StartupNation

MAY 24, 2021

It didn’t dry up: Venture investors poured $150 billion into North American companies in 2020, up about 7% from 2019 levels. in the third quarter of 2019. While we’ve been strongly supported by our VC backers during the pandemic, the same can’t be said for every startup. Introduce yourself to analysts at your target VC firms.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

The report, which included analysis from McKinsey & Company, says its assertions are backed by an acceleration in strong market fundamentals and the impact of the pandemic. from 2010 to 2019. The market size of Africa’s digital economy is massive and, if projections go as planned, should top $712 billion by 2050.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 31, 2023

Jeremy Loh, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Genesis Alternative Ventures highlighted a concerning trend of dwindling venture capital (VC) funding for Asian startups. He stated that VC funding experienced a substantial decline of 60% in Q3 2022 compared to the previous year’s corresponding period.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The firm secured $100 million for its second fund in 2016 and then raised $240 million for its third fund in 2019. Additionally, in August, the firm expanded its influence in the healthcare sector across India and Southeast Asia by absorbing the early-stage VC firm HealthXCapital.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2023

Having local expertise in the category every VC wants to invest in right now doesn’t hurt, either. And while the data is not consistently trending up and to the right — there was a huge outlier deal (Uber Advanced Technologies) in 2019 that spiked the yearly investment total to $1.3 You can give it a listen here.).

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. I have been researching this both to support Versatile VC ’s portfolio companies and also as part of research for my new book, To University and Beyond: Launch Your Career in High Gear. Right here.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

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. According to Rung, the company’s initial thesis was that entrepreneurs didn’t get enough help, capital-wise.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

In April, NextView launched a virtual accelerator for startups to build a more robust pipeline for deal flow. A hot Boston VC Summer. Local accelerators provide a boon to area startups. In Q3 2019, New England drove 9.3% More Boston coverage. 13 Boston investors reflect on COVID-19. venture deals, and 10.3%

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

billion, or 34% of the $5 billion raised across the continent, according to Partech , a pan-African VC firm that also tracks investments. In 2019, startups based in Nigeria attracted $747 million, or 37% of Africa’s total VC investment.

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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

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Bademosi was the Director of Binance Labs in Africa, overseeing the incubation and development of blockchain projects when he decided to start Bundle as CEO in 2019. Early-stage African VC firm Microtraction reports portfolio boom despite the weight of COVID-19. Orilogbon was the company’s chief technology officer.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

There’s been plenty of interest in the category over the years, but COVID-19 has accelerated interest on all sides of the equation. He’ll be joined by Bruce Leak, a founding partner at Bay Area VC firm Playground Global, which co-lead Agility’s $20 million Series B back in October 2020.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Despite the growth in awarded venture capital (VC) funds, a staggering disparity remains between the amount of total VC funds invested in entrepreneurs and the portion of those funds invested in ventures founded and/or led by women—particularly women of color. I am no stranger to this gender gap within the VC space.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

There’s been plenty of interest in the category over the years, but COVID-19 has accelerated interest on all sides of the equation. He’ll be joined by Bruce Leak, a founding partner at Bay Area VC firm Playground Global, which co-lead Agility’s $20 million Series B back in October 2020.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

The company, which uses a combination of computer vision and machine learning to create a system that can quickly and accurately inspect vehicles, has raised $100 million in a Series D funding round led by Hanaco VC, a venture capital firm based in New York and Tel Aviv. Existing investors GM Ventures, CarMax, W.R. Berkley Corporation, F.I.T.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 18, 2023

Multiple early-stage investors joined the round, including Singaporean VC firms Atlas Ventures and Accelerating Asia Ventures, Australian blue economy-focused firm Ocean Impact Organization, South Korean seed investor TheVentures, Philippines’ Ideaspace Foundation, US pre-seed and seed investor Unlock Ventures, as well as Plug and Play Ventures.

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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 15, 2021

Existing investors Base10 Partners and Gradient Ventures (Google’s AI-focused VC) also participated. The company will use the capital raised to accelerate product development. So all the way until 2019 we bootstrapped. This brings the company’s total financing to $54 million.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The Exchange has been tracking Europe’s startup acceleration for years now. For reference, that figure was below $10 billion in Q2 2019, Q3 2019, Q4 2019 and Q2 2020. Per the same data set, in the first three quarters of 2021, VC-backed tech M&A worked out to $54.9 But all that’s the past.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Venture capital (VC) funding in U.S. Brick & Mortar Ventures, meanwhile, launched an early-stage accelerator billed as the “ Y Combinator of construction tech.” But there is plenty of evidence that things are changing, with countless startups raising large sums of cash to help the construction industry modernize.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The combined picture that appears is one of an active market, likely accelerated by the IPOs of insurtech unicorns Lemonade and Root, Hippo’s latest megaround and Metromile’s impending public debut via a blank-check company. Its Series C was detailed in October of 2019 and was also worth a quarter billion dollars.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2023

“In 2019, Antonio and I decided that in order to achieve our vision of building the ultimate code editor and collaboration platform, we needed to start over with a new technical foundation,” Sobo said. VC, as well as angels including Figma’s Dylan Field and GitHub’s Tom Preston Werner.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Other investors in this round include The Syndicate, LAUNCH, Mana Ventures, Noveus VC, Flight.VC, Insta VC, UpVentures, Firebrand Ventures, Cultivation Capital, Spero Ventures and Lofty Ventures. As Wyner told me, the company had trouble raising in 2019, in part because the service was seeing pretty flat growth at the time.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Satellite servicing company Starfish Space has closed $7 million in funding to accelerate the development of a space tug vehicle that can extend the life of spacecraft and get rid of orbital debris. The Kent, Washington-based startup was founded in 2019 by Austin Link and Trevor Bennett, two former Blue Origin engineers.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

We profiled the Austin-based company’s founders Larissa Russell and Fiona Lee back in 2019 when they raised $3 million in a round led by Moment Ventures that also included M12. That created acceleration and amplified all of the things we set out to change,” Russell told TechCrunch. “We We’ve had to adapt,” Lee added.

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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. “The need for owners to manage their business digitally has accelerated, and this has changed how small business owners work with bookkeepers and accountants,” Epperson told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Vale do Dendê coordinates with local startups, investors and government agencies to support entrepreneurship and innovation and runs startup acceleration programs specifically focusing on supporting Afro-Brazilian founders. BLCK VC launches educational initiative to bring more Black entrepreneurs into investing ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

million (CAN $299 million) since its 2019 inception, and values the company at over $784.8 Also participating in the round were Tribe Capital, Altos Ventures, Blank Ventures, Gaingels, Maple VC and Knollwood Advisory. Valar Ventures led the investment, which brings Neo’s total funding to $234.7

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The Netherlands’ ecosystem has been flourishing; more than $85 million was invested in regional startups in 2019 alone. and StartupAmsterdam, there are 1,661 tech companies in Amsterdam, while the city ranked fifteenth in Startup Genome’s 2019 report “Global Startup Ecosystem Report,” moving up four places since 2017.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

VC firms 500 Global and Unicorn Growth Capital co-led the Lagos-based company’s seed round. based accelerator Expert Dojo, Predictive VC, SaaS Growth Ventures, Betatron Venture Group, Accelerex Holdings. And to that end, the startup, which announced an undisclosed seven-figure seed last year, has finally closed the round at $5.3

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

It requires accelerators and incubators and coworking spaces to help nurture early ideas, and it needs VC firms investing across stages. Cait Brumme, CEO at early stage tech accelerator MassChallenge says that Boston was not immuned to the vagaries of investment cycles in 2022. billion in 2019. “I

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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. European VC funds are building community around ESG initiatives.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The company intends to use the cash to accelerate global expansion and product development, and to expand StockX’s categories. Headquartered in downtown Detroit, Michigan, the raise marks the largest VC funding round in Michigan history. trades increasing 260% over 2019 levels. billion at a post-money valuation.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

Initialized Capital led the round — the company’s first funding since its 2019 inception. KSD Capital, Haystack VC, Commerce Ventures, Clocktower Ventures and others also participated. The funding is a combination of equity and asset funding according to co-founder and CEO Chris Tsai, although he declined to reveal the breakdown.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 24, 2019

How do you compete against those VC-backed behemoths in Silicon Valley? Join an international accelerator or entrepreneur group. Similarly, accelerator programs like YCombinator and 500 Startups have gold-star reputations for a reason. How do you find investors and partners abroad? Think international when hiring.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

million seed round to scale its operations on the back of leaving the Techstars Toronto accelerator program last month. . Canadian-based VC firm The Xchange led the round, SOSV and Shock Ventures participated, while Techstars Toronto made a follow-on investment. Lagos and Toronto-based mobility startup Plentywaka has raised a $1.2

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 17, 2022

MiyaHealth said it will use the fresh funds to accelerate the company’s product development, hiring, and expansion plans. The pre-Series A round earlier this year was led by ST Engineering Ventures, the corporate capital arm of Singapore Technologies Engineering (ST Engineering) and Elev8, a deep-tech B2B focused VC fund based in Singapore.

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