TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

In a 2018 report , Gartner predicted that 85% of AI projects will deliver erroneous outcomes due to bias in data, algorithms or the teams responsible for managing them. ” To test models, the Bobidi “community” of developers builds a validation dataset for a given system. the number of edge cases).

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

A South Korean 3D modeling software developer called Tripolygon enables metaverse creators to make their own 3D assets using the Unity plugins. Creating 3D modeling is no longer a field for experts or software developers only,” Tryipolgon CEO Jae-sik Hwang said in an interview with TechCrunch. million (6.5

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

Global investment group Eurazeo invested $53 million in Pangaea Holdings for a minority investment in the Los Angeles e-commerce company rooted in creating premium men’s personal care brands. This brings the company’s total funds raised to $87 million since the company was founded by Richard Hong and Darwish Gani in 2018.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

startup that makes it easier for housing developers, architects and construction firms to configure and design modular homes to address the ongoing housing crisis , has raised £10 million ($11.7 Founded out of London in 2018, Modulous said that it’s seeking to tackle a global housing shortage that could impact some 1.6

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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

MARCH 1, 2023

Montreal-based Equisoft , an insurance and investment software developer, today announced that it raised $125 million in venture equity. It’s a large amount made more significant by the fact that the investment climate for insurtech vendors is growing increasingly challenging. billion in Q3 to $1.01 billion in Q4. $70

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 9, 2023

Register Taiwan-based auto machine learning solutions developer, Profet AI, has earned $5.6 The new investment will allow Profet AI to accelerate its overseas expansion into Japan, Southeast Asia and China. The new investment will allow Profet AI to accelerate its overseas expansion into Japan, Southeast Asia and China.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 12, 2019

We brought together the best of all worlds: Conscious customers invested in uplifting the underprivileged, a low-cost and motivated rural workforce, and passionate leaders in urban communities who nurture and grow global opportunities,” Ravi explained in a 2018 interview published on Inc. This was an unexpected win!

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

When Christopher Male’s son was diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in 2018, the long-time investor found himself in unfamiliar territory. “At So far, AIF has invested in seven early-stage companies. AIF brought in Rob Sarrazin from GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) to serve as its chief investment officer and managing partner.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

While software development frameworks make developing software faster and easier than ever, pre-deployment testing gets more and more complex by the day. Over the past decade, Testlio has grown exponentially and positioned itself as an “Elance for Software Testing.”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2021

The fund is commemorating its new identity by investing an additional $300 million in emerging technologies and carbon neutrality via two early-stage funds: the Toyota Ventures Frontier Fund and the Toyota Ventures Climate Fund. . The Frontier Fund is a step outside of mobility.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The round welcomed participation from the German Development Finance Institution (DEG), and earlier investors, Yellowwoods and Hollard. IFC’s investment in Naked will help increase the penetration of tech-driven insurance in the country and contribute to job creation and economic growth.”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

These markets make up 32% of Africa’s population, 51% of the continent’s mobile network connections, 50% of its professional developers and 51% of its GDP. CAGR from 2018 to 2023 compared to Eastern Europe’s 6.9%, Asia Pacific’s 6.8%, Western Europe’s 4%, North America’s 3.5% The continent’s investment story. from 2010 to 2019.

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Jason Malki

AUGUST 1, 2023

I had the pleasure of interviewing Timothy Chen, the General Partner of Essence VC , which is an early stage developer + infrastructure focused fund. The company was later acquired by Cloudera in 2018. How did you break into tech investing? What is it that excites you about investing? and Jasper.ai.

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Jason Malki

AUGUST 3, 2023

Currently, he is a venture specialist for emerging technologies at Schaeffler and manages start-up ecosystems for partnering and investments. Since 2018, he is investing with an emerging tech VC focused on web3 and managing early-stage deal flow. How did you break into entrepreneurship and tech investing?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Amidst all the challenges and tribulations, workers believe a large portion of their work week is unproductive, with the majority of respondents to a recent (2018) Intuit survey saying that they’d get more done with fewer meetings, for one — and with more sleep. That’s not great news for employers.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

CEO Brian Spears has a chemical engineering background and co-founded the company, which makes meat from animal cells, in 2018 after spending 12 years developing research laboratory and industry automation. “We Image Credits: New Age Meats.

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NZ Entrepreneur

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Learn about business development with this free e-guide from tech business strategist Flavio Hangarter. The data suggests half as much funding in 2018-19 than in the peak time of 2016-17 (Alex McCauley, CEO, StartupAUS, 2019). Yet, founders bet their company’s success in finding small investment rounds in these unfavourable conditions.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

. “For three years, we have created a product that brings a lot of value to developers, which has allowed us to form a strong community,” De Quelen said via email. “The new money is to focus on the development of Meilisearch Cloud, our fully managed offering of Meilisearch instances.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

PingCAP , the open-source software developer best known for NewSQL database TiDB, has raised a $270 million Series D. The round’s lead investors were GGV Capital, Access Technology Ventures, Anatole Investment, Jeneration Capital and 5Y Capital (formerly known as Morningside Venture Capital).

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 31, 2023

Expansion of vaccine research, development and commercialization operations bringing 63 new jobs to Newark over next three years WILMINGTON, Del. Expansion of vaccine research, development and commercialization operations bringing 63 new jobs to Newark over next three years WILMINGTON, Del.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

Global venture capital firms are pouring money into the semiconductor startups developing the next generation of chips. Sunghyun Park , a former quant developer at Morgan Stanley in New York, launched artificial intelligence semiconductor startup Rebellions with four co-founders to enter this red-hot industry in 2020.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Ian Swanson, the co-founder and CEO, said that the capital will be put toward product development and customer outreach as Protect AI emerges from stealth. Protect AI claims to be one of the few security companies focused entirely on developing tools to defend AI systems and machine learning models from exploits.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

Signaling that investments in the supply chain sector remain robust, Pando , a startup developing fulfillment management technologies, today announced that it raised $30 million in a Series B round, bringing its total raised to $45 million. ” There’s truth to what Jayakrishnan’s expressing about pent-up demand.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

2018 YLAI Fellow Gastón is the founder of eaInversores , an online platform based in Córdoba, Argentina, that provides low-cost investment assistance and financial literacy education. Few in Argentina are actively investing their money,” Gaston says. and within Argentina. and within Argentina.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Serial fintech entrepreneur Walter Cruttenden founded Acorns with his son, Jeff, in 2012 with the goal of helping low- and middle-income households invest and save responsibly. The pair wanted to simplify investing for the millions that have trouble getting started or continuing to invest.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

This is related to what you can do once you are inside the application, and Oso , an early stage startup, has created an open source library for developers to make it easier to build authorization in their applications. Where top VCs are investing in open source and dev tools (Part 1 of 2). Today, the company announced an $8.2

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2021

Johannesburg-based investment company Founders Factory Africa (FFA) today announced a partnership with Small Foundation that will see it select 18 agritech startups for an acceleration and incubation program. This is a change from when the company launched in 2018. Some of the startups include Bwala, LipaLater, MVXchange and OkHi.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

APRIL 1, 2020

Oklahoma City, OK-based Linear Health Sciences has developed a globally patented medical device known as the Orchid Safety Release Valve (SRV), designed to limit disconnection of IV catheters for patients worldwide. iMCI), recently led an $11.535 million go-to-market investment in Oklahoma City-based Linear Health Sciences.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Oklahoma-based Kirrhos Pharmaceuticals is developing a novel, first-in-class treatment. recently led an $850,000 seed investment in Oklahoma. City-based Kirrhos Pharmaceuticals, which is developing a therapeutic for NASH, a life-. The investment into Kirrhos Pharmaceuticals includes $425,000 from the i2E-managed.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

VC has been invested over the past decade according to race, gender and educational background makes for grim reading — with all-ethnic teams and female entrepreneurs receiving just a fraction of available funding versus all-white teams and male founders. New research looking into how U.K. population.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Back in 2018, Tencent pledged to put more focus on enterprises as traditional industries in China increasingly tapped technology to boost productivity. Its founder and chief executive officer Wu Di also hailed from DJI, where he worked as the chief scientist and led research and development in chips. It is not an expensive demo.

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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. “We partner with the investment groups at the agencies,” said company founder and chief executive, Ari Bloom. We create an entity that we spin out.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

APRIL 2, 2019

Driving innovation through collaboration to create jobs is the entire reason for being of the public-private consortium of the Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology (OCAST), the Oklahoma Manufacturing Alliance (OMA), the Oklahoma State University New Product Development Center (NPDC) and i2E.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MARCH 13, 2019

The availability of broadband depends on whether a subscriber is in a populated or rural area, on carrier’s pricing and on how carriers prioritize their investment in expanding broadband infrastructure. According to the Federal Communication Commission’s 2018 broadband deployment chart, Oklahoma is last in our region in broadband development.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

with co-investment from OSF Ventures, Sony Innovation Fund, and Dreampact Ventures. Most recently, Mr. Hydar served as Vice President of Sales at Kent Imaging where he led product launches to commercialization and developed strategic partnership agreements to expand company awareness and market presence. i2E Management Company, Inc.

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