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

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. They often are very hardworking, capital efficient, and insightful on the problem to solve.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

JIC Venture Growth Investments led the Series E equity funding, with participation from Z Venture Capital , a venture investment arm of Z Holdings, Japan Post Capital and Salesforce Ventures. The latest round will help Zeals accelerate new product development, diversify go-to-market channels and support overseas expansion.

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Dream It

APRIL 23, 2019

For example, voice-powered ecommerce reached approximately $2 billion in 2017 and Gartner predicts that about 30% of web browsing will happen via voice (and without a screen) by 2020. In 2017, Medscape surveyed more than 14,000 physicians and found that 51% of them reported burnout, up from the 40% in 2013.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 21, 2023

Register Indian fintech platform PhonePe has raised an additional $200 million in investments from Walmart, bringing the company closer to its $1 billion target fundraise in capital. The company’s goal is to build new offerings for Indian consumers and merchants while enabling financial inclusion across the nation.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Register An India-based tech-enabled global platform that offers environmental, social, and governance (ESG) and accounting and reporting consulting, has officially announced the launch of its operations after it also earned $12.5 The founding round was led by Nexus Venture Partners, a leading Silicon Valley-India venture capital firm.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Wong Wei Kong, Editor-in-Chief of the English/Malay/Tamil Media Group at SPH Media, expressed the strategic significance of the acquisition, which will enable them to provide a more comprehensive array of products and services to their readers. million in November 2017, adding to its total funding raised, which exceeds $13 million.

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Dream It

APRIL 24, 2019

million seed round in 2017, uses DSLR cameras and computer vision to create 3D experiences. The startup has raised over $13 million to enable designers and individuals to build dream homes using a massive product library of digital furniture from retailers like Amazon, Houzz, and Wayfair. The company, which raised a $1.3

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The round was co-led by L Catterton, a joint venture between LVMH and Catterton, Entrée Capital and Pico Venture Partners. Prior to the Series A round, Niio had raised $8 million, initially from strategic angels, followed by a seed round from institutions in 2017. The NFT market is just getting started, but where is it headed? .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

million pre-seed funding it has raised from the Founders Factory Africa, FrontEnd Ventures, Adaverse, Gullit, Five35, Renew Capital, Changecom, XA Network, Ajim Capital, Artha Ventures, Daba Finance, Google Black Founders Fund, and several angel investors. Its Gross Merchandise Value was slightly over $30 million in 2022.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

a wholly owned subsidiary of Fortescue, a global green technology, energy and metals company,has chosen Dover, Delaware, to base its operations to support global decarbonization and establishment of the hydrogen economy. February 26, 2024 ) – FFI Ionix Inc.,

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 28, 2022

Register Vietnam-based e-commerce enabler OnPoint secured a $50 million Series B funding in a round led by SeaTown Private Capital Master Fund. SeaTown Holdings, an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Temasek Holdings, run the SeaTown Private Capital Master Fund.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2022

Cronje, the company’s CEO, told TechCrunch on a call that DataProphet’s focus on providing end-to-end prescriptive AI for manufacturing plants to improve their yield started in 2017. And there’s a second aspect: The solution we’ve got to enable customers to realize yield is an end-to-end prescriptive solution.

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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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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2021

Tiger Global Management led the latest investment, which also included participation from ICONIQ Capital and D1 Capital Partners. With the latest capital infusion, Side’s total raised since its 2017 inception now totals over $250 million. Matrix Partners, Sapphire Ventures, Trinity Ventures and 8VC led its earlier rounds.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2023

Today, Simpplr sells what’s essentially an internal social network for companies — one that enables employees to create profiles, share content, follow users and engage in polls or surveys via a tailored intranet. ” That second bit raises questions about which “trends,” exactly, Simpplr is monitoring.

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Continuations

OCTOBER 28, 2022

We could run apps other than the official Twitter client for interacting with Twitter, which would enable, among other things, a proliferation of different timeline algorithms. I first started speaking about this seven years ago and have an entire section on it in my book The World After Capital.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2021

The business, which pairs elderly Americans with uncertified-yet-vetted pals, helps offer casual services, such as technology support, grocery delivery or even a fun conversation. It has raised upwards of $91 million in venture capital to date. M is a fully managed, tech-enabled living space for older adults in the United States.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Q-CTRL , a Sydney-based startup that provides quantum control engineering solutions, announced today it has raised a $25 million Series B led by Airbus Ventures with participation from Ridgeline Partners, Main Sequence Ventures, Horizons Ventures, SquarePeg Capital, Sierra Ventures, DCVC, Sequoia Capital China and InQTel. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

Ugandan technology-enabled asset finance company Tugende today announced that it has closed $3.6 Enza Capital participated, alongside some unnamed angel investors. The company uses asset finance, technology and a customer support model to help micro, small and medium-sized enterprises own income-generating assets.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 12, 2023

“We created an educational SaaS that enabled real-time two-way communication between teachers and students through IT. That’s why we created EVENTUS, automating most tasks of business events with IT and enabling data analysis,” Ahn shares. Younghak Ahn serves as the CEO, with Sanghyuk Lee providing management support.

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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

JUNE 1, 2022

Instead, Reeves’ company is envisioning a metaverse experience that can “deepen connection to self, facilitate mental well-being and enable personal and collective transformation.” TRIPP has recently acquired another company, cross-service world-building platform Eden.

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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

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. We profiled the company at the beginning of its journey in 2016 and then again in 2017 when it raised $2 million. The company raised an additional $8.5

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2023

Launched in 2017 by Shashank Bijapur, Madhav Bhagat and Rohith Salim, the company today closed a $26 million Series A funding round led by Premji Invest, which also had participation from Prosus Ventures, 021 Capital, Arkam Ventures, Riverwalk Fund and 100x Entrepreneur Fund.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

Founded in 2017, San Francisco-based Truework integrates with payroll providers including Gusto, Zenefits and BambooHR, and enables mortgage providers and lenders (e.g. The company also supports background checks for employers and staffing companies seeking to verify potential new hires.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

Today, it has raised a $15 million extension from existing investors — RMBV, IFC, Flourish Ventures, Crystal Stream Capital, Rise Capital, Endeavour Catalyst, Beco Capital and 4DX Ventures — bringing its total Series A fundraise to $55 million. The company subsequently raised a $3 million seed round.

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

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. million in Series A funding in 2017 — has the kind of momentum that investors like.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

Coatue Management led the round, which brings San Francisco-based Side’s valuation to $1 billion and total funding raised to over $200 million since its 2017 inception. CEO Gal said existing brokerages are designed to support “average” agents and as such, the top-producing agents end up having to do “all of the heavy lifting.”.

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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.” ” It helps founders build complementary co-founding teams, provides support with deep business model validation and a global platform for scaling their businesses. Turning professionals to founders.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

How can you get free money and other support for your business idea? . I have been researching this both to support Versatile VC ’s portfolio companies and also as part of research for my new book, To University and Beyond: Launch Your Career in High Gear. Participants have a chance to win more than $250,000 in cash and other support.

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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. Bain Capital Ventures Partner Stefan Cohen agrees. It plans to use the new capital to continue growing its product suite, expand into new global markets and for strategic acquisitions.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Zesty today closed a $75 million Series B round co-led by B Capital and Sapphire Ventures with participation from Next47 and S Capital. Because in a world that’s always changing, Zesty enables the infrastructure to change right around with it.” ” Those are lofty promises to be sure.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

VC firms have taken notice: notable investors in Atlantic Canadian startups include Breakthrough Energy Ventures , a fund supported by Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson. Bird also pointed out that the Atlantic time zones are ideal, enabling effective communications with Europe as well as the rest of North America.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

PenguinFaceplant.gif : Club Penguin was shut down in 2017 , but fans rebooted it — without authorization from Disney. We spoke with: Todd Harrison, founding partner and CIO, CB1 Capital Management. Yoni Meyer, partner, Casa Verde Capital. Oliver Lamb, co-founder and investment manager, Óskare Capital.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

Existing backers Amity, S28 Capital, Sequoia and Y Combinator also participated in the financing, which brings the San Francisco-based company’s total raised to $63 million since its 2017 inception. He, co-CEO Conway Teng and CTO Hubert Wong founded CaptivateIQ after coming out of Y Combinator’s Winter 2017 cohort. .

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