TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2021

In Southeast Asia, for example, a growing list of startups is increasing access to mental healthcare and support. Founded in 2019, ThoughtFull’s ThoughtFullChat app connects users to mental health professionals for coaching sessions or therapy, and also has self-guided tools. One of them, ThoughtFull , announced today it has raised $1.1

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

For Ashutosh Sharma, head of India investments at Prosus Ventures, it is paramount for startups to ensure their existence at this time. How has your investment strategy changed? Focus on the core business and deprioritize experimental investments. Compared to 2019, what were the most notable investment trends in India in 2022?

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Accredited investors are invited to nation’s largest angel conference, which has invested $4.8M in 17 startups since 2019. By providing a low initial investment and robust deal flow, SDAC enables accredited investors from across the U.S. To learn more, visit www.thesdangels.com. It’s inspiring,” says Luckhurst.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 20, 2023

“The strong relationship between New Jersey and India has gained increasing momentum since we opened the New Jersey India Center to cultivate economic opportunities during our trip to the country in 2019,” said Governor Phil Murphy. “I Choose New Jersey met representatives from Enzene during a business attraction mission to India in 2022.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 2, 2023

The 2nd Pangyo Business Support Hub with Drone Enterprise Support Center (Photo = beSUCCESS) In a bid to foster startups and venture companies that will lead the future drone and UAM market, the Korea Institute of Aviation Safety Technology has been operating the Drone Startup Support Center since 2017.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Every year, companies that have achieved technological innovations in 29 fields are selected to receive innovation awards, and each company can receive support for up to three categories of innovation awards. ” Cellico, celebrating its fourth year since its establishment in 2019, holds 30 intellectual property rights.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

That was three times more than the association recorded in fiscal year 2019. H Twenty Capital (H20) co-founders Daniel Lloreda and Mauricio Porras recall getting into the region in 2018, a time Lloreda considered pretty early to be the investment space. The fund is supported by G Squared Management Co.;

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

Emtech’s solutions also enable collaboration among multiple regulators, for an integrated regulatory environment that is key to the opening up of cross-border innovations and opportunities. The startup, which carried out a successful pilot in Africa, has signed five agreements with central banks in the continent and the Caribbean region.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 1, 2023

Register Thailand’s health-tech company, HD , has secured investment from FEBE Ventures , a well-known venture capital firm headquartered in Vietnam. The investment from FEBE Ventures will enable HD to strengthen its marketplace further. The venture aims to validate, support, and invest in early-stage healthcare startups.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Data reveals Women Entrepreneurs Gaining Ground On the startup side, according to the 2024 Wells Fargo Impact of Women -Owned Business Report, between 2019 and 2023 women-owned businesses grew at nearly double the rate of those owned by men which was exceeded during 2022 to 2023, reaching 4.5 In contrast, male-only founded U.S.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 16, 2024

(April 15, 2024) – Last week, the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) Board approved the creation of the New Jersey Green Bank (NJGB), which will make investments in the clean energy sector that will help advance the state’s efforts to make an equitable transition to 100 percent clean energy.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

We believe this consistency in leadership and intuition for where the markets were going in the heady days of 2019–2021 helped us to stay sane in a world that momentarily seemed to have lost its mind and since we have new capital to deploy in the years ahead perhaps I can offer some insights into where we think value will be derived.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The Kenyan startup has over the last three years been offering a lifeline to traders in Kenya by enabling them to make mobile money transactions that are devoid of transfer charges through its Leja app. It will also extend loans to micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) based on data from its Leja app. “We

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 18, 2023

The funding was led by Real Tech Holdings, a prominent Japanese Venture Capital firm, with the participation of corporate investors, including Mitsubishi Electric, Seeds Capital, Wavemaker Partners, New Keynes Investments, and the State Government of Victoria in Australia. Back in 2019, Hydroleap secured a funding round of US$1.9

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 25, 2024

million in Series A funding, led by GreenPoint Partners with support from Speedwagon Capital Partners, to accelerate expansion of its managed properties and technology platform. We see tremendous opportunity for Outpost in the years ahead and are excited to extend our investment and partnership.”

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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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

Morgan, Gaingels, BMO Technology & Innovation Banking Group and Manulife also participated in the equity investment, along with platform partner and new backer Barclays. In 2019, Don Epperson joined FreshBooks as executive director before transitioning to the role of CEO this year. 1Password first became a unicorn in 2019.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 27, 2019

As part of our efforts to further support founders in Startup School , we awarded $15,000 in equity-free grants to the most promising companies to go through the course. A SaaS tool enabling engineers to easily manage, monitor, and orchestrate jobs and services hosted in the cloud. The quality (and quantity!) Berkeley, CA. oneprocdash.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

With a focus on Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Mexico and India, selected startups receive £80,000 (~$100,000) in grant capital, six months of support and connections with follow-on investors. First off, from Kenya, Koa enables users to save and invest, gaining control over their finances. Here are the startups in the 8th cohort.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

with co-investment from OSF Ventures, Sony Innovation Fund, and Dreampact Ventures. We are grateful for strong investor support and our team’s dedication. The grant reported in this press release is supported by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) of the NIH under Award Number 2 R44 DC17422-02.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 20, 2023

Accredify was founded in 2019 and initially provided solutions to the education sector for issuing verifiable qualifications. However, its SaaS solution is now being used across various public and private sectors, enabling government institutes and enterprises to issue verifiable documents digitally.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

UVeye’s automated vehicle inspection technology may have started out as a system to detect security threats , but the six-year-old Israeli startup has found deep interest and investment from the automotive sector. Since its founding in 2016, the company has raised $200 million in investment capital. Ventures L.P.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 15, 2023

The investment comes from notable participants, including the Dart Family Office and Airbus Ventures. The funding will support the company’s global sales and marketing initiatives, expedite its product roadmap, and cater to the increasing demand for radiation protection, power reliability, and data integrity solutions.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2023

Wellthy is a startup aimed at helping caregivers be more equipped to deal with all aspects of their various responsibilities by serving as a self-described “tech-enabled care concierge.” F rom 2019 to 2022 the number of lives covered with Wellthy benefits grew from about 100,000 to 2 million. million in funding.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 17, 2023

Register Singapore-based venture capital firm Jungle Ventures has announced its merger with HealthXCapital , an early-stage VC firm specializing in healthcare investments. HealthXCapital is an early-stage investment platform that infuses smart and connected financial resources into burgeoning healthcare enterprises.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2022

Founded in 2019, Sunstone is addressing these challenges by offering students a wide-range of additional courses and helping them with securing jobs, its co-founder Piyush Nangru told TechCrunch in an interview. Piyush Nangru (left) and Ashish Munjal co-founded Sunstone in 2019. “The colleges are operating at 40% occupancy.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Register Centbee, a blockchain payments company based in London, has closed its pre-Series A round with $1 million in investments from Ayre Ventures. The additional investment from Ayre Group will enable the company to scale and grow as well as strengthen its technical and operating capacities.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

This rapid innovation has been fueled by an unprecedented amount of investment. Despite the recent slowdown, venture capital investment in the biotech sector in the US ballooned to nearly $25 billion in 2022 from just under $4 billion in 2000. Pharma R&D investment likewise increased from $38 billion in 2000 to $83 billion by 2019.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Founded out of London in 2019, WeWalk has developed a GPS-enabled smart cane and smartphone app, helping users navigate their surrounding environment. Time named the WeWalk Smart Cane one of the “best inventions” of 2019. “Imperial College is supporting the underlying sensing algorithms.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. In 2019 we partnered with several revenue-based lending providers, effectively creating a marketplace. “. We’re currently evaluating about 20 companies a month and issuing term sheets to 25% of them; those that fit our investment criteria.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

Lifepal was founded in 2019 by former Lazada executives Giacomo Ficari and Nicolo Robba, along with Benny Fajarai and Reza Muhammed. Ficari said Lifepal’s target customers overlap with the investment apps that are gaining traction among Indonesia’s growing middle class (like Ajaib, Pluang and Pintu ). Qoala raises $13.5M

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Dream It

MAY 18, 2020

With 85% quarter-on-quarter and 403% year-on-year enrollment growth in Q1 2020, Wellth plans to use this new capital to support rapid scaling to address larger and broader populations of patients. The current coronavirus pandemic has further increased the need to support the health of vulnerable populations remotely with digital tools.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

Ugandan technology-enabled asset finance company Tugende today announced that it has closed $3.6 The investment, which, according to the company, was agreed on and structured in 2020, follows the $6.3 million raised in November 2020 and led by Toyota Tsusho investment fund Mobility 54. million in a Series A extension round.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Register Committed to accelerate the digital transformation of the world’s fourth largest population, Privy has partnered with KKR , a leading global investment firm. Privy, a digital trust provider, said new investments will further strengthen its position as the leading digital signature and digital identity provider in Indonesia.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

To tackle that issue, we have Ampotech as the first of many tenacious and energetic climate warriors that we will support globally.” Bernard Liew, Director of KSL Maritime Ventures said, KMV incubates and invests in high growth start-ups with purposeful and innovative solutions.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

billion, according to a person familiar with the investment round. “The support and confidence of our investors enables us to remain focused on these launches while simultaneously scaling our business for our next stage of growth,” Rivian founder and CEO RJ Scaringe said in a statement. Rowe Price Associates Inc.,

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 12, 2023

“We created an educational SaaS that enabled real-time two-way communication between teachers and students through IT. That’s why we created EVENTUS, automating most tasks of business events with IT and enabling data analysis,” Ahn shares. Younghak Ahn serves as the CEO, with Sanghyuk Lee providing management support.

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