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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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Xurya’s Managing Director and Co-Founder, Eka Himawan said, “We appreciate the trust given by Mitsui, Surya Semesta Internusa, our partners, and Xurya customers. The funding will be allocated to support the expansion of solar power development to accelerate the clean and sustainable energy transition for companies in Indonesia.”

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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

Since retrain.ai’s $4 million seed round last year was unannounced (led by Hetz Ventures, with TechAviv and.406 406 Ventures participating), that means it’s raised a total of $13 million. Our vision is to help 10 million workers get the right jobs by 2025 and help organizations navigate efficiently through the wave of change.”.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The round was led by Asymmetry Ventures, with participation from existing investor SpaceFund and new investors Marubeni Ventures and Audacious Venture Partners. We don’t give either a competitive edge, but we can as a whole have better alternatives for sustainability in space.”.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JULY 13, 2022

a leader in sustainable fertilizer technology, has announced additional. 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. amount of applied fertilizer,” said Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Hunter Swisher.

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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

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

million in a Series C funding round co-led by Closed Loop Partners’ Leadership Fund and Piper Sandler Merchant Banking with participation from MissionOG, Harbert Growth, Grotech Ventures, Lavrock Ventures and Point Field Partners. billion in 2025 from $14.3 billion in 2019, according to Markets and Markets.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

We initially built our products to service the demands of gig workers in the food delivery industry,” Mina Nada, Zoomo CEO and co-founder, said in a statement. billion in 2025 at a compound annual growth rate of 11%. The online food delivery industry is no different, with a market that’s expected to reach $192.16

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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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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. The round, which gives the company $278.6

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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. Planet42 founders (Marten Orgna and Eerik Oja).

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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. The Series D funding, which is led by Softbank Vision Fund 2 with participation from existing investors including Sequoia and BMW i Ventures, comes just a few months after Z?m as its next target.

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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). HW: Frank is venture backed.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

It announced today $82 million in Series C funding, led by Oak HC/FT, with participation from existing investors Kaszek and Prosus Ventures. However, opportunities with new customers came along, the company was growing and there was a ton of interest from venture capital firms. That interest didn’t happen before,” he added. “It

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2022

Four years and hundreds of long lines later, the truck is still there, but the company is taking on what co-founder Nile Dreiling calls “a stale $40 billion donut industry ” by expanding its presence into brick-and-mortar locations in Los Angeles after raising $9 million in financing.

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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. Now, we are self-sustaining and will be until we reach profitability.”. Teachers’ Venture Growth (TVG), the venture fund of the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board, is leading the round. Image Credits: Alan.

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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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Popple had recently left Proterra and had joined G2 Venture Partners. As G2 Venture Partners wrote in its remembrance of Popple: “Ryan embodied entrepreneurial spirit and devoted his life to creating a better future. The SPAC shareholders will have a 17% ownership, with the remaining 4% being held by SPAC founders and Kymco.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Second, to support green ventures to scale their impact faster , especially in our focus areas (net zero, Food & Agriculture and Circularity). The idea behind our Circularity Program: to equip start-up founders with circularity knowledge early on to anticipate the environmental impact of their ventures and make different choices.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

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 Image Credits: Nicholas YEO / AFP / Getty Images.

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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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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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Before Gene Berdichevsky became the co-founder and CEO of battery chemistry company Sila Nano, he was the seventh employee at Tesla Motors. The company already has joint battery ventures with BMW and Daimler and aims to provide battery chemistry for electric vehicles at scale by 2025. The result?

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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

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. “Denver was ready for the Zoom boom, and is reaping the — venture capital — rewards.” Any advice?

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2021

In order to determine one, you should ask fundamental questions: What’s the long-term, sustainable reason that the company will stay in business? Lew Cirne, New Relic’s founder and CEO, is stepping into the executive chairman role. The influence of a founder on their company’s culture cannot be overstated.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Even the largest landfills in Indonesia are at (or nearing) capacity , and the government has set an ambitious target of 30% waste reduction by 2025. Other participants in the round include Basra Corporation, Paloma Capital, PT Delapan Satu Investa, Living Lab Ventures, SMDV and Urban Gateway Fund.

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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. European VC soars in Q1.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

The company aims to have its first product approved by European regulators by 2023 and notching commercial sales by 2025. Rick Klausner, the former executive director of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and a founder of Juno Therapeutics, GRAIL, and Mindstrong Health, after leaving Illumina where he served as chief medical officer.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Successful companies will need founders that will be able to raise significant funding and will need successful strategies to maintain healthy margins in the early days and while scaling. Ideas: Solutions for automating and streamlining non-venture financing of climate tech.

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