StartupNation

JULY 12, 2025

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Campaign Monitor

MAY 30, 2025

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Revolution

DECEMBER 23, 2024

In 2025, startups beyond the coasts and outside of the traditional tech hubs will face new challenges and, with customary resourcefulness, also seize new opportunities. startups in Q1-Q2 of 2024. Exit optionality is indeed essential to the startup and venture capital lifecycle, as acquisitions make up 90% ofexits.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 27, 2025

The startup uses AI automation to streamline specialty therapy approvals for diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s. Mandolin, an innovative AI healthcare startup, has secured $40 million in funding to transform how patients gain access to life-saving specialty therapies. We just tell it what needs to get done, and it does the work.”

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A Smart Bear: Longform

JUNE 7, 2025

The answer for a funded startup is “Bid as much as possible, to get as many customers—and data!—as But since you don’t, in my experience (and in a non-scientific survey of some of the 100 startups currently officed at the fabulously Capital Factory co-working space in Austin), a good pre-data rule of thumb is 20 months.

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 8, 2025

This latest round of seed funding for a child care startup reflects investor confidence in Bumo’s ambitious vision to be the backbone of child care infrastructure nationwide. “We We want Bumo to be as integral to family life as Airbnb, Uber, and Instacart are in their respective fields,” said Joan Nguyen, co-founder and CEO of Bumo.

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Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

After graduation, I dove headfirst into tech startups as it was clear they were investing the future every day. So we are seeing a seachange at consumer companies – everyone is evaluating AI Agents in 2025. I knew that one day I wanted to be an executive, or even the top executive.

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 25, 2025

Founded in 2025 by Jacob Portukalian and Arlen Abraham , Cascade Space is a next-generation space communication system company, providing tools and infrastructure for the design, test, and operation of spacecraft communication systems. Cascade Space, a rising innovator in the aerospace industry, has announced the close of a $5.9

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

Pricing ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Wix's Light plan is $17/month, while its eCommerce-enabled plans start at $29/month. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Squarespace's entry-level Personal plan is $14/month; its eCommerce-enabled plans start at $22/month. The most recent update was in July 2025. Wix has also been improving the quality of its templates.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

25 seed and early-stage startups participate in a 5-month long program ending with a Demo Day showcasing their disruptive innovation For its 2024 global accelerator cohort, Morgan Stanley received thousands of applications. The global financial services firm narrowed its selection down to 25 companies for its I nclusive Ventures Lab.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 6, 2020

At Talview, our company vision is to enable everyone to build the best career for themselves, no matter where they’re located. Even before the pandemic, the e-learning market size was predicted to grow at 8 percent CAGR (Compound Annual Growth Rate) between 2020 and 2025, to value $315 billion by 2025.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 26, 2023

Register Explico , a Singapore-based edtech startup , has secured US$1.4 The startup uses AI technology to generate assessment tasks, find appropriate peers for study groups, and provide transparent adaptive feedback. billion in 2021 and is projected to grow annually by 16.5%, up to $404 billion in 2025.

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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

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. He has a deep history of investing in deep tech startups that have gone on to disrupt industries across AI, data, semiconductors, among others.” billion by 2025. “Sima.ai

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

One of the most common areas of attention respondents highlighted were startups focused on construction and manufacturing. Are there startups that you wish you would see in the industry but don’t? Last November, we surveyed 13 of the top robotics-focused VCs to find out which areas of robotics are exciting them most going into 2020.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

For nearly all fintech startups, lending has long been the end game. Several startups including Slice, Jupiter, Uni and KreditBee have long used the PPI licenses to issue cards and then equip them with credit lines. A notice from India’s central bank this week has thrown a wrench into the ecosystem, scrutinizing just who all can lend.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

In February 2020, as the world was shutting down, and as businesses downsized on account of the Covid pandemic, John Kamara was busy establishing another new startup Adanian Labs in Nairobi, Kenya’s capital. We stay the course with startups and make sure they become successful businesses — We de-risk them from failure,” said Kiwia.

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Dream It

APRIL 24, 2019

According to Goldman Sachs , virtual and augmented reality (AR) will become an $80 billion market by 2025, and $2.6 The startup partners with local real estate photography and video firms to get its product into the hands of users. billion will be specifically for real estate. The medium is extremely powerful.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

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

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

NVIDIA Joins to support next generation of global cloud security companies Global cybersecurity leader CrowdStrike announced it is accepting applications for its second annual Cybersecurity Startup Accelerator with Amazon WebServices (AWS). They are enrolled in a free eight-week online program developed by AWS, CrowdStrike, and NVIDIA.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Niio will use its capital to grow its artist community and scale its app-enabled subscription and purchase platform, which is blockchain – based and will include a trading-enabled marketplace for NFTs and other digital art assets. The NFT market is just getting started, but where is it headed?

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

It will also support the development of new consumer and enterprise products to enable Indonesians and businesses to access a wider range of services securely and accelerate broader digital transformation. The Company also intends to expand into overseas market to further accelerate growth.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Plugo’s intuitive design feature enables users to launch their customized online store websites in minutes, with no technical knowledge required. The sector, driven primarily by e-commerce, is on track to become a $130 billion digital market by 2025.

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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

OCTOBER 4, 2021

billion units by 2025. Some of the ways the company is keeping up with demand is enabling organizations to sign up and start for free with 100 devices to see how the platform works. Customers need them to operate on a continued basis, and improve on the continued basis, and we can enable that.”. It is projected to be a $1.1

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 19, 2022

Register Global venture capital firm Antler has committed to investing $100 million by 2025 to at least 300 startups in Southeast Asia , according to an announcement. The plan is to enable founders to launch and grow early-stage startups in the Southeast Asian region over the next four years.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Tackle.io , an Idaho-based startup that helps software companies sell through cloud marketplaces such as AWS’s, announced today it has raised a $100 million Series C funding round. The investor joined Tackle’s board when his firm led the startup’s Series B round, and sees it as a category leader. billion valuation.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

I’m excited to shine the light on Logan and Frank, a software startup focused on worker empowerment. Hunter Walk: Frank , your current startup, is a platform for workers to organize in order to protect or advance their rights. What will unionization rates in private workforce be in 2025? Thanks Logan! I don’t know.

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Revolution Ventures Invests in Oula, the Maternity Care Startup Combining the Best of Obstetrics and Midwifery Oula will use the $28M Series B to open additional clinics and launch new services. Its tech-enabled offering is further augmented with virtual wrap-around services and group support. employer of midwives.

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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. billion in value by 2025. He co-founded the company with his brother, Jakob Sons.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

. “We can improve both outcomes and costs by moving care from the hospital back to the place it started — at home,” they write in a post that explores five innovations enabling at-home care and identifies investment opportunities like acute care and infrastructure development. PDT/2:30 p.m. Since then, Z?m

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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. the legaltech startup intends to expand its U.S. and the Middle East.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

billion by 2025. Next-day package delivery startup Veho valued at $1B following $125M Series A. In addition to the hiring, the extra capital will enable the company to provide better benefits for its employees and to go after potential strategic acquisitions. Veho is not alone in trying to solve this problem.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Akeyless’s co-founders attribute the startup’s success in part to the comprehensiveness of its product offerings. ” 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

JANUARY 18, 2023

The Bengaluru-headquartered startup said it has raised $350 million and anticipates raising up to another $650 million as part of the round in a remarkable feat at a time when fundraising activity has slowed down globally as investors become cautious. Seven-year-old PhonePe commands about 40% of all these transactions.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

“Selling a tenth of your company for north of a quarter-billion may be somewhat common among late-stage software startups with tremendous growth,” he says, but “don’t laugh — the round actually makes pretty OK sense.” From startups to Starbucks: The embedded API opportunity. Image Credits: Sophie Alcorn.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

Startups like BitSight offer similar products that assess the likelihood an organization will be breached. Spurred by these pressures, Gartner predicts that 40% of all public boards will have dedicated cybersecurity committees by 2025. But Kannry says that Axio differentiates through a focus on modeling the impact of cyber scenarios.

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