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

DECEMBER 9, 2021

While most of the market is focused on building and selling 5G infrastructure, an important piece that is overlooked is the application development on 5G networks, according to Vivek Ladsariya, general partner at SineWave Ventures. That’s what makes him excited to support a company like Shabodi.

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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 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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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 16, 2023

With AI bursting all around us and the James Webb Space Telescope sending back stunning images from the universe, new and bold ventures continue to emerge. They assembled a team of top industry talent to develop and build cost-effective one-hour global transport. Both are very important and necessary to achieve one-hour global travel.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

According to a 2020 Statista survey , 41% of executives in the automotive and transportation industry alone said their company lost $50 to $100 million due to supply chain issues, a figure which has likely climbed higher since. Companies are experiencing the brunt of the impact, with 36% of small businesses responding to a 2021 U.S.

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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

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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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

JANUARY 13, 2021

million seed round led by Zeev Ventures with participation from Y Combinator and 20 individual tech industry investors. Openbase was a member of the YC 2020 cohort. As developers build modern software, they often use open source components to help build the application, and Openbase helps them find the best one for their purposes.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Indeed, the fully remote company began working on its artificial intelligence–powered predictive SaaS tool in 2020 and is operating in a sector that recently saw other inventory-focused companies attract venture capital, including Zippedi and Inventa. 1984 Ventures, which led Syrup Tech’s pre-seed round last year, invested as well.

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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

MARCH 9, 2022

The business of building for and selling to developers is big. Startups around the world are busy creating new developer-focused — or at least developer- forward — solutions at a rapid clip. The “developer tools” tag on TechCrunch has been busy this year. ai IPO from late 2020.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2021

Existing investors Accel, CRV, Geodesic Capital, Greenoaks Capital and GV also participated in this round, together with new investors 8VC, Flex Capital, GGV, Latacora, Salesforce Ventures and Tiger Global. “For us, it all starts with a front-end developer,” Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch told me. Image Credits: Vercel.

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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

JUNE 30, 2022

But if you ask the co-founders of Modular , a startup emerging from stealth today, the software used to develop it is “monolithic,” fractured into silos piled with layers of complexity. Image Credits: Modular.

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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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Ecosystem Builder Hub

APRIL 2, 2021

“Communities seeking to grow their economy need to understand the impact entrepreneurship and small business play in economic growth.” — Grow Your Own: Entrepreneurship-based Economic Development for Local Communities, Dell Gines, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. Jess suggests starting with local economic development offices.

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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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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 11, 2022

Register Indonesian-based e-commerce logistic solution business Biteship , which focuses on enabling SMEs and enterprises has raised an undisclosed sum of initial funding from East Ventures and Beenext, according to a BusinessNewsAsia report. billion in 2020.

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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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Impact Hub

APRIL 8, 2020

This is due to two elements: the Bootcamp nature of the program and the large sum of grant money involved; and 2020 marks its 10 anniversary. This venture started in Impact Hub Monterrey with the intention of helping the hearing impairment community and grew from there. More than 1,400 ventures entered the contest!

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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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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

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

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

JANUARY 18, 2021

Prosus Ventures, formerly known as Naspers Ventures, led Patna and Gurgaon-based startup’s Series C financing round. The 10-year-old startup has also developed a database of crop tests and uses artificial intelligence to provide farmers with free-of-cost personalized advisory on what they should sow in a season.

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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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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

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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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

The startup was founded in 2020 by CEO Olya Caliujnaia and CTO William Liu, who both have backgrounds in fintech and gaming. Caliujnaia told TechCrunch in an interview that one of the ways that Sanlo differs from other fintech companies is its focus on gaming and app developers. Sanlo then provide companies with access to capital.

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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. funds and 12.5

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2021

The round was led by MassMutual Ventures, with participation from Endiya Partners and angel investors including Avaana Capital founder Anjali Bansal and Udaan co-founder Sujeet Kumar. East Ventures co-founder and managing partner Willson Cuaca will join Qapita’s board. Deciding how much equity to give your key employees.

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StartupNation

JUNE 15, 2021

In April 2020, just as the pandemic was beginning to wreak havoc on markets, commerce, communities and the general public, I started a business along with a group of friends. That’s not as crazy as it sounds because entrepreneurs started businesses in record numbers in 2020: there were over 4 million businesses formed last year in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 19, 2021

The round was co-led by African early-stage VC firm Future Africa and Japanese but Africa-focused VC Kepple Africa Ventures. Other investors include Acuity Ventures, Aidi Ventures, Assembly Capital, Kairos Angels, Nama Ventures, RallyCap Ventures, and Remapped Ventures. That’s not all. Playing in a $3.6

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 20, 2022

Register Nepalese alternative investment firm Team Ventures has invested about $250,000 in artificial intelligence (AI)-based healthtech startup WISEYAK. billion in 2020 and is estimated to reach $194.14 says Tenzin Sonam Gonsar, the CEO of Team Ventures. AI in the healthcare market was valued at $8.23

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

framework for front-end developers, announced a $102 million Series B funding round that took its valuation to $1.1 having grown to 2 million weekly npm installs now and traffic on its edge network growing 700% since April 2020. The team is also looking at improving the overall development workflow for developers on its platform.

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