TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Q-CTRL , a Sydney-based startup that provides quantum control engineering solutions, announced today it has raised a $25 million Series B led by Airbus Ventures with participation from Ridgeline Partners, Main Sequence Ventures, Horizons Ventures, SquarePeg Capital, Sierra Ventures, DCVC, Sequoia Capital China and InQTel. .

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 28, 2024

El Segundo, CA – March 26, 2024 – Picogrid , a defense technology startup, announces a $12 million seed round led by Initialized Capital with participation by Starburst Ventures, Credo Ventures, Giant Step Capital, Domino Ventures, and Alumni Ventures.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 31, 2023

The funding also had participation from TKG Taekwang, IBK-STIC Pioneer Fund, and existing investors, including Do Ventures, BAce Capital, and Vulpes, further highlighting the confidence in the startup’s potential. The platform offers extensive educational content, with over 500,000 resources, including video lectures and quizzes.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 3, 2023

Partech Partners, M Venture Partners, AC Ventures, iSeed, and Orvel Ventures. With low utilization rates across private hospital infrastructure, this ‘Airbnb for Surgeries’ solution enables HD to help both healthcare providers as well as patients.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

billion by 2024. One of its players, Taager , is a social e-commerce platform enabling online merchants with end-to-end logistics. The seed round was led by Pan-African focused VC 4DX Ventures. With over 1.25 Today, it is announcing that it has secured $6.4 million in seed funding. . Taager Team.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 25, 2024

The country’s only tech-enabled deposit network is leaving behind competitor networks that still use manual processes While fintech funding languished in 2023 , deposit management platform ModernFi is an exception going into 2024, having just closed an $18.7 million Series A funding round. The current round adds to a $4.5

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

In 2024, a number of new EU regulations are expected to come into force, which will tighten the obligation of electric vehicle manufacturers and resellers to recycle batteries at the end of their natural lifespan. The lead investor of this round is World Fund, while previous investors include Vsquared Ventures and Speedinvest.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2023

Kayak Ventures led the investment and was joined by Detroit Venture Partners, REI Co-op Path Ahead Ventures, former Booking.com CEO Gillian Tans, Dadneo, CLIN Fund, Amarena and WeBoost. We caught up with founders Alvaro Silberstein and Camilo Navarro again after covering their $2 million seed round in 2021.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 16, 2024

Ventures with underrepresented founders will compete for share of more than $130,000 in cash grants, plus mentoring and connections. We’re honored to provide them access to key funding and facilitators that can make a difference in their development and enable them to realize their potential.” WILMINGTON, Del.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 30, 2023

The company’s aim is to enable space access at greatly reduced risk, cost, and environmental impact compared to incumbent solutions. The first launches of the Dorado rocket are slated for mid-2024. Register Equatorial Space Systems, a Singapore-based rocket propulsion and space launch startup, has raised US$1.5

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In a statement released on Friday, Validus said, the funding round was also participated by early investors – Vertex SEA and India, Vertex Growth Fund, FMO and VinaCapital Ventures – from its previous fundraising rounds. The success of Series C-1 signals investor confidence on the company’s growth trajectory and expansion plans, it added.

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TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2022

This way of growing users, by getting third-party brokers to use Wefox to advise their own customers, is how CEO and founder Julian Teicke reckons helped the company double its revenues to $320 million last year. “Our model enables Wefox to drive a superior financial profile which puts us on a clear path to profitability.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

Deep Render , a startup developing AI-powered tech to compress videos on the web, today announced that it raised $9 million in a Series A funding round led by IP Group and Pentech Ventures. Co-founder and CEO Chri Besenbruch tells TechCrunch that the fresh capital, which isn’t inclusive of a new $2.7

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2023

Mediwhale co-founder and CEO Kevin Choi discovered that he had lost nearly half of one of his eyes from glaucoma when he was 24, which is rare in young people. SBI Investment led the latest financing with new investor Woori Venture Partners and previous backers BNK Venture Capital, Innopolis Partners and IPS Ventures participating.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 27, 2022

In a statement, Toku said the extended round was co-led by Delivery Hero Ventures and Malaysia’s OSK Ventures International with participation from Betatron Venture Group. “We Toku has earned a reputation for exceeding its customers’ expectations,” said Brendon Blacker, Managing Partner at Delivery Hero Ventures. “We

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2022

million) in venture funding from several notable institutional and angel investors — this includes Manchester City and German international footballer İlkay Gündoğan. Founded out of London in 2019, WeWalk has developed a GPS-enabled smart cane and smartphone app, helping users navigate their surrounding environment.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Across Latin America, e-commerce purchases are expected to grow by double-digits annually by 2024. To do this, the company announced Tuesday $20 million in Series A funding co-led by Base10 Partners, Cometa, and 645 Ventures. He expects 30 branches to go up in the next two weeks in corner and convenience stores around Mexico.

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Impact Hub

JANUARY 4, 2024

Sefit’s founder, Elena Börlin conceptualised the idea and immediately embarked on the Swiss patent process. The grant from Impact Hub Basel enabled sefit to develop the first prototype of their VR software, a crucial breakthrough in their mission. Sefit has achieved remarkable milestones since its inception.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

The Israeli company is only a year old, but has already tackled the structure of the whole cut, which is complex, co-founder and CEO Ofek Ron told TechCrunch. State of Mind Ventures led the round and was joined by Pitango Health Tech, Unovis, TechAviv Founder Partners, SmartAgro, E2JDJ, Alumni Ventures, FoodHack Syndicate and OurCrowd.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

In a nutshell, Geopagos feels it is in the ideal position of being able to serve as the software enabler that can retrofit incumbents like large banks and launch the enablers like fintechs. If they win, we win,” said Sebastián Núñez Castro, CEO and co-founder of Geopagos. Sign up here to get it in your inbox.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Merritt Hummer is a partner at Bain Capital Ventures, where she invests in the fintech, e-commerce and proptech sectors. trillion in sales by 2024 , up from an estimated $680 billion in 2018, according to payments research firm iBe TSD. Merritt Hummer. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Since the global pandemic started over 18 months ago, consumer behavior toward purchasing groceries online became more regular and is expected to grow to $190 billion by 2024. Martie comes online with over 400 SKUs and $3 million in funding from Upfront Ventures. For me, this is brilliant.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

AmazeVR , a virtual reality concert platform that enables users to experience their favorite artists’ VR concerts through content generation tools, announced today it has secured $15 million, which was oversubscribed within three weeks. . AmazeVR has raised a total of $30.8 VR can finally blow all 2D experience out of the water.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 13, 2021

That’s when he met his co-founder Javier Gonzalez and the pair started Orchata in 2020, a mobile app enabling consumers to get groceries delivered in 15 minutes, with no substitutes and at supermarket prices. billion by 2024, with the global pandemic driving demand for faster delivery, according to Statista.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 30, 2022

billion by 2024. While working in the FMCG business, both founders witnessed how difficult it was for emerging brands to get their products to the mass market due to the dominance of established brands, who, for the most part, had built distribution infrastructure for themselves over the years. led by 4DX Ventures.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

March 5, 2024) – The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) held the first in-person meeting of the Diversity Finance Advisory Board (DFAB) last week, bringing together a diverse group of investors, entrepreneurs, and mentors for presentations and networking sessions.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

YouTube and Shopify have teamed up to enable YouTube creators to link their stores and display their products across their channel and leverage Shopify’s real-time inventory syncing, Aisha writes. AM Ventures raised $100 million for industrial 3D printing , writes Haje. This is part of YouTube’s rollout of new shopping features.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

He’s the founder of Manta , a data lineage platform that automatically scans an organization’s data sources to build a map of data flows. Other potential rivals include Monte Carlo and Databand , both of which have raised tens of millions in venture capital. billion by 2024. ” Kratky said.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 4, 2024

However, there are principles that every founder should know before raising, and we will talk about them from the very beginning of the startup to later stages. Successful founders are not very happy when they raise a new round of investment, because they understand that they didn’t actually raise any money, they raised debt.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2023

Demand for its offering has been growing, with the company having added 100,000 cardholders last year, according to CEO and co-founder Jason Rosen. By year’s end, it was up to $80 million, and Rosen is projecting that Petal will become profitable sometime in 2024. Want more fintech news in your inbox?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

One of those startups, First Boulevard (formerly called Tenth), has just raised $5 million in seed funding from Barclays, Anthemis and a group of angel investors such as actress Gabrielle Union, Union Square Ventures’ John Buttrick and AutoZone CFO Jamere Jackson. trillion by 2024,” Miah said.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2022

New Zealand-based VC firms GD1 (Global From Day One) and Nuance Connected Capital led the round, with additional participation from Shasta Ventures, NZGCP, K1W1, Austrian billionaire Wolfgang Leitner, Alt Ventures, Enterprise Angels, Arkisys and NZVC. We can generate a new type of force in space,” founder Max Arshavsky told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Apex’s two co-founders, Ian Cinnamon and Maximilian Benassi, said in a blog post that they independently observed core changes to the industry that convinced them that a new satellite bus manufacturing solution was needed. Apex also offers add-ons like insurance and flight booking. Or are they actually going to be manufactured at scale?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Get ready for your close-up : PhotoRoom, a photo-editing app for e-commerce sellers that enables users to remove the background behind objects, has attracted 40 million app downloads and now raised $19 million, Romain reports. I am on an H-1B, have an approved I-140, and an I-797 that expires in March 2024. The TechCrunch Top 3.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 22, 2024

million funding round led by an investment from First Trust Capital Partners with participation from FCA Venture Partners, Create Health Ventures, Impact Engine, 450 Ventures, LDH Ventures II/Launchpad Digital Health, MassMutual Ventures, Capstar Partners and Wanxiang Healthcare Investments.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 22, 2022

Register Indonesian E-Grocery startup Sayurbox has raised US$120 million in its Series C funding round led by Northstar and Alpha JWC Ventures along with participation from the World’s Bank International Finance Corporation.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 3, 2022

Some of Aria’s predictions are : “The main story of 2022, it’s definitely going to be certification,” Sergio Cecutta, founder and partner at SMG Consulting, said. Imagine a smart helmet with an augmented reality-enabled visor, pointing out directions for you or enticing you into the nearest coffee shop with a floating coupon!

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