AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Register Virtual events platform Airmeet has secured US$35 million in funding in its Series B financing round led by Prosus Ventures , Sequoia Capital India , and Sistema Asia Fund. The company will also focus on activities that will help bring more visibility to the brand and its offerings in the international market.

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Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

And that’s what we had the chance to do in early 2019 when Kate Stern joined Homebrew. I’d been at Uber for almost five years and it was so comfortable — any new role would have felt like a big change for me, but moving into the venture world felt particularly intimidating. Thinking back…. Normal first day nerves!

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

AllSpice , a collaborative hub designed for hardware development, came out of private beta on a mission to build a DevOps ecosystem inspired by GitHub. Founders Valentina Ratner (formerly Toll Villagra) and Kyle Dumont met at Harvard while both were getting a joint engineering master’s and MBA in 2019.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2021

Four months after leading a $30 million growth round in Bibit , Sequoia Capital India has doubled down on its investment in the Indonesian robo-advisor app. This brings Bibit’s total funding to $110 million, including a Series A announced in May 2019. Indonesian robo-advisor app Bibit raises $30 million led by Sequoia Capital India.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

Global venture capital firms are pouring money into the semiconductor startups developing the next generation of chips. Sunghyun Park , a former quant developer at Morgan Stanley in New York, launched artificial intelligence semiconductor startup Rebellions with four co-founders to enter this red-hot industry in 2020.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

MENA-based buy now, pay later startup Tabby has raised $58 million, led by Sequoia Capital India and STV, at a valuation of $660 million. Other investors in Tabby’s new financing round include Mubadala Investment Capital, Arbor Ventures and Endeavor Catalyst. . I would say there have been pullbacks from a demand perspective.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

In a bid to position its brand as more tech-forward — and, in the process, foster new culinary innovations — Chipotle today announced the launch of Cultivate Next, a venture fund run by Curt Garner, the restaurant chain’s chief technology officer. Venture funds alone put more than $39.3

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Revolution

MAY 21, 2019

My advice would be to pick and develop a focus in which you have competency and passion. When a business concept can thrive in an area that is not capital rich, it’s likely that this is a resilient idea, driven by resilient people. Venture funding and government funding routes for growth are not mutually exclusive.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

We first covered the NUMA Group (then called Cosi) back in 2019 when it raised €5 million for its “full-stack” hospitality alternative to boutique hotels, and then later on when it raised €20 million. Also participating is Cherry Ventures, Soravia, Kreos Capital, TruVenturo and Scope Hanson.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

trillion higher than at the end of 2019. Symend today announced that it raised $42 million in a Series C round led by Inovia Capital with participation from Impression Ventures, Mistral Venture Partners, BDC’s Growth Venture Co-Investment Fund, BDC Capital’s Women in Technology Fund, Plaza Ventures and EDC.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 21, 2024

How can influencers raise capital for companies or funds, without running afoul of restrictions on “general solicitation”? The 2012 bipartisan JOBS Act was supposed to empower funds and individuals to raise capital more openly: to publicly advertise their track record and what they’re selling, just like almost every other industry.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

They started Searchlight in 2018 to develop technology that uses behavioral reference data and prescriptive analytics to give employers a more 360-degree view of a potential candidate’s strengths and weaknesses that might not appear on a resume or come out during an interview. million seed round in 2019.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

million seed round led by MaC Venture Capital. Serena Ventures, Omidyar Group’s Luminate Fund, Melo 7 Tech Partners and Cascador (Empowering Economic Growth Foundation) participated. In 2019, the company embarked on one such project as it developed Nigeria’s first real-time election database.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2023

Today the company, founded in 2019 by Atkinson, works with 10,000 small businesses and is experiencing revenue growth of over 300% year over year. The round was led by existing investor B Capital and includes existing investors GGV Capital and Tiger Global Management, and new investors, including Amex Ventures, KSV Global and FJ Labs.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Early-stage fintech-focused venture firm Better Tomorrow Ventures has raised $225 million for its second fund — triple the amount it raised for its debut fund that closed in September of 2020. BTV is a venture firm that boasts two successful fintech founders as its partners. It’s committed to three so far.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2021

It was easy to wonder what would become of Docker after it sold its enterprise business in 2019, but it regrouped last year as a cloud native container company focused on developers , and the new approach appears to be bearing fruit. Tribe Capital led the round with participation from existing investors Benchmark and Insight Partners.

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2021

Pipo Saude , a startup that developed a platform that sells and manages healthcare benefits for Brazilian companies, has raised $20 million in a Series A round of funding. Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Capital led the round, marking the first time the New York-based venture firm has led an investment in a Brazilian startup.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2023

Banks are more and more careful with their own funding of development projects, which means they will also slow down payments on their own side,” Constrafor CEO Anwar Ghauche told TechCrunch. This gives the company $14 million in equity and $100 million in debt raised since the company was founded in 2019.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

The investment is part of a larger $68 million round that includes $15 million in Series B funding from a group of backers including Unilever Ventures and GPO Fund and existing investors Base10 Partners and Gradient Ventures. Harlem Capital’s Henri Pierre-Jacques invested in both Pangaea’s seed round in 2019 and Series A in 2020.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Lightspeed Venture Partners led the round with commitments from Cisco Investments, angel investors from the collaboration and security space, and previous investors Neotribe Ventures, Firebolt Ventures and WestWave Capital, the company said. billion in 2019 to $23 billion by the end of this year.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2023

Several years ago, Jonathan Dambrot, a partner at KPMG, was helping customers deploy and develop AI systems when he started to notice certain gaps in compliance and security. To date, Cranium, which launches out of stealth today, has raised $7 million in venture capital from KPMG and SYN Ventures.

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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. reported this month that $51 billion of venture capital was invested into U.S.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2021

Perhaps that’s why Sixty8 Capital , a firm based in Indianapolis, Indiana, smack dab in the middle of the country, has chosen to launch a new $20 million fund aimed at providing early stage funding for underrepresented founders. That led to the development of a startup incubator focused on Black founders and later a pitch competition.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2021

Qapita , a Singapore-based fintech that provides capitalization table and employee stock ownership plans (ESOP) management software, has raised $5 million in pre-Series A funding. East Ventures co-founder and managing partner Willson Cuaca will join Qapita’s board. Deciding how much equity to give your key employees.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

NewView Capital led the round with participation from existing investors Blackbird Ventures and W23, and new investor AirTree Ventures. million raised since it was founded in 2019 by Tim Doyle, Benny Kleist, Alexey Mitko and Charlie Gearside. Telehealth platform Eucalyptus raised a $22.3

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

For those who wielded that role or the coveted CEO position, you were likely to be placed on a pedestal or be viewed as a visionary, aided by a venture capital market that experienced an overextended bull run in the background. Upadhyay is a venture partner at the firm. There are other subtler impacts.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Q-CTRL , a Sydney-based startup that provides quantum control engineering solutions, announced today it has raised a $25 million Series B led by Airbus Ventures with participation from Ridgeline Partners, Main Sequence Ventures, Horizons Ventures, SquarePeg Capital, Sierra Ventures, DCVC, Sequoia Capital China and InQTel. .

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2020

In 2019, only one Black woman was named partner in venture capital, according to All Raise , a nonprofit focused on accelerating female founders and investors. But in action, every member on a venture team has a varying range of investment autonomy, decision-making authority and weight at the firm.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The latest funding will also enable CloudEats to develop its brands, grow its team and double down on investment in the shared kitchen technology. . Along with its previous round of $5 million, the latest capital brings its total funding to $14 million. . “As CloudEats says it has served more than 2.5 million orders.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Denis Kalinin works at venture fund Runa Capital as Asia Business development manager, devoted to connecting the Western and Asian VC worlds and bringing long-term value to both. Denis Kalinin. Contributor. Share on Twitter. China is becoming a superpower in the tech industry. eight years in the U.K. and 11 years in Germany.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

Nowsta attracted venture capital for its approach to help employers better engage with their hourly workforces in this increasingly hybrid work environment. The company announced today $41 million in Series B funding in a round led by GreatPoint Ventures that brings the company’s total funding raised to date to $59 million.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

We first connected with the pair back in 2019 when they had raised $4.4 Investors also participating include GFC, Felicis Ventures and GGV Capital’s Hans Tung, alongside existing investors including NFX, Accel’s Kevin Efrusy, Wollef and Maya Capital.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2021

The extension was led by Ribbit Capital, the fintech investor that also led Robinhood’s $3.4 Ajaib is Ribbit Capital’s first investment in Southeast Asia. The extension will be used to expand Ajaib’s product development and engineering capabilities. billion funding last month.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 17, 2023

Phylicia Koh, vice president at early-stage gaming venture capital firm Play Ventures , said effective fundraising is not only essential for securing necessary capital but also for demonstrating the commitment and resilience of the founding team. The Singapore-based venture capital firm raised $135 million for its Fund 2.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Enter TomoCredit , which has developed a credit card focused on building credit history for first-time borrowers. The San Francisco-based startup is announcing today that it has raised $10 million in a Series A funding round co-led by Kapor Capital and KB Investment Inc. KBIC), a subsidiary of South Korea’s leading consumer bank.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

LOS ANGELES, CA – January 26, 2023 – Machina Labs today announced the completion of an investment by Lockheed Martin Ventures (LMV), the venture arm of Lockheed Martin Corporation (NYSE: LMT ), a global security and aerospace company. Machina Labs combines AI and robotics to rapidly manufacture advanced sheet metal products.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

At that time, CEO Ricardo Weder told TechCrunch that the company, which was founded in 2019, weathered the first year of the global pandemic well, seeing 2020 revenue increase 16-fold. We previously reported on the company last February when it raised $65 million in a Series A round led by General Atlantic. is poised to be a $187.7

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