AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 19, 2023

The fintech company, which was the first to digitize BPR in accelerating the financial inclusion in Indonesia’s tier 2 and tier 3 cities, said that the funding round was led by East Ventures (Growth fund). billion) worth of deposits and loans to local BPRs and MSMEs in 2022. Komunal has channeled $230 million (equivalent to IDR 3.6

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

We’re thrilled to welcome Changpeng Zhao to TC Sessions: Crypto 2022 in Miami on November 17. Binance has been extremely busy in 2022, even amid a crash in cryptocurrency prices and macroeconomic uncertainty. earned new investment as it strives to topple incumbents like Coinbase. Competitors have also been taking notice.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

After developing a network of telehealth, diagnostics and pharmacies for consumers, digital health company Truepill is targeting healthcare incumbents like health payers, providers and employer groups. We still have a lot in store for 2022,” he added. “It billion valuation is “reflective of our ambition.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2023

Celebrating female-led ventures I, as many of you I’m sure, continue to be disappointed in the lack of LP (limited partner) dollars flowing toward female-led venture capital firms. billion, or a 12% drop in funding from the fourth quarter of 2022. And, it’s important to note that of that $15 billion, $6.5 After Stripe’s $6.5

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Costanoa Ventures led Seed Round with participation from South Park Commons and FJ Labs Innovation and entrepreneurship is about filling a gap or solving a pain point. Comun observed that no incumbent bank offers a full Spanish language banking experience. said Mark Selcow, Partner at Costanoa Ventures.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2023

There’s a lot of fintech news out there and it’s my job to stay on top of it — and make sense of it — so you can stay in the know. — Mary Ann Last week, I dug into CB Insights’ State of Fintech 2022 report. billion in 2022. That’s a big drop even from just the first quarter of 2022, in which we saw $5.3 That compares to $25.3

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

“It’s a huge market that is still controlled by incumbents charging extremely high interest rates, which makes it difficult for people to pay back their loans. To get even more specific, the team is projecting to reach nearly $196 million in revenues in 2022, a “3x” growth compared to 2021.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And despite public markets’ rocky start in early January, we’re confident that 2022 will be another banner year for the sector. Then, we’ll turn our attention to the year ahead and offer some predictions for fintech in 2022. Fintech continued to outperform the market by 3x.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Ushur today announced that it raised $50 million in a Series C round led by Third Point Ventures with participation from investors Iron Pillar, 8VC, Aflac Ventures and Pentland Ventures. Then there’s incumbents like Automation Anywhere and UiPath, which occupy the enormous robotic process automation market.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

CoreWeave , an NYC-based startup that began as an Ethereum mining venture, has secured a large tranche of funding as it continues to transition to a general-purpose cloud computing platform. ” It’s tough for any cloud provider to compete with the incumbents in the space — i.e., Google, Amazon and Microsoft.

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

There’s scores of competition, including incumbents like OpenAI and Anthropic. ” Together, launched in June 2022, is the brainchild of Vipul Ved Prakash, Ce Zhang, Chris Re and Percy Liang. . ” Together, launched in June 2022, is the brainchild of Vipul Ved Prakash, Ce Zhang, Chris Re and Percy Liang.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

For me, there was a huge opportunity in a space that the incumbents were not able to capture because a lot of it is the economics of their model and misaligned incentives.The world continues to unfortunately be made up of haves and have nots….There TC: Was it worth it for you to get a charter as a company? And if so, why? Today, we have 6.8

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2022

The Series B round was led by Accel, Citius and Tiger Global, with participation from existing investors AC Ventures, Global Founders Capital, Lightspeed and Sequoia Capital India. by 2022, compared to China’s 6% and South Korea’s 34% in 2020. The company declined to disclose its post-money valuation.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 15, 2022

The Series B extension financing round was anchored by SIG Venture Capital and backed by CE Innovation Capital and PayU, the payments and fintech business of Prosus. In January 2022, Ayoconnect raised an oversubscribed Series B funding led by Tiger Global.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Bain Capital Ventures led the seed round alongside South Park Commons, Core Innovation Capital, and Operator Partners. Column Tax’s tax prep product, “Tax Filing,” will also launch in February 2022 in time for the upcoming tax season, the company told TechCrunch. Mobile income tax software Column Tax announced today that it raised $5.1

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

406 Ventures and Energy Impact Partners with participation from Cisco Investments. Companies such as Socure , Transmit Security and Trulioo have raised hundreds of millions of dollars between them within the last few years, while others, like Auth0, have been snapped up by incumbents like Okta. million in a Series A round co-led by.406

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 25, 2022

Bjorn Bergstrom has vast experience from consumer scale-ups, venture capital and management consulting. 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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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Pitch deck pro tips from a leading Silicon Valley venture capitalist. ” Pitch deck pro tips from a leading Silicon Valley venture capitalist. H1 2022 cybersecurity product-led growth market map. H1 2022 cybersecurity product-led growth market map. Image Credits: Cavan Images (opens in a new window) / Getty Images.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

ALLVP and Infinity Ventures, a firm founded by a trio of ex-PayPal execs, co-led the equity raise. Better Tomorrow Ventures, Lee Fixel’s Addition, Broadhaven and Magma Partners are also backers of the company. based corporate spend startup that in June closed a $60 million Series B led by Menlo Ventures and whose CEO is an investor.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

Iron Pillar and Uncorrelated Ventures led the round, with participation from existing investors Nexus Venture Partners, Chiratae Ventures and Next47. This, along with the platform’s emphasis on no-code capabilities, differentiates Pando from incumbents like SAP, Oracle, Blue Yonder and E2Open, Jayakrishnan asserts.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

And according to David Wechsler, a principal at OMERS Ventures, “having an embedded strategy is not required for venture funding.” ” On the flip side, he predicts that corporates with venture capital arms that are “committed to the insurance sector will likely step up their involvement.” That hasn’t changed.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

more data by year-end 2022 than in 2020, amounting to multiple petabytes of data in total. In another win for Alation, the investment from Databricks Ventures is strategic, Sangani says. There’s been an explosion of enterprise data in recent years, accelerated by pandemic-spurred digital transformations.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Besides Tiger, a slew of venture capital firms also participated in the Series A, including Insight Partners, Index Ventures, monashees, SciFi, QED Investors, BoxGroup, Greyhound, Gilgamesh Ventures and Clocktower. Why global investors are flocking to back Latin American startups.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 20, 2024

You could either spend, you know, you raise some venture funding, you could either spend some of that funding on hiring out a whole team and developing all those competencies, or you can spend that on making your model even better. You know, incumbents versus startups. You need to do billing in all these different countries.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

And of course incumbent payroll providers like Square offer their own solutions. ” Whether because of those differentiating features or because global HR tech VC investment continues to outperform the market (the first half of 2022 saw funding reach $9.4 So what does Wingspan bring to the table?

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

A recent ZDNet piece reaffirms that the AI edge chip market is booming, fueled by “staggering” venture capital financing in the hundreds of millions of dollars. billion market by 2022, according to Markets and Markets. ”) But the startup stands to profit handsomely if it can capture even a sliver of the sector. (The

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

Global venture funding in 2022 declined 35% year over year from 2021, according to Crunchbase data, while Q4 2022 saw the lowest amount invested since Q1 2020. billion in venture dollars went into the identity management sector in 2021, up 2.5x .” It’s also, perhaps, a reflection of the tough economic reality.

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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. reported this month that $51 billion of venture capital was invested into U.S. 4 trends that will define e-commerce in 2022.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

We profiled Rebag back in 2015, when its name included two “g’s,” (gotta love URL availability) and had raised $4 million in seed funding to go after incumbents like The RealReal. The market for venture capital is active and favorable, and we seized on that opportunity to accelerate funding,” he added.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Its latest brand, Rob’s Backstage Popcorn, is a joint venture with the Jonas Brothers. Joining Integrated Capital in the round are Great Oaks Venture Capital, Pacific Tiger Group, Sope Creek Capital and Clearco. Fugman expects to launch new brands in the first half of 2022.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

According to the accelerator, the decision to downsize the S22 batch — significantly smaller than its most recent batches — was a result of the economic downturn and changes to the venture funding environment this year. Where is Y Combinator startup-hunting in 2022? Fintech … and others.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

Generative AI, particularly text-to-image AI, is attracting as many lawsuits as it is venture dollars. ” Image Credits: Bria Adato co-founded Bria when the pandemic hit in 2020, and the company’s other co-founder, Assa Eldar, joined in 2022. During Adato’s Ph.D.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

First the company, formerly known as Clara Foods, secured a deal in April with BioBrew , an investment of AB InBev’s investment arm, ZX Ventures, to brew its animal-free protein at scale. They were joined by other new and existing investors, including Temasek, Wheatsheaf Group and TO Ventures. The EVERY Co. , It secured $2.8

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

With plans to raise a $25 million fund and more than $15 million already invested, PsyMed Ventures focuses on early-stage startups developing psychedelic therapeutics. venture capital activity,” he writes. And as more regions decriminalize the use of plant-based substances, investors are taking notice.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 24, 2022

million in an oversubscribed pre-seed funding round co-led by Alpha JWC Ventures and Picus Capital, with participation from FEBE Ventures, Basis Set Ventures, Ratio Ventures, and Frances Kang at Horizons Ventures. Register HR automation platform , Omni HR today announced it has recently closed $2.4

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

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. Ayoconnect says it is the only open finance player in Indonesia to be licensed by the central bank.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

-based company’s $35 million Series B in April 2021, which was co-led by TTV Capital, Owl Ventures and SoftBank Group Corp.’s Joining TTV in doubling down on their investment in the company were Owl Ventures, SoftBank’s Opportunity Fund, Mubadala Capital and Next Play Capital. “We s SB Opportunity Fund.

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