Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 2, 2025

What do they mean for startups? 1 In terms of first order effects, tariffs can impact a startup in two ways : the input costs and consumers’ demand. Investments into new areas may be challenged, slowing sales cycles, resulting in pipeline shocks , a phenomenon we witnessed in 2022. Uncertainty breeds indecision.

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NZ Entrepreneur

MARCH 16, 2025

Watch/listen to the Interview: In this interview Richard Liew talks with James Burnes , Chief Executive at Ministry of Awesome , a Christchurch New Zealand based startup hub helping high growth startups throughout New Zealand to start, grow and scale up.

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StartupNation

MAY 23, 2025

Pick a business that doesn’t suck up cash Skip expensive solutions that look like a financial Everest and require investment with a capital “I” (and five or more zeros). They offer the highest return on investment (ROI). Note: Fines can definitely cost you more than your startup budget of $100. In fact, AI boosts ROI by $3.7

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A Smart Bear: Longform

JULY 26, 2025

How can we know where we should invest our time? Year 2022) This rule isn’t important only for heavily-funded VC-backed companies gunning for hundreds of millions of ARR. Since “market size” is not the ceiling, what is causing the slow-down? How does that look? Average ARR at IPO is $255M.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 14, 2025

These hubs, often located in cities or regions with a strong focus on tech development, bringing together startups, investors, academic institutions, and industry leaders to drive growth and create new solutions for the economy of tomorrow. These new awardees, all designated Tech Hubs, have not received prior Tech Hub implementation funds.

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Revolution

DECEMBER 23, 2024

In 2025, startups beyond the coasts and outside of the traditional tech hubs will face new challenges and, with customary resourcefulness, also seize new opportunities. startups in Q1-Q2 of 2024. Exit optionality is indeed essential to the startup and venture capital lifecycle, as acquisitions make up 90% ofexits.

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Revolution

JUNE 30, 2025

The conversation: Why climate tech isn’t just necessary; it’s investable and inevitable. Morgan to bring together founders, investors, and local leaders for a conversation about the business of climate tech, and what it will take to scale solutions that make both environmental and economic sense. Help founders think two steps ahead.

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Revolution

AUGUST 2, 2022

is core to our investment thesis. What we did: Steve Case was a featured panelist at Heartland Forward’s 2022 Heartland Summit?—?an an event connecting coastal investors with Chicago’s most innovative startups. Revolution’s team put rubber to the road this spring, traveling more than a collective 12.5K

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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. Angel investment. Get angel investment for your startup.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2021

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. As we entered 2021, I wrote about the big question on every startup’s mind for 2021: How will a cataclysmic event such as a pandemic show up in post-pandemic innovation? And the startup of the week is….

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 5, 2022

The MyEO DealExchange DX22 Conference will take place in Denver, Colorado, from 12-15 October 2022. The first two MyEO DealExchange conferences in 2018 and 2019 made a significant impact on the members who attended—including a 7-figure investment in Scott Mesh (EO New York)’s company. What is the Needs and Leads Speed Networking event?

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

And while this May’s economic backdrop was markedly different from last’s , enthusiasm was high and outlooks remained positive for the startup momentum building between the coasts. We named this summit after a report we wrote with Pitchbook at the end of 2021 to explore the impact of the pandemic on investment patterns.

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Revolution

JULY 21, 2022

The new funding for the meat alternative startup will support rapid retail expansion, continued product development and product capabilities Meet Meati ?—?the The Results To-Date: Meati went live with its first DTC offering in March 2022, which sold out in 2.5 hours, followed by another drop in April, which sold out in 20 minutes.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 31, 2023

Register Vuihoc , an ed-tech platform catering to K-12 Vietnamese students, recently secured a significant US$6 million investment in a Series A funding round led by TNB Aura. Amidst the fluctuations in the world economy, Vietnam’s EdTech sector remains an attractive destination for solid investments.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Register Indonesia-based venture capital firm East Ventures and Seoul-based venture capital firm SV Investment have joined forces to establish a new fund targeted at $100 million. Roderick Purwana, Managing Partner of East Ventures, expressed his satisfaction with the SV Investment partnership.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 11, 2023

Register South Korea venture investment firm ‘1Billion Partners Inc. 1Billion Partners supports startups with innovative ideas and growth potential in South Korea and beyond. 1Billion Partners supports startups with innovative ideas and growth potential in South Korea and beyond.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 28, 2023

Register Startup founders are often too focused on the amount of money they can get from an investor that they mostly fail to see the value that other investors have to offer to grow their businesses further. Indelible Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in B2B SaaS startups that can scale internationally.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 8, 2024

Women still only get about 2% of venture capital investment money, and we want to see that change,” said Cindy Boyd, EO Houston. “By Our global goal is to ignite women leaders, innovators, entrepreneurs, and future-preneurs to spark startups, drive economic expansion, and advance communities worldwide,” Milena shared.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 1, 2022

In the 2022 GSEA Global Finals , Arnold Shoko won the Together We Grow Award for his collaborative spirit. We are an Insect-Tech startup. The 2022/23 GSEA competition season is open. You are the 2022 GSEA Together We Grow winner. Because of that money, other investors are more willing to invest in our company.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Register Singapore’s Jungle Ventures has announced the launch of First Cheque@Jungle , a new program aimed at investing in startups during their pre-seed and seed stages. The First Cheque program plans to leverage the expertise of experienced founders from Jungle Ventures’ current and former portfolio startups.

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Revolution

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

At Rise of the Rest, we’ve spent years traversing the country, spotlighting emerging startup hubs, and building a network of entrepreneurial champions and ecosystem builders beyond Silicon Valley, New York City, and Boston. In the last decade, we’ve socialized several Rise of the Rest-isms to describe investments that check those boxes.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 27, 2023

Register The Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (headed by Minister Park Bo-gyun) conducted an investment briefing on July 24, focused on attracting investment from the UAE sovereign wealth fund for content industries, including games , dramas, and webtoons.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 4, 2023

And with lockdowns now a thing of the past, we predict travel to also increase from 2022 levels which is a great sign for the industry and for business. Travel is going to be one of the biggest investments companies will make, and it will be well worth it. Opportunity for startups.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Let’s explore the four most effective and modern types of animated videos you can leverage as we head into 2022, with some relevant statistics to underscore their importance. 4 effective animation trends for 2022. The post 4 Trending animation styles to level up your marketing in 2022 appeared first on THE BLOG. 2D animation.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 8, 2025

An analysis of their investment patterns since 2020 doesn’t just reveal the accelerator’s strategy—it provides a map to the entire startup ecosystem’s next chapter. Similarly manufacturing startups have seized on the tariff-induced reshoring opportunity. Crypto/web3 remains around 5% of investments.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 13, 2024

in funding and carbon removal deals support pilot underway in Brazil Some of the biggest names in climate, technology, and investing are behind a bold plan to scale CO2 removal using an innovative technology called Enhanced Rock Weathering (ERW). Terradot, a climate tech startup founded at Stanford, announced its launch with $58.2

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

The company, which has built a payment platform intended for gaming platforms, virtual world publishers, mobile application developers and NFT providers, said Tuesday it has secured another strategic investment from its returning backer, J.P Morgan Payments, and new investor Dunamu , a Seoul-based operator of crypto exchange Upbit.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Register Japanese financial giant SBI Holdings is set to unveil a $663 million fund dedicated to supporting startups engaged in Web3, AI, and the Metaverse. The fund’s operations are scheduled to commence by the close of the current year, with investments reaching 150-200 companies within its portfolio.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Over the past couple of years, there’s been an overlap between tech and art, fueling a growing interest of movie, music and sports stars investing in tech startups. What’s pulling African music artists to tech investment? Europe and globally. . based and Africa-focused mobile payments company through Zagadat Capital.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 24, 2023

Register Startup Island TAIWAN, an initiative backed by Taiwan’s National Development Council, recently joined forces with domestic venture capitalists and listed companies to present a significant event showcasing the prowess of Taiwanese digital tech startups.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

the free YC Startup School courses). 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.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Register The South Korea Ministry of SMEs and Startups, in collaboration with the Korea Startup Forum, is set to host the highly anticipated “COMEUP 2023,” set to take place from November 8 to 10 at the renowned Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP) in Seoul.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 27, 2023

Register Asia is a significant market for startups due to its large and diverse population, as well as its rapidly growing economies. South Korea’s largest accelerator program– the K-Startup Grand Challenge (KSGC) is the unique opportunity for global startups to enter the flourishing market of Asia.

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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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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 31, 2023

Register Indonesian digital bank Superbank , supported by Grab, Singtel, and Emtek Group, is collaborating with Singapore’s Genesis Alternative Ventures to offer a financing package of $40 million for startups in Indonesia. This initiative will primarily focus on startups in the series B and series C funding stages.

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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. Magnetar contributed $111 million, with the remainder of the investment being split between Nvidia, Friedman and Gross.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

This venture capital entity is expected to play a role in identifying and investing in promising startups in Indonesia. The venture capital initiative addresses Indonesia’s soonicorn startup scene, focusing on companies seeking series C and series D funding rounds.

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