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. Founders: Daniel Garay, Jesse Brauner. Founders: Oliver Tang, Robin Ji. Founders: Chris Tam, Shuguo Yang, Wallace Wong. Stage: Seed round.

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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

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The coronavirus pandemic disproportionately reduced venture capital funding for female founders last year, despite a greater boom in fundraising thanks to megafunds and the advent of Zoom investing. The result was an uneven landscape in which capital flowed more toward men than was normal historically. That was in an upmarket.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

This is where artificial intelligence and voice technology have presented an opportunity for enterprises to overcome the challenges of scale and engagement at their customer contact centers,” co-founder and CEO Skit Sourabh Gupta told TechCrunch. Skit has been listed in Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia start-ups 2021.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

Less than 2% of venture capital funding went to all-female founding teams in 2021, marking a five-year low, new data from Pitchbook shows. So how is it that despite the recent boom in startup funding, the venture capital industry is actually becoming an even tougher place for women to raise money?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The San Francisco-based startup is announcing today that it has raised $10 million in a Series A funding round co-led by Kapor Capital and KB Investment Inc. Lewis & Clark Ventures, AME Cloud Ventures, Knollwood Investment Advisory, WTI, Bronze and Square co-founder Sam Wen also participated in the Series A financing.

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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. For our October look at Boston and its startup scene, let’s get into the data and then understand how a new cohort of founders is cropping up among the city’s educational network.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

4-year founder vesting is dead. 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. Dana Stalder.

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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

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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

After raising staggering sums of capital through 2021, the financial technology startup industry ran into a valuations wall this year as public markets retreated and many formerly high-flying fintech giants took lumps. YC batch shows founders remain optimistic about fintech by Anna Heim originally published on TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

It needs a couple of successful exits, which in turn drives angel investing as entrepreneurs growing increasingly wealthy look to help new founders building companies reach their own goals. It requires accelerators and incubators and coworking spaces to help nurture early ideas, and it needs VC firms investing across stages.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

Varanium Capital partner Aparajit Bhandarkar will join GetVantage’s board. Other participants included Sony Innovation Fund, InCred Capital and Haldiram’s Family Office. The traditional process of raising capital is complex, cumbersome and simply doesn’t work for all enterprises and business owners,” Vasa said.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

Kunal Lunawat is the co-founder and managing partner of Agya Ventures , a venture capital firm focused on proptech, travel, hospitality and the future of the built world. Though 2021 is far from over, it’s already witnessed a record level of venture capital activity in the technology sector. Value > valuation.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

The city also has the famed Queen’s University and low living costs to count in its favor, and gentrification is starting to take place, which shows things are looking up for Northern Ireland’s capital. Ignite NI emerged as an important native incubator and accelerator. and Europe, and expires on May 31, 2021.

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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. Sol Eun (CEO and co-founder).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

It’s been a 12-year journey for Purely Elizabeth founder Elizabeth Stein, and based on her plans for the company’s next phase, she is just getting started. Consumer interest for this space is also attracting capital. Stein plans to use the capital to expand the company’s team of 30 to be around 40 by the end of 2022.

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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. Image Credits: Carta.

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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

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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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2021

Today’s the day new founders get down to the business of, well, building a better business. TechCrunch Early Stage 2021: Operations & Fundraising provides early-stage founders with access to top founders, investors and subject-matter experts across the startup realm. Who’s ready for bootcamp? Are you ready?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Andy Stinnes , general partner at Cloud Apps Capital Partners , leads early-stage investments in cloud businesses and serves as active board member and adviser, offering operational support for portfolio companies based on his 20+ years in executive roles in business software. billion Series H, in 2021. Andy Stinnes. Contributor.

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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. Editor-at-Large Mike Butcher spoke with: Svanika Balasubramanian, co-founder and CEO, rePurpose Global.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2022

Co-founder and CTO Juan Manuel Cuello had the idea for Fudo back in 2014 after working as a developer at Restorando.com, an Open table-like company that was acquired by The Fork. It was estimated that Latin America’s foodservice sales reached $270 billion in 2021, according to Statista. It also grew 10x to support 10,000 restaurants.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Image Credits: Co-founders Gloria Lin and Joel Poloney / Bonnie Rae Mills Photography. Last week I wrote about two startups that had female co-founders and CEOs and I was so impressed with them both. This is also at least the fourth construction tech company I’ve written about in the past year with a female co-founder.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2021

I urged founders to think less about how to bundle and unbundle lecture experience, and more about how to replace outdated systems and methods with new, tech-powered solutions. A few months into 2021, the exit environment in edtech…feels like it’s doing exactly that. How is edtech spending its extra capital.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Also, Extra Crunch Live, our weekly video series with investors and founders, is now TechCrunch Live — and you don’t need to be a member to join the audience. Creative capital is the secret sauce, not venture capital. Creative capital is the secret sauce, not venture capital. Thanks very much for reading!

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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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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 19, 2022

million in a seed funding round led by Alpha JWC Ventures and participated by Global Founders Capital (GFC) and other strategic investors, including Creative Gorilla Capital, Lemonilo, and United Family Capital (UFC). Register Indonesian-based food tech startup OFF FOODS announced raising $1.7

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The company is the second venture in the realm of “functional soda” for co-founders Ben Goodwin and David Lester, who have worked together for nearly a decade. Lester said the company eclipsed its growth targets for 2021 and grew top line revenue by three times. After raising some $13.5

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

It has been adding 10,000 to 20,000 new members per month, according to Jason Gross, Petal’s co-founder and CEO. 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.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2021

The new funding comes from HealthQuest Capital, and sees the fund’s founder and managing partners Dr. Garheng Kong join the company’s board of directors. At-home health testing kit startup Everlywell has raised $75 million, following the close of the $175 million Series D it announced in December.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Its digitally-native approach can save pet parents up to $750 a year on healthcare expenses, Zubin Bhettay, co-founder and CEO of Fuzzy, told TechCrunch. He expects 2021 revenue growth to be five times over 2020, while Fuzzy memberships, which start for free and then a monthly subscription of $24.99 Fuzzy live chat via its app.

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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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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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

According to Jose Cayasso, CEO and co-founder of pitch deck design agency Slidebean, there are five slides where pretty much all founders miss the mark : Go-to-market. 5 critical pitch deck slides most founders get wrong. As a concept, minimum viable product (MVP) has given founders maximum flexibility. Use case/audience.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

On this morning’s WJR Business Beat, Jeff shares details of the Motown Musician Accelerator Program , an education and grant initiative designed to help local aspiring musicians and music managers break into business. Tune in to News/Talk 760 AM WJR weekday mornings at 7:11 a.m. for the WJR Business Beat. And that’s a wrap!

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