TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

The Indian hyperlocal delivery startup Dunzo is in late-stage discussions to secure about $50 million in a new financing round, two sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch, as the Bengaluru-headquartered startup scrambles for comfort in an otherwise funding winter for younger firms.

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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 Toss joined the unicorn club with its $80 million financing at a valuation of $ 1.2 trillion won ( $7 billion), up from 8.5 billion (8.5 trillion won) valuation. billion won) and $175.8

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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

OCTOBER 13, 2022

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. The company is now eyeing its next phase of growth, following a $6.5

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2023

When Porsche partnered with venture studio UP.Labs , the mission was to create six startups over three years all designed to solve the German automaker’s biggest problems and be compelling enough as a standalone business it that can attract other customers. Porsche is its first corporate partner.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

PhonePe has previously said that it plans to raise up to $1 billion as part of the ongoing financing round. “We The startup doesn’t expect to turn EBIDTA positive, a key profitability metric, until calendar year 2025, KMPG wrote in its valuation report. Google’s GPay and PhonePe currently process more than 80% of all UPI transactions.)

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

“Their expectations for quality commercial vehicles, on demand service, flexible financing and tech enabled security features spurred us to innovate. It also launched a new subsidiary to finance the vehicles, along with its software, to shared micromobility providers. billion in 2025 at a compound annual growth rate of 11%.

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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

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Amit Anand is a founding partner of Jungle Ventures and an early pioneer and leader in the development of Southeast Asia’s venture capital industry. As per Jungle Ventures’ calculations, the total value of the region’s digital companies is around $340 billion today and is estimated to grow to $1 trillion by 2025.

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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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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

DECEMBER 21, 2021

It comprises $6 million equity and $24 million in debt financing. . 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. While Moove focuses on financing ride-hailing cars, Planet42 and Autochek services are targeted at private individuals.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

Today, at the helm of the Black Founders Matter venture fund, Michel has kept that mentality. 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.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

. – September 19, 2023 – Virtual Incision Corporation , the developer of the world’s first miniaturized robotic-assisted surgery (RAS) system, today announced a $30 million extension to its previous $46 million Series C financing. We are excited to invest in the Series C extension from our fund, Arboretum Ventures VI ($268 million fund).

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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

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. “To ensure accuracy, predictions are made for venture-backed companies that have received at least two rounds of venture financing deals.”

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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Kaiyo said Tuesday it has raised a $36 million Series B in equity and debt financing to reinforce growing consumer demand for secondhand furniture and accelerate growth and market expansion across the country, starting from California. billion in sales by 2025 , from 9.9 The Series B round comes on the back of its rapid growth.

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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. Mage , developing an artificial intelligence tool for product developers to build and integrate AI into apps, brought in $6.3

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2021

Previously backed by the Bill Gates-financed Breakthrough Energy Ventures fund, the new company has just raised roughly $50 million of an approximately $60 million financing round to expand its operations, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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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.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Today, it announced $3 million in seed financing, led by True Ventures, with participation from Social Impact Capital and Cantos. Phil Black, co-founder of True Ventures, said the investment into Tiamat Sciences fit into its plant-based portfolio. France-Emmanuelle Adil, founder and CEO, Tiamet Sciences.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Teachmint , one such startup that is helping teachers and institutes create their own virtual classrooms with a few taps on their smartphones and build direct relationship with students, has raised $78 million in its Series B financing round, TechCrunch has learned and confirmed. Rocketship.vc

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2021

The two-year-old startup, led by high-profile entrepreneur Kunal Shah, said on Monday it has raised $81 million in a new financing round and bought shares worth $1.2 The Series C financing round, as first reported by TechCrunch in late November , was led by DST Global. million (about 90 million Indian rupees) from employees.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

Finance, meet regulation. Regulation, finance : Ira Lam explores CeFi and DeFi in the face of regulation. It keeps going and going, hopefully : In a move toward better environmental stewardship, Apple says new batteries will use 100% recycled cobalt by 2025 , reports Brian. Aria has more.

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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

AUGUST 5, 2021

Merchants also struggle to access finance to perform cross-border trade in the continent. This April, the company launched MVXpay, a finance and payment solution to provide trade finance for freight operators. The market for cross-border logistics services is said to hit revenues of $32 billion by 2025.

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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. billion by 2025. Edge computing is forecast to be a $6.72 billion market by 2022, according to Markets and Markets. “Sima.ai

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Before starting their venture, the trio provided pro bono consultancy to e-rickshaw manufacturers. million in Vecmocon along with Blume Ventures. “We He noted that the startup is planning to hire sales, HR, operations and finance people in the team, which currently has 20 engineers developing different hardware and software solutions.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

We are delighted to participate in this financing round as Bankly moves into its next growth stage,” Idris Alubankudi Saliu, partner at Vault said. Other investors who took part in the round include Plug and Play Ventures, Rising Tide Africa and Chrysalis Capital. A year on, that strategy is yet to be actualized.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 28, 2023

BSDE will hire 227 Delawareans who are blind or visually impaired, have other disabilities, are military veterans and/or live in economically disadvantaged Promise Communities in New Castle, Kent and Sussex counties by the end of 2025. About BlindSight Delaware Enterprises Inc. BlindSight Delaware Enterprises Inc.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The startup is well-capitalized, with $28 million in equity financing from Bessemer Venture Partners (which seeded Sweep) and Insight Partners (which led the company’s most recent round, a Series A). billion by 2025 ( according to Statista) and that Salesforce had a 32.2%

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Alex’s take was particularly sharp… “ Not in the mood to finance your vanity project ,” indeed. TouchBistro, an iPad-based restaurant management platform, secured $110 million in growth financing from Francisco Partners to accelerate its growth, expand its product pipeline and make some strategic acquisitions, Christine reports.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

What’s really impressive with this round is that it is primarily financed by existing investors,” Lydia co-founder and CEO Cyril Chiche told me. Hedge funds are now investing in venture rounds. By 2025, the company hopes that 10 million customers in Europe will use Lydia as their primary account. Times are changing.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 11, 2022

Leading the round is new investor SIG Venture Capital, the Asian venture capital arm of SIG. Other new investors include Singapore-based global investor EDBI and investment holding company First Pacific Company Ltd.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Via TechCrunch by Arman Tabatabai: Venture capital has been flooding the various subverticals under the robotics umbrella in recent years, and the construction space is one of the largest beneficiaries. Matt Murphy and Grace Ge, Menlo Ventures Which trends are you most excited about in construction robotics from an investing perspective?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Promus Ventures , a VC firm based in Chicago, closed a €120 million ($139 million) space fund, dubbed Orbital Ventures. ABL Space had a huge week, closing $200 million in funding from existing investors including Fidelity Management and Lockheed Martin Ventures. The financing shot the company’s valuation to $2.4

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