial tech capital. CardinalStone Capital Advisers , a Lagos-based investment firm, led the Series A investment. ” Image Credits: Appzone.

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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

JUNE 22, 2021

When SoftBank announced its first Vision Fund back in 2017 , TechCrunch gawked at the size of the fundraising vehicle and its $100 million minimum check size. The Vision Fund poured capital into a host of companies with big plans, or what could at least be construed as grandiose hypotheses about the future. And after deploying $98.6

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2023

” You’ll find it cooking on the Sustainability Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 , which runs September 19–21 in San Francisco. In 2017, he co-founded Berkeley Yeast to commercialize this technology and its transformative benefits. TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 takes place in San Francisco on September 19–21.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

Disruptive led the round and joined existing investors PeakBridge and PICO Venture Partners. Since the company started in 2017, Chen says Tastewise has been operating lean, previously raising capital in both 2020 and 2021. And now it has secured another round of funding, this time $17 million in Series A funding.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

That’s why the unicorns and megadeals should come as no surprise: They’re the natural evolution of the ecosystem, of more capital generating more success after years of hard work. The amount of VC capital being funneled into Latin American startups has surged since 2017, with angel investment close behind. investors remain shy.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

With COVID-19 disrupting the entire manufacturing supply chain including semiconductor shortages, companies across multiple industries have been struggling to seek a procurement solution that can rebalance the gap between supply and demand. CADDi was founded by CEO Yushiro Kato and CTO Aki Kobashi in November 2017.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The funding is being led by a strategic backer, Koch Disruptive Technologies , the investment arm of industrial giant Koch Industries (which has interests in energy, minerals, chemicals and related areas), with participation also from new investors State of Mind Ventures, Atento Capital, Summit Peak Investments and Delek-US.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 7, 2017

You need a great idea—ideally one that is disruptive and will scale and that you care about passionately. Many entrepreneurs confide that raising capital is their hardest task. They delay and delay any approach to the capital markets for as long as possible. And for those not blessed with inherited wealth, you need money.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Pan-African focused venture capital firms Samurai Incubate Africa, Future Africa and Consonance Investment Managers led the round. Individual investors like Stephen Pagliuca, the chairman of Bain Capital and Justin Kan of Twitch also participated. million in grants will focus on providing working capital financing to these farmers.

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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. From varying sources, it is estimated up to $2 billion went into African tech startups in 2019.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

By 2017, Duolingo would boast having 200 million users, which was double von Ahn’s goal when he first launched to the public on the TechCrunch Disrupt stage. In June 2015, Duolingo raised a $45 million Series D round led by Laela Sturdy of Google Capital ( later rebranded CapitalG ), valuing the company at $470 million.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The “Start” Track: Geared towards entrepreneurs with innovative business ideas, this track offers a starting capital of $50,000 SGD by Enterprise Singapore and support from an Accredited Mentor Partner (AMP) of the entrepreneur’s choice. The applicant is required to possess a minimum of 30% shares in the company.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Billing itself as “AWS for financial services” the startup — which emerged from Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain — has now raised a $10 million seed funding round co-led by WndrCo and Runa Capital. He says they looked at various fintech verticals in 2017, but decided to go for an across-the-board API approach.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 12, 2022

However, few investors can directly impact the value of the underlying asset, except for private equity and venture capital investors with portfolio acceleration strategies. Blue Line: Barclays Hedge-Fund Industry; 2017 . Mergers & Inquisitions; Brian DeChasare; “Venture Capital Careers: The Complete Guide”.

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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.

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Startup Catalyst

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

David Buchan-Swanson (2017) joined this number as a software engineer). Adam Hibble (2015) co-founded Popgun with Stephen Mawson (formerly of We Are Hunted) under Mawson Ventures where Meg White (2017) works as an AI engineer as she finishes her studies. Jessie Hughes (2017) continues her work as a VR filmmaker.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Scott Friend, partner, Bain Capital Ventures. Vin Lingathoti, a partner at Cambridge Innovation Capital, says entrepreneurs operating in this space face a unique set of challenges when it comes to managing growth and risk. Mario Schlosser (Oscar Health) at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2017. “Often these founders with Ph.D.s

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The new round, the five-year-old Mumbai-headquartered startup’s Series D, was led by GGV Capital. Insurance products had reached less than 3% of the population as of 2017, according to rating agency ICRA. ICRA estimated that of those Indians who had purchased an insurance product, they were spending less than $50 on it in 2017.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

Existing backers Accel, ALLVP, Clocktower and new investor Mantis Venture Capital (founded by The Chainsmokers) also put money in the Series B. Since its 2017 inception, the startup has raised nearly $70 million. There is a growing number of them globally, including Scalable Capital, Bitpanda and Trade Republic in Europe.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Alex Wilhelm uses his weekday column The Exchange to keep a close eye on “private companies, public markets and the gray space in between,” but one effort stood out: An overview of six API-based startups that were “raising capital in rapid-fire fashion” when many companies were trying to find their COVID-19 footing.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Alexander Chachava is a serial entrepreneur, investor and managing partner at LETA Capital , a technology investment firm. Our funds at Leta have also supported startups acquired by international firms, including the sale of Bright Box HK to Zurich Insurance Group in 2017 and WeWork’s acquisition of sales and marketing platform Unomy.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

Colton Gardner , Joseph Woodbury and Preston Alder co-founded Neighbor.com in 2017 with the mission of giving people a more accessible and personal alternative to store their belongings. . With its new capital, the company plans to expand its nationwide network of hosts and renters as well as continue to spread awareness of its marketplace.

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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. Rainmaking APAC’s portfolio centers around co-founding startups in collaboration with corporate partners and entrepreneurial founders.

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 15, 2018

Prior to co-founding CCV, Marlon was an investment director at Intel Capital where he completed his Kauffman Fellowship. We held a few closes prior to the final closed in February of 2017. Healthcare in this country has been broken for a long time and is in desperate need of disruption. When did you start your current fund?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

That’s the product Backbone , the startup Patil helped to cofound, is selling: a platform designed to enable companies to respond to supply chain disruptions by surfacing replacement options, including vendors. Patil cofounded Backbone, which is based in San Francisco, alongside Rajesh Chandran in 2017.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

Enza Capital participated, alongside some unnamed angel investors. “Some clients sell the fully owned motorcycle and use that lump sum of capital to make other investments while coming back to Tugende for a new lease, which is affordable from their daily cash flow.” Michael Wilkerson founded Tugende in 2012.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Sturzenegger and her team launched Amara’s first products in Whole Foods in 2017 after three years of working on the technology. Meanwhile, the shift to nutrition is providing room for many startups to disrupt the baby and child food market. Existing investors from the seed round also participated, including Pharmapacks.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

In 2017, Veev Group began to focus on prefabrication capabilities, and by 2018 it formally pivoted to what it described as “a vertically integrated developer focused on building innovation.” It also claims that a “lean manufacturing strategy” doesn’t require the capital outlay that a large central factory does.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

Next36 focuses on supporting students and recent grads launching their startups, while Next AI supports AI-enabled ventures looking to disrupt industries. . The firm has made seven investments since 2017 with check sizes between 25k and 100k euros. G Ventures is “France’s First Student-Run Venture Capital Fund.”

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Via TechCrunch by Arman Tabatabai: Venture capital has been flooding the various subverticals under the robotics umbrella in recent years, and the construction space is one of the largest beneficiaries. Finishing is the ripest for disruption. As of February 2017, nearly 200,000 construction jobs were left unfilled across the U.S.,

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

What began as Kendra Scott’s project in a spare bedroom has become Kendra Scott’s billion dollar jewelry empire— placing her ahead of celebrities like Taylor Swift and Beyonce on the Forbes’ 2017 list of the richest self-made women. Leah Sibener / 3T Biosciences. And Amoruso’s entrepreneurial success didn’t end there.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2021

Its last funding announcement was a $25 million Series A in October 2017. To help brands capitalize on that, Perfect Corp. capitalizes on that by offering its technology as a SaaS. Google now lets you virtually try on makeup using AR, shop from influencer videos. The new funding brings Perfect Corp.’s Another way Perfect Corp.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

The company announced Thursday that Knowles-Carter is a backer in its $31 million Series A alongside Beechwood Capital, Goat Rodeo Capital, Melitas Ventures, NNS Capital and Trousdale Ventures. “I Hufnagel started the Atlanta-based company in 2017 after a career as a college basketball coach for University of Nevada, Reno.

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2021

Cairo and Dubai-based ride-sharing company Swvl plans to go public in a merger with special purpose acquisition company Queen’s Gambit Growth Capital, Swvl said Tuesday. Swvl was founded by Mostafa Kandil, Mahmoud Nouh and Ahmed Sabbah in 2017. The deal will see Swvl valued at roughly $1.5

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