TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Soda that serves a purpose, whether that be more healthy or even functional, is the new wave of drinks disrupting the $38 billion U.S. The company is the second venture in the realm of “functional soda” for co-founders Ben Goodwin and David Lester, who have worked together for nearly a decade. soft drink industry.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

The funding round is led by global banks HSBC and ING, with participation from Sony Innovation Fund by IGV*, SBI Investment, OCS, Global Brain and DG Daiwa Ventures along with existing investors DN Capital, Dawn Capital, IQ Capital and Amex Ventures. with a goal of launching in 10 more countries by the end of 2019.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

After delivering over one million subscription boxes of Japanese snacks to customers in more than 100 countries, Bokksu launched a digital marketplace for premium Japanese lifestyle products, Bokksu Market , in 2018. The funding was led by Valor Siren Ventures , with participation from Company Ventures , St. Canada, the U.K,

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

That’s Lumchain’s goal: help the global meat industry innovate and solve some of the key challenges they face, including employee shortages, the impact of inflation and high operational costs, supply chain disruptions and that meat plants are still operating the same way they did 50 years ago. She even did a TED Talk about it.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

generating more than 12 million tons of waste in landfills every year, according to 2018 data by the Environmental Protection Agency. The new funding, which brings its total raised to $50 million, was led by Edison Partners and included participation from returning backers Moderne Ventures, Lerer Hippeau and Max Ventures. .

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Regions once overlooked by the venture capital industry are racking up impressive investment totals in recent quarters. This is also reflected in funding tallies: Per Crunchbase data , venture capital funding into the region’s unicorns reached $10 billion this year to date. VTEX, dLocal) and in Brazil.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. The Microsoft Student Accelerator , though it has the word “accelerator” in its name, is a free, 4-month boot camp teaching students advanced analytics and AI, Azure and cloud fundamentals, and web apps and APIs.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

.” Investors must believe it’s a solid approach, as well, given that Komprise this week managed to close a $37 million funding round from Canaan Partners, Celesta Capital, Multiplier Capital and Top Tier Ventures. As Komprise helps customers with both of these initiatives, our growth has accelerated during this time.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2022

million USD) co-led by AirTree Ventures and Decade Partners. The Series A funding comes after its 10x year-over-year revenue growth throughout the four years since its launch in 2018. “With open banking and the NPP, Australia has found itself at the centre of this disruption – and Zepto is the leading innovator in this space. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2023

Montreal-based Equisoft , an insurance and investment software developer, today announced that it raised $125 million in venture equity. ” Equisoft was a self-funded company for 24 years, up until 2018. billion in Q3 to $1.01 billion in Q4. $70 ” Image Credits: Equisoft It was a prescient move. .

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

billion in 2018 to under $28 billion in 2020 as Western brands wrestled with pandemic-related border restrictions. Fashinza , a Dehli, India-based supply chain “marketplace” for fashion brands and retailers, was co-founded months before the disruptions. billion injection from venture firms last year. . ”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The self-described energy financial tech platform received backing from lead investors Nairobi-based Factor[e] and SCM Capital Asset Management and participating investors such as Voltron Capital, Norrsken Impact Accelerator, Ventures Platform and Sovereign Capital. SunFi isn’t Thomas’ first rodeo at the helm of an energy startup.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Vasilyev and Pinto worked together at Pinto’s last startup, Machinio, which was sold back in 2018. The open-source project was actually started five years ago by Valentin Vasilyev, according to the project’s GitHub page. The open source community was pivotal to our success thus far,” said Vasilyev, in a statement.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Incooling, which is pitching in the Startup Battlefield at Disrupt , designed a custom-built server with a proprietary cooling system that it claims allows for superior thermal management, enabling the server to achieve high-efficiency standards. A render of Incooling’s server, based on an existing Gigabyte blade.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Regarding Airbnb’s worth, investors will have to balance how they value recovery and recent profits over the company’s disrupted historical growth arc. How COVID-19 accelerated DoorDash’s business. Indeed, the company is on track to match its 2018 size, if we have our math correct. How did we get here?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

BioNTech (the company behind Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine), Chimera Abu Dhabi, Deutsche Bahn’s DB Digital Ventures, Google, G42 and Synergie participated in the round. Beguir and Slim bootstrapped InstaDeep from 2014 to 2018, pumping revenue from clients back into the business acquiring new talent and expanding.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2020

They include the London Stock Exchange Group, Draper Esprit, OMERS Ventures, Fidelity International Strategic Ventures and ABN AMRO Ventures, as well as previous backers Pentech and Outward Ventures. Unlike the investors on its platform, this Series B is coming from a list of big-name strategic players and VCs.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

has a legacy, centralized financial infrastructure that needs to be disrupted and re-imagined by fintechs with blockchain technology. Most of those are product buys to drive or accelerate revenue growth with the secondary benefit of getting new talent, Ruark said. billion, “the largest percentage drop since Q3 2018.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 2, 2021

On Tuesday, we published a four-part series on Tonal, a home fitness startup that has raised $200 million since it launched in 2018. E-commerce roll-ups are the next wave of disruption in consumer packaged goods. E-commerce roll-ups are the next wave of disruption in consumer packaged goods. The Tonal EC-1.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

The future of technology is determined by a handful of venture capitalists. The world’s 10 leading venture capital firms have, together, invested over $150 billion in technology startups. There is a startling lack of diversity within the venture capital sector. We all live in a world shaped by venture capital.

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StartupNation

MARCH 10, 2021

In 2018, Duo Security was acquired by Cisco for $2.35 Founded in 2018, Blumira brought in their first round of seed funding of $2.6 DaySmart is a software company that’s accelerating small business growth with digital tools. Founded in 2016, Groundspeed Analytics is disrupting the $300 billion insurance industry.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Founded in 2018 (and formerly known as Flugauto), Blueflite is a last-mile logistics startup that offers drone delivery services. It accelerates enrollment and improve retainment of trial participants. They have been recognized for this innovation in FreightDocs, FreightWaves, and Venture Michigan. After raising $10.3

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

He came to work in our offices at Upfront Ventures as an EIR and immediately began building software to improve how storage was picked up, photographed, scanned and routed to a warehouse. No prizes for guessing what some of MakeSpace’s innovations will be in 2018 and 2019. Sam’s enthusiasm was infectious and his plans were bold.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Via TechCrunch by Arman Tabatabai: Venture capital has been flooding the various subverticals under the robotics umbrella in recent years, and the construction space is one of the largest beneficiaries. Matt Murphy and Grace Ge, Menlo Ventures Which trends are you most excited about in construction robotics from an investing perspective?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

SoftBank Vision Fund is leading the round, with videoconferencing giant Zoom also participating, alongside previous investors Menlo Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, Nexus Venture Partners, and others. The funding is a Series C and has some notable investors in it. Observe.ai was valued at $304 million in July 2020. Observe.ai

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Impact Hub

APRIL 24, 2019

So with that in mind, here are 9 innovative ventures to watch that are on a mission to disrupt fast fashion: 1. After taking part in Impact Hub’s Investment Ready Program in 2018, they are preparing to launch their product into the market, so perhaps you’ll be wearing bacteria-dyed textiles soon. Fashion For Good. Good On You.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

As venture capital totals grow in Latin America , the region is about to see its leading champion go public. Per Crunchbase data , QED put capital into Nubank’s 2014 Series A, 2015 Series B, 2016 Series D and 2018 Series E, though there may be more dollars in play that we cannot see.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

Bond led the latest round, which also included participation from LenX (formerly Lennar Ventures), Zeev Ventures, Fifth Wall Climate Tech and JLL Spark Global Ventures. .” The financing brings the San Mateo, California-based company’s total raised since its 2008 inception to $600 million.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Homebound started out to help people rebuild after their houses were destroyed by California wildfires in 2018. And today, the Santa Rosa, California-based startup is announcing it has raised $75 million in a Series C funding round led by Khosla Ventures toward its efforts to help address those inventory shortages with its technology.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Last week at TechCrunch’s annual Disrupt event, this editor sat down with VCs from two firms that have come to look similar in ways over the last five or so years. Because of this blurring of what it means to be a venture firm, much of the talk centered on the outcome of this evolution. billion back in February.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

Employees being let go will receive “severance, healthcare, job support, and accelerated vesting of some of your options,” as well as career transition support and an alumni network for continued support, the memo mentioned. E-commerce roll-ups are the next wave of disruption in consumer packaged goods. Thrasio’s growth.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The company that set out to create an atlas of the human immune system in 2018 had raised about $80 million by February 2021. This round, which was led by Koch Disruptive Technologies, with participation from Talos VC, 8VC, Alexandria Venture Investments, Piedmont, ICON, and others, brings the company’s total funding to $295 million. .

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Startup Catalyst

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

I’m Rosie Odsey and I interviewed Rowena Barrett from QUT in late August 2018. Adam Hibble (2015) co-founded Popgun with Stephen Mawson (formerly of We Are Hunted) under Mawson Ventures where Meg White (2017) works as an AI engineer as she finishes her studies. A quick note: My words are in italics. Rowena’s are in regular font.

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

2018 Libboo Accelerating great stories and big ideas. InstaFreebie Accelerating great stories and big ideas. 2015 Waterdog We’re disrupting the traditional channel model by fundamentally changing the way the partner and reseller relationship works.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

I’ve been covering ICON since its $9 million seed round in October of 2018, so seeing the company reach this milestone less than three years later is kind of cool. . ICON was founded in late 2017 and launched during SXSW in March 2018 with the first permitted 3D-printed home in the U.S. The company declined to reveal its valuation.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 17, 2021

But that has, ironically, also meant that some of the most-used digital recruitment services around today are also some of the least evolved in terms of tapping into all of the developments that tech has to offer, leaving the door open for some disruption. Beamery today already offers a pretty wide range of different services.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

But progress is being made as seen in the rising number of women-led venture funds that focus on funding women entrepreneurs. In addition, Crunchbase reports that w omen-founded venture firms in the U.S. venture firms allocated only 22% of their deals to female-founded startups. billion of total venture capital.

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