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. Fuel Me is a first-of-its-kind platform that revolutionizes fuel procurement and management.

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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. million in private investment as supported in 2023 by the New Jersey Angel Investor Tax Credit Program (ATC). million in tax credits, based on a percentage of eligible investment.

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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. The Strategic Innovation Center (SIC) will serve as a hub for financial technology (fintech) and insurance technology (insuretech) startups.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2021

Prosus Ventures invests in industries around the world where innovation can significantly address big societal needs,” said Ashutosh Sharma, head of India Investments at Prosus Ventures, in a statement. — Harsh Upadhyay (@upadhyay_harsh1) October 13, 2020.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 2, 2020

Today, OurCrowd announces the launch of its Pandemic Innovation Fund. We plan to raise $100 million for investment in urgent technological solutions for the medical, business, educational and social needs triggered by global pandemics and other health emergencies. Other entirely new industries will appear.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 25, 2024

$20M program matches investors’ direct investment in product-based companies TRENTON, N.J. The NJEDA’s investment ranges from $100,000 up to $500,000, as it is matched on one-to-one basis with the company’s corresponding preferred equity round. TLA Innovation, Inc. was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Paramus.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

September 3, 2020 – PhotoniCare, Inc., with co-investment from OSF Ventures, Sony Innovation Fund, and Dreampact Ventures. million Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Champaign, Ill. million Series A financing led by i2E Management Company Inc.,

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 31, 2023

The share of AI-enabled web searches approaches 50% of all consumer search as consumer behavior patterns evolve, especially on mobile. This innovation reinvigorates very early-stage IPOs. AI & data continue to dominate the funding landscape as founders & investors seek novel applications of the technology.

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Dream It

AUGUST 6, 2020

The investment will be used for platform R&D to further enhance patient triage and symptom checking features as well as clinical decision support analysis – including intake collection, differential diagnostics and lab test interpretation – and to expand operations in Germany and the US, where Infermedica currently has one office.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

This innovative model allows SME owners to secure collateral-free business loans with just a few clicks on their mobile phones. In 2020, Yang Zuobo, a 40-year-old farmer from China’s Jiangxi Province, took out his mobile phone and marked the perimeters of his paddy field on a digital map.

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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. This rapid innovation has been fueled by an unprecedented amount of investment. billion in 2020 to $4.4

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

DECEMBER 27, 2020

Think about what that means for innovation and inspiration in the biotech industry going forward — not to mention what it means for the health and safety of all. 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 20, 2023

TechCrunch has followed the company’s journey from raising a seed round in 2020 to a $20 million Series A round in 2022. In the past year, the company has been working on embedded financial services, including a buyback program that enables users to sell unwanted devices for cash and device upgrade options.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Taneja, who has previously co-founded social payments platform Mypoolin, which was acquired by Cupertino-based financial services company Wibmo, and spent eight years in the fintech market, co-founded Decentro with Pratik Daukhane in 2020 — after personally facing all the problems he wants to address. million in seed and angel rounds.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 22, 2023

Cocoon Capital, an investment firm from the same country, led the round. This platform enables construction companies, operators, and contractors to identify the most effective construction plans by leveraging proprietary optimization algorithms.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 18, 2020

By: Sarah Dickey, ACA Membership Director Groundbreaking economist, author, investor, and entrepreneur is honored with the Angel Capital Association’s Hans Severiens Award While performing the research that culminated in her book, The Next Wave: Financing and Investing Strategies for Growth-Oriented Women Entrepreneurs , Alicia Robb, Ph.D.,

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

For i2E, this crazy year of 2020 marks the year of our first potential unicorn. i2E made a concept investment through the OCAST Technology Business Finance Program (which iThryv repaid) early in the company’s life, and then in June of 2009, we invested again from the Oklahoma Seed Capital Fund (OSCF). And so we are grateful.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

Savings and investing app Acorns has raised $300 million in a Series F funding round that values the company at nearly $2 billion. In the meantime, Acorns has raised money to continue to explore more acquisitions — it acquired two companies in the first half of last year — as well as to fund “growth and innovation,” Kerner said.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The Gobi SSII Fund targets early-stage (Seed, Series Pre-A and Series A) technology-enabled local startups operating within Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Cloud, e-commerce, FinTech, Internet of Things, and Halal-economy-focused segments, which have the capability to scale up and bring sizeable returns to the Malaysian economy.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2022

Construct Capital co-founders and general partners Dayna Grayson and Rachel Holt continue to dive into innovation that some investors may not think is so sexy, but actually runs behind the scenes so that our food gets to grocery stores every week and our packages arrive when they say they will.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

In other cases, one acquires or invests in the other. Global fintech investment last year was $105 billion,” Angelos said. As a result, a lot of innovation that is occurring in fintech is funded by venture dollars. As a result, a lot of innovation that is occurring in fintech is funded by venture dollars.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Insurance penetration in Africa is currently below 3% largely attributable to the slow adoption of innovation in the sector. The startup’s planned growth comes against the backdrop of a $10 million Series A equity funding in a round led by AfricInvest, through its Cathay Africinvest Innovation Fund (CAIF) , and Novastar Ventures.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2021

While companies initially adopted solutions for employee safety, rapid response and short-term air cover, they are now shifting their focus to long-term, strategic investments that empower growth and streamline operations.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The latest funding gives the company $160 million in total investments, Carlos Altschul, N!CK’S The innovation and ingredients, all rooted in the company’s R&D, are what differentiates the company from its competitors, he added. Between 2020 and 2021, N!CK’S CK’S CEO North America, told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

When we previously profiled MycoWorks in 2020 for its $45 million raise , we pointed to companies like Bolt Threads (mushrooms), Ananas Anam (pineapple fibers) and Desserto (cactus leather) doing similar things. The funding will enable the company to do this, Scullin said. To date, the company raised $187 million in total.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

million investment to help revolutionize healthcare efficiency worldwide. 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.

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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.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

Morgan, Gaingels, BMO Technology & Innovation Banking Group and Manulife also participated in the equity investment, along with platform partner and new backer Barclays. For example, he said, more business owners are working to become digitally enabled to meet local tax and invoice compliance systems. .

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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. Venture funds alone put more than $39.3 billion in food tech companies and $2.3

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

We’ve seen the market evolving over the last 10 years, and what started as an idea to bring a whiteboard into a browser has enabled us to understand the kind of value we can bring to organizations of all sizes,” he added. We aim to increase the pace of innovation, and that will be a big area of investment.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 2, 2023

The investment round was led by SBI Ven Capital, with participation from Kyobo Securities, NTUitive, Trihill Capital, East Ventures and PT Tap Applied Agri Services. Fresh Factory was founded in 2020 by Larry Ridwan, Widijastoro Nugroho and Andre Septiano. The cold chain market in Indonesia grew at a Compound Annual Growth Rate of 10.7%

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2022

VCs invested nearly $50 billion in climate-tech companies between 2020 and 2021. Indeed, a vast portion of the investments will be allocated toward infrastructure investments, as well as emergency funding, which will not yield venture-like returns. trillion to 4.8

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

per the 2020 report of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT). Sumutasu says its platform enables users to access a fair house valuation in an hour. . and the U.K., The company is partnered with more than 20 banks and remodeling companies. . Japan Finance Corporation led the debt financing.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 29, 2022

Register Asia Mobility Technologies Sdn Bhd (Asia Mobiliti), a mobility-as-a-service (MaaS) and Internet of Things (IoT) solutions provider, announced the closing of a pre-series A investment round of RM5 million ($1 million), valuing the company at close to RM50 million.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

The total investment includes pre-seeding capital raised in 2020. Vicente Zavarce, Yummy’s founder and CEO, launched the company in 2020 and is currently part of Y Combinator’s summer 2021 cohort. We also already have exclusivity with 60% of the food delivery marketplace, which has enabled us to build a moat around the market.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

We previously reported on Lunchbox back in October 2020 when the company announced $20 million Series A funding , led by Coatue. The new investment comes on the heels of some big news from the company, including bringing on former General Assembly COO Kieran Luke to serve in the same role at Lunchbox. Canada and the United Kingdom.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The transaction announced Tuesday is part of a complex deal that includes Uber investing $75 million into Joby and an expanded partnership between the two companies. The $75 million investment comes in addition to a previously undisclosed $50 million investment made as part of Joby’s Series C financing round in January 2020 , Uber said.

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