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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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

These markets make up 32% of Africa’s population, 51% of the continent’s mobile network connections, 50% of its professional developers and 51% of its GDP. 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

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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. Mizuho Bank and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group also joined in its debt financing. The latest round brings its total funding raised to $41.4

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

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. The funds will play a crucial role in facilitating these developments.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Viva Republica, an operator of South Korean finance super app Toss , has finalized a $405 million Series G funding and it says it is now valued at 9.1 Korea Investment & Securities participated in the latest funding as well. Toss joined the unicorn club with its $80 million financing at a valuation of $ 1.2 billion (8.5

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

As the demand for AI-powered apps grows, startups developing dedicated chips to accelerate AI workloads on-premises are reaping the benefits. A recent ZDNet piece reaffirms that the AI edge chip market is booming, fueled by “staggering” venture capital financing in the hundreds of millions of dollars. “I founded Sima.ai

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

based investment fund Talanton and Swiss investor AlphaMundi Group. Novastar Ventures , which co-led the firm’s Series A round, and Blink CV also made follow-on investments. Kenya’s Victoria Commercial Bank offered $3 million debt financing, $1 million of which is mezzanine financing – a debt that can be turned into equity.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

100 million, diversified : MassMutual launches $100 million fund to invest in diverse founders , Dominic-Madori reports. million to help developers securely connect software services , Kyle reports. Finance, meet regulation. Regulation, finance : Ira Lam explores CeFi and DeFi in the face of regulation.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

The search for solutions to the challenge has given rise to startups like Doppler, which offers a service that developers can use to manage and secure secrets — specifically app secrets — “at scale” in enterprise environments. And it automates secret syncing, requiring developers to update secrets only once.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 26, 2022

This is part of a strategic investment, with startup and MUFG planning to expand into new markets and product together in 2023. Earlier this year, Akulaku raised $100 million in funding from Siam Commercial Bank as part of another strategic investment. Founded in 2016, its target is to serve 50 million users by 2025.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2022

Bluu Seafood , a German company developing lab-grown seafood, debuted its fish sticks and fish balls this week. 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. Image Credits: Novel Farms.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

Zoomo also wants to build up its consumer model, which mainly serves couriers but is extending to commuters, and will invest in the development of its next generation of vehicle offerings. “We It also launched a new subsidiary to finance the vehicles, along with its software, to shared micromobility providers.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2022

Laiye’s Series C financing came in three tranches, with the last one to have recently closed at $70 million, an oversubscribed round led by influential Chinese private equity firm Hopu Magnolia. Acquiring Mindsay naturally allows Laiye to leapfrog the development challenges of training algorithms for a new language.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

The startup, which provides multiple products for the cross-border commerce space in Africa, raised this new financing from a group of international investors co-led by American Express (AMEX) Ventures, the strategic investment group of American Express. This investment is AMEX Ventures’ first in an African startup.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2023

Pull Systems, the first startup borne out of the partnership, has developed a software product that the two companies say can solve it. The startup developed a library of machine learning models that can analyze and predict vehicle behavior such as driving and charging across the Porsche fleet. Porsche is its first corporate partner.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2021

One startup that’s developing a new technology to address the issue is Boston Metal. The first close of the funding actually came in December 2018 — two years before the most recent financing round, according to Tadeu Carneiro, the company’s chief executive.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

This week, the company said it was investing $1.4 Speaking of Stellantis, LG Energy also said it would invest more than $4.1 This will be a 45 GWh-capacity site that is expected to launch production operations in Q1 2024, and be fully operational by 2025. . The pilot will focus on deliveries to and from small businesses.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

NFX and existing backers Pear and Mexico-based Wollef (formely known as Jaguar Ventures) doubled down on their investment, which values Melonn “in the neighborhood” of $100 million post-money and brings the Bogota-based startup’s total raised to $24 million since its November 2020 inception. So, just how does it work?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

“To ensure accuracy, predictions are made for venture-backed companies that have received at least two rounds of venture financing deals.” ” PitchBook certainly isn’t the first to develop an algorithmic tool to inform investment decisions. . bankruptcy) that prevents an exit.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2021

In the latest development, private equity giant Thoma Bravo is buying Proofpoint , the SaaS security vendor, for $12.3 million, according to Yahoo Finance data. More M&A activity is underway in the red-hot field of cybersecurity. billion in cash. million, up 15% versus $249.8 It also however reported a GAAP net loss of $45.3

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2022

Demonstrating that there’s a robust market for contract management solutions, LinkSquares , a company developing intelligent software that helps brands maintain and ink new contracts, today announced that it raised $100 million in Series C financing led by G Squared. million at an $800 million valuation. ” Growing market.

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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. After bringing in $8 million in a few rounds over the years, Zubale is back with a new cash infusion of $40 million in Series A financing led by QED Investors.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

Investors in SiCepat’s Series B include Falcon House Partners; Kejora Capital; DEG (the German Development Finance Institution); Telkom Indonesia’s investment arm MDI Ventures; Indies Capital; Temasek Holdings subsidiary Pavilion Capital; Trihill Capital; and Daiwa Securities.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 17, 2022

Although it was mainly used in M&A due diligence processes, recently, VDR has been used for a wider variety of applications as a collaboration solution for sharing confidential information such as technical data during an IPO, investment attraction, in-out licensing, and corporate due diligence. billion in 2025.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

In light of Women’s History Month, we’re taking a look at the status of gender diversity in investment portfolios because women remain underrepresented in the field of entrepreneurship. Data show that men were four times as likely as women to access equity financing from angel investors or VCs (14.4% against 3.6%).

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Impact Hub

MARCH 6, 2025

Unveiling the Capsule report at the Empowering Young Women event To mark the completion of the programme, Capsule hosted the Empowering Young Women event on February 11, 2025, at Impact Hub Bucharest where the reports key findings were presented. Beginners need foundational knowledge in business planning, marketing, and finance.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2021

The world of venture capital investing is a relatively small one, and relationship-based to boot. The company, founded by Samir Kaji and Hana Yang in February 2021, is developing an approach to venture capital fund investing that provides a way for investors of any size to participate. Enter Allocate.

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2022

Jarkata-based Astro, which provides 15-minute grocery delivery, has recently closed a $60 million Series B financing round, lifting its total funding to $90 million since the business launched just nine months ago. The e-grocery delivery market in Indonesia is projected to reach $6 billion by 2025.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2023

The market for cross-border logistics services is said to hit revenues of $32 billion by 2025, with several companies vying for market share in the ever-growing competitive industry. We simplified our business into just the import-export product line by directly them with a combination of trade financing and logistics.”.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Embedded finance connects services like payment processing with everyday activities like grabbing a coffee before unlocking an e-scooter. After six years of research and development, autonomous vehicle company Zoox this week unveiled an electric robotaxi that can carry four people at a maximum speed of 75 miles per hour.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

Founded in 2014, Blossom Finance was first intended for Muslim entrepreneurs in the United States. These factors are proving fertile ground for establishing and growing fintechs that focus exclusively on Islamic finance, offering products and services that follow shariah law. Meanwhile in Malaysia, where 61.3% out of its 33.6

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 7, 2024

$210 million financing by global Investors brings breakthrough technology to California Global cleantech leader Aymium, the top producer of renewable biocarbon products, just closed $210 million of financing to build a biocarbon production facility in Williams, California. Japan Green Investment Corp.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 18, 2023

There are complex reasons for this, but at a high level, the success of nuclear power is much more about project management, financing, and policy than it is cutting-edge engineering or safety. Part 53 is still in the drafting period and is expected to be complete in 2025. First, future reactors don’t need to be this expensive.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Lightyear , a Dutch startup developing a long-range hybrid solar-powered car, today announced that it has raised €81 million ($81 million) as it prepares to begin production of its first vehicle in the coming months. Asia, among other markets. ”

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NZ Entrepreneur

MARCH 16, 2025

Over time, the co-working space developed and there was a natural progression towards a lot of individuals starting new ventures coming out of that space. Richard Liew: Before we go, let’s just talk quickly about Electrify Aotearoa 2025, coming up on June 24th and 25th. Lots of community discussions.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Or that the company would wind up raising money from Breakthrough Energy Ventures, the billionaire-backed investment vehicle focused on financing companies developing technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and some of the world’s largest industrial and oil and gas companies. That’s when Jones stepped in.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 18, 2020

The CNG technology concept needed to be fully developed and commercialized to build out the necessary storage and refueling infrastructure to make it widely accessible to consumers. Since then, the angel group has worked to open doors for the startup and many individual members of the group have invested in the company.

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