AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 6, 2022

Register Transport Capital , a globally-recognised investment management and advisory firm focused on the maritime and aviation industries, has launched its new venture capital arm named TC Ventures. TC Ventures invites founders around the world who are seeking to disrupt and reimagine the maritime and aviation industries to connect.

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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. billion in Q3 to $1.01 billion in Q4. $70

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 10, 2023

million investment to help Token Unlocks grow its team and expand the platform across the globe. According to the statement, Token Unlocks intend to use the investment from its seed funding round to expand its team across the globe to further drive growth to the platform. Register SCB 10X announced its $1.5 Revenues jumped from 7.4

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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. Frances Schwiep: We’re on the lookout for companies both enabling and distributing next generation financial products. If so, which types of BNPL startups will be likely acquisition targets in 2022?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

Sanjay Aggarwal Contributor Share on Twitter Sanjay Aggarwal is a venture partner at F-Prime Capital focused on frontier technology investment opportunities. From 2018 to 2021, investments in the AV sector across the U.S. Then, in 2022, investments fell to $4 billion, with 2023 likely to see further precipitous declines.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2023

In a February 2022 paper, scientists at Alphabet-backed DeepMind had an AI observe keyboard and mouse commands from people completing “instruction-following” computer tasks, like booking a flight, to learn how to do them itself. That hasn’t disrupted product development, apparently. Adept isn’t the only one exploring this idea.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

Supply chain disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine is driving increased costs of goods and services, affecting not only the industrial sector (e.g., The platform helps from research to ordering and enables buyers to source their food and agriculture items at reasonable prices in more than 150 countries.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 29, 2023

The US even enacted legislation in 2022 to bolster its national semiconductor industry. has played a pivotal role in developing groundbreaking connectivity solutions since the company’s establishment in 2022. Amid this competitive landscape, Uniqconn Inc., Kim Young-dong, the CEO of Uniqconn Inc., Could you talk about its impact?

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

today closed a $30 million additional investment from Fidelity Management & Research Company with participation from Lip-Bu Tan (who’s joining the board) and previous investors, concluding the startup’s Series B. . billion market by 2022, according to Markets and Markets. After emerging from stealth in 2019, Sima.ai

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2023

Wellthy is a startup aimed at helping caregivers be more equipped to deal with all aspects of their various responsibilities by serving as a self-described “tech-enabled care concierge.” F rom 2019 to 2022 the number of lives covered with Wellthy benefits grew from about 100,000 to 2 million.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

CEO Michael Bookout indicated that the new cash will go toward expanding and accelerating MyCarrier’s platform offerings and investing in its product, R&D and go-to-market teams. And it’s absolutely needed given global supply chain disruptions and chaos.” million). .

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Investment activity is down now, but it’s likely to pick up in 2023. And when investments ramp up, so does M&A. Before we go any further, here’s a bit more context on technical due diligence for software: TDD applies to traditional software companies and non-software companies enabled by custom created software.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2022

“Enable multifactor authentication (MFA) on everything you have,” said Katie Moussouris, founder of Luta Security. “Enable it on every account that you have.” In Q3 2022, Crunchbase reports that Black founders raised just $187 million, “a staggering decline from the nearly $1.1

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Haje is considering dressing up as “supply chain disruptions” for Halloween, whereas Christine is contemplating dressing up as a down round. Its new Level Lock+ with Apple Home Key support replaces your current lock and enables you to unlock your door and provides you with some exclusivity for now, Darrell writes.

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

Aquiline Capital Partners, a new backer, led the investment, with previous investors Barclays, Chrysalis Investments, Fidelity International Strategic Ventures, DWS, and Natixis Investment Managers also participating. Smart said that group revenue in 2022 was £67 million, up 65% increase compared to 2021.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2022

By the time you’re reading this, we’ll be two days away from TechCrunch Disrupt! Anyway…speaking of Disrupt and Brex, I will be interviewing co-founder and co-CEO Henrique Dubugras and Anu Hariharan, managing director of YC’s growth fund, YC Continuity, live in a Fireside Chat on October 19! Hello, hello. Soooo exciting!

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2022

The company’s technology is essentially APIs that provide a “headless” offering — meaning the shop front technology is separated from the back technology so customizations and maintenance can be made in one section without disrupting the other — for merchants that want to be more in control of their e-commerce tech stack.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

However, a change-point is in the offing as insurtechs like the Kenya-based insurtech Turaco introduce new technologies and products that are disrupting the market. Pantone co-founded Turaco with Peter Gross after their stint at MIC Global (Micro-Ensure), a tech-enabled embedded insurance provider.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

To meet the changing startup landscape, we’re refreshing and reimagining TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 in a big way, with more of what you love and new ways to accelerate your growth — new stages, new content, and new opportunities. Oh, and if you were laid off recently, we are offering a free Expo+ pass to TC Disrupt 2023. Kyle has more.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

. — Mary Ann Storied venture firms Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) invested more in fintech than any other category in 2022, according to research from CB Insights. Sequoia apparently was fairly active overall last year despite the global downturn, with over 100 investments. But wasn’t that true for every sector?

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2023

That’s why we have so many repetitive neobanks, social investing apps, etc. billion of financial fraud in 2022 to the Federal Trade Commission. Stripe processed transactions totaling $817 billion in 2022, and Collison said that “it could be in the general vicinity of” $1 trillion this year. over the same period in 2022.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

Our brand is very disruptive on the shelf, and so we believe that retail is important in our discovery. Berger started Bundle x Joy in 2022 after spending the past 15 years in the pet industry, most notably at PetSmart and Nestlé, where she ran Castor & Pollux’s organic dog and cat food line.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

It’s Wednesday, May 18, 2022, and we are hanging out at our Mobility event, ogling cars that fly, drive themselves and have various identity crises. The green, green grass of climate investing just got a $1.7 Five construction tech investors analyze 2022 trends and opportunities. Haje and Christine. The TechCrunch Top 3.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Draper Associates led the investment and was joined by Midnight Venture Partners and Cartograph Ventures. If we could find a way to make it taste good, we felt like we had the potential to disrupt the entire energy drink market and really the caffeine market as a whole,” he added. The new capital gives VAE Labs an $8.5

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2022

In a recent conversation, CEO Gunnar Froh told TechCrunch about the pivot and gave a general update on the company, a member of this year’s Battlefield 200 at Disrupt 2022. Food automation startups are having a moment, as recently evidenced by Chipotle’s investment in Miso Robotics’ tortilla chip–making robot.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

“The market timing for this investment is ideal,” he added. “As many businesses are coming out of the pandemic with a new affinity for hybrid and remote work, modern technologies that can best enable the secure and efficient delivery and management of digital workspaces are in high demand.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The investment comes 18 months after a $2 million seed round and growth that had the company going from from 100 to 1,000 stores. The funding will enable Amara to grow fast to meet the demand as it invests in hiring, product development and brand awareness. Amara founder and CEO Jessica Sturzenegger. Image Credits: Amara.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 21, 2022

An Indian upstart, co-founded by a group of journalists, that seeks to disrupt how people follow news and what they consume has raised funds as it prepares to accelerate its growth and broaden its offering. — Soumya (@bytesofnews) August 22, 2022. Check out their whole piece (and subscribe!)

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

Decipad , a no-code startup that’s aiming to disrupt spreadsheets with accessible tools that empower people to play around with numbers, has nabbed $5 million in seed funding. We see ourselves as a service enabling communities and businesses to create value through what they create on Decipad , not a vertical SaaS tool.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 19, 2023

Register There are generally two camps when it comes to Web3 – one believes that Web3 services must be blockchain-native and fully decentralized in order to be innovative enough to disrupt the previous generation of services, while the other argues that Web3 and Web2 are not opposing forces and must complement each other.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

Moonshot has nine brands, including Magneto Boards, and is now positioned to grow to over $100 million in trailing 12 months growth by the end of 2022. When the investment group decided to break up the assets, those brands, including La Scoota and WOD Nation, were sold, Moss said. It will take a few months for this to normalize.”.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

Guild explained that the company chose to deepen its relationship with Altman Capital, and as part of the investment, Jack Altman is joining Owner.com’s board, a person Guild said was a “dream board member.”. Image Credits: Owner.com. It is also now in 49 states and working with more than 1,500 restaurants.

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 7, 2021

We are grappling with healthcare challenges, irreversibly disrupted industries, millions of underemployed workers, and devastating racial and gender inequities. Our investor community drives holistic wealth creation, leveraging dollars invested with the significant time and expertise that we commit to our budding ventures.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2023

Then in the first quarter of 2022 alone, Better.com recorded a staggering net loss of $327.7 This week, the Swedish payments giant revealed that despite a large ($1 billion) operating loss in 2022, it expects to return to profitability this year. The Netherlands and Sweden in May 2022. on May 5, 2022.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

According a report from AgFunder, total venture investment for “e-grocery” companies reached $18.5 Between 2020 and 2022, investors poured more than $5.5 The boom continued into early 2022, with startups like Getir , Zapp , and Zepto raising mammoth rounds. .” billion in 2021.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

And while the accelerator says it only looks at founders when investing in startups, not sector, category or idea, more money in the pipeline may be empowering enough to attract a different cohort of founders. Moonshot is letting angel investors invest in the futures of athletes, in exchange for a share in their future prize money.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

Last week, Paystand — a blockchain-enabled B2B payments startup — announced it had acquired Mexican fintech Yaydoo — creating a new unicorn in the resulting new entity. has a legacy, centralized financial infrastructure that needs to be disrupted and re-imagined by fintechs with blockchain technology. and Mexico. and Mexico.

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