TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2021

The fund is commemorating its new identity by investing an additional $300 million in emerging technologies and carbon neutrality via two early-stage funds: the Toyota Ventures Frontier Fund and the Toyota Ventures Climate Fund. . The Frontier Fund is a step outside of mobility.

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Hunter Walk

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Watching the boom/bust cycle of DTC brands that were running on just the sugar high of venture dollars has given me even more appreciation for those who, yes, require investment capital along the way, but are playing the long game. Sandro Roco: I had the idea for Sanzo in 2018. Here are Five Questions with Sandro.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

2018 YLAI Fellow Gastón is the founder of eaInversores , an online platform based in Córdoba, Argentina, that provides low-cost investment assistance and financial literacy education. Few in Argentina are actively investing their money,” Gaston says.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 31, 2020

2018 YLAI fellow Kenishia Mais is the founder of ThrivingDollars , a financial education platform empowering young adults with the tools and resources they need to make smarter decisions, create their ideal financial lives, and gain the freedom to pursue more of what they love.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

Despite a pandemic that sparked a global recession, 2020 was still a record year for venture capital investments into American startups. In 2018 and 2019, VCs invested around $140 billion into domestic startups, making last year’s $156 billion result a record, but not a shocking departure from previous years. In the U.S.,

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500

DECEMBER 16, 2019

In 2018, we saw this trend reach new heights with more corporate venture capital (CVC) funds than ever. This year we dove headfirst into the rise of corporate venture capital, the changing nature of venture capital education, and the important task of startup ecosystem building.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Register Soho.com.au , an AI-powered real estate discovery app, has secured a $750,000 equity investment from Singapore-based proptech venture capital firm Feedback Ventures. Established in 2018, Soho.com.au The funding round, led by Investible, adds to the $1.65 This funding round has propelled the valuation of Soho.com.au

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 2, 2023

Register China has announced the extension of favorable taxation policies for venture capital firms and individual angel investors investing in tech startups. Initially introduced in 2018, the policies have now been extended until the end of 2027, as stated in a joint announcement by the Ministry of Finance and State Taxation Administration.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

Multi-asset social investment network and Robinhood competitor eToro has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Gatsby — a fintech startup which also aimed to go head to head against Robinhood — for $50 million in a cash and common stock deal. That’s up from 10 million at the end of 2018, 12.3 million at the end of 2021.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

Since 2021, Upfront returned more than $600 million to LPs and returned more than $1 billion since 2018. And while over the past few years we have been laser-focused on cash returns, we are equally planting seeds for our next 10–15 years of returns by actively investing in today’s market. The answer is: not much.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The investment is the largest-ever Series A round for the region, and it values Wave at $1.7 Four big-name backers jointly led the round — Sequoia Heritage, a private investment fund and a subsidiary of Sequoia; Founders Fund; payments upstart Stripe; and Ribbit Capital. Wave , a U.S. L-R: Drew Durbin and Lincoln Quirk.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

In late 2018, the company raised $75 million Series C from Sequoia, arguably the top VC firm in the world. I want every company I invest in to be a great working environment, and if it isn’t, tell me what I can do about it. They were opening locations left and right and had one celebrity after another on its events roster.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Serial fintech entrepreneur Walter Cruttenden founded Acorns with his son, Jeff, in 2012 with the goal of helping low- and middle-income households invest and save responsibly. The pair wanted to simplify investing for the millions that have trouble getting started or continuing to invest.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

In 2023, the industry attracted substantial investments, with strong financial inclusion and blockchain technology gaining acceptance in some countries. This investment came from a consortium of regional investors, including Northstar Group, Alpine Ventures, Patamar Capital, and January Capital.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The EU will invest €13.5 The experts are predicting the Ukrainian economy will bounce back and that the investment made today will bring dividends for years to come. Up until 2018, there wasn’t a single unicorn from Ukraine. Investing in such startups is only a bad plan if you’re hedging that the EU and U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

That’s a reason why some are quick to portend “a new bubble” but this post sets out to show that would be a misunderstanding of the market and in fact by historic levels this may be amongst the best times to invest in seed and early-stage funds. Taken together these “mega rounds” represent nearly half of the funding in 2018.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

DECEMBER 18, 2019

2018 YLAI Fellow Marcos Heyd is a great example of someone with a good entrepreneurial spirit. Marcos Heyd has invested his time and energy into solving problems in Argentina. Entrepreneurship can empower individuals and communities limited in resources.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Register Ficus Capital has announced that it invested $400,000 in Assemblr , a Bandung-based start-up that is focused on helping users to create AR content via its web-based platform. Assemblr is Ficus Capital’s first investment outside of Malaysia. Remember Me. No account yet? Mavcap is the fund’s anchor investor.

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Revolution

MAY 4, 2022

Convening with CEO and co-founder Ryan Simonetti By Steve Murray and Patrick Conroy , Partners at Revolution Growth Convene’s London location at 22 Bishopsgate In 2018, Revolution Growth led an investment in Convene , an emerging leader in flexible work, meetings and events, and premium venues.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

CAGR from 2018 to 2023 compared to Eastern Europe’s 6.9%, Asia Pacific’s 6.8%, Western Europe’s 4%, North America’s 3.5% According to the report, African developers created 40% more open source repositories on the software engineering marketplace in 2019 than in 2018 — recording a higher growth percentage than any other continent globally.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

Investments began flooding into robotics around this time. Slowed investments have been compounded by continued economic woes and the recent bank collapses have further shaken confidence. What role have the pandemic, slowing economy and recent bank crisis had on your investments? The simplest example is autonomous vehicles.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Delve into his story as it unfolds with lessons from filmmaking, startup ventures, and the fascinating world of technology innovations and investing. This gave me a front-row seat to the world of tech/innovation, and I began making some personal angel investments along the way.”

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

I am at once proud of and awed by Jonathan, whose dual-track passion for the future of food and the future of Appalachia has brought him to tears more than once since we first invested in early 2018. AppHarvest raised its first round of institutional capital from our Rise of the Rest Seed Fund and others in January 2018.

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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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Dream It

APRIL 26, 2019

According to a new report from Risk Based Security, 6,500 publicly known data breaches from 2018 exposed more than 5 billion user records, a decrease from the 7.9 Mangrove Capital Partners led a $6 million investment in security operations center services provider CyberHat. billion user records that hackers compromised in 2017.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 11, 2022

In 2018, she moved her business to Charlotte and has seen significant improvements since. Emma Allen State Farm offers a variety of insurance services, mortgages, investment planning and 401K rollovers. She quickly realized it was a difficult place for her to succeed, since she built her network roots in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 24, 2020

2018 YLAI Fellow and co-founder of L3G’s & Associates, Fatima Chi, is empowering businesses in her community in Belize to take control of their finances. There have also been plenty of financial struggles to overcome, particularly at the beginning of any business, when you invest all you have in it.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

DECEMBER 10, 2021

This photo of incoming mayor Eric Adams and former Chancellor Richard Carranza was taken by me at PS24 in Sunset Park Brooklyn during CS Education Week in 2018. Getting it broadly available in schools is hard work and requires commitment and persistence and a massive investment of time and money. I wrote about that visit here.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 20, 2023

Since then, investing activity dropped precipitously. The red is a linear model based on data from 2010 to 2018 that predicts activity rates for each financing series of US & Canadian software companies. [1] When a collapse follows a surge, mean reversion suggests behavior should revert to a reasonable baseline.

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Dream It

DECEMBER 9, 2019

The United States Department of Homeland Security designated their MailSecur device as a Qualified Anti-Terrorism Technology in early 2018. Their clients include celebrities, government agencies, and leading Fortune 500 companies. The company has been growing since as a result of its breakthrough technology.

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 26, 2018

The latest data from Pew Research Center’s 2018 Social Media Use Survey indicates social media usage is not going to drastically decline (although some channels may have quarters where new user growth is slowing) or go away. Instagram, now has 35% of adults using it as 2018, which is a 28% increase compared to 2016.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Naspers leads $11M investment in South African insurtech Naked Founded in 2018 by Alex Thomson, Sumarie Greybe and Ernest North, Naked is a digital insurance platform covering cars, content, homes and standalone items. IFC leads $17M investment in South African insurtech Naked by Tage Kene-Okafor originally published on TechCrunch

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

The company’s ION customers could include global investment banks, and its second chip ATOM targets large companies in the cloud sector and data centers, Park added. billion by 2027, up from $56 billion in 2018, per a 2019 report by Insight Partners. . billion invested across 170 deals, per PitchBook. .

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

Signaling that investments in the supply chain sector remain robust, Pando , a startup developing fulfillment management technologies, today announced that it raised $30 million in a Series B round, bringing its total raised to $45 million. ” There’s truth to what Jayakrishnan’s expressing about pent-up demand.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 9, 2020

The first post highlighted a 40% reduction in seed investment in Q2 2020 and 42% increase in Series A investment, quarter over quarter. We see pre-seeds have fallen from mid-2018 highs of $10m to about $5m. This data set is unique because it records transacted deals on the Angellist platform. Seeds persist at $10m pre-money.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Berkshire Hathaway sold its shares in the Paytm-parent firm One97 Communications Friday, booking a loss of about 40% on the investment it made more than five years ago. All rights reserved.

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