TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2023

VCs see a rich opportunity in tools to manage the contract lifecycle. “The capital we raised allows us to capture the market opportunity as it evolves over the next several years,” Bijapur, who serves as CEO, told TechCrunch in an email interview.

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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).

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

VCs include WndrCo, DN Capital, Kismet Capital, Spike Ventures, Quiet Capital, Endeavor Catalyst, FJ Labs, VentureSouq, Nellore Capital and Moving Capital. He founded Yassir with Mahdi Yettou in 2017. The investment came from a long list of VCs and angel investors.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2022

million in Series B funding led by Forgepoint Capital with participation from IVP, SUV, Techstars and Mars. Bringing the company’s total raised to $24 million, the capital will be put toward scaling Cinchy’s outreach and continuing to invest in the startup’s core technology, CEO Dan DeMers told TechCrunch in an interview.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 27, 2022

Register Singapore-based Finbots.AI , an Artificial Intelligence-envisioned firm bringing innovation to banks and financial institutions, announced that it has raised $3 million in a Series A funding round anchored by venture capital firm Accel. Tapping on AI-enabled solutions can help them transform exponentially,” said Uppal.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

Existing investors MetaProp, Expa and Bling Capital also participated in the round, which gives the San Francisco-based proptech company a total amount raised of $13.8 CEO Mark Rojas, whose background is in product development, founded Proper in 2017 after spending a year-and-a-half learning the ropes in a property manager’s office.

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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

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Traditional banks often overlook this segment because of their spending power or financial status and fintechs have seized the opportunity to cater to their needs. In 2017, Mounir Nakhla and Ahmed Mohsen started Halan as a ride-hailing and delivery app offering two and three-wheeler services to customers in Egypt.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

In 2017, Bird and the former CEO of Q1 Labs founded a new cybersecurity company, this one focused on public clouds, called Sonrai Security , which has since raised nearly $40 million in venture capital. venture capital. Sandy co-founded Q1 Labs and then, after the acquisition, became the CTO of IBM’s security division.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

Zac Prince — who comes from a background in consumer lending — founded BlockFi with Flori Marquez in 2017. BlockFi employees who have been employed for more than one year have the opportunity to receive liquidity on a portion of their equity via a secondary tender offer as part of the financing round. .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2021

Mina Shahid , Catherine Denis and Ben Best founded Numida in 2017 and capitalized on the opportunity to build one of East Africa’s first digital fintechs targeting semi-formal micro and small businesses. “That’s an opportunity we see in the future. million seed round. Numida business owners.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

We recently announced investments in downtown Dover, and this expansion will bring even more activity to our state’s capital. “FFI Ionix’s decision to stay and grow in our state is great news for Delaware and our leadership in the hydrogen economy,” said Governor John Carney. “We Christiansen.

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

The app also helps pharmacists search for new job opportunities or to post job offers. SwipeRX’s community-driven commerce model enables small pharmacies in particular to benefit from the power of that broad network by accessing the best prices and better ensuring that medicines are available to them and their patients, he said.

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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. Verbit, which has a strong presence in the U.K.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

Sergio Almaguer, Guillermo Treviño and Roberto Flores founded Yaydoo — the name combines “yay” and “do” to show the happiness of doing something — in 2017. The new funding will enable the company to attract new hires in Mexico and when the company expands into other Latin American countries.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Register The global events and meetings industry is a powerhouse, driving billions of dollars in economic activity with countless business opportunities. “We created an educational SaaS that enabled real-time two-way communication between teachers and students through IT. “Events play a crucial role in B2B sales.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2021

It has raised upwards of $91 million in venture capital to date. While Rothstein left day to day responsibilities at Papa in 2017, his experience there gave him a deeper look into the priorities of older adults and families as they go through the aging journey. The millions in new venture capital money are coming as UpsideH?M

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

It was back in 2017 when he and David Gao got the idea for his company MaxRewards , a digital wallet app that manages credit cards and automatically activates benefits like rewards, cashback offers and monthly credits. When Anik Khan graduated from college, his first job was working on credit cards and business expenses at Accenture.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Today, a new London startup called Harbr , which has built a secure platform to enable big data exchange, is announcing a big round of funding to tap into that demand. Harbr has been around since 2017, but it only came out of stealth mode earlier this year, in May. Harbr is not the only company looking at this opportunity.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

His virtual meeting platform is the latest to receive venture capital funding — $13.5 As we now go back to hybrid work, we see this as an opportunity.”. In 2017, Harvard Business Review reported that executives spent 23 hours in meetings each week. When Hornik heard about Vowel, he said he “jumped quickly” on the opportunity.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 2, 2022

Register Insignia Ventures Partners , a Singapore-based venture capital investor , said it will be more aggressive on “next-decade sunrise sectors” in the region after it announced raising $516 million for three venture funds. The company said it will aggressively explore opportunities in web3, climate tech, healthcare, and agriculture.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

The investment was led by Ed Brakeman, a senior managing director at Bain Capital and Hans den Bieman, founder and ex-CEO of Mowi, one of the largest salmon businesses globally. They concluded that a unique opportunity to rebuild the fish value chain from scratch existed. The company recorded a 130% CAGR between 2017 to 2021.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

When buying online, you don’t get the opportunity to pick up items and look at them, but nfinite is working to change the way products are visualized online so they seem more real. Based on nfinite’s performance in the past year, this is an area ripe for both e-commerce and venture capital investors.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2020

This year, as funding for female founders drops to 2017 levels , Feinzaig realized why accelerators, hers included, might not work for women as well as they work for men: demo day. datacy: Founded by CEO Paroma Indilo and Kaleb Wilson, Datacy is a marketplace focused on enabling ethical and legal data exchange.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Edda was founded initially as Kushim VC back in 2017 , but the company has just completed its official rebranded to Edda, while it has also announced $5.8 million in funding from a slew of backers including iPhone co-creator Tony Fadell’s Future Shape ; Mucker Capital; Plug&Play; FJ Labs; and angel investor Arnaud Bonzom.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

The company announced this morning a $73 million Series B round co-led by Globis Capital Partners and World Innovation Lab (WiL), with participation from existing investors DCM and Global Brain. CADDi was founded by CEO Yushiro Kato and CTO Aki Kobashi in November 2017. The new funding brings CADDi’s total raised so far to $90.5

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

A hospital or clinic posts available shifts, then nurses can peruse opportunities, claim open spots and be paid the same day through the platform. But on Wednesday, the company announced a $60 million dollar growth equity investment from FTV Capital. . A 2017 report by the U.S.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Life House , a boutique hotel brand that has built software aimed at helping independent hotel owners and operators, has raised $60 million in a Series C round of funding co-led by new investors Kayak and Inovia Capital. With the move, Life House has essentially evolved from a tech-enabled hotel operator into a (70-person) SaaS company.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Antler is an early-stage venture capital firm which can also be described as a “company builder.” ChapChapGo enables businesses to transact online in a few minutes with simple invoicing, automatic reconciliation, and faster M-PESA checkouts. To date, Antler has invested in and helped build over 250 companies.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

Some of the greatest areas of innovation opportunity are at the intersection of sectors historically segregated , e.g., computational biology. Participants have the opportunity to receive prizes reaching $40,000. The pitch takes 90 seconds and participants have the opportunity to win prizes totaling $10,000.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Whatley started the company in 2017 with his brother, Daniel, Stuart Kennedy and Nikki McNeil while a Harvard undergrad. Costanoa Ventures led the investment and was joined by Torch Capital and a group of angel investors including Fivestars CTO Matt Doka and Hu’s Kitchen CEO Mark Ramadan.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

. “Chipotle has aggressive goals of achieving 7,000 restaurants, along with a healthy balance sheet, which enables us to invest in in forward-thinking ventures that can help accelerate these growth plans,” Garner said. That came fast on the heels of Pizza Hut’s purchase of online ordering platform QuikOrder in 2017.)

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Italy’s ecosystem for tech venture capital and startups has been in development for years and has made decent strides in the last decade. In 2019, Italian startups attracted $850 million, compared to just €140 million in 2017, as the VC ecosystem became less insular and more international investors arrived.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The company plans to use its new capital mostly to invest in building a community around blockchain. Alchemy started at the right time, in the execs’ view — in 2017 when the market was tiny and many still doubted the opportunity in the space. Our ultimate goal is to bring the promise of blockchain to life,” Lau said.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

He and his co-founders saw an opportunity to innovate around the tail spend space when they launched the company in 2017. “We Frechette has committed to building a diverse workforce, while building a product that enables his customers to buy from a diverse set of suppliers. Today’s $35.6

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Costanoa Ventures is seeing some of its best returns yet as it closed on two new funds, Costanoa Fund IV, a $225 million early-stage fund, and Opportunity Fund II, a $115 million funding investing in later rounds of portfolio companies. Indeed, women now make up 60% of Costanoa’s team and almost 50% of its partners.

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David Teten VC

MAY 19, 2017

That said, I’ve identified quite a few microcredentials, conferences, and other learning opportunities which will help train you to be a better investor. Let’s Talk Ops , Venture Capital Operations Association – fund operations professionals. National Venture Capital Association. NVCA Venture Capital University.

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