Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JULY 13, 2022

investment from leading global agricultural companies to support commercialization of. The recent funding includes investment from Ospraie. Ag Sciences (OAS), Bunge Ventures, the for-profit, global investment arm of Bunge. The global phosphatic fertilizer market is expected to reach $78B by 2025. Phospholutions Inc.,

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

We are also continuing to invest in our route optimization software, which just helps districts get more efficient and greener,” Joanna McFarland, CEO and co-founder, told TechCrunch. “By Now, the company is betting that demand for its rideshare service will increase as parents send their kids back to school.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

million smartphone users will scan a QR code by 2025, up from 83.4 Co-founder and CEO Sharat Potharaju says that the new capital will be put toward expanding the startup’s team and product R&D. Potharaju is an investment banker by trade, having held posts at Merrill Lynch and Fieldstone Private Capital Group.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

Other statistics include job projections from various channels: 44 million jobs if internet penetration reaches 75%, 3 million jobs from online marketplaces by 2025 and 1.7 million jobs due to Google’s $1 billion investment in the continent. The continent’s investment story. This is compared to 37%, 70% and 66% in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

GM, Honda and other institutional investors have also put more capital into Cruise as the autonomous vehicle company inches closer to commercializing its technology. While Microsoft’s capital is important, the partnership might provide equal and longer-term value for Cruise, at least in the two companies’ views.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2022

Successful private capital firms long ago ditched their spreadsheets and moved to digital tools for accounting and other middle-office tasks as part of a larger trend toward improving efficiencies, controls and operational transparency. Richard Change. Contributor. Richard Change is the co-founder and managing partner of PFA Solutions.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

The e-commerce market in Latin America has been gaining traction over the past two years and is poised to double in size and be valued at more than $100 billion by 2025. With this new funding, the company aims to invest in technology development, build operations in Brazil and Chile and launch some embedded finance products and services.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

The last round follows a $40 million Series B investment last May from Prosus and Kaszek and brings the company’s total funding to about $128.7 Patjane told TechCrunch that he wasn’t immediately looking for additional capital after closing the Series B, and in fact had plans to begin raising again this year.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

in terms of vehicle sales, said Tuesday it will invest $300 million in Momenta to accelerate the development of AV tech for future GM vehicles in China. Julian Blissett, executive VP of GM and president of GM China, said in a statement that the investment will help the automaker bring “solutions tailor-made for [GM’s] consumers in China.”.

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Angel Capital Association

DECEMBER 14, 2023

This is the time of year when we reach out to our angel community seeking nominations for both the Angel Capital Association’s FY 2025 Board of Directors and committee volunteers to help ACA continue to grow and support our work on angel investing.

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Angel Capital Association

DECEMBER 11, 2023

This is the time of year when ACA reaches out to our angel community seeking nominations for both the Angel Capital Association’s FY 2025 Board of Directors and committee volunteers to help ACA continue to grow and support our work on angel investing.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

What’s more, about 75% of the investments in that period happened in the last two years alone. Venture capital firms aren’t unusual in the battery world. That started to change toward the end of 2020 — several quarters in the last two years have seen more than $2 billion invested, and a couple have had more than $3 billion.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

JIC Venture Growth Investments led the Series E equity funding, with participation from Z Venture Capital , a venture investment arm of Z Holdings, Japan Post Capital and Salesforce Ventures. The latest round brings its total funding raised to $41.4 million, the company said without disclosing its valuation.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Without that, it’s difficult to determine what is right from what is wrong, or what is a strong investment from a shortsighted one. Investors need to start thinking about ESG risk in the same way they consider investment risk, as a first step.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2022

Still, she doesn’t expect to get the pork loin into the hands of consumers until 2025, with commercial plants coming online in 2026, followed by mass production in 2027. Plans for the capital include hiring a team (currently it is just Martinez Marshall and Lu) and scaling. “We Novel Farms is also starting a seed round.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

And venture capital is here for it. Bagging capital and expanding footprints. That has now grown to 8%, said Elaine Russell, Greycroft principal and co-lead of the Albertsons Fund, a $50 million fund started by Greycroft and the grocery chain in 2018 to invest in the future of retail and next-generation retailers.

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

rang the opening bell on the NASDAQ stock exchange, signifying the start of their new chapter in life as a public traded company after successfully completing a merger with Novus Capital Corporation. Having the opportunity to learn from the founders you back is by far one of the most rewarding parts of being a venture capital investor.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2022

Analysts estimate that the market for “delaying human death” could be worth $610 billion by 2025. But that doesn’t sit well with Christian Angermayer, who co-founded Cambrian BioPharma and Rejuveneron, and whose family office Apeiron Investment Group has a special interest in expanding longevity.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

million, and with the latest investment, has a $35 million pre-money valuation. He has an ambitious goal of reaching $100 million in revenue by 2025, and the company has its own manufacturing plant with the ability to produce the capacity needed to get there. Mid-Day Squares previously raised $7.5

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 1, 2023

The investment round was led by Quest Ventures Asia Fund II, an early-stage venture capital fund managed by Singapore-based Quest Ventures Pte Ltd. Additional investors include Worldwide Management Solutions and Qhazanah Sabah Berhad (QSB), the strategic investment arm of the Sabah state government.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The funding round was spearheaded by Lion X Ventures and Vickers Venture Partners, with participation from Advanced MedTech and Eckuity Capital. The company aims to refine its ultra-portable peritoneal dialysis (PD) device, gearing it up for the impending final pivotal trial in the United States, scheduled for 2025.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 8, 2023

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

The fund announced today the formation of the 25 by 25 Pledge , which encourages venture capitalists to commit to investing a quarter of their funds into BIPOC women founders by the year 2025. “This is about changing the power dynamics in venture capital,” Michel told TechCrunch. I just see it as the start.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

The capital will be used to expand its fulfillment infrastructure, including a network of warehouses and cold chain logistics, hire more people for its engineering team, and sales and marketing. Why Alibaba rival Pinduoduo is investing in agritech. billion) by 2025, and 5 trillion JPY (about $46.1 billion JPY (about $8.5

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

New York-based Luxor Capital, which led the company’s €37 million Series B in September 2021 , is also leading this round. Real estate investment firm Byggmästare Anders J Ahlström (like Volta, based in Stockholm), supply chain services giant Agility, and B-FLEXION (formerly Waypoint Capital) also participated.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 3, 2023

Existing investors Sauce VC and Better Capital also participated, doubling down on their previous investments. The platform aims to support 100,000 creators by 2025, tapping into India’s $100B commerce market. Hypd was founded by Ashwarya Garg and Akshay Bhatnagar and is headquartered in Delhi.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The latest round was led by Hana Financial Investment, along with Nice Investment. Returning backers Smilegate Investment, KT Investment, Shinhan Capital and Korea Development Bank also participated. The following month, Jim Rogers , an advisor of Fount, invested in the company. trillion in 2025 from $1.37

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

million Series A, led by original design manufacturer Wistron Corporation, with participation from Hive Ventures, Top Taiwan Venture Capital Group and Silicon Valley Taiwan Investments. InfuseAI fits perfectly into our investment thesis which is focused on platforms and software in the enterprise adoption cycle.”

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The move aims to create a conducive environment for technopreneurs and supports the broader vision of strengthening the venture capital ecosystem. Rafizi highlighted the importance of helping the venture capital ecosystem as a critical step in expediting the formation and growth of technology-based startups.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

Reliance Retail and Google, two existing backers of Dunzo , are among those who are holding discussions to invest in the new round, the sources said, requesting anonymity as the information is private. The funding deliberations are currently moving ahead largely with existing backers, the sources said.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Fintech-focused investor Tonic Private Equity led the Series G round along with returning backers, including Korea Development Bank (KDB), Altos Ventures, Goodwater Capital, Greyhound Capital, Aspex Management, Bond Capital, and DUMAC. Korea Investment & Securities participated in the latest funding as well.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

The venture capital and private equity database today launched VC Exit Predictor, a tool trained on PitchBook data to attempt to suss out a startup’s growth prospects. ” PitchBook certainly isn’t the first to develop an algorithmic tool to inform investment decisions. .” PitchBook believes so.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Investment has also trickled down to Africa, with large checks going into growth-stage startups. Reports say healthtech in Africa should reach a market value of over US$11 billion by 2025 and Reliance Health is looking to play a pivotal role in the continent reaching that capitalization.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Existing investors, including General Catalyst, Bling Capital, Construct Capital, Industry Ventures and Origin Ventures, joined the round. billion by 2025. Given the tailwinds, Zur took the opportunity to work with top venture capital firms, like Tiger and SoftBank, even though it had taken the Series A a mere six weeks prior.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2023

Gartner predicts that legal tech spending — which includes CLM — will increase threefold by 2025. million in the bank, SpotDraft says that it’ll invest in product development and “aggressive growth” in North America, aiming to double its 170-person headcount within the next 18 months.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The grant was from the Reboot Representation Tech Coalition , a group of 21 tech companies which aims to double the number of Black, Latina, and Native American women receiving computing degrees by 2025, by making philanthropic investments in relevant programs.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Register Committed to accelerate the digital transformation of the world’s fourth largest population, Privy has partnered with KKR , a leading global investment firm. Other participants are existing investors MDI Ventures , GGV Capital and Telkomsel Mitra Inovasi, and new investors including Singtel Innov8.

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