Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 5, 2022

The first two MyEO DealExchange conferences in 2018 and 2019 made a significant impact on the members who attended—including a 7-figure investment in Scott Mesh (EO New York)’s company. MyEO DealExchange was formally approved as a MyEO Premier Group in August 2018. So that’s what I did. Two months later, we hosted our first conference.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

” In 2018, Crossworks Myanmar was born, initially intended to hire talent for Jeshua’s ventures. Jeshua’s audacious adventure unfolded during the pandemic, where he traveled to over 55 countries, joining Accelerating Asia and Decacorn Capital to dive deeper into the world of disruptive technology-led innovations.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2020

In 2018, Leslie Feinzaig , the founder of Female Founders Alliance , launched a free, equity-free accelerator for women called Ready, Set, Raise. This year, as funding for female founders drops to 2017 levels , Feinzaig realized why accelerators, hers included, might not work for women as well as they work for men: demo day.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Register Ficus Capital has announced that it invested $400,000 in Assemblr , a Bandung-based start-up that is focused on helping users to create AR content via its web-based platform. Assemblr is Ficus Capital’s first investment outside of Malaysia. Remember Me. No account yet? Mavcap is the fund’s anchor investor.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

Consumer interest for this space is also attracting capital. Over the last five years, Stein has led the company’s growth to a 55% compound annual growth rate and into 15,000 retailer doors at the end of 2021, up from 8,000 in 2018, she said. billion in 2020 and is poised to reach $1 trillion by 2026. billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Venture capital activity in Europe and Asia saw a strong return to form in Q3, data indicates. The two continents enjoyed more venture capital investment into their local startups than in some time, underscoring that strong VC results the United States saw in the third quarter were not a fluke, but part of a broader trend. A strong Q3.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 14, 2023

AnswerGPT will set the bar for how support teams find answers for their customers,” said Stage 2 Capital Co-Founder, Jay Po. Co-founded in 2018 by Jay Po, former investor at Bessemer Venture Partners, and Mark Roberge, former CRO at HubSpot, Stage 2 Capital invests in B2B software companies between late seed stage and Series A.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Following a Covid-driven boost, the popular AllTrails resource for hikers, bikers, climbers, and anyone else who enjoys the outdoors, announced today it’s raised $150 million from the growth fund of global private equity firm Permira to further accelerate its business.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

’s Seraphim Capital , the country’s only space tech accelerator, has released details of its newest cohort as part of its Space Camp programme, timed with the end of World Space Week last week. Raised so far: Undisclosed amount / seed from ICE71 Accelerate, 25 June 2020. ” Kinnami. ” Vector Photonics.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2021

The company’s IPO documentation details a business that did more than merely accelerate its growth in 2020, and more specifically, during the COVID-19 era. In Kaltura’s defense, the company’s growth accelerated to 24% in the year, so its self-reported numbers were mostly fair. And the company had grown 16.6%

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Niiro started MilkRun , a subscription service delivering weekly grocery staples sourced from small, local farms, in 2018 after becoming a small farmer herself in Portland, Oregon. Spark Capital led the investment and was joined by existing investors Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund, Social Impact Capital and Congruent VC.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

million in funding since 2018, according to Crunchbase data, Olipop announced $30 million in Series B funding on a $200 million valuation. This year and 2023 will also include an increase in research and partnerships, Goodwin said. After raising some $13.5 It currently has around 60 employees, up from 30 the year prior.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The Pune-based company is also the latest startup to raise funding in this area, bringing in $12 million in Series A funding in a round co-led by Elevation Capital and General Catalyst. The new funding gives Loop Health a total of $14 million in funding since it was founded in 2018, Mayank Kale, co-founder and CEO, told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

The round was led by Balderton Capital, alongside existing investors Coparion, Venture Stars and Signature Ventures, as well as an undisclosed investor. The company was founded in 2018 by Christopher May and Henrik Ebbing, but both had previously worked together at McKinsey and started working in blockchain in 2017.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

million Series A round led by Smedvig Capital with existing investors Hambro Perks, Triple Point?Ventures?and?InHealth Launched in 2018, Heydoc, co-founded by Christoph Lippuner and Mikael Landau,?adapted through the pandemic and capitalized on a?broader This new raise will help us accelerate our growth in the U.K.,

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

InstaDeep , a Tunis and London-based enterprise AI startup that creates decision-making systems for solving real-world problems, has raised $100 million in Series B financing led by Alpha Intelligence Capital and CDIB. Karim Beguir (InstaDeep CEO). Advancing its computing infrastructure, expanding into the U.S.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

Lumachain was founded in 2018 to use computer vision-based artificial intelligence to transform meat plant operations. million in Series A funding to continue to accelerate its AI platform globally and scale up its team in the United States. That’s why she believes AI should be helping employees be the best they can be. Gordon said.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 23, 2023

Vehicle networks to drive down cost and complexity while improving power efficiency in next-generation architectures Capital continues to flow to technologies that are driving the future of the automotive industry, as seen in the recent announcement made by startup Ethernovia, Inc. having recently completed a $64 million A-round.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The world around us is being disrupted by the acceleration of technology into more industries and more consumer applications. how on Earth could the venture capital market stand still? Society is reorienting to a new post-pandemic norm?—?even even before the pandemic itself has been fully tamed. Of course we can’t. dot-com bonanza.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The investment, led by Radical Ventures , Raptor Group , Lateral Capital and EchoVC was closed in Q3 2020 and came after the fintech startup raised $500,000 in pre-seed two years ago. Founded by Brendan Playford and Cate Rung , Pngme started primarily as a lending platform in 2018. Today, the Africa-focused but U.S.-based

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Register Singapore-based food and agritech startup Glife Technologies announced Wednesday that it raised $3 million in its Series A1 funding round led by venture capital investor Tin Men Capital. The fresh capital brings the agritech startups total funds raised to date to $13 million. It raised $4.96 million in May 2022.

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

rang the opening bell on the NASDAQ stock exchange, signifying the start of their new chapter in life as a public traded company after successfully completing a merger with Novus Capital Corporation. Having the opportunity to learn from the founders you back is by far one of the most rewarding parts of being a venture capital investor.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Childhood friends David Grandes and Andres Andrade, both originally from Ecuador, started Mimic in 2018 in Brazil as a dark kitchen-as-a-service, specializing in producing food at scale with online channel sales. As its startup market accelerates, Brazil could be in for an IPO bonanza.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

“Teaming up with Bending Spoons will [accelerate] the delivery of improvements across our teams, professional, personal and free offerings.” Between 2010 and 2015, Evernote raised hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital from investors including Sequoia, Meritech Capital and Japanese media company Nikkei.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In 2018, Y Combinator released its first mega list of the top companies valued at $150 million or more that have gone through the accelerator. Yet, as the accelerator points out, “it’s the most commonly available metric to compare companies in the startup world.”. Case in point: No African company made the list in 2018.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2023

First, a little context: Substack’s first known external capital came in January 2018 via the Y Combinator startup accelerator. From there, the startup’s ability to raise new funds quickly accelerated, with Andreessen Horowitz leading Substack’s $15.3

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Register Soho.com.au , an AI-powered real estate discovery app, has secured a $750,000 equity investment from Singapore-based proptech venture capital firm Feedback Ventures. Established in 2018, Soho.com.au This funding round has propelled the valuation of Soho.com.au to over $20 million.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

billion valuation from Bain Capital Tech Opportunities. The company has gone on record with TechCrunch that there are lots of reasons for the gap, and when it promoted COO Amir Movafaghi to CEO in 2018, it was the first in a series of steps that it took to right the ship.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

Sequoia Capital and Bain Ventures are among the high-profile investors that have backed the venture firm Kearny Jackson’s second fund, the early-stage focused firm said Wednesday as it gears up to invest in more startups. Menlo Ventures, Kleiner Perkins and Foundation Capital are also LPs in the fund. “We

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Register Blockchain Founders Fund , an early stage Web3 Venture capital fund based in Singapore , has announced the final close of its Fund II at $75 million. Since the fund’s launch in 2018, BFF has had the privilege to partner with some of the most innovative startups in Web3 landscape and has made significant investments.

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Revolution

JUNE 15, 2023

That financing kicked off a period of accelerated growth for the company — from creating a compelling digital offering to acquiring a company three times its size to scaling to more than 250 locations across the country — that led CAVA to today: its public debut. Maryland, and Virginia.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

million Series A announced in 2018 and brings the company’s total funding to north of $40 million. The round, led by McRock Capital and TransLink Ventures, features BMWi Ventures, Kensington Capital Partners and Ironspring Ventures, along with existing investors. The round follows an $8.3

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In 2018, he and Akintola Adesanmi — who was no stranger to how rent worked in Nigeria and also desired to effect change — brainstormed Spleet , a platform that partners with apartment owners to list their properties and offers renters options to pay rent monthly, quarterly and biannually. Nigerian proptech Spleet gets $2.6M

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 6, 2021

So when Chika Nwobi started Decagon in 2018, the perception was generally “here comes another tech talent accelerator.” The dire need for tech talent in Nigeria has become more evident these days, where startups are raising venture capital at a ridiculous pace. What is Andela, the Africa tech talent accelerator?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Andy Stinnes , general partner at Cloud Apps Capital Partners , leads early-stage investments in cloud businesses and serves as active board member and adviser, offering operational support for portfolio companies based on his 20+ years in executive roles in business software. Andy Stinnes. Contributor. Share on Twitter. More on that below.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2023

A music industry veteran of 10 years, Rodriguez was introduced to the tech world after he helped build an art program for the gener8tor, a startup accelerator based in Madison, Wisconsin, in 2018. He’s now part of a rarified club: In any given year, less than 5% of all venture capital funding goes to Latino founders.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

Zeni , a Palo Alto fintech company providing real-time financial services data to venture-backed startups, raised $34 million in Series B funding led by Elevation Capital. As part of the investment, Ravi Adusumalli, founder and managing partner at Elevation Capital, will join Zeni’s board. million in a combined seed and Series A round.

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