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SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Pre-seed is just a narrower segment where you might raise $1–3 million on a SAFE note and not give out any board seats. There are of course many Seed VCs who take board seats, don’t over-commit to too many deals and try to help with “company building” activities to help at a company’s vulnerable foundations. Secrets of Sand Hill Road.

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OCTOBER 11, 2022

In other words, Homa builds tools that help third-party developers build games. The reason for that is that it has become incredibly challenging to stand out when you build a hypercasual, casual or board game with a small dev team. Since 2018, Homa has published 80 games and attracted one billion downloads.

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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. ” So far, the company has worked with CAA, UTA and WME on all of the brands in development, Bloom said. We create an entity that we spin out.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2020

BigID has been on the investment fast track, raising $94 million over three rounds that started in January 2018. Sirota says that so far their marketplace includes just apps built by BigID, but the plan is to expand it to third party developers in 2021. But clearly not enough when it came to the board of directors and the executives.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 18, 2018

Vishal Chordia (pictured above, right, with Kimberley Hickok-Smith) was awarded the 2018 EO Global Citizen of the Year award in Toronto, Canada, in April 2018. Since I have a limited tenure at the Board, I know I will not be able to change everything. Put a sustainable plan in motion. .

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

I am at once proud of and awed by Jonathan, whose dual-track passion for the future of food and the future of Appalachia has brought him to tears more than once since we first invested in early 2018. AppHarvest raised its first round of institutional capital from our Rise of the Rest Seed Fund and others in January 2018.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Firstly, Charge+ will execute an ongoing contract with the Singapore Land Transport Authority (LTA) to deploy around 4,000 EV charging points within the car parks of Housing Development Board (HDB) public housing estates. It will include five nations: Singapore , Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia, and Vietnam.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

November 2, 2018. Harrisburg, PA – The Wolf Administration announced today that Pennsylvania is offering opportunities to tech entrepreneurs and startup companies to grow their business by connecting with government clients and developing solutions to make governmental processes more efficient. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2021

It was originally founded as CloudBusiness in 2016 and developed accounting automation and management of business finances for small and mid-size businesses. The company is already working with 4,000 clients, and will now be fast-tracking their expansion, but will need the right people on board to help the company grow, Astreiko said.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 29, 2018

The Middle East consists of developing nations and, sadly, we are consumers of innovation and create very little of it ourselves. We hardly invent any new technologies and don’t invest enough in research and development,” Suhail says. “I For 2018 we are planning for 300-plus attendees. Contributing to Sustainable Development.

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Dream It

APRIL 26, 2019

What We’re Reading Developments in The Security Industry Verkada , a physical security startup that helps schools, gyms, municipalities, and corporations manage their security camera systems, reached a $540 million valuation in 3 years. Read how this startup set itself apart in a crowded market.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 19, 2023

After the successful operation of the Zero Shuttle in 2018, the PanTA-G Bus, a cooperative autonomous vehicle, has begun its journey through Pangyo Zero City. However, for safety reasons, children under the age of 6 are not allowed to board. billion won to construct a research center specializing in autonomous vehicles in Pangyo.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2023

The APAC hub is backed by Enterprise Singapore, a board under the Ministry of Trade and Industry to foster SME development, and the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore, alongside industry partners Bureau Veritas Marine and Offshore, PSA unboXed and Synergy Marine Group.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2023

Atomico principal Andreas Helbig joins the Digitail board as part of the investment. and Canada, as well as develop the product. Digitail was founded in 2018 by Sebastian Gabor (CEO) and Ruxandra Pui (CPO), who had previously founded the development studio and IT consultancy ITGambit together.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

The company invests $150,000 in each Yellow startup for an equity stake as part of the accelerator program, which first launched in 2018. Shoplook — Is fostering a community-driven platform for visual self-expression, curation and inspiration through mood boards. The company is based in the Netherlands.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2021

Nuro’s delivery autonomous vehicles (AVs) don’t have a human driver on board. government in 2018 for a minor exemption from rules requiring a rearview mirror, backup camera and a windshield, Nuro might have assumed the process wouldn’t be very arduous. So when the company petitioned the U.S. They were wrong.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Since 2018, Prosus has invested $536 million in Byju’s, with another significant $153 million investment made in April 2021. Despite raising over $5 billion, the company’s recent developments represent a significant shift in its fortunes. Besides Deloitte, investor board members from Prosus and Peak XV resigned from Byju’s as well.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JULY 27, 2021

In 2018 we had 200 businesses, and in 2019, 400. I’m taking people on board and asking them, what is your vision for small businesses? We want an interactive brand, to have people come on and say, “we want to be a part of this!”. What has it been like to scale your business? When we launched, we had just 20 businesses on the platform.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2022

Eight Roads Ventures, the lead investor from the prior round, a $7 million Series A in a 2018, also participated. and develop its product offering. The London-based startup helps businesses turn referrals into a channel for acquiring customers, while also gathering data for other marketing activities.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Harry’s created the innovation group in 2018 that has backed or launched several consumer product companies, including cat products startup Cat Person , body care line Flamingo and hair care line Headquarters. Harry’s Labs, the in-house incubator started by razor brand Harry’s Inc. announced Monday it agreed to acquire Lum? ,

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

In a 2018 Accenture survey , 76% of business leaders said that current business models will be unrecognizable in the next five years, with ecosystems being the main change agent. ” Before launching Reveal in 2020, Bouchez was the CEO of Multiposting, an HR tech startup, until 2018, when it was acquired by SAP. ” .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2021

So Full Harvest got busy developing some technology that includes a spot marketplace with a matching algorithm and visibility so that buyers could see what suppliers had available. As part of the investment, Jay Crone, investment director at Telus, joined Full Harvest’s board of directors. million in Series A funding in 2018.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

We also spoke about what it takes to be an effective board member. On the one hand I often find that some board members are seemingly reading the board materials on the fly and don’t have a firm grasp of the business fundamentals while on the other hand some board members like to tinker in the running of the business.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Luos , a participant in the TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield competition this week, wants to make it easy for embedded hardware developers to connect to any hardware component, such as a motor or sensor, then build a reusable configuration profile to give them the same type of flexibility that software engineers have with microservices.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2020

With the capital, the company said it would develop a product management software to complement its existing inventory management service. These are small stepping stones on the way to paving a new road to pharmaceutical development based on collaborative data-sharing technology, the company said. Alongside the funding, Defy.vc

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

They started Searchlight in 2018 to develop technology that uses behavioral reference data and prescriptive analytics to give employers a more 360-degree view of a potential candidate’s strengths and weaknesses that might not appear on a resume or come out during an interview. Searchlight resonated with me,” he added. “I

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Most notably, they have power constraints, which means that they often can’t include five chips on board, but rather need one single chip that can use power extremely efficiently. EdgeQ remains under development, and the company isn’t ready to disclose the full details of its product as it continues its work. Photo via EdgeQ.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

When NeuraLegion/Bright Security launched in 2018, the company’s focus was on an AI-powered fuzzer that would help developers find and mitigate potential security exploits in their code. The team prides itself in avoiding false positives, something that often leads developers down unnecessary and time-wasting rabbit holes.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Developing new packaged foods and consumer goods can take a couple years as companies research, prototype and test products. Founded in 2018, Ai Palette uses machine learning to help companies spot trends in real time and get them retail-ready, often within a few months. Both will join Ai Palette’s board.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

In 2016, we set out to develop a rigorous methodology for tracking progress on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in venture capital, and to measure and benchmark those data through our biennial VC Human Capital Survey. Encouraging signs in talent recruitment and development. On the diversity front, 2020 may prove a tipping point.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

Co-founders Allison Campbell and Sebastian Monroy started the company in 2018 and say Zubale means “jump on board or rise up” in Spanish. With this new funding, the company aims to invest in technology development, build operations in Brazil and Chile and launch some embedded finance products and services.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Founded in July 2018 by Cristina Vila, after she experienced the SaaS management problem first-hand while working at London fintech Dopay, Cledara has developed software to let companies track and manage their SaaS usage and spending, including analytics to help understand if it is money well-spent.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

As more companies provide more API-first services, Moesif has developed a way for those companies to learn how their customers are utilizing them. Gilling and Xing Wang founded Moesif in 2017 and went through the Alchemist Accelerator in 2018. As part of the investment, Craft Ventures’ Malekzadeh is joining Moesif’s board.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 10, 2022

In line with Igloo’s vision of ‘Insurance for All’, Igloo’s product development and distribution focus will be further targeting the underinsured low to mid-income population segments in Southeast Asia. said Rajive Keshup, Director for Cathay Innovation in Southeast Asia and board member.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

PRIMECAP Management Company, Reinvent Capital, XN, Fidelity Management and Research LLC, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Index Ventures and Sequoia Capital, as well as strategic investments from Uber, PACCAR and Volvo Group. In February 2018, Aurora raised $90 million from Greylock Partners and Index Ventures.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

“This stickiness is manifesting itself in terms of app usage and frequency, and across the board improvements in sign up rates, user-generated content contribution rates, freemium conversion rates, and subscriber retention rates,” he adds. The company had previously raised $75 million from Spectrum Equity in October 2018.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 10, 2017

It’s an outstanding avenue for members to give back, especially if serving on the chapter board is not an option. The Atlanta EO chapter had a relatively small Accelerator program with 10 to 15 participants—or companies—and only one EO member overseeing the program on the chapter board. We transitioned to a quarterly membership cycle.

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