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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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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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 24, 2023

Launched in 2022, GGV Capital’s SMBTech 50 demonstrates both the breadth and depth of the sector and the enthusiasm of venture capital investors for these companies. About GGV Capital GGV Capital is a global venture capital firm partnering with founders to build category-leading companies around the world.

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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. Why Latin American venture capital is breaking records this year.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Regions once overlooked by the venture capital industry are racking up impressive investment totals in recent quarters. This is also reflected in funding tallies: Per Crunchbase data , venture capital funding into the region’s unicorns reached $10 billion this year to date. VTEX, dLocal) and in Brazil.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

As venture capital totals grow in Latin America , the region is about to see its leading champion go public. Per Crunchbase data , QED put capital into Nubank’s 2014 Series A, 2015 Series B, 2016 Series D and 2018 Series E, though there may be more dollars in play that we cannot see.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

We’re psyched to be reporting live from TechCrunch Disrupt — without ignoring the rest of the world, natch. They have made 150,000 of those connections since 2018. The round was led by Horizons Ventures and supported by Main Sequence Ventures and Hostplus. News drop from Disrupt. PDT, subscribe here.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

Iron Pillar and Uncorrelated Ventures led the round, with participation from existing investors Nexus Venture Partners, Chiratae Ventures and Next47. CEO and founder Nitin Jayakrishnan says that the new capital will be put toward expanding Pando’s global sales, marketing and delivery capabilities.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

APRIL 1, 2020

million from Plains Venture Partners I, as well as $1,000,000 from the Accelerate Oklahoma Fund and $500,000 from the Oklahoma Angel Fund II. Plains Venture Partners I, the Accelerate Oklahoma Fund, and the Oklahoma Angel Fund are each managed by iMCI. million Series A in 2018, both led by i2E, Inc., parent company of iMCI.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2023

million in a Series A2 round led by Blue Bear Capital and HSBC Asset Management with participation from Riverstone Holdings and Capnamic Ventures. million in pre-seed and seed funding round led by Augment Ventures with participation by Accion Venture Lab, TMV, Overton Venture Capital and Refashiond Ventures.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Ultimately, Atrium’s failure shows how difficult and unprofitable it could be to disrupt a traditional and complicated system. The startup targeted working professionals in cities, and raised only around $11 million in known venture capital. Quibi (2018-2020). Stockwell/Bodega (2018-2020). The Outline (2016-2020).

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

The Baylor New Venture Competition is a business plan and elevator pitch competition for college students from around the globe. The CMU Venture Challenge is an international startup competition open to undergraduates from across the United States. Alumni Ventures Group runs a network of VC funds focused on specific universities. .

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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

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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David Teten VC

APRIL 13, 2021

Empirically, few small emerging investment managers hire placement agents, particularly in venture capital. million venture fund. Private equity/venture capital managers have a much longer duration than most any other fund type. Microcredentials for the Effective Venture Capital or Private Equity Investor.

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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

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Our systems are at a point where it is more productive to work with nature than against it,” said Sanjeev Krishnan, chief investment officer at S2G Ventures. People have been looking at solving these problems in the wrong way,” said Daniela Fernandez, managing partner at Seabird Ventures.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2023

In this edition, we cover Reed Jobs, the son of Steve Jobs, who is launching a new venture fund to back cancer treatments; China’s cutthroat e-commerce tactics; and fan-fiction writers rallying against a proposed U.S. Join us at Disrupt 2023 in San Francisco this September to immerse yourself in all things startup.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2023

Over the last year, the venture industry has had a tough time. There are ways to disrupt this timeline: VC firms can sometimes back a relatively early-stage company and exit the investment within 12 months. So how were most venture funds actually performing? But before SVB failed , it was going relatively well.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

.” Investors must believe it’s a solid approach, as well, given that Komprise this week managed to close a $37 million funding round from Canaan Partners, Celesta Capital, Multiplier Capital and Top Tier Ventures. ” So what else can enterprises do with Komprise?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Alternative capital has pros and cons, just like venture capital has pros and cons. Is taking a revenue-share agreement going to hurt your chances as a pre-seed startup trying to raise capital? Sources: Lightspeed Venture Partners is close to hiring a London-based partner to put down roots in Europe.

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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2022

million USD) co-led by AirTree Ventures and Decade Partners. The Series A funding comes after its 10x year-over-year revenue growth throughout the four years since its launch in 2018. “With open banking and the NPP, Australia has found itself at the centre of this disruption – and Zepto is the leading innovator in this space.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

He is facing a lawsuit being brought against him by Stacy Chang, an investor who left Founders Fund to join Cashman in a new venture capital firm called Arrowside Capital. E-commerce roll-ups are the next wave of disruption in consumer packaged goods. Their final working day will be May 13. Thrasio’s growth.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

UBITS, a B2B online learning platform for upskilling employees in Latin America, has raised $25 million in funding led by Riverwood Capital. Julián Melo and Marta Forero founded UBITS in Bogota, Colombia, in 2018 after the pair came up with the idea of “creating the Netflix for corporate training for LatAm.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

OMERS Ventures and Stage 2 Capital co-led the investment, which included participation from existing backers Alate Partners and Metaprop. The raise brings the total raised by Occupier since its 2018 inception to $15.5 And today, Occupier is announcing it has raised $10.5 million in a Series A funding round.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Via TechCrunch by Arman Tabatabai: Venture capital has been flooding the various subverticals under the robotics umbrella in recent years, and the construction space is one of the largest beneficiaries. Finishing is the ripest for disruption. Any other thoughts you want to share with TechCrunch readers?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

billion National Quantum Initiative in 2018. A disruptive technology like quantum computing will have massive industrial implications. Most promising European startups have a tendency not to grow on the continent due to inadequate venture capital. In response, then-President Donald Trump launched a $1.2

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 30, 2020

TechCrunch covered that round , and the company’s $4 million seed round in 2018 , keeping tabs on the corporate spend-management company as it grows. At least that’s what Teampay CEO Andrew Hoag has done with his company’s new $5 million investment, adding it onto its September, 2019-era Series A.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Global cross-border e-commerce was estimated to be over $400 billion in 2018, but is growing at twice the rate of domestic e-commerce. As part of the investment Todd MacLean, managing partner at Silversmith Capital Partners, joined the Zonos board of directors. Checkout is the key to frictionless B2B e-commerce.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

New investor Franklin Templeton joined existing backers — including Founders Fund, Bedrock Capital, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Moore Strategic Ventures, 137 Ventures and Brookfield Growth Partners — in putting money in the round. -based Baillie Gifford that values the company at $2.9 wind industry. .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2021

The round was led by M12, Microsoft’s venture capital arm, with participation from returning investor 500 Startups. Based in San Francisco and Kuala Lumpur, LottieFiles was founded in 2018. LottieFiles , a platform for JSON-based Lottie animations, has raised a Series A of $9 million.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

” Ian Chiu, Owl Ventures. Shauntel Garvey and Jennifer Carolan, Reach Capital. Jomayra Hererra, Cowboy Ventures. In 2018, B2B marketplaces saw an estimated $680 billion in sales, but that figure is expected to reach $3.6 Jan Lynn-Matern, Emerge Education. David Eichler, TCV. trillion by 2024. on Sunday, Dec.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

Bond led the latest round, which also included participation from LenX (formerly Lennar Ventures), Zeev Ventures, Fifth Wall Climate Tech and JLL Spark Global Ventures. .” The financing brings the San Mateo, California-based company’s total raised since its 2008 inception to $600 million.

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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

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Homebound started out to help people rebuild after their houses were destroyed by California wildfires in 2018. And today, the Santa Rosa, California-based startup is announcing it has raised $75 million in a Series C funding round led by Khosla Ventures toward its efforts to help address those inventory shortages with its technology.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

What I wish I’d known about venture capital when I was a founder. Andy Areitio, a partner at early-stage fund TheVentureCity, wrote What I wish I’d known about venture capital when I was a founder , a reflection on the “classic mistakes” founders tend to make when it’s time to fundraise.

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