TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Real estate investment firm Byggmästare Anders J Ahlström (like Volta, based in Stockholm), supply chain services giant Agility, and B-FLEXION (formerly Waypoint Capital) also participated. “As an innovator and disruptor in commercial vehicles, we are working at industry-leading pace and have significant ambitions.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2023

Bruce Hamilton, founder, Mech Ventures: We are contemplating decreasing our check size so we can double our number of investments from 75 to 140. We view this as a great opportunity to lean in. I’m excited for Q1 2023 and the entire year of 2023 for the opportunities coming to us. Times of scarcity create the best founders.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

This amount was double the previous year’s investment, and nine times what was raised five years ago, an indication of how much the startup scene has transformed over the last few years. billion investment that fintechs in Africa raised in 2020, and triple the amount in 2019. This amount was also more than double the $1.35

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

based investment fund Talanton and Swiss investor AlphaMundi Group. Novastar Ventures , which co-led the firm’s Series A round, and Blink CV also made follow-on investments. We entered this market because we saw a real opportunity to guarantee and deliver quality furniture. It plans to also purchase more equipment.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 6, 2020

While companies across the globe were forced to lay off staff and cut expenditures when the crisis hit, many missed an opportunity to creatively augment or repurpose their existing offerings to serve a new audience and solve a new problem. At Talview, we did exactly that.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

EdgeQ , Kneron , and Hailo are among the dozens of upstarts vying for customers, the last of which nabbed $136 million in October as it doubles down on new opportunities. He has a deep history of investing in deep tech startups that have gone on to disrupt industries across AI, data, semiconductors, among others.” “Sima.ai

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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

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

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Various programs were held on the day, such as open discussions with startup companies, a ceremony for signing win-win partnership agreements with large companies in the 2nd Pangyo Techno Valley, a presentation of the Gyeonggi Venture and Startup brand, special lectures, investment consultations, and product demonstrations.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Dwana Franklin-Davis is a lifelong technologist currently serving as the CEO of Reboot Representation , a coalition of tech companies pooling their philanthropic resources to double the number of Black, Latina and Native American women receiving computing degrees by 2025. This is an enormous missed opportunity with dire consequences.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

CinetPay is their first investment in the Francophone region. Flutterwave CEO Olugbenga “GB” Agboola said the investment in CinetPay is an example of the duo’s shared vision to “simplify payments on the continent.” “Our vision is to be the first payment aggregator in Francophone Africa by 2025.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 11, 2022

Register Voyager Innovations , the technology company in the Philippines behind the end-to-end money platform PayMaya and neobank Maya Bank, raises US$210 million in new funds, propelling Voyager’s valuation to unicorn plus status, at nearly US$1.4 Half of the adult population remains unbanked.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2021

Proofpoint CEO Gary Steele said in a statement the acquisition to go private will allow the company to be “more agile with greater flexibility to continue investing in innovation, building on our leadership position and staying ahead of threat actors.”

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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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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 5, 2024

It’s an area where a lot of companies are trying to innovate. It sounds like you’re committed to the August 2025 timeline for it. Sharon: Another thing you talked about is just this tremendous amount of private investment venture capital going into defense. Kathleen Hicks: Absolutely. What is the metric for success?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

billion by 2025. Given the tailwinds, Zur took the opportunity to work with top venture capital firms, like Tiger and SoftBank, even though it had taken the Series A a mere six weeks prior. Taking the additional capital means the company can invest in areas of the business earlier than Zur originally planned.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Hello, it’s more funding calling : In PhonePe’s quest to raise $1 billion, an investor group that included Tiger Global and Ribbit Capital invested another $100 million into “India’s most valuable fintech startup,” which is valued at $12 billion, Manish writes. billion , up from the $1.3 Kirsten has more.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Some of the opportunities involve machines, while an equal amount of opportunity lies in the software behind the machines. Matt Murphy and Grace Ge, Menlo Ventures Which trends are you most excited about in construction robotics from an investing perspective? How much time are you spending on construction robotics right now?

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 18, 2022

K-Startup Grand Challenge is a great opportunity for global startups looking to explore Asia’s markets for their innovative products and services. Test Bed Korea for the Global Market: Korea provides excellent opportunities to do consumer testing. Korean people are active social media users. trillion won (US$6.4

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Dana Stalder, a partner at Matrix Partners and Afterpay’s only institutional investor, describes the deal as part of a recurring “critical innovation cycle” in fintech that “determines the winners and losers” for decades to come. alone, yearly spending on AI R&D is expected to reach $100 billion by 2025.

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OurCrowd

MARCH 3, 2020

Food and beverage technology, or “FoodTech,” holds the potential to improve how we eat — from increased food yield, improved nutritional value and freshness to innovations in supply chain and procurement. As a result, over the last five years investment in emerging FoodTech has tripled. Sustainability in FoodTech.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

From startups to Starbucks: The embedded API opportunity. “The ability to be at the right place at the right time, supporting consumers and merchants alike, where they want it, how they want it and when they want it — cannot be understated,” says Simon Wu, an investment director with Cathay Innovation. .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

Larger players like Lime and Bird have vertically integrated tech stacks for fleet management features like this, but there are also opportunities for startups — imagine a “phantom scooter” that drives itself to a neighborhood with high demand or a moped that alerts drivers if there’s traffic ahead.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Previous platform shifts show it can take decades of compounding innovations for a technological breakthrough to turn into a society-wide shift. This wave of generative AI has the sort of economics that drive market transformations For a technological innovation to spur a market transformation, the economics need to be compelling.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Simon is an investment director with Cathay Innovation , a global venture capital firm investing across North America, Europe, Asia and Africa. He focuses on software, fintech, digital health and consumer investments. From startups to Starbucks: The embedded API opportunity. billion in VC investment.

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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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

It’s clear that the additional overhead is generating higher prices, but not necessarily better results, according to Sumi Das and Nina Gerson, who lead healthcare investments at Capital G. Fortunately, the window of opportunity for change is open right now.” Full Extra Crunch articles are only available to members.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The investment brings Esper’s total funding to $100 million. The growth is coming from technology innovation and companies reprioritizing how they will be doing this, especially amid the global pandemic. billion units by 2025. While it may be behind, the Internet of Things is not slowing down for anyone to catch up.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2022

Adding Hong Kong-based investment firm VMS Group to the company’s cap table will bring the resources needed for a potential initial public offering in the city, said Wang. The two met through the startup’s investor Cathay Innovation , and the acqui-hire will pave the way for Laiye’s entry into the Europe market, said Wang.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2022

“With this new investment, we will continue to grow our business with in-house legal teams, continue to grow our presence in international markets, like Canada, the U.K. Gartner projects that legal department budgets allotted to technology will increase threefold by 2025. million at an $800 million valuation.

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OurCrowd

JULY 17, 2019

Investments can be powerful. When successful, they can benefit both investors and the invested. Money poured into a business that takes off provides job opportunities and helps the economy grow while investors recoup their money and make a profit too. Investment can help solve problems facing communities, regions and the world.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 20, 2021

Sales of cars using batteries jumped 43% in 2020 to 3.25M units and are forecast to grow to over 30M units by 2025. We’re excited to welcome CropX to our 2021 cohort of Technology Pioneers,” said Susan Nesbitt, head of the Global Innovators Community at the World Economic Forum. ” Learn More. That’s hypergrowth for a company.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

Um, there is a #$@% ton of mobility news to get to, including a few scoops, some investment news, and a new “market map” that takes a deep look into the business of Mobility-as-a-service apps. This nifty tech that shows how NASA investments towards space exploration can end up improving life on Earth. I have a gift for you.

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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. Learn more. Sign NDA to Learn More.

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

We need the kind of technology and innovation that will be on display at the Summit this week more than ever to help solve the challenges that face the planet. That’s the belief of the vast majority of investors on the OurCrowd global investment platform surveyed in January.

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GCUC

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

He had the opportunity to make something great and, sadly, we are just starting to see some of the cracks. 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. He was captivating and intimidating in stature and dynamic.

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

By 2025, there will be an estimated 14 billion IoT devices worldwide – each one a potential security risk allowing hackers entry into networks. The Chicago-based startup “fuses ready-to-cook meal delivery with innovative kitchen technology. Annual revenues soared 270% in the first 6 weeks of 2021 toward its target of $3.3M

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