Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 31, 2023

M&A accelerates throughout the year. PE becomes an important buyer of companies growing 10-25%, as it did in 2018, driven by lower debt costs. The share of AI-enabled web searches approaches 50% of all consumer search as consumer behavior patterns evolve, especially on mobile. The Fed cuts rates, which helps.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 12, 2019

In 2010, Ravi founded IndiVillage , the first information technology (IT) and information technology enabled services (ITeS) company in India to become certified as a B Corporation. The EO Accelerator program is the catalyst that enables first-stage entrepreneurs to catapult their business to the next level.

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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. By 2018 I sensed that he was right and we began focusing more on our barbell approach. We live in a hostile world and it’s now a tech-enabled hostile world. Secrets of Sand Hill Road.

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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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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 19, 2023

million to fund its mission to accelerate financial inclusion and strengthen the neo-rural bank ecosystem in Indonesia, especially outside the Greater Jakarta area. Both companies are involved in the fintech industry and have a mission to accelerate financial inclusion in Indonesia.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 3, 2023

In addition to its payment services, Alchemy Pay has also introduced its innovative NFT Checkout service, which enables customers to acquire NFTs using fiat payment options, making the process as straightforward as any other standard online payment.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

The company announced this morning a $73 million Series B round co-led by Globis Capital Partners and World Innovation Lab (WiL), with participation from existing investors DCM and Global Brain. In December 2018, the company closed a $9 million Series A round led by DCM and followed by Globis Capital Partners and WiL and Global Brain.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

In 2018, three co-founders of Refract, Chong Geng Ng, Michael Chng and Eugene Koh, worked on a gaming-related project and encountered a problem statement: How would one bridge the gap between gaming and physical activity? “We are pleased to support their growth and the development of the overall innovation ecosystem in Singapore.”

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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. Cousair , World Innovation Lab (WiL), Headline Asia and Gaingels. . Bokksu ships its grocery products to the U.S.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 19, 2022

The plan is to enable founders to launch and grow early-stage startups in the Southeast Asian region over the next four years. Antler’s 127 investments in Southeast Asia to date are enabling and supporting 785 founders from 75 different nationalities.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Fidel API says it has tripled its growth metrics and quadrupled its card base year-over-year since launching in 2018, according to CEO and co-founder Dev Subrata, who declined to reveal hard revenue figures. And then we expose that through a modern API for other developers to innovate on top of.”. Fidel API enables that future.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Incubated out of Harvard’s Innovation Lab in 2018, CEO Pascal Kriesche and Morgan Abraham call their company a “healthy smoothie store-in-a-box” that is essentially a robot that mixes fruits, vegetables and add-ins like protein into a smoothie.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Besides, governments across Asia actively work on fintech regulations to balance innovation and consumer protection. With the new investment, Bunker will invest capital in its innovation and expand regional operations. SkorLife has emerged as a pioneering credit builder in Indonesia, co-founded by Ongki Kurniawan and Karan Khetan.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 29, 2022

Register Bright Machines , a technology company pioneering an innovative approach to intelligent, software-defined manufacturing automation, has announced raising $132 million in debt and Series B equity funding. This round of funding brings the total raised by Bright Machines to $330M since the company’s founding in 2018.

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NZ Entrepreneur

AUGUST 22, 2023

Over the last three years, GEN has grown its New Zealand network to more than 200 people representing more than 140 organisations, including entrepreneurs, incubators and accelerators, entrepreneur support organisations, central and local government, academia, investors and NGOs. Moskovitz is an entrepreneur’s entrepreneur.

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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. Some of the greatest areas of innovation opportunity are at the intersection of sectors historically segregated , e.g., computational biology. Starting a new business as a student is daunting. Right here.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

The healthtech company was launched in 2018 by Patrick Beattie , Andrew Quao and Edward Grandstaff. Redbird enables pharmacies in Ghana to add rapid diagnostic testing for 10 different health conditions to their pharmacy services. In 2018, Redbird participated in the Alchemist Accelerator just a few months before launch.

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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. The proptech has processed over $3.5

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2021

million in Series A funding in 2018. Back in 2018, Full Harvest had about eight employees; that has now grown to 35. Apeel bites into another $250M funding round, at a $2B valuation, to accelerate fresh food supply chains. million for its marketplace enabling customers to buy food right before it goes to waste.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

According to Statista, the number of consumer edge-enabled IoT devices is forecast to grow to almost 6.5 “We sharpened our go-to-market motion in 2022 and saw a clear acceleration in the business,” Memfault co-founder and CEO François Baldassari told TechCrunch in an email interview. million cash infusion in April 2021.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Also, it’s why I started an Impact Hub (Amsterdam, 2008), why I served on the global Board (2015-2018) and contributed through other roles, and why I want to continue to serve the network. A: I have a passion for water and social innovation. You can read more in our recent Impact Report. How do you do that personally?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

Kim co-founded ianacare in 2018 after spending more than seven years caring for her mom during a cancer battle. . The Boston-based startup built a platform, which provides tech-enabled caregiver support through employers and health plans. Today, caregiver support is the most overlooked gap in healthcare and employee benefits.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JUNE 7, 2022

The last couple of years have accelerated the digital transformation of many businesses. Pandemic restrictions forced us to think creatively, be more innovative and, in many cases, digital adoption has played a big role in that. Many apps now have this as an option which you can enable, and it’s definitely worth doing.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

In 2018, the original six-person team shipped Saleor 2.0. Reasoning that most developers prefer “a few things done superbly to many things done well,” they committed exclusively to Saleor’s GraphQL API. “We have never looked back,” says Mencel.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

with co-investment from OSF Ventures, Sony Innovation Fund, and Dreampact Ventures. million Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The competitive NIH SBIR program funds early-stage small businesses seeking to commercialize innovative biomedical technologies.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Back in 2018, Refael Angel, a former security software engineer at Intuit, had an idea for a new approach to protect encryption keys — the random string of bits created to scramble and unscramble data — on the cloud. In software development, “secrets” refer to credentials like passwords and access tokens.

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Impact Hub

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

In 2018, the Impact Hub network ran over 100+ successful entrepreneurial support programs and 100+ collaborative innovation programs focused on SDGs and ecosystem development globally. The network also fosters a society that promotes innovation, education, and gainful employment, among others.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

STATE COLLEGE, PA – On December 6, 2018, six emerging tech entrepreneurs will compete for up to $10,000 at the BF TechCelerator’s graduation “pitch” event. A panel of local judges will evaluate the presenters who have been honing their business concepts for the past ten weeks in an intensive business startup accelerator. RSVP: [link].

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

To accelerate its mission to “automate electronics design,” Celus today announced it has raised €25 million ($25.6 ” Founded out of Munich in 2018, Celus had only raised around €5.4 million) in a series A round of funding. So, what is the scale of the problem that Celus is setting out to solve, exactly? .

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

The company raised $170 million in 2020 in a round led by Viking Capital after landing an undisclosed amount from Visa Ventures in 2018. Dock plans to use its new capital to accelerate its product development roadmap and global expansion plans, as well as to do more hiring.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Check out some of the Ann Arbor companies with the biggest growth, best funding and most innovative products to watch into 2022. 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.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2020

When we last spoke to the Helsinki- and Berlin-based startup, back in 2018 for a $1.3M But COVID-19 is clearly accelerating digital transformation of consumer focused businesses — a movement that, logically, pumps demand for smarter tools to handle online customer support. Now ultimate.ai

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StartupNation

MARCH 10, 2021

In 2018, Duo Security was acquired by Cisco for $2.35 Friendly, smart, innovative, and ready to lend a helping hand. 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. million in 2020. Ripple Science.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

Investment in European micromobility businesses quadrupled since 2020 compared to 2018-2019, and that really may be the space to watch considering Europe has far more dense cities than the U.S. McKinsey released a report that shows investors have dumped $8.4 billion into shared micromobility companies.

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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. Construction is massive in terms of financial, societal, and environmental impact with significant opportunity for innovation to disrupt and improve it in a myriad of ways.”.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The main thing is getting construction companies and contractors to accelerate their adoption of the tech and the labor shortage issue is putting substantial pressure on them to act. 80 percent of construction firms are having trouble hiring craft workers ( Associated General Contractors of America from August 2018 ).Today, USA News ).Labor

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

That success has been bolstered by the fact that the UK is among the world’s most innovative financial services regulatory environments. Regulation is generally a blocker to innovation. This enabled them to unlock further funding as VC-backed growth companies over time. Giving fintech access to the central bank In the U.S.,

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