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noissue raises $10M Series A to expand its global sustainable packaging platform

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Noissue , a New Zealand-based global packaging platform, wants to make sustainable packaging accessible to businesses of all sizes. intends to use the funds to grow its global team, invest in the technology that powers its platform and localize its supply chain, according to Josh Bowden, CEO and co-founder of noissue.

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4 Indian investors explain how their investment strategy has changed since 2021

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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Malaysian startup HOMA2U eecures $875K in pre-Series A funding

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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Ample’s founder explains what it takes to scale EV battery swapping

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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Novel Farms flexes its pork loin ‘muscle’ following future equity investment

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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Hypd raises $4m to empower content creators in India

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. Hypd plans to use the recent funding to facilitate growth in these sectors.

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AppHarvest is now APPH: Rise of the Rest’s First Publicly Traded Company

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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Tanso banks a seed for its CO2 footprint software for industrial manufacturers

TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2023

Munch-based climate tech startup Tanso , which sells software to help industrial manufacturers carry out sustainability reporting and carbon accounting, has banked €6.5 We first talked to Tanso back in fall 2021 when its trio of founders had just nabbed pre-seed funding. million in early stage growth funding. Tanso nabs $1.9M

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Solar startup Xurya scores additional funding from Mitsui, SSIA

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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PitchBook’s new tool uses AI to predict which startups will successfully exit

TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

When given the name of a VC-backed company, VC Exit Predictor generates a score on the probability that it’ll be acquired, go public or not exit due to becoming self-sustaining or experiencing any event (e.g., ” PitchBook certainly isn’t the first to develop an algorithmic tool to inform investment decisions. .

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Phospholutions, Inc. Attracts Additional Capital from Global Ag Companies

Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JULY 13, 2022

a leader in sustainable fertilizer technology, has announced additional. 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. Phospholutions Inc.,

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Venture investor Antler commits $100m to over 300 startups in SE Asia in 4 years

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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Kaiyo gets $36M Series B for its secondhand furniture marketplace

TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Kaiyo founder and CEO Alpay Koralturk said in an interview with TechCrunch that he was familiar with the hassle of buying and selling furniture after moving five times in five years in NYC. He and his wife, who are passionate about sustainability, tried buying secondhand to furnish the apartment when they moved into a new place in 2014.

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Plant-based food startup Next Gen lands $10M seed round from investors including Temasek

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The company announced today that it has raised $10 million in seed funding from investors including Temasek, K3 Ventures, EDB New Ventures (an investment arm of the Singapore Economic Development Board), NX-Food, FEBE Ventures and Blue Horizon. million of founder capital.

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Aerospace primes Northrop, Lockheed join in Orbit Fab’s over $10M funding round

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Notably, both Northrop Grumman Corporation and Lockheed Martin Ventures also participated, the first time the two contractor-rivals have done an investment together, Orbit Fab co-founder Jeremy Schiel told TechCrunch. By 2025, Schiel said he hopes every spacecraft will have a RAFTI on it.

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Zoomo raises $12 million to expand e-bike subscription offerings

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%.

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Singapore edtech GIFT.ed gets $1m from IMC Pan Asia Alliance

AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 2, 2022

Register IMC Pan Asia Alliance has invested $1 million in GIFT.ed , a new Singapore-incorporated edtech firm from the Global Institute For Tomorrow (GIFT). Chandran Nair, GIFT Founder, and GIFT.ed Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet?

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How Startups Can Successfully Turn Their Existing Product into a New Offering

StartupNation

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Product-founder fit is essential, too. If you don’t enjoy spending time in this market, or do not have relevant experience, it’s going to be more difficult building and sustaining a meaningful project. When it comes to tech, any market trends that you’re investing in must already have tailwind to be successful.

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Student transportation startup Z?m to add 10,000 EVs to its platform

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The company intends to use the funds to add 10,000 new electric vehicles to its platform with the end goal of achieving 100% EVs by 2025. m , a startup that provides optimized transportation services for school-age children, has announced the close of a $130 million Series D raise, bringing its total funding to more than $200 million.

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Danish startup Responsibly raises $2M to benchmark supply chains on climate, diversity

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

If the world is to reach net zero, and avoid climate disaster , it needs to make every product sustainable, and that means every purchase. It’s now raised a $2 million pre-seed investment round led by Flash Ventures. While companies are often doing their best, the problem with issues like CO2 emissions lies in the supply chain.

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South Africa’s Planet42 gets $30M for its car subscription service, Mexico expansion

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. Naspers, through its early-stage investment vehicle, Naspers Foundry , led the equity round with $3.4 Planet42 founders (Marten Orgna and Eerik Oja).

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Bloomreach, now valued at $2.2B, continues to plant seeds of customer personalization

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

trillion by 2025. Bloomreach co-founder and CEO Raj De Datta. Personalization is a 20-year-old technology, but so much on the web is still generic — that has to change,” co-founder and CEO Raj De Datta told TechCrunch. “We Meet retail’s new sustainability strategy: Personalization. Image Credits: Bloomreach.

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99minutos clocks in fresh capital for logistics infrastructure in Latin America

TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

The last round follows a $40 million Series B investment last May from Prosus and Kaszek and brings the company’s total funding to about $128.7 He particularly was interested in speaking with Oak HC/FT because of its global presence and approach to bringing together its portfolio companies around tips and advice for founders.

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Is cell-cultured meat ready for prime time?

TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

Investments in this sector are heating up, though. Currently, alternative protein makes up just about 2% of the animal protein market, but it is expected to increase more than 7x by 2025. “We Josh Tetrick, co-founder and CEO of Eat Just, said the movement is here even if people are not buying a lot of lab-grown meat yet. “It

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Sony and Honda unveil Afeela, Bird Buddy launches a new smart feeder, and Amazon secures an $8B loan

TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2023

Preorders of the Afeelas are scheduled for the first half of 2025, the companies said, with sales to begin sometime same year. And last but not least, Found sat down with Brex co-founder and co-CEO Henrique Dubugras to chat about his corporate credit card and expense management startup. TechCrunch+. Don’t subscribe to TC+ yet?

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The Station: Cruise loses its head, Nio brings AR in the car, and Rivian expands to Georgia

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

His leadership at Proterra was first and foremost about increasing access to affordable, sustainable solutions and shaping a zero-emission transportation future for the benefit of our planet and the health of our communities. His work as a partner at and Kleiner Perkins was dedicated to leading the sustainable transformation of industries.

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Malta’s energy storage tech to stabilize electricity grids reliant on renewables gets $50 million

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

That’s why technologies coming from companies like Malta , an energy storage technology developer that just raised $50 million in new financing, are attracting attention and venture capital investment. Dustin Moskovitz, a co-founder of Facebook and the chief executive and co-founder of Asana, also participated in the round.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: BNPL competition heats up, Bowery Farming TC-1, Silicon Valley dreams

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2021

“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,” says founding partner Amit Anand. Now that remote work has become the norm, remote investment in the area has dialed up as well.

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Extra Crunch roundup: Klaviyo EC-1, micromobility’s second wave, UiPath CFO interview, more

TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

This week, we published a four-part series about how Klaviyo co-founders Andrew Bialecki and Ed Hallen bootstrapped their startup into an e-commerce marketing automation platform now valued at $4.15 By 2025, 463 exabytes of data will be created each day, according to some estimates. Image Credits: Nigel Sussman (opens in a new window).

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PH venture investor Kickstart Ventures commits to expand investments globally

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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Israel’s retrain.ai closes $13M to use AI to understand early signals in the changing jobs market

TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

Our vision is to help 10 million workers get the right jobs by 2025 and help organizations navigate efficiently through the wave of change.”. is the first investment by Square Peg’s new $450 million fund. The VC previously invested in Canva, Stripe, Fiverr and Airwallex. Retrain.ai

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Meati Foods sinks teeth into $150M to expand its mushroom-root meat operations

TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2022

million in total funding, according to Crunchbase data, was led by Revolution Growth, with participation from existing and new investors, including CPP Investments, Grosvenor, Wellington Management and Chipotle Mexican Grill’s new venture fund, Cultivate Next. Meati is among Cultivate’s first cohort of investments.

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Warehouse robotics system Exotec raises $335 million

TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2022

Following today’s investment, the company has reached a valuation of $2 billion. This is what it looks like: “Following the most significant supply chain disruptions of the modern era, there’s only room left for innovation,” co-founder and CEO Romain Moulin said in a statement.

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Alan raises another $193 million for its medical one-stop shop startup

TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

We decided to raise again at the start of the year,” co-founder and CEO Jean-Charles Samuelian-Werve told me. We’ve been receiving some investment requests. Now, we are self-sustaining and will be until we reach profitability.”. Alan’s founders have been clear about their vision from the very beginning.

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Extra Crunch roundup: Guest posts wanted, ‘mango’ seed rounds, Expensify’s tech stack

TechCrunch

JUNE 4, 2021

Our submission guidelines haven’t changed, but Managing Editor Eric Eldon and I wrote a short post that identifies the topics we’re prioritizing at the moment: How-to articles for early-stage founders. Quality of life (personal health, sustainability, proptech, transportation). Market analysis of different tech sectors.

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Newsletter: Fusion energy breakthrough + Plant a billion trees

OurCrowd

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Flash Forest has demonstrated annual growth of 10X for each of the past two years and secured a multiyear, multimillion-dollar corporate contract through the end of 2025. Click below to sign an NDA and learn more about this investment opportunity in the clean energy of the future. OurCrowd is co-leading Flash Forest’s Series A round.

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Why Coworking Will Thrive Post-WeWork

GCUC

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

The market is ripe for the next Convene or Industrious (whose founders have also been GCUC speakers) to rise up. WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR INVESTMENT? I believe coworking will be more than 25% of the market by 2025 thanks to the speed of business and innovation. Stop thinking small, my coworking friends. Coworking will thrive.

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Cruise Origin rolls into Austin, WeRide makes its IPO move and TuSimple stirs up more drama

TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

During my time there, I met with lots of founders and investors who had more to discuss than just the SVB collapse, although that certainly dominated many conversations. Finally, I sat down with GM CEO and Chair Mary Barra after her talk on stage (alongside Cruise co-founder and CEO Kyle Vogt ). I’m back from SXSW!

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Extra Crunch roundup: Jam City SPAC, startup PR, telemedicine market map, more

TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2021

Whether you’re building a company or thinking about investing, it’s important to understand your strategic advantage. In order to determine one, you should ask fundamental questions: What’s the long-term, sustainable reason that the company will stay in business? Image Credits: Eoneren / Getty Images. You can’t afford to mess this up.

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“Workers are mad and no longer willing to sit idly by being spoon fed ‘we’re family’ b t from bosses:” Logan LaHive is Helping Employees Organize & Collectively Bargain. But Did He Compromise His Own Vision By Taking Venture Capital for the Startup?

Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

What will unionization rates in private workforce be in 2025? I’m no policy wonk, nor do I put much faith in our current political landscape to enact sustained change (even though you’d really expect better ROI on the $Billions that Labor has funneled to Dem politicians over past few decades). I don’t know. I looked it up a few times.

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noissue raises $10M Series A to expand its global sustainable packaging platform

4 Indian investors explain how their investment strategy has changed since 2021

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