TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

As part of the retail giant’s self-proclaimed mission to better address underrepresentation and technology inequities, the company announced today that it is investing up to $10 million in Brown Venture Group. of total funding in 2020 , according to Crunchbase data. . Black and Latin communities were the recipients of just 2.6%

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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

JULY 13, 2022

Booz Allen Hamilton, the Virginia-based, defense-focused IT consulting firm, today announced the launch of a corporate venture capital arm, Booz Allen Ventures, that will initially put $100 million toward “strategic” defensive and offensive technologies. In the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Zurich tends to take the lion’s share, as the city’s embrace of startups has jump-started development, although Geneva and Lausanne are also hotspots. This has meant smaller exits, and thus less development for the ecosystem. These are the investors we interviewed: Jasmin Heimann, partner, Ringier Digital Ventures.

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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

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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APRIL 14, 2021

However, women – and especially minority women – often face institutional and systemic challenges including obtaining funding for their ventures, which can make the climb to the top slower and more difficult. As we foster the development of entrepreneurial ecosystems, it’s important to design them to level the playing field for women.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

That situation can lead to a huge waste of time for startups that want to sell to enterprise customers: a business development black hole. We conducted the survey at the tail end of Q3 2020. In other words, they’re driving a Dodge, and most tech entrepreneurs are driving a DeLorean equipped with a flux-capacitor.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

Sanlo , a San Francisco-based fintech startup that offers small to medium-sized game and app companies access to tools to manage their finances and capital to fuel their growth, has raised $10 million in Series A funding led by Konvoy. We’re also building a full stack of products, it’s not just about growth capital.

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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. Genesis recently closed an $80 million fund, heralding it as the region’s pioneering venture debt fund.

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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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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 24, 2023

Register Startup Island TAIWAN, an initiative backed by Taiwan’s National Development Council, recently joined forces with domestic venture capitalists and listed companies to present a significant event showcasing the prowess of Taiwanese digital tech startups.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Seedstars Africa Ventures , the pan-African early-stage fund for startups, has appointed Bruce Nsereko-Lule as its new general partner, to help it deploy more capital and provide the much-needed technical support for founders across the continent. Image Credits : Seedstars Africa Ventures.

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OCTOBER 26, 2021

Despite many small businesses closing their doors in 2020, the pandemic nevertheless brought an increase in entrepreneurial spirit. Between June and September 2020, more businesses were launched than in any other quarter in U.S. Some have been using this time to develop their business plans and launch their own companies.”.

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JUNE 14, 2023

AnswerGPT will set the bar for how support teams find answers for their customers,” said Stage 2 Capital Co-Founder, Jay Po. Aakrit and Anthony founded AptEdge in 2020 after a successful exit of AppDynamics to Cisco for $4B. AptEdge AI functionality quickly finds contextual information and recommends concise customer responses.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2021

It was easy to wonder what would become of Docker after it sold its enterprise business in 2019, but it regrouped last year as a cloud native container company focused on developers , and the new approach appears to be bearing fruit. Tribe Capital led the round with participation from existing investors Benchmark and Insight Partners.

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2021

Before Twilio had a market cap approaching $56 billion and more than 200,000 customers, the cloud-communications platform developed a secret sauce to fuel its growth: a developer-focused model that dispensed with traditional marketing rules. SaaS companies can grow to $20M+ ARR by selling exclusively to developers.

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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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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 11, 2023

Register AHG Lab , an independent venture builder based in the Philippines, has successfully raised $4 million in a pre-Series A funding round to expand its portfolio of ventures and programs. million in its seed round in 2021, with support from Philippine’s venture capital investor Foxmont Capital Partners.

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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

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.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

From a diversity standpoint, the venture capital financing landscape remains incredibly imbalanced. of total venture capital invested, according to Crunchbase. The current system capitalizes women and minority founders at 80% less than businesses overall. One report found that minority tech startups in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Linda Greub Contributor Share on Twitter Linda Greub is the co-founder and managing partner of Avestria Ventures. When most people think of venture capitalists, they often think of investors, the people writing checks to fund startups. But that image is only one part of venture capital.

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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

JUNE 8, 2022

SCiFi Foods , formerly Artemys Foods, is combining plant-based and cultivated meat technology to create its first burger product, and its mission just got a big venture capital boost. 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.

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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. It’s committed to three so far.

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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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Hunter Walk

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Originally backed by venture capital, in 2021 Daniel worked with TPG , a large private equity firm, to make them the majority investor. There’s a ton of writing out there about getting *on* the venture curve, but not a lot about getting *off,* so Daniel’s advice below is especially important.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Denis Kalinin works at venture fund Runa Capital as Asia Business development manager, devoted to connecting the Western and Asian VC worlds and bringing long-term value to both. 1 — Comparison of investment from different countries in 2020, $bn. Denis Kalinin. Contributor. Share on Twitter. eight years in the U.K.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

New Zealand, a country of just under 5 million people, has historically flown under the radar of venture capitalism. That’s changed so much the last couple of years partly because the government’s been putting more initiatives into attracting international capital. In 2020, VC investments totaled NZD $127.2

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

In late 2020, a group of Stanford students banded together to create Stanford 2020, a venture fund solely to invest in their fellow classmates’ ventures. Now, two years later, the leader of that club, Steph Mui, is trying to replicate that playbook in the form of a venture-backed startup, and solo entrepreneurship.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Amit Anand is a founding partner of Jungle Ventures and an early pioneer and leader in the development of Southeast Asia’s venture capital industry. In 2020, startups in the region raised over $8.2 In June 2020, Gojek closed a $3 billion Series F round from Google, Facebook, Tencent and Visa. Amit Anand.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

Many of those companies are Nigerian, and when we look at venture capital data, we can see why. The country had an incredible 2021 as the most active venture capital scene in Africa, collecting more than $1.8 YC W22 batch nets 24 African startups, including 18 from Nigeria.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The latest round was led by Angel Bridge along with other investors, including SG Incubate, Yamaguchi Capital, SMBC Venture Capital, Hiroshima Venture Capital, Iyogin Capital, Inventum Ventures and Optima Ventures. since December 2020, as per its statement.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 2, 2022

Register Evo , a direct-to-consumer (DTC) startup based in Singapore, has raised $600,000 in its seed funding round led by East Ventures and participated by notable angel investors Aaron Tan from Carro, Joel Leong from ShopBack, Mohandass from Spenmo, and Jonathan Tan from Prism+.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

William Kilmer is managing partner with C5 Capital , a venture capital fund investing in the secure data ecosystem. Just when we thought things couldn’t get worse in 2020, we received the news on the SolarWinds hack and its impact on more than 18,000 businesses and potentially dozens of U.S. William Kilmer. Contributor.

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APRIL 27, 2021

Maryam Haque is the executive director of Venture Forward. Bobby Franklin is the president and CEO of the National Venture Capital Association and previously served as an executive vice president for the CTIA – The Wireless Association. A new foreign investment bill will impact venture capital and the US startup ecosystem.

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