TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Keeping a small sales business afloat in Latin America can involve long bus trips to find new products, lack of working capital and payment difficulties. Prior to starting ZAX, CEO Ballardie was founder of eÓtica, a glasses e-commerce company that merged with Lema21 in 2018. The new capital brings the company’s total funding to $8.3

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The Pune-based company is also the latest startup to raise funding in this area, bringing in $12 million in Series A funding in a round co-led by Elevation Capital and General Catalyst. The new funding gives Loop Health a total of $14 million in funding since it was founded in 2018, Mayank Kale, co-founder and CEO, told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2022

million in Series A funding from a group of investors including First Round Capital, Golden Ventures and Chandaria Family Holdings. Laura McGee, co-founder and CEO, started the company in 2018 after doing diversity and inclusion consulting for corporate clients and the government that led her to do a lot of CEO roundtables.

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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. Investors also participating include GFC, Felicis Ventures and GGV Capital’s Hans Tung, alongside existing investors including NFX, Accel’s Kevin Efrusy, Wollef and Maya Capital.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Venture capital continues to flow into Latin America at a staggering rate. H Twenty Capital (H20) co-founders Daniel Lloreda and Mauricio Porras recall getting into the region in 2018, a time Lloreda considered pretty early to be the investment space. Why Latin American venture capital is breaking records this year.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Childhood friends David Grandes and Andres Andrade, both originally from Ecuador, started Mimic in 2018 in Brazil as a dark kitchen-as-a-service, specializing in producing food at scale with online channel sales. The funding enables us to round out our product and our teams.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2022

The latest round gives the company $150 million in total funding, which includes $100 million in a credit facility announced in 2018. The new funding will enable the Future Family to expand its network, invest in staffing and product development and explore new channels.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 25, 2024

Under the Angel Match Program, the NJEDA is the first entity to commit capital to a technology company, leading to other investors who provide matching funds. This fuels the growth for the product-based technology company by increasing the pool of available capital. TLA Innovation, Inc. vipHomeLink, Inc.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 23, 2023

Vehicle networks to drive down cost and complexity while improving power efficiency in next-generation architectures Capital continues to flow to technologies that are driving the future of the automotive industry, as seen in the recent announcement made by startup Ethernovia, Inc. having recently completed a $64 million A-round.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Medable , a patient-focused clinical research company offering a cloud offering for adoption of digital and decentralized clinical trials, brought in a new capital infusion of $304 million in Series D funding — its fourth round since 2020 — to give it a valuation of $2.1 It also raised a $25 million venture round in May 2020.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Financial infrastructure startup Fidel API has raised $65 million in a Series B funding round led by Bain Capital Ventures. 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.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 31, 2023

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. A handful of companies achieve record-setting growth rates.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 18, 2024

By combining the studio’s operational expertise with capital support from the publicly trade Apollo, 25m Evolve incubations are more readily able to deploy and scale their validated AI-enabled vertical software solutions with enterprise partners.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 18, 2024

By combining the studio’s operational expertise with capital support from the publicly trade Apollo, 25m Evolve incubations are more readily able to deploy and scale validated AI-enabled vertical software solutions with enterprise partners.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The funding round was spearheaded by Lion X Ventures and Vickers Venture Partners, with participation from Advanced MedTech and Eckuity Capital. This achievement also enables the miniaturization of the dialysis machine to a size that can be conveniently carried in a small bag.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Berkeley-based cultured meat company New Age Meats announced Monday it raised $25 million in Series A funding that will enable the company to begin production of its first product offering, a variety of pork sausages, next year. Brian Spears speaking at Hello Tomorrow Singapore. Image Credits: New Age Meats.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 31, 2023

Led by LG Technology Ventures, the venture capital arm of the LG Group, the round also saw participation from Safar Partners, UOB Venture Management, and existing investors Alpha JWC and LDV Partners. LG Technology Ventures was established in 2018 in Silicon Valley and manages over $500 million of fund assets.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Within the past two years, Full Harvest’s impact on keeping food out of landfills grew five times, prompting the company to seek additional capital to keep the momentum going. million in Series A funding in 2018. Back in 2018, Full Harvest had about eight employees; that has now grown to 35. The company raised an additional $8.5

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 31, 2023

This new funding will enable REDEX to expand its operations beyond Asia and continue enhancing the efficiency and digitalization of REC issuance and trading. “REDEX is well positioned as the leading marketplace for I-RECs, which will enable renewable energy markets in many parts of the world. .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Fintech-focused investor Tonic Private Equity led the Series G round along with returning backers, including Korea Development Bank (KDB), Altos Ventures, Goodwater Capital, Greyhound Capital, Aspex Management, Bond Capital, and DUMAC. billion in 2018. billion won) and $175.8 million (229.3 billion in November.)

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The startup introduced vehicle financing in 2018, and in just over two years, CFO Guy-Bertrand Njoya told TechCrunch, the churn rate by drivers affiliated to them has crashed to “close to zero.”. “We

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 17, 2023

Register Singapore-based venture capital firm Jungle Ventures has announced its merger with HealthXCapital , an early-stage VC firm specializing in healthcare investments. HealthXCapital’s maiden fund of $20 million, launched in 2018, has had Jungle Ventures as a limited partner.

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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 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. Existing investors Incubate Fund, Vela Partners and 468 Capital also contributed. The company also added DNX Ventures managing partner Hiro Rio Maeda to its board of directors.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 3, 2023

The funding will be used to capitalize on the region’s high level of cryptocurrency acceptance and assist Korean enterprises in achieving greater internationalization. Alchemy Pay’s estimated valuation during the funding phase was reported to be $400 million.

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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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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The funding round was anchored by Dunamu & Partners and participated by Silicon Valley-based Big Basin Capital and South Korean investor Pearl Abyss Capital. The startup, founded in 2018, said it will use the fresh capital to attract more top tier talent and scale its presence across more key geographies.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Founded out of London in 2018, Modulous said that it’s seeking to tackle a global housing shortage that could impact some 1.6 For the construction phase, the kit of parts enables developers to produce large multi-tenant apartment blocks with minimal up-front investment. Modulous , a U.K. million) in a series A round of funding.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

Austin’s venture capital scene has been hot for years now, but a pair of local investment firms just closed on new funds aimed at injecting more capital into startups in Austin and elsewhere. What is different is that with a larger fund, they can deploy the capital faster than in previous funds, Plauche said.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2020

The round included investment from Iterative; Hustle Fund; XA Network; Rapzo Capital; Lazada co-founder Stein Jakabo; and Dot Property founder Ben Neve. Propseller’s last funding announcement was in December 2018, when it raised SGD $1 million (about $737,000) in seed funding.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Wong Wei Kong, Editor-in-Chief of the English/Malay/Tamil Media Group at SPH Media, expressed the strategic significance of the acquisition, which will enable them to provide a more comprehensive array of products and services to their readers. Willis Wee, the founder of TIA, also serves as its CEO.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

Sanjay Aggarwal Contributor Share on Twitter Sanjay Aggarwal is a venture partner at F-Prime Capital focused on frontier technology investment opportunities. From 2018 to 2021, investments in the AV sector across the U.S. Image Credits: F-Prime Capital VC excitement for hardware businesses is higher than ever In the U.S.

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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 2, 2022

Smoodi wants to see its smoothies in the hands of, well, everyone, and a new infusion of capital and distribution partnership has the startup well on its way. Kriesche and Abraham are deploying the new capital into scaling smoodi nationwide.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

Lightning Labs is building infrastructure that would enable users to send money across the world almost instantaneously and at a low cost through the Bitcoin network. Valor Equity Partners led the $70 million Series B round with participation from Baillie Gifford, Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev, Goldcrest Capital and others, according to Decrypt.

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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. The capital brings the startup’s total raised to about $54 million. With customers including Qualtrics, Tealium, Contentsquare, and Vonage.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Back in 2018 we covered how Open Mineral (OM), a startup aiming to leverage greater transparency in commodities trading, had raised $2.25 Existing investors Xploration Capital and Emerald Technology Ventures were joined by new investors Statkraft and Lingfeng Capital.

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