StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Ann Arbor continues to be one of the top growing tech ecosystems around the country with some of the best startups to watch. This was a year like no other for Ann Arbor startups, so we’ve spent lots of time keeping up with all the news from Ann Arbor tech companies. Small Ann Arbor startups to watch in 2022. DocNetwork.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Register The Southeast Asian fintech startup has been a dynamic landscape, with countries like China, India, Singapore, and Indonesia emerging as fintech hubs, each with unique strengths and focus areas. Finfra Investment Fueled Indonesian Embedded Finance Expansion Indonesian startup Finfra secured $1 million in new funding in late June.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before joining Paystack in 2018, Hassan co-founded OyaPay, a payments startup the year before. After leaving the Stripe-owned company in 2019, he launched a data startup called Voyance where Singh, who had already exited one of his products — Transferpay.ng , an offline payments startup — was a software engineer.

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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. More than 380 funding deals were made into Austin startups in 2021 , amounting to $4.9

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

In February 2020, as the world was shutting down, and as businesses downsized on account of the Covid pandemic, John Kamara was busy establishing another new startup Adanian Labs in Nairobi, Kenya’s capital. We stay the course with startups and make sure they become successful businesses — We de-risk them from failure,” said Kiwia.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

A 2018 study by the the Small Business Administration (SBA) Office of Advocacy reported that there were over 379,000 veteran-owned employer businesses in the U.S. , Although veteran-owned businesses are often more successful than the average startup, they still need mentorship, funding and support to take their idea from concept to market.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

Redbird , a Ghanaian healthtech startup that allows easy access to convenient testing and ensures that doctors and patients can view the details of those test results at any time, announced today that it has raised a $1.5 The healthtech company was launched in 2018 by Patrick Beattie , Andrew Quao and Edward Grandstaff.

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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 is industry agnostic, with customers ranging in the “hundreds,” from startups to giants such as Google, Royal Bank of Canada and British Airways. The vision and the path forward is really clear.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

New York-based startup Sketchfab has been acquired by Epic Games , the company behind Fortnite and Unreal Engine. In 2018, the company shared some metrics — 1 billion views, 2 million members and 3 million 3D models. We are proud to work alongside Epic to build the Metaverse and enable creators to take their work even further.”.

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Dream It

APRIL 24, 2019

Meet the tech companies transforming real estate using VR and AR technology: View this post on Instagram UberPuppy A post shared by VirtualAPT (@virtualaptcorp) on Nov 19, 2018 at 1:58pm PST VirtualAPT develops autonomous robots that scan rooms and capture 360-degree video content that customers can then use to market their spaces.

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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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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This achievement also enables the miniaturization of the dialysis machine to a size that can be conveniently carried in a small bag. In October 2018, the company concluded its first-in-human study with no recorded severe adverse events, showcasing the safety and efficacy of the technology.

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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. Partnership leaders still don’t have a clear seat at the revenue table.”

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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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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 3, 2023

In addition to its payment services, Alchemy Pay has also introduced its innovative NFT Checkout service, which enables customers to acquire NFTs using fiat payment options, making the process as straightforward as any other standard online payment. ACH is the Alchemy Pay network token on Ethereum and BNB Chain.

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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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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 15, 2024

The four co-founders are continuing to pass major milestones with an acquisition strategy and timely funding since its launch in 2017 Drivers’ parking experiences around the country are now being enhanced through artificial intelligence, enabling them to readily come and go without checking out.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

It will also support the development of new consumer and enterprise products to enable Indonesians and businesses to access a wider range of services securely and accelerate broader digital transformation. The Company also intends to expand into overseas market to further accelerate growth.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Refract , a Singapore-based extended reality (XR) startup, announced today it has closed approximately $8.5million SGD (approximately $6million) Series A led by Sea Limited along with international family offices and individual investors. The Series A round brings Refract’s total raised to $9 million.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

To solve the problems of traditional electronic media, a startup in Boston, Catalog , was founded in 2016 by MIT scientists including co-founder and CEO Hyunjun Park, developing an energy efficient, cost competitive, and more secure data storage and computation platform by using synthetic DNA.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

Kim co-founded ianacare in 2018 after spending more than seven years caring for her mom during a cancer battle. . The Boston-based startup built a platform, which provides tech-enabled caregiver support through employers and health plans. Senior care startup Honor secures $370M in debt and equity, reaches unicorn status.

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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. The fresh capital will also enable Bokksu to accelerate its primary business lines: subscription, market and grocery.

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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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

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. Indian logistics SaaS startup FarEye raises $100 million. “We Singapore’s logistics tech startup Parcel Perform raises $20 million. Enterprise AI 2.0:

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The startup aims to help pharmaceutical commercial teams determine what they need to know about their prescribers so they can deliver the right message through the best channels and ultimately get their therapeutics to the patients that need them. The startup’s Series A round follows its $1.6

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

As the use of aircraft like drones, electric vertical take-off and landing vehicles and uncrewed aerial vehicles take off, Japanese startup Terra Drone wants to make sure trafficking the skies doesn’t get overlooked. Sky-Futures, The Drone Startup Targeting Oil And Gas Industry, Picks Up Another $5.7M.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

The company was founded in 2018 by Shamir Karkal, Angela Angelovska, Isaac Hines and Alex Lipton to simplify digital payments and storage in a regulatory compliant way and build on blockchain technology. Its banking APIs enable developers to create their own digital wallets, replacing the need to integrate with legacy financial institutions.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

According to Crunchbase, upskilling and reskilling startups raised $2.1 GrowthSpace was founded in 2018 by Dan Terner, Izhak Kedar and Glass. “Terner realized that there was no effective, outcome-driven employee development platform to enable companies [including his] to better invest in their employees,” Glass said.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

A diverse range of startups and companies are offering innovative financial solutions to consumers and businesses. The most prominent of these changes was the Fintech Law of 2018. Instant payment systems like CoDi and Dinero Movil , also known as DiMo, eliminate these hurdles, enabling businesses to transact in real time.

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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. Show, don’t tell: Tips for robotics startups raising a Series B during a downturn.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2021

million in Series A funding in 2018. Back in 2018, Full Harvest had about eight employees; that has now grown to 35. million for its marketplace enabling customers to buy food right before it goes to waste. We profiled the company at the beginning of its journey in 2016 and then again in 2017 when it raised $2 million.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Founded by Younghak Ahn, EVENTUS is not just another startup; it’s a tech force rewriting the script for business events, and its impact is felt far beyond Korean shores. “We created an educational SaaS that enabled real-time two-way communication between teachers and students through IT. ” Ahn highlights.

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NZ Entrepreneur

AUGUST 22, 2023

He started his first business aged 18 and received the New Zealand Angel Association’s Arch Angel award in 2018 as New Zealand’s top angel investor. While the GEN New Zealand network supports startups and business ventures to succeed, there are always roadblocks and failures on the entrepreneurial journey.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

“Selling a tenth of your company for north of a quarter-billion may be somewhat common among late-stage software startups with tremendous growth,” he says, but “don’t laugh — the round actually makes pretty OK sense.” – APRIL 22, 2018: A statue of Albert Gallatin, a former U.S. WASHINGTON, D.C.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

This brings the company’s total funds raised to $87 million since the company was founded by Richard Hong and Darwish Gani in 2018. Harlem Capital’s Henri Pierre-Jacques invested in both Pangaea’s seed round in 2019 and Series A in 2020.

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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. This opened up a space for startups to offer similar subscription box conveniences that people had for food and other products, with companies like Chewy and Barkbox being some of the biggest.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

Note we are not including here most of the freebies offered by corporates for founders in general (as opposed to students in particular), which we list in Free Money from the Global 500 for Tech Startups. For a more detailed list for founders in general, not just students, see Startup contests and Startup grants.

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