TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Africa’s largest innovation hub Co-Creation Hub (CcHUB), is launching a $15 million accelerator program, dubbed The Edtech Fellowship Program, to back and support 72 startups across Nigeria and Kenya over the next three years, TechCrunch has learned. One, the edtech space is highly regulated, more than the casual tech observer might think.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

raised approximately $7 billion in 2021 , up 59% year over year. Female-founded venture firms have shown strong support for female-founded startups accounting for 28% of their deal counts from 2016 to October 2021 in startups with at least one female founder. billion of total venture capital. In contrast, male-only founded U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

Catalyst Fund , a global accelerator managed by BFA Global , announced the 8th cohort for its Inclusive Fintech Program today. The accelerator, backed by the JP Morgan Chase and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, runs the flagship program annually. In 2020, all five countries had representatives in the accelerator.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 7, 2023

This round of funding has gained support from Contents Technologies, Transcend Capital Partners, and existing backers Investible and eWTP Tech Innovation Fund. This infusion of capital takes the total funds raised by the startup to $4.8 million, as detailed in the official announcement.

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

We named this summit after a report we wrote with Pitchbook at the end of 2021 to explore the impact of the pandemic on investment patterns. The takeaways: It’s a hard time to raise and deploy capital, but what you can manage in today’s market will be advantageous for years to come. marking its highest level since 2017.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Check out the top Detroit startups and tech companies to watch in 2021. Top Detroit Startups and Tech Companies 2021. Plus, this isn’t the co-founders’ first venture—these guys know how to build successful businesses, and we’re excited to see what they do in 2021. And yes, they’re hiring! Plain Sight. Airspace Link.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Skit announced today it has closed $23 million Series B round to accelerate its growth in domestic and global markets including the US and South East Asia and enhance its voice automation platform. The company said it has quadrupled its amount of revenue and numbers of customers in 2020-2021 since its previous fundraising, $5.1

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Inferencing chips accelerate the AI inferencing process, which is where AI systems generate outputs (e.g., NeuReality’s NR1, an FPGA -based SKU within the NAPU family, is a network-attached “server on a chip” with an embedded AI inferencing accelerator along with networking and virtualization capabilities.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Blair Silverberg is co-founder and CEO of Hum Capital , a financial services company using technology to accelerate the fundraising process. Given new economic headwinds, it’s time for the startup community to redefine what “founder-friendly” capital means and balance both the source and cost of that capital.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

Bearish investors who might expect the company to post negative growth in Q3 2021 won’t pay any price for DoorDash shares, but in between the two camps is a mess of vaccine timings, shifts in consumer behavior and macroeconomic questions that could determine how many American families can afford delivery. Otherwise the price makes no sense.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Fintechs could see $100 billion of liquidity in 2021. Fintech tailwinds, strengthened by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, only accelerated in 2021. Despite a roughly 30% draw-down in the last months of 2021, the Matrix Fintech Index continued to beat the broader market as well as incumbent financial service companies.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2022

After incubating a startup — Axelera AI — to commercialize their chip technology within the blockchain company Bitfury Group, Del Maffeo and team secured capital from VCs including Imec’s venture arm, Imex.xpand. Axelera’s test chip for accelerating AI and machine learning workloads. Image Credits: Axelera.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 21, 2025

F lourish Ventures , a global FinTech investor known for backing major players like Chime and FlutterWave, led the round, while new investors include Saudi Arabia’s Vision Ventures, Arab Bank Venture Capital, and Emurgo Kepple Ventures. Now, with Flourish Ventures on board, we are laying the foundation for global expansion.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

With access to new funds, the company plans to accelerate the manufacture of its electric shuttles and school buses, reinforcing its position as the nations only vertically integrated Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) in this space. In addition, Endera secured a $13 million credit facility.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

DECEMBER 31, 2022

What happened in 2022 is the bottom fell out of the capital markets and the startup and tech sector more broadly. Back in February 2021, I wrote a post called How This Ends. The air came out of the asset price bubbles that had built up over the last decade and were accelerated/exaggerated by the pandemic.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

A Manila-headquartered startup called CloudEats , which operates cloud kitchens across the Philippines and Vietnam, just raised a $7 million Series A extension led by Nordstar to accelerate the digitization of food service in Southeast Asia. . annually from 2021 to 2027; the food delivery market in Southeast Asia is expected to reach $49.7

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

The Exchange is on a trip around the world, poking our heads into various startup markets to better understand how different geographies are faring during a historic boom in venture capital activity. Globally, the venture capital world is afire , pushing record sums into upstart technology companies. A 2021 comeback. ”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Akin to many startup markets around the world, Europe has seen its venture capital totals rise, its unicorn ranks swell, and even a few major public exits. The Exchange has been tracking Europe’s startup acceleration for years now. But not every tech exit fits into the venture capital model.

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Hunter Walk

MARCH 10, 2025

One byproduct of this movement, especially during the blitzscaling era , were new startups in areas such as finance, healthcare, housing, education, using venture capital to acquire customers at accelerated rates.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

A majority of Petal members had thin or no credit history when they first applied for a Petal card, and more than 40% of new members approved for a Petal card in 2021 were first denied credit by a major bank, the company said. To date, Petal has raised more than $240 million in equity capital and more than $450 million in debt financing.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

The company, founded in 2021 by Jonathan Palan, who previously founded AutoFi and was an executive at LendingClub and Kiavi, is now supported by $4.5 The capital infusion was led by Inspired Capital and included Twelve Below, Revelry and 81 Collection. million in new funding raised at the end of 2022.

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2022

Software companies wound up enjoying record demand, from both customers and investors, eventually fueling the 2021 SaaS bubble. Back in 2020, we saw the startup market crumble in what felt like days; the current downturn, in contrast, has been building since late 2021. Now the bad times are back, if in a different form.

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Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

When 10 of us founded Screendoor in 2021 this was the plan. In today’s vast venture capital landscape, it’s ALPHA! It’s not enough to change team compositions with a few new hires or add supplemental pools of capital (all of which are still important and necessary efforts to continue).

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The round was led by Monogram Capital Partners and includes a star-studded lineup of backers, including Camila Cabello, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Nick Jonas, Joe Jonas, Kevin Jonas, Mindy Kaling, Logic and Gwyneth Paltrow. Lester said the company eclipsed its growth targets for 2021 and grew top line revenue by three times.

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Revolution

JUNE 3, 2021

Post-Pandemic Geography: Predictions for Living, Working, & Traveling Post-Covid in America’s Startup Cities Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Announces that Airbnb Co-founder and CEO, Brian Chesky, will join Steve Case for the Tech Talent Tour Mainstage Discussion (Thursday, June 24th, 2021 at 12:00 PM ET).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2023

It took me a while, but I’m realizing that my startup love language is discussing any attempts to standardize the opaque and often informal world of venture capital. The tool, started by pre-seed firm Afore Capital, is based on Common App, which sends one application to multiple colleges and universities. Talking points. Chat soon, N.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

billion between July 2020 and June 2021, per research by New-York based research firm Chainalysis. The Connecticut-based venture capital and holding company has over 60 crypto and blockchain subsidiaries and investments across 30 countries, including LUNO, CoinDesk and Bitso. million pre-seed to that end.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 8, 2021

As we get into our dive into Q3 2021 venture capital numbers, one region in particular has our attention: Europe. While venture capital gains in markets like India, Latin America and the larger African startup ecosystem have proved impressive, Europe has posted strong results of its own. Let’s talk Europe!

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 13, 2021

And Grand Rapids, Michigan, is having its own tech renaissance in 2021. The CertifID tool is used by real estate companies to insure and accelerate transactions with financial institutions for real estate purchases. million in Series A startup funding in mid-2021. Next year is expected to be even better. FirstIgnite.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2020

It plans to use the capital to double down on expanding its network of banks and payment services in Europe. “2020 has seen payments powered by open banking take-off, and in 2021 we expect to see this scale – most prominently in the UK, followed by Europe. Tink is not the only company that is looking to capitalize on this.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

billion in the first half of 2021 — a fourfold increase from the previous year. Crunchbase examined the access to capital in the venture-backed startup ecosystem and proved that many industry leaders still worry that nothing will drastically shift. Make serious headway with accelerators. hit nearly $1.8

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Regions once overlooked by the venture capital industry are racking up impressive investment totals in recent quarters. Latin America boasts 26 unicorns as of August, according to Atlantico’s 2021 digital transformation report , a must-read that serves as a backdrop for today’s piece.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 2, 2022

Seven venture capital firms participated in the latest round: DS Asset Management, Industrial Bank of Korea, Hanwha Investment & Securities, S&S Investment, Toss investment, Korea Asset Investment & Securities and Venture Field. AIMMO posted $10 million of revenue in 2021, according to its IR pitch deck.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Then with the global pandemic, the pace at which business-to-business payment was moving online was accelerating,” Murata told TechCrunch. “We We wanted to bring it online at checkout and empower businesses by making access to capital easy.”. Businesses can get approved in seconds and begin offering the installments.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 11, 2023

The funding round was invested by Seaborne Capital, Filipino family offices, Imagine If Partners and US family office– the Rufino Family and David Leechiu. million in its seed round in 2021, with support from Philippine’s venture capital investor Foxmont Capital Partners. AHG Lab had previously secured $1.1

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 24, 2025

Startup Formation and Venture Capital Activity Arizonas bioscience innovation engine is also being powered by its universities and startup community. In 2024, 14 bioscience startups were spun out of the states research universities, a modest increase over the previous year but still below 2021s peak of 27.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2023

The Steel City has all the ingredients to be a hub for startups: a good university system, a cheaper cost of living — definitely when compared to places like New York and the Bay Area — and a proliferation of seed firms and startup accelerators. You can give it a listen here.).

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