TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

StudyFree — which connects students with international educational opportunities via a community-driven B2C SaaS model — has raised a $3 million seed investment round led by I2BF Global Ventures, TMT Investments and Techstars. StudyFree has now received a total of $3.6 million in funding. StudyFree has now received a total of $3.6

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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

MAY 20, 2021

The capital will be used to expand its fulfillment infrastructure, including a network of warehouses and cold chain logistics, hire more people for its engineering team, and sales and marketing. Secai Marche was founded in 2018 by Ami Sugiyama and Shusaku Hayakawa, and currently serves 130 farmers and more than 300 F&B businesses.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

Systemiq Capital , a backer of early-stage climate tech startups, says it has secured $70 million to kick off its second fund. The London-based VC aims to raise as much as $130 million more; that would mark quite a step up for the firm, which says it has funneled $30 million into 19 startups since 2018.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Corporate spend and cash management company Rho today announced that it has raised a $75 million Series B funding round led by Dragoneer Investment Group. Participants included existing investors Inspired Capital, M13 and Torch Capital, as well as new investors such as DFJ Growth. Having previously co-founded U.K.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Participants in the funding included Infocom, Golden Gate Ventures, Skystar Capital, and Venturra. Established by serial entrepreneur Harya Bimo in 2018, Klinik Pintar leverages technology to create a comprehensive health ecosystem by integrating clinics.

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2021

The round’s other participants were Sequoia Capital India (Zenyum is an alum of its Surge accelerator program ), RTP Global, Partech, TNB Aura, Seeds Capital and FEBE Ventures. L Catteron Asia’s head of growth investments, Anjana Sasidharan, will join Zenyum’s board. million Series A announced in November 2019.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2020

VectoIQ is the consulting and investment company founded by Steve Girsky, the former GM vice chairman, consultant and investor whose special purpose acquisition company merged with hydrogen electric startup Nikola Corp. Nikola chairman, VectoIQ CEO Steve Girsky eyes his next transportation investment. this summer. .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

BeyondID , a cloud identity consulting firm, announced a $9 million Series A today led by Tercera. It marked the first investment from Tercera, a firm that launched earlier this month with the goal of investing in service startups like Beyond. Tercera launches with $225M to fund cloud consulting firms.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

Returning investors include Canaan Partners, Global Founders Capital, Baleon Capital, Western Tech Investments and City Light Capital. This latest investment brings the company’s total amount of funding to nearly $28 million. The startup was founded in 2018 by Ed Gaussen, Matt Kennedy and Dr. Ravi Shah.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

One of the areas they’re investing in is upskilling, which aims to teach employees new skills in departments with which they’re unfamiliar. For example, Walmart announced in 2021 that it would invest nearly $1 billion over the next five years to provide its employees with access to higher education and training.

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Y Combinator

MAY 11, 2022

Prior to WayUp, JJ spent a year as a freelancing backpacker in 16 countries, then joined McKinsey as a consultant in New York. With her free time, Liz enjoys hiking with her husband and their cavapoo, volunteering on a weekly basis, traveling, and working with / investing in great founders.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2022

“Usually, when we talk about reducing defects, scrap or rework by an average, we do a reduction of about 40% when the customer follows our advice,” said Cronje, who has a degree in management consultancy and statistics. South African VC firm Knife Capital gets first commitment for its $50M fund, to invest in 10-12 Series B rounds.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2021

The round was led by Irish Angels, with participation from Bread and Butter Ventures, Gaingels, Angeles Investors, Bonfire Ventures and Red Tail Venture Capital. Rossignol likes to invest in underestimated founders and saw in Stonehenge a company that is getting CPGs out from underneath antiquated technologies.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2021

Praava claims to have tripled its growth every year since launching services in 2018, and now serves 150,000 patients. Its “brick-and-click” model, including online consultations, also allows it to reach patients throughout the country. ” Where top VCs are investing in healthcare B2B and infrastructure.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

Propel Venture Partners and Accel led the investment for Truora, which valued the company at $75 million post-money. . Founded in August 2018, Truora was originally focused on background checks for gigster platforms. billion,” said Bilboa, a former investment banker at Bank of America.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Other investors participating in the round include returning backers Hustle Fund, Iterative and Rapzo Capital, along with new investors Partech, ICCP SBIT, Vulpes Ventures and Redbadge Pacific. Founded in 2018, Propseller will use its Series A to scale its business model, expand its offerings and enter overseas markets.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The startup began as a design consultancy helping companies design circuit boards, but they discovered this way of bringing more automation to the design process and began building the solution they have today, originally for themselves, before making it into a product. The $12 million investment closed last year. Image Credits: Jitx.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The company, which announced a $200,000 pre-seed last September , said it intends to use the investment to hire talent, build up its processes, structure, and scale into new African markets. Nigerian retail automation platform Bumpa raises $4M, led by Base10 Partners by Tage Kene-Okafor originally published on TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2021

GoDaddy led the round as a strategic partner and was joined by OurCrowd and existing investors Pitango Growth, Mangrove Capital Partners, Armat Group, Disruptive VC and Whip Media founder Richard Rosenblatt. We are excited to invest in Tailor Brands — and its team — as we believe in their vision.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

Nearly 20% of medical workers have quit their jobs during the pandemic, according to a recent Morning Consult survey. Investors are rewarding the pivot with an infusion of fresh capital. ” Apploi is decidedly more employer-focused, now, having invested in a suite of hiring and onboarding tools tailored for healthcare companies.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 12, 2023

“EventUs went through the Pre-Seed stage in 2017, the Seed stage in 2018, and successfully attracted Pre-A round investment in 2019. During this time, it secured a capital investment of 800 million KRW from StrongVentures, LotteVentures, and Primer,” Ahn shares.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

We have exhaustively explored whether Tech Nation could continue without core government grant funding, but have concluded after extensive consultation that this is not an option.” The move comes at a time when the UK government has been playing lip-service to the idea of the country as a “Science and Technology Superpower”. and abroad.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Contact Financial Holding, Egypt’s non-bank consumer finance provider, has invested $9 million in the country’s ecommerce super-app Wasla , setting the stage for the rollout of new online shopping capabilities, products and regional expansion. million in funding from a number of investors including Ventures and Glint Consulting.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MARCH 2, 2020

These centers provide free business consulting and low-cost training for new and existing businesses. I didn’t know that in 2018, America’s SBDC clients enjoyed annual sales growth of 17.7% (almost 4.5 I didn’t know that in 2018, America’s SBDC clients enjoyed annual sales growth of 17.7% (almost 4.5

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Recognizing that inflexible company structures and policy negatively affected both employees and organizations—especially women—Auerbach and Dean left careers in consulting and corporate law to build tools and training to make flexibility a competitive advantage for everyone. Written for EO by Michael Neidert, a writer and consultant. .

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

At Versatile VC, we particularly like investing in “dual-PhD” problems, at the intersection of multiple domains. We’re making $50k investments in idea/R&D-stage teams that want to work outside of school in the fall.”. The firm has made seven investments since 2017 with check sizes between 25k and 100k euros.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Pula , a Kenyan insurtech startup that specialises in digital and agricultural insurance to derisk millions of smallholder farmers across Africa, has closed a Series A investment of $6 million. The round was led by Pan-African early-stage venture capital firm, TLcom Capital , with participation from nonprofit Women’s World Banking.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2021

Spark Capital led the Series A, with participation from Commerce Ventures and a group of individual investors, including Marqeta CEO Jason Gardner and CRO Omri Dahan, Robinhood founder Vlad Tenev, UltimateSoftware executives Mitch Dauerman and Bob Manne and Namely founder Matt Straz. The latest round now gives the company $14.6

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

There’s also been tremendous growth when it comes to dollars invested in female-founded companies. At the same time, according to research by All Raise, only 15 percent of all venture capital funding is allocated to female founders. A lot of this gender imbalance is due to unconscious bias at the funding stage.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Being part of a well-capitalized firm allowed them to make some strategic investments along the way to eventually going public last year. In July of 2018 it added $25 million to its coffers, and the final entry was a small debt investment raised in 2019.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

He then worked on some consulting gigs, and after noticing the wave of fintech and neobank activity that stormed the U.K., he started Nomod as a side project in 2018. The company, which graduated from the recent Y Combinator summer batch, received investments led by Global Founders Capital.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2021

The global steel industry may find approximately 14% of its potential value at risk if the business can’t reduce its environmental impact, according to studies cited by the consulting firm McKinsey & Co. MOE takes metals in their raw oxide form and transforms them into molten metal products.

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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. Another common mistake founders make when raising capital is mishandling equity.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2023

Greg Miaskiewicz and Stefan Nagey founded the company in 2018, and raised a total of about $6 million in venture capital from firms such as Better Tomorrow Ventures, Clocktower Technology Ventures, Great Oaks Venture Capital, Village Global as well as a number of angel investors. “We Equity management is clearly a hot area.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MARCH 8, 2020

They are also about attaining metrics that lead to positive cashflow and attract investment. i2E has been working with SendaRide since the company launched in 2018. We have provided capital, leveraged with mentoring and customized venture services. “i2E surrounded me with consultants and professionals,” Fleet said.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2023

About a year ago, it seemed like myself and other colleagues were writing story after story about spend management companies raising tranches of venture capital — remember Mary Ann’s roundup story from basically this same time last year? And compared to the shrinking of quarter-to-quarter investments for the rest of 2022, the $11.8

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