American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 14, 2024

Investment Accelerates the Development of SaaS Solutions Suite Featuring API-based Pharmacy and Telehealth Products SAN FRANCISCO, CA – March 11, 2024 – Foundation Health, a pioneering healthcare technology company, today announced the closure of a $6 million seed funding round.

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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 In contrast, male-only founded U.S.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

billion and the company expects to receive about $458 million in cash, including a $100 million PIPE (private investment in public equity) deal subscribed to by a group of investors including T. Ampere Computing, which is mostly known for its Arm-based servers, is also making a direct investment.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2023

Bell and Weingarten aren’t your typical meal delivery startup founders. million in pre-seed funding led by M25 with participation from investors, including Hustle Fund, Pillar VC and The Community Fund. Most items are ready to eat in minutes. Now Entrée itself is announcing $2.5

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American Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Early stage climate tech VC firm Anthropocene Ventures also joins Kind Designs’ seed round. Rapidly growing climate and construction tech startup Kind Designs gained the support of entrepreneur Mark Cuban and VC firm Anthropocene Ventures for its $5 million seed round. In a brief span, she has demonstrated exceptional execution.”

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

The money came from its recent funding round led Better Bite Ventures and participated by Ahimsa VC, PeerCapital, Spectrum Impact, Rohit Gulati (Managing Director and Partner at Boston Consulting Group), Sandhya Sriram (Chief Executive Officer, Shiok Meats), among others. Dairy has a huge environmental cost.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

Startups and VC At first glance, Boston Dynamics is a strange fit for a show like ProMat, Brian writes. How to spot investment-worthy founders: Look for mindset, competence and confidence , writes Sanjay Reddy. million round and spoke to the company’s founder about 10 tips to de-risk hardware. Aisha has more.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

The round was co-led by Eni Next, the corporate VC arm of Italian energy giant Eni; along with Neva SGR, the VC company owned by European banking group Intesa Sanpaolo. “The investment will also support Energy Dome’s business expansion in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2023

As one VC put it: “It’s bad.” We also teamed up with other TC staff and talked to several founders who bank(ed) there to get their perspectives. Already, businesses are worried about making payroll, which could lead to unanticipated closures and layoffs. ” Our hearts go out to all impacted.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

Startups and VC. And Valkyrie looks to raise $30 million for its new crypto VC arm , Anita writes. OnlySims : A first for OnlyFans, the platform invests in U.K. million seed investment. TechCrunch+ is our membership program, which helps founders and startup teams get ahead. Can Medicare save the insurtech market?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 29, 2022

India, which has doubled its pool of unicorns to over 100 in the past two years, has attracted over $75 billion in investments from tech giants Google, Meta and Amazon and venture funds Sequoia, Tiger Global, SoftBank, Alpha Wave, Lightspeed and Accel in the past half decade. Swaroop’s presentation from 2014. Flipkart, valued at $37.6

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

Niraj Varia spent the last eight years at Novastar Ventures, a global VC with hubs in Nairobi, Lagos and London, having joined it at inception and rising through the ranks to become partner. Novastar Ventures becomes $200M African VC fund after $108M raise. You must have had great experiences. How has the journey been for you, so far?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The money came from Lightspeed Venture Partners and GGV Capital with additional funds contributed by Dell Technologies Capital, TechAviv, J Ventures, Cerca, Unusual Ventures, Silicon Valley CISO Investments and individual investors CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz and Microsoft chairman John W.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

The VCs who founders love the most. Managing Editor Danny Crichton spearheaded the development of The TechCrunch List earlier this year to help seed-stage founders connect with VCs who write first checks. ” The VCs who founders love the most. trillion by 2024. API startups are so hot right now.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2023

million Series A investment, which will enable the company to complete its demonstration mission where it will show off its docking and towing capabilities. So if you want to drive around at your end destination, you need to take the car and you need to take gas with you,” explains Vanessa Clark, CEO and co-founder of Atomos Space.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Startups and VC. Starry-eyed newlyweds routinely sign prenuptial agreements without losing their sense of idealism, and startup founders should do the same, advises Yonaton Aronoff, a partner at litigation and employment law firm Harris St. Laurent & Wechsler. ” Why your startup needs a prenup. You can sign up here.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

“Insurtech startups that do not offer embedded insurance, and rather provide other innovative solutions will still attract VC funding this year, especially if they can show cost-efficient and sustainable growth,” said Nina Mayer, a principal at Earlybird. And the current market is rather reinforcing our investment thesis.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

trillion by 2024. Will new SEC equity crowdfunding rules encourage more founders to pass the hat? “Life has gotten easier in other ways as well for founders pursuing this fundraising type and the platforms that seek to simplify it,” reports Lucas Matney, who interviewed Wefunder CEO Nicholas Tommarello.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

The headline says it all : We couldn’t help but steal from the TC+ section because Tim ’s headline is just so good: “Nest co-founder Matt Rogers’ new startup is trash.” Startups and VC. TechCrunch+ is our membership program that helps founders and startup teams get ahead of the pack. The company raised $10.8 Big Tech Inc.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 23, 2024

At a16z’s recent Connect/Fintech event, a16z Partner Alex Immerman sat down for a broad conversation with Immad Akhund , co-founder and CEO of banking startup Mercury , and René Lacerte, founder and CEO of financial services company BILL. Alex Immerman: If 2023 was the year of efficiency, 2024 is the year of generative AI.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2022

According to Gartner, organizations running cloud infrastructure services will suffer a minimum of 2,300 violations of least privilege policies — i.e. when a user is given privileges above what they need to do their job — per account each year by 2024. times the amount of investment from 2020’s $1.3

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

AtoB thinks it has the solution and its co-founder says the company is essentially Stripe for transportation. Startups and VC Banking stocks are whipsawing this morning in the wake of the UBS–Credit Suisse deal and First Republic’s continued woes — and much more, on this morning’s utterly excellent episode of our Equity podcast.

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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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Jason Malki

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

I had the pleasure of interviewing Kanin Asvaplungprohm (“Asva”), the Founder and General Partner of Robust. How did you break into tech investing? I began as a Venture Partner at a small firm and had the opportunity to work intimately with exceptional founders and legendary investors. Thank you so much for joining us!

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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. billion by 2024. Tomas Kratky argues that the solution lies in software. “Data-driven decisions can only be as good as the quality of the underlying data sets and analysis. .”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Startups and VC. Travel booking startup Hopper today announced that it closed a $96 million follow-on investment from Capital One , bringing the company’s total raised to close to $730 million, Kyle reports. I am on an H-1B, have an approved I-140, and an I-797 that expires in March 2024. If I have to leave the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The round, which is a combination of equity and debt financing, lists investors from the Middle East, including DisruptAD and (the VC arm of ADQ, an Abu Dhabi-based sovereign wealth fund), and SHUAA (a major UAE asset management and investment banking firm). The biopharma industry uses more optimistic numbers.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

billion by 2024. The seed round was led by Pan-African focused VC 4DX Ventures. It also included participation from Raed Ventures, Beco Capital, Breyer Capital and some private investors, including Magnus Olsson, co-founder of Careem. With over 1.25 Today, it is announcing that it has secured $6.4 million in seed funding. .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2023

Ken Smythe, founder and CEO of Next Round Capital Partners — a capital markets and VC secondaries firm — validated our impressions. Going public, Smythe said, will likely remain challenging for most companies until late 2023 or 2024 — Stripe included. million joined by angel investors and founders Wayne Chang and Jeff Seibert.”

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Build trust with founders and then offer your own data-backed take on why a founder’s decision might not be the best decision they could make. Talent in 2024. Many founders I’ve worked with are like, “well, that’s why you’re here. Key takeaways Write a MOC. Leading by influence, not directive.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Top investment opportunities. Samsung invests in Stellar Cyber’s $38M raise for XDR platform. By 2024, when Flytrex plans to be operating at scale, it aims to bring the cost per delivery down to $1.14. Invest Now. . Invest Now. . Startup of the Week: Flytrex drones deliver to your backyard. Sniffing out Covid-19.

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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. This investment is still available on the OurCrowd platform. March 28th online: Investing in precision medicine. Startup of the Week: The EVERY Company: Full egg protein, no animals.

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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. This investment is still available on the OurCrowd platform. March 28th online: Investing in precision medicine. Startup of the Week: The EVERY Company: Full egg protein, no animals.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 3, 2022

Automakers — like Hyundai, Honda and Xpeng — are investing resources into building their own flying cars. 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. Let’s dig a bit deeper into that last.

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2021

Whether you’re building a company or thinking about investing, it’s important to understand your strategic advantage. Lew Cirne, New Relic’s founder and CEO, is stepping into the executive chairman role. By 2024, analysts predict cars with voice recognition will comprise 60% of the market. Image Credits: Eoneren / Getty Images.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

In addition to the usual story roundup, I’ve asked a small cross section of investors a simple question with a complex answer: How will the SVB events impact robotics investing and startups? Of course, many — or even most — of the firms investing in those companies have strong presences in the South Bay and/or SF.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

“Technically it’s like a brewery,” explains CEO and co-founder Dr Pasi Vainikka in an interview with TechCrunch. Then you must get a good [energy supply] contract and if we were investing into that factory now it might be postponed because of the turbulence.” “Like fermentation technologies are.

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