TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

The crypto market is showing no signs of slowing down as funds and investors alike continue to deploy massive amounts of capital into the ecosystem. Today’s evidence of the trend: Dragonfly Capital, a crypto-centered investment firm, closed its third venture fund for $650 million, the firm’s managing partner, Haseeb Qureshi, told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

When Christian Lawless founded Conversion Capital in 2015, fintech was only starting to take off. Today, Conversion Capital is announcing that it has raised $122 million for its third fund — more than six times the size of its previous fund — to back early-stage fintech and infrastructure startups.

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FundersClub

JUNE 1, 2017

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

This undisclosed investment is Google’s third from the $50 million Africa Investment Fund targeted at the continent’s early- and growth-stage startups, which the company CEO Sundar Pichai announced last October. The fund is part of Google’s plan to invest $1 billion in “tech-led initiatives” over the next five years.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

Petal operated under stealth until launching its first product, and announcing its first funding, in September 2017. To date, Petal has raised more than $240 million in equity capital and more than $450 million in debt financing. ” The company also plans to add new features and benefits to its cards.

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NZ Entrepreneur

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Kiwi inventory forecasting software StockTrim achieved international sales in the UK, Australia and US immediately after launching in 2017. Sutton was told by a venture capitalist that raising capital can be a full-time job for months, “So be prepared to make 40 to 100 presentations.”. This is a fabulous validation of the concept.”.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 19, 2022

intends to use the funding to investment in technology and scale its business operations and teams in the United States, India and the Middle East. The founding round was led by Nexus Venture Partners, a leading Silicon Valley-India venture capital firm. Uniqus Consultech Inc. The post Uniqus Consultech raises $12.5M

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Part of the newly raised capital will be spent on growing ADDX Advantage, the company’s wealth management platform that was launched early this year for private banks, brokerages and family offices, and for the firm’s global expansion, which include plans to enter more markets both by working with partners and by obtaining new licenses.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 7, 2023

Comcast is now the first and largest corporate partner of the Matriarch Revolutionary Fund which is the first-ever impact investment fund in the U.S. Jaime Gloshay who co-founded NWL in 2017 appreciates the benefits such an investment brings to Native American women business owners and their communities.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Titan , a startup that is building a retail investment management platform aimed at millennials, has closed on $12.5 We came from two different backgrounds with respect to investing,” Percoco recalled. “He I’m the exact opposite and couldn’t invest myself until after Goldman Sachs, where I went to work after Penn.”.

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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. ” Going up against incumbents.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

While FireEye was at it, it also announced a $400 million investment from Blackstone Tactical Opportunities fund and ClearSky (an investor in Respond), giving the public company a new influx of cash to make additional moves like the acquisition it made today. It didn’t come cheap. The stock closed at $14.24

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Most recently, Tencent invested in FJ Dynamics, a Chinese startup selling agricultural automation solutions such as smart tractors and rice transplanters as well as unmanned vehicles for ports and factories to clients around the world. Founded in 2017, FJ Dynamics has links to several big-name corporations in China.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 30, 2022

The opportunity in the market can be attributed to the growth in online social sellers in the country, over 1.25 The company was founded by Mohamed Abdulaziz and Ahmed Sheikha in 2017. The International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Endure Capital led the new financing round. billion by 2024.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Investment apps in Southeast Asia are attracting a lot of funding, and now some are raising fast follow-on rounds, too. The latest round’s lead investor is Valar Ventures, which also led Syfe’s Series A, marking the fintech-focused venture capital firm’s first investment in an Asian startup. Syfe founder Dhruv Arora.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Founded in Estonia and now headquartered in New York, the company has taken a majority investment from U.S. Meanwhile, Pipedrive’s unicorn status adds to a decent run for Atomico, the European venture capital firm founded by Skype’s Niklas Zennström. enterprise software focused private equity firm Vista Equity Partners.

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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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The move to Toronto meant that opportunities for surfing, his favourite pastime, appeared few and far between. My version of the Canadian dream involved capitalizing on the inclusivity of Canadian life,” said Lennert. “My My version of the Canadian dream involved capitalizing on the inclusivity of Canadian life,” said Lennert.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Burns left Twitter in 2017 to join GV, formerly known as Google Ventures. Read on for a Q&A with Burns about her investment thesis, role change and plans as partner. There we just talked about all the opportunities at Google that were not engineering. Her hope has now been met with recognition.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Booz Allen Hamilton, the Virginia-based, defense-focused IT consulting firm, today announced the launch of a corporate venture capital arm, Booz Allen Ventures, that will initially put $100 million toward “strategic” defensive and offensive technologies. In the U.S.,

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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

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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Dream It

APRIL 26, 2019

billion user records that hackers compromised in 2017. Cybersecurity Venture Funding News Deepwatch, which provides managed security services, closed a $23 million Series A led by ABS Capital Partners. Sequoia Capital led the round. CI Security, a seven-year-old, Seattle, Wa.-based

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2023

VCs see a rich opportunity in tools to manage the contract lifecycle. million in the bank, SpotDraft says that it’ll invest in product development and “aggressive growth” in North America, aiming to double its 170-person headcount within the next 18 months.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

VC investment, according to “Beyond Silicon Valley,” a new report co-produced by venture firm Revolution and PitchBook. Case is the founder of the Revolution trio of funds (including the Rise of the Rest Seed Fund), which focus exclusively on investing outside the major hubs of Silicon Valley, New York and Boston.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Today, the startup, founded in 2017, announced it has raised $11 million in Series A funding, led by AC Ventures (ACV) with participation from Coinbase Ventures and Skystar Capital. Reku recently appointed Jesse Choi, a former private equity investor at Bain Capital, as COO. Reku’s team.

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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 has over 450 million registered users, meaning that more than one in three adult Indians are now using PhonePe.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

Specifically, the São Paulo-based firm has closed on Kaszek Ventures VI, a $540 million early-stage fund and Kaszek Ventures Opportunity-III (KVO-III), a $435 million vehicle for later stage investments. The region’s startup scene saw a boom, with a large spike of fundraises in 2021 with VC capital deployed totaling $15.9

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Seedstars Africa Ventures , the pan-African early-stage fund for startups, has appointed Bruce Nsereko-Lule as its new general partner, to help it deploy more capital and provide the much-needed technical support for founders across the continent. He had previously worked as an investment banker in the U.K.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

The venture capital boom of 2021 was not built from merely traditional VC money. A host of other capital sources played a role in the global trend , from new methods of disbursing angel and seed capital to crossover funds pouring into late-stage startups. How quickly is corporate venture capital investment accelerating?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 30, 2020

The startup raised a total of $107 million from investors, including Highland Capital Partners, White Star Capital, Insight Venture Partners and Nestlé itself, which led the Series C in 2017. “It’s an evolution brought on by the pandemic but taking hold for the long term. .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

That’s why we’re thrilled to have Fuel Capital General Partner Leah Solivan joining us at TechCrunch Early Stage — Operations and Fundraising on April 1 and 2 for a discussion about how to avoid making some of the biggest mistakes early in your founding journey.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Corelight, a San Francisco-based startup that claims to offer the industry’s first open network detection and response (NDR) platform, has raised $75 million in Series D investment led by Energy Impact Partners. . million Series A in July 2017. million Series A in July 2017.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2021

Long before SoftBank launched its $2 billion Innovation Fund in Latin America, and before Andreessen Horowitz began actively investing in the region , Sao Paulo-based Kaszek has been putting money into promising startups since 2011, helping spawn nine unicorns along the way.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

In 2017, Delahunt was at Ralph Lauren and had her first look at the blockchain, but it wasn’t until years later while working to pioneer some digital wardrobe projects with companies, like Snap, Bitmoji and Roblox, that she had an opportunity to see that web3 was going to be “more than a niche community” for luxury fashion.

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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 resulting efficiencies help bring the benefits of private market investing to individuals, while lowering the cost and fundraising threshold for issuers.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 19, 2017

But as the chart above shows, the median amount invested in seed rounds continues to increase at about 40% annually. This trend started in 2014 and has continued through the first quarter of 2017. The anomaly in 2017 is due to an outlier. The total amount of capital available to seed startups is constant.

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