AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Techstars Tokyo builds upon the organization’s ecosystem development initiatives, which have historically supported entrepreneurs in their early stages through programs like Founder Catalyst and Startup Weekend. Mitsui Fudosan, through its venture arm 31VENTURES, is actively engaged in promoting startup innovation globally.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2023

The Seoul-headquartered healthcare startup has built an AI-powered non-invasive retina scan to diagnose cardiac and kidney disorders and more diseases through its patients’ retinal photographs. insurance coverage with a goal of final FDA approval by 2024. FDA clearance and implement U.S.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

WeRide, one of China’s most-funded startups developing autonomous driving capabilities, said on Wednesday that it has raised a $200 million strategic round from Chinese bus maker Yutong. Autonomous driving startups in China are racing to showcase their progress, in part to attract funding for their cash-bleeding businesses. .”

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 29, 2023

Wavemaker Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm with offices in Los Angeles and Singapore, led the funding. MFast operates under the umbrella of Vietnam-based startup DigiPay. Krungsri Finnovate, the Thai venture capital firm managing Finnoventure Fund I, is pivotal in this funding round.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Register Japan’s Financial Services Agency plans to double the cap on the amount of money retail investors can invest in unlisted startups. At present, through crowdfunding, retail investors have a limitation of investing a maximum of 500,000 yen annually in individual unlisted startups. Furthermore, around 32.9% While the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2024

Investors are hoping for more enterprise adoption and vertical AI solutions this year as the AI startup market starts to grow up. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 20, 2022

Register Government-sponsored Startup Studio Indonesia (SSI), an initiative for early-stage entrepreneurs, formally began registration for the Batch 5 program. SSI has helped 65 startup alumni achieve promising results after graduating from the program, with the incubator reporting a total investment of $22.7 million in the alumni.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 10, 2023

The city unveiled its plans to support local startups and nurture entrepreneurship with a series of new initiatives under the guidance of President Shavkat Mirziyoyev. Karakalpakstan has charted a comprehensive plan for the years 2023-2024.

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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. The post NJEDA Program Helps to Draw Investment Interest into Innovative NJ Startups appeared first on American Entrepreneurship Today®.

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Jason Calacanis

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Thanks for reading Jason Calacanis on Startups! ” Why The AI Roaring 20s will be the greatest time to start your company The next supercycle is starting right now, in 2023 and 2024. Unlimited venture capital for any winning startup (defined as a startup that can get to $500,000 in revenue), with reasonable gross margins and burn.

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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. Startups involved in B2B e-commerce such as Faire and Mirakl have burst out of the gates in 2020. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Even before the pandemic, B2B marketplaces were expected to generate $3.6

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Register The Gyeonggi provincial government announced that it plans to create a total of 660,000 square meters of startup business space in more than 20 regions, centered around Pangyo Techno Valley, and support 3,000 startup companies by 2026. More than 2,000 startups will be provided with free or low-cost workspace.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 31, 2024

Vietnamese startup BlokID, specializing in blockchain-driven privacy protection solutions, recently secured $1.25 The financing, led by Ascend Vietnam Ventures and AppWorks, is expected to boost their product development and expand market reach. million in a seed funding round.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 28, 2024

What drives the acquisition market of startups? In the last decade, the total number of venture backed software M&A by count has remained relatively constant. The black line shows the linear trend across US venture backed companies with disclosed values of $50m or more. It’s the big deals. X 2015 20.1% - 2016 43.0%

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Board will work to increase capital to minority-owned startups, create diverse innovation economy WOODBRIDGE, N.J. The board will provide knowledge, guidance, and insights on ways to best increase capital, access, and investments in New Jersey’s diverse entrepreneurs.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 18, 2022

Register South Korea’s leading accelerator program K-Startup Grand Challenge (KSGC) , considered ‘a gateway’ to do business in Asia, invites global startups to participate. Furthermore, Korea has an established patent law system so that startups can safely bring their creative ideas under government protection.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 26, 2024

In January 2024, China saw the announcement of 251 venture capital (VC) funding deals, with a disclosed funding value of $2.6 billion, marking a decline of 8.4% in deal volume and 31.4% in funding value compared to the same period last year, according to GlobalData, a prominent data and analytics company.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

.” Laying the groundwork for growth, Manta today announced that it raised $35 million in Series B funding led by Forestay Capital with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners, SAP.io, Senovo VC, Credo Ventures, Dan Fougere, and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. billion by 2024.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 17, 2024

The Strategic Innovation Center (SIC) will serve as a hub for financial technology (fintech) and insurance technology (insuretech) startups. Plug and Play’s network consists of 50,000 startups, over 500 leading corporations, and hundreds of venture capital firms, universities, and government agencies.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

If you think embedded insurance is the only hot thing in insurtech these days, we’ve got a surprise in store for you: While it’s true that startups that help sell insurance together with other products and services are enjoying tailwinds, there are plenty of other opportunities in the space, several investors told TechCrunch+.

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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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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 2, 2024

May 1, 2024) – Yesterday, Governor Phil Murphy, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, and the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) joined company leaders to cut the ribbon on HAX, LLC’s newly constructed United States flagship headquarters located at 707 Broad Street in Newark.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2024

Last year presented a tough period for African tech startups. Venture capital was hard to bag (as predicted earlier), bridge and down rounds became the norm, and news of fire sales, layoffs and startup closures reverberated across the continent.

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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. He doesn’t expect the startup environment to get any better for Black founders, but is set on finding success regardless.

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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

Startups and VC At first glance, Boston Dynamics is a strange fit for a show like ProMat, Brian writes. Lun, a climate tech startup out of Denmark, is on a mission to help heat-pump installers decarbonize homes and fast, Natasha L reports, starting with heating systems and swapping out boilers for electric heat pumps. Aisha has more.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

HealthPlix , an Indian startup offering its in-house platform for doctors to help record patient data digitally, has raised $22 million in fresh investment to broaden its reach in the country and allow more doctors to utilize its software to offer improved care to their patients. In India, roughly 300,000 doctors practice medicine regularly.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 4, 2024

My previous startup was bootstrapped, easy, fast, and 100% control. Fundraising is different for each startup, and it’s also very different in each stage of that startup. 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. Still no new email.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

Geopagos , a payments infrastructure startup based in Buenos Aires, has raised $35 million in a round led by Riverwood Capital. Founded in 2013, the Argentinian startup serves as a white label infrastructure software provider, with the aim of giving businesses the ability to launch financial services.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 14, 2023

The NJIEF, launched in 2022, is a groundbreaking tool to increase access to strategic resources and venture capital in New Jersey. Under the NJIEF, the State acts as an equity investor in startups, deploying up to $600 million into companies alongside professional venture capital groups.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Digital healthcare continues to thrive globally following the effects of the pandemic last year, but venture capital inflows differ regionally with Africa lagging behind the rest of the world. H owever, investors have paid attention to a few innovative health tech startups, putting over $77 million across 56 deals last year.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Holidays, cheer, and daydreaming about what shenanigans we’ll get ourselves into in 2024. Yes, 2024, because clearly we’re just going to skip past all of 2023. Celebrity strong arm : Plant-based food brand Huel’s newest capital raise comes with a side of Idris Elba, Christine writes. Startups and VC. PDT, subscribe here.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Secondary activity is expected to return to normal in 2024. Five investors tells us where they are interested and where they are not. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 17, 2023

Some of those other functional beverage startups are also venture-backed. million in total venture-backed capital. With the new capital, the company, Picasso said Cure’s valuation is now over 2x higher than the previous round. Cure founder and CEO Lauren Picasso. Having already secured $2.6

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

Partners Investment and Murex Partners co-led the new funding, with participation from Smilegate Investment, Quantum Ventures Korea , ABC Partners , Everrich Group, GS Group’s corporate venture capital firm GS Futures , We Ventures, Base Investment and Dunamu & Partners. AmazeVR has raised a total of $30.8

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Secondary activity was inconsistent this year, but if the IPO window opens back up in 2024, secondaries should return with it. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2023

One note to share: These days, I’m a semi-regular guest on TechCrunch’s Equity Podcast , including an episode that aired Friday that covers robotaxis, Nvidia’s earning, plus Better.com and startups that are full of s**t (you’ll get the joke if you listen). Want to reach out with a tip, comment or complaint?

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