TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Italy’s ecosystem for tech venture capital and startups has been in development for years and has made decent strides in the last decade. Rome has more than 20 incubators/accelerators and many established VCs; because of its lower costs compared to other European cities, it’s become a major base for startups.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

A mix of new and existing investors also participated in the round, including Advent, Altimeter, DST, Silver Lake, Soros, Tarsadia, Tiger Global, Andreessen Horowitz, Caffeinated, Fifth Wall, Monashees, QED and Vulcan, among others. Loft plans to use its new capital in part to expand across Brazil and eventually in Latin America and beyond.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Logan LaHive: First, the problem… The incredible imbalance of power in workplaces is driving continued acceleration of income inequality, which along with climate, is a top issue facing society today. and yes, I’m intentionally not throwing DAOs or web3 in the mix here as just doesn’t yet deserve implied parity).

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 20, 2019

A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

As Stein, CEO, worked with clients, she saw the need for specialized foods, like gluten-free, and what started as a side project — a blueberry muffin mix — was the catalyst for Purely Elizabeth and became her first product before moving into granola, which is what the company is known for today.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2021

Led by bp ventures, the investing arm of oil and gas giant bp , the round also includes BGF, safety equipment maker Halma, pension fund HostPlus, IP Group, Tencent, Venture Science and funds advised by Doxa Partners. If you go to mines or ports, you can see vehicles in use already,” he said.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Respondents in the first group were “not exploring or investing” — in other words, “we don’t care about this right now.” Augmented reality/mixed reality. Technologies in the third group, “investing or piloting,” may represent the sweet spot for startups. Virtual reality. AI/machine learning.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

based savings and investing startup Acorns has acquired London-based GoHenry , a startup focused on providing money management and financial education services to 6- to18-year-olds in an all-equity deal, the two companies announced today. Acorns Early lets parents, guardians, family and friends easily invest in a child’s future.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Register Xurya Daya Indonesia (Xurya), a solar power rental and installation startup, received additional series A funding from global trading and investment company Mitsui & Co., Especially at this time, the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) has targeted the new and renewable energy mix to reach 23% by 2025.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Will you take investment from others? If your business sells a unique product, consider using a crowdfunding site like Kickstarter or Indiegogo to raise funds. Apply to accelerators. Accelerators are highly competitive programs designed to help entrepreneurs succeed. Will you self-fund and bootstrap? Angelpad.org.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

today announced it harvested a $10 million investment to make greenhouses smarter. The $10 million funding round was led by Acre Venture Partners , with participation from the E14 fund and food-focused venture firm Astanor ventures. Agtech startup Source.ag We believe Source.ag

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 23, 2022

Register DELOS, an Indonesian aquaculture-tech company , has raised $8 million in Seed extension financing co-led by Centauri, a collaborative fund between MDI Ventures and KB Investment Co., and Southeast Asian venture capital fund Alpha JWC Ventures.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 6, 2021

Choosing the right mix of people can impact everything from fundraising to hiring: “Investors often ask founders about their board [because] it says a lot about their character, their judgment and their willingness to be challenged,” he writes. Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Plume’s CEO and founder Fahri Diner said the startup will be using the money to continue building out its software platform, inking and servicing more deals with carriers and generally expanding its horizons. Insight was the sole backer in its last round, investing $270 million at a $1.35 billion valuation in the startup.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Here are the investors in their own words, for any TechCrunch reader who is interested in hiring, investing or founding a company in the country. Daniel Cohen , partner, Viola Ventures. Ben Wiener , partner, Jumpspeed Ventures. Inbal Perlman , partner, TAU Ventures. Dror Nahumi , partner, Norwest Venture Partners.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

And according to David Wechsler, a principal at OMERS Ventures, “having an embedded strategy is not required for venture funding.” ” On the flip side, he predicts that corporates with venture capital arms that are “committed to the insurance sector will likely step up their involvement.” That hasn’t changed.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

Savings and investing app Acorns has raised $300 million in a Series F funding round that values the company at nearly $2 billion. Alex also determined that Acorns’ pace of revenue expansion accelerated from 54% in 2019 to 61% in 2020. Acorns’ SPAC listing depicts a consumer fintech business with a SaaSy revenue mix.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

million) in an equity round of funding led by Bosch Ventures (RBVC), with participation from Porsche, the U.K. government’s National Security Strategic Investment Fund (NSSIF), and a host of additional investors. Elsewhere, other tech juggernauts such as Microsoft and Intel are also investing heavily in quantum.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

That’s the thesis behind his startup, which uses behavioral, financial and device-specific user data to detect fraud on behalf of its clients in the crypto and fintech industries. “We’ve invested in identity platforms. . “We’ve invested in identity platforms. and Europe, Ranjan said.

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Gust

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Understand what investors are looking for , what they usually invest in, and why. There is a vast gulf between a ‘cool product’ and an ‘investable company’ and if you don’t understand the difference, you will be doomed before you start. And that capital is going to come from…YOU.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

The round is led by Redseed Ventures, with participation from Baring Vostok, Kismet, Flyer One Ventures and Alexander Nevinsky, a partner at New York-based I2BF. The new funding will be used to further expand the reach of its online courses. A smaller slice of the funding will be ploughed into its accelerator program.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

Today, a company that believes it can improve how agents work within them using AI is announcing a big round of funding. SoftBank Vision Fund is leading the round, with videoconferencing giant Zoom also participating, alongside previous investors Menlo Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, Nexus Venture Partners, and others.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Venture capital funds focusing on niche sectors are “in,” according to Connie , and Will Ventures is here for it. Crypto accelerator : Andreessen Horowitz’s Chris Dixon dishes to Anita about a “ Crypto Startup School ,” an inaugural accelerator program that will kick off next year in Los Angeles.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Existing investors SignalFire, GLP Capital Partners and Google Ventures also participated in the round, in addition to a new minority investment by strategic partner Volvo Group Venture Capital. Ervin Tu, managing partner at SoftBank Investment Advisers, will join Flock Freight’s board.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Blair Silverberg is co-founder and CEO of Hum Capital , a financial services company using technology to accelerate the fundraising process. Today, it’s clear many companies could have used that guidance, seeing as FTX is only our latest and most high-profile example. Blair Silverberg. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

They include lead investors Vostok New Ventures and Endure Capital and participating investors JAM Fund (led by Tinder co-founder Justin Mateen), YC Continuity Fund, a large unnamed Saudi-based fund, Shorooq Partners, 4DX Ventures and logistics giant Flexport.

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David Teten VC

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

We’re proud to share the next in PEVCtech ’s periodic series on the tech and analytics stack of investment management firms. Q: Please give us an overview of Chisos. Oftentimes our investments are in companies with little revenue or traction, making them more difficult to finance from a traditional VC/angel perspective.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2021

Use discount code CZECHIA to save 25% off a 1-year Extra Crunch membership. Respondents said they invest around 50% inside Czechia and 50% across Central and Eastern Europe, while some are more focused across CEE generally, with some percentage of the fund supporting startups that have scaled to the U.S. Lukáš Kone?ný Innovative.

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HPA

OCTOBER 11, 2022

While the University of Michigan has been formally educating students on entrepreneurship for decades, the region’s entrepreneurial ecosystem has notably ramped up in the last ten years and has effectively used its powerful alumni network to amplify its growth.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

Ignite NI emerged as an important native incubator and accelerator. Use discount code BELFAST to save 25% off an annual or two-year Extra Crunch membership. The tech investment scene was characterized as being strong in software and life sciences, but sometimes too conservative or risk-averse. What’s their focus?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2021

One of the most interesting from the mix is BrioHR , which is building human resources (HR) software for Southeast Asia. Perhaps this is the impact of so many accelerators going virtual, widening the founder pool from whom they might matriculate to include a more global group of founders.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

The headline speaks for itself : Mike scored a home run with his headline for a story about four European founders turned angel investors who are giving some of their venture capital firm competitors — many they say have not operated a company before — a run for their money. Startups and VC. Vice no more? :

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

TaskHuman , a professional development platform focused on coaching, today announced that it raised $20 million in Series B funding led by Madrona with participation from Impact Venture Capital, RingCentral Ventures, Sure Ventures, USVP, Gaingels, PeopleTech Angels, Propel(x) and Zoom Ventures.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

This may seem like a great time to launch a SaaS startup, but the landscape is crowded with well-designed applications that promise “blazingly fast and delightfully simple” experiences, according to seed-stage investor John Chen of Fika Ventures. Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

And, with that warning, I offer to you, the big stories in the startup and investing ecosystem of 2018, written in ascending order of importance and magnitude…. 6/ Venture Capital In Expansion Phase. The fear of them investing in a competitor is real. the firm may have a right to raise up to $100B but may not call all of it).

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TechCrunch

JUNE 11, 2021

General Atlantic is leading this Series C, with Huda Kattan, Michael Zeisser of FMZ Ventures and Jonathan Green of Lugard Road Capital also participating, along with past investors Partech, Target Global and FJ Labs. We wanted to consolidate the supply side of the software, gather data about the businesses, how they use what they use.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

Since then, many of the key trends and themes we surfaced have come to pass: Airtable clinched an $11 billion valuation in December 2021 after raising a $735 million Series F with help from Salesforce Ventures and Michael Dell’s MSD Capital. Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription.

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