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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

million seed round led by Flourish Ventures and Antler. 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. Southeast Asian open finance startup Brankas gets $20M Series B led by Insignia Ventures.

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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

MARCH 9, 2022

Austin’s venture capital scene has been hot for years now, but a pair of local investment firms just closed on new funds aimed at injecting more capital into startups in Austin and elsewhere. Axios reported that this was 211% over the number of dollars invested in 2020. ?.

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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? Fast Money — SMC Space Ventures, AFWERX and Space Force Accelerators. Join us for a pitch feedback session open to all startups exhibiting at TC Sessions: Space 2020 moderated by TechCrunch staff. Want to save $50?

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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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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.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

As the pandemic took hold in 2020, companies accelerated their move to cloud services. It did not share an exact valuation, only saying that it exceeded $1 billion, which you would expect on such a hefty investment. As for Sutter Hill, investor Mike Speiser sees Lacework as one of his firm’s critical investments.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

LiveOak Venture Partners raised its largest fund to date, $210 million for Fund III, which will enable the Austin-based, early-stage venture capital firm to double down on Texas founders. We finished with a diverse base of investors that included 90% from institutional investors and over 40% of investment from new investors.”.

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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). Major Ryan Pennington, Deputy, Space Force Ventures, SMC Space Ventures. government and its allies through its unique investment model. Come learn how to join us.

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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

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

The brothers had dreams of finding their own financial freedom through investing in real estate, but didn’t have enough individual capital to go into business alone. “On It also offers tools including a business ledger for groups to track their investment performance. .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

Jakarta-based investment app Pluang announced that it has raised $55 million led by Accel. Existing investors Square Peg, Go-Ventures and Openspace Ventures also contributed. . Investments can start as low as IDR 10,000 (or less than $1 USD) in gold, indexes, mutual funds and crypto assets.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

-based company announced Monday that it raised $4 million in seed funding, led by Canaan Partners, and including angel investors Flipkart co-founder Binny Bansal, PhonePe founders Sameer Nigam and Rahul Chari, Addition founder Lee Fixel and Helion Ventures co-founder Ashish Gupta.

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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 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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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

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. Here the report found that 42.72% of U.K.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

Savannah Fund , a pan-African venture capital firm, today announced a $25 million fund as it looks to back more early-stage startups on the continent. Some of its well-known investments include South African car subscription company, FlexClub; Kenyan on-demand logistics company, Sendy; and Nigerian fintech company, Lidya.

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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

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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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

Global venture capital firms are pouring money into the semiconductor startups developing the next generation of chips. 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.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

The round was led by Gojek’s investment arm Go Ventures, with participation from returning investors AC Ventures and East Ventures. Launched in March 2020 in Jarkata, KitaBeli then entered the cities of Solo and Malang. We don’t run the risk of losing our customers if an agent decides to stop working with us.”

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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

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

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. The company raised $6.5

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2022

” Among the roles it is hiring for are Head of Data Science / Credit, Fraud, & Pricing and Partner Marketing & Enablement. From Romain Dillet: Meet Solvo , a new mobile app that wants to make it easier to invest in cryptocurrencies and cryptocurrency-related financial products. Earlier this year, Solvo raised a $3.5

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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 A bevy of other investors put money in the round, including Sound Ventures (actor Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary’s VC firm), Scribble VC, Y Combinator, South Park Commons, Instagram founder Mike Krieger, Lee Fixel and others. .

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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 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

MAY 5, 2022

Rali_cap , an early-stage venture capital firm focused on emerging markets fintech, has launched a $30 million fund. Last month, the firm, formerly known as Rally Cap Ventures, reached its first close of $20 million (its initial target) before increasing the fund size, signaling a strong LP appetite.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

Rhys Spence is head of research at Brighteye Ventures, a European edtech-focused fund, where he works with portfolio companies to help address priorities, with a focus on internationalization and HR. 2020 will be remembered in education circles for the tumult it caused at schools, universities and workplaces. Rhys Spence. Contributor.

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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

AUGUST 15, 2023

Fueled by a zero-interest landscape in 2020, it has surged, giving rise to an ever-growing array of funds. That said, a paradigm shift of the broader venture landscape could be on the horizon. growth from 2020 to 2021. Angel investments in 2022 equaled those from 2006 to 2011 combined. Crowdfunding witnessed a 2.4x

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2023

In the Summer of 2020, a mint green coffee cart appeared in Williamsburg’s McCarren park near the Greenpoint entrance — directly across the street from a Starbucks. A few months later, when I saw that the cart’s parent company, Blank Street, had raised venture funding, I didn’t get it. This looked like both.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 17, 2024

The two entities will oversee NJ FAST’s accelerator program with an opportunity to make equity investments into select participating companies. Equity investments of up to $1 million will be made in at least 15 percent of participating companies. Pending approval by its Board, the NJEDA intends to invest up to $17.5

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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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