American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 15, 2024

While previously over half concentrated in professional services, administrative and support services, healthcare, and personal care, inroads were seen in finance, insurance, and real estate sectors. The study showed the astounding pace of growth of women-owned businesses compared to those owned by men. businesses but contributing only 5.8%

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 19, 2023

This financing round was led by Christian Hymer, who hails from the family that founded Hymer, a prominent German motorhome manufacturer. Based in Bali, Indonesia , Stilt Studios specializes in creating sustainable and modular homes. The injection of capital will fuel the startup’s expansion across international markets.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 10, 2023

Register Singapore-based coffee chain Flash Coffee has raised a total of $50 million in its Series B funding round led by White Star Capital , with existing investors including Delivery Hero, Geschwister Oetker, and Conny & Co also participating. We are grateful to have the continued backing of our shareholders in this financing round.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 12, 2023

A 2020 report by the International Finance Corporation (IFC) revealed that despite women constituting 30 percent of the region’s entrepreneurs, they receive a mere eight percent of venture capital funding.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The $5 million program encourages investors to provide additional funding to businesses by providing an NJEDA guarantee on loans advanced for working capital purposes. NJ Entrepreneur Support Program provides guarantees to support investments into Garden State companies TRENTON, N.J.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 14, 2023

The NJIEF is unique to New Jersey because of its self-sustaining model, designed to create a continuous loop of investment and mentorship,” said New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy. 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 26, 2023

The 100,000-square-foot facility was financed in part by a $150 million Series C round of capital raised last year and a brand new extension round of $22 million. The new capital round was led again by Revolution Growth and also included Rockefeller Capital. Cultivated beef companies tout sustainability.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2021

As nations around the world race to reduce their environmental footprint and embrace more sustainable methods of production, finding a way to remove carbon from the metals business will be one of the most important contributions to that effort. One startup that’s developing a new technology to address the issue is Boston Metal.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Ryan Popple , a former active duty Army officer and early member of Tesla’s finance team who rose through the ranks before leaving to become a partner at Kleiner Perkins and CEO of electric bus manufacturer Proterra, died unexpectedly at 44 years old. Wishing all my readers a happy holiday and good health in the coming year.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The company publicly debuted as a SPAC company in July last year after merging with Churchill Capital IV. For its part, working with Lucid helps Saudi Arabia’s goal of transforming and diversifying its economy by developing sustainable energy and transportation. million in the fourth quarter, per Yahoo Finance.

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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

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

trillion by 2024. The COVID-19 pandemic is helping startups that innovate in areas like payments, financing, insurance and compliance. Even so, according to Merritt Hummer, a partner at Bain Capital Ventures, “B2B marketplaces cannot simply remain stagnant, serving as simple transactional platforms.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

That’s why technologies coming from companies like Malta , an energy storage technology developer that just raised $50 million in new financing, are attracting attention and venture capital investment. Dustin Moskovitz, a co-founder of Facebook and the chief executive and co-founder of Asana, also participated in the round.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

The seed round was led by Astanor Ventures and followed on by a group of investors, including XAnge, Blue Horizon and Nucleus Capital. As I noted already this week , alternative proteins is a hot space attracting both startups and venture capital. In 2019, he started at Peace of Meat, which focused on cultivated meat.

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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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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Data reveals Women Entrepreneurs Gaining Ground On the startup side, according to the 2024 Wells Fargo Impact of Women -Owned Business Report, between 2019 and 2023 women-owned businesses grew at nearly double the rate of those owned by men which was exceeded during 2022 to 2023, reaching 4.5 billion of total venture capital.

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OurCrowd

MARCH 25, 2022

The demand for animal-free protein is rapidly growing as consumers seek healthy and sustainable alternatives. EVERY’s heavily oversubscribed $175M Series C round was co-led by McWin and Rage Capital, an investment fund focused on alternative proteins. Startup of the Week: The EVERY Company: Full egg protein, no animals. In vest Now.

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OurCrowd

MARCH 25, 2022

The demand for animal-free protein is rapidly growing as consumers seek healthy and sustainable alternatives. EVERY’s heavily oversubscribed $175M Series C round was co-led by McWin and Rage Capital, an investment fund focused on alternative proteins. Startup of the Week: The EVERY Company: Full egg protein, no animals. In vest Now.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 13, 2023

It’s the shared micromobility operator that has gained a rep for growing at a steady, sustainable pace, rather than moving fast and breaking things? The company is starting with limited sales this year and will grow its capacity in 2024 if all goes well. Micromobbin’ You remember Veo , right? The Cosmo X starts at $3,499.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

The recommendations aim to define the best environment for their services to function and how to regulate programs in a way that’s financially sustainable for them over the long term. The siren song of the public markets, and all of the capital they can provide, is simply too loud for WeRide to ignore.

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