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 ended up developing proprietary infrastructure, including warehousing, payments and shipping, as a holding company to grow and scale direct-to-consumer brands. Products are now selling in more than 70 countries.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The European startup’s flagship claim for the data-ingesting bot-builder platform is it’s capable of automating up to 80% of customer support interactions. is gearing up for fresh growth — saying it’s expecting major developments next year. Plus it’s tripled headcount to deal with the COVID-19 effect.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 7, 2024

Wiz does this by taking a modern approach to cloud security, giving companies full stack visibility into their environments on the cloud and workload layers and enabling them to identify and prioritize risks without any clunky agents. That’s why people love it. Within the first week, Wiz was already fixing things.”

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Impact Hub

APRIL 23, 2021

To open an Impact Hub, like starting any business, takes courage – even more so in 2020, the year our world changed. From England to Bangladesh via Switzerland, we spoke to some of our fearless founders who opened an Impact Hub in 2020. Impact Hub Dhaka, one of the Impact Hubs that opened in 2020. Let’s start with why.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2021

In Southeast Asia, for example, a growing list of startups is increasing access to mental healthcare and support. The startup’s app for mental health professionals, called ThoughtFullCare Pro, enables them to manage and scale their online practices. One of them, ThoughtFull , announced today it has raised $1.1

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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. In the midst of supporting founders in their communities during a global pandemic, what do they wish they were more versed in? Melanie Lenci.

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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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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 17, 2024

NJ FAST is the fourth Strategic Innovation Center in the state and will support research and development, innovation, and entrepreneurship in the Fintech and Insuretech Sectors HOBOKEN, N.J. From 2020 to 2022, Plug and Play was the most active startup accelerator in the world, according to CB Insights.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

More often than not, SMEs face difficulties obtaining the necessary financing support due to prolonged waiting time or a lack of collateral. As a result, determining appropriate loan amounts for rural farmers becomes a challenge, and also impedes the progress of agricultural development. According to Hao Jiang, 1.5

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 11, 2023

million in its seed round in 2021, with support from Philippine’s venture capital investor Foxmont Capital Partners. 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. AHG Lab had previously secured $1.1

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Others let you do things like enable dark mode experiences on sites that don’t offer the feature, check for bias in news via Media Bias Fact Check , or watch videos in picture-in-picture mode on YouTube and other video sites. It’s dependent on what extensions you have installed and enabled, and how they’re configured.

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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. Automate workflows and mitigate risk.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

The company raised a small seed in 2020, and since then has been working on the engineering of the cell line to take down the cost curve. We’re going to be making many products over time, so we wanted an investor who believed in that mission, wanted to come and join us and support us for the long term,” he added.

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Impact Hub

MAY 27, 2021

In West Africa, bold entrepreneurs like Abisola Oladapo, founder and CEO of Mumspring, and Daniel Amedza, co-founder of Scribble Works, have been doing incredible work in this regard for years, developing innovative health and education solutions through their social enterprises.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

publicly listed software and services company that targets engineering and design industries, has acquired Norway’s Spacemaker , a startup that has developed AI-supported software for urban development. Other investors on the cap table include Nordic real estate innovator NREP, Nordic property developer OBOS, U.K.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 25, 2024

Launches Fellowship Grant Opportunity for Early Career Entrepreneurs Altitude Lab today announced that its incubating startups raised over $120M in early-stage funding since commencing operations in 2020. This fellowship allows us to support entrepreneurs in a much more personal way. Learn more at altitudelab.org or connect on X.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

MARCH 18, 2020

The largest early-stage investor in the region, Ben Franklin provides investment capital and business support services to emerging tech-entrepreneurs and small manufacturers located in central and northern Pennsylvania. www.cnp.benfranklin.org. technology to mid-market producers across several manufacturing verticals. www.Werkberry.com.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

DECEMBER 27, 2020

We have vaccines developed with demonstrated with a previously unheard of efficacy and safety in human trials that have been brought to the market in less than a year. Founded as a startup by immigrants in New York in 1849, Pfizer developed fermentation technology that enabled the mass production of citric acid.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

Available in alpha to ChatGPT users and developers on the waitlist , OpenAI says that it’ll initially prioritize a small number of developers and subscribers to its premium ChatGPT Plus plan before rolling out larger-scale and API access. ” Plugins are a curious addition to the timeline of ChatGPT’s development. .

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 16, 2024

January 12, 2024 ) – Applications for Delaware’s fourth annual Startup302 funding competition are being accepted now through January 29 from technology-enabled startups with high-growth potential and at least one founding team member from an underrepresented group. WILMINGTON, Del.

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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. Navenio’s location technology is developed from world-class University of Oxford science.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The Bengaluru-based startup offers banking and payments APIs that allow development of fintech products such as banking, payment cards, neobanking and collections and payout services in a short period of time. The seed round, which closed in October 2020, included investments from Y Combinator and FundersClub.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The latest funding will support hiring staff and enable new data-as-a-service markets powered by quantum sensing, founder and CEO of Q-CTRL Michael Biercuk said. It also will continue to invest in developing its quantum control for quantum computing and quantum sensing for acceleration, gravity and magnetic fields, Biercuk added.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

With a focus on Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Mexico and India, selected startups receive £80,000 (~$100,000) in grant capital, six months of support and connections with follow-on investors. In 2020, all five countries had representatives in the accelerator. Here are the startups in the 8th cohort.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 16, 2023

Latest funding supports next phase of flight-redefining growth Possibly we are in an era of grand visions, not just big dreams. In 2020 the wife and husband team of Sassie Duggleby , CEO, and Dr. Andrew Duggleby , CTO, launched its Houston-based hypersonic startup.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

In 2018, appliance conglomerate Bosch created a startup, Security and Safety Things (or “SAST” for short), whose stated mission was to develop a platform to help developers create software for AI-equipped cameras. “Moving forward, Azena will focus on Bosch internal business and stop external business development.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 22, 2023

Frontline Industrial Software, co-founded by Luis Martinez and Ruiqi Ding, has developed advanced construction planning simulation and optimization software. This platform enables construction companies, operators, and contractors to identify the most effective construction plans by leveraging proprietary optimization algorithms.

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Impact Hub

JULY 14, 2021

Delivered by Impact Hubs in King’s Cross and Munich, this edition supported 49 entrepreneurs in identifying and pursuing medium to long-term professional goals, while demonstrating entrepreneurship as a realistic and suitable option for personal and professional development and job market (re)integration.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The demand for SaaS products that enables online transactions has dramatically increased during Covid-19, according to CEO of Upflowy Guillaume Ang. To help entrepreneurs and marketers, especially startups, boost conversion rates and user flows, Ang and two other founders, Matthew Browne and Alexandre Girard , founded Upflowy in 2020.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The last two decades have seen explosive advancement in biomedical and therapeutic innovations, like the Human Genome Project , the discovery of CRISPR , and the rapid development of Covid-19 mRNA vaccines, to name a few. Herding class Drug development is a competitive sport. We are firmly in the century of biology.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

Founded by fintech veterans last year, Brick develops APIs that make it easier for tech companies to add identity verification and access financial data from their users. The startup, which is now used by 250 developers and 35 tech companies, announced today it has raised new seed round. The amount of funding was undisclosed.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 2, 2023

207 Applications Approved for over $8 Million in Tax Credits to Support Investment in 28 Companies TRENTON, N.J. October 2, 2023) – The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) announced today that 28 emerging New Jersey technology businesses benefitted from $63.2 Based in Lakewood, Beable Education Inc.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

APRIL 4, 2022

-funded programs in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras help farmers expand and diversify their operations, enabling them to provide for their families and feed more people in their home countries. Some families there lost their homes or livelihoods during devastating 2020 hurricanes. The COVID-19 pandemic further limited options.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

But most of these companies and developers find it difficult to access real-time banking data. Other investors include TLcom Capital (the sole investor from its $1 million pre-seed round in 2020), newly joined Accenture Ventures and some angel investors. This, in turn, creates a bottleneck when onboarding and verifying customers.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

Ugandan technology-enabled asset finance company Tugende today announced that it has closed $3.6 The investment, which, according to the company, was agreed on and structured in 2020, follows the $6.3 million raised in November 2020 and led by Toyota Tsusho investment fund Mobility 54. million in a Series A extension round.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Kilo’s platform and tools enable the local small and medium enterprises to manage businesses across multiple sales channels, such as Kilo’s app, Facebook and Zalo , and optimize inventory turnover to save costs and reduce risks over the long term. BukuWarung, a fintech for Indonesian MSMEs, scores $60M Series A led by Valar and Goodwater.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Description: “4pi Lab is developing a Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellation providing real-time, wildfire detection, monitoring and reporting. Description: “Helix Technologies – enables precision GPS antennas, providing 10cm level accuracy. ” Clutch Space Systems. Helix Technologies. Raised so far: N/A.

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