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. They bonded over frustrations at their respective jobs in what seemed like a hardware industry left behind to rely on PDFs and email to get things done versus software development.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

According to a 2020 Statista survey , 41% of executives in the automotive and transportation industry alone said their company lost $50 to $100 million due to supply chain issues, a figure which has likely climbed higher since. Companies are experiencing the brunt of the impact, with 36% of small businesses responding to a 2021 U.S.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

That situation can lead to a huge waste of time for startups that want to sell to enterprise customers: a business development black hole. We conducted the survey at the tail end of Q3 2020. Here’s what the survey respondents placed into the “in-market or accelerating investment” bucket, in ranked order:

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

We’ve all embraced video calls, whether it is with our work colleague or our physician, but for developers, it remains a challenge to build both real-time audio and video features into products. The company provides APIs so developers can add those features into products or websites using just two lines of code. Image Credits: Daily.

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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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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 16, 2023

With AI bursting all around us and the James Webb Space Telescope sending back stunning images from the universe, new and bold ventures continue to emerge. They assembled a team of top industry talent to develop and build cost-effective one-hour global transport. Both are very important and necessary to achieve one-hour global travel.

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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.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Zurich tends to take the lion’s share, as the city’s embrace of startups has jump-started development, although Geneva and Lausanne are also hotspots. Today, pitch competitions, incubators, accelerators, VCs and angel groups proliferate. This has meant smaller exits, and thus less development for the ecosystem.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Despite the growth in awarded venture capital (VC) funds, a staggering disparity remains between the amount of total VC funds invested in entrepreneurs and the portion of those funds invested in ventures founded and/or led by women—particularly women of color. I am no stranger to this gender gap within the VC space.

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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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StartupNation

JUNE 15, 2021

In April 2020, just as the pandemic was beginning to wreak havoc on markets, commerce, communities and the general public, I started a business along with a group of friends. That’s not as crazy as it sounds because entrepreneurs started businesses in record numbers in 2020: there were over 4 million businesses formed last year in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2021

On Tuesday, DeHaat , an online platform that offers full-stack agricultural services to farmers, said it has raised $30 million in a new financing round as the Indian firm looks to maintain its accelerated growth despite the pandemic. — Harsh Upadhyay (@upadhyay_harsh1) October 13, 2020.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Co-led by Coatue and Andreessen Horowitz , the round also saw participation from Bessemer Venture Partners. Tackle says it plans to use its new funding to accelerate the execution of its product roadmap, scale its go-to-market (GTM) teams, expand its global reach, and continue to innovate. billion valuation.

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Impact Hub

DECEMBER 1, 2021

What if all startup incubators and accelerators integrated design principles that foster circularity? How will this look like and how will it impact ventures going through these programs? Here’s what we have learned so far: As of 2020, only 8.6% What if all venture support programs integrated circular design principles?

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Booz Allen Hamilton, the Virginia-based, defense-focused IT consulting firm, today announced the launch of a corporate venture capital arm, Booz Allen Ventures, that will initially put $100 million toward “strategic” defensive and offensive technologies. In the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

But if you ask the co-founders of Modular , a startup emerging from stealth today, the software used to develop it is “monolithic,” fractured into silos piled with layers of complexity. Image Credits: Modular.

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HPA

MARCH 21, 2024

HPA is excited to announce our investment in Fuel Me ’s $18M Series A Round , which was co-led by Pritzker Group Venture Capital and Tribeca Venture Partners and includes co-investors Bessemer Venture Partners, Interplay Venture Capital, and FJ Labs.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Tonik’s acquisition of TendoPay is a testament of our passion for accelerating financial and credit inclusion in the Philippines. It has so far partnered with over 200 companies and has developed a channel network covering over 500 brands and e-commerce sites. Tonik operates out of hubs in Singapore (HQ), Manila, and Chennai.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

OctoML , a Seattle-based startup that offers a machine learning acceleration platform build on top of the open-source Apache TVM compiler framework project , today announced that it has raised a $28 million Series B funding round led by Addition. We had barely started spending our Series A money — we still had a lot of that left.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 2, 2022

In July 2021, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) upgraded Korea’s status to a developed economy. South Korea is now at a critical stage of development. The accelerator program ends with top startups getting additional financial incentives and the possibility of doing business in Korea.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

Prior to this round, the company brought in $250 million in Series D funding in May 2020. Santa Barbara-based Apeel developed a plant-based layer for the surface of fruits and vegetables that is tasteless and odorless and that keeps moisture in while letting oxygen out. The company is not alone in tackling food waste.

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TechCrunch

MAY 27, 2021

has raised a $7 million round to accelerate its hiring cadence, and built out the go-to-market model for its its engineering and developer-focused hiring service, it recently announced. Filtered later split from the consulting group in 2019, signing a term sheet to raise capital in March of 2020. Boston-based Filtered.ai

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

Would you like to work with private equity and venture capital funds? There are relatively few jobs directly inside private equity and venture capital funds, and those jobs are highly competitive. Venture capitalists often come from an operating background. Venture Capital. Asian Venture Capital Journal (free trial). (I

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 14, 2023

Aakrit and Anthony founded AptEdge in 2020 after a successful exit of AppDynamics to Cisco for $4B. The company plans to deploy the funds in further developing the product; incorporating new language models as they launch; and additional connectors to sources of industry and in-house knowledge. For more information, visit: [link].

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Bengaluru-based artificial intelligence SaaS voice automation company Skit, formerly known as Vernacular.ai, developed its AI-based voice automation platform VIVA, short for Vernacular Intelligent Voice Assistant, which enables corporations to automate 90% of their call center operations powered by Natural Language Understanding (NLU) technology.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MAY 7, 2020

Ten-Nine Technologies to onboard engineering and management talent, develop prototypes, and build production facilities to supply a leading battery manufacturer – major funding provided by i2E Management Company, Inc., May 7, 2020, 09:00 US Central Time. iMCI currently manages $81 million across five venture funds.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Seedstars Africa Ventures , the pan-African early-stage fund for startups, has appointed Bruce Nsereko-Lule as its new general partner, to help it deploy more capital and provide the much-needed technical support for founders across the continent. Image Credits : Seedstars Africa Ventures. Venture capital in Africa is doing very well.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

The round was led by Gojek’s investment arm Go Ventures, with participation from returning investors AC Ventures and East Ventures. Launched in March 2020 in Jarkata, KitaBeli then entered the cities of Solo and Malang. Launched in March 2020 in Jarkata, KitaBeli then entered the cities of Solo and Malang.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

billion between July 2020 and June 2021, per research by New-York based research firm Chainalysis. 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. million pre-seed to that end.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MARCH 19, 2020

That is because we are already into a pretty meaningful transition from an industrial/physical economy to a knowledge/digital economy and the very nature of this macro event is accelerating that transition in many ways. Innovation FTW Bethany Crystal — Mar 12, 2020 Keep Calm and Stay Human.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 31, 2023

Register Indonesian digital bank Superbank , supported by Grab, Singtel, and Emtek Group, is collaborating with Singapore’s Genesis Alternative Ventures to offer a financing package of $40 million for startups in Indonesia. Genesis recently closed an $80 million fund, heralding it as the region’s pioneering venture debt fund.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The investment, led by Radical Ventures , Raptor Group , Lateral Capital and EchoVC was closed in Q3 2020 and came after the fintech startup raised $500,000 in pre-seed two years ago. The platform has different tiers; developers can get a set number of free API calls with no subscription with the free tier.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 11, 2023

Register AHG Lab , an independent venture builder based in the Philippines, has successfully raised $4 million in a pre-Series A funding round to expand its portfolio of ventures and programs. million in its seed round in 2021, with support from Philippine’s venture capital investor Foxmont Capital Partners.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 24, 2023

Register Startup Island TAIWAN, an initiative backed by Taiwan’s National Development Council, recently joined forces with domestic venture capitalists and listed companies to present a significant event showcasing the prowess of Taiwanese digital tech startups.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 1, 2021

The Covid Pandemic will end in the developed world in 2021. As I wrote yesterday , I think the trends that were accelerated in 2020 will not reverse in 2021, although the slope of the adoption curves will likely flatten a fair bit. We will see it accelerate in 2021. Let’s start with the elephant in the room.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

and abroad between February and September 2020. Not everybody can do ecosystem building; it’s a talent that is developed through experience and education, connections and networking. I would like to know how to best measure and track entrepreneurship and economic development in a non-traditional way. Denisse Rodriguez.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

In late 2020, a group of Stanford students banded together to create Stanford 2020, a venture fund solely to invest in their fellow classmates’ ventures. Now, two years later, the leader of that club, Steph Mui, is trying to replicate that playbook in the form of a venture-backed startup, and solo entrepreneurship.

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