TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

Smile Identity , a KYC compliance and ID verification partner for many African fintechs and businesses, has acquired Inclusive Innovations, the parent company of Appruve , a Ghanaian developer of identity verification software.

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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.

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

Toward that end, the SwipeRx app allows users to keep up to date with the latest healthcare news and drug information and access free educational continuing professional development (CPD) modules, which are mandatory in many Southeast Asian countries. million in Series A funding in 2017 — has the kind of momentum that investors like.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2023

Several years ago, entrepreneur Dhiraj Sharma’s first company, a software consultancy, was hired by an HR tech firm to develop an app to improve the employee onboarding experience. “Simpplr’s AI-powered employee experience platform enables IT to give business users ownership of their content and the digital experience users need.”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

Macrometa , the edge computing cloud and global data network for app developers, announced today it has raised a $20 million Series A. It will hire for its engineering and product development centers in the United States, Eastern Europe and India, and add new centers in Ukraine, Portugal, Greece, Mexico and Argentina.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 10, 2023

The funds will be used to further develop its tech platform and expand in the U.S. Taktile ignited this transformation by enabling companies of all sizes to more easily build, run and evaluate automated decision flows—without requiring developers to write complex code. This is big! Both attended Harvard University.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

After 10 years of leading the Impact Hub Network , Gabriela Gandel will move into a new role on our global board of the Impact Hub Association in 2022. When I joined the ‘Hub Network’ back in January 2011, I had no idea I’d still be here 10 years later, but I knew it was the right place for me to be! Here’s her story.

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Dream It

APRIL 26, 2019

These devices are a real threat to the health of the patient in each bed, the health of all of the patients in the hospital, and the hospital’s entire network. Monitoring Connected Medical Device Security At The Network Level Medical device makers aren’t the only group with responsibility for preventing cyber attacks on their products.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Car sensors like cameras and radar capture data, translate it and send it the powertrain to enable features like emergency braking. billion in order to integrate the company’s edge-to-cloud tech that develops, runs and manages mission-critical intelligent systems. The crux is that they all must work in concert. .

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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. Image Credits: Yaydoo.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 18, 2024

in income replacement grants and mentorship to first-time entrepreneurs, creating 10 new businesses and helping fuel innovation in strategic sectors The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) today announced the inaugural cohort of the New Jersey Innovation Fellows (NJIF) program. First-in-nation program will provide $3.6M

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The Kansas City, Missouri startup has closed a round of $24 million, a Series A that it will be using to continue developing its technology and to extend into a wider range of enterprise verticals. So he moved over from there into corporate development. (In

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Founded in 2017 by Szymon Sypniewicz (CEO) and Przemek Kowalczyk (CTO, CPO), Ramp has a non-custodial, full-stack payment infrastructure. In part because of this ease of use, it’s managed to partner up with more than 400 developers, including Mozilla, Browser and Dapper Labs and DeFi apps like Aave, Argent, Trust Wallet and Zerion.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Chappell is himself a podcaster, hosting an entrepreneur show called “Build Your Network.” Spotify’s podcast creation tool Anchor gains access to the company’s larger audio ad network. He intends to use the new funding to build out the company’s lean workforce, invest in marketing and continue software development.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

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. An average Indian makes about $2,100 a year, according to the World Bank. million customers.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

Operated by fintech First Digital Finance Corporation BillEase launched in 2017, with shopping marketplace Lazada as its first merchant partner. The new funding brings BillEase’s total raised to about $15 million in equity, and will be used for customer acquisition, developing new products and hiring.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 14, 2023

. – Red Cell Partners, an incubation firm building and investing in technology-led companies that bring revolutionary advancements to healthcare and national security, has announced $3 million in pre-seed funding for TARA Mind, a mental health company that enables safe and affordable access to psychedelic-assisted therapy (PAT).

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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. The restaurant chain also recently backed Nuro, a self-driving delivery service with an extensive partner network.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

The San Francisco-based company is developing an “open ecosystem of data” for enterprises that utilizes unified data pipelines, called “ observability pipelines ,” to parse and route any type of data that flows through a corporate IT system. Splunk acquires network observability service Flowmill. Enter Cribl.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

In January 2021, Prince Edward Island-based ScreenScape Networks was acquired by Spectrio for an undisclosed fee, then Halifax-based storytelling platform Wattpad was acquired by Naver in a deal worth $600 million. In September 2020, Halifax-based fitness data management company Kinduct was acquired by mCube. billion in cash.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

In 2016 at TechCrunch Disrupt New York, several of the original developers behind what became Siri unveiled Viv , an AI platform that promised to connect various third-party applications to perform just about any task. Among other products, OpenAI’s language-generating GPT-3 was developing using Transformer technology.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 7, 2023

She created the SoGal community in LA, one of the largest global networks for women entrepreneurs and investors. The establishment of SoGal Ventures in 2017 marked a turning point, and since then, they have invested in 150+ startups worldwide, including nurturing five $1B+ unicorns from their earliest stages.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

Beam Impact , a company that enables consumers to turn their spending into a way to support social causes, has raised $13.3 The company was founded in 2017 by Beam CEO Viveka Hulyalkar, a former McKinsey consultant, and CTO Alex Sadhu, a former Tinder iOS engineer. The third thing we’re going to focus on is product development.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

This program provides $1,000 in AWS Cloud credits, $350 in Developer Support credits, and other guidance. The GitHub Student Developer Pack offers more than $200k in developer tools/training for student entrepreneurs or any students. It provides mentorship, networking, and equity-free grants up to $50,000.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 10, 2018

In December 2017, the amount raised in ICOs nearly equaled the amount raised by Series A investments globally. In the early 2000s, the billions of dollars invested enabled the Internet. They financed the development and deployment of switches, routers, modems and the installation of copper lines to connect new data centers.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Founded in 2017 by serial entrepreneur, Magnus Grimeland , and a team of experienced entrepreneurs, investors, and company builders worldwide, Antler has raised more than $75 million to help entrepreneurs spread across nine of the world’s major entrepreneurial hubs. . To date, Antler has invested in and helped build over 250 companies.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

Backbone wants to make package delivery more like Wi-Fi mesh networks in what sounds to me like a recipe for utter chaos. PenguinFaceplant.gif : Club Penguin was shut down in 2017 , but fans rebooted it — without authorization from Disney. From our moving-things-from-place-to-place desk, we’re passing a lot of parcels around.

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Impact Hub

JANUARY 28, 2021

ecosystem development in the social and environmental impact space, today announced its. collaboration with Impact Hub, world’s leading network focused on building entrepreneurial communities. incubators and accelerators, connecting them with a global peer network in 100+ cities across 60+. for impact at scale. Some of them.

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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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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

It is also a competition that provides the opportunity for start-ups to grow and has been doing so since 2017. Through this competition, you get the chance to network with possible investors, and also win between $1000 to $50,000 in funding for their business. 11) Community Development Financial Institutions Fund.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

The New York-based company was founded in 2017 by Amy Divaraniya, CEO, who holds a Ph.D. Divaraniya founded the company in 2017 after completing her Ph.D. Oova’s science is strong and enables consumers to understand their test results without having to go to an expert. in biomedical sciences with a focus on genetics.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Founders : Before beU delivery, Hao Zheng, who leads the team as chief executive, was the founder and CEO of Yooul, a social networking app in China. ” Founders : Henry Mascot started a company in 2017 to help hospitals digitize records. Website : [link]. Founded in : 2019. Team size : 30 . Website : [link]. Founded in : 2021.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

It has sat vacant since 2017. based commercial EV startup turned publicly traded company, slashed its delivery plans from 400 vehicles to 20 as it postpones development of its battery-electric buses and shifts gears to focus on vans. NHTSA chief counsel Ann Carlson will take over for now. Blink Charging brought in $11.5

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Increasingly, as Moore’s law rears its ugly head, computer chip developers are adopting “chiplet” architectures to scale their hardware’s processing power. Farjadrad says the technology has been under development since 2017; he co-started Aquantia and served as the startup’s chief engineer for nearly 15 years.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

Vic Patil thinks the solution lies in a “mesh” — specifically what he calls a “supply mesh,” inspired by the way wireless mesh networks function. Patil cofounded Backbone, which is based in San Francisco, alongside Rajesh Chandran in 2017. ” Building a supply chain backbone. .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2022

based startup developing “hollow core fiber (HCF)” technologies primarily for data centers and ISPs. Lumenisity was founded in 2017 as a spinoff from the Optoelectronics Research Centre at the University of Southampton to commercialize research in HCF. Microsoft today announced that it acquired Lumenisity, a U.K.-based

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

Veev, a real estate developer turned tech-enabled homebuilder, announced today that it has raised $400 million a Series D round that propels the company to “unicorn status.” Interestingly, Veev Group started its life as a traditional real estate developer and asset manager.

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