TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2020

TC Sessions: Space 2020 , our first conference dedicated to galactic endeavors, launches in just one week (December 16-17). We can’t wait to host out-of-this-world experts , innovative agencies and the bold, boundary-breaking startups focused on building a future in space. Buy a Space Startup Exhibitor Pass.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 11, 2023

The Philippines-based AHG Lab intends to utilize the raised funds to develop further the more than ten startups it is currently nurturing under its wing. 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.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 2, 2022

In the fourth industrial revolution era, having succeeded as an economic powerhouse with a technological edge in manufacturing and industries led by large corporations, South Korea is now fostering disruptive innovation through startups. The country strives to create a balance between industrial conglomerates and the startup ecosystem.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 13, 2021

West Michigan is smack dab between Ann Arbor/Detroit’s tech and startup hub emergence and Chicago’s new habit of minting unicorns about once a month. We’ll show you what we’re looking forward to hearing more about in 2022 with our top Grand Rapids startups to watch. Grand Rapids startups and tech companies to watch in 2022.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic might have upended the global economy, but according to Meagan Crawford at Spacefund and Chris Moran with Lockheed Martin Ventures, it didn’t dampen investment in space startups. Crawford and Moran both agreed that interest and investment in space will increase as more startups have successful exits.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Startup Alley is the place to be at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 on September 21-23. The sold-out expo area is the virtual home to hundreds of innovative startups ready to demo their tech and talent. John and Jade will help each cohort founder produce a Lean Startup transformation for one current business situation.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

More posts by this contributor US-listed SPACs have a new target: Latin American tech companies Will Brazil’s Roaring 20s see the rise of early-stage startups? This has resulted in a dynamic where the majority of the successful and mature startups in Brazil are fintechs.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

Resource aims to give local accelerators and incubators support in the form of training and community. Resource’s “ESO Accelerator” will train startup ecosystem leaders on how to build a more financially sustainable organization, as well as help connect them to potential funders.

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UBI Global

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

A guest post by Tala Al Ansari, Director of District 2020‘s Innovation Ecosystem and supporting partner to the Triumph of Innovation impact study and report. The post Three reasons startups fuel any innovation ecosystem appeared first on UBI Global | Innovation Intelligence Company and Community.

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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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UBI Global

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

3 reasons why startups fuel any innovation ecosystem A guest post by Tala Al Ansari, Director of District 2020’s Innovation Ecosystem and supporting partner to the Triumph of Innovation impact study and report.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

Pave, a San Francisco-based startup that helps companies benchmark, plan and communicate compensation to their employees, has raised a $46 million Series B. Pave launched with an ambitious goal: Can it measure pay across venture-backed tech companies in real time, and help startups move their comp table off of spreadsheets?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

5 investors discuss Boston’s resilient tech ecosystem Boston’s university-to-startup pipeline defies downturn to grow and diversify In order to build a startup culture, a city or region needs some key elements in place – like an innovation engine to drive startup ideas. City Spotlight: Boston Register for the free event here!

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UBI Global

APRIL 8, 2020

Purpose-driven Entrepreneurship and Climate Change Startups from the World Benchmark Report 2019 – 2020 Unless there is hope, no one takes it upon themselves to address catastrophic situations such as climate change. The post Startup Discovery: Disruption in Climate Change appeared first on UBI Global.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

million Series A to strengthen its system integration with OTAs on the demand side, build a booking management system for transportation operators on the supply side and accelerate digital transformation in the pre-booking transportation industry. Since the pandemic outbreak in March 2020, SmartRyde has experienced a significant decrease.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

Hims is going to SPAC itself onto the public markets , which should prove interesting for other D2C startups eyeing the same move. The final quarter of 2020 and the full year brought an ocean of capital to bear on U.S. startups , something that we delighted in chewing on. An edtech startup based in Nigeria raised a $7.5

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2021

TechCrunch has covered Acceleprise several times over the years, including a look at its mid-2020 accelerator startup batch from its three accelerators. The firm has long focused on business-to-business SaaS startups, helping them get their start in a competitive global software market. Why is it so much bigger?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2022

Now, as competition heats up among investors to work with the most promising startups earlier, and the field of the founders hoping to build and launch companies gets wider and wider, the firm is taking a new approach. Those interested can start to apply from today until April 8, and the program will start May 23.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Africa’s beauty and personal care market is growing accelerated by its growing young and fashion conscious population, increasing spending power, and urbanization. The new funding brings the total amount raised by Uncover, since launch in 2020, to $1.225 million. Uncover was launched after incubation at Antler.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Ann Arbor continues to be one of the top growing tech ecosystems around the country with some of the best startups to watch. This was a year like no other for Ann Arbor startups, so we’ve spent lots of time keeping up with all the news from Ann Arbor tech companies. Small Ann Arbor startups to watch in 2022. DocNetwork.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

The country is quickly catching up to China on the tech investment front, with VC investments reaching a record of $15 billion in 2020, according to TechNation. cities made up a fifth of the top 20 European cities, with names such as Oxford, Dublin, Edinburgh and Cambridge rising to the fore in 2020. city for tech investment.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

100ms , the live video conferencing infrastructure startup based in India, has raised $20 million in Series A funding to power the next generation of live video apps, coming barely five months after they closed the seed round. million the total funding raised by the startup. It brings to $24.5 Image Credits: 100ms.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

Tel Aviv-based Run:ai , a startup that makes it easier for developers and operations teams to manage and optimize their AI infrastructure, today announced that it has raised a $75 million Series C funding round led by Tiger Global Management and Insight Partners, which also led the company’s $30 million Series B round in 2021.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Over the last five years, Brazil has witnessed a startup boom. The main startups hubs in the country have traditionally been São Paulo and Belo Horizonte, but now a new wave of cities are building their own thriving local startup ecosystems, including Recife with Porto Digital hub and Florianópolis with Acate.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

And as far as the local startup scene goes, the U.K.’s With that in mind, we reached out to founders, investors and executives in the city to get an inside look at the state of the current tech startup ecosystem. Ignite NI emerged as an important native incubator and accelerator. Co-founded BrewBot. Cloudsmith.

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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. It’s latest brand, Meridian, offering grooming products, launched in 2020.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

Today, in a twist, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has announced a proposal for a $10 million allocation in the state budget to create a seed fund for Black and Latinx startups, TechCrunch has learned exclusively. billion in funding that had gone to all founders up until that point in 2020. . of the total $87.3

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

A 2020 UCLA study found that approximately 15% of couples will have trouble getting pregnant, but Kindbody, which has spun up a network of fertility clinics since its founding in 2018 , has taken a holistic approach to the issue. Does your startup have enough runway? ” Does your startup have enough runway? extrabrunch.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2022

Kompliant , a startup delivering an “AI-driven” business onboarding and risk scoring platform, today announced that it raised $14 million in a seed round led by Level One Fund with contributions from former Visa president John Partridge and Current CEO Stuart Sopp. billion In 2020, according to an analysis by Fenergo.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

The sweeping infrastructure package put forward today by President Joe Biden comes with a price tag of roughly $2 trillion (and hefty tax hikes) but gives startups and the broader tech industry about $1 trillion worth of reasons to support it. ” Climate resiliency . Given the steady drumbeat of climate disasters that hit the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

The Mumbai-based startup announced today that it has raised $36 million in equity and debt led by Varanium Nexgen Fintech Fund, DMI Sparkle Fund, along with returning investors Chiratae Ventures and Dream Incubator Japan. That’s the gap that revenue-based financing platforms like GetVantage want to fill.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2020

A startup with a new type of spacecraft propulsion system could make the interplanetary travel seen in “Star Trek” a reality. He realized this could be a cornerstone for developing a plasma thruster that could achieve the accelerations required for interplanetary space travel. Magdrive has just closed a £1.4

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

In particular, the partnership with Visa landed Bloom as the first Sudanese startup to get admitted into Visa’s Fintech Fast Track program, Tage reports. Startups and VC. Jacquelyn reports that Tribe Capital raised $25 million to launch a crypto incubator program. In 2020, the U.S. million seed investment. Big Tech Inc.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2021

While Madrid and Barcelona tend to attract the buzz when it comes to tech startups in Spain, Valencia is slowly and surely making a name for itself as a growing tech ecosystem. The city also topped the InterNations Expat City Ranking 2020 as one of the best cities for expats to settle in. Which sectors is your tech ecosystem strong in?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Our ability to go into Europe and commercial offices is now accelerated meaningfully because of this partnership. from 2019 to 2020. So we’ve rolled it out across our residential portfolio […] I hope we can act as both a thought partner and product incubator for them.”.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

Nigerian startup Xend Finance uses decentralized finance (DeFi) to address currency devaluation. Aronu Ugochukwu and Abafor Chima founded the startup in 2019, and Ugochukwu is quite familiar with currency devaluation. . From December 2020 to January 2021, Xend Finance executed a testnet with over 1,500 participants in 75 countries.

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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. Put off by high taxes and paperwork in their home country, many Italian entrepreneurs moved to places like London in years past to startup. Will the coronavirus stymie their efforts?

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