TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The latest round was led by Angel Bridge along with other investors, including SG Incubate, Yamaguchi Capital, SMBC Venture Capital, Hiroshima Venture Capital, Iyogin Capital, Inventum Ventures and Optima Ventures. Since the pandemic outbreak in March 2020, SmartRyde has experienced a significant decrease.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic might have upended the global economy, but according to Meagan Crawford at Spacefund and Chris Moran with Lockheed Martin Ventures, it didn’t dampen investment in space startups. Crawford and Moran both agreed that interest and investment in space will increase as more startups have successful exits.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

For a very long time, startups in New Zealand had been crying out for capital,” said Imche Fourie, co-founder and CEO of Outset Ventures, a deep tech incubator in Auckland that invests in seed and pre-seed science and engineering companies. In 2020, VC investments totaled NZD $127.2 billion, from Q1 2020 to Q4 2021.

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Revolution

JULY 21, 2021

Welcoming Place Exchange to the Revolution Ventures Portfolio Today, Revolution Ventures is thrilled to announce an investment in Place Exchange , the leading platform for programmatic out-of-home (OOH) advertising. Ted and I have con-invested together for nearly two decades. So, what exactly is Out-of-Home Advertising?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The numbers are already showing potential: New PitchBook data found that in the first half of this year, a little more than $360 million was invested in the Orlando-Kissimmee metro area, way more than the $144 million invested in H1 last year. million in capital investment this year. Orlando: The Silicon Swamp?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

Resource aims to give local accelerators and incubators support in the form of training and community. The goal with Resource is to help ensure that incubators and accelerators focused on supporting people of color have the resources they need to flourish, she added. “We On the diversity front, 2020 may prove a tipping point.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

Matheus Tavares Dos Santos Contributor Share on Twitter Matheus is a hedge funds investment analyst for a major global investment manager and technology provider. Larger companies need to set up venture arms and embrace this style of investing, and that is exactly what happened last year.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

Global investment group Eurazeo invested $53 million in Pangaea Holdings for a minority investment in the Los Angeles e-commerce company rooted in creating premium men’s personal care brands. Harlem Capital’s Henri Pierre-Jacques invested in both Pangaea’s seed round in 2019 and Series A in 2020.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

The final quarter of 2020 and the full year brought an ocean of capital to bear on U.S. Plaid launches FinRise, an incubator for underrepresented fintech founders. TripActions raised a pallet of new capital despite having had a somewhat rough 2020 due to the pandemic. Microsoft invests in Cruise in new $2 billion round.

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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. growth from 2020 to 2021. Angel investments in 2022 equaled those from 2006 to 2011 combined. has nearly quadrupled in the same time period (investments from 2005 to 2015 and total investments through 2021 ).

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

million) in a seed funding round co-led by Silicon Solution Partners and SEEDS Capital, the investment arm of Enterprise Singapore. SpaceAge Labs is a deep tech startup that was incubated at NUS Enterprise @ Singapore Science Park. Register SpaceAge Labs , a Singapore-based IoT / AI solutions startup , has announced raising S$1.7

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Impact Hub

APRIL 1, 2022

In the context of the Better Incubation ’s Communities of Practice targeted at understanding migrants’ challenges to entrepreneurship and leveraging learnings from successful inclusive experiences, MiFriendly Cities was appointed as an inspiring best practice that supports vulnerable entrepreneurs in the European region.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

The country is quickly catching up to China on the tech investment front, with VC investments reaching a record of $15 billion in 2020, according to TechNation. cities made up a fifth of the top 20 European cities, with names such as Oxford, Dublin, Edinburgh and Cambridge rising to the fore in 2020. What’s their focus?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Nestcoin , a company founded last November that builds, operates, and invests in web3 applications, wants to be pivotal in this transition and has raised $6.45 billion between July 2020 and June 2021, per research by New-York based research firm Chainalysis. A part of the funds will also go into investing in web3 projects.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

WestCap — a growth equity firm founded by former Blackstone and Airbnb executive Laurence Tosi — led the investment, with participation from IVP, The Chernin Group, G9 Ventures and Able Partners. The new capital will go toward continued investment in the platform, its infrastructure and growing its user base.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

billion in funding that had gone to all founders up until that point in 2020. . Also, Digitalundivided’s ProjectDiane 2020 report found that Black and Latinx women founders received just $1.7 billion venture dollars invested between 2018 and 2019. ” On the diversity front, 2020 may prove a tipping point.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

Brett Queener, partner at Bonfire Ventures, said he helped incubate Aforza with Dinardo and Eales, something his firm doesn’t typically do, but saw a unique opportunity to get in on the ground floor. and in Europe, invest more in R&D and execute the Salesforce playbook,” he said. That is what this round is about.”.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2021

TechCrunch has covered Acceleprise several times over the years, including a look at its mid-2020 accelerator startup batch from its three accelerators. But why keep the door open to investing in other startups that it didn’t help incubate? It’s an actual seed fund, in other words. Why is it so much bigger?

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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

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

It seems that every internet company and their dog have at least one venture capital (VC) arm under their wing, with the likes of Google Ventures (now GV), Microsoft Ventures (now M12), Salesforce Ventures , Twilio Ventures , and Zoom Ventures all serving their corporate namesakes potential cash cows via hundreds of equity investments.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The product was originally incubated as part of the company’s internal R&D lab known as Area 120, where it’s been led by CEO Sargun Kaur. In addition to the spinout, Byteboard has taken on new investment from Cowboy Ventures and others, in the $10 million-$15 million range.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

2021 was a year like no other when it came to venture investment, and this year is poised to tread a similar path, writes 500 Global’s CEO and co-founder, Christine Tsai. In 2021, there were approximately 90 quantum investments that totaled $1.4 The berserk pace of fintech investing outshines the global VC boom.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

This latest round was led by Falcon Edge’s Alpha Wave Incubation, with participation from Matrix Partners India and LocalGlobe, and existing investors Accel and Strive.vc. The startup was founded in 2020 during covid lockdown with its founders keen to build an app that would enable people in India to watch live matches.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Levin joined Heartcore Capital in 2019 from Global Founders Capital, the billion-dollar VC arm of Rocket Internet, where he was responsible for investments in Canva, Heyjobs, Instarem, Anyfin and others. Their websites in 2020 show starkly different outcomes. billion market cap), Lazada ($1 billion exit to Alibaba), Jumia ($3.2

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

“The type of vibe you used to get from Y Combinator just doesn’t exist anymore,” Isenberg said, as these houses could recreate some of the scrappiness and like-mindedness that defined the incubator’s early days. Michael Houck , a former product manager at Airbnb and Uber, rented a home in Tulum, Mexico in May 2020.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2022

Postgres has grown in popularity over the years, with a survey from Timescale finding that over half of developers report using Postgres more in 2021 than they did in 2020. Research by Bain & Company, published in late 2020, found that the majority (65%) of CIOs at large organizations intend to use multiple cloud vendors.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The latest round was led by the cleverly named For Later , which is the investment arm of Boston-based retail incubator For Now. The team built its first version of the machine in 2017, and deployed the first vending machine at a location in 2020. SOS vending machine. Image Credits: SOS.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Today Raena announced it has raised a Series A of $9 million, co-led by Alpha Wave Incubation and Alpha JWC Ventures, with participation from AC Ventures and returning investors Beenext, Beenos and Strive. ” Why Alibaba rival Pinduoduo is investing in agritech. Its last funding announcement was a $1.82

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

Y Combinator, which helped incubate Pave and is now leading its most recent round through its later-stage capital vehicle, is one of the largest startup accelerators in the world. The reliance on YC could engender platform risk, considering how often the accelerator invests in competitors — often within the same batch.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

OMERS Ventures’ Principal Michelle Killoran has long been looking for a construction tech startup to invest in. billion in revenue in 2020. An Entrepreneur-in-Residence program that would serve as an incubator for founders to prepare them to launch their new software companies. . Founded in 1902, it notched a reported $14.4

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

Jacquelyn reports that Tribe Capital raised $25 million to launch a crypto incubator program. OnlySims : A first for OnlyFans, the platform invests in U.K. million seed investment. In 2020, the U.S. It’s a question worth asking, as Instacart takes a serious haircut. Also, a bunch of new funds announced again today.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

Ignite NI emerged as an important native incubator and accelerator. The tech investment scene was characterized as being strong in software and life sciences, but sometimes too conservative or risk-averse. If you’re raising investment north of £1 million, you would likely need to look outside the jurisdiction.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

In 2019, the startup based in Enugu, Nigeria, took part in the Google Launchpad Africa accelerator and the Binance Incubation Programme. From December 2020 to January 2021, Xend Finance executed a testnet with over 1,500 participants in 75 countries. It has since secured $2.2

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Tara Sabre Collier is an early-stage impact investor with more than 15 years of experience at the intersection of economic development, social entrepreneurship and impact investment. She is a Visiting Fellow of Oxford University where she teaches and writes about impact investing, diversity and equity.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 28, 2024

Startup302 launched in 2020 and is coordinated by DPP and partners from the local, regional and national innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystems with an aim to foster diverse perspectives, promote inclusive and equitable consideration and attract diverse communities of founders to the region. Morgan Chase & Co. ,

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Impact Hub

AUGUST 19, 2020

The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) in their ‘ The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2020 ’ report, sound the alarm loud and clear about the growing impact of what we eat. This is where the seed for the Feeding the City incubator was planted. Photo: Sutton Community Farm. Feeding the City.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2022

million on failed, delayed or scaled-back projects in 2020. In a related but transparently for-profit effort, Contentsquare launched an incubator to help fuel the growth of other startups in digital analytics. In some cases, it cost them dearly. According to Couchbase, enterprises wasted on average $4.12

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