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. Development Finance Corporation.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 20, 2021

More mainstream venture capital firms are jumping on the crypto bandwagon as investors increasingly consider bitcoin an investable asset, despite the recent massive price drops of a few major cryptocurrencies. ” The firm’s past investors Pantera Capital, Coinbase Ventures and Blockchain.com also participated in the new round.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

Raising venture capital is rarely an easy lift for startups, but 2022 is turning out to be a more challenging year than we’ve seen for some time. As venture capital continues its slowdown after an aggressive 2020 and record-breaking 2021 , it’s clear that early-stage founders looking for their first dollars will require a new approach.

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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.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Mage , developing an artificial intelligence tool for product developers to build and integrate AI into apps, brought in $6.3 million in seed funding led by Gradient Ventures. Founder Tommy Dang started the company at the end of 2020 after working together to build internal low-code tools at Airbnb.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Early-stage fintech-focused venture firm Better Tomorrow Ventures has raised $225 million for its second fund — triple the amount it raised for its debut fund that closed in September of 2020. BTV is a venture firm that boasts two successful fintech founders as its partners.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

MarketForce , the retail B2B and end-to-end distribution platform founded in Kenya, has raised $40 million in Series A funding for its merchant inventory financing and expansion across Africa. Existing investors that took part in the round include Reflect Ventures, Greenhouse Capital, Century Oak Capital and Remapped Ventures.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

million to help developers securely connect software services , Kyle reports. 13 VCs talk about the state of robotics investing in 2023 Image Credits: Bryce Durbin / TechCrunch A veritable baker’s dozen of VCs took part in our latest TC+ robotics investor survey, our first since February 2020. Finance, meet regulation.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

million seed round led by MaC Venture Capital. Serena Ventures, Omidyar Group’s Luminate Fund, Melo 7 Tech Partners and Cascador (Empowering Economic Growth Foundation) participated. This is compared to the 80% revenue growth between FY 2021 and FY 2020. Five years on, this startup, Stears , is announcing a $3.3

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HPA

MARCH 21, 2024

HPA is excited to announce our investment in Fuel Me ’s $18M Series A Round , which was co-led by Pritzker Group Venture Capital and Tribeca Venture Partners and includes co-investors Bessemer Venture Partners, Interplay Venture Capital, and FJ Labs.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

Crypto-savvy developers are in short supply these days. Blockchain startups and protocols are fighting to onboard and train more engineers — an even tougher undertaking in a world where developing on Ethereum vs. Solana vs. Polkadot vs. another blockchain can require completely different programming skill sets.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Q-CTRL , a Sydney-based startup that provides quantum control engineering solutions, announced today it has raised a $25 million Series B led by Airbus Ventures with participation from Ridgeline Partners, Main Sequence Ventures, Horizons Ventures, SquarePeg Capital, Sierra Ventures, DCVC, Sequoia Capital China and InQTel. .

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

Fetch Package , a last-mile package delivery company for apartment communities, has raised $50 million in a Series C round of funding and closed on a $10 million venture debt facility. million packages in 2020, and hit the 2.5 In addition to the equity raise, Signature Bank provided the company with a $10 million venture debt facility.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Despite the growth in awarded venture capital (VC) funds, a staggering disparity remains between the amount of total VC funds invested in entrepreneurs and the portion of those funds invested in ventures founded and/or led by women—particularly women of color. I am no stranger to this gender gap within the VC space.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

In conversation with reporter Taylor Hatmaker, Rubin said NFTs show that individuals can benefit from Web3 adoption, while decentralized finance and cryptocurrency trading are more commercialized forms. Which form of venture debt should your startup go for? Which form of venture debt should your startup go for?

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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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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 31, 2023

Register Indonesian digital bank Superbank , supported by Grab, Singtel, and Emtek Group, is collaborating with Singapore’s Genesis Alternative Ventures to offer a financing package of $40 million for startups in Indonesia. This initiative will primarily focus on startups in the series B and series C funding stages.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Cloud is the big buzzword these days, with people talking about why it’s a smart move for companies , and lots of venture-backed startups developing easy ways for companies to make the shift. Van Nest was previously a venture investor at Blumberg Capital. So far that strategy has worked in Artisanal Ventures’ favor.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

But an increasing number of startups are looking to tap opportunities in developing nations, where existing centralized financial systems have struggled to meet the needs of their users. Other backers include Coinbase Ventures, SV Angel, Blocktower, Bill Ackman and Heli-cap. The firm raised an $11 million funding round last June.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2022

There has been much talk as of late of a slowdown in venture funding. Ramp says its revenue grew “early 10x” in 2021 compared to 2020 while its cardholder base grew 7x and its user base grew 15x. Alex and I will be doing a deep dive on that report next week, but it’s a nice lead-in to what I’m examining today.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 1, 2021

The Covid Pandemic will end in the developed world in 2021. As I wrote yesterday , I think the trends that were accelerated in 2020 will not reverse in 2021, although the slope of the adoption curves will likely flatten a fair bit. But having a point of view is very helpful when operating in a world that is full of uncertainty.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MARCH 19, 2020

The entire decentralized finance stack (fintech 2.0) And we are seeing decentralized bandwidth, storage, and other critical infrastructure being developed in a number of new protocols. Innovation FTW Bethany Crystal — Mar 12, 2020 Keep Calm and Stay Human. But that’s not all that crypto has to offer.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Joining Lerer Hippeau in the investment are Siddhi Capital, Idea Farm Ventures, Simple Food Ventures, Animal Capital and American Pie executive Alan Mitzner. billion in 2020, according to a Bloomberg Intelligence report , and is poised to grow to $74 billion by 2027. Immi takes in $3.8M to cook up plant-based instant ramen.

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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

billion, a huge jump from its being just near unicorn territory in January 2020, when it raised a $175 million Series C. In 2020, Loft saw the number of listings on its site increase “10 to 15 times,” according to co-founder and co-CEO Mate Pencz. This latest financing brings Loft’s total funding raised to an impressive $700 million.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2022

Jamil Wyne is an advisor, investor and author focusing on entrepreneurship, technology and economic development in emerging markets. He has worked with the World Bank, IFC, UN, Clean Energy Venture Group, Schmidt Futures, Ashoka, and other organizations. VCs invested nearly $50 billion in climate-tech companies between 2020 and 2021.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MAY 7, 2020

Ten-Nine Technologies to onboard engineering and management talent, develop prototypes, and build production facilities to supply a leading battery manufacturer – major funding provided by i2E Management Company, Inc., May 7, 2020, 09:00 US Central Time. iMCI currently manages $81 million across five venture funds.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2022

million seed round from Index Ventures with CoinFund and FJ Labs also participating. Even as small businesses struggled to survive in 2020, the U.S. led by Serena Ventures to extend loans to MSMEs beyond Uganda. Earlier this year, Solvo raised a $3.5 We’re meeting a need. Fundings and M&A. Seen on TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

La Haus , which has developed an online real estate marketplace operating in Mexico and Colombia, has secured $100 million in additional funding, including $50 million in equity and $50 million in debt financing. Like the US, a two-tier venture capital market is emerging in Latin America.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

The new funding was led by Alkeon Capital, an American investment firm, and included participation from new investors like Korea Development Bank, and returning backers Altos Ventures and Greyhound Capital. Merchants can use Toss Payments to send and receive online payments and manage their business finances. million users.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The same day in February 2020 that Credit Karma planned to announce that it had been acquired by Intuit for more than $7 billion, the stock market tanked, spooked by news that a novel virus had the potential to start a pandemic. That deal eventually closed in December 2020, but in the intervening months, the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2023

Even as VC funding dries up across the world, development finance institutions (DFIs) are looking to African startups to deploy their dry powder. The organization has invested in eight African startups since 2020.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2021

Divibank , a financing platform offering LatAm businesses access to growth capital, has closed on a $3.6 million round of seed funding led by San Francisco-based Better Tomorrow Ventures (BTV). São Paulo-based Divibank was founded in March 2020, right as the COVID-pandemic was starting.

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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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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2021

million) in its latest funding round led by SoftBank Ventures Asia, the Seoul-based early-stage arm of the global investment behemoth. In December, SoftBank Ventures Asia led the financing round for another Chinese robotics startup called KeenOn, which focuses on delivery and service robots.

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TechCrunch

JULY 5, 2022

South Korean AI chip developer Rebellions has raised a $22.8 million (30 billion KRW) extension to its Series A financing from a strategic investor KT , one of the largest telecom companies in South Korea. . million since its inception in 2020. . The Pavilion Capital-backed AI chipmaker has raised about $72.8

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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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