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

DECEMBER 31, 2020

I edited hundreds of stories in 2020, so choosing my favorites would be an exercise in futility. But, speaking as someone who’s worked at several startups, Extra Crunch stories contain actionable information you can use to build a company and/or look smart in meetings — and that’s worth something. trillion by 2024.

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500

JUNE 9, 2020

Supply chains have been disrupted, businesses have had to close or operate at limited capacity for months, and even founders have had to expand their fundraising timeframes as we saw in our 2020 Female Founders Data Report. The post Our Investment Framework Post-COVID-19 appeared first on 500 Startups.

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Revolution

JANUARY 19, 2021

Part I) Cities are Like Startups Cities are like startups. Many industries temporarily froze in March-April 2020, paralyzed by the uncertainty that an invisible enemy unleashed. But from the back half of 2020 into 2021, we are bearing witness to accelerated adoption and transformational change in industry after industry.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Founded in 2015, Freshly is a New York City-based startup that offers healthy meals delivered to your home in weekly orders, which can then be prepared in a few minutes in your microwave or oven. Nestlé leads $77M round for healthy meal startup Freshly. Nestlé USA just announced that it has acquired Freshly for $1.5

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Editor’s note: Get this free weekly recap of TechCrunch news that any startup can use by email every Saturday morning (7 a.m. Startup failure is easy to hold up as a type of martyrdom for progress, especially if the founders are starting out scrappy in the first place and trying to save the world. Let’s be honest: Most startups fail.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

In late 2020, a group of Stanford students banded together to create Stanford 2020, a venture fund solely to invest in their fellow classmates’ ventures. Given the school’s past in spinning out successful startup founders, it unsurprisingly had no trouble raising $1.5 During a downturn, the pitch seems more risky.

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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. One of the most common areas of attention respondents highlighted were startups focused on construction and manufacturing. Are there startups that you wish you would see in the industry but don’t?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

He adds that what differentiates Flux from other crypto remittance startups lies in the ease and speed of the platform’s transactions. In May 2020, Flux got accepted into Pioneer , an accelerator launched by ex-YC partner Daniel Gross. “We dropped out to focus on our startup and scaling it into a $1 billion company. .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

This week, I covered Zeta, a new startup working on joint finances for modern couples. Other startups have taken notice too, entering the world of multiplayer fintech, a term that categorizes socially focused and consumer-friendly financial services. Data on startups is dreadful. techcrunch.com. Sign up here.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

The company — which has some 17 thousand items in its online store — saw revenues rise 101% in FY 2020 to €300 million on 750,000 customers, and it is profitable. Gorillas, the on-demand grocery delivery startup taking Berlin by storm, has raised $44M Series A. raised $20 million. raised $20 million.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

We live in a world with a stereotypical representation of what a startup founder looks like, so it’s no wonder that a large portion of the population feels underrepresented. A Gender Gap Grader study shows that women represent 9 percent of developers in the startup ecosystem. Here are four startup myths that hold innovation back.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Now many Detroit startups are on the fast track to growth. Whether it’s new funding, expansions or IPOs, it’s been an eventful year in Detroit startups. Here are the top Detroit startups and tech companies to watch in 2022. Small Detroit startups to watch in 2022. Next year is looking even better. Apply now to Autobooks.

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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

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Register The South Korea Ministry of SMEs and Startups, in collaboration with the Korea Startup Forum, is set to host the highly anticipated “COMEUP 2023,” set to take place from November 8 to 10 at the renowned Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP) in Seoul.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 24, 2023

Register Startup Island TAIWAN, an initiative backed by Taiwan’s National Development Council, recently joined forces with domestic venture capitalists and listed companies to present a significant event showcasing the prowess of Taiwanese digital tech startups.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 31, 2023

Register Indonesian digital bank Superbank , supported by Grab, Singtel, and Emtek Group, is collaborating with Singapore’s Genesis Alternative Ventures to offer a financing package of $40 million for startups in Indonesia. This initiative will primarily focus on startups in the series B and series C funding stages.

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Source Link

JANUARY 29, 2022

They could be seizing upon an opportunity to make their business ownership dream a reality, exploring an idea that creates positive social change, or they may be acting out of necessity because of a change in circumstances such as the loss of a job.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

But most venture-backed startups are “still overwhelmingly white, male, Ivy-League-educated and based in Silicon Valley,” according to a study conducted by RateMyInvestor and Diversity VC. Venture funding does remain elusive , but here are some tricks for startup founders to hack the system. Funding for Black entrepreneurs in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Though some businesses may never be truly sustainable, a venture firm in Seoul argues that emerging climate-tech startups will help big manufacturers do better overall. The early-stage VC had already set up five social impact funds and backed 81 startups since 2020, after Han acquired the firm in December 2019.

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Dream It

MAY 18, 2020

The startup uses loss aversion to incentivize care adherence; built on the belief that, “if we give people an incentive to make healthy decisions today, we will be able to drastically reduce healthcare costs in the future.” link] — Wellth (@wellthapp) May 6, 2020 ?Market

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 2, 2021

My big question for 2021, and the one that is on every startup’s mind, is how will a cataclysmic event such as a global pandemic show up in post-pandemic innovation? And we won’t know the pandemic’s true impact on our psyches until the dust settles and we have an opportunity to reflect. TechCrunch wants to meet your startup.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Widespread layoffs during the pandemic contributed to an initial rise in female entrepreneurship in 2020, along with the need for flexibility. As an example, only 3 percent of venture capital funding went to all-female-founded startups in 2022. After all, you can only be what you can see.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

Community-building is advice I give to nearly every startup team with whom I work. Years ago I came across a young community builder named Derek Andersen, the founder of Startup Grind. I became an advocate for Derek and for Startup Grind, speaking several more times. this is classic community management. to do the interview.

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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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StartupNation

APRIL 5, 2021

A total of nearly $63,000 in grants were made during 2020. SoGal Black Founder Startup Grant. SoGal is looking to change that with the Black Founder Startup Grant. The program also includes mentorship, access to online resources and the opportunity to be considered for even larger grants. of venture capital funding ?

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 30, 2020

percent in 2020, recent U.S. Census data shows that 67,160 applications were filed to set up new companies in the last week of May 2020. Good entrepreneurs use the hidden opportunity of recession times to supplement their income or launch a new venture for a variety of reasons. There’s more innovation opportunity.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

The Future Africa Fund kicked off in 2015 when Iyinoluwa Aboyeji and Nadayar Enegesi , co-founders of US-based and African-focused talent company Andela, wrote checks to African startups as angel investors. In January 2020, the pair made the fund official, with Aboyeji as general partner and Enegesi as limited partner.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Spain is preparing to push forward with pro-startup legislation, having recently unveiled a big and bold transformation plan with the headline goal, by 2030, of turning the country into ‘Spain Entrepreneurial Nation’, as the slightly clumsy English translation has it. So that’s our job.” France and Germany.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

From varying sources, it is estimated up to $2 billion went into African tech startups in 2019. But two months into 2020, the pandemic did an excellent job of lowering expectations as investment activities from local and international investors slowed down. African startups nearly raised $1.5 It wasn’t a bad year, though.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2022

African startups raised between $4 billion to $5 billion in 2021, according to various reports. However, for all their effort and importance to the tech ecosystem, raising significant venture capital seemed elusive to startups in Africa’s digital media landscape that rely on grants and personal funding to scale.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2022

This is quite an impressive figure for an offering only launched in November 2020 and goes to show how ubiquitous Pix has become in the country. But now, VCs and founders are actually praising the Central Bank for its initiatives and the opportunities it has created. Opportunities abound.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Withstanding the onset of a global pandemic, VC investments have grown by roughly 15% globally to nearly $260 billion in 2020 compared to the previous year, with VC investments in the United States alone reaching a record high of roughly $130 billion in that same period. . Creating opportunities for women and minorities to grow.

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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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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 8, 2025

An analysis of their investment patterns since 2020 doesn’t just reveal the accelerator’s strategy—it provides a map to the entire startup ecosystem’s next chapter. Similarly manufacturing startups have seized on the tariff-induced reshoring opportunity.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

During TechCrunch’s last conversation with CEO Ham Serunjogi , when the company announced its Series C round, he called Chipper Cash “the most valuable private startup in Africa” without specifics on the actual value. shows the growth opportunity for Chipper Cash and the funding from FTX only makes it more glaring. .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

based savings and investing startup Acorns has acquired London-based GoHenry , a startup focused on providing money management and financial education services to 6- to18-year-olds in an all-equity deal, the two companies announced today. The combined valuation of the company, as well as further financial terms, were not disclosed.

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