TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

Can an algorithm predict whether a startup will successfully exit? 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. PitchBook believes so. bankruptcy) that prevents an exit. bankruptcy) that prevents an exit.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2022

Achieving similar marbling and texture as a cut of animal meat has been a challenge for food technology startups aiming to produce whole cuts of cultivated meat, but Novel Farms believes it has cracked the code with its pork loin. Armed with $1.4

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Singapore is quickly turning into a hub for food-tech startups , partly because of government initiatives supporting the development of meat alternatives. This is the first time the startup has taken external investment, and the funding exceeded its original target of $7 million.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Without that, it’s difficult to determine what is right from what is wrong, or what is a strong investment from a shortsighted one. Investors need to start thinking about ESG risk in the same way they consider investment risk, as a first step.

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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

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 However a lot more of these manufacturers will be as the EU’s sustainability reporting requirements expand in the next couple of years.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 24, 2023

Besides, a multitude of small to medium-sized companies and startups specializing in gaming also call it home. Gyeonggi-do’s Seongnam-si, where Pangyo Techno Valley lies, has been earmarked as a special game and content district, with investments nearing KRW 170 billion won. By 2025, investments summing up to 171.9

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

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. and should?—?look look like.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 3, 2023

Existing investors Sauce VC and Better Capital also participated, doubling down on their previous investments. The startup plans to use the funds to accelerate creator acquisition, expand into more categories, and grow its team and product. Hypd plans to use the recent funding to facilitate growth in these sectors.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

For the better part of a decade, VC firms and growth equity funds have plowed nearly $42 billion into battery technology startups across almost 1,700 deals, according to an analysis by PitchBook and TechCrunch. What’s more, about 75% of the investments in that period happened in the last two years alone. Let’s dig in.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

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. 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.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 6, 2020

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. Even before the pandemic, the e-learning market size was predicted to grow at 8 percent CAGR (Compound Annual Growth Rate) between 2020 and 2025, to value $315 billion by 2025.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 10, 2023

Robust Support for Scaling Startups: Local Task Forces in Action Seongnam City initiated a task force in 2012, tailoring support schemes that resonate with Pangyo Techno Valley companies’ requirements. Meanwhile, Korea Creative Content Agency champions game startups through its Global Game Hub Center in Pangyo Techno Valley.

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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. Danish startup Responsibly reckons it has the answers in providing retailers, builders and others with a supply network a scorecard against this supply chain of providers.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

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. Furniture is one of the largest investments consumers make, yet historically, re-selling has posed a significant challenge, making it a major contributor to landfill waste,” said Koralturk.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Coolmate is the first Vietnamese startup to receive funding from GSR Ventures, a world-renowned early backer of unicorns including Advance Intelligence Group, Nium, Ele.me, and Xiaohongshu. It aspires to set an example of a sustainable business that can bring real value to customers, employees, partners, and shareholders. “We

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

startup that makes it easier for housing developers, architects and construction firms to configure and design modular homes to address the ongoing housing crisis , has raised £10 million ($11.7 billion people by 2025 , as house-price growth continues to outpace income growth. Modulous , a U.K. million) in a series A round of funding.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

Zoomo, the Australian startup with a mission to electrify delivery fleets through e-bike subscriptions, announced a $12 million interim capital raise on Monday. Now, the startup hopes to expand its service outward toward continental Europe and other states across the U.S. billion in 2025 at a compound annual growth rate of 11%.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

San Francisco-based startup Orbit Fab wants to be the go-to source for orbital refueling, and now it has raised over $10 million in its quest to get there. We don’t give either a competitive edge, but we can as a whole have better alternatives for sustainability in space.”. We are the tide that raises all boats,” Schiel said. “We

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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). Curriculum design, sustainability and environmental science, behavioral psychology, UI/UX design, and product management are among the skillsets of GIFT.ed’s founding team.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Uknes expects to have 11 products, also expanding into insecticides and herbicides, by 2025. The latest investment gives AgBiome over $200 million in total funding to date. As a result, Uknes said he was particular about the kind of investment partners that would work best toward that goal.

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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. Meanwhile, battery-swapping tech for cars has gained footing in China. Today there are 1,400.

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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 99 minutos, Mexico’s last mile delivery startup, raises a $40M Series B.

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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. Naspers, through its early-stage investment vehicle, Naspers Foundry , led the equity round with $3.4 It comprises $6 million equity and $24 million in debt financing. .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2021

As nations around the world race to reduce their environmental footprint and embrace more sustainable methods of production, finding a way to remove carbon from the metals business will be one of the most important contributions to that effort. One startup that’s developing a new technology to address the issue is Boston Metal.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

trillion by 2025. Today it announced $175 million in an investment, led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management, with participation from existing Bloomreach investors Bain Capital Ventures and Sixth Street Partners. The new capital will be invested in R&D to bring more personalization to life and make it easier to connect via APIs.

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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. For the birds : Bird Buddy, a startup behind “smart” bird feeders, took the wraps off of its latest model at CES, which caters to hummingbirds. TechCrunch+.

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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 Also known as cultivated or lab-grown meat, this process uses cells from animals to make meat without slaughter.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Lucid is also building a new manufacturing facility in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia that it expects to finish by 2025. For its part, working with Lucid helps Saudi Arabia’s goal of transforming and diversifying its economy by developing sustainable energy and transportation. billion investment in 2018. billion.

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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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OurCrowd

MARCH 3, 2020

While in the past the food business has lagged behind other industries in its implementation of new technologies, broad changes in consumer preferences have given startups a new impetus to innovate. As a result, over the last five years investment in emerging FoodTech has tripled. Sustainability in FoodTech.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Is Southeast Asia about to hit an inflection point for tech startups? “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. .

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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. The company is currently working on its first commercial scale plant, which it expects to commission in the 2024 or 2025 time frame.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

With margins already being eaten into by a variety of things (including, now, skyrocketing gas costs), can they really afford to take on the expense of shifting to more sustainable propulsion? Like any sensible startup, they’re starting small, proving the concept, and will be ready to scale within three years.

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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 Part 4: Drama and quirk aren’t necessary for startup success. Outdoor startups see supercharged growth during COVID-19 era.

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propel(x)

JULY 11, 2022

Written by : Regina Beach Propel(x) curated a list of five startup-led tech trends in the 21st century that transformed industries. This list primarily looks at deep tech sectors, with many of the mentioned startups having grown into household names and multibillion-dollar companies today. Startups raised $342.2

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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. on its first year.

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