TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

New Zealand, a country of just under 5 million people, has historically flown under the radar of venture capitalism. That’s changed so much the last couple of years partly because the government’s been putting more initiatives into attracting international capital. A geographically isolated country with a “no worries!”

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JULY 27, 2021

Astra Incubator is “the first Italian incubation program designed to connect aspiring innovators and build multidisciplinary teams.” Next36 focuses on supporting students and recent grads launching their startups, while Next AI supports AI-enabled ventures looking to disrupt industries. . The prize amount is $1,000.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

So how does a country evolve from a position of relative uncertainty, with comparatively few resources, to one that leads the ASEAN region in venture capital investment and has been home to 10 unicorns? When the country first became independent, its mandate was to simply survive rather than thrive.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

It wasn’t long before venture capital firms started up and major tech companies like Microsoft, Google and Samsung had R&D centers and accelerators located in the country. At the start of 2020, Israeli startups and technology companies were looking back on a good 2019. And in 2019, Bay Area investors put $1.4

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

I’ve covered Wyvern in the past, including when the startup participated in incubator Creative Destruction Lab (CDL)’s academic conference-like demo day back in 2019. Hyperspectral imaging can provide detail about previously hidden information, including the chemical makeup of the scene it captures.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The Tokyo-based outfit founded by Takuma Terakubo in 2019 will invest $50,000 to $500,000 in African startups in seed and Series A stages. Before Uncovered Fund, Terakubo was the CEO of Leapfrog Ventures. Terakubo doesn’t say why he left Samurai Incubate Fund. During his time there, the firm raised more than $4.5

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Thus, for Black Coffee , who backed Andela, a tech talent incubator and unicorn launched from Lagos in 2015, his win meant Africa’s tech scene could, for the first time, brag about having a homegrown Grammy Award-winning artist as an investor in its startups. Europe and globally. . For now, we’re going to still stay at a collective.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Try searching online for angel investors , early seed investors, or incubator/accelerator programs that could help your business get funding. In 2019, the failure rate of startups was around 90%. Typically, entrepreneurs found success after their third, fourth or even fifth business venture.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

billion venture dollars invested between 2018 and 2019. Over the past several months — in the wake of the murder of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement — we’ve seen an increasing number of venture funds announce initiatives toward funding a broader group of founders. billion of the total $276.7

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

This continues the firm’s strategy from its first fund which raised $15 million and started deploying in 2019. Ascend’s Fund I also invested in brands and marketplaces too, areas it is stepping away from with this latest batch of capital. Winfield isn’t fully avoiding the hype though.

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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. With Bundle incubated within the ecosystem of the largest crypto exchange platform, Bademosi had lofty ambitions for the company.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2021

That led to the development of a startup incubator focused on Black founders and later a pitch competition. She says that there is a ready pipeline from her other ventures including the incubator and pitch competitions and she is also plugged into the community where there is lots of startup energy.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Italy’s ecosystem for tech venture capital and startups has been in development for years and has made decent strides in the last decade. Rome has more than 20 incubators/accelerators and many established VCs; because of its lower costs compared to other European cities, it’s become a major base for startups.

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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. 406 Ventures, a venture capital firm that focuses on Series A investing, says the schools are a huge advantage for Boston. billion in 2019. “I Greg Dracon, a partner at.406

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

Horizons Ventures, the venture capital firm of Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing and an early investor in Facebook and Spotify, recently led Fertilis’s seed round of AUS$2.75 In 2019, the percentage of IVF treatments that led to a live birth was merely 32% for women under 35, according to the U.K.’s million ($1.98

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2023

” Dambrot’s perception led him to pitch KPMG Studio, KPMG’s internal accelerator, on funding and incubating a software startup to solve the challenges around AI security and compliance. 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

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Previously, the startup has been through the prestigious Station F incubation program in Paris and the Norrsken Impact Accelerator program. In 2019, the startup won the Africa Cup at the 2019 SA Innovation Summit, securing a $350,000 investment from Unicorn Group, a pan-African investment firm.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Levin joined Heartcore Capital in 2019 from Global Founders Capital, the billion-dollar VC arm of Rocket Internet, where he was responsible for investments in Canva, Heyjobs, Instarem, Anyfin and others. No surprise, Rocket also has a graveyard of failed companies that were victims of bad internationalization efforts.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

based venture capital firm, led the round. Africa-focused VCs Samurai Incubate, Future Africa, Village Global, Rising Tide Africa and Enza Capital participated. Nadayar Enegesi, Prosper Otemuyiwa and Silm Momoh founded Eden Life in 2019. million seed round to deepen its market share. LocalGlobe, a U.K.-based

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

Harlem Capital’s Henri Pierre-Jacques invested in both Pangaea’s seed round in 2019 and Series A in 2020. Pangaea, to date, has been a brand incubator, but post the Series B will expand to be a vertically integrated e-commerce platform for other brands. We are even more excited for this next phase of their growth.”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2021

But the firm is also still eager and “excited” to incubate companies, Wong said. Since the time of its last fund closure in 2019, the firm has seen 10 portfolio companies go public, including Slack, Austin-based Bumble, Bucharest-based UiPath, CrowdStrike, PagerDuty, Deliveroo and Squarespace , among others. “But

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2021

Boston-based venture capital firm PJC led the round with help from Innospark Ventures, Differential Ventures and Smart Global Holdings. Somel Investments, BDC Capital and Desjardins Capital also participated. The idea for the company has roots in the TandemLaunch incubator in Montreal.

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 20, 2020

Exits inked throughout the 2010-2019 decade amount to $111 billion. billion were inked in 2019 alone. Startup nation: Israeli high-tech sector notes record 2019, outstanding decade. Incubators… World’s first government supported medical cannabis incubator in Israel , featuring CanNegev.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Sixteen years after its founding, the company has seen its valuation grow rapidly from $3 billion with a round led by Salesforce in 2019 to $7.5 It’s also the lifeline that Automattic needs this decade to rebuild the internet in an open direction. billion with a share buyback a few months ago.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

. “Tufts, Brandeis, Boston [University], UMass, all these universities now have entrepreneurship programs, incubators, on campus accelerators that are often included in the curriculum.” In 2019, Harvard Innovation Labs was tracking 93 concurrent ventures at the school. “You have to know your own limits.

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HPA

OCTOBER 11, 2022

With the region’s recent transformation into a top-tier entrepreneurial producer (ranked in 2019 as the nation’s #1 undergraduate entrepreneurship education by the Princeton Review), the CFE is able to send students down the street to learn from real-world founders and entrepreneurs.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The round includes investments from Breyer Capital, Draper Associates, Animal Capital, At One Ventures, Jazz Ventures, Jeff Wilke, Bold Capital, Global Space Ventures, Climate Capital, Winklevoss Capital, Liquid2 Ventures, Capital Factory, Tony Robbins and First Light Capital.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

outside London, according to Whitecap’s 2019-2020 Ecosystem Report. There are several very active tech investment networks coming from several angles, e.g., university-led, groups of private angels and tech incubators. Very strong in deep tech with an invested local community of entrepreneurs, incubators and investors.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

.” The funding is being led by Left Lane Capital, with Finistere Ventures, Comcast Ventures, OurCrowd, Origin Ventures, Pritzker Group Venture Capital and Joe Mansueto — all previous backers — also participating.

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DECEMBER 2, 2019

Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! The Aspen Tech Policy Hub is a West Coast policy incubator, training a new generation of tech policy entrepreneurs. Some specific accelerators: 17 Incubators For Impact Entrepreneurs and Social Enterprise.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

One of the first portfolio companies, TrazFavela , a delivery app that focuses on linking customers and goods from traditionally marginalized communities, was supported by the accelerator in 2019. There is a clear recognition of the business case for Afro-Brazilian businesses.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 18, 2022

The spending per buyer in e-commerce is forecasted to go from $2,600 in 2019 to $4,300 in 2024. Its startup ecosystem is active and well designed, attracting the attention of investors, accelerators, and incubators worldwide. Nautilus Investment is a global accelerator and venture capital in Korea. trillion won (US$6.4

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The second is that companies YC backed four to five years ago, after raising a series of venture capital rounds, are now commanding huge valuations that they didn’t have in 2018. Rappi and Flutterwave have been on the list since 2018 and 2019, respectively. What this means is that more companies, particularly outside the U.S.,

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Meg retired from the Council April 8, 2019. While the State is not known as a hub for venture capital, we have frequently been recognized by national sources as a great place to start a new business. Statewide, the number of small business incubators that focus on women and minority-owned business has grown rapidly.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JUNE 8, 2019

By Kevan Goff-Parker Copyright © 2019 The Oklahoman. “There’s a lot more activity, whether it’s venture capital investments, accelerator and incubator programs or things that make it easier for entrepreneurs to grow.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

million seed round in 2019. “ We do think Tor made all the right decisions when they built the software — at the time there was no interest from venture capital in privacy, there was only interest from the U.S. Earlier raises included a $2.5 government. And the internet was too slow to do a mixnet. “The U.S.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

That’s up from $600 million invested on its platform from more than 100,000 members in February 2019, at the time of its last raise. So far, Yieldstreet has acquired two companies (both in 2019): WealthFlex and Athena Art Finance. . .” What he did share is that Yieldstreet has funded nearly $1.9 Some context.

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