TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Two years ago, the African tech ecosystem saw newfound attention from global players that translated to the continent’s best year of receiving venture capital. Entering 2021, the bullishness of African tech stakeholders returned — and why not? AfricArena, a tech ecosystem accelerator, pegged deals to close between $2.25

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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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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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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

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

MARCH 28, 2022

The Family co-founder and CEO Alice Zagury announced in a blog post that the French startup accelerator is suing Oussama Ammar for multiple claims — breach of trust, forgery and use of forgery. In November 2021, Ammar announced on LinkedIn that he was moving on and leaving The Family. “On

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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

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

JULY 13, 2022

But today we’re highlighting the demo day for a new wave of crypto projects and teams who participated in the latest cohort for Alliance DAO, a web3 accelerator and builder community. It previously raised a pre-seed round from Sequoia Capital, Alliance DAO, Xoogler and others. Company name: PwnedNoMore. Founders: Wen Xu, Conan Zhou.

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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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 23, 2020

This year has shaken up venture capital, turning a hot early start to 2020 into a glacial period permeated with fear during the early days of COVID-19. Boston’s third quarter was strong, effectively matching the capital raised in New York City during the three-month period. billion in venture capital during the third quarter.

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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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

In 2020, all the long-term trends forcing change in this sector continued and even accelerated. Among them, millennials decamped from their rentals in crowded cities to accelerate their first home purchases to the benefit of proptech companies and challenger mortgage players alike. E-commerce undoubtedly stood out as a major driver.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

“Accelerating their growth would require an efficient expense management tool that is simple yet scalable, something that Volopay has always aimed for.” . The round also included Winklevoss Capital Management, Rapyd Ventures, Accial Capital, co-founder of Acorns Jeffrey Cruttenden, Access Ventures, Antler Global and VentureSouq.

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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

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

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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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2021

No-code and low-code services came into greater demand as accelerating digital transformation efforts met the market’s general dearth of available developer talent. All that’s to say that there’s a reasonable chance that we’ll hear from Uiflow soon regarding a fresh capital raise.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

Consumer interest for this space is also attracting capital. Over the last five years, Stein has led the company’s growth to a 55% compound annual growth rate and into 15,000 retailer doors at the end of 2021, up from 8,000 in 2018, she said. billion in 2020 and is poised to reach $1 trillion by 2026. billion valuation.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

FastCo has announced that it raised S$4.7million in investments during the extended Series A round led by Malaysia-based investment firm, OSK Ventures International and participated by existing investor Cento Ventures and new investor Kairous Capital. OSKVI is an established investor with seasoned experience investing in the HRTech business.

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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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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

APRIL 4, 2023

” — Christine and Haje The TechCrunch Top 3 Accelerating generative AI : Amazon is jumping into startup accelerators with both feet again and will boost generative AI startups around the globe with a 10-week program, Natasha M writes. Ten startups will receive $300,000 in AWS credits and will debut their tech at a demo day.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2022

It was estimated that Latin America’s foodservice sales reached $270 billion in 2021, according to Statista. The company’s first institutional round of funding was co-led by Andreessen Horowitz, Atlántico and MAYA Capital. Today, the company has a team of more than 70 employees in Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Colombia and Brazil.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Today, a dozen new companies launched out of the Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator in New York City. Thus far, nearly 250 startups have graduated out of the accelerator, collectively having raised more than $1 billion in capital. So without any further ado, here are the startups graduating out of the summer 2021 ERA class.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Accelerators have become a major force in the startup world, but these teeming masses of potential have been forced, like every other industry, to adopt major changes with the pandemic. I spoke with the heads of three accelerators about the challenges and opportunities presented by the new restrictions.

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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

APRIL 1, 2021

TechCrunch Early Stage 2021: Operations & Fundraising provides early-stage founders with access to top founders, investors and subject-matter experts across the startup realm. Using Fast Feedback to Make Higher-Confidence Decisions and Accelerate the Dev Process (UserTesting). Who’s ready for bootcamp? Are you ready?

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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

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

We just wrapped up a three-day virtual event that included discussions and interviews with some of the most notable people in technology, media, government and venture capital. Full coverage of TechCrunch Disrupt 2021. Its capital contributions are meaningful. Bootstrapping in 2021 goes a long way. Walter Thompson.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2021

A few months into 2021, the exit environment in edtech…feels like it’s doing exactly that. To scale such models, new businesses will need venture capital. How is edtech spending its extra capital. Tonal, a fitness tech startup, became a unicorn this week after raising a new tranche of capital. Across the week.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

When Christian Lawless founded Conversion Capital in 2015, fintech was only starting to take off. In the years since Conversion was founded, fintech has essentially exploded — driven by a pandemic-induced, accelerated digital transformation on the part of financial services companies all over the world.

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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 latest capital infusion comes less than a year from a $60 million Series C round that happened in June 2021. Meanwhile, $1.1

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 6, 2023

The round was led by LRVHealth, with participation from McKesson Ventures and existing investors Novartis (dRx Capital), Onco360 (BrightSpring Health Services), Hearst Ventures, and HealthX Ventures. This investment brings RxLightning’s total capital raised since inception to $20.5 Department of Health and Human Services.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Creative capital is the secret sauce, not venture capital. Brett Lovelady, founder of design firm Astro Studios, defines these design and development assets as “creative capital,” which “can ultimately last longer and potentially become more valuable” than venture capital. Walter Thompson.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2021

Obviously, the pandemic hasn’t gone away, but when asked to predict the biggest storylines for 2021, VCs pointed to themes as varied as new distribution models, new kinds of interactivity, new tools for creators, the return of advertising business models and even the role of media in a democratic society. Siegler, general partner, GV.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2021

While waiting for full first-quarter venture capital results for fintech startups to drop, we knew that they were going to be outsized. But the largest venture capital rounds are only part of the fintech investing picture, so we were looking forward to getting a deeper look into what happened in the critical startup sector more generally.

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