TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2023

British International Investment (BII), a DFI from the UK, told TechCrunch recently that it will deploy $500 million into startups by the end of 2026, and half of that amount has been earmarked for African tech companies. The organization has invested in eight African startups since 2020.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

Enable , a startup developing a cloud-based software tool for business-to-business rebate management, announced Wednesday a $45 million Series B funding round. Including the new round, the company has raised a total of $62 million, which includes a $13 million Series A raised in 2020. The company, which started in the U.K.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JULY 26, 2021

Many small businesses’ efforts to adopt cutting-edge technology were on a slow trickle until the pandemic hit in first quarter 2020. In fact, overall digital transformation (DX) investments are expected to reach $7.8 trillion between 2020 and 2024. A Deloitte study found 43% of U.S. Defend Against Cyber-attacks. Resources.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2023

Montreal-based Equisoft , an insurance and investment software developer, today announced that it raised $125 million in venture equity. It’s a large amount made more significant by the fact that the investment climate for insurtech vendors is growing increasingly challenging. billion in Q3 to $1.01 billion in Q4. $70

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Principal, Investments Team, OurCrowd. Microsoft acquired gaming studio Blizzard for $68 billion to provide the building blocks for its Metaverse play, while Apple CEO Tim Cook declared the Metaverse “very interesting” and told investors the company will “invest accordingly.” The post Are you ready to invest in the Metaverse?

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

MARCH 18, 2020

The largest early-stage investor in the region, Ben Franklin provides investment capital and business support services to emerging tech-entrepreneurs and small manufacturers located in central and northern Pennsylvania. WE INVEST IN INNOVATION. www.cnp.benfranklin.org. www.xactmetal.com.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

Signaling that investments in the supply chain sector remain robust, Pando , a startup developing fulfillment management technologies, today announced that it raised $30 million in a Series B round, bringing its total raised to $45 million. ” Pando makes a best effort to automate processes around the supply chain.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

VC has been invested over the past decade according to race, gender and educational background makes for grim reading — with all-ethnic teams and female entrepreneurs receiving just a fraction of available funding versus all-white teams and male founders. New research looking into how U.K. population.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

Seventy-eight percent of companies responding to a recent survey said that they plan to increase their investments in cybersecurity in the next 12 months. They claim it can help stop ransomware from causing damage while enabling companies to lower their overall recovery times. It’s an odd dichotomy.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

Some of its well-known investments include South African car subscription company, FlexClub; Kenyan on-demand logistics company, Sendy; and Nigerian fintech company, Lidya. However , in 2016, Savannah transitioned into venture capital investing, focusing on seed and Series A stages within $25,000 to $500,000 checks.

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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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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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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

Sunghyun Park , a former quant developer at Morgan Stanley in New York, launched artificial intelligence semiconductor startup Rebellions with four co-founders to enter this red-hot industry in 2020. billion invested across 170 deals, per PitchBook. . by the end of this year, Park continued. . SambaNova raises $676M at a $5.1B

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Garcia Braschi started the company in 2020 to cater to business owners, mainly company aggregators, leveraging acquisitions as a way to grow their companies. And, even though owners might not want to risk their own assets, the company requires them to invest 20% into the deal to have some skin in the game.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Titan , a startup that is building a retail investment management platform aimed at millennials, has closed on $12.5 Titan is hoping to build on the momentum it saw in 2020, during which it grew revenue, customers and assets under management by 600%, “with effectively no marketing budget, according to co-founder Joe Percoco.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

billion industry this year, startups in the e-commerce enablement software space are looking to carve out a niche in this huge market. Because raised $650,000 in angel investment last year, which enabled the company to grow to over 900 merchants and 150 paying customers. With global e-commerce sales poised to be a $5.5

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2021

Tata Digital, a subsidiary of Indian conglomerate Tata Sons, said on Monday it has signed a deal to invest up to $75 million in fitness startup CureFit. Monday’s investment is the salt-to-steel giant’s latest effort to expand its presence in the consumer tech space. The startup, which expanded to the U.S.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Klue , an AI-powered competitive enablement platform, has raised $62 million in Series B funding led by Tiger Global, with participation from Salesforce Ventures. Klue aims to enable product marketers and competitive intelligence teams to increase their coverage of competitors. Image Credits: Klue.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

Finmark, which launched in July 2020, helps companies build sophisticated financial models without having to use Excel. There was a reason to keep the target market in that range — the models were less sophisticated, enabling Finmark to build the first iteration of the product faster. The approach worked.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Ready to blast off and join thousands of attendees around the world at TC Sessions: Space 2020 on December 16-17? Join us for a pitch feedback session open to all startups exhibiting at TC Sessions: Space 2020 moderated by TechCrunch staff. government and its allies through its unique investment model. Want to save $50?

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Smart Hustle Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Most business leaders in the US believe that the outcome of the 2020 presidential election will affect their businesses. In addition to the impact of the 2020 presidential election, the study also delves into difficulties businesses are facing and the sentiment of entrepreneurs about their future prospects.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 26, 2021

If your team works remotely, then it’s vital to invest in software that can aid business communication. The post How Cloud Technology Enables Budding Entrepreneurs to Work Smarter appeared first on StartupNation. Previously published Feb.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Bold , a technology company working to enable financial access to electronic payments in Colombia, has raised $55 million in a Series B funding round led by Tiger Global Management. The startup launched its first product, a credit card reader, in the first quarter of 2020. Image Credits: Bold.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Founded in in 2020 by Tan and CTO Deepak Malhotra, Brick now has more than 50 paying clients and supports more than 13 million API calls and almost one million consumers a month. Other customers include investment firms, banks and some of Indonesia’s largest conglomerates, including Sinarmas Group and Astra Financial.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

NFX and existing backers Pear and Mexico-based Wollef (formely known as Jaguar Ventures) doubled down on their investment, which values Melonn “in the neighborhood” of $100 million post-money and brings the Bogota-based startup’s total raised to $24 million since its November 2020 inception.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

In January 2020, the company was in discussions with Whole Foods about launching a pilot of its meals in a few stores. In fact, not having much business enabled Deerman and Chan to go heads-down and revamp their business, including updating the menu and packaging and going through U.S. It turned out to be the right one.”.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

If space is your jam, you’re going to need financial help, and you’ll learn where and how to access it at TC Sessions Space 2020 (December 16-17). government and its allies through its unique investment model. government and its allies through its unique investment model.

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

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Nishant Verman and Prasanth Nair co-founded Bzaar in 2020 and consider their company to be like a “fair without borders,” Verman put it. The new funding will enable the company to invest in marketing to get in front of buyers and invest on its technology to advance its cataloging feature so that goods pass through customs seamlessly.

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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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FundersClub

OCTOBER 20, 2020

We invested at Seed. ShipBob , a tech-enabled 3PL, closed a $68M Series D led by Softbank. We invested at Seed, Series A, and Series B. We invested at Seed and Series A. We invested at Seed, Series A, and Series B. We invested at Seed and Series A. We invested at Seed. Series A led by Lightspeed.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

“There were a lot of cool businesses coming out of Asia and being efficient in real estate, which enables you to cut down and save money on rent and push customers to order ahead,” Menda told TechCrunch. They added some technology to improve the consumer ordering experience while also building in quality, speed and convenience.

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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. iMCI) is a private, for profit investment and fund management company operating as a wholly owned subsidiary of i2E, Inc. Champaign, Ill. million Series A financing led by i2E Management Company Inc.,

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

Secai Marche wants to streamline agricultural logistics, making fulfillment more cost-efficient and enabling food businesses to bundle products from different farmers into the same order. Why Alibaba rival Pinduoduo is investing in agritech. billion) in 2020 to 2 trillion JPY (about $18.5 billion JPY (about $8.5

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Impact Hub

APRIL 23, 2021

To open an Impact Hub, like starting any business, takes courage – even more so in 2020, the year our world changed. From England to Bangladesh via Switzerland, we spoke to some of our fearless founders who opened an Impact Hub in 2020. Impact Hub Dhaka, one of the Impact Hubs that opened in 2020. Let’s start with why.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Last November, we surveyed 13 of the top robotics-focused VCs to find out which areas of robotics are exciting them most going into 2020. Matt Murphy and Grace Ge, Menlo Ventures Which trends are you most excited about in construction robotics from an investing perspective? Is the market under-heated, overheated or just right?

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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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