AsiaTechDaily

MAY 28, 2023

Register In a significant move to bolster the local startup ecosystem, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) revealed that the Philippine Startup Venture Fund (SVF) now stands at about P8 billion (around $143 million). The fund signifies the capital available for investment in promising startup businesses.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2022

A close look at Singapore’s thriving startup ecosystem. Dr. Abrar Chaudhury is a climate finance research fellow at Oxford Said Business School researching on topics of global environmental change, climate finance, policy implementation, sustainable development, and corporate purpose. Abrar Chaudhury. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The digital lending platform partners with Egyptian merchants, allowing them to underwrite customers at the point of sale and provide them with finance to purchase items such as electronics, furniture and automotive services via 6-36 month installments. million debt financing and $8.3 million debt financing and $8.3

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

Revolution Chairman & CEO, Steve Case and Mitch Landrieu The conversation: A fireside chat with White House Infrastructure Coordinator and former Mayor of New Orleans, Mitch Landrieu The takeaways: Creating an environment where startups thrive pays off in ways that courting existing corporations doesn’t. Infrastructure touches everything.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

To put it mildly, the meteoric collapse of Silicon Valley Bank has been a historic time of confusion for everyone the startup ecosystem touches. There’s going to be an extreme shift in general in the financial industry when it comes to financing startups. I also expect more regulation for the VC and startup world.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Six-year-old Bangalore-based fintech Razorpay, which was valued at $3 billion in a financing round in April this year, has courted one more high-profile investor: Salesforce Ventures. The investment will help the startup “further strengthen its presence in the business banking space,” it said. .”

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Besides, additions to the LP roster include Japan Investment Corporation (JIC), International Finance Corporation (IFC), and DEG (German Development Finance Institution). Among the LPs supporting this substantial fundraising are sovereign wealth funds, financial institutions, corporations, and family offices from Asia and Europe.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 10, 2023

This center is envisioned as a comprehensive hub, encompassing an IT park, a technology park, startup support groups, cultural and spiritual centers, libraries, a sports complex, and housing facilities for employees and resident entrepreneurs. in foreign currency and 12% p.a. in national currency.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Register The startup ecosystem, including Pangyo Techno Valley, is rapidly aligning with the ESG (Environment, Social, and Governance) trend. For instance, South Korea’s Ministry of Economy and Finance, in collaboration with related agencies, introduced the K-ESG guidelines in 2021.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The main startups hubs in the country have traditionally been São Paulo and Belo Horizonte, but now a new wave of cities are building their own thriving local startup ecosystems, including Recife with Porto Digital hub and Florianópolis with Acate.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Ola Electric said on Thursday it has raised over $200 million in a new financing round at a valuation of $3 billion, up from $1 billion two years ago , as it looks to scale its electric vehicle manufacturing business in the South Asian market. Falcon Edge Capital led the financing round, the Bangalore-based startup said.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 27, 2023

This initiative marks a significant milestone in the journey towards gender parity in the startup ecosystem in the Asia Pacific region. These exclusive forums will provide a unique platform for female-led startups to connect with top investors from leading venture capital firms in the region.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 8, 2023

Register Antler , a business incubator and startup accelerator based in Singapore, has successfully raised $285 million for its emerging growth fund, Antler Elevate. This demonstrates the high level of trust in Antler’s ability to identify and nurture promising startups.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

billion valuation , Byju’s had already surpassed fintech giant Paytm for the tentpole position in India’s startup ecosystem. TechCrunch understands the new investment is part of a larger financing round that is likely to propel Byju’s valuation above $21 billion.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

But mobile money has started to gain traction, especially amid the pandemic,” she said, adding that the local regulator has also made a push in recent years to accelerate the adoption of mobile payments and is focusing on building an instant payments infrastructure. It’s a massive opportunity.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Curry has spent the past two years building out the nascent platform, tracking down brand partners, navigating accelerator programs, enticing users and pounding the pavement to find investors willing to bet on his vision. What followed was a career in finance that eventually led toward his recent entrepreneurial pursuits with College Cash.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

However, these companies only represent the highlights of what is a blossoming startup ecosystem. E-commerce will continue to accelerate in Southeast Asia — the sector is projected to grow 80% year on year and double in five years to $254 billion from $132 billion in 2021, according to the Facebook and Bain report.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Because the more cities we visited, the more we became convinced that there were amazing companies scaling in these cities led by dedicated and diverse founders who, despite the viability of their ideas, were struggling to raise the necessary capital to accelerate their businesses. A: Tell us more!).” But Rise of the Rest is so much more.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2021

We believe that in order to increase diversity in the startup ecosystem, one thing that we must do is increase diversity — whether it be in regard to gender, race or geography — amongst angel investors,” said Hustle Fund co-founder and general partner Elizabeth Yin. To more people like Colorado-based Penn. “

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 28, 2022

Growsari plans to leverage funding to accelerate its national expansion. Notable existing investors that joined this round of funding included the International Finance Corporation (IFC), KKR, which led the Series C round, and Pavilion Capital of the Temasek Group, along with almost all existing investors.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Startups and VC. Meta Platforms is looking at India’s burgeoning startup ecosystem as it bolsters its bet on the metaverse. million to serve underbanked communities with its embedded finance platform, Jagmeet reports. A bank would still smell as sweet by any other Neem : Pakistan’s Neem raises $2.5 Box, meet boat.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 29, 2022

But as the local startup ecosystem closes one of its toughest years, it’s now staring at another question that it has long been able to brush off as benign: exits. About half a dozen consumer tech Indian startups have gone public in the past year and a half and all of them are performing poorly on the local stock exchanges.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) last week sent ripples in startup ecosystems around the world, and it is emerging that millions of dollars held by African startups and venture capital funds at the bank were at stake, until the U.S. Federal Reserve acted to save the day. The reason that SVB can do loans in the U.S.

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Founders Coop

AUGUST 7, 2018

It’s incredible to look back at how far our startup ecosystem has come in that time. With three tech IPOs in 2018 alone, our market is adding new anchor tenants at an accelerating rate. Seattle in 2013 was a different place. Founders’ Co-op has grown along with Seattle.

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

tl;dr + Techstars was once one of the world’s leading accelerator programs, but has steadily been eclipsed by Y combinator. It’s fair to say that the Seattle startup community would not be where it is today without Techstars. But it also created two big problems for Techstars as a business: cash flow and brand identity.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Along with founding multiple angel investment networks and venture funds, my experience in the world of VC has allowed me to work with hundreds of global companies to inject millions of dollars of capital into the startup ecosystem. I’ve created 15 funds in the last year alone. .

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Oklahoma’s Technology Business Finance Program (TBFP) Seed Fund is a nationally recognized best practices example of legislated early stage capital that has stood a 20-plus year test of time. Tax credits are another financial tool that states have attempted to use with varying success to stimulate early-stage investment in startups.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Boulder is quickly becoming a startup mecca on par with Silicon Valley — largely due to the Techstars accelerator, which has cultivated the city’s startup ecosystem. The Country Music Association started a music-tech accelerator, but the city is also the healthcare hub of America. Boulder, Colorado.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

6 VCs talk the future of Austin’s exploding startup ecosystem. It’s more about accelerating growth and some of our product plans. We are accelerating our efforts to make The Zebra a household name,” Melnick said. We’re not highly unprofitable or burning through money like crazy,” he told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Yeah, baby, we are ready to jump right into a jam-packed day dedicated to the growth and success of the entire early-stage startup ecosystem. Welcome to the first day of TechCrunch Disrupt ! Check out our day-one highlights to whet your appetite and then dig in! Latecomers always welcome: Buy a pass right here.

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Angel Capital Association

AUGUST 13, 2021

When I started angel investing, I knew my objective was two-fold: I wanted to support the startup ecosystem in MN and I wanted to (eventually) have a good financial return on my investments. MY 2013 ANSWER TO “WHY?” One without the other would not be success for me. A lot of new things.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

It’s the most wonderful tiiiime of the yeaaaaaar – Y Combinator hasn’t quite gotten to 1,000 companies per batch yet , but its Demo Day comprises 424 startups from 42 countries – so as you might imagine, it’s still a pretty intense time at TechCrunch Towers. Cloaked is taking “new phone, who dis?”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2023

YC-backed startup Arc CEO and co-founder Don Muir said that “this is a COVID moment for financial services,” as demand for digital banking gets accelerated. “We’re wiring short term non-dilutive financing to many of these founders right now. While some are cautious, others are aggressive.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

Six years later, the pair decided to venture into tech, a relatively nascent industry in Nigeria at the time and began investing in startups via LeadPath , an early-stage firm they launched in Lagos, Nigeria. The idea was to invest $25,000 and take the startups through a three-month accelerator program culminating in a Demo Day.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 1, 2021

For Monica and Joe it’s a matter of extending the runway to keep the company onboard, and get enough commercial momentum to advance their next round of financing. We have reached a crucial acceleration point where technological change, education, and inequality are involved in a kind of race.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Ann Arbor continues to be one of the top growing tech ecosystems around the country with some of the best startups to watch. It accelerates enrollment and improve retainment of trial participants. A genomics startup in Ann Arbor is a growing thing, just like cybersecurity. Bedestrian. Originally published by Purpose Jobs.

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

We had a conversation about the role of incubators and accelerators (or the moniker of your choice) within the startup ecosystem. Fund raising assistance (aka Demo Day) - These events are designed to build auction pressure in financings by generating simultaneous investor interest. It’s just enough to get someone started.

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