TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

Signaling that investments in the supply chain sector remain robust, Pando , a startup developing fulfillment management technologies, today announced that it raised $30 million in a Series B round, bringing its total raised to $45 million. billion by 2025, per Markets and Markets — up from $17.4 billion in 2019.

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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. TechCrunch+ is our membership program that helps founders and startup teams get ahead of the pack. Finance, meet regulation.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

New York-based Endeavor is a global community of “high-impact” founders across almost 40 underserved markets in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. 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.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Other investors in the seed round were To.org, Golden Palm Investments, LoftyInc Capital, Afropreneur Angels, and Future Africa. Wowzi plans to use the new investment to set up operations in Ghana, Nigeria and South Africa, seeking growth opportunities beyond Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, where it currently has a physical presence. “We

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 29, 2024

Lindsay Rogers, EO Queensland, co-founder of Chello “My focus was on enhancing my leadership skills. Torsten Oppermann, EO Barcelona and EO Hamburg, co-founder, MSM Digital and 1SP Agency How did the program format enhance your takeaways? Sign up for the interest list to get updates on the application process.

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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. Novel Farms co-founders Michelle Lu and Nieves Martinez Marshall. The products are made from cultivated fish cells and plant protein. Image Credits: Novel Farms.

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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 will help Zeals accelerate new product development, diversify go-to-market channels and support overseas expansion.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 30, 2022

Register Kickstart Ventures , one of the most active venture capital firms in the Philippines, celebrates its 10th anniversary with a renewed commitment to invest in startups across the Philippines, and in major innovation hubs in Southeast Asia and beyond. on its first year.

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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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Revolution

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

led by Founder & CEO Jonathan Webb ?—?rang I am at once proud of and awed by Jonathan, whose dual-track passion for the future of food and the future of Appalachia has brought him to tears more than once since we first invested in early 2018. In response, AppHarvest has plans to launch 12 large-scale greenhouses by 2025.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 8, 2023

Register F88 Investment Joint Stock Company (F88) has raised additional investments amounting to $50 million from a recent fundraising that was led by Vietnam-Oman Investment Fund (VOI) and Mekong Enterprise Fund IV(MEF IV). Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet?

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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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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

MARCH 20, 2023

” PitchBook certainly isn’t the first to develop an algorithmic tool to inform investment decisions. . ” PitchBook certainly isn’t the first to develop an algorithmic tool to inform investment decisions. have a female founder. bankruptcy) that prevents an exit.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

João Graça is CTO and co-founder of Unbabel , an AI-powered language operations platform that enables any agent to communicate in any language. companies will spend upward of $100 billion on AI R&D per year by 2025. At a startup or scaleup, the focus is often more on concrete product development than research.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2023

-based early-stage investor: My goal is to deploy the same amount every year, but the climate has led to far less interesting companies/founders raising rounds, so I will probably deploy 20%-30% of what I want to. The end of 2022 has been a great awakening for founders. Times of scarcity create the best founders.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 2, 2023

The 2nd Pangyo Techno Valley inaugurated its Business Growth Center with the vision to cultivate nascent drone developers. This center provides office space, management consulting, prototype production support, certification and intellectual property application support, as well as investment attraction assistance.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

We’ll also sit down with Wisk Aero CEO Gary Gysin and Cyrus Sigari, the co-founder and managing partner at UP.Partner — plus one more yet-to-be announced guest — to talk about urban air mobility and cities. . This week, the company said it was investing $1.4 Speaking of Stellantis, LG Energy also said it would invest more than $4.1

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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. Privy, a digital trust provider, said new investments will further strengthen its position as the leading digital signature and digital identity provider in Indonesia.

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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. Another company competing in the increasingly saturated segment is Sima.ai , which is developing a system-on-chip platform for AI applications — particularly computer vision applications.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

The demand for AI in the enterprise is insatiable, but the challenge lies in building the support infrastructure and its development and maintenance. He and Cheung saw the history of AI reaching an inflection point: Over the previous 10 years, companies invested in AI to keep up with tech trends or help with analytics.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Register Xurya Daya Indonesia (Xurya), a solar power rental and installation startup, received additional series A funding from global trading and investment company Mitsui & Co., ” According to Eka Himawan, Xurya plans to allocate funding for the expansion of solar power development have tripled since the beginning of 2022.

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2022

The Series B round was led by Accel, Citius and Tiger Global, with participation from existing investors AC Ventures, Global Founders Capital, Lightspeed and Sequoia Capital India. The e-grocery delivery market in Indonesia is projected to reach $6 billion by 2025. The company declined to disclose its post-money valuation.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2022

Guanchun Wang, Laiye’s founder and CEO, saw the “value of artificial intelligence” in the years he worked at Baidu’s smart speaker department after his film discovery startup was sold to the Chinese search engine giant. based Lightspeed Venture Partners. Laiye CEO Guanchun Wang. Image Credits: Laiye.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

Confluent co-founder Neha Narkhede today announced a new fintech company, Oscilar, that’s developing an “AI-driven” platform to help financial institutions protect online transactions from fraud and theft. Juniper Research expects that online payment fraud losses will eclipse $200 billion by 2025.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 13, 2021

Automation will displace 85 million jobs while simultaneously creating 97 million new jobs by 2025, according to the World Economic Forum. A number of startups are addressing these problems of employee skills, and are looking at talent development, neuroscience-based assessments and prediction technologies for staffing.

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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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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The round was led by Altos Ventures , along with strong support from BonAngels Venture Partners, Access Ventures, Mahanusa Capital, Prodigy Investment, and Pearl Abyss Capital. Proceeds from this round will be used for future product developments and hiring across new divisions as Plugo expands operations.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

Joining Craft in the Series A round were LiveOak Venture Partners, Tensility Venture Partners, Knoll Ventures, Bala Investments, 2048 Ventures, Bridge Investments, Moneta Ventures and angel investors Federico Castellucci and Ashish Gupta. This new investment brings ConverseNow’s total funding to $18.3

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2023

General Atlantic led the first tranche of the investment. A concern for PhonePe’s growth was Indian regulator enforcing a market cap check on each player, but the deadline for the new guidelines was extended last month and now won’t come into effect until 2025 , giving PhonePe another two years of fast-growth.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

WndrCo is a significant win for the company, since the deal brings WndrCo’s managing partner and former co-founder and CEO of DreamWorks Animations, Jeffrey Katzenberg to HUBUC’s cap table. Some analysts predict that by 2025 the payments segment revenue of embedded fintech could reach $141 billion. This is a powerful ally to have.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2022

Meati Foods , which is developing the Eat Meati brand of proteins made from mushroom root, is poised to begin shipping its plant-based meat product later this year after closing on $150 million in new Series C funding. Meati is among Cultivate’s first cohort of investments. The round, which gives the company $278.6

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

After finding it, the three co-founders together built a service for managing passwords, API keys and digital certificates, which evolved into a fully fledged business — Akeyless — over the course of the next several years. . In software development, “secrets” refer to credentials like passwords and access tokens.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The investment brings Esper’s total funding to $100 million. Co-founder and CEO Yadhu Gopalan told TechCrunch that there are already billions of IoT devices out there currently, and that it is growing exponentially each year. billion units by 2025. is expected to reach 30.9

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2022

But the cost and time involved in developing longevity solutions presents a major hurdle, which means founders must be prepared to take the long view. “It Christian Angermayer , founder, Apeiron Investment Group. What’s the most important thing first-time longevity founders need to know?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

To solve the problems of traditional electronic media, a startup in Boston, Catalog , was founded in 2016 by MIT scientists including co-founder and CEO Hyunjun Park, developing an energy efficient, cost competitive, and more secure data storage and computation platform by using synthetic DNA.

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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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