TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

But if you ask the co-founders of Modular , a startup emerging from stealth today, the software used to develop it is “monolithic,” fractured into silos piled with layers of complexity. “Modular’s main competition is the mindset that dominates AI software development within Big Tech, and Big Tech itself,” Lattner said.

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Dream It

APRIL 7, 2020

The venture fund launched a completely virtual program with a focus on helping 13 Urbantech, Healthtech, and Securetech startups with business development, customer growth, and capital raising in a time of economic uncertainty. Since 2008, Dreamit has worked with over 350 companies. View Dreamit’s full portfolio here.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 12, 2019

In fact, the work he does outside of his original business helped him earn the 2019 EO Global Citizen of the Year. 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. This was an unexpected win!

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Impact Hub

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Ahead of this year’s Global Climate Strike (20-27 September) and the Global Goals Week (21-30 September), the Impact Hub network is launching its 2019 Global Impact Report. The 2019 Global Impact Report is the culmination of gathering relevant data from a number of their 16,500 members of 100+ locations in over 55 countries around the globe.

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Impact Hub

APRIL 26, 2021

Jordan, 23 April, 2021 – The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in its efforts to assist the social enterprise policy process in Jordan, led by the Ministry of Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship (MoDEE), organised a workshop in collaboration with Impact Hub.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

As the demand for AI-powered apps grows, startups developing dedicated chips to accelerate AI workloads on-premises are reaping the benefits. Another company competing in the increasingly saturated segment is Sima.ai , which is developing a system-on-chip platform for AI applications — particularly computer vision applications.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 3, 2023

HD is also one of ten startups recently accepted into the Google for Startups Accelerator: Southeast Asia program. This new funding round will allow the company to solidify its leading position in the healthcare marketplace space while accelerating HDcare, HD’s new innovative elective surgery product.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The latest funding will support hiring staff and enable new data-as-a-service markets powered by quantum sensing, founder and CEO of Q-CTRL Michael Biercuk said. It also will continue to invest in developing its quantum control for quantum computing and quantum sensing for acceleration, gravity and magnetic fields, Biercuk added.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

Sequoia Capital India and Southeast Asia disclosed 15 early-stage startups it has selected for the seventh cohort of its accelerator program Surge, pushing ahead with new investments even as the deal activity has considerably slowed in the region. Info Edge Ventures is a co-investor.). Partech Partners is a co-investor.).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

Catalyst Fund , a global accelerator managed by BFA Global , announced the 8th cohort for its Inclusive Fintech Program today. The accelerator, backed by the JP Morgan Chase and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, runs the flagship program annually. In 2020, all five countries had representatives in the accelerator.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2022

In an interview with TechCrunch, CEO Rakesh Yadav said that the new capital will be used to grow Jarvis ML’s R&D and sales and marketing teams to “accelerate product development and market penetration.” “ The pandemic has accelerated the shift in consumer purchasing trends moving online. .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

“Chipotle has aggressive goals of achieving 7,000 restaurants, along with a healthy balance sheet, which enables us to invest in in forward-thinking ventures that can help accelerate these growth plans,” Garner said. But not to be outdone, Chipotle’s competitors have accelerated their tech startup investing.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 18, 2023

The Singapore -based startup’s electrochemical techniques have proven highly effective in treating industrial wastewater, enabling a remarkable reduction of up to 95% in pollutants. Back in 2019, Hydroleap secured a funding round of US$1.9 million, with Wavemaker Partners leading the investment.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

New York-based WoodSpoon was started in 2019 by Oren Saar and Merav Kalish Rozengarten, two Israelis in America that longed for the food they grew up with. WoodSpoon has about 30 employees and plans to hire more engineers to continue developing its technology. billion in 2021, and then reach $192.16

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The investment will enable us to transform the lives of hundreds of thousands of drivers across the continent, accelerate international expansion, and continue our pioneering initiatives in the mobility space,” said MAX co-founder and CEO Adetayo Bamiduro.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

’s 2008 Climate Change Act — and is funded by the Quadrature Climate Foundation, a climate-focused corporate social responsibility initiative launched by algorithmic trading tech firm, Quadrature Capital, in 2019. such as those seeking to develop greener products or cleaner industrial processes, etc.).

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Its last valuation of $700 million came when the company raised a $100 million Series D in 2019. To Johnson, working with SoftBank means more acceleration of what the company is doing now, especially as the world has become more comfortable with remote work.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2021

AtomChat is developing conversational artificial intelligence software focused on improving sales team performance by converting more via asynchronous messaging in WhatsApp. To accelerate its product development and international expansion plans, it secured $3.15 AtomChat messages. Image Credits: AtomChat.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

In 2019, Don Epperson joined FreshBooks as executive director before transitioning to the role of CEO this year. FreshBooks plans to use its new capital toward sales and marketing, research and development and additional strategic acquisitions. . 1Password first became a unicorn in 2019. ” Image Credits: FreshBooks.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

The company is providing all those leaving the company with eight weeks of severance, three months of accelerated option vesting and three months of healthcare coverage. Launched in June 2019, the company first announced a Founders Fellowship and has recently grown to offer more niche programs on specific verticals.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Pod Foods is keeping grocery shelves full of the emerging food brands that consumers are asking for and announced today $10 million in Series A funding to continue developing its digital wholesale business-to-business marketplace. That created acceleration and amplified all of the things we set out to change,” Russell told TechCrunch. “We

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Fintech-focused investor Tonic Private Equity led the Series G round along with returning backers, including Korea Development Bank (KDB), Altos Ventures, Goodwater Capital, Greyhound Capital, Aspex Management, Bond Capital, and DUMAC. Viva Republica, developer of Korean financial super app Toss, raises $410M at a $7.4B

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Impact Hub

MAY 23, 2024

Energía Vectorial: Pioneering electric vehicle transformation in Latin America Energía Vectorial, a member of Impact Hub Medellín since 2019, is revolutionising urban mobility in Latin America with innovative electric vehicle (EV) conversion technologies.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 18, 2023

e-con Systems has designed and developed cameras for over 300 customer products and shipped more than 2 million cameras worldwide. We are committed to harnessing the power of cutting-edge technology to enable machines to perceive and comprehend the world around them. consystems.com.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

When much of the shopping shifted online during the global pandemic, startups developing software and other products to aid the transition began to garner attention from venture capital firms. He exited the company to Lowe’s in 2019. CommerceIQ is the leading channel optimization platform enabling the largest brands to win in retail.”.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

No merchant likes a bad customer review and Okendo , a customer marketing platform, announced $26 million in Series A funding today to continue developing its customer review tools for e-commerce brands. Customer feedback is a development opportunity. It gives the company $33.5 million in total capital raised to date.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

Lightbits, together with Meta, Intel, Cisco, Dell EMC, Micron and others, collaborated on the NVMe/TCP standard that was ratified in November 2019 by the NVM Express consortium. Lightbits previously offered a custom-designed acceleration card to offload memory management and data transfer tasks from servers’ CPUs.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

“UVeye saw the opportunity is 2019 as we saw more and more vehicles that had mechanical issues in their undercarriage so although the systems were used for the security side the need was very obvious,” CEO and co-founder Amir Hever told TechCrunch in an email. Ventures L.P. UVeye also has offices in Japan and Germany.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The investment will be used to accelerate company growth to meet customer demand, and to expand R&D into additional processes and metallurgical offerings. “At Robotic sheet forming is the first process enabled by Machina’s patented manufacturing platform. This latest funding brings the total raised by Machina Labs to $21.8M.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

New York-based Acorns had last raised more than three years ago — a $105 million Series E round in January of 2019 at an $860 million valuation. Alex reported that from 2019 to 2020, Acorns grew 61%, from $44 million in revenue to $71 million. billion SPAC with Pioneer Merger Corp. in favor of an eventual traditional IPO.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

With the latest funding, ManageXR will support its expanding team and go-to-market strategy as the company has experienced rapid growth since becoming available to beta users in November 2019 and officially launching in April 2021. Qualcomm launches new AR dev kit, acquires Clay AIR.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

Del Balso — who previously led Search ads machine learning teams at Google — co-launched Tecton in 2019 with Jeremy Hermann and Kevin Stumpf, two former Uber colleagues. Tecton makes this infrastructure accessible to any team, enabling them to build machine learning apps faster.” Image Credits: Tecton.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 22, 2022

Register Fairbanc, the Indonesian and Silicon Valley based technology platform that enables B2B Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) for micro-businesses in Indonesia just secured $4.8M Indonesian conglomerate Lippo Companies, Asian Development Bank (ADB), and Accion Venture Lab (AVL) also participated in this round.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

A Manila-headquartered startup called CloudEats , which operates cloud kitchens across the Philippines and Vietnam, just raised a $7 million Series A extension led by Nordstar to accelerate the digitization of food service in Southeast Asia. . CloudEats says it has served more than 2.5 million orders.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

AmazeVR , a virtual reality concert platform that enables users to experience their favorite artists’ VR concerts through content generation tools, announced today it has secured $15 million, which was oversubscribed within three weeks. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

As a founding scientist at a medical diagnostics startup in Boston, Beattie’s job was to develop new rapid diagnostic tests. Beattie says to TechCrunch that while he saw many exciting new tests in development in the US, he didn’t see the same in Ghana. The company also got into Founders Factory Africa last year April.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

Aronu Ugochukwu and Abafor Chima founded the startup in 2019, and Ugochukwu is quite familiar with currency devaluation. . Currency devaluation is a common economic nightmare faced in most African countries and other developing countries worldwide. DeFi aims to bridge the gap between decentralized blockchains and financial services.

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