TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

Nevertheless, investors are optimistic about their prospects in the country and feel that the global slowdown is helping founders focus more on building and strengthening their core business. For Ashutosh Sharma, head of India investments at Prosus Ventures, it is paramount for startups to ensure their existence at this time.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 25, 2023

Register Zhang Yiming, the co-founder of ByteDance, the parent company of the popular social media platform TikTok, has established a new private investment fund in Hong Kong. The fund, known as Cool River Venture, will primarily focus on investing in technology-related industries.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Since we last checked in with Ample’s co-founder and president John de Souza a year ago , the San Francisco-based startup has quietly grown, building new swapping stations and signing on additional fleet partners around the globe. Today there are 1,400. If they put our batteries in, it’s swappable. If they put their own, they’re not.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

million smartphone users will scan a QR code by 2025, up from 83.4 Co-founder and CEO Sharat Potharaju says that the new capital will be put toward expanding the startup’s team and product R&D. Potharaju is an investment banker by trade, having held posts at Merrill Lynch and Fieldstone Private Capital Group.

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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

AUGUST 11, 2021

We are also continuing to invest in our route optimization software, which just helps districts get more efficient and greener,” Joanna McFarland, CEO and co-founder, told TechCrunch. “By To help fund that growth and expand into 30 new markets over the next year and a half, HopSkipRide raised $25 million in a Series C. “We

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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. 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

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.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2022

Novel Farms co-founders Michelle Lu and Nieves Martinez Marshall. 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. 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 brings its total funding raised to $41.4 million, the company said without disclosing its valuation.

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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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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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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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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 30, 2023

Reliance Retail and Google, two existing backers of Dunzo , are among those who are holding discussions to invest in the new round, the sources said, requesting anonymity as the information is private. Kabeer Biswas, co-founder and chief executive of Dunzo, declined to comment Thursday.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 3, 2023

Existing investors Sauce VC and Better Capital also participated, doubling down on their previous investments. The platform aims to support 100,000 creators by 2025, tapping into India’s $100B commerce market.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

” PitchBook certainly isn’t the first to develop an algorithmic tool to inform investment decisions. “However, we anticipate a long tail of use cases for industry players searching for upcoming IPO candidates, monitoring competitors in the market or seeking validation for an investment in their next round.”

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 26, 2023

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. billion in 2021 and is projected to grow annually by 16.5%, up to $404 billion in 2025. Register Explico , a Singapore-based edtech startup , has secured US$1.4

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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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

NXgenPort is the brainchild of CEO and co-founder Cathy Skinner, who came up with the idea for the port based on her own experience after her father passed away from cancer 20 years ago. Skinner says the startup anticipates human testing to begin toward the end of 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. 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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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

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

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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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 2, 2023

This center provides office space, management consulting, prototype production support, certification and intellectual property application support, as well as investment attraction assistance. Furthermore, NCsoft invested KRW 1.5 This could potentially cut down the two-hour commute from Pangyo to Gimpo Airport to just 30 minutes.

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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., Especially at this time, the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) has targeted the new and renewable energy mix to reach 23% by 2025.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

Kiren Tanna, co-founder and chief executive officer of Una Brands told TechCrunch that Una will set aside $100 million for KlickBrands to acquire brands in South Korea. The e-commerce market of South Korea is expected to increase up to $250 billion by 2025. Una raised $55 million in equity and debt funding last year. .

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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. Dr. Shay David, co-founder and CEO of retrain.ai 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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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

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

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

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

EQT Ventures, the venture fund arm of Sweden’s investment giant EQT making early-stage bets on startups primarily in Europe, has closed its latest fund and filled its coffers with €1 billion (and $1.1 Three more from the TC+ team: No wave for you : VC investors and startup founders see hope in the red wave that wasn’t , by Dominic-Madori.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Investment has also trickled down to Africa, with large checks going into growth-stage startups. Reports say healthtech in Africa should reach a market value of over US$11 billion by 2025 and Reliance Health is looking to play a pivotal role in the continent reaching that capitalization. It is the first investment made by the U.S.-based

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Other notable investors in the company include The Chainsmokers’ Mantis VC Fund and the founders and CEOs of Allbirds, Everlane, FIGS, Harry’s, Flexport and Warby Parker. billion by 2025. Taking the additional capital means the company can invest in areas of the business earlier than Zur originally planned.

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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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