TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2021

Johannesburg-based investment company Founders Factory Africa (FFA) today announced a partnership with Small Foundation that will see it select 18 agritech startups for an acceleration and incubation program. FFA is an extension of the Founders Factory organisation that has invested in more than 130 companies globally.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 31, 2023

Through a joint announcement, the entities unveiled their intention to combine conventional bank credit with venture capital investment, all while ensuring minimal equity dilution for shareholders. This initiative will primarily focus on startups in the series B and series C funding stages.

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TechCrunch

JULY 5, 2022

Temasek’s Pavilion Capital backs South Korean AI chip maker Rebellions with $50M investment. This is the second strategic investment KT has made with AI chipmakers in South Korea in its effort to accelerate the AI semiconductor business. billion by 2030, up from $8.02 million since its inception in 2020. .

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Impact Hub

AUGUST 19, 2020

trillion USD by 2030. Feeding the City Start Up has now worked with 23 early-stage social enterprises, providing business mentoring, practical workshops, direct funding, and access to investment. The post Accelerating Sustainable Food Business Solutions to Reshape Our Cities appeared first on Impact Hub. Feeding the City.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

This venture capital entity is expected to play a role in identifying and investing in promising startups in Indonesia. With this approach, the initiative plans to nurture homegrown innovation and accelerate the growth of Indonesia’s tech ecosystem.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 27, 2023

The recent investment in Sunrate comes at a favorable time as the global B2B cross-border payments market is substantially growing. Projections indicate a compound annual growth rate of 43%, leading to a market value of US$56 trillion by 2030.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Spain is preparing to push forward with pro-startup legislation, having recently unveiled a big and bold transformation plan with the headline goal, by 2030, of turning the country into ‘Spain Entrepreneurial Nation’, as the slightly clumsy English translation has it. So it will be something of a milestone. France and Germany.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

Terra Drone said today it has raised $14 million in Series C funding from Wa’ed Ventures , the venture capital arm of Saudi Aramco , marking the VC firm’s first investment in Asia. ” Note: The original version of this article has been updated to include that Unifly has a presence in Europe and North America.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 30, 2023

The company has directed its investments towards diverse sectors within the region. billion), Dymon Asia is a significant player in the Southeast Asian investment landscape. These credit facilities were secured to support the investment activities initiated by Taonga Holdings. With assets under management totaling US$1.3

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Cannabis is seeing more startups bringing technology into the fold, attracting talent and investment. In April, Crunchbase reported that $357 million was invested into cannabis companies so far in 2021 , while forecasters say cannabis will be a $100 billion industry in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The round was led by Enza Capital, a private venture fund that invests in early-stage tech startups across Africa. Spending on education in Africa is expected to grow to $740 billion by 2030, at a 14% compound annual growth rate, and edtech spending is projected to expand fast, reaching $57 billion by 2030. ”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

Six new investors also have joined the round including Arena Holdings, DST Global, Minerva Growth Partners, Tybourne Capital Management, JAFCO Group and SBI Investment. The funding proceeds will be used for accelerating digital transformation of the platform, hiring and expanding to global markets. Enterprise AI 2.0:

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Smart Hustle Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Getting behind the empowerment of women stimulates societies, entrepreneurship, job creation, accelerates revenue growth and develops inspiring and motivated leaders.” – Ingrid Vanderveldt. We are just recognizing that women entrepreneurs have to fight harder and longer to be as successful as their male counterparts.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The company aims to accelerate the global transition toward renewable energy by offering crucial support to businesses aiming to achieve carbon neutrality for Scope 2 emissions, which pertain to indirect carbon emissions from electricity, steam, heat, or cooling purchases. Funding Details: $1.5

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

The global tech sector is booming, and as technologies like cloud and AI accelerate their growth, the demand for tech talent outpaces supply globally. is the increasing focus on software as a service and broader digital transformations across industry sectors, which have accelerated due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

The commitment is contained under the 24/7 Carbon-free Energy Compact , by leading energy buyers, suppliers, equipment manufacturers and governments, representing a global effort to accelerate the uptake of carbon-free electricity as a way of averting the perilous effects of climate change. Image Credits: Husk Power Systems.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The round was led by Enza Capital, a private venture fund that invests in early-stage tech startups across sub-Saharan Africa. Spending on education in Africa is expected to grow to $740 billion by 2030, at a 14% compound annual growth rate, and edtech spending is projected to expand fast, reaching $57 billion by 2030.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The startup’s goal is to serve 1 billion people by 2030. The seed round was led by Breega VC firm, with participation of SoftBank Vision Fund Emerge, Finca Ventures, New General Market Partners, Globivest and Do Good Invest. It hopes to triple the number of credit unions using its software to 150 by the end of 2022.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

billion by 2030, up from 4 billion in 2020. The investment brings Memfault’s total raised to more than $35 million following a $8.5 “We sharpened our go-to-market motion in 2022 and saw a clear acceleration in the business,” Memfault co-founder and CEO François Baldassari told TechCrunch in an email interview.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

Its one-year+ accelerator program is specifically focused on startups that are trying to come up with innovative ways to use and share data to tackle climate change, rather than being more broadly open to climate startups of all stripes (i.e. While the data-for-climate accelerator started in the U.K.,

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

(Worth noting, In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s strategic investment arm, has backed Deepgram in the past.). billion by 2030, according to one (optimistic?) Firms participating don’t need to pay any sort of fee and can use the funds in conjunction with existing grant, seed, incubator and accelerator benefits.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Global Market Insights predicts the industry could be worth $300 million by 2030.) Ravel and Duality are two others; Duality recently scored a $14 million DARPA contract for its hardware-accelerated homomorphic encryption tech. All homomorphic encryption platforms have their drawbacks, to be clear. ” Vaultree raises $12.8M

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Campaign Monitor

APRIL 19, 2023

If brands wish to get a slice of this pie, it may be worthwhile to note that AR and VR trends are expected to continue growing in the 2023 – 2024 years and accelerate over the 2023 – 2027 period, giving retailers the chance to enhance online shopping experiences in an exciting way that may bring in a fresh, young audience.

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Impact Hub

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Impact Hub Taipei: Fuelling a virtuous circle of impact Impact Hub Taipei’s 2030 Impact Accelerator is making waves in Taiwan’s entrepreneurial landscape by launching the country’s first global impact accelerator. The support provided by Impact Hub Taipei extends beyond the accelerator programme.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The SaaS company plans to use the funds to extend its foothold in Southeast Asia and accelerate product development, which will include launching its unique payloads into Low Earth Orbit. billion by 2030, according to data from Allied Market Research. percent to $45.85

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

The biotech-enabled food science company will now accelerate research and development (R&D), expand the team and work on co-development of product formulation with key partners as they target to do their first product launch in 2024 in Singapore and India.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Thanks to their participation in the “Investment Ready Program” implemented by Impact Hub Jakarta, Impact Hub Munich and Allianz Global, IMI won 50,000$ for the establishment of science and education programs for public schools in 2019 and 2020. NDN Collective.

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2021

It confirms it has committed not to receive any investment from traditional carbon-intensive companies.) Nonetheless, the carbon offset markets are poised for huge growth — of at least 15x by 2030 — as large corporates accelerate their net zero commitments. How exactly is Sylvera benchmarking carbon offsets?

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OurCrowd

JUNE 20, 2021

In 2016, the Saudi government announced its Vision 2030 which it said aimed to end the kingdom’s “addiction” to oil and diversify its economy and energy sources. In 2019, venture and private equity investment in cleantech was estimated between $9 and $16 billion, up from less than $500 million in 2013.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

” That might sound silly coming from a media outlet focused on technology — and the people investing and building it. Investment activity in aviation — specifically air taxis — continues to ramp up as illustrated by Boeing. Autotech Ventures, Clear Haven Capital Management, Emergent Ventures, and Nelnet invested in the company.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 31, 2023

According to Roland Berger, a German consulting firm, the global electric vehicle charging market is expected to grow from 55 billion dollars in 2023 to 325 billion dollars by 2030, a six-fold increase. Investments related to electric vehicle charging technology are also brisk. They can utilize Pangyo’s diverse infrastructure.

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Impact Hub

MARCH 23, 2022

Accelerate 2030: supporting groundbreaking women innovators. While the private impact investing market is estimated to be worth $33 billion in assets worldwide, funding for Sustainable Development Goals-related solutions in the Global South is still too small to meet the region’s needs for change.

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Impact Hub

JULY 30, 2021

Inspired by the 2030 Agenda, INMI is an award-winning platform that connects the migrant community with a network of professionals and resources in an all-in-one support ecosystem. On another note, our surpluses are invested in social and environmental projects. Especially when the worst of the pandemic is over and we can travel again.

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OurCrowd

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Top investment opportunities. ProFuse raises $1.25M for meat growth acceleration tech. The World Health Organization estimates that by 2030 there will be a shortage of more than 18 million health care workers worldwide, placing tremendous pressure on health systems to adopt the greater efficiencies possible through telemedicine.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

The startup’s vision is to build a platform and digital tools to drive awareness and accelerate the uptake of green jobs, using techniques like bite-sized learning and algorithmic matching of jobseekers to connect them with relevant opportunities to help build and power up the green economy. .

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Impact Hub

MARCH 16, 2022

Built on the results of the 2011 Social Business Initiative and the 2016 Start-up and Scale-up Initiative , and preceded by extensive dialogue with stakeholders and civil society, the Action Plan proposes 38 concrete measures to be implemented in a nine-years horizon, between 2021-2030.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Andreessen Horowitz, Giant Ventures, Blue Horizon, Thia Ventures and other venture funds active in decarbonization were part of the investment. On the investor side, the company said it is building an underwriting model to provide ESG investment opportunities. billion in 2021 and is expected to more than double by 2030.

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