Innovation 2 Enterprise

JANUARY 30, 2024

On Wednesday, January 24, the inaugural cohort of startups from i2E’s Bridge2 Pre-Accelerator program presented their groundbreaking innovations during the Bridge2 Demo Day at Sailor & The Dock in Oklahoma City. Before this program, I had the desire to pursue venture capital funding but lacked the clarity on what steps to take.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The world around us is being disrupted by the acceleration of technology into more industries and more consumer applications. how on Earth could the venture capital market stand still? Society is reorienting to a new post-pandemic norm?—?even even before the pandemic itself has been fully tamed. Of course we can’t. dot-com bonanza.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

Opaque Systems , a startup developing what it describes as “AI for confidential computing,” today announced that it closed a $22 million Series A funding round led by Walden Catalyst Partners with participation from Storm Ventures, Thomvest Ventures, Intel Capital, Race Capital, The House Fund, and FactoryHQ.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The startup has just closed a $10 million Series A to continue building out its workplace management SaaS for landlords and office managers — which offers features like resource scheduling (booking meeting rooms etc.), employee/co-working space member engagement, and financial management tools through web and mobile applications.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

A Manila-headquartered startup called CloudEats , which operates cloud kitchens across the Philippines and Vietnam, just raised a $7 million Series A extension led by Nordstar to accelerate the digitization of food service in Southeast Asia. . CloudEats says it has served more than 2.5 million orders.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

When much of the shopping shifted online during the global pandemic, startups developing software and other products to aid the transition began to garner attention from venture capital firms. The latest capital infusion comes less than a year from a $60 million Series C round that happened in June 2021. Meanwhile, $1.1

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MARCH 18, 2022

The Tulsa-based accelerator launches Cohort II with eight tech-enabled startups. Powered by their partners, the Tulsa-based accelerator has. million of capital into early-stage startups founded by Black and. Tech, CPG, FemTech, SaaS, and more. And acceleration is what the program is all about.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

in total capital over five years, after it raised $4.3 million last year from New-York’s Riverside Acceleration Capital (RAC) and a syndicate of Australian investors. This latest round sees Vivi reach $24.3 This is as hybrid learning maintains a growing presence across the country.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 15, 2022

Register Chinese e-commerce SaaS platorm Dianxiaomi has raised $110 million in Series D funding led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and Sequoia China, with participation from Tiger Global Management, GGV Capital, and Huaxing Growth Capital. This brings the company’s total funding in 2022 to $210 million.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Observability is a highly strategic area for ServiceNow and our customers as they think about accelerating their digital business,” said Pablo Stern, SVP & GM of technology workflows at ServiceNow. Nobl9 is backed by Battery Ventures, Bonfire, Cisco Investments, CRV, Harmony Partners, Resolute and Sorenson Capital.

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Dream It

MAY 14, 2020

The startup is integrated with large EMRs including Epic, Cerner, and Allscripts using SMART on FHIR technology, enabling the company to embed the wound care portal into a clinician’s typical workflow. Net Health is a portfolio company of The Carlyle Group, Level Equity, and Silversmith Capital Partners.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 31, 2023

M&A accelerates throughout the year. The share of AI-enabled web searches approaches 50% of all consumer search as consumer behavior patterns evolve, especially on mobile. Grading last year’s predictions : ML propels SaaS into a massive second wave that increases workers’ productivity measurably. Score : 0.5.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

But co-founder and CEO David Cancel did say the SaaS company saw 70% growth in its annual recurring revenue (ARR) in 2020 compared to the year prior and is on target for a similar metric this year. It is not yet profitable, as it is focused on growth, he added. He also thinks that the firm can help it ramp up its acquisitions pace. (So

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

The company has landed a number of very large clients (think top ten financial and B2B SaaS institutions) but can be used by smaller ones as well, obviously. ” The latest funding round, a $38 million Series B, was led by Insight Partners, with participation from M12, BGV, Capital One Ventures, and Engineering Capital.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Kontent, a platform designed to help companies manage business-related content in the cloud, today announced that it raised $40 million from Expedition Growth Capital as part of a growth capital infusion. “CMS solutions are part of companies’ critical digital infrastructure with a lifecycle of 5–10 years.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

A portion of the capital — $10 million — was debt, while the rest was a Series A equity tranche led by Georgian Capital Partners. The] turnkey, end-to-end platform is pre-configured with hundreds of APIs enabled.” million in capital. “Today’s consumers prefer digital-only banking.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Spark Capital led the investment and was joined by existing investors Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund, Social Impact Capital and Congruent VC. The new funding enables MilkRun to expand its delivery service to include Seattle and Austin — and a fourth unnamed market coming early next year — and to launch new products.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

For example: Melon Kitchens is an Indianapolis-based delivery-only restaurant accelerator for Black chefs that includes a three-month program to guide emerging food entrepreneurs from idea to test kitchen to revenue generation. The project is backed by Kelli Jones of Sixty8 Capital.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

Sequoia Capital India and Southeast Asia disclosed 15 early-stage startups it has selected for the seventh cohort of its accelerator program Surge, pushing ahead with new investments even as the deal activity has considerably slowed in the region. Kae Capital is an investor.). Info Edge Ventures is a co-investor.).

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Revolution

APRIL 6, 2021

Casted leverages audio and video podcasting as the core of an innovative Amplified Marketing Platform enabling B2B enterprises to drive brand awareness, thought-leadership, sales lead generation, and customer engagement strategies.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The Pune-based company is also the latest startup to raise funding in this area, bringing in $12 million in Series A funding in a round co-led by Elevation Capital and General Catalyst. The company was part of Y Combinator’s Winter 2020 accelerator program. This includes a previous $2.3 million seed raise.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2022

He is passionate about changing working capital dynamics to make it the main source of cash for tech companies. Securing early-stage venture financing is usually the best way to accelerate and sustain growth, but with various funding options available, how do you figure out the best course of action?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Its technology enables small merchants to gain market share across the country through a SaaS licensing model to small brick and mortar businesses. Joining Wellington in the round were funds managed by SoftBank, Corton Capital, Valor Capital Group, Goldman Sachs, Globo Ventures and Kevin Efrusy.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2021

To accelerate its product development and international expansion plans, it secured $3.15 million in seed funding led by Mucker Capital, with participation from Techstars. Andres Barreto, managing director of Techstars Boulder, met the company when they were part of the accelerator program last year and decided to back them.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Bhettay wasn’t planning to raise additional funds so soon after the Series B, but said accelerated growth in the business enabled the company to hire more, check off more of the to-do list items over the past eight months and provided a unique opportunity to lean in on partnerships and expand financial plans. Image Credits: Fuzzy.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Alice Deng and Lawrence Murata were working at artificial intelligence companies when they found inspiration from their respective family’s businesses to create Slope , which enables businesses an easy way to offer buy now, pay later services. Businesses can get approved in seconds and begin offering the installments.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

The company announced this morning a $73 million Series B round co-led by Globis Capital Partners and World Innovation Lab (WiL), with participation from existing investors DCM and Global Brain. In December 2018, the company closed a $9 million Series A round led by DCM and followed by Globis Capital Partners and WiL and Global Brain.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 3, 2023

To date, the Group has raised over $700 million and secured over $1 billion in capital to support its credit book. Its ecosystem of AI-powered, credit-enabled products and services includes buy now pay later platform Atome, digital lending platform Kredit Pintar, SaaS provider ADVANCE.AI, and ecommerce merchant services platform Ginee.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The round is led by Flashpoint Venture Capital, Uniqa Ventures, PKO VC, Black Pearls VC (an existing investor) and Adamed. Telehealth services specifically, and digital health more broadly , have racked up plenty of growth during the pandemic as demand for remote consultations (and other types of support) has accelerated sectoral uplift.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

This in turn enables them to collect, send or exchange money in real time without the need for reconciliation and with almost no cost,” Rozic told TechCrunch. Since our model is a transactional SaaS, the revenues have also been increasing,” he told TechCrunch. In its home country of Colombia, the startup has already had an impact. “We

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Founders Coop

JANUARY 11, 2023

Our firm’s original premise was – and remains – dead simple: Seattle is a global gravity well for engineering talent, thanks to the sustained excellence and corresponding human capital needs of Amazon and Microsoft. By contrast, venture capital is a craft that defies both speed and scale.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Register Prismforce , an India-based vertical software as a service (SaaS) firm , has announced recently that it raised fresh investments amounting to $13.6 Series A was led by Sequoia Capital India and a select set of global angel investors. Chatterjee said they built the first vertical SaaS product suite designed for tech services.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2021

The new round was led by Insight Partners, with participation from existing investors TLV Partners and S Capital. In Run:AI, we’ve found disruptive technology, an experienced team and a SaaS-based market strategy that will help enterprises deploy the AI they’ll need to stay competitive.” ” Run.AI

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Joining Tiger in the round is Valor Capital Group, Monashees, Base 10 and Canary, representing the total funding Zak has raised to date. “We The funding enables us to round out our product and our teams. As its startup market accelerates, Brazil could be in for an IPO bonanza.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The new capital follows $7 million Series A funding raised in December 2020, bringing the company’s total funding to $49.5 Canapi Ventures led the latest round, and was joined by existing investors Fin VC and TTV Capital, which both led the Series A. million since being founded in 2014.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

This is part of a series on building your career in venture capital: Reading list for working in private equity/venture capital , including all of the major online communities, programs, and educational options for people studying VC. How to get a job in venture capital. Accel, Sequoia) give the Scout a small pool of capital.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 2, 2022

A Korean startup called AIMMO , which uses software and humans to label and categorize image, video, sound, text and sensor fusion data, built an AI data annotation platform, enabling the data labeling faster for enterprises. . AIMMO declined to comment on its valuation.

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