Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

In its first edition (2019), the program brought together nine investors from Europe for a startup ecosystem tour of Ghana and Nigeria to meet 25 selected startups. From measurement six months post-program, we learned that the initiative helped Nigerian and Ghanaian startups raise over 500.000 euros in pre-seed investment.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

You see, insurtech startups often need to take into account the myriad rules and regulations in place when they seek to innovate and embed insurance into products, which might make it difficult to pull it off. How has your approach to the insurtech industry changed since the last time we spoke in Q3 2022 ? That hasn’t changed.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 25, 2023

But I want to stress that this is just the beginning – the first step in our strategy to partner with high-performing fund managers that see the tremendous business opportunity to invest in high-growth diverse-led startups, an often undervalued yet over performing asset class. Paul startup ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Yeah, baby, we are ready to jump right into a jam-packed day dedicated to the growth and success of the entire early-stage startup ecosystem. What can startups do to make their technologies more compelling to the biggest players in healthcare: payors and health systems? Welcome to the first day of TechCrunch Disrupt !

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OurCrowd

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Startup of the Week: AutoBrains: A new kind of AI for automotive. The EU will require some ADAS features in all European cars from 2022. Investing industry bible PitchBook has crowned OurCrowd as “the most active venture capital investor in Israel this year as record amounts of capital flood into the country’s startup ecosystem.”

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

OurCrowd Global Summit returns to Jerusalem, May 25, 2022. The 2022 OurCrowd Global Investor Summit , the biggest investor event in the Middle East, will take place in Jerusalem on May 25, once again bringing the entire startup ecosystem together. Order it HERE. .

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Startup of the Week: Scopio, AI-powered digital blood diagnosis. OurCrowd Global Summit, Jerusalem, May 25, 2022. The company’s ARR has grown 3X in the last 12 months and is forecasting significant growth YOY by the end of 2022. OurCrowd Global Summit returns to Jerusalem, May 25, 2022. Top investment opportunities.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

A hallmark of that spirit is quite visible these days in the country’s flourishing startup ecosystem, which has expanded rapidly in the past few years, to say the least. However, the global slowdown has impacted startups’ growth in the country, just like everywhere else in the world. How has your investment strategy changed?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2022

The startups have a few traits in common, highlighting and reinforcing some of the focus areas for the company’s innovation areas. LG Nova is aiming to be the center of the Venn diagram of the entire startup ecosystem, including the startups, of course.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

2022: The Aftermath In 2022 war, inflation, rising interest rates and a tougher economic environment–one not buoyed by historically low interest rates–brought an end to the long-term bull market in assets (the “everything bubble”), including startup capital. 2 A (temporary) venture capital reset?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2022

I am proud to say that most companies in the portfolio are working towards at least one UN sustainable development goal. Both cities have a growing tech scene that is not yet saturated with VC firms, and each has different focuses at the core of their startup ecosystems. That $63 million sale took place in 2018.) Louis well.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Funding sources for tech startups in Ukraine have gone off a cliff this year, with investors (and their LPs) wary of taking on the risk of backing potentially promising ideas and people who have stayed in the country amid the sustained, persistent and increasingly ugly onslaught from Russia. billion the year before.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2023

Africa seemed to defy the global venture funding decline in the first half of 2022 after its startups raised $3 billion, double the amount secured over a similar period the previous year. Africa predicted to experience sustained funding slowdown in 2023 by Annie Njanja originally published on TechCrunch.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

At our mid-year offsite our partnership at Upfront Ventures was discussing what the future of venture capital and the startup ecosystem looked like. Probably not and 10x (May 2022) seems more in line with the historical trend (actually 10x is still high). We also focus heavily on geographies.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

“We were able to purchase 10% of [business-to-business commerce startup] InfraMarket for $8 million. But the country’s burgeoning startup ecosystem has seen very few exits and many consumer internet startups that listed in the past two years are trading significantly below their listing prices.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Investors participating include Lever VC, Blue Horizon Ventures, Hatch, Good Startup and Alwyn Capital. New School Foods also has grants from Canadian government agencies, including Sustainable Development Technology Canada and Protein Industries Canada. The company has now raised $13 million in total. billion in the next 10 years.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2022

2021 was a record year for venture capital fundraising, and fintechs were the largest recipients of funding worldwide, with about 21% of all venture dollars last year going into fintech startups. We all knew – or at least some of us did, ahem – that this was likely not sustainable in the long term.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

All of these factors have caused fintech M&A exits to decline 30% in Q2 2022, the lowest point since Q3 2020. Personnel losses have also affected the Ukrainian startup ecosystem. The brutal truth is that tough markets also clean up the hundreds of startups without a solid product cluttering the market.

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