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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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

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. AI also creates opportunities to disrupt traditional industries with massive addressable markets.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Soda that serves a purpose, whether that be more healthy or even functional, is the new wave of drinks disrupting the $38 billion U.S. The company is the second venture in the realm of “functional soda” for co-founders Ben Goodwin and David Lester, who have worked together for nearly a decade. soft drink industry.

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Revolution

JUNE 15, 2023

That deliberate balance paid off, but CAVA wouldn’t be where it is today without… A few leaps of faith: Notably its acquisition of Zoës Kitchen in 2018. The resulting approach was risk tolerant but thoughtful: CAVA opened its first store beyond the D.C.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

That’s Lumchain’s goal: help the global meat industry innovate and solve some of the key challenges they face, including employee shortages, the impact of inflation and high operational costs, supply chain disruptions and that meat plants are still operating the same way they did 50 years ago. Its global team is over 100 now.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

That, in turn, boosted the pet industry itself, with the market’s value increasing from $90 billion in 2018 to over $120 billion in 2021. Our brand is very disruptive on the shelf, and so we believe that retail is important in our discovery. Of that, $50 billion was spent in the U.S. on food and treats.

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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. VCs say there are more startup opportunities to chase in Latin America.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 15, 2020

We found that new ventures require radically different talents and skills. Ideas are the critical spark in the first stages of a startup: Ideas for a new product, for a disruptive service or engaging customer experience. They get obsessed and go deep to find market niches and opportunities you never imagined existed.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Founders and investors have started to look for opportunities to conserve, and even enhance, the ocean’s resources rather than exploit them. Because the oceans take up so much of the planet and the space is relatively uncharted, there are plenty of opportunities for investors to find niches ripe with financial and environmental upsides.

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Revolution

JUNE 10, 2019

Yet, technology adoption within the real estate community as a means to fundamentally disrupt how physical assets behave and how transactions occur was lagging up until the last couple of years. quickly making real estate technology one of the fastest growing venture asset classes.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 11, 2022

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. The $11 million round announced today follows the $6 million Series A round in 2021, which was led by Pearl Abyss Capital, Storm Venture, Big Basin Capital, and Smilegate Investment.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

The bootstrapped company — which didn’t receive outside capital until 2018 — depended on original AI research that Beguir published , which led to the startup being discovered by specialized clients who later became partners and investors, such as DeepMind, Google and its future acquirer BioNTech.

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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. At the time, custom-built solutions were the trend, and — according to Romero — he and his friend had the opportunity to build an asset allocation software for a mutual fund company.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

It also offers an opportunity to examine those issues from a bit of distance to see if there are any broader takeaways for the community at large. Ultimately, Atrium’s failure shows how difficult and unprofitable it could be to disrupt a traditional and complicated system. Quibi (2018-2020). Stockwell/Bodega (2018-2020).

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

Some of the greatest areas of innovation opportunity are at the intersection of sectors historically segregated , e.g., computational biology. The Baylor New Venture Competition is a business plan and elevator pitch competition for college students from around the globe. Many universities (e.g.,

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

Flink , a Mexico City-based neobroker, has raised $57 million in a Series B round of funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. Existing backers Accel, ALLVP, Clocktower and new investor Mantis Venture Capital (founded by The Chainsmokers) also put money in the Series B.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

The funding comes just months after São Paulo-based Mercado Bitcoin’s Series A round (of an undisclosed amount) in January of 2021, which was co-led by G2D/GP Investments and Parallax Ventures, with participation from HS Investimentos , Gear Ventures, Évora and Genial. JPMorgan and DealMake. Image Credits: Mercado Bitcoin.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2022

By the time you’re reading this, we’ll be two days away from TechCrunch Disrupt! I am doubtful that I could ever be a venture-backed startup founder. TechRadar reports : “Following its acquisition of now Zettle in 2018, PayPal has announced a brand new POS device that’s designed to accommodate the needs of small and medium businesses.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2020

They include the London Stock Exchange Group, Draper Esprit, OMERS Ventures, Fidelity International Strategic Ventures and ABN AMRO Ventures, as well as previous backers Pentech and Outward Ventures. And what’s more, the new playing field means a new opportunity for new players.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

The round — which is an extension of the Series A Carry1st raised last May from Riot Games, Konvoy Ventures, Raine Ventures and TTV Capital — also saw the same investors double down on their investments in the company. . Cordel Robbin-Coker , Lucy Hoffman and Tinotenda Mundangepfupfu founded Carry1st in 2018.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

In 2018, Ignacio Canals, Diego Fleischmann and Benjamin Izikson got the idea for the e-commerce and lending company to provide durable goods, like cars, motorbikes and mobile phones, for gig workers in the Andes region. We saw a huge opportunity to support immigrants,” Canals told TechCrunch. “We

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Vasilyev and Pinto worked together at Pinto’s last startup, Machinio, which was sold back in 2018. The open-source project was actually started five years ago by Valentin Vasilyev, according to the project’s GitHub page. The open source community was pivotal to our success thus far,” said Vasilyev, in a statement.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

QED Investors, Wellington Management, Susa Ventures, Founders Fund, First American Financial, Prudence Holdings, Crossover VC, Intersect Capital, Gaingels and Oberndorf Ventures also participated in the financing. 9 top real estate and proptech investors: Cities and offices still have a future.

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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. It is inevitable to miss out on opportunities due to time constraints.

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Startup Blogpost

AUGUST 8, 2023

We invested in training our writers and improved our service delivery, turning the setback into a growth opportunity. ” During the early days of my venture, we faced a sudden market downturn. Embrace uncertainty as an opportunity for innovation, not a harbinger of failure. The key takeaway?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

” In 2018, the product was piloted as Wave in Senegal but it was still within the Sendwave ecosystem. Wave, however , wants to disrupt it. Since 2018, we’ve supported Wave because we were convinced mobile money is still an unsolved problem in Africa,” he said in a statement. ” Going up against incumbents.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

The company has raised over $86 million over its lifetime and counts NewView Capital and SoftBank’s SB Opportunity Fund among its backers. Meanwhile, Yaydoo has raised over $20 million from investors such as Base10 Partners, monashees, SB Opportunity Fund and Leap Global Partners. Today the U.S. Another day, another Q2 funding report.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The startup — which counts SoftBank, Airbnb, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital India and Microsoft among its investors and was most recently valued at $9.6 Much like every other hospitality and travel firm, Oyo was also severely disrupted by the pandemic. The startup plans to deploy over $330 million to repay its debt.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2023

Blinkist’s last valuation was $160 million in 2018 , when it raised $18.8 It had raised just over $37 million, per Pitchbook data , with backers in addition to Insight including Left Lane Capital, T-Ventures, and more. “We see generative AI as a big opportunity,” he said.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

In an attempt to remedy that problem, São Paulo -based Kovi was founded in 2018 to give those people access to those opportunities. . Kovi today is announcing it has raised $104 million in a Series B round of funding co-led by Valor Capital Group and Prosus Ventures. The first of those tailwinds is ride-hailing. Less than 0.5%

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

E-commerce and other online businesses are becoming increasingly global in their operations and customer bases, and a startup called Airwallex — which has built a banking solution that addresses the opportunity to provide cross-border financial services — has been seeing a massive surge of activity.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

A bevy of other investors put money in the round, including Sound Ventures (actor Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary’s VC firm), Scribble VC, Y Combinator, South Park Commons, Instagram founder Mike Krieger, Lee Fixel and others. . The other, called Opportunities, focuses on smaller, under-the-radar companies.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 2, 2022

In the fourth industrial revolution era, having succeeded as an economic powerhouse with a technological edge in manufacturing and industries led by large corporations, South Korea is now fostering disruptive innovation through startups. The country strives to create a balance between industrial conglomerates and the startup ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

The new funding was led by Alkeon Capital, an American investment firm, and included participation from new investors like Korea Development Bank, and returning backers Altos Ventures and Greyhound Capital. Viva Republica, which hit unicorn status in 2018 , has now raised more than $940 million in equity funding.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

For one, Mara was founded by Danilo Mansano and Ariel Lambrecht, the latter of whom was one of the co-founders of 99, a mobility startup that became the first unicorn in Brazil after being sold to Didi for $1 billion in 2018. . We had the opportunity to fail and learn a lot at 99,” Lambrecht told TechCrunch. Fixing the chain.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The round was led by Lakestar, with past investors Accel (which led its $8 million Series A in 2018 ) and Cherry Ventures also participating. However, it does point to an opportunity for incumbents to disrupt their disruptors. Christian Reber has also invested in this round. ” release, he added.

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