StartupNation

DECEMBER 13, 2021

We’ll show you what we’re looking forward to hearing more about in 2022 with our top Grand Rapids startups to watch. Grand Rapids startups and tech companies to watch in 2022. Claira is a new Grand Rapids startup using AI to hire better and make use of human capital. Next year is expected to be even better. BAMF Health.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Here are my predictions for 2022: Web3 consumer products go fully mainstream with more than 35% of Americans, about 100m people, engaging with them by 2023. Improved infrastructure enables new applications, which attract more users. Every year I make a list of predictions and score last year’s predictions. MAU growing quickly.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

It is also licensed by Indonesia’s central bank, enabling it to offer more services. The open finance startup announced today it has closed a $13 million Series B extension round led by SIG Venture Capital, with participation from CE Innovation Capital and returning investor PayU, the payments and fintech business of Prosus.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Other backers include Global Founders Capital and a number of high-profile angel investors, such as GGV Managing Partner Hans Tung, ALLVP Partner Antonia Rojas and LaHaus founders Jeronimo Uribe and Tomas Uribe, among others. They were brought back together by the pandemic to start the e-commerce enablement company.

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2022

E4E Africa, a South African venture capital firm, led the round, which welcomed participation from other firms such as Strat-Tech, Next Chymia, Untapped Global and Codec Ventures and angels like Ashwin Ravichandran and Kanyi Maqubela. million in seed funding a year after closing an undisclosed pre-seed round.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 6, 2022

The way people fund their business has also been evolving and, in 2022, the traditional ways like angel investment and VCs will walk hand in hand with new and emerging blockchain-based options that offer loans outside the traditional banking system. Venture capital or VC. Venture capital is always an option. Angel investment.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The strategic growth round was led by Blockchange Ventures, with participation from existing investors Acrew Capital, Act One Ventures, and Tamarack Global, as well as new investors Wilson Sonsini and Vinny Lingham. The strategic growth round brings total capital raised to $12 million. To learn more, visit afterparty.com.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

A portion of the capital — $10 million — was debt, while the rest was a Series A equity tranche led by Georgian Capital Partners. The] turnkey, end-to-end platform is pre-configured with hundreds of APIs enabled.” billion in H1 2022, down 24% from $69.6 billion in H1 2021.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

PeopleFund, a South Korean marketplace that connects borrowers and investors to enable lending, has recently added $20 million to its $63.4 Apart from the capital, PeopleFund also secured $240 million in debt financing in 2022 from Goldman Sachs, CLSA Lending Ark Asia and Bain Capital. Series C led by Bain Capital.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2022

Sarah Kunst, Cleo Capital. Sarah Kunst, managing director, Cleo Capital. What kind of opportunities are you looking for in Q1 2022? We are following the effects of web3 or blockchain-enabled technology across each of these verticals. Arvind Gupta, partner, Mayfield Fund. Mike Ghaffary, general partner, Canvas Ventures.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 15, 2021

So, what’s to come in 2022? Some will try to capitalize on forward-thinking opportunities; others will perfect their products to suit new ideas. Why VR Technology is 2022’s Must-Have Business Tool. In 2022, Deep Fakes will fundamentally reshape the internet and how we view it. For example, Web 3.0

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

TechCrunch is excited to announce the six companies pitching in person and onstage at TC Sessions Mobility 2022. “Boston Materials is a high-performance materials company enabling manufacturers of industrial and consumer products to break through their design trade-offs with new materials. ” Expert panel of judges. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

-based incubator focused on nonprofit startups that are addressing climate-related challenges through open-source data initiatives has announced the six startups which will be put through its 2022 program. 14 climate tech investors share their H1 2022 strategies. 14 climate tech investors share their H1 2022 strategies.

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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. From an investor’s perspective, 2022 witnessed a sudden market reversal from an extreme equity seller’s market to an equity buyer’s market, causing dislocations throughout angel, VC, and startup ecosystems.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

We’re likely to see BNPL offerings become more prevalent at points of sale for a manner of different purchases through 2022. We also see opportunities for new BNPL products for small businesses that are looking to reduce cash flow strains or avoid maxing out credit lines,” said Jason Brown, partner at Victory Park Capital. In the U.S.,

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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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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Check out some of the Ann Arbor companies with the biggest growth, best funding and most innovative products to watch into 2022. Small Ann Arbor startups to watch in 2022. It also enables users to automate workflows and resolve accounts. DocNetwork. Healpay isn’t just another payment processing company.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2021

billion won) Series C round led by Bain Capital with participation from Goldman Sachs. The new law enables the licensed P2P lending startup to operate as an authorized financial institution to lend, raise capital from international and domestic institutions, and provide loan referral services to its customers. million (75.9

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JULY 13, 2022

commercial trial program, strategic development partnerships, and enables product to be. investments were led by Continental Grain Company with participation from Tekfen Ventures, Maumee Ventures, Ag Ventures Alliance, and 1855 Capital. and Africa to the list of global RhizoSorb® trial locations planned for 2022. on LinkedIn.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The Pune-based company is also the latest startup to raise funding in this area, bringing in $12 million in Series A funding in a round co-led by Elevation Capital and General Catalyst. Loop Health has a target to cover 1 million members by the end of 2022 and 5 million members across Southeast Asia over the next five years.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2023

The Canada-based company, which produces alternative proteins for third-party customers, took in $42 million in new Series B capital to build a bigger manufacturing facility in the U.S. Many companies are working on it, with Project Eaden being one of the more recent to attract venture capital for its plant-based steak alternative.

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Since the beginning of modern venture capital investing — a relatively nascent asset class — the industry has been biased toward funding what it knows best: founders with familiar demographics (white, male) in familiar geographies (Silicon Valley).

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 31, 2023

The share of AI-enabled web searches approaches 50% of all consumer search as consumer behavior patterns evolve, especially on mobile. US VC investment falls from $275b in 2022 to $200b in 2023 & sustains at about $200-220b in 2024 as LP interest in venture attenuates after the euphoria in 2020 & 2021. Score : 0.5. Score : 0.5.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

“There is still pride in building things from scratch and a fear of not being taken seriously as a developer/development team, when in fact, low-code platforms enhance a developer’s capabilities by enabling them to work faster and do (a lot) more. Sri Pangulur, partner, and Paul Lee, partner, Tribe Capital.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

The company just raised a $70 million Series B funding round co-led by Insight Partners and Dawn Capital. With today’s funding round, it expects to hire another 125 employees by the end of 2022. Ably is a Pub/Sub messaging platform that companies can use to develop realtime features in their products. It currently has 65 employees.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The round was led by Tiger Global, with participation from Box Group, Notation Capital and a group of individual investors including, Brendon Burchard, Adobe’s Scott Belsky, Codecademy CEO Zach Sims, Front CEO Mathilde Collin, Teachable CEO Ankur Nagpal and Menlo Security’s David Eckstein. Investors continue to see the value and injected $24.7

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 3, 2022

It’s officially 2022, but let’s take a quick look over the past year. All of this movement is setting the stage for what’s to come in 2022. Some of Aria’s predictions are : “The main story of 2022, it’s definitely going to be certification,” Sergio Cecutta, founder and partner at SMG Consulting, said.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

At the start of 2022, there were $1 trillion in assets under management (AUM) and $230 billion in VC dry powder, figures that dwarf the prefinancial crisis AUM by a factor of five. Concurrently, the number of funds raised in the eight-year period up to 2022 was 2,700 , up from 883 in 2010. Crowdfunding witnessed a 2.4x

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The global food ingredients market is forecasted to be valued at $400 billion by 2022, while plant-based foods are in line to be a $162 billion market by 2030. Joining S2G on the round are returning investors Lux Capital, CPT Capital, Y Combinator and Emles Venture Partners, and new investors, The W Fund, SALT and Veronorte.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Joining Tiger in the round is Valor Capital Group, Monashees, Base 10 and Canary, representing the total funding Zak has raised to date. “We The funding enables us to round out our product and our teams. We feel ready to go into the mass market,” Grandes, co-founder and co-CEO, told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Deb, dev, dev : Alchemy launches a tool that enables devs to start building dApps within 4 minutes, Jacquelyn reports. net loss for Q4 2022 by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch And we have five more for you: Pay, pay pay : Telecom giant Airtel eyes a stake in Paytm , by Manish. Rebecca has more. Discovery posts $2.1B

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

Out-of-state hiring increased from 35% before the pandemic to 62% in 2022 , and office occupancy rates have stagnated ,” Kehayias said. Other rivals include Symmetrical.ai , Multiplier , Collective and Remote , the last of which was valued at over $3 billion as of April 2022. ” Image Credits: Mosey.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2022

The new funding will enable the Future Family to expand its network, invest in staffing and product development and explore new channels. It’s never been harder to start a family than in 2022 just between the age-related infertility and the cost of getting care is so high.

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HPA

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

We’re excited to announce that NanoGraf , an advanced battery materials company and enabler of the world’s most energy-dense lithium-ion 18650 cell, raised $65 million in Series B funding. Additionally, existing investors included Evergreen Climate Innovations and Goose Capital.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 12, 2023

Register Indonesia-based ed-tech startup SoLeLands has successfully secured funding led by venture capital firm East Ventures, with participation from SMDV. Launched in 2022 SoLeLands was established in response to the evolving nature of parenting in today’s world. The exact amount of funding raised was not disclosed.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 31, 2023

The funding also had participation from TKG Taekwang, IBK-STIC Pioneer Fund, and existing investors, including Do Ventures, BAce Capital, and Vulpes, further highlighting the confidence in the startup’s potential. Founded in 2019 by Lam Do and Thu Do, Vuihoc has rapidly grown to serve over 1.1

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

So to get a better idea of how AI is affecting biotech in 2022, we asked six investors to tell us what they look for in a biotech startup today. When evaluating ‘AI for drug discovery companies,’ I view AI as a tool,” Shaq Vayda, principal at Lux Capital, told TechCrunch. Shaq Vayda , principal, Lux Capital.

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