TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

Amid these turbulent times, the VC accelerator industry has emerged as a stalwart player. Fueled by a zero-interest landscape in 2020, it has surged, giving rise to an ever-growing array of funds. growth from 2020 to 2021. Importantly, the traditional accelerator model has enjoyed the fruits of these potential paradigm shifts.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

If nothing else, the 2020 pandemic has shown everybody—particularly business owners and entrepreneurs—the value of being prepared and ready to pivot. But I’ve long been a believer in the stark benefits that flexible working environments enable. Andrea Grisdale, founder and CEO at IC Bellagio.

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Dream It

APRIL 23, 2019

For example, voice-powered ecommerce reached approximately $2 billion in 2017 and Gartner predicts that about 30% of web browsing will happen via voice (and without a screen) by 2020. Streamlining Patient & Provider Communication Via Voice-Enabled Applications Patient satisfaction impacts providers’ financial performance.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2021

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. “Tackle is the leading player for enabling companies to sell software through the cloud,” he said.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

million last year from New-York’s Riverside Acceleration Capital (RAC) and a syndicate of Australian investors. The new investment will help the startup to accelerate its overseas expansion across the world with a focus on the United States, the country with the highest percentage of educators using one-to-one computing (1:1) computing.

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Dream It

AUGUST 6, 2020

link] — Infermedica (@Infermedica) August 6, 2020 Technology and Benefits to Health Systems/Payers/Telemedicine Companies Infermedica is an AI-driven, customizable, multi-language platform that aids patient care and healthcare service delivery. This new #investmentround marks a significant milestone for Infermedica. Take a look!

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Revolution

APRIL 6, 2021

Casted leverages audio and video podcasting as the core of an innovative Amplified Marketing Platform enabling B2B enterprises to drive brand awareness, thought-leadership, sales lead generation, and customer engagement strategies.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Last November, we surveyed 13 of the top robotics-focused VCs to find out which areas of robotics are exciting them most going into 2020. The main thing is getting construction companies and contractors to accelerate their adoption of the tech and the labor shortage issue is putting substantial pressure on them to act.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2021

As a result, categories that make up productivity infrastructure — cloud communications services, API platforms, low-code development tools, business process automation and AI software development kits — grew exponentially in 2020.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The $75 million investment comes in addition to a previously undisclosed $50 million investment made as part of Joby’s Series C financing round in January 2020 , Uber said. “This deal allows us to deepen our partnership with Joby, the clear leader in this field, to accelerate the path to market for these technologies.”

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 11, 2023

Established in 2020, AHG Lab operates under the umbrella of the Alternative Housing Group, which functions as a real estate startup and prop-tech incubator in the Philippines. AHG Lab has already nurtured a range of promising ventures. AHG Lab has already nurtured a range of promising ventures.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

The crypto remittance company was built to enable merchants to send and receive money from anywhere in the world, Eluan tells me. In May 2020, Flux got accepted into Pioneer , an accelerator launched by ex-YC partner Daniel Gross. It has already backed more than 100 founders who give up 1% equity to join the accelerator.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

One clear differentiator is that the company functions as an enabler (at payment rails and the core infrastructure) within banking and payments. In 2020, the company launched services catered to end-to-end automation of lending operations for banks and blockchain switching. ” Image Credits: Appzone. .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2022

For many businesses, the pandemic accelerated their digital transformation plans by months, or even years. Gartner projects that global spending on cloud services is expected to reach over $482 billion in 2022, up from $313 billion in 2020. There are countless benefits to small businesses and startups.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The CertifID tool is used by real estate companies to insure and accelerate transactions with financial institutions for real estate purchases. BAMF Health of Grand Rapids is a precision-medicine startup that aims to create a world-class radiotracer translational platform through AI-enabled molecular imaging and theranostics.

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Y Combinator

MAY 6, 2020

3 In 2020, it is China’s second largest e-commerce platform on an active user basis only lagging behind Alibaba. Pinduoduo is one of the first companies to successfully create a social shopping experience online, and has accelerated the transition of commerce from offline to online in China. But the models are actually very different.

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Y Combinator

JULY 24, 2020

COVID-19 has accelerated the digitization of commerce globally. In the US, e-commerce penetration increased from 16% at the end of 2019 to 27% in April 2020. For better or worse, COVID-19 has accelerated e-commerce adoption among businesses in the same way it has accelerated e-commerce adoption among consumers.

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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. Make serious headway with accelerators. Accelerators allow ventures to define their products or services, quickly build networks and, most importantly, sit at tables they wouldn’t be able to on their own.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

The startup was founded in 2020 during covid lockdown with its founders keen to build an app that would enable people in India to watch live matches. “We We decided to build a product, which enabled users to watch matches on the app, and have video calls with their friends to enjoy the match. It brings to $24.5

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The adoption of telehealth services has boomed in the pandemic — with usage up 38-fold since January 2020, according to a report by McKinsey. Bisu was founded in 2015 and started business in 2017 when it entered the HAX accelerator program.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

It’s the 33rd Demo Day of the well-known accelerator and holds the largest cohort yet. Amenli, founded by Shady El Tohfa and Adham Nauman in 2020, is addressing an untapped $2 billion market, being the first licensed online insurance broker in the country. Sophia Alj and Ismael Belkhayat founded Chari in 2020.

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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. million in the fintech accelerator. From 2020 to 2022, Plug and Play was the most active startup accelerator in the world, according to CB Insights.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

million seed round in 2020. Now, maturing consumer behaviors and expectations are accelerating the current phase. Nacelle gives organizations a future-proof way to accelerate their innovation, leverage existing investments and do so with material ROI.”. It closed on a $50 million Series B round from Tiger Global.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 18, 2023

Xendit’s mission, which is to accelerate the growth of Malaysian-based unicorns through holistic, localized and far-reaching digital payments solutions, aligns with that of the Malaysian government. The company offer of a one-stop payment infrastructure that enables businesses to scale rapidly.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

When we first shared LatAm’s digital acceleration story in last year’s Latin America Digital Transformation Report , we believed we were at the peak of digital growth catalyzed by the pandemic. in 2020 for LatAm as of August. Eight new unicorns have already been minted this year, nearly reaching 2020’s rate by midyear.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The funding comes less than a year after it announced a round of €90 million ($105 million) in January 2020, and is more specifically an extension of that round. Despite the difficulties of 2020, it was a year of great growth for Tink,” said Daniel Kjelle?n, n, co-founder and CEO of Tink, in a statement.

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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. It’s latest brand, Meridian, offering grooming products, launched in 2020. The firm will work with Pangaea to continue developing the Lumin and Meridian brands and accelerate its international expansion.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Its direct-to-consumer business launched in 2020 and has remained at the top of the DTC ice cream delivery space since July, Altschul said. Between 2020 and 2021, N!CK’S The new funding will accelerate the company’s goal of doubling its stores in the U.S. CK’S expanded from 4,500 U.S. stores to 6,700, and expanded in the U.K.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

As the pandemic took hold in 2020, companies accelerated their move to cloud services. “We enable companies to build securely in the cloud, and we span across multiple different categories of markets, which enable the customers to do that,” he said.

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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

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The latest funding will be used to accelerate development of Catalog’s synthetic DNA-powered computing platform, which enables data management, computation, and automation. Over the next two to three years, Catalog also plans to put more investment into developing computation functions, Park told TechCrunch.

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HPA

MARCH 21, 2024

“This funding marks a significant milestone, enabling Fuel Me to accelerate the development of advanced technology while continuing to deliver unparalleled service to our customers. Since its launch in September 2020, Fuel Me has demonstrated rapid growth , showcasing a fivefold increase in performance metrics year-over-year.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Some of the ways the company is keeping up with demand is enabling organizations to sign up and start for free with 100 devices to see how the platform works. Insight proactively approached the company, and Esper “jumped at the opportunity to partner with them to accelerate our trajectory and predict market growth quicker,” Gopalan said.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The tranche values the company at $1 billion post-money, according to a Bloomberg source, and comes as the demand for AI-powered content generation accelerates. We plan to use our compute to accelerate open source, foundational AI.”. London- and San Francisco–based Stability AI is the brainchild of CEO Emad Mostaque.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

Also in the last year, the company entered the LatAm market after acquiring Mexico-based e-invoicing company Facturama in September 2020 in an effort to expand its audience in Spanish-speaking markets. For example, he said, more business owners are working to become digitally enabled to meet local tax and invoice compliance systems. .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

With an eye on reversing that trend, they created Monterrey-based Parrot in April 2020, and in 2021 launched with ParrotConnect, its point-of-sale software for restaurants enabling them to digitize and take advantage of the home delivery boom to accelerate growth. Image Credits: Parrot.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 2, 2023

The investment will accelerate the growth of Fresh Factory’s end-to-end hyperlocal cold chain fulfilment and logistics service, and will also be used to invest in hiring talent, improving existing service offerings and expanding its fulfilments for cold chain and fresh products.

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