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Finding Founder-Market-Geography Fit

Revolution

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. Below are a few companies we backed with a strong “who,” “what,” and “where.” Founder-market-geography fit is one of those factors.

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Japanese Regulator Plans to Double Crowdfunding Investment Cap for Retail Investors

AsiaTechDaily

In November 2022, the “ Five-Year Startup Development Plan” was unveiled, leading to increased investments from venture capitalists, business corporations, and corporate venture capital entities (CVCs). billion yen from 2017 to August of the current year. While the U.S. By contrast, the U.S. accumulated 100.1

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Sequoia backs open source data-validation framework Pydantic to commercialize with cloud services

TechCrunch

Pydantic , the popular Python library and open source data-validation framework used by some of the world’s biggest companies, has a new commercial namesake and the backing of one of Silicon Valley’s most storied venture capital (VC) firms. Pydantic Services Inc. emerges from stealth today with $4.7

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Uniqus Consultech raises $12.5M to invest in technology, scale business operations

AsiaTechDaily

The founding round was led by Nexus Venture Partners, a leading Silicon Valley-India venture capital firm. Uniqus Consultech Inc. 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 post Uniqus Consultech raises $12.5M

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TechCrunch+ roundup: YC Demo Day faves, thrift shop VCs, cybersecurity product challenges

TechCrunch

You don’t need to move to San Francisco to launch a startup, but working here does have some advantages: moderate weather, natural beauty, great food, and sure, the world’s largest concentration of venture capital. Now, the company has 50 employees, plans to open a cat café and is eyeing an expansion into retail.

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Australian fintech Zepto raises $25M AUD Series A to enhance payment infrastructure

TechCrunch

He added that the total cumulative value of NPP payment since its launch in November 2017 was about 2.6 “The global payments landscape is in the middle of its biggest upheaval in decades, as open banking and real-time, bank-to-bank payments are transforming how we pay and get paid,” said partner at AirTree Ventures James Cameron.

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Coatue, Robert Downey Jr. fund cove.tool’s design tools for sustainable building

TechCrunch

Cove.tool launched the beta version of its software in August 2017. By using API frameworks we can significantly simplify the practice of analyzing building data and sharing that data with the many professionals across the building and design process, ultimately, empowering seamless collaboration and improving project outcomes.”.