AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 15, 2023

Register Singapore-based Decentralized Gaming Ventures, a venture builder in the web3 gaming space, has secured a substantial seven-figure investment round. Currently, the venture builder operates a Singapore-based studio that serves as an incubator for 32 promising game developers organized into eight teams.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

At the time, seven-figure seed investments in African startups were a rarity. These investments are usually made by third-party investors (friends and family), and range between $25,000-$150,000. Her firm, TLcom, led the $1 million pre-seed investment in Okra. When Stripe-subsidiary Paystack raised its seed round of $1.3

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

In fact, even some of the excesses of 2021 were eclipsed when the number of investments on the continent rose higher in 2022 than they had a year earlier, boosted by early-stage firms flocking to fund startups in the wake of landmark exits of homegrown companies like Jumia and Paystack. billion, according to data from Partech.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2022

European, North American edtech startups see funding triple in 2021. The report primarily focuses on investment activity in Europe but is contextualized with what we are seeing in other markets. billion raised in 2021. More posts by this contributor. The unbundling of professional learning and entrepreneurship education.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

Alternative investments are having a moment. Institutions have fueled a large part of this growth, investing at record pace into alternatives like crypto, private companies and real estate. Institutions have fueled a large part of this growth, investing at record pace into alternatives like crypto, private companies and real estate.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 20, 2021

Fresh for 2021, the Innovation Funders Showcase Company Flipbook provided a sneak peek of all the companies presenting, along with critical information such as market strategy, opportunities and more. Three companies were also selected to present in the Innovation Funders Showcase Deeper Dive at the conclusion of the event.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2023

In 2011 , as Twitter hit the 100 million active users mark, the entrepreneur left to pursue new projects with Obvious Corporation , a startup incubator and investment vehicle that had included fellow Twitter co-founder Evan Williams and former Twitter exec Jason Goldman. The venture most notably incubated the blogging platform Medium.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The numbers are already showing potential: New PitchBook data found that in the first half of this year, a little more than $360 million was invested in the Orlando-Kissimmee metro area, way more than the $144 million invested in H1 last year. million in capital investment this year. Orlando: The Silicon Swamp?

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 8, 2023

Through partnerships with universities and incubators in the region, the competition will bring together the most promising start-ups to compete. The top 10 winners will each be awarded Angel Fund investment of up to HK$1 million, providing a significant boost for their entrepreneurial endeavours.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

Matheus Tavares Dos Santos Contributor Share on Twitter Matheus is a hedge funds investment analyst for a major global investment manager and technology provider. Larger companies need to set up venture arms and embrace this style of investing, and that is exactly what happened last year.

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Jason Calacanis

DECEMBER 10, 2023

” “If only I had started an app or cloud company during the ZIRP run up from 2009 to 2021!” Github, AWS, WeWork, Fivver, Upwork, and the global workforce meant a startup could launch a product in a 12-week incubator and scale it to millions in revenue in a few years.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

2021 was a year like no other when it came to venture investment, and this year is poised to tread a similar path, writes 500 Global’s CEO and co-founder, Christine Tsai. In 2021, there were approximately 90 quantum investments that totaled $1.4 Inside Secfi’s 2021 state of stock options equity report.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Endowus is the latest investment app in Southeast Asia to raise follow-on funding, adding $35 million SGD (about $25.6 We believe we have discovered a strong product-market fit in Singapore, growing by over $1 billion SGD in assets in 2021 alone.” million US) to its war chest. Participants included SoftBank Corp.-owned

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2021

It is clear that Black, women, Latinx and LGBTQ+ startup founders face an uphill battle when it comes to getting a share of the VC investment pie in Silicon Valley. Being able to invest directly into companies that are building amazing solutions that just so happen to be founded by diverse people. So that is why we launched Sixty8.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

Old Fashion Research ( OFR ) – whose name is derived from the classic cocktail – was founded in late 2021 by managing partners Ling Zhang, who was previously the vice president of M&A and investments at Binance, and Wayne Fu, former head of corporate development at the crypto exchange.

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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. One, the edtech space is highly regulated, more than the casual tech observer might think.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

growth from 2020 to 2021. Angel investments in 2022 equaled those from 2006 to 2011 combined. Family office investments increased by 5x , and corporate venture investments rose 6x , thus opening new capital avenues for founders who found it difficult to raise capital. building companies in-house) or incubator (e.g.,

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

Drone Fund led the latest financing along with SOSV’s HAX, Incubate Fund, SBI investment and DBJ Capital. market, the largest autonomous mobile robots market, which was already $762 million in 2021 and is expected to grow to $3.2 with a fresh injection of about $10.7 million (1.45 million (5.26 billion yen).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Incubated out of Harvard’s Innovation Lab in 2018, CEO Pascal Kriesche and Morgan Abraham call their company a “healthy smoothie store-in-a-box” that is essentially a robot that mixes fruits, vegetables and add-ins like protein into a smoothie. Smoodis range in price from $5.99 He forecasts 5x growth for 2023.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

. — Christine and Haje The TechCrunch Top 3 X marks the spot : GitHub launched its Copilot X initiative today, which Frederic reports is an extension of its work on its popular Copilot code completion tool, originally launched into preview all the way back in 2021. Should you return an investment? :

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

For a very long time, startups in New Zealand had been crying out for capital,” said Imche Fourie, co-founder and CEO of Outset Ventures, a deep tech incubator in Auckland that invests in seed and pre-seed science and engineering companies. In 2020, VC investments totaled NZD $127.2 In 2020, VC investments totaled NZD $127.2

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StartupNation

JANUARY 4, 2022

How the Midwest Startup and Tech Scene Boomed in 2021. It’s 2022 and already local VCs, angel investors, startup founders, incubators and accelerators, and more are pushing hard to make their startups go. If so, contact us at editor@startupnation.com and we’ll feature you on an upcoming segment of the WJR Business Beat!

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Rootopia that was founded in July 2021 by Nguyen Xuan Truong and Tran Quang Khanh has already connected students from over 100 schools and educational centres in Vietnam with different angel investors. One of its partners, Genesia Ventures, is a Japanese VC firm investing in seed and early-stage startups.

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2022

With a lot of investment funds going into the future of food companies, Tomorrow Farms. which was incubated at the SALT Fund in early 2021, has a mission of being the front-end partner for a lot of these deep tech food science companies building new products and brands.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The firm looks to invest at the pre-seed stage, hoping to get them set up to later garner attention from larger VCs and government funding. Plus, that isn’t needed for Countdown to invest. While Malik’s $3 million raise for Fund I in 2021 took four months, significantly larger Fund II took just six weeks.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Taha Ahmed and Rooshan Aziz left their jobs in strategy consulting and investment banking in London earlier this year in order to found a mobile-only education platform startup, Maqsad , in Pakistan, with a goal “to make education more accessible to 100 million Pakistani students.” Maqsad announced today its $2.1

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 2, 2024

HAX, a startup development program for pre-seed hard tech companies, with offices across the world, supports startups and entrepreneurs through investment capital, mentorship, and collaboration. HAX’s investment in Newark and New Jersey is a testament to the diverse talent pool the Garden State has to offer. headquarters.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 31, 2022

With the funding, Synaptic will continue to invest in product innovations, double down on its data science capabilities, partnerships with data vendors, and expand its go-to-market teams in key global financial hubs. Synaptic was incubated as the data and analytics team at Vy Capital, a $6 billion AuM global technology investment company.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Nestcoin , a company founded last November that builds, operates, and invests in web3 applications, wants to be pivotal in this transition and has raised $6.45 billion between July 2020 and June 2021, per research by New-York based research firm Chainalysis. A part of the funds will also go into investing in web3 projects.

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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. The top 10 teams got monetary awards worth $10,000 to $120,000 on the demo day of KSGC 2021. Samsung, LG, Hyundai, and Kia are some of the top brands worldwide. Manufacturing in Asia is huge.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

According to Crunchbase, firms have invested more than $1 billion in legal tech companies, an uptick from the $512 million invested last year. Lexion , which was incubated at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, uses machine learning and AI to automate aspects of contract management.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

’s Tech Nation found in 2018 that about 26% of Belfast’s workforce was employed in tech, and it is among cities in the country with the highest growth potential for 2021. Ignite NI emerged as an important native incubator and accelerator. and Europe, and expires on May 31, 2021. What are the tech investors like in Belfast?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Yet, some Kenyans still lack other digital financial services from savings to investments. Based on her experience, Kidanu teamed up with Alexis Roman and Bubunyo Nyavor last year to start Koa to help Kenyans save and invest their money better. She is the COO of the company, while Roman and Nyavor act as the CEO and CTO, respectively.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

Since departing his role as Casper CEO in 2021 , Philip Krim has spent the majority of his time investing and incubating companies via Montauk Ventures. The latest is an insurance company called Ranger , which aims to elevate the agents in the insurance industry, rather than replace them.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

The country is quickly catching up to China on the tech investment front, with VC investments reaching a record of $15 billion in 2020, according to TechNation. city for tech investment. and Europe, and expires on August 31, 2021. is gaining in popularity as a great place to start a tech firm. What’s their focus?

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

But the firm will commit to investing up to 25% of the next round of qualified funding. The companies will be evaluated by the same standards and lens as an investment from Brick & Mortar Ventures,” said Alice Leung, the firm’s vice president of platform and product strategy. investors,” he said. “So

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