TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

The idea is to let developers test AI systems and biases — that is, the edge cases where the systems perform poorly — to reduce the time needed for validation, Choi explained in an email interview. ” To test models, the Bobidi “community” of developers builds a validation dataset for a given system.

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Revolution

JANUARY 18, 2022

Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Potomac, MD, the company set out to transform the process of getting homes move-in-ready with a streamlined approach to better automate home improvement. A primary focus will be on tech advancements, market development, and job platform growth. What do you look for in an investment partner?

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

According to a 2021 Garden survey , the majority of developers found slow feedback loops during the software development process to be a source of frustration, second only to difficult communication between teams and functional groups. Managers need an unobtrusive way to proactively learn about bottlenecks affecting their teams.

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Jason Malki

AUGUST 3, 2023

Sebastian led Innovation Management in 3 verticals before becoming a corporate intrapreneur in the automotive industry in 2017, where he created numerous in-house startups, going through ideation to scale-up stages. Since 2018, he is investing with an emerging tech VC focused on web3 and managing early-stage deal flow.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

The open source product proved so popular that he launched a company to support it in 2017, and began building a commercial product for users with enterprise requirements. DBeaver takes $6M seed investment to build on growing popularity by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

. “[Our annual recurring revenue is] $29 million and projected to $50 million before the end of the year,” Komoni told TechCrunch via email, adding that the latest investment values Tive at $300 million (post-money). ” Tracking real-time shipments. Last year saw $11.3 The company has raised $79 million to date.

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FundersClub

JUNE 1, 2017

" GO1 , the world’s largest onboarding, compliance and professional development platform, expands their user base by more than 2,000% to 10 million following their Totara partnership in " GO1.com Want to invest in the best startups? com grows user base by more than 2,000% to 10 million via Totara partnership.

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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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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 30, 2020

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was signed into law in 2017 by POTUS and out of that law came the Opportunity Zones legislation and initiative. Partnerships help bring long-term sustainability including economic development, entrepreneurship, safe neighborhoods, expanded workforce, and education. The post Investing In Distressed Communities.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

Botpress , a Montreal-based early stage startup, wants to make it easier for developers to build conversational-based apps, meaning humans interact with the app by speaking instead of typing, clicking or tapping. And I think that this financing clearly allows Botpress to invest in building a turnkey cloud offering,” Sakoda says.

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Revolution

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In 2017, we partnered with iconic leaders in American business to turn the thesis we developed on the road — that great companies can start and scale anywhere when given a chance — into an investment vehicle. In the last decade, we’ve socialized several Rise of the Rest-isms to describe investments that check those boxes.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

billion in order to integrate the company’s edge-to-cloud tech that develops, runs and manages mission-critical intelligent systems. With this in mind, Aptiv might have a more long-term reason to invest strategically in a scalable system architecture that functions under the hood of autonomous vehicles. TTTech Auto is not for sale.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2023

Ideally, when it comes to building secure applications, it’s best to check the code as it moves through the development process, so that vulnerabilities can be found before it gets into production. Semgrep shows developers security errors in the code. Today, the company announced it has raised a $53 million Series C.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 22, 2022

Register Finhay , Vietnam’s premier digital investment platform , has secured $25 million in its Series B funding round co-led by Openspace Ventures and VIG. The fresh funding will go toward strategic business expansion, personnel acquisition, and technological development. With more than 2.7

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

Botpress , a Montreal-based early stage startup, wants to make it easier for developers to build conversational-based apps, meaning humans interact with the app by speaking instead of typing, clicking or tapping. And I think that this financing clearly allows Botpress to invest in building a turnkey cloud offering,” Sakoda says.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Ian Swanson, the co-founder and CEO, said that the capital will be put toward product development and customer outreach as Protect AI emerges from stealth. Protect AI claims to be one of the few security companies focused entirely on developing tools to defend AI systems and machine learning models from exploits.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MAY 7, 2020

Ten-Nine Technologies to onboard engineering and management talent, develop prototypes, and build production facilities to supply a leading battery manufacturer – major funding provided by i2E Management Company, Inc., investing for growth in Oklahoma, as well as Oklahoma and Kansas angel investors. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE.

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Revolution

JULY 13, 2023

Revolution Growth first partnered with Scopely in 2017 when we led the company’s Series C. Core to our investment thesis was Scopely’s platform approach to IP partnership and game development, its exceptional ability to drive monetization among users, and the team’s dedication to becoming the preeminent free-to-play mobile gaming publisher.

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FundersClub

JUNE 8, 2017

Tomasz Tunguz of Redpoint Ventures dives into how figuring out how to become an apprentice is key to developing great judgement in " Apprenticeship. Want to invest in the best startups? " Investor Thoughts. " Snap Inc. " Did You Know? Did you know that ants can lift 20 times their own body weight?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Takatoh founded Teatis , a plant-based sugar-blocking superfood powder for diabetic consumers, in 2017 in stealth mode and went fully operational in April 2021 by teaming up with a group of doctors and registered nutritionists. Teatis announced today it has raised $700,000 in seed funding to advance its growth in the U.S.

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HPA

MAY 5, 2023

Bloomfilter is a process intelligence platform for software development , designed to measure and improve the software development lifecycle. The platform helps organizations develop a shared understanding of what the product team is building, when it will be delivered, and how much it costs. “We

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2023

Risk factors Prewave founders Harald Nitschinger and Lisa Smith Image Credits : Prewave Founded out of Vienna in 2017 by Harald Nitschinger and Lisa Smith, Prewave touts itself as a holistic supply chain risk platform that spans “every phase of the risk lifecycle,” through identifying, analyzing, mitigating, and reporting these risks.

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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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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 2, 2023

Since 2017, Seongnam City has made substantial efforts to bring UAM technology into the mainstream, with Pangyo Techno Valley at its heart. The 2nd Pangyo Techno Valley inaugurated its Business Growth Center with the vision to cultivate nascent drone developers. Furthermore, NCsoft invested KRW 1.5 billion in 2014 and KRW 4.8

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

A-Frame , a Los Angeles-based developer of personal care brands supported by celebrities, has raised $2 million in a new round of funding led by Initialized Capital. “We partner with the investment groups at the agencies,” said company founder and chief executive, Ari Bloom. We create an entity that we spin out.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MARCH 30, 2021

Dapper Labs came out of an incubator called Axiom Zen back in 2017. I wrote a short post on the USV blog announcing that we had invested in Cryptokitties , but in truth, we invested in much more. Financings don’t really interest me but companies do. And this is a fascinating company.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 22, 2023

Cocoon Capital, an investment firm from the same country, led the round. Frontline Industrial Software, co-founded by Luis Martinez and Ruiqi Ding, has developed advanced construction planning simulation and optimization software. Will Klippgen, Managing Partner of Cocoon Capital, shared his excitement for the new investment.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Startup SG Tech Grant Startup SG Tech, a key initiative for technological firms in Singapore, underwent enhancements in 2017 to facilitate better cash flow for successful applicants. Administered by the National Research Foundation (NRF), the fund channels a significant investment of $10 million on a matching basis.

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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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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 21, 2024

Because the research & development costs associated with software should be part of their cost of goods sold. Software companies don’t invest once in R&D & then sell copies of the software as we did in the 90s on CDs. So the costs of developing & maintaining the software are ongoing.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 7, 2023

Register Japanese robotics startup Telexistence has successfully raised $170 million in a Series B funding round, with major investments coming from SoftBank Group, Foxconn, and other prominent investors. In addition, Taiwan-based Foxconn will collaborate with Telexistence to develop mass-production technology for their upcoming model, GHOST.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

The startup has received €50 million (just under $57 million at today’s rates) from the European Investment Bank, the funding arm of the European Union. It is not disclosing its valuation with this investment, but Alastair Westgarth said that this doesn’t rule out raising further funding from investors.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 23, 2024

The cluster was federally designated as a battery innovation Tech Hub by the Economic Development Administration (EDA) in support of New York State’s commitment to pioneer critical energy storage technologies. The Koffman’s Southern Tier Clean Energy Incubator program has much to tout, having fostered over 60 startup companies since 2017.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

At the time of approval, the western side of the cluster was to be developed as a complex space for industries such as IT and media content, and a dedicated space for a corporate research center was also planned there. The LH Business Support Hub opened in 2017 and is currently being used as a space for startup companies.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The Allen Institute for AI has a small accelerator that launched in 2017, which provides up to a $500,000 pre-seed investment and up to $450,000 in cloud compute credits. involved in developing state-of-the-art AI systems. Training Stable Diffusion alone cost around $600,000, according to Stability AI.)

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