Revolution

APRIL 6, 2021

By Revolution Ventures Managing Partner David Golden and VP Alex Shtarkman As voracious consumers of podcasting content, we could not be more excited to announce our investment in Indianapolis-based Casted , a company reinventing the traditional digital content marketing playbook. Stay tuned! [1]

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 13, 2023

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2021

Then COVID-19 arrived and scrambled the venture and startup scene, creating a risk-off environment during the end of Q1 and the start of Q2 2020. All-female teams have an especially tough time raising capital compared to all-male teams, underscoring the disparity.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 7, 2021

How did the pandemic disrupt your company, and what pivot did you make in response? We were in a growth year in 2020, with the most trips we had ever sold, excited about the new travelers we would meet. But in early March 2020, they were not yet common. The pandemic completely halted our industry. Our revenue stopped.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

APRIL 1, 2020

April 1, 2020. iMCI), recently led an $11.535 million go-to-market investment in Oklahoma City-based Linear Health Sciences. The investment comes on the heels of continued successes for the Orchid SRV, the company’s flagship medical device designed to reduce accidental IV catheter dislodgement in a novel way. 405) 813-2403.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Today, one of the more promising hopefuls building an investing service in the UK is announcing a significant growth round after seeing a surge of attention this year in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. Unlike the investors on its platform, this Series B is coming from a list of big-name strategic players and VCs.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

Competitors can leapfrog you on features or outspend you on customer acquisitions but communities are very hard to disrupt. they could invest in entrepreneurial communities and the best founders would then bring in new founders. And then came March 2020 and events globally were being cancelled. And it would be?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Splice’s financing follows an incredibly acquisitive 2020 for the company, which saw it acquiring music technology companies Audiaire and Superpowered. Steve Martocci at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2016. Meanwhile, Splice continues to invest in new technology to make producers’ lives easier. Image Credits: Getty Images.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

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. Annie Case, a partner at Kleiner Perkins, focuses on investments in consumer, healthcare and marketplaces. Early action equals bigger savings.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

In January 2020, the pair made the fund official, with Aboyeji as general partner and Enegesi as limited partner. Simultaneously , they announced that the fund had invested $1.5 The idea for a syndicate fund would come in the following months as the pandemic disrupted investment activities worldwide.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

But two months into 2020, the pandemic did an excellent job of lowering expectations as investment activities from local and international investors slowed down. Venture capital investment in Africa predicted to reach a record high this year. It wasn’t a bad year, though. African startups nearly raised $1.5 billion and $2.8

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

Africa’s fintech space has gained proper attention over the past few years in investments but it is not news that startups still battle with offering high-quality products. Today, the company is announcing that it has closed $10 million in Series A investment. Appzone is a fintech software provider.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

Prior to this round, the company brought in $250 million in Series D funding in May 2020. It also invested with Temasek in Impossible Foods, leading its Series F round last year. When we saw them double-down on their investment, it gave us confidence to invest in Apeel and an opportunity to do so,” Park said. and Europe.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 12, 2022

Even sophisticated investors like Warren Buffett ask questions about the value of active investing. . Alternative investment funds earn on average two-thirds of their compensation from management fees, not carry or performance fees. The HFRI Index returned 18.3% annually over the last twenty years. Green Bar: Bloomberg.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

The world’s 10 leading venture capital firms have, together, invested over $150 billion in technology startups. Unsurprisingly, they all too often ignore the broader societal and human rights implications of these investment decisions. Despite gains, gender diversity in VC funding struggled in 2020.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

Amenli, founded by Shady El Tohfa and Adham Nauman in 2020, is addressing an untapped $2 billion market, being the first licensed online insurance broker in the country. A wave of disruption of digitizing informal retail stores is sweeping across emerging markets this year, and Chari is joining in on the action. Chari (Morocco).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

Ricardo Sangion previously launched operations for Facebook and Pinterest in Latin America, before joining operator-led global investors TheVentureCity as partner for first-ticket investments in the region. billion in just the first half of 2021, almost double the amount in all of 2020, and mega-rounds are a growing trend.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

The round was led by TIP, an innovation fund within the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board that focuses on late-stage venture and growth equity investments in companies that deliver disruptive technology. The BotRide pilot concluded in January 2020.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Investments are made in high-growth companies with women leaders, following their successful completion of the firm’s Expert Sift process. Backstage Capital : founded by Arlan Hamilton, Managing Partner, the firm invests in the very best founders who identify as women, People of Color, or LGBTQ.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2022

This is quite an impressive figure for an offering only launched in November 2020 and goes to show how ubiquitous Pix has become in the country. “What was accomplished in just one year was a tremendous disruption benefiting millions of Brazilians by making their payments easier, faster and cheaper. ”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

in 2020 for LatAm as of August. Eight new unicorns have already been minted this year, nearly reaching 2020’s rate by midyear. Much has been written about Latin American fintechs, which last year drew 40% of the region’s venture capital investment. in 2021 from 2.3% Atlantico Digital Transformation Index 2021 LatAm.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Visa is actually an investor in MagicCube, having backed the company in August of 2020 and another time before that. Sony’s VC fund invested an undisclosed amount in MagicCube in late May 2020). .

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2021

Acquisitions contribute to the health of the startup ecosystem, as entrepreneurs who realize liquidity through the sale of their company regularly go on to found innovative new companies and often invest in other startups as angel investors or venture capitalists. Accordingly, 58% of startups expect to be acquired.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Since I began physically distancing from others to stem the spread of the coronavirus in March 2020, I’ve taken exactly 10 hailed rides. Extrapolating revenue from its Q3 2020 numbers, he attempted to find the company’s run rate to see if it’s overpriced — and how well it stacks up against rival Match. billion to $7.8

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

million seed round in April 2020. The company was founded in July 2019 by Ajay Gopal, whose prior professional experience included leading initial public offering and merger and acquisition transactions as a fintech investment banker for Credit Suisse in London. Tinvio’s last funding announcement was a $5.5 million seed round.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

. “Our default rate is about three times better than the industry average — which is the payday lending industry that we’re looking to disrupt,” Holoway said. That service, rolled out in April of last year, helped account for some of the explosive 2,000% growth that the company saw over the course of 2020.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 30, 2020

Traditionally, corporations that invest in innovation during a crisis outperform peers by up to 30% during recovery, a recent McKinsey report reveals. The main reason is tech disruption, or the introduction of a new technology to market that renders all previous products obsolete. . But wait, there’s more. About the Author.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Y Combinator remains the most strategic global accelerator for African startups and has invested in about 60 of them in the last six years. The accelerator also backed cross-border payment infrastructure company Fliqpay in 2020. ” Techstars is poised to multiply its investments in African startups per year to 24, Sharma added.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Supply chain disruptions — triggered by factors including demand surges, high transportation costs and pandemic-related lockdowns — are expected to continue well into next year, experts predict. “[The latest investment] is primarily going to be used for land-grab and expansion opportunities,” Komoni said.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The Atlanta-based startup, which debuted virtually at the TechCrunch Startup Battlefield, was officially founded in fall 2020. He left for business school at Harvard University intending to make a career switch to investment banking. The company launched at TechCrunch Disrupt 2011 and became a finalist in the competition.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Flip is Insight Partners’ first investment in Indonesia. . trillion in 2020, citing Bank Indonesia’s data. . Indonesian savings and investment app Pluang gets $20M in pre-Series B funding. The funding brings Flip’s total capital raised to $65million. .

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

GDP, so it’s no surprise that digital health is attracting record levels of investment. billion in all of 2020. Simon Wu, an investment director with Cathay Innovation, says he’s paying particularly close attention to these areas of convergence : Data and the transition to value-based care. This year, VCs have flowed $14.7

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Michigan is now the state with the highest growth in VC investment. InvestNext is a Detroit fintech startup that has created a platform to streamline how real estate investment firms raise and manage capital. In 2020, TIME listed Guardhat’s smart hat as one of the best inventions of the year. Next year is looking even better.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

equity trading in 2020 was driven by mom-and-pop investors — up from around 15% in the previous year. With such impressive returns to be made, many are deciding to set up a full-fledged investment business. Startups are changing, and any new investment manager will have to adapt to the shifting landscape.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The insurance market is still one of the industries least disrupted by technology on the continent. A couple of local and foreign firms invested in the round — co-lead investors P1 Ventures, GFC, and Anim Fund (Founders Fund scout fund), with Costanoa VC, Liquid2 Ventures, Cliff Angels and other angel investors participating.

B2B marketing

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Startups digitizing B2B e-commerce and retail in Africa continue to grab the headlines after the pandemic paved the way for widespread offline retail and commerce disruption. TradeDepot , a Nigeria- and U.S.-based We think they go together.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

was valued at $304 million in July 2020. Anecdotally, I am not sure that TechCrunch covered a single contact center startup in the last several years that hasn’t leaned on talking about AI innovation to disrupt how it all works. Observe.ai Gong.ai , Google , Talkdesk , and more are among those playing in this space.). Observe.ai

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