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SXSW 2022: Building the Sustainable Startups of the Future

Revolution

At SXSW 2022, Revolution Growth Partner, Todd Klein, joined SparkCharge CEO and founder, Josh Aviv, GoodBuy Gear CEO and co-founder, Kristin Langenfeld, and CAVA CEO and co-founder, Brett Schulman, for a conversation on climate, consumers, and building the sustainable startups of the future. even (and especially) as the company scales.

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Colombian e-commerce enablement startup Melonn raises $20M to help SMBs scale in LatAm

TechCrunch

They were brought back together by the pandemic to start the e-commerce enablement company. Looking ahead, CEO Gomez projects that it will fulfill close to 6 million items in 2022. The beauty of Melonn is the potential to both accelerate a business and integrate into platforms that its clients are already using.”.

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Komunal secures $8.5m to strengthen Indonesia’s neo-rural bank ecosystem

AsiaTechDaily

million to fund its mission to accelerate financial inclusion and strengthen the neo-rural bank ecosystem in Indonesia, especially outside the Greater Jakarta area. Lieviant said he is very optimistic that the collaboration between fintech and incumbent banks, including rural banks, will create a very strong synergy.

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AI chip startup Sima.ai bags another $30M ahead of growth

TechCrunch

As the demand for AI-powered apps grows, startups developing dedicated chips to accelerate AI workloads on-premises are reaping the benefits. “Sima.ai’s software and hardware platform can be used to enable scaling machine learning to [a range of] embedded edge applications. After emerging from stealth in 2019, Sima.ai

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Five Predictions for 2023

Tomasz Tunguz

The hangover from web3’s raucous 2022 extends into 2023. More than 100 web3-enabled games launch. The fundraising market thaws, but at materially lower prices than the first half of 2022. Flat & down rounds surge to 30% of all mid-stage rounds completed in 2023, up from less than 5% in the first half of 2022.

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Neso Brands raises $100m, seeks to invest in eyewear brands

AsiaTechDaily

Neso Brands said it will help eyewear brands grow by leveraging synergies across the Lenskart Group to accelerate international expansion. Neso Brands is a Singapore-based global eyewear company founded in 2022 to enable the most promising direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands across the world to become brands of the future.

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Ushur, which aims to automate aspects of the customer experience, raises $50M

TechCrunch

In a recent survey by Zapier — not the most unbiased source, granted, given that the company sells automation software — about 44% of employees say that automation saves them time while almost a third (33%) say it enables them to accomplish more with fewer resources. “The pandemic dramatically accelerated Ushur’s business.