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. Having the opportunity to learn from the founders you back is by far one of the most rewarding parts of being a venture capital investor.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

Today, at the helm of the Black Founders Matter venture fund, Michel has kept that mentality. The fund announced today the formation of the 25 by 25 Pledge , which encourages venture capitalists to commit to investing a quarter of their funds into BIPOC women founders by the year 2025. I just see it as the start.”

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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

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

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 million jobs due to Google’s $1 billion investment in the continent. The continent’s investment story. This is compared to 37%, 70% and 66% in the U.S.,

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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. With over 127 Southeast Asian portfolio companies invested in to date, Antler is already one of the region’s most active investors.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

And venture capital is here for it. That has now grown to 8%, said Elaine Russell, Greycroft principal and co-lead of the Albertsons Fund, a $50 million fund started by Greycroft and the grocery chain in 2018 to invest in the future of retail and next-generation retailers.

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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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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The move aims to create a conducive environment for technopreneurs and supports the broader vision of strengthening the venture capital ecosystem. Rafizi highlighted the importance of helping the venture capital ecosystem as a critical step in expediting the formation and growth of technology-based startups.

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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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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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

million from investors over the last few months, part of which includes a recently concluded $2 million seed round that was led by the Africa-focused venture capital firm 4DX Ventures. Other investors in the seed round were To.org, Golden Palm Investments, LoftyInc Capital, Afropreneur Angels, and Future Africa.

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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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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 3, 2023

Register Hypd , the Indian tech platform that enables content creators to monetize their influence, has successfully raised $4 million in a pre-series A funding round led by Orios Venture Partners. Existing investors Sauce VC and Better Capital also participated, doubling down on their previous investments.

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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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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

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Casa Verde, known for its venture support of startups focused on the cannabis industry, is leading the $15 million Series B round of funding that also includes Argonautic Ventures and Munich-based family office Alluti. This investment is the largest investment in Germany and in Europe to date, according to the firm.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

HealthPlix , an Indian startup offering its in-house platform for doctors to help record patient data digitally, has raised $22 million in fresh investment to broaden its reach in the country and allow more doctors to utilize its software to offer improved care to their patients. In India, roughly 300,000 doctors practice medicine regularly.

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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.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Existing investors, including General Catalyst, Bling Capital, Construct Capital, Industry Ventures and Origin Ventures, joined the round. billion by 2025. Taking the additional capital means the company can invest in areas of the business earlier than Zur originally planned. billion valuation.

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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

JANUARY 4, 2023

This past year was tumultuous for venture investors, to say the least. The ecosystem watched as startup funding dried up , held its breath as a $32 billion venture-backed company evaporated almost overnight and witnessed one of the largest startup acquisitions of all time. Did you hear anyone yell “bingo?” Probably not.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

A recent ZDNet piece reaffirms that the AI edge chip market is booming, fueled by “staggering” venture capital financing in the hundreds of millions of dollars. He has a deep history of investing in deep tech startups that have gone on to disrupt industries across AI, data, semiconductors, among others.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

million in a seed extension co-led by Divergent Capital and Charge Ventures. Additional investments came from Crossbeam Venture Partners, Honeystone Ventures, Interplay.vc, Weekend Fund, Turing co-founder Vijay Krishnan, Mainstreet co-founder Jackson Moses and Stonks founder Ali Moiz.

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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. 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 That interest didn’t happen before,” he added. “It

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 11, 2022

Leading the round is new investor SIG Venture Capital, the Asian venture capital arm of SIG. Other new investors include Singapore-based global investor EDBI and investment holding company First Pacific Company Ltd.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

million in debt — led by NGP Capital with participation from Team8 Capital and Jerusalem Venture Partners. billion by 2025. Venture capital investments in security startups eclipsed $13 billion this year, according to PitchBook data, up from $11.47 million in equity and $19.5 billion in 2020.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The funding also included participation from Shasta Ventures and Sixty Degree Capital. 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

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

After all, AI is costly — Gartner predicted in 2021 that a third of tech providers would invest $1 million or more in AI by 2023 — and debugging an algorithm gone wrong threatens to inflate the development budget. million in total venture capital. “The user only has to add a few lines of code.”

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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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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 18, 2022

Furthermore, the government plans to find 200 promising startups through 2022 and 1,000 promising startups, and 700 pre-unicorn startups by 2025. Venture capital investments have also poured into Korean startups and grew 78% year-on-year in 2021, surpassing 7.7 trillion won (US$6.4

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2021

million in 2017 and its first Series B round in April 2020, from backers that included South Korea-based Shinsegae Information & Communication, Woomi Construction, SL Investment, KDB Capital, Shinhan Capital, Enlight Ventures, CKD Venture Capital, and Breeze Investment, Ha said.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

alone, yearly spending on AI R&D is expected to reach $100 billion by 2025. How public markets can help address venture capital’s limitations. As we found out researching this piece, the public venture model highlights some of these limitations — and may be able to alleviate them in part.”. In the U.S.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

His virtual meeting platform is the latest to receive venture capital funding — $13.5 A Garner report said that 75% of workplace meetings will be recorded by 2025 , and that is a trend we are reinventing from the ground up.”. His firm typically invests in platform businesses that have the capacity to transform business spaces.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

100 million, diversified : MassMutual launches $100 million fund to invest in diverse founders , Dominic-Madori reports. 13 VCs talk about the state of robotics investing in 2023 Image Credits: Bryce Durbin / TechCrunch A veritable baker’s dozen of VCs took part in our latest TC+ robotics investor survey, our first since February 2020.

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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. Solvento , a platform that provides trucking companies with immediate access to capital, raised $4.5

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Via TechCrunch by Arman Tabatabai: Venture capital has been flooding the various subverticals under the robotics umbrella in recent years, and the construction space is one of the largest beneficiaries. One of the most common areas of attention respondents highlighted were startups focused on construction and manufacturing.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2022

Ben Blume, partner at the venture capital firm, is joining the board as part of the investment. Asked about the competitive landscape, PocketLaw says it competes with the likes of Contractbook , Union Square Ventures-backed Juro and Index Ventures-backed Seedlegals.

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