TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

The round was led by DNX Ventures, an investment firm that focuses on United States and Japanese B2B startups, with participation from Cota Capital. The company also added DNX Ventures managing partner Hiro Rio Maeda to its board of directors. DNX Ventures launches $315 million fund for US and Japanese B2B startups.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

Alternative investments are having a moment. Institutions have fueled a large part of this growth, investing at record pace into alternatives like crypto, private companies and real estate. Institutions have fueled a large part of this growth, investing at record pace into alternatives like crypto, private companies and real estate.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Venture capital continues to flow into Latin America at a staggering rate. Venture firms in those countries are also raising funds; for example, this month, Colombia-based Marathon Ventures announced its first fund of $26 million. It also invested in Brazilian social grocery commerce company Favo , which raised a $26.5

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

SoftBank Group first invested in Iyuno Media Group through SoftBank Ventures Asia , its venture capital arm, in 2018. SoftBank Vision 2 will join Lee and investors Altor, Shamrock Capital Advisors and SoftBank Ventures Asia Corporation on Iyuno-SDI Group’s board of directors.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? Well, we learn to invest exclusively in men, preferably white or Asian. . So, why invest in anyone who’s not a white or Asian male? . We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.”

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Revolution

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Diving into the Data According to Pitchbook, there have been 390 exits in proptech between 2018 and 2022. The definition of an exit excludes PIPEs (private investment in public equity), second public offerings, debt offerings, and secondary transactions. The latter is emotional and hard, but, in my view, necessary.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

million seed investment. CRE Ventures led that round , but this time, the company, which has offices in Cape Town and New York, brought in a blue-chip group of investors spanning gaming, media and fintech. VC firm Konvoy Ventures led the Series A round. Carry1st has $4M to invest in African mobile gaming.

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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. 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

APRIL 14, 2021

It’s no surprise that the venture capital market was incredibly active in the United States during the first quarter of 2021, but precisely how strong has only recently become clear. According to a report from PitchBook , venture capitalists unleashed a wave of capital in the first three months of the year. A Q1 overview.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The investment is the largest-ever Series A round for the region, and it values Wave at $1.7 Four big-name backers jointly led the round — Sequoia Heritage, a private investment fund and a subsidiary of Sequoia; Founders Fund; payments upstart Stripe; and Ribbit Capital. Wave , a U.S. From Sendwave to Wave.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Today, one of the more promising hopefuls building an investing service in the UK is announcing a significant growth round after seeing a surge of attention this year in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. 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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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 17, 2023

Phylicia Koh, vice president at early-stage gaming venture capital firm Play Ventures , said effective fundraising is not only essential for securing necessary capital but also for demonstrating the commitment and resilience of the founding team. . The Singapore-based venture capital firm raised $135 million for its Fund 2.

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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. Today, that investment train kept rolling as the company announced a $70 million Series D on a valuation of $1 billion. BigID is attracting this kind of investment by building a security and privacy platform.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Titan , a startup that is building a retail investment management platform aimed at millennials, has closed on $12.5 We came from two different backgrounds with respect to investing,” Percoco recalled. “He I’m the exact opposite and couldn’t invest myself until after Goldman Sachs, where I went to work after Penn.”.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. So what is Revenue Based Investing?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

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. Other investors in the Series B include Northzone, Fabric Ventures, Bpifrance, Eurazeo and Singular. Since 2018, Homa has published 80 games and attracted one billion downloads.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

In 2010, Bastian Gotter invested up to $200,000 into IROKOtv, an African video-on-demand company Jason Njoku, his friend and co-founder, launched in Lagos, Nigeria. Gotter left the media company in 2017, an exit that afforded him the chance to take up angel investing full-time and pursue new projects. and South Africa.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2020

million) investment, led by firstminute capital , which includes funding from Hoxton Ventures, Taylor Brothers, Ocado Group and the U.K.’s In April 2018 the Founders Factory venture studio invested in Karakuri and Brent Hoberman joined the board as chairman (and is also listed as a co-founder). million (£6.3

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? Well, we learn to invest exclusively in men, preferably white or Asian. . So, why invest in anyone who’s not a white or Asian male? . We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.”

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Dream It

APRIL 26, 2019

In late-March, the United Kingdom's Huawei Cyber Security Centre Oversight Board reported that the company had not fixed critical security flaws in its products, even after promising to patch specific issues back in 2012. Qualcomm Ventures led an $18 million strategic round of funding in industrial IoT security platform CyberX.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

In fact, a new report from investment firm Golden Gate Ventures predicts a record number of exits will happen in the region over the next couple of years, thanks to factors like a maturing ecosystem, more secondary buyers and the emergence of SPACs. billion invested in 2020, according to a report by Cento Ventures and Tech In Asia.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 6, 2021

By: Sarah Dickey, ACA Membership Director Boston-Area Angels Hambleton Lord and Christopher Mirabile Receive Hans Severiens Award for Individual Impact in Advancing the Field of Angel Investing. Ham and Christopher met in the busy Boston angel investing community where they both started and operated angel networks.

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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. The new investment comes just five months after Zeni announced $13.5 million in a combined seed and Series A round. The company has now raised $47.5

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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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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. Maximize your impact by investing your time wisely. Since I have a limited tenure at the Board, I know I will not be able to change everything.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Biggs explored the potential for blockchain technology to help solve humanitarian challenges through her venture, Proof of Purpose, in 2017, and her TEDx speech on Blockchain Technology that year is considered by many in the blockchain space to be one of the best in the genre.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

This massive plunge occurred after investment giant Prosus slashed Byju’s value to less than a sixth of its original valuation. Since 2018, Prosus has invested $536 million in Byju’s, with another significant $153 million investment made in April 2021. Therefore, Prosus now holds a 9.6%

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

Kukua , a Nairobi- and London-based educational entertainment company and the creators of “ Super Sema ,” the first African animated superhero franchise, has raised $6 million in its latest round of investment. million seed from Africa-focused venture capital firm EchoVC and other investors that year. Until “Black Panther.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

Maryam Haque is the executive director of Venture Forward. Bobby Franklin is the president and CEO of the National Venture Capital Association and previously served as an executive vice president for the CTIA – The Wireless Association. A new foreign investment bill will impact venture capital and the US startup ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Today, the company announced a $20 million Series A investment. “So The company launched in 2018 in England, and currently has 20 employees, all based in the U.K. Diversity across the board has been something that we’ve thought about from day one, and again, that hasn’t changed one bit.

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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. “But most of the time, companies don’t know how to capture this value and don’t invest in partnerships. ” .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Telus Ventures led the round, with participation from new investors Rethink Impact, Citi Impact, Doon Capital, Stardust Equity and Portfolia Food & AgTech Fund, and existing investors, including Spark Capital, Cultivian Sandbox, Astia Fund and Radicle Growth. million in Series A funding in 2018. The company raised an additional $8.5

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

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. million Series A co-led by pi Ventures and Exfinity Venture Partners. Both will join Ai Palette’s board. Both will join Ai Palette’s board.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2021

billion in venture funding , filed its S-1 Monday. Other investors include the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board, Fidelity, Wellington Management, and the Qatar Investment Authority, according to Crunchbase. Compass , the real-estate brokerage startup backed by roughly $1.6

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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. Instead, Uber handed over its equity in ATG and invested $400 million into Aurora.

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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. Furniture is one of the largest investments consumers make, yet historically, re-selling has posed a significant challenge, making it a major contributor to landfill waste,” said Koralturk.

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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. The Vienna Textile Lab team.

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