Smart Hustle Magazine

JULY 26, 2021

In fact, overall digital transformation (DX) investments are expected to reach $7.8 trillion between 2020 and 2024. Plus, a September 2020 QuickBooks survey reports that 23% of small business starting in the next 12 months will have fully remote workforces – which the cloud enables. A Deloitte study found 43% of U.S. Resources.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 25, 2024

Company formerly known as Semi-Stow Expanding its Network of Secure Fleet Yards AUSTIN, TX and SEATTLE, WA – April 23, 2024 – Outpost ( www.outpost.us ), a leading network of managed semi-truck parking facilities, today announced that it has raised $12.5 Visit us at www.gree npointpartners.com.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 28, 2024

Boulevard Capital delivers fast funding to help salons, spas, barbershops, and medspas accelerate business growth LOS ANGELES – March 20, 2024 – Boulevard ( www.joinblvd.com ), provider of the client experience platform purpose-built for appointment-based, self-care businesses, today announced the launch of Boulevard Capital.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 21, 2024

20 March 2024 – Kirchner Group is pleased to announce that it acted as a scientific advisor to the Alaska Permanent Fund during their due diligence process related to the recently announced Kenai Therapeutics, Inc. 82M Series A financing.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The disruptive technology-enabled startups are being showcased at its Demo Day, following their five-month participation in the Labs’ accelerator program. “At Today’s Demo Day showcases the Inclusive Ventures Lab’s largest and most global cohort to date, underscoring our mission to advance a more equitable investment landscape worldwide.”’

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 25, 2024

$20M program matches investors’ direct investment in product-based companies TRENTON, N.J. April 24, 2024) – The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) has closed its first four approvals under the Angel Match Program , awarding a total of $2 million to support early-stage technology companies. TLA Innovation, Inc.

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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. Picogrid now serves military customers across the United States and beyond.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 17, 2023

The funds raised will be used to boost bolttech’s organic growth, through investments in proprietary technology, digital services for business partners and consumers, and talent acquisition across its 30+ markets. The company also plans to explore inorganic opportunities to stimulate international expansion.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 16, 2024

(April 15, 2024) – Last week, the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) Board approved the creation of the New Jersey Green Bank (NJGB), which will make investments in the clean energy sector that will help advance the state’s efforts to make an equitable transition to 100 percent clean energy.

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TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2022

“Wefox’s ‘secret sauce’ is in its business model of indirect distribution, which has enabled the company to scale faster than any other insurtech in the world,” Teicke told TechCrunch. “Our model enables Wefox to drive a superior financial profile which puts us on a clear path to profitability.”

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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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Smart Hustle Magazine

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

IDC’s analysis of data from eight countries finds the massive impact digitalization can have on GDP by 2024. trillion to the combined GDP of these eight countries by 2024. trillion to the region’s economy by 2024. Modernization areas businesses are investing in. Evaluate the right technologies to invest in.

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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. “World Fund only invests in startup technologies that can save at least 100 megatonnes of CO2e annually by 2040.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 20, 2023

The funding round was co-led by AC Ventures, East Ventures, and South Korea’s SV Investment and saw participation from several strategic investors, including Peak XV Partners, Provident, AlfaCorp, M Venture Partners, Northstar Group, Openspace Ventures, Shinhan Venture Investment, Beenext, Kinesys Group, and Skystar Capital.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2023

SBI Investment led the latest financing with new investor Woori Venture Partners and previous backers BNK Venture Capital, Innopolis Partners and IPS Ventures participating. Its Series A will enable Mediwhale to accelerate the commercialization of Reti-CVD, Choi said, adding that it aims to obtain U.S. FDA clearance and implement U.S.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

Twitch, YouTube and Netflix) to increase the quality of streaming without sacrificing in other, bandwidth-related areas — and hence an attractive investment. “We expect 40 million daily users by 2023 and 300 million by 2024 … We project over $40M annual recurring revenue in 2024,” Besenbruch said optimistically.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 26, 2023

Besides, the program facilitates networking opportunities and knowledge exchange with established startup leaders across Asia, enabling participants to gain valuable insights and learn from their experiences. The post Indonesian Government-backed Accelerator Achieves $65.8

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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. These new features follow the closing of $6 million in what it is calling “pre-Series A” funding.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

February 26, 2024 ) – FFI Ionix Inc., We recently announced investments in downtown Dover, and this expansion will bring even more activity to our state’s capital. New FFI Ionix site in Dover will be first Central Delaware location benefiting from state Graduated Lab Space Grant funding WILMINGTON, Del.

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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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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

The biotech-enabled food science company will now accelerate research and development (R&D), expand the team and work on co-development of product formulation with key partners as they target to do their first product launch in 2024 in Singapore and India. Dairy has a huge environmental cost.

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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

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The latest funding will support hiring staff and enable new data-as-a-service markets powered by quantum sensing, founder and CEO of Q-CTRL Michael Biercuk said. It also will continue to invest in developing its quantum control for quantum computing and quantum sensing for acceleration, gravity and magnetic fields, Biercuk added.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 4, 2024

Let’s get one thing very clear, not every startup has to raise investment nor it’s the job of a startup to raise money. 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. If you don’t invest in yourself, why should I?

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 27, 2022

This funding extension is a strong show of confidence that we are on the right track, and cements our position as the leading customer experience enabler built in Asia Pacific, for businesses operating in the region,” Laboulle added. It also aims to double its total headcount to a strength of 200 by 2024.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Founded out of London in 2019, WeWalk has developed a GPS-enabled smart cane and smartphone app, helping users navigate their surrounding environment. Time named the WeWalk Smart Cane one of the “best inventions” of 2019.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

For Black founders, who have rarely received more than 1% of total venture capital invested in startups, 2022 wasn’t kind, and 2023 doesn’t look promising given how things are going. However, we are focused on delivering products people love and hitting metrics that enable us to continue to raise capital despite the economic condition.

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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. The new funding enables the company to make new hires to build efficiencies on the website, form additional buyer relationships and develop marketing.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Across Latin America, e-commerce purchases are expected to grow by double-digits annually by 2024. Tavo and Armando are key enablers to grow this ecosystem broadly which is a huge opportunity,” Nahigian said “Skysdropx is at a scale to enable delivery and information to flow through the entire system and in a way that is more efficient.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

This by far the biggest investment Sendcloud has ever had: the Eindhoven, Netherlands-based startup has been around since 2012 and before now had raised just over $23 million ($23 million, 23,000 customers has a nice ring to it).

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

Alongside that, the company is picking up a $100 million equity investment into its business from CF Principal Investments, an affiliate of Cantor Fitzgerald. . Time, the appetite for more data intelligence and potentially some factors out of its control like the investment climate, ultimately will show which way Near will go.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 23, 2024

Alex Immerman: If 2023 was the year of efficiency, 2024 is the year of generative AI. So unless there’s some really obvious or transformative thing to do in your business today, it’s worth waiting a little bit to invest heavily in that. We’re experimenting with it, but we haven’t made a massive investment.

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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. It is on a mission to triple the number of merchant transactions it helps facilitate by 2024. Sign up here to get it in your inbox.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 19, 2023

program aims to bring businesses & workers back to NJ’s commuter hubs after pandemic Second tranche of funding for real estate projects to be awarded in early 2024 TRENTON, N.J. Fostering an appreciation for Atlantic City’s heritage, its murals and public space requires investment and collaboration. $10M A.R.T.

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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

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. OnlySims : A first for OnlyFans, the platform invests in U.K. million seed investment. Can Medicare save the insurtech market?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 22, 2023

This collaboration involved a series of Leadership Academy workshops and online webinars, aimed at hedging their startup investments. Source: kamenistak.com 2024 Solopreneur Strategy Exposed In 2023H2, I observed an emerging trend: companies becoming increasingly cautious about their budget allocations.

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