AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Register The startup ecosystem, including Pangyo Techno Valley, is rapidly aligning with the ESG (Environment, Social, and Governance) trend. For instance, South Korea’s Ministry of Economy and Finance, in collaboration with related agencies, introduced the K-ESG guidelines in 2021.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

After a founder takes the quiz, the Funding Finder algorithm points them to what could be their best bets: debt financing, community development financial institutions (CDFIs), banks, bootstrapping, family and friend rounds, or even crowdfunding.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 3, 2022

There’s a prevailing narrative that the health of the Bay Area startup ecosystem faces challenges. San Francisco’s share of startup rounds by count has fallen from its perch ten years ago. In 2021, San Francisco Bay Area startups raised $126b. In 2019, US startups raised $126.4b.

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

And while this May’s economic backdrop was markedly different from last’s , enthusiasm was high and outlooks remained positive for the startup momentum building between the coasts. 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.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2023

Frederik Mijnhardt is the CEO of Secfi , an equity planning, stock option financing and wealth management platform for startup executives and employees. How investors can still get strong returns from late-stage tech startups. Looking ahead, the data suggests that 2023 will continue to be challenging for late-stage startups.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

The other is a new player in the ecosystem, Tacora, which announced the first close — $250 million — of its debut fund, which is targeting $300 million, to provide asset-based lending to venture-backed companies. More than 380 funding deals were made into Austin startups in 2021 , amounting to $4.9

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

However, these companies only represent the highlights of what is a blossoming startup ecosystem. By late 2021, approximately 80% of the Southeast Asian population (aged 15 and above) will be digital consumers, according to a report by Facebook and Bain & Company. Southeast Asia is hitting a sweet spot.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Over the years, mobile and internet penetration and smartphone access have increased; according to GSMA Intelligence’s report, mobile phone subscribers accounted for 46% of Sub-Saharan Africa’s population, while smartphone adoption was 64% in 2021. We’re not only looking at VCs but development finance institutions and telcos.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Tackling the learning curve that comes with building a startup is not for the faint of heart. Enter TechCrunch Early Stage 2021 — two distinct, virtual bootcamps designed specifically for early-stage founders and open to entrepreneurs and startup enthusiasts. Got questions about raising Series A funding? PT) on February 27.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Fueled by the coronavirus pandemic in part, FinTech has now reached mass adoption, according to the annual report by a FinTech startup known as Plaid to further illustrate the dramatic rise of FinTech in the U.S. just one year ago, the adoption level was at just 58% swelling to 88% adoption rate in 2021.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

Bangalore’s fintech startup ecosystem is inching closer to delivering a new unicorn: CRED. The new funding round, like this January’s Series C , will be largely financed by existing investors, the sources said, requesting anonymity as talks are private. — Harshil Mathur (@harshilmathur) February 27, 2021.

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Angel Capital Association

AUGUST 13, 2021

When I started angel investing, I knew my objective was two-fold: I wanted to support the startup ecosystem in MN and I wanted to (eventually) have a good financial return on my investments. MY 2021 ANSWER TO “WHY?” I served as a member of Prodege’s leadership team until 2021. MY 2013 ANSWER TO “WHY?”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Horizon Capital , an investment firm based out of Kyiv, is in the process of raising a $250 million fund that it plans to use to back tech startups in the country and neighboring Moldova. The startup ecosystem in Ukraine is, arguably, in an even more precarious state when considering all of the above.

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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. After creating COVID screening solutions in 2020 and expanding their partnerships, DocNetwork announced a new partnership with Daxko in 2021 that allows for seamless integrations with YMCA and JCC platforms.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

So, in keeping with our mission, we present to you today a list of Ukrainian tech companies and initiatives you can support, the products you can use, and the startups which you – if you’re an investor – can look at funding. million, with the latest Series A round closed in November 2021. It has raised $14.7

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

— TechCrunch (@TechCrunch) October 18, 2021. Deep tech startups in need of funding should consider federal grants. The entire startup ecosystem gets downright jittery when China brings any new regulation into force — their livelihoods depend on it, after all. Image Credits: Nigel Sussman (opens in a new window).

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Y Combinator

JUNE 25, 2021

Last week, we launched our Summer 2021 batch here at Y Combinator, the 33rd batch since our founding in 2005. It is also certainly correct that raising capital is extremely important to early-stage startup companies as they finance their product development and the growth they plan and hope for.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2023

At least that’s the case for Series CEO Brexton Pham, who has been building a full-stack enterprise platform for institutions and enterprises since March 2021. “We’re wiring short term non-dilutive financing to many of these founders right now. Co-CEO and co-founder Henrique Dubugras told TechCrunch that there is “no cap.”

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Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Much of this can trickle down into the startup ecosystem. Maybe it will be 2019, or 2020 — or even 2021. TechCrunch’s Kate Clark has done a round-up of the largest “private VC” rounds of 2018, and there’s a whole other list for just $100M+ financings led by Softbank’s Vision Fund.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2021

-based startup Adaplay Esports, tweeted that African startups had “already raised $500 [million] in 2021,” which he contrasted positively to what he described as a full-year 2020 result of $1.4 Using his figures, African startups are on pace to raise $2.5 So this morning, let’s do a little digging.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

and Europe, and expires on August 31, 2021. Bristol is also home to an important startup accelerator, SETsquared. A collaborative effort by the five universities of Bath, Bristol, Exeter, Southampton and Surrey, the accelerator has supported over 4,000 entrepreneurs and helped their startups raise a total of £1.8

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2021

Existing backers ATX Ventures, Integr8d Capital, Stage 2 Capital and HubSpot Ventures also participated in the financing, which brings the startup’s total funding to $26.3 The funding comes amid a year of growth for the startup, which has dual headquarters in Austin and Philadelphia. million since its 2018 inception.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Register Scaling platform for growth-stage startups xto10x Technologies has raised US$25 million in its Series A financing round led by Flipkart’s co-founder Binny Bansal. The round also saw participation from 28 founders and senior leaders from the startup ecosystem in India and Southeast Asia.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

This is Part 2 of a two-part examination of the state of the startup capital market during the past two years. For Part 1 on The Equity Seller’s Bubble of 2021, click here to access the ACA Data Insights Archive. FIGURE 10: US TECH LAYOFFS SINCE 1/1/2022 Source: layoffs.fyi Global venture investing fell 35% between 2021 and 2022.

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 26, 2022

The first was in July of 2014, when we made the unusual move of raising and announcing another round of private financing while on file to go public. We’d all benefited tremendously from having access to scout capital…could we create a new model to bring more women into this part of the startup ecosystem at scale?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Liquidity is a huge issue for startups, and while CartaX is just getting going, it fulfills a key need for many participants in the startup ecosystem, and it’s a key financial product to watch as it expands in 2021. Meanwhile, revenues are looking good at Carta these days.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

This offer expires on April 30, 2021. Where do you see Miami’s startup scene five years from now? Who are key startup people you see creating success locally, whether investors, founders or even other types of startup ecosystem roles like lawyers, designers, growth experts, etc. That’s still missing here.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2023

During the same period, the growth fund of Vanguard reported value appreciation in its investments in India’s Housing Development Finance Corp and L&T holdings, while saw a mild decline in the value of its HDFC Bank shares. billion at the close of 2021. billion, a decrease from $7.3 Ola had previously been valued at $5.7

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2022

Then in 2021, the company’s growth moderated. Startups and VC. The startup ecosystem has traditionally been less-than-friendly to women founders and investors, but Mimi Aboubaker argues things aren’t as dire as the common narrative seems to indicate. Our first read is that the news makes a lot of sense. My precious.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2022

2021 was a record year for venture capital fundraising, and fintechs were the largest recipients of funding worldwide, with about 21% of all venture dollars last year going into fintech startups. It has now been joined by fintech Numida , which emerged as the first startup in the country to get into YC (W22).

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

VI: Revenue-based financing: The next step for private equity and early-stage investment. This is a summary of: Revenue-Based financing: State of the Industry 2020. —– Greater Colorado Venture Fund (GCVF) is a $17M seed fund that invests in high growth startups in rural Colorado using equity and Flexible VC structuring.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

VI: Revenue-based financing: The next step for private equity and early-stage investment. This is a summary of: Revenue-Based financing: State of the Industry 2020. —– Greater Colorado Venture Fund (GCVF) is a $17M seed fund that invests in high growth startups in rural Colorado using equity and Flexible VC structuring.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

Arc , a company that aims to give SaaS startups “a way to borrow, save and spend” in one place, has raised $20 million in a Series A round of funding. The raise comes seven months after Arc emerged from stealth with $150 million in debt financing and $11 million in seed funding.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 8, 2021

We’ve already gotten feedback on this overview of subscription pricing models , and a look back at 2020 funding rounds and exits among Israel’s security startups was aimed at our new members who live and work there, along with international investors who are seeking new opportunities. Daniel Li, Madrona Venture Group.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2021

” Katai also shared his impressions of Romania’s startup ecosystem, suggestions for maintaining top-of-mind status with customers, and reinforced the often-overlooked need to continually repurpose content to grab mindshare. Israel’s maturing fintech ecosystem may soon create global disruptors.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

She included our culinary startup in her Favorite Things 2021 gift list. The 2022 OurCrowd Global Investor Summit , the biggest investor event in the Middle East, will take place in Jerusalem on May 25, once again bringing the entire startup ecosystem together. Read the OurCrowd High-Tech Jobs Index Q2 2021 here. .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

TechCrunch spoke to Francisco Polo, Spain’s high commissioner overseeing delivery of the entrepreneurial strategy, to get the inside track on the plan to grow the startup ecosystem and find out which bits entrepreneurs are likely to see in action first. billion for the main measures that we want to start setting up.

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