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

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

MARCH 1, 2023

Montreal-based Equisoft , an insurance and investment software developer, today announced that it raised $125 million in venture equity. It’s a large amount made more significant by the fact that the investment climate for insurtech vendors is growing increasingly challenging. billion in Q3 to $1.01 billion in Q4. $70

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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. This achievement also enables the miniaturization of the dialysis machine to a size that can be conveniently carried in a small bag.

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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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

million from investors over the last few months, part of which includes a recently concluded $2 million seed round that was led by the Africa-focused venture capital firm 4DX Ventures. Other investors in the seed round were To.org, Golden Palm Investments, LoftyInc Capital, Afropreneur Angels, and Future Africa.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 3, 2023

Register Hypd , the Indian tech platform that enables content creators to monetize their influence, has successfully raised $4 million in a pre-series A funding round led by Orios Venture Partners. Existing investors Sauce VC and Better Capital also participated, doubling down on their previous investments.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

Secai Marche wants to streamline agricultural logistics, making fulfillment more cost-efficient and enabling food businesses to bundle products from different farmers into the same order. 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

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

billion people by 2025 , as house-price growth continues to outpace income growth. For the construction phase, the kit of parts enables developers to produce large multi-tenant apartment blocks with minimal up-front investment. Modulous , a U.K. million) in a series A round of funding. ” Prefabs sprout.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 2, 2023

The 2nd Pangyo Business Support Hub with Drone Enterprise Support Center (Photo = beSUCCESS) In a bid to foster startups and venture companies that will lead the future drone and UAM market, the Korea Institute of Aviation Safety Technology has been operating the Drone Startup Support Center since 2017. Furthermore, NCsoft invested KRW 1.5

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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. billion won) and $175.8

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The round was co-led by L Catterton, a joint venture between LVMH and Catterton, Entrée Capital and Pico Venture Partners. By providing Niio’s tools to a global community of 6,000 galleries, institutions and artists, Niio’s platform and blockchain enables artists to distribute, manage, monetize and preserve their work.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 26, 2023

million in pre-series A funding from Astonic Ventures Singapore, Mavis Tutorial Centre, and Singapore Asia Publishers. The company plans to use the investment to enhance its learning platform and expand in Southeast Asia, specifically Vietnam and the Philippines , as well as Africa. “The The value of the global edtech market was $106.46

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

million seed round, the company is back with a cash infusion of $15 million in Series A funding in a round led by Craft Ventures. This new investment brings ConverseNow’s total funding to $18.3 billion by 2025, according to Grand View Research. One year after voice-based AI technology company ConverseNow raised a $3.3

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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. It’s also now added Splunk Ventures as a strategic investor. Although that sounds like good news, the hard reality is that millions of people will have to retrain in the jobs of the future.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Benedikt Sons, Cansativa’s founder, managing director and CEO, told TechCrunch via email that the company provides both first- and third-party marketplace tools to enable cannabis access for everyone in a complex and highly regulated ecosystem. Where these 6 top VCs are investing in cannabis. billion in value by 2025.

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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2023

Two years ago, startups developing software that helps draft, manage and review contracts raised over $70 million in venture equity. Gartner predicts that legal tech spending — which includes CLM — will increase threefold by 2025. billion in 2023), contract lifecycle management, or CLM, is growing at a rapid clip.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

Restaurant Brands International led the round along with World Trade Ventures and a group of individual investors, including Victor Lazarte. The Series A also enables WoodSpoon to onboard its waitlist of hundreds of home chefs that want to join the marketplace. billion in 2025, according to consultancy firm Research and Markets.

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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

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The new investment will help the startup to accelerate its overseas expansion across the world with a focus on the United States, the country with the highest percentage of educators using one-to-one computing (1:1) computing. billion from 2020 to 2025 , 46% of which will originate from North America.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2021

The Argentina-based fraud and identity protection company announced $12 million in Series B funding Monday from backers including software developer, Globant, as well as Agrega Partners, NXTP Ventures, Bridge One, the IDB Lab and Telefónica. Globant’s investment into VU also serves as a partnership. billion valuation.

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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. from mine to fork.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Investment will accelerate advancements of the MIRA Surgical System LINCOLN, Neb. The round was led by current investors Bluestem Capital, Endeavour Vision, Baird Capital, cultivate(MD) Capital Funds, and PrairieGold Venture Partners, as well as new health-tech investors Arboretum Ventures and InVivium Capital.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

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. He has a deep history of investing in deep tech startups that have gone on to disrupt industries across AI, data, semiconductors, among others.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

million in seed funding led by Gradient Ventures. The market for AI tools is expected to reach $126 billion by 2025, but most of those continue to be geared toward those with experience in AI. Shirazi saw a market asking for technologies and systems that enabled non-data scientists to leverage AI and machine learning.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Co-led by Coatue and Andreessen Horowitz , the round also saw participation from Bessemer Venture Partners. “Tackle is the leading player for enabling companies to sell software through the cloud,” he said. Fellow VC firm Battery Ventures, which to our knowledge hasn’t invested in Tackle, also backs up that view.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Cellular growth medium is a component of cellular agriculture that enables lab-grown meat to be made at a lower cost. Today, it announced $3 million in seed financing, led by True Ventures, with participation from Social Impact Capital and Cantos. France-Emmanuelle Adil, founder and CEO, Tiamet Sciences. Image Credits: Tiamet Sciences.

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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

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

million in debt — led by NGP Capital with participation from Team8 Capital and Jerusalem Venture Partners. ” As a company’s IT environment expands, so does the amount of passwords, API keys and certificates that the company uses to enable authentication between processes, services and databases, he notes.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Tiger Global’s latest investment in India is Vecmocon , a startup building solutions to bring safety and reliability alongside intelligence and health monitoring to light electric vehicles (EVs), addressing concerns that are curtailing the sales of electric scooters in the South Asian market. million in Vecmocon along with Blume Ventures. “We

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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

AUGUST 4, 2022

Axio , a platform for cybersecurity risk evaluation, today announced the closure of a $23 million Series B round led by Temasek’s ISTARI, with participation from investors NFP Ventures, IA Capital Group and former BP CEO Bob Dudley.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

But those more aligned with the private sphere, such as venture capitalists and private equity investors, perhaps aren’t quite as well-served when it comes to funnelling into the data they need to carry out their due diligence ahead of making a big investment, or tracking and managing their portfolio through to an exit.

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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 billion in 2025 at a compound annual growth rate of 11%. It currently operates in New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Philadelphia.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

His virtual meeting platform is the latest to receive venture capital funding — $13.5 Users can add notes and see where those notes fall within a real-time transcription that enables people who arrive late or could not make the meeting to catch up easily. million — with the goal of making meetings more useful before, during and after.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The investment — which co-founder and CEO Eerik Oja called a bridge round — is a prequel to a larger Series A round next year. million in a seed round in June 2020 and followed it with $10 million in debt from emerging markets-focused venture debt fund Lendable in December. The company raised $2.4

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