TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

Humaans , a London-based HR startup, has raised $5 million in seed funding to accelerate the development of its employee on-boarding and management platform. Backing the round is Y Combinator, Mattias Ljungman’s Moonfire, Frontline Ventures and former head of Stripe Issuing, Lachy Groom. Image Credits: Humaans. “If

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

While more than 75% of the Fortune 500 is headquartered in cities all across the country, nearly 75% of venture capital dollars invested each year ( $130B+ in 2020 ) is concentrated in just three states: California, New York, and Massachusetts. Anna Mason serves on the board of APPH. and should?—?be

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 18, 2022

Between February 2020 and February 2022 in the US alone, the unemployment rate barely shifted from 5.7 Get everyone on board with your WHY. This helps to accelerate the integration process of their potential new environment. The fallout from the pandemic has left companies needing to re-strategize their recruitment policies.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2021

Capital G, an Alphabet venture capital group, joined the Series B as well, with its investor Laela Sturdy joining the startup’s board. TechCrunch explored the no-code, low-code space 2020 , including asking investors bullish on its market about their views concerning its future. The new funding values Webflow at more than $2.1

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Aaron graduated from EO Accelerator and went on to become an EO member in 2011. He says, “One of the most meaningful discoveries I made in EO Accelerator was that I was not alone as an entrepreneur. After just two hours there, we boarded the bus again to make our way to Sorrento and Pompeii. But I was also a little sad.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Half of its portfolio companies are backed by YC and other global accelerators. Of the total investments raised in 2019 and 2020, 54gene contributed more than half of those numbers by raising $4.5 On the other hand, Festival Coins is the only startup to be selected into Google for Startups Accelerator.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 26, 2022

During those 2020 pandemic days when in-person meetings were rare, Brad and Jason combined their expertise for a common cause: To strengthen the weave of relationships between EO members to drive value. EO Accelerator participants. EO members can opt-in to be paired with a chapter SAP a few times per year. Sister chapters.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

Volterra founder and CEO Ankur Singla, writing in a company blog post announcing the deal, says the need for this solution only accelerated during 2020 when companies were shifting rapidly to the cloud due to the pandemic. He sees Volterra’s capabilities fitting in well with the F5 family of products to help solve these issues.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

. “But the pandemic, which had a devastating effect on so many businesses that relied on in-person trade, accelerated the need for businesses to accept payments online.” According to the company, the number of small businesses that were fully cashless jumped 300% from March to July 2020.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 9, 2022

Register South Korea’s largest accelerator program for foreign startups, K-Startup Grand Challenge (KSGC) , is accepting applications for its 2022 edition. Teknobuilt got an overwhelming response from participation in KSGC 2020. The accelerator program’s positive support system helped the startup expand its business in Asia.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 17, 2024

The two entities will oversee NJ FAST’s accelerator program with an opportunity to make equity investments into select participating companies. Pending approval by its Board, the NJEDA intends to invest up to $17.5 million in the fintech accelerator. Prudential is thrilled to become an anchor partner on the NJ Fast accelerator.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2021

Starting with Duolingo’s growth in total active users , guess how fast they rose from 2019 to 2020. million monthly active users (MAUs); it wrapped 2020 with 36.7 If we narrow our gaze to Q1 2021 numbers compared to Q1 2020, we can see that Duolingo’s MAUs rose from 33.5 million more MAUs throughout 2020 and 6.4

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2020

It comes off the back of the startup growing revenues by 20x in 2020 — including 7x since August, although Cledara isn’t breaking out specific numbers. Meanwhile, Cledara says it will use the new investment to accelerate product growth and for further international expansion, including plans to enter the U.S.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

In March 2020, the company made headlines for laying off nearly 300 employees in the face of a slowdown in business related to the pandemic. It was at that point that TripActions made the decision to accelerate the timeline for its fintech expense product, TripActions Liquid, which had launched only a month before the pandemic.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

Founded in January 2020, Opsera lets developers provision their CI/CD tools through a single framework. ” Wesley Chan, a managing director for Felicis Ventures who will join the Opsera board, also noted that he believes that one of the next big areas for growth in DevOps is how orchestration and release management is handled.

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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. It attracted backing from Facebook Brasil and grew 770% in 2020.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

million seed round in 2020. Steven Kramer, board member and former EVP of Hybris, said via email that over the past two decades, the e-commerce industry went through several waves of innovation. Now, maturing consumer behaviors and expectations are accelerating the current phase.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Michael Seibel was chief executive of Y Combinator’s accelerator up until 2020, when the accelerator evolved from a more traditional partnership to no longer having multiple CEOs. YC says that no one else’s role at the accelerator has changed with today’s executive shakeup.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

The company has benefitted from the convergence of two trends sparked by COVID-19 that has turbocharged its business: an accelerated adoption of fintech across the economy and growing attention toward personal finance. . Liza Benson, a partner at Moderne Venture, will join the board.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Lydia first raised $45 million in January 2020 — Tencent led that investment. He joined Accel as a venture partner in July and he’s going to join Lydia’s board of directors. Transactions have doubled over the past year, which means that usage is accelerating. And 2020 has been a busy year for Lydia.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

As part of the round, James McCann, the former chief executive of Ahold USA, a supermarket holding company, has joined the company’s board of directors. We headed into 2020 with some incredible momentum from early customer partnerships and validation of our technology.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

Y Combinator, which helped incubate Pave and is now leading its most recent round through its later-stage capital vehicle, is one of the largest startup accelerators in the world. The reliance on YC could engender platform risk, considering how often the accelerator invests in competitors — often within the same batch.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2021

The new funding comes from HealthQuest Capital, and sees the fund’s founder and managing partners Dr. Garheng Kong join the company’s board of directors. Having HealthQuest’s venture arm on board as a partner could help it take its direct-to-consumer business and further develop a complementary enterprise operation.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi will take a board seat in the newly expanded Aurora. Uber reported in November that ATG and “other technologies” (which includes Uber Elevate) had a net loss of $303 million in the nine months that ended September 30, 2020. “If anything, this accelerates our objectives,” he said.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

This was another blockbuster year for global venture funding, with 2021 breaking records across the board. Last year, a total of $643 billion was invested globally, according to Crunchbase News , compared with $335 billion in 2020 – that’s 92% growth year over year. In 2020, only 61 companies went public at this valuation.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

Per the first point, 2020 was the lowest. Yes, as far as acceleration. Image Credits: Crunchbase The same thing that stalled investments in 2020 accelerated them the following year. Even as things reopened, jobs were increasingly difficult to fill and companies across the board were in a desperate push to automate.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2022

At your board meetings, you have one investor complaining that you aren’t growing fast enough, another complaining that your burn ratio is too high and another warning you to extend your cash runway. Tracking the explosive growth of open-source software. Now, it’s not so simple. You aren’t the only one who is confused and stressed.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

million round raised in May 2020. billion in 2020 and is expected to be $6.28 billion in 2020 and is expected to be $6.28 As part of the investment, Roseanne Wincek, co-founder and managing director of Renegade Partners, and Lee Edwards, partner at Root Ventures, joined Daily’s board.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

.” For example, summer reservation volume in the United States is 282% higher than in summer 2020, and even 32% higher than summer 2019. “Yes, the pandemic changed travel, but not necessarily in bad ways across the board,” Soto said. In the U.K.,

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

In the near future, they also target to accelerate the growth of litigation finance in Asia. With the additional investment and with Suh joining their board of directors, Min said they hope to drive growth in the Asian legal market by ensuring that any consumer in need of legal help can easily access their service.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

“The pandemic’s disruptive effects have accelerated the growth of the digital economy across Southeast Asia,” Itai Lemberger, founder and CEO of Bow Wave Capital Management said. About 70% came from Thailand while 30% came from the international market, the co-President Thamavaranukupt said.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Gillies credits COVID-19 with really hitting the digital “accelerator” and driving adoption for compliance tools, as fintechs and regulated businesses look to streamline their approach to customer on-boarding and risk monitoring. .” PassFort says its revenues grew ~2.5x over the past 12 months.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

TechCrunch’s favorites from Techstars’ Boston, Chicago and workforce accelerators. Etc: Without desks and a demo day, are accelerators worth it? How African startups raised investments in 2020. Best practices for Zoom board meetings at early-stage startups. Public markets fly high. Seen on Extra Crunch.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

Demand has accelerated exponentially, and the San Francisco-based startup saw its revenue grow “3x” in 2020 compared to 2019, although execs declined to provide hard figures. On the diversity front, 2020 may prove a tipping point. Jumpstart nabs $8.5M led by Sequoia for a recruitment platform that aims to increase diversity.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Founded in 2020 by Poddar and Vineet Goel, the startup has provided nearly $1 billion in annual funding for tens of thousands of small businesses in the U.S. The recent closing of a $100 million Series C financing at a $750 million valuation positions the company for accelerated growth. and Canada.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

The Series E was led by Insight Partners , the venture capital firm known for its ScaleUp program to help tech companies accelerate their growth. Employment Hero began entering new markets in October 2020, launching localized versions of the platform in New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Malaysia and Singapore.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Intel (which first invested in 2020 ) is a strategic backer in this case, meaning a financial investor and significant customer. He claims that solutions could provide up to double the bandwidth on the same infrastructure. “This has driven our sales demand from the world’s largest cloud operators by an estimated 25% to 30%.”

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