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. According to her, other people working for The Family have asked several times to see documents that proved that investments went through.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Investment in fintech is surging back following a brief but notable drop during the COVID pandemic. As a result, countries worldwide are seeing a large influx of capital for fintech ventures, and both investment totals and deal counts in the fintech space are increasing rapidly. Singapore’s fintech investment surges forward.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2021

A clutch of the world’s largest consumer products and food companies are joining Budweiser’s parent company Anheuser-Busch InBev in backing an investment program to support early-stage companies focused on making supply chains more sustainable. Applications for the latest cohort will be due by May 31, 2021.

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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. BintanGo’s prior funding included a pre-seed round of $500,000 conducted in June 2021, just ahead of its launch in September of the same year.

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

From 2003-2022 the River Valley Investors operated as a traditional angel group, investing in nearly 100 startups. For posterity, here are some of the more recent investments… 2022 Hubly Surgical Hubly Surgical has an advanced drill, complete with auto-stop and visual feedback, to make medical drilling safe across underserved settings.

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

2021: The Great Acceleration of the Rise of the Rest (Part II): Does your City have a Moat? The framework was originally created to help public market investors determine whether or not an investment opportunity afforded a defensible moat that would contribute to a superior return-profile. Who is your competition?

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Revolution

APRIL 6, 2021

By Revolution Ventures Managing Partner David Golden and VP Alex Shtarkman As voracious consumers of podcasting content, we could not be more excited to announce our investment in Indianapolis-based Casted , a company reinventing the traditional digital content marketing playbook. Stay tuned! [1]

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The former commercial chief (Product, Sales and Marketing) at PayPal, he now leads fintech investing at Matrix Partners, where he also invests in consumer marketplaces and enterprise software. Fintechs could see $100 billion of liquidity in 2021. Private markets followed public markets in making 2021 a record-setting year.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

There was a brief, beautiful moment for a few months in 2021 when it felt like robotic investments might be immune from broader market forces. Image Credits: Crunchbase A couple of top line points: 2022 was the second worst year for robotics investments over the past five years. Uncertainty doesn’t breed investing confidence.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Jake Jolis is a partner at Matrix Partners and invests in seed and Series A technology companies including marketplaces and software. Dana Stalder is a partner at Matrix Partners, where he invests predominantly in fintech, consumer marketplaces and enterprise software. More posts by this contributor. 4-year founder vesting is dead.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 9, 2022

Register South Korea’s largest accelerator program for foreign startups, K-Startup Grand Challenge (KSGC) , is accepting applications for its 2022 edition. month support, the top startup teams can also look forward to getting further assistance to expand to Asia and investment from prominent VCs. Besides the 3.5-month

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Matt McIlwain is an early-stage venture investor at Madrona Venture Group who has been investing in AI technologies for nearly a decade. 4 ways startups will drive GPT-3 adoption in 2021. In 2021, this technology will power the launch of a thousand new startups and applications. More posts by this contributor.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 8, 2024

Those who submit a model are compared against other teams, providing a community-based evaluation method, creating an accelerating community of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). This brings total capital invested to date to $10 million, giving Chai a $450 million valuation.

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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 company intends to invest in its product and technology team and in customer acquisition strategies and hiring underwriters and data scientists.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

Likewise, Varada co-founder and VP of R&D Roman Vainbrand notes that the combined companies will be able to “deliver the best performance and cost benefits in the analytics query market, enabling organizations to accelerate the time-to-insight, while optimizing infrastructure operations and investments.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

When Pinecone launched a vector database aimed at data scientists in 2021, it was probably ahead of its time. Today, the company announced a $100 million Series B investment on a $750 million post valuation. And so you have to accelerate the building of those capacities, and that’s very expensive and very hard,” he said.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 24, 2023

Register Mark & Company, led by CEO Kyungpyo Hong, has announced the establishment and management of a new venture investment fund in partnership with Yoonmin Creative Investment Foundation, chaired by Minseop Sung. 1, launched in July 2021.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 11, 2023

Register South Korea venture investment firm ‘1Billion Partners Inc. Since its launch in October 2021, the company has been actively executing multiple investments, demonstrating its dedication to fostering entrepreneurship. Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet?

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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. The company generated $200 million in revenue for 2021 and has grown five times in the past 4 years, Kevin Segalla, founder and chairman of Tilting Point, said.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

Let’s look at six reasons to invest in tech startups that hail from Ukraine. For example, in the first half of 2021, the 50 largest Ukrainian IT companies grew their headcounts by 10,000 professionals. It also offers a strong opportunity that can be accelerated with investment.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 31, 2023

Register Vuihoc , an ed-tech platform catering to K-12 Vietnamese students, recently secured a significant US$6 million investment in a Series A funding round led by TNB Aura. Amidst the fluctuations in the world economy, Vietnam’s EdTech sector remains an attractive destination for solid investments.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2023

Montreal-based Equisoft , an insurance and investment software developer, today announced that it raised $125 million in venture equity. It’s a large amount made more significant by the fact that the investment climate for insurtech vendors is growing increasingly challenging. In 2021, the firm bought Altus, a U.K.-based

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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. Their investment is a validation of our progress since we spun off.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2023

This fund grew again by €34 million in April 2021 , and after deploying investments into 28 climate-forward companies, the investor this week announced it has officially closed its second fund. As long as the climate crisis has not been solved, we will need to keep investing more money into tech solutions.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

If you are parsing the public-market carnage this morning, you might expect that Chinese venture capitalists would pull back their investment cadence. One key surprise in 2021 was the fact that despite a regulatory barrage from the central government , Chinese startups had a pretty good year when it came to raising capital.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Tackle says it plans to use its new funding to accelerate the execution of its product roadmap, scale its go-to-market (GTM) teams, expand its global reach, and continue to innovate. Fellow VC firm Battery Ventures, which to our knowledge hasn’t invested in Tackle, also backs up that view.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The pace of investing may prove to be. This morning, let’s take a look at a few data points showing how rapidly the current pace of investment into crypto-focused startups is shaping up in 2022 and cast a quick glance at issues in the blockchain market that could, but are not, giving investors pause. To the moon. ”

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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

APRIL 13, 2022

Because VC investment in the region didn’t start slowing down in the last few weeks: Dollar funding has now fallen for three consecutive quarters in the region. Mexico: $258 million, down 59% from Q4 2021. billion, down 32% from Q4 2021. Colombia: $457 million, up 56% from Q4 2021. Brazil: $1.5

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

According to one source , VC investments in drone companies reached $7 billion in 2021 across 199 deals, up from $2.4 “As a startup enabling advanced inspection, we accelerated during the pandemic with robotics-based solutions that leveraged local operators and global software,” Burton added. billion in 2022.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2022

While many funds are returning to more conservative check-writing , with a focus on profitability and business fundamentals, crypto remains a sector in the spotlight that attracts dedicated billion-dollar funds and investment terms that remind us more of 2021 than 2022. Yet, things are accelerating across the board in crypto.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 26, 2021

And growth is only accelerating: by 2022, the global e-commerce market is expected to reach $6.5 To improve your odds, keep these six key trends in mind to start your e-commerce business in 2021. Related: 5 Things E-Commerce Startups Should Focus on for Success in 2021. The post Starting an E-Commerce Business in 2021?

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 2, 2022

In July 2021, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) upgraded Korea’s status to a developed economy. K-Startup Grand Challenge (KSGC) Program is the flagship accelerator program for international startups looking to enter the competitive Asian market. were chosen from the pool of applications.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 6, 2023

LRVHealth, McKesson Ventures, Novartis, Hearst Ventures, Onco360, and HealthX Ventures Join Investment Round to Redefine Specialty Patient Access and Onboarding NEW ALBANY, Ind.– million Series A investment to support the company’s growth and further remove barriers to life-saving therapies.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Full coverage of TechCrunch Disrupt 2021. But with 2021 came all the second- and third-order effects of the crisis, further accelerating a continentwide tech expansion to a pace beyond any projections.”. “But And he also invested in Aviation Gin before selling it for a staggering $600 million last year. Walter Thompson.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

million Series A in February 2021. . Other investors SBI Investment, Tokyu Land Corporation, Kushu Electric Power, Seika Corporation, JOIN (Japan Overseas Infrastructure Investment Corporation for Transport & Urban Development) and exiting investor Venture Lab Investment also joined in the round. . and Southeast Asia.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 2, 2022

Register ScaleUp Malaysia , an accelerator that focuses exclusively on growth-stage companies in Malaysia , in partnership with Quest Ventures, Indelible Ventures, and Mranti signalled the culmination of its third cohort with the unveiling of its selection of top startups. Indelible has selected 3 companies to invest in from this Cohort.

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