American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 25, 2024

Launches Fellowship Grant Opportunity for Early Career Entrepreneurs Altitude Lab today announced that its incubating startups raised over $120M in early-stage funding since commencing operations in 2020. In 2021 we announced our investor coalition, which targeted $50M in funding for our startups.

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

And while many venture capitalists rely on pattern recognition as a tried and true investment tactic that can and has delivered returns, it is also a model that perpetuates a history of opportunity gatekeeping.

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Dream It

APRIL 23, 2019

For example, voice-powered ecommerce reached approximately $2 billion in 2017 and Gartner predicts that about 30% of web browsing will happen via voice (and without a screen) by 2020. Dozens of healthcare-focused voice tech startups have popped up in the last few years which are backed by top tier venture funds.

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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. the free YC Startup School courses). growth from 2020 to 2021. Finally, the talent pool for tech startups has broadened immensely. That said, a paradigm shift of the broader venture landscape could be on the horizon.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

” During the height of the lockdowns in South Africa, sentiment across SMEs owners on a scale of -100 to 100 dropped to an all-time low of -12 in Q2 2020, according to Yoco’s small business pulse monitor. This presents a huge opportunity, and it is our mission to support that transition,” he added.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Ninja Van , a Singapore-based logistics startup, has closed a $578 million Series E round to support its operations infrastructure and technology systems growth. Ninja Van will use the proceeds to strengthen its operations including micro supply chain solutions to optimize e-commerce opportunities in Southeast Asia.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The demand for SaaS products that enables online transactions has dramatically increased during Covid-19, according to CEO of Upflowy Guillaume Ang. To help entrepreneurs and marketers, especially startups, boost conversion rates and user flows, Ang and two other founders, Matthew Browne and Alexandre Girard , founded Upflowy in 2020.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

When much of the shopping shifted online during the global pandemic, startups developing software and other products to aid the transition began to garner attention from venture capital firms. The CEO is Guru Hariharan, who you might remember from retail analytics company Boomerang Commerce , a Startup Battlefield finalist in 2014.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2021

South Korea has passed the first law in the world dedicated to digital lending, ‘The Marketplace Lending Act’, in August 2020 to regulate marketplace lenders, protecting P2P consumers. The number of marketplace lenders in Korea has fallen from 237 to 102, between August 2020 and May 2021, as per its annual report in 2020.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Ascend Money , the Thailand-based fintech startup behind TrueMoney, an e-wallet service, announced today it has raised a $150 million Series C round at a valuation of $1.5 Its total payment volume stood at $14 billion in 2020 across the six countries in Southeast Asia, representing 84% growth between 2019 and 2020, according to its statement.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

When Zoom announced Zapps last month — the name has since been wisely changed to Zoom Apps — VC Twitter immediately began speculating that Zoom could make the leap from successful video conferencing service to becoming a launching pad for startup innovation. — Josh Constine -SignalFire (@JoshConstine) October 14, 2020.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2021

Once overlooked, agritech startups are beginning to have a moment in India. Prosus Ventures, formerly known as Naspers Ventures, led Patna and Gurgaon-based startup’s Series C financing round. Agritech startup DeHaat raises $12M to reach more farmers in India. How the startup is tackling these challenges is equally impressive.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

Twid , an Indian startup operating a rewards based payment platform, has raised $12 million to scale its network of merchants and issuers and expand its solution in the South Asian market. The Bengaluru-based startup’s partners include online grocer JioMart, pharmacy NetMeds, ticketing platform Yatra and music streamer Gaana.

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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. More than 380 funding deals were made into Austin startups in 2021 , amounting to $4.9

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Veho , a startup applying technology to next-day package delivery, aims to solve the last mile of delivery — how packages get from fulfillment centers to the customer’s door. We have an opportunity in the midst of the biggest e-commerce revolution, and after growing fast through the pandemic, that is not going away,” he added.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

OlaClick, a young startup that is helping these restaurants sell online and collect money digitally, announced on Thursday it has received backing from scores of investors, including Gradient, Meta and Delivery Hero. Rico co-founded OlaClick with three other entrepreneurs in 2020, all of whom are European immigrants (and pictured above).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2021

One such company tackling this challenge in the eastern part of Africa is Ugandan fintech startup Numida. Mina Shahid , Catherine Denis and Ben Best founded Numida in 2017 and capitalized on the opportunity to build one of East Africa’s first digital fintechs targeting semi-formal micro and small businesses. million seed round.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Founder and CEO Zach Oschin started the Colombia-based social commerce company in 2018 (and participated in our Latin American Startup Battlefield that year) to move the traditional independent sales process online. Social commerce startup Elenas raises $6M and plans for international expansion.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Y Combinator’s latest batch — W22 — features 414 startups from 42 countries, representing more than 80 sectors. India, with 32 startups, is the second-largest demographic represented in the new batch, while Nigeria is third, having delivered 18 startups. As usual, the U.S. has the most representation. beU delivery.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 17, 2024

The Strategic Innovation Center (SIC) will serve as a hub for financial technology (fintech) and insurance technology (insuretech) startups. The two entities will oversee NJ FAST’s accelerator program with an opportunity to make equity investments into select participating companies.

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StartupNation

MAY 11, 2021

Businesses that were far along on their digital transformation — those who had already moved to a more agile organization and who had a deep understanding of their customers — were in a better position to deal with the challenges the pandemic introduced and to seize market opportunities it presented. Opportunity.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

The New York-based company was founded in 2020 by Geisenheimer and Diana Hsieh, who overlapped at TimescaleDB, and John Pena, who Geisenheimer met at Facet. Startups have never had it so good. In their previous roles, they saw a need to connect product data to sales tools. With Correlated, they can close more deals efficiently.”.

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

Smart , a London-based startup that helps employers and their employees manage and monitor their pensions, said that it has closed $95 million in Series E funding. This investment is strong recognition of Smart’s success and journey to date, and highlights the immense opportunity that lies ahead. It also claims to have £5.5

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StartupNation

MARCH 10, 2021

So it’s no wonder why Ann Arbor tech companies and startups are thriving. At the Diversity and Inclusion Panel Discussion in June 2020, Kendra Mitchell, Duo’s Chief of Staff said , “It’s about bringing everyone to the table in a way that respects their beliefs and values.”. In 2020, they raised $5.5 They raised $15.5

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Ann Arbor continues to be one of the top growing tech ecosystems around the country with some of the best startups to watch. This was a year like no other for Ann Arbor startups, so we’ve spent lots of time keeping up with all the news from Ann Arbor tech companies. Small Ann Arbor startups to watch in 2022. DocNetwork.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 31, 2022

Newcomers custodying assets also have an opportunity to access private companies who may have missed out on initial release rounds. funding round which saw the development of a regional-first digital asset payment rail, enabling companies to accept card payments via digital assets seamlessly through a simple API-integratable widget.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Private equity firm Vista Equity Partners announced today that it is taking a majority stake in Drift , a company which aims to be the Amazon of businesses, with a “growth investment” that propels the venture-backed startup to unicorn status. The startup says it is out to ”reimagine the B2B buying experience,” according to Cancel.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

That’s according to Reveal CEO Simon Bouchez, who alongside Gautier Machelon, Perrine El Khoury, and Alex Sadones aims to build a platform that allows B2B companies to more easily identify sales opportunities with their partners. The capital brings the startup’s total raised to about $54 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. It’s there that Yummy has an opportunity to connect multiple vertices into a super app with little to no competition.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 6, 2020

You’ve spent the majority of 2020 being told that you must adapt to the pandemic’s new economic landscape in order to stay afloat. At Talview, our company vision is to enable everyone to build the best career for themselves, no matter where they’re located. At Talview, we did exactly that.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Two at the forefront are David Friend and Jeff Flowers, who co-founded Wasabi, a cloud startup offering services competitive with Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3). But with Wasabi’s revenue doubling from 2020 to 2021, the startup’s evidently doing something right. That remains to be seen.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2022

The capital will enable us to bring in the best talent, make strategic acquisitions and expand into Europe, which is important to us.”. Meanwhile, funds and accounts managed by BlackRock led the Series E investment, with new investors Schonfeld, Invus Opportunities, CreditEase and H.I.G.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

Mayer founded Castor in 2020 with Xavier de Boisredon, a former data scientist at Ubisoft. But Qonto and Turckheim, sensing a larger opportunity, decided to quit their jobs and join Boisredon and Mayer in co-launching Castor. ” Castor competes with startups like Alation , Data.World , and Collibra in the data catalog space.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2023

The San Francisco-based venture firm saw an increase in digital infrastructure, remote learning and society’s ever fickle attention as an opportunity — and unsurprisingly, those same tailwinds then helped Reach close its largest fund to date. Chu tells TechCrunch that they are currently in due diligence with four AI startups. “We’re

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

The company attended pitch competition after pitch competition, raising about a total of $100,000, until one day in the summer of 2020 an analyst for musician Jay-Z’s Marcy Ventures happened to be in the audience. Altro went on to participate in Y Combinator’s Summer 2020 batch. Image Credits: Altro. By the time it raised its $2.5

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

Proper’s tech-enabled service is designed to execute those specific real estate accounting-related processes and apply automation to those that are repetitive. Rojas says accounting automation in real estate has been neglected with few startups stepping up to solve it like Proper is. Proper dashboard.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 16, 2024

January 12, 2024 ) – Applications for Delaware’s fourth annual Startup302 funding competition are being accepted now through January 29 from technology-enabled startups with high-growth potential and at least one founding team member from an underrepresented group. WILMINGTON, Del. Thanks to sponsors, there is no charge to enter.

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