TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Homebound started out to help people rebuild after their houses were destroyed by California wildfires in 2018. It also realized that at the pace it was scaling, it needed to double down on its tech investments. So it went out last year to raise a $50 million Series C.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 12, 2019

In 2010, Ravi founded IndiVillage , the first information technology (IT) and information technology enabled services (ITeS) company in India to become certified as a B Corporation. The EO Accelerator program is the catalyst that enables first-stage entrepreneurs to catapult their business to the next level.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

On the one hand, you’re over paying for every investment and valuations aren’t rational. That used to be called A-round investing. The biggest change for us in early-stage investing is that we now need to commit earlier. However, to be a great VC you have to hold two conflicting ideas in your head at the same time. of the fund.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 25, 2024

$20M program matches investors’ direct investment in product-based companies TRENTON, N.J. The NJEDA’s investment ranges from $100,000 up to $500,000, as it is matched on one-to-one basis with the company’s corresponding preferred equity round. TLA Innovation, Inc. was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Paramus.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Concreit , a company that wants to open real estate investing to a broader group of people, announced today that it has closed $6 million in a seed funding round led by Matrix Partners. . Today, most investors can open a Concreit account and make their first investment in just minutes on their mobile device, the company claims.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 18, 2024

With AI and ChatAI driving a new economy, venture platform 25madison announced it is partnering with Apollo, the publicly traded alternative investment manager, to create an enterprise software venture studio called 25m Evolve.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 18, 2024

Focus is on providing enterprises with AI-native applications to respond to changing digital landscape With AI and ChatAI driving a new economy, venture platform 25madison announced it is partnering with the alternative investment manager Apollo to create an enterprise software venture studio called 25m Evolve.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

with co-investment from OSF Ventures, Sony Innovation Fund, and Dreampact Ventures. million Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The competitive NIH SBIR program funds early-stage small businesses seeking to commercialize innovative biomedical technologies.

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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. This innovation reinvigorates very early-stage IPOs.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Sometimes that’s venture capital generally (like last year’s conversation with Reid Hoffman ) and sometimes it’s in a space where I’ve invested (like mobility and city innovation with Bird’s Travis VanderZanden , one of our portfolio founders.) Between the heavy hitters at the helm, the more than $1.4B

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Revolution

JUNE 15, 2023

CAVA’s founders had a vision to bring heritage, heart, health, and innovation to the fast-casual sector. So they kept their focus trained on meeting more people in more places — through digital innovation and geographic expansion — with food that fuels and connects. Balancing discipline with innovation: Running a restaurant is hard.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 23, 2023

CEO Ramin Shirani and a team comprised of highly experienced semiconductor innovators co-founded Ethernovia in 2018 that includes Roy Myers, senior vice president of engineering, Hossein Sederat, chief technology officer, and Darren Engelkemier, vice president of silicon engineering.

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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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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Investments are made in high-growth companies with women leaders, following their successful completion of the firm’s Expert Sift process. Backstage Capital : founded by Arlan Hamilton, Managing Partner, the firm invests in the very best founders who identify as women, People of Color, or LGBTQ.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 3, 2023

Register Alchemy Pay , a Singapore -based payment gateway that connects crypto and global fiat currencies, has secured $10 million in funding from DWF Labs, a prominent multi-stage web3 investment firm, to expand its payment business in Korea.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 18, 2020

By: Sarah Dickey, ACA Membership Director Groundbreaking economist, author, investor, and entrepreneur is honored with the Angel Capital Association’s Hans Severiens Award While performing the research that culminated in her book, The Next Wave: Financing and Investing Strategies for Growth-Oriented Women Entrepreneurs , Alicia Robb, Ph.D.,

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 19, 2022

Register Global venture capital firm Antler has committed to investing $100 million by 2025 to at least 300 startups in Southeast Asia , according to an announcement. The plan is to enable founders to launch and grow early-stage startups in the Southeast Asian region over the next four years.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. I believe that Revenue-Based Investing (“RBI”) VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

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. Just last week, Cross River Bank landed a $620 million investment that pushed its valuation to more than $3 billion.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

After delivering over one million subscription boxes of Japanese snacks to customers in more than 100 countries, Bokksu launched a digital marketplace for premium Japanese lifestyle products, Bokksu Market , in 2018. Cousair , World Innovation Lab (WiL), Headline Asia and Gaingels. . Bokksu ships its grocery products to the U.S.

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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

APRIL 27, 2022

The company has raised a total of $16 million since its 2018 inception. . Sumutasu says its platform enables users to access a fair house valuation in an hour. . Sumutasu , a Tokyo-based proptech startup that offers a direct online real estate purchase service, has secured $8.2 million in equity and $1.6 million in debt. and the U.K.,

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

Lara Lemann and Monica Saggioro of Sao Paulo–based MAYA Capital take a regional approach to investing, and their strategy is paying off. The investors raised $40 million for their first fund after starting the firm in 2018 and have now closed on $100 million in capital commitments for MAYA’s second fund.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 29, 2022

Register Asia Mobility Technologies Sdn Bhd (Asia Mobiliti), a mobility-as-a-service (MaaS) and Internet of Things (IoT) solutions provider, announced the closing of a pre-series A investment round of RM5 million ($1 million), valuing the company at close to RM50 million.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Founding Visions that Fuel Innovation Younghak Ahn’s journey into entrepreneurship began with a passion for addressing real-world problems. “We created an educational SaaS that enabled real-time two-way communication between teachers and students through IT. “Events play a crucial role in B2B sales.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Incubated out of Harvard’s Innovation Lab in 2018, CEO Pascal Kriesche and Morgan Abraham call their company a “healthy smoothie store-in-a-box” that is essentially a robot that mixes fruits, vegetables and add-ins like protein into a smoothie.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

The company announced this morning a $73 million Series B round co-led by Globis Capital Partners and World Innovation Lab (WiL), with participation from existing investors DCM and Global Brain. In December 2018, the company closed a $9 million Series A round led by DCM and followed by Globis Capital Partners and WiL and Global Brain.

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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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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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

While the concept of CMS has been around for decades, a relatively new innovation — so-called headless CMS — is beginning to attract both market share and the interest of investors. Closing the loop, Contentstack eventually bought the CMS division of Raw Engineering in 2018). billion by 2030, up from $21.5 billion in 2020.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

The new round from Cowen Sustainable Investments (CSI), labeled a Series B, follows the company reaching profitability in April 2020 and gives Quip more than $160 million in total funding since the company was founded in 2015. Its last publicly announced raise was $40 million in 2018. million customers in 100 countries.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Sure, plenty of money is spent on ocean-based industries, but most of today’s marine investments are into either extractive industries like fishing or oil and gas, or activities like shipping, which aren’t extractive but don’t exactly benefit marine ecosystems. “Our That doesn’t mean that investors aren’t bullish, though.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

There’s an urgent need for a global air traffic management solution to enable safe and efficient drone and urban air mobility (UAM) operations, and Terra Drone aims to be the leading player building the digital infrastructure in the sky.” . We will be able to scale up operations and innovation faster.” . and Southeast Asia.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

million seed investment. . The healthtech company was launched in 2018 by Patrick Beattie , Andrew Quao and Edward Grandstaff. Redbird enables pharmacies in Ghana to add rapid diagnostic testing for 10 different health conditions to their pharmacy services. This brings the company’s total amount raised to date to $2.5

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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. Axios reported that this was 211% over the number of dollars invested in 2020. ?. Keri Findley, founder of Tacora.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MARCH 20, 2021

iMCI) recently led a $750,000 seed-round investment in Oklahoma City-based PrivacyBrain. The investment included $375,000 from the iMCI-managed Oklahoma Seed Capital Fund, along with co-investment from Cortado Ventures, the i2E-managed SeedStep Angels, and remaining investment from other Angel investors.

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