American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 14, 2023

October 12, 2023) – The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) Board today approved the first investment in an emerging New Jersey company from the New Jersey Innovation Evergreen Fund (NJIEF). The NJIEF, launched in 2022, is a groundbreaking tool to increase access to strategic resources and venture capital in New Jersey.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2021

Previously backed by the Bill Gates-financed Breakthrough Energy Ventures fund, the new company has just raised roughly $50 million of an approximately $60 million financing round to expand its operations, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Highlighting the investor interest in the segment, SirionLabs announced that it closed an $85 million Series D financing round led by Partners Group with participation from existing investors Sequoia Capital and Tiger Global. billion by 2024, according to Markets and Markets. billion in 2019 to $2.9

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Talent in 2024. It’s getting more difficult to hire great talent at the growth stages because many companies were expected to go public and get the associated capital infusion from going public. This has more to do with retention issues and less to do with raising new capital. Retaining great talent in a tight market.

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TechCrunch

JULY 18, 2022

Other deals that got my attention… Aurora Labs raised $63 million through a Series C financing round led by Moore Strategic Ventures. Xpeng Robotics , a bionic robot maker affiliated with Xpeng , raised $100 million in a Series A round led by IDG Capital, at a time when venture investments are slowing in China. also participated.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 30, 2022

In this piece, I’ll be using the Three Arrows Capital (3AC) saga as a lens through which we can better understand the true insights that should be gleaned from the current bear market. These currency arbitrage and funding trades are very profitable, but they are also capital intensive.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

The troubles with sales also started to flare up tensions between founders and executives, which in turn impacted Micromax’s attempts to raise capital. Former investors include Peak XV Partners (formerly Sequoia Capital India & SEA), Sandstone Capital and TA Associates. million, although that dates from 2010.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

If SVB rises from the ashes (seems like there is a glimmer of hope thanks to folks like Ro Khanna) — and we act to mitigate the weaponization of concentrated digital media — money may not become impossibly expensive for capital intensive technologies like robotics. How best would an adversary attack innovation in robotics?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2021

Instead, he decided that his firm was open to raising more capital in April despite having capital in the bank from previous investments, and 10 days later had signed a term sheet with Menlo. Ramp recently raised lots of capital , and is investing in its own software stack. Set your timers for 2024.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 20, 2023

That could dampen their stock price, and/or force their regulators to close them down for breaching capital adequacy ratios. It wasn’t like they were dealing with dodgy companies or individuals like Three Arrows Capital; they lent money to the richest and most powerful nation in the world. You wouldn’t, obviously, and nobody did.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

million downloads to make it “the largest and first Black-owned personal finance platform” to do so, Rodney Williams, co-founder and president of SoLo, told TechCrunch. The community finance company defines the claim “as a business-to-consumer personal finance banking solution, U.S.-based It’s challenging across the board.”

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OurCrowd

MARCH 25, 2022

EVERY’s heavily oversubscribed $175M Series C round was co-led by McWin and Rage Capital, an investment fund focused on alternative proteins. In multiple cases we had to raise salaries to fight and get the employee on board,” one CEO tells us. As yet, there are no established direct competitors. In vest Now.

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OurCrowd

MARCH 25, 2022

EVERY’s heavily oversubscribed $175M Series C round was co-led by McWin and Rage Capital, an investment fund focused on alternative proteins. In multiple cases we had to raise salaries to fight and get the employee on board,” one CEO tells us. As yet, there are no established direct competitors. In vest Now.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

The siren song of the public markets, and all of the capital they can provide, is simply too loud for WeRide to ignore. BlaBlaCar plans to acquire Klaxit , a smaller French carpooling startup, in 2024. Broom , an Indonesia-based auto-financing startup, closed a $10 million pre-Series A round led by Openspace Ventures.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 13, 2023

The company is starting with limited sales this year and will grow its capacity in 2024 if all goes well. Sarfraz Maredia, Uber’s vice president of delivery and head of its Americas region, has joined Serve’s board. People Arrival ‘s board of directors appointed Igor Torgov as an executive director. In other news . . .

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 9, 2023

Proceeds of the financing will enable the company to prepare for commercialization of its groundbreaking non-invasive cardiac assessment platform, Cardiac Performance System (CPS ). The funding was led by Florida-based Orlando Health Ventures, with participation from Colle Capital, Frontier Venture Capital, and others.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 4, 2024

ACA Board Member Marcia Dawood serves on the SEC’s Small Business Capital Formation Advisory Committee. They met with Stacey Bowers, the new Director of the Office of the Advocate for Small Business Capital Formation at the SEC, to discuss ACA’s continued engagement and partnership with the SEC and the Small Business Office.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Other deals that got my attention … BMW i Ventures led the seed financing round of Rapid Liquid Print, which has developed 3D printers for elastomers that produce large-scale, high-resolution, soft and stretchable products with industrial materials such as soft rubber, silicone and foams. capital and how much U.K.

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 31, 2020

Last week’s historic decision by the US Securities and Exchange Commission to broaden its definition of an “accredited investor” is a game-changer for the venture capital industry, boosting access to the kind of investments in startups that OurCrowd has helped pioneer. billion by 2024. Oren Sarig, Diagnostic Robotics.

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