AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 31, 2023

Register Indonesian digital bank Superbank , supported by Grab, Singtel, and Emtek Group, is collaborating with Singapore’s Genesis Alternative Ventures to offer a financing package of $40 million for startups in Indonesia. Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet?

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Impact Hub

APRIL 25, 2019

and collaborative finance – and the list goes on. After an extremely inspiring first edition in 2017, the New Economy and Social Innovation Global Forum (NESI) returns to Málaga, Spain for its second edition from the 24th to 26th April 2019, focusing on how to achieve our global goals through local action.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

led Cate and me to found the company specifically focusing on providing access to finance to Africans,” he said to TechCrunch. But g oing into 2019, when the company raised its pre-seed round, the founders realized another problem — the lack of data infrastructure to access risk when giving out loans or capital.

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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

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The contribution of these enterprises is pivotal to the country’s economy yet they remain underserved by traditional banking institutions making it hard for them to access the financing needed to grow. Previously, the startup has been through the prestigious Station F incubation program in Paris and the Norrsken Impact Accelerator program.

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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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HPA

MARCH 23, 2021

Leaf Trade , the leading wholesale cannabis ecommerce platform, announced their Series A financing. This round of funding will accelerate expansion into new markets and investment in their core technology. This round of funding will accelerate expansion into new markets and investment in their core technology.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The funds will also be used to extend vehicle financing credit to over 100,000 drivers in the next two years. The startup introduced vehicle financing in 2018, and in just over two years, CFO Guy-Bertrand Njoya told TechCrunch, the churn rate by drivers affiliated to them has crashed to “close to zero.”. “We

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 1, 2022

The ongoing deliberation signals Hyundai Motor’s accelerating efforts to strengthen its autonomous driving technology that is in line with the Korean automaker’s grand plan to invest $79 billion (95.5 Series A to accelerate its growth. billion (12 trillion WON) for connectivity and autonomous driving software investment.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

million in a Series E round of funding, as well as $50 million in debt financing. Existing backer Accomplice led the equity financing, which the company described as “an inside round” that propelled FreshBooks to unicorn status with a valuation of “over $1 billion.” . 1Password first became a unicorn in 2019.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

There’s no question that we are in the middle of a long-running and accelerating venture bull market. Outliers — unusually large financings with high valuations relative to the company’s maturity — are as old as the industry itself. But these days, there are more of them, and the outliers are more extreme than ever before.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

Existing backers Accel, Better Tomorrow Ventures and Flourish Ventures also participated in the financing, which values the company at $1.2 The raise follows a $51 million Series B financing that was announced last June, and brings its total equity raised since inception to nearly $170 million.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2021

The round was led by Wavemaker Partners, which focuses on enterprise and deep tech companies in Southeast Asia, with participation from the Tribe Accelerator, a program for blockchain startups backed by the Singaporean government. STACS’ goal is to make GreenSTACS “the common infrastructure” for ESG financing and impact monitoring, he added.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

London-based Divido , a white-label platform for retail finance that integrates with e-commerce platforms (but can also support omni-channel) so retailers can offer consumers a “buy now, pay later” option at the point of sale, has bagged a $30 million Series B to fund international expansion. Making sense of Klarna.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

Chipotle says that Cultivate Next, which will be financed solely by Chipotle to start, will offer a tranche of $50 million and focus on tech companies in the “seed to Series B” stages. But not to be outdone, Chipotle’s competitors have accelerated their tech startup investing. Venture funds alone put more than $39.3

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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

JULY 5, 2022

million (30 billion KRW) extension to its Series A financing from a strategic investor KT , one of the largest telecom companies in South Korea. . This is the second strategic investment KT has made with AI chipmakers in South Korea in its effort to accelerate the AI semiconductor business. billion by 2030, up from $8.02

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 15, 2024

Between 2019 and 2023 women-owned businesses grew at nearly double the rate of those owned by men. In the four years between 2019 and 2023, Black/African American women-owned businesses saw average revenues increase by 32.7% The study showed the astounding pace of growth of women-owned businesses compared to those owned by men.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Discord , the communications service that’s become the 21st century’s answer to MUD rooms, is close to closing a new round of financing that would value the company at up to $7 billion, according to sources with knowledge of the round. The new funding comes just months after a $100 million investment that gave the company a $3.5

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2021

The numbers will set us up to understand what else can be learned about Duolingo’s business beyond our original deep dive into the company’s finances — specifically underscoring the pressure cooker it finds itself in when looking for new revenue sources. The actual numbers are as follows: In 2019, Duolingo closed the year with 27.3

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The figure represents an 80% increase compared to the amount raised for its previous fund, VVSEAI Fund IV, in 2019. Besides, additions to the LP roster include Japan Investment Corporation (JIC), International Finance Corporation (IFC), and DEG (German Development Finance Institution).

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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. A recent ZDNet piece reaffirms that the AI edge chip market is booming, fueled by “staggering” venture capital financing in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

For instance, South Korea’s Ministry of Economy and Finance, in collaboration with related agencies, introduced the K-ESG guidelines in 2021. Their ‘Find Friends Game Land’ initiative, launched in 2019, extends gaming experiences to marginalized communities, including disabled children.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

Coursera’s S-1 filing offers a glimpse into the finances of how an edtech company, accelerated by the pandemic, performed over the past year. Even if we allow the company to judge its profitability on an adjusted EBITDA basis, Coursera’s losses still rose from 2019 to 2020, expanding from $26.9 Coursera was last valued at $2.4

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

This brings the company’s total financing to $54 million. The company will use the capital raised to accelerate product development. So all the way until 2019 we bootstrapped. Chili Piper , which has a sophisticated SaaS appointment scheduling platform for sales teams, has raised a $33 million B round led by Tiger Global.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Our company, Felix Media Solutions, landed a spot on the 2019 Inc. Lindsey—who, at the time, was my girlfriend, programmer and designer—said, “I will take over the finance piece, you go sell and run the shop. Lindsey had recently attended the EO Accelerator Cash Day where she learned about profit first.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

million since it was founded in 2019. The pandemic has accelerated growth among smaller design firms as the demand for new residential renovations and construction grows, Yuen wrote. New investor Tiger Global led the round, with participation from Tishman Speyer and existing investors Index Ventures and Homebrew Ventures.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Viva Republica, an operator of South Korean finance super app Toss , has finalized a $405 million Series G funding and it says it is now valued at 9.1 Toss joined the unicorn club with its $80 million financing at a valuation of $ 1.2 trillion won ( $7 billion), up from 8.5 billion (8.5 trillion won) valuation. billion in 2018.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

In addition, Toni works on several digital-economy-related initiatives that support the scaling of digital businesses, stimulate startup ecosystems and accelerate the digital transformation of key industries in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and the Middle East. Jamil Wyne. Contributor. A glimpse into Singapore’s current startup ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2021

“ This round of financing demonstrates that our strategy is paying off, including our core beliefs around equality, customer care and product innovation. million Series A round in October 2019. million Series A round in October 2019. ” The company says it saw its customer base grow over 150% since closing its $31.5

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

The new financing also makes Trendyol Turkey’s first decacorn, and among the highest-valued private tech companies in Europe. Specifically, the company plans to continue investing in nationwide infrastructure, technology and logistics and toward accelerating digitalization of Turkish SMEs. billion valuation.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 19, 2023

million to fund its mission to accelerate financial inclusion and strengthen the neo-rural bank ecosystem in Indonesia, especially outside the Greater Jakarta area. Fintech help SMEs manage their finances and capital with convenience and efficiency. Register Komunal has announced that it secured new investments amounting to $8.5

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

The company has benefitted from the convergence of two trends sparked by COVID-19 that has turbocharged its business: an accelerated adoption of fintech across the economy and growing attention toward personal finance. . million in seed funding that MotoRefi announced in March 2019. The Series A round followed $4.7

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

Indian edtech giant Byju’s, which raised over a billion dollars last year as the pandemic accelerated the adoption of online learning services in India, is about to begin a new fundraising spree. billion in July 2019, two people familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. It has amassed over 80 million users, 5.5

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

To continue its mission, the Miami-based trade finance company raised $7 million in seed funding and $75 million in a credit facility, led by Arcadia Funds LLC and Kayyak Ventures, to increase its credit line to $100 million. They started Marco in 2019 and now have offices in New York, Dallas and across Latin America.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

The financing is notable for a few reasons. For one, that new $6 billion valuation, is up 50% from the $4 billion it was valued at last November when it raised $200 million in Series D financing. It’s also up tenfold from its $600 million valuation at the time of its Series C raise in August 2019.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

It was formed in 2019 as a merger between BB&T and SunTrust banks. Founded in 2015, Long Game has built a gamified finance mobile app that aims to help people “save, learn and engage” with their finances. For one, Long Game participated in FIS’s Fintech Accelerator Program. It didn’t come with a balance sheet.

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