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.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 4, 2023

MoveinSync’s Growth Amidst Challenging Investment Landscape and IPO Plans This funding initiative is occurring amidst a generally subdued investment climate in India, particularly for startups in their growth phase.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 23, 2023

an early-stage company specializing in developing innovative technologies for carbon capture and utilization, has chosen to continue growing in its hometown of Newark, Delaware, with an expansion from its Delaware Technology Park incubator space to nearby Delaware Industrial Park. October 23, 2023 ) – RiKarbon Inc. ,

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

Alternative investments are having a moment. Institutions have fueled a large part of this growth, investing at record pace into alternatives like crypto, private companies and real estate. Institutions have fueled a large part of this growth, investing at record pace into alternatives like crypto, private companies and real estate.

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Angel Capital Association

APRIL 30, 2023

Y Combinator, a leading incubator, invented the original (pre-money) SAFE (Simple Agreement for Future Equity) in 2013 to provide an easy, fast and cheap way to fund the dozens of startups comprising a Y/C batch. So, are SAFEs truly dominating early-stage investing? So, what about Seed Stage, the angel’s most frequent investing stage?

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 18, 2023

At the heart of their accomplishments lies WeBudding, a digital stationery marketplace that has gained a substantial following since its launch in 2018. Other notable backers include Seoul-based accelerator Schmidt and Korean startup incubator D.Camp, solidifying Noutecompany’s position as a leading force in the industry.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2022

The report primarily focuses on investment activity in Europe but is contextualized with what we are seeing in other markets. At the same time, the number of early-stage rounds, categorized as deals under $15 million, has fallen fairly consistently since a peak in H1 2018. Edtech is no exception. billion raised in 2021.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Over the past couple of years, there’s been an overlap between tech and art, fueling a growing interest of movie, music and sports stars investing in tech startups. What’s pulling African music artists to tech investment? Europe and globally. . based and Africa-focused mobile payments company through Zagadat Capital.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

The round was led by DNX Ventures, an investment firm that focuses on United States and Japanese B2B startups, with participation from Cota Capital. Existing investors Incubate Fund, Vela Partners and 468 Capital also contributed. million in seed funding. DNX Ventures launches $315 million fund for US and Japanese B2B startups.

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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

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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NZ Entrepreneur

AUGUST 22, 2023

Over the last three years, GEN has grown its New Zealand network to more than 200 people representing more than 140 organisations, including entrepreneurs, incubators and accelerators, entrepreneur support organisations, central and local government, academia, investors and NGOs. Moskovitz is an entrepreneur’s entrepreneur.

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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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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

At Versatile VC, we particularly like investing in “dual-PhD” problems, at the intersection of multiple domains. Astra Incubator is “the first Italian incubation program designed to connect aspiring innovators and build multidisciplinary teams.” Creator Fund is a European firm “investing in Ph.D., 3) Accelerators.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 20, 2021

Venture investment in renewables has soared as global investment in energy transition more than doubled from $235 billion in 2010 to $501 billion in 2020, according to Bloomberg NEF. In 2019, venture and private equity investment in cleantech was estimated between $9 and $16 billion, up from less than $500 million in 2013.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Last year, the brand made an investment in a four-year-old, Miami-based startup called FIT:MATCH ; now, Savage X Fenty is employing FIT:MATCH’s tech in a growing number of its retail stores, starting with a location in Atlanta, Georgia. based brand incubator whose spin-outs charge customers monthly for credits toward their purchases.

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 22, 2023

Quantum Machines has raised $100M since it was founded in 2018. Hear from some of the world’s leading investment and business experts, and watch the latest technology in action. Its client list includes Harvard, Weizmann Institute of Science, Seoul National University, ENS Lyon, USC and other top research centers.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

The round led by 4DX Ventures saw participation from Darwazah Capital, Golden Palm Investments, P1 Ventures and some angel investors from sports and entertainment profession, the company said. . Eksab stated that it intends to use this investment to scale its user base across MENA and Africa.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

New report examines Africa’s growth in the digital economy and VC investment landscape. The idea to build Adanian Labs, was conceived in 2018, when Kamara was living and working in Cape Town, South Africa, where he witnessed the fast growth of the startup ecosystem, and how, in most countries, accelerators were the default launch pads.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

billion venture dollars invested between 2018 and 2019. And, Detroit-based ID Ventures says it invests in minority and women-led companies “at 4x the national average.” As one evidence of that, last year Crunchbase found that as of Aug. 31, Black and Latinx founders had raised $2.3 of the total $87.3

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

was incubated at Y Combinator (part of its Winter 2018 cohort ) and has been around since 2017, and it believes it has been one of the leaders in this movement, not least in part because of team members like Jithendra Vepa, its chief machine learning scientist, who previously led the team at Samsung working on its AI assistant Bixby.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

’s Tech Nation found in 2018 that about 26% of Belfast’s workforce was employed in tech, and it is among cities in the country with the highest growth potential for 2021. Ignite NI emerged as an important native incubator and accelerator. And as far as the local startup scene goes, the U.K.’s What’s their focus?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In 2018, Y Combinator released its first mega list of the top companies valued at $150 million or more that have gone through the accelerator. There were 141 companies from 24 countries in the winter 2018 batch , compared with 377 companies across 47 countries in the summer 2021 group. have joined this desirable list.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

Corporate venture capital investments (CVCs) now represent more than a fifth of global venture. This approach, however, overlooks the benefits of corporate investment, especially in times of dwindling capital flows and more cautious investors. Corporate investment arms have gotten stronger.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

The Yozma Programme (Hebrew for “initiative”) from the government, in 1993, was seminal: It offered attractive tax incentives to foreign VCs in Israel and promised to double any investment with funds from the government. In December 2018 that figure was $230 million, in 2019 it was just under $200 million. billion, from $6.51

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 2, 2022

The KSGC program became quite popular in the subsequent years, with 49 teams participating in 2017, 73 teams in 2018, and 36 teams in 2019. In 2020, despite a turbulent economic condition and the impact of COVID-19, KSGC attracted 2648 applications from 118 countries.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

STATE COLLEGE, PA – On December 6, 2018, six emerging tech entrepreneurs will compete for up to $10,000 at the BF TechCelerator’s graduation “pitch” event. When: December 6, 2018. You Won’t Want to Miss This! You Won’t Want to Miss This! Come and show support for the entrepreneurs but stay to enjoy the rest of the evening.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Barclays had applied for the contract through its network of Eagle Labs incubators , some of which have physical locations, but most do not. Gerard Grech, chief executive of Tech Nation, said the body’s work represented a “£15 return on every £1 invested by the government.”. Tech Nation has long been embedded in the U.K. and abroad.

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Haystack

APRIL 27, 2018

Too many investors subscribe to the Patek Phillipe school of investing “you don’t own the companies’ problems, you merely hold onto them [until you] can get the company to the next round of investors. ” — Micah Rosenbloom of Founder Collective, April 2018.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

Indeed, the country is most popular as a tourist destination, and given that tourism accounted for about 20% of its GDP in 2018 , to an extent, its pre-pandemic focus was mostly on growing its share of the international tourism market. Vedran Blagus , investment manager, South Central Ventures. Miroslav Kovac , CEO, Coffee Cloud.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

Not to be outdone, Microsoft’s Power Fx low-code programming language that it launched in 2018 now connects hundreds of apps. To learn more about how the space has evolved “and when they expect their investments to start paying off,” Karan Bhasin interviewed: Sri Pangulur, partner, and Paul Lee, partner, Tribe Capital.

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Impact Hub

AUGUST 19, 2020

In 2018, Impact Hub King’s Cross kicked off an incubation program for UK-based social entrepreneurs aiming to combat the key challenges in our urban food systems. This is where the seed for the Feeding the City incubator was planted. Photo: Sutton Community Farm. Feeding the City.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

A 2020 UCLA study found that approximately 15% of couples will have trouble getting pregnant, but Kindbody, which has spun up a network of fertility clinics since its founding in 2018 , has taken a holistic approach to the issue. “It’s a careful balance of keeping burn rate at a minimum while investing in key areas.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Y Combinator remains the most strategic global accelerator for African startups and has invested in about 60 of them in the last six years. ” Techstars is poised to multiply its investments in African startups per year to 24, Sharma added. But so far, it has invested in 10 this year and a total of 13 since 2018.

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Impact Hub

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Collaboration also permeates the report as one of the primary benefits for change-makers working in our network, with the members who made many connections ending the following year with a total of 17,300 USD more investment than their peers who made fewer connections.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

In fact, Divvy — which was co-founded by Adena Hefets, Nick Clark and Alex Klarfeld — was incubated in Levchin’s startup studio HVF. Divvy started buying homes in the first half of 2018; so far, the company is seeing nearly half of those renters buying back the homes. Investor POV.

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OurCrowd

MAY 5, 2019

billion in 2018. Did the UN’s alarming 2018 report on climate change strike fear in the heart of the average consumer, raising awareness of the catastrophic effects of cattle-produced greenhouse gases? There are high levels of investment in the space, as startups raised $164 million in 2017 and $72 million in Q1 2018 alone.

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