Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 31, 2023

M&A accelerates throughout the year. The share of AI-enabled web searches approaches 50% of all consumer search as consumer behavior patterns evolve, especially on mobile. This innovation reinvigorates very early-stage IPOs. The IPO market remains closed through the first 6 months of the year.

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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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OurCrowd

JUNE 2, 2020

Today, OurCrowd announces the launch of its Pandemic Innovation Fund. The pandemic has accelerated the pace of technology adoption across many domains. “We To ensure that we get the world back on track, there is now an urgent need for innovation to help us overcome many of the problems resulting from the crisis.

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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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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

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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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 18, 2022

This connectivity enables bolttech’s partners to re-imagine their business models and find new revenue streams, accelerate digital transformation, and deepen customer relationships. bolttech has achieved rapid growth since its inception 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. That is your direct line to revenue.”.

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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. Venture funds alone put more than $39.3 billion in food tech companies and $2.3

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Real-time location awareness of patients, staff, and medical equipment combined with Rideshare-like intelligence of task allocation, current path of motion, and optimal route determination enables smart, automated orchestration of patient care. million investment to help revolutionize healthcare efficiency worldwide.

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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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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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

That hefty valuation comes on the back of a $13 million extension to the company’s latest round of funding, led by Food Retail Ventures and joined by existing investors Innovation Endeavors, Maersk Growth and Baseline Ventures, the company said.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The innovation and ingredients, all rooted in the company’s R&D, are what differentiates the company from its competitors, he added. 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 Yamo scores €10.1M

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 19, 2022

Register 2C2P , a global payments platform and Ant Group announced a strategic partnership to accelerate digital payment adoption and innovation. Digital payment adoption has accelerated rapidly in recent years, spurred by the pandemic, with mobile wallet payments widely gaining momentum across Asia.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

For example, it enables JKOPay in Taiwan and Maya in the Philippines to offer insurance marketplaces through their apps. Bolttech launched in Singapore in April 2020 and was able to establish an international presence for several reasons. Device protection isn’t the only product bolttech offers.

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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. from 2016 to 2021 and is forecast to grow at 12.9%

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2022

VCs invested nearly $50 billion in climate-tech companies between 2020 and 2021. Venture capital has a vital role to play in de-risking climate technologies, which can help bring costs down, accelerate adoption rates and transform markets to enable a decarbonized future. trillion to 4.8

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2021

South Korea has passed the first law in the world dedicated to digital lending, ‘The Marketplace Lending Act’, in August 2020 to regulate marketplace lenders, protecting P2P consumers. The number of marketplace lenders in Korea has fallen from 237 to 102, between August 2020 and May 2021, as per its annual report in 2020.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 28, 2021

2021 marked the second year of COVID and like other crises, the pandemic accelerated change, especially in technology pushing many technologies like SaaS, video conferencing, crypto/web3 deeper into the Perez deployment cycle. Improved infrastructure enables new applications, which attract more users. 2020 becomes the decade of data.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Flip , an Indonesia-based fintech startup, announced today it has raised $48 million in a Series B to accelerate its growth. The startup plans to use the fresh capital to accelerate its business expansion further, strengthen its operations in Indonesia, advance technology and expand its engineering and product teams. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

In the meantime, Acorns has raised money to continue to explore more acquisitions — it acquired two companies in the first half of last year — as well as to fund “growth and innovation,” Kerner said. Alex reported that from 2019 to 2020, Acorns grew 61%, from $44 million in revenue to $71 million.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

Apollo Agriculture co-founder and CEO, Eli Pollak , while talking about their areas of priority told TechCrunch that, “We are continuing to invest in growing fast; serving more farmers, helping them grow their acreage and really hitting the acceleration on the business.

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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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In a reflection of investor confidence — or perhaps simply the demand for supply chain security solutions — Eclypsium today closed a $25 million Series B round led by Ten Eleven Ventures with participation from Global Brain’s KDDI Open Innovation Fund and J Ventures, bringing the company’s war chest to $50 million.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2023

billion in late 2020. We are an Indian company, built by Indians, and our latest fundraise will help us further accelerate the Government of India’s vision of digital financial inclusion for all,” said Sameer Nigam, founder and chief executive of PhonePe, in a statement.

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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. 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

JULY 13, 2021

It’s a gap Marco Financial is looking to bridge through its tech-enabled risk assessment platform that can provide better insight on who should receive loans. Marco’s factoring product enables new companies to get started without having to put up the significant amount of collateral that banks are asking.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

At the end of 2020, Marqeta says it had issued 270 million cards through its platform, up from 140 million at the end of 2019. “They want seamless digital experiences, rewards that match their lifestyle, and personalized apps that track financial health, but there’s been little innovation that speaks to this,” he said. .

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Impact Hub

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

2011-2020 was the warmest decade of all. That’s why we support entrepreneurial impact makers and businesses that challenge the status quo, drive the creation of more inclusive and decent job opportunities and economic growth, and enable the acceleration of inclusive and sustainable innovation at scale.

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Impact Hub

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

2011-2020 was the warmest decade of all. That’s why we support entrepreneurial impact makers and businesses that challenge the status quo, drive the creation of more inclusive and decent job opportunities and economic growth, and enable the acceleration of inclusive and sustainable innovation at scale.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

According to Statista, the number of consumer edge-enabled IoT devices is forecast to grow to almost 6.5 billion by 2030, up from 4 billion in 2020. “We feel confident that our playbook for sales-led growth is at a level of maturity where we can double down on our investment and accelerate growth. .

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Jason Malki

MAY 9, 2023

Todd joined Aiden from his most recent position as the CEO of a stealth startup within the SBD Radical Innovation Accelerator. Todd’s projects include GM’s OnStar Guardian and Verizon hum, and was the 2020 Google Android for Cars Open Innovation “Shark Tank” Champion.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

While the startup competes with Dataminr and to some extent data analytics products from Noogata and Pecan.ai (plus data services like Reuters and Bloomberg), Aroomoogan claims that Accern’s annual recurring revenue has grown 9x since 2020. ” Accern has raised $20 million in capital to date.

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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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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

JANUARY 14, 2021

A year later, Blabla was chosen as part of Y Combinator’s 2020 summer cohort. million in a seed round led by Amino Capital, Starling Ventures, Y Combinator, and Wayra X, the innovation arm of the Spanish telecoms giant Telefónica. The coronavirus had begun to spread in the U.S. This week, Blabla announced it has raised $1.54

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