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

MARCH 7, 2023

In prior roles, he was an associate at a LatAm-focused venture capital firm and worked in corporate venture with regional banks and the Brazilian stock exchange. That said, there aren’t that many CVCs in the Brazilian venture funding market compared to countries like the United States.

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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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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

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. As of today, Acceleprise is now Forum Ventures, according to the group’s CEO and managing partner, Michael Cardamone , and it has a bushel of funds to power its work.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Not only do they work in business development, market placement, and research to help develop solutions for the food service industry, but they also run their own startup incubator! The CertifID tool is used by real estate companies to insure and accelerate transactions with financial institutions for real estate purchases.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. The final quarter of 2020 and the full year brought an ocean of capital to bear on U.S. Plaid is building a fintech accelerator , which we thought was cool. Fintech is also hot as all heck.

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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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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

It’s a known fact that the number of venture dollars flowing to Black and Latinx founders is dismally low. billion in funding that had gone to all founders up until that point in 2020. . Also, Digitalundivided’s ProjectDiane 2020 report found that Black and Latinx women founders received just $1.7 of the total $87.3

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

YC Continuity led the round, which also saw participation from Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer Venture Partners. 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

APRIL 23, 2021

Ignite NI emerged as an important native incubator and accelerator. Chris McClelland, MD of Ignite NI: He’s a mentor on the city’s top accelerator program. Mark Dowds: Venture partner at Anthemis, co-founder at Ormeau Baths (in my opinion it’s the city’s best co-working space). Co-founded BrewBot.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Paulo is the co-founder of Vale do Dendê (Dende Valley) and AFAR Ventures , a global diversity and inclusion creative and consulting agency that identifies opportunities for multinational brands, corporations and investors in emerging markets. It attracted backing from Facebook Brasil and grew 770% in 2020. Paulo Rogério Nunes.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2020

million seed round led by Founders Fund, an early investor in SpaceX, backed by Luminous Ventures, 7percent Ventures and Entrepreneur First. 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

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Countless tech giants and startups have thrown their tech at the automated call handling problem, from Google (and Google’s Area 120 incubator ), Microsoft and Amazon to Got It AI , Replicant and Tenyx. According to a 2020 Canam Research poll , 78% of U.S.-based CEO Nikola Mrkši? Image Credits: PolyAI.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2022

Incubated by Snoop Dogg’s ( yes, that Snoop Dogg ) Casa Verde Capital, a venture firm focused exclusively on the cannabis industry, Kompliant initially set out to tackle the pain points surrounding payments in the marijuana trade. billion In 2020, according to an analysis by Fenergo. Kompliant has a curious history.

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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. Rome has more than 20 incubators/accelerators and many established VCs; because of its lower costs compared to other European cities, it’s become a major base for startups.

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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

JULY 19, 2022

Jacquelyn reports that Tribe Capital raised $25 million to launch a crypto incubator program. AM Ventures raised $100 million for industrial 3D printing , writes Haje. In 2020, the U.S. It’s a question worth asking, as Instacart takes a serious haircut. Also, a bunch of new funds announced again today. million seed investment.

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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. Varanium Capital partner Aparajit Bhandarkar will join GetVantage’s board.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

When we published our last low-code/no-code investor survey in August 2020, the former president had decided to ban TikTok, Epic was filing antitrust cases against Apple and Google, and movie theaters around the U.S. Renato Valente, general partner, Iporanga Ventures. Mo Islam, partner, Threshold Ventures. yourprotagonist.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

It requires accelerators and incubators and coworking spaces to help nurture early ideas, and it needs VC firms investing across stages. After topping out in 2021 at $34 billion in total investment, doubling its 2020 output, it dropped to $21 billion last year, behind San Francisco, NY and LA. Greg Dracon, a partner at.406

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

In 2019, the startup based in Enugu, Nigeria, took part in the Google Launchpad Africa accelerator and the Binance Incubation Programme. million from Binance, Google Launchpad, NGC Ventures, Hashkey, and AU21 Capital, amongst others. It has since secured $2.2

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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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Impact Hub

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

For this first cohort, the program supported 20 ventures, 70% of whom completed the program, 50% were women, 45% refugees, and 55% were non-EU-migrants. There were nine workshops in total, and 14 000 US dollars were invested in the ventures through the Wellcome Trust Funding. Impressions & Outcomes.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2021

The city also topped the InterNations Expat City Ranking 2020 as one of the best cities for expats to settle in. BIGBAN is a private nonprofit angel investor network based in Valencia, and incubators and accelerator programs continue to proliferate, supported by corporates and local government initiatives such as Startup Valencia.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

over the course of 2020 (and their combined estimated price tag of nearly $100 billion), it’s not surprising that the Biden plan begins with a focus on resiliency. Finally for startups there’s a $31 billion available for programs that give small businesses access to credit, venture capital, and R&D dollars.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

We at Impact Hub advocate for better policies and funding, we make education and financial and non-financial resources accessible to impact ventures around the world. A community kitchen, cooking school, and rooftop farm that started thanks to the incubation program from Impact Hub King’s Cross Feeding the City Start-Up.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The Raine Group and Premji Invest co-led this round, with previous backers General Catalyst, Victory Park Capital and Khosla Ventures also participating. Heyday has been moving at a fast clip to keep up since being founded in 2020. Other big names out of the U.S. Other big names out of the U.S.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

After creating COVID screening solutions in 2020 and expanding their partnerships, DocNetwork announced a new partnership with Daxko in 2021 that allows for seamless integrations with YMCA and JCC platforms. As of 2020, it has partnered with the American Academy of Pediatrics. Apply now to DocNetwork. DynamoMetrics. Workit Health.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 3, 2021

In the wake of the murder of George Floyd and nationwide protests, venture capital firms are making newfound commitments to invest in, or at least evaluate, potential investments that are led by diverse founders. Originally published July 2020. So, what exactly do those action steps look like? Let’s take a deeper look. Sourcing deals.

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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. Historically, people who have difficulty conceiving children have been stigmatized.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Maybe it will be 2019, or 2020 — or even 2021. Accelerators and incubators and angels can help new founders get their wings and leave the nest. I am expecting a downturn at some point. Yet, I keep wondering, that even in some downturn, both the U.S. (on on a global stage) and specifically the Bay Area (within the U.S.)

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

and abroad between February and September 2020. In an ecosystem, there should be multiple entrepreneurial support organizations, coworking spaces, incubators/accelerators, investors, etc.communicating about the resources they have to support entrepreneurs. Ellen Bateman. My biggest frustration I encounter is silos in ecosystems.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Thus, for Black Coffee , who backed Andela, a tech talent incubator and unicorn launched from Lagos in 2015, his win meant Africa’s tech scene could, for the first time, brag about having a homegrown Grammy Award-winning artist as an investor in its startups. What’s pulling African music artists to tech investment?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

SoftBank Vision Fund is leading the round, with videoconferencing giant Zoom also participating, alongside previous investors Menlo Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, Nexus Venture Partners, and others. was valued at $304 million in July 2020. Observe.ai Observe.ai

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

As of 2020, the clothing sector lost about $27 billion in annual sales due to counterfeits, an illicit trade that results in huge losses to both brands and buyers. DST Global Partners and Atinum Investment led the latest funding along with its existing backers SoftBank Ventures, Bass Investment and Y Combinator.

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