TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

VC has been invested over the past decade according to race, gender and educational background makes for grim reading — with all-ethnic teams and female entrepreneurs receiving just a fraction of available funding versus all-white teams and male founders. New research looking into how U.K. population.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 31, 2023

Register Vuihoc , an ed-tech platform catering to K-12 Vietnamese students, recently secured a significant US$6 million investment in a Series A funding round led by TNB Aura. Amidst the fluctuations in the world economy, Vietnam’s EdTech sector remains an attractive destination for solid investments.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Today, the Japanese investment conglomerate is announcing the launch of the SoftBank Latin America Fund II, its second dedicated private investment fund focused on tech companies located in LatAm. According to the firm, that fund has generated a net IRR of 85% — with SoftBank having invested $3.5 SoftBank Group Corp.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Amitruck , a Kenyan tech-enabled logistics platform, is one such provider of solutions that streamline the shipping market. However, over the last one decade, tech solutions are emerging to bring efficiency into the sector and make shipping cheaper, while increasing the availability of options for shippers.

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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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Dream It

MAY 18, 2020

In 2019, Wellth partnered with AXA Equitable to launch a first-of-its-kind life insurance product that rewards patients with diabetes with premium savings for better disease control. Wellth’s platform has the potential to enable new models of patient engagement and drive further transformation for the 200,000 patients we serve.” ?

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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.

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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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

While the company digs deep to find more solutions from within, it also plans to use this investment to fuel growth in Egypt. The investors who led the round include Watheeq Financial Services and Golden Palm Investments. ” “Middle-mile logistics is one of the most underinvested segments of the global supply chain market.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This achievement also enables the miniaturization of the dialysis machine to a size that can be conveniently carried in a small bag. Additionally, Awak intends to leverage the investment to diversify its product portfolio, focusing on creating complementary items tailored for home dialysis.

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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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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

Savings and investing app Acorns has raised $300 million in a Series F funding round that values the company at nearly $2 billion. 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. billion SPAC with Pioneer Merger Corp. ” .

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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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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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The latest funding gives the company $160 million in total investments, Carlos Altschul, N!CK’S At the end of 2019, N!CK’S and Europe, hiring additional talent, marketing and making investments in R&D so that it can launch new products. Kinnevik, Ambrosia and Temasek co-led the round and were joined by Gullspang.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Through Cellico ‘s independently developed big data-based Visual Field Test program, it enables easy monitoring of patients’ visual acuity measurements and visual blind spots. ” Cellico, celebrating its fourth year since its establishment in 2019, holds 30 intellectual property rights.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

The company plan to strengthen its capabilities in local commerce with Danggeun Pay, or Karrot Pay, which is set to launch this year, and Danggeun’s platform Karrot enables approximately 300,000 local SMB partners to go digitalized by offering offline to online (O2O) service. million monthly active users (MAUs) in 2019, 4.8

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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. . AmazeVR has raised a total of $30.8

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2022

Lahore-based coworking space startup, Colabs , is set to roll-out a SaaS product to enable businesses meet back-office needs including company registration, talent sourcing and management, payroll processing and legal and tax compliance. We were fortunate enough to have met some of the startups we invested in, in their spaces.”.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

Simon Ward founded FloatPays in 2019 as an on-demand wage access platform to help employees access, spend, save and manage their money. In another digital banking play, Lemonade Finance provides multi-currency accounts for these migrants to enable seamless transactions and banking. Freterium (Morocco). Mecho Autotech (Nigeria).

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Bernard Liew, Director of KSL Maritime Ventures said, KMV incubates and invests in high growth start-ups with purposeful and innovative solutions. Ampotech, which is a spin-off from an A*STAR and University of Illinois research institute, also raised $1 in vestments during the seed funding round in 2019.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

Ben Eluan and Osezele Orukpe , two software engineers based in Nigeria, faced this problem in 2019. The crypto remittance company was built to enable merchants to send and receive money from anywhere in the world, Eluan tells me. For instance, it takes days or weeks for money sent from an immigrant in the U.S. Image Credits: Flux.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

with projections showing an 11% increase by 2029 from 2019 numbers, which amounts to over half a million new jobs. produces only about 65,000 computer science graduates, there is a vast deficit in the tech talent market, which materialized as over 900,000 unfilled IT and related positions in 2019 alone. Given that the U.S. 1 among U.S.

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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

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

After leaving the Stripe-owned company in 2019, he launched a data startup called Voyance where Singh, who had already exited one of his products — Transferpay.ng , an offline payments startup — was a software engineer. How fintech and serial founders drove African pre-seed investing to new heights in 2020.

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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

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

According to a 2019 report by Deloitte , about 80% of South Africans have a bank account but only 24% of them make more than three transactions monthly. All merchants need to have is a bank account and a “smart-enabled device” to receive payments. million in 2019, Ozow has seen a 100% year-on-year growth of its business.

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propel(x)

JULY 11, 2022

Founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Mateo CA, Brelyon is a deep tech startup which is developing an innovative virtual reality technology that will allow companies to bring their clients/customers to the Metaverse and experience immersive virtual worlds without the need for physical headsets. link] Who is Brelyon?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

“As e-commerce sales continue to soar, last-mile delivery capacity has not kept pace, nor have logistics companies made the technological investment necessary to support a level of customer service that is expected by a new generation of consumers,” said Lydia Jett, managing partner at SoftBank Investment Advisers, in a written statement. “We

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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. The digital transformation of the business events industry was remarkably slow.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

After emerging from stealth in 2019, Sima.ai today closed a $30 million additional investment from Fidelity Management & Research Company with participation from Lip-Bu Tan (who’s joining the board) and previous investors, concluding the startup’s Series B. . As over-100-employee Sima.ai

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

At Versatile VC, we particularly like investing in “dual-PhD” problems, at the intersection of multiple domains. Next36 focuses on supporting students and recent grads launching their startups, while Next AI supports AI-enabled ventures looking to disrupt industries. . Creator Fund is a European firm “investing in Ph.D.,

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at Harvard Business School, to weigh in on what we are seeing, and while they’re trying to make sense of things, too, they noted a couple of things that could impact the velocity of deal-making that we’ve been seeing. We have come back and invested with founders we originally declined.”.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

On the subject, NeuReality today announced that it raised $35 million in a Series A funding round led by Samsung Ventures, Cardumen Capital, Varana Capital, OurCrowd and XT Hi-Tech with participation from SK Hynix, Cleveland Avenue, Korean Investment Partners, StoneBridge, and Glory Ventures.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

In 2019, Pipefy raised $45 million from Insight Partners, Openview and Trinity Ventures. Says Alionço: “Our tool enables citizen developers. Insight led that round. . Put simply, Pipefy aims to redefine workflow management. These are the professionals who do the work but who do not have IT training.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Sesie Bonsi is the founder and CEO of Bleu , a financial technology platform focused on enabling touchless payment experiences. As a Black fintech founder, I believe that venture investors are making safe bets and investing in late-stage founders instead of early or even pre-seed stages. Sesie Bonsi. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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