TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

When Aruna ’s founders first met at university, they wanted to find a way to use their studies in information technology to help family members who were running small fisheries. The second was access to working capital. The second problem Aruna is working on is lack of access to working capital.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2022

With another year of venture capital records in the books, it’s time to look forward. Global data was clear: The 2021 venture capital startup investment cycle was record-breaking ; around the world, startups raised more money than ever before, with individual geographies posting all-time hauls. What’s at stake?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The role venture capital must play in all of this is becoming clearer: There has been a push to fund more reproductive health companies , include healthcare access in ESG investments , and reevaluate the safest places to open a business for women employees. ” Hessie Jones, partner, MATR Ventures.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

The venture capital market is retreating somewhat from its aggressive 2021 pace, new data indicates. For founders hunting up their next capital tranche, the news could prove less desirable. This is for investors putting capital to work now, and startup founders looking to close a new round in short order.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

To save brands from entering emerging markets blindly, Rwazi , a market intelligence startup, is out to bridge this gap by providing market insights backed by data collected directly from consumers. Rutakangwa also says they are available in other markets like South Asia and Latin America.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Private market investors poured capital into promising insurtech startups, while the public markets sent the value of recently public insurtech companies down — and then further down as the year progressed. billion in capital (again, an all-time record, and a 90% gain over 2020.). The company went public at $29 per share.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Founders and investors have started to look for opportunities to conserve, and even enhance, the ocean’s resources rather than exploit them. Our systems are at a point where it is more productive to work with nature than against it,” said Sanjeev Krishnan, chief investment officer at S2G Ventures.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

We previously checked in on the company last February when it announced a $10 million Series A round of funding led by Wing Venture Capital. Since then, Uri Haramati, Torii’s founder and CEO, labeled the past year “an insane year for us,” which included over 300% in annual recurring revenue. “We’ve

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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

OCTOBER 10, 2022

After gaining traction during the pandemic as many retail businesses made the risk-reducing pivot to selling goods directly to retail, rather than buying inventory, Trendsi has closed a $25 million Series A round that brings its total capital raised to $30 million. so that they can focus on what they love: their brand and customers.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

We’re talking founders, engineers, investors, tech journalists, potential customers and collaborators from the public sector and private sectors — not to mention people who hold the purse strings at NASA and the military. Some investors spend a lot of their time looking to the stars for the next venture capital opportunity.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 13, 2021

Still, most startups persist in releasing products aimed at serving younger users, says Lawrence Kosick, co-founder of GetSetUp, an edtech company that targets 50+ learners. In a candid guest post, Scott Lenet, president of Touchdown Ventures, writes about the cognitive dissonance currently plaguing venture capital.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The latest funding was led by Counterpart Ventures, in addition to returning investors Tidal, Global Founders Capital, Black Nova and Antler. To help entrepreneurs and marketers, especially startups, boost conversion rates and user flows, Ang and two other founders, Matthew Browne and Alexandre Girard , founded Upflowy in 2020.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

The new round of funding was led by new investor Drive Capital, and included participation from existing investors including Bullpen Capital, Space Capital, Golden Ventures and BDC Ventures. SkyWatch CEO and co-founder James Slifierz told me that bringing Drive on was a major win for the Series B.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2020

You’ll hear from and engage with the world’s top space experts, founders, scientists, engineers and investors across public, private and defense sectors. From Space Rock Returns to Financial Returns – An Investor Panel: Some investors spend a lot of their time looking to the stars for the next venture capital opportunity.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

The investment was AfricInvest’s first involvement in an AI startup, a decision based on InstaDeep’s founders selling a global vision to the Pan-African private equity firm. When this happens, the CEO says he hopes that founders and investors reinvest back into the space, something InstaDeep and AfricInvest intend to act on moving forward. “I

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

Although those endeavors seem to be bearing fruit, Amazon also had a failed venture, Haven, with Berkshire and JPM that disbanded after multiple internal issues. For Deena Shakir, a partner at Lux Capital, the move by Amazon shows the value of healthcare for leading tech companies.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

Hailing from around the United States and the globe, founders will pitch on the main stage, for four minutes, followed by an intense Q&A with our expert panel of judges. Join us on Wednesday, May 18 and Thursday, May 19 to watch these incredible founders take the stage. You can find additional details on each of the judges below.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

According to co-founder and CEO Lanre Ogungbe , the team was initially building a platform that required consumers to use biometrics (face, fingerprints, or voice) and cards to make payments. Y Combinator, Soma Capital, True Capital Fund and Sherwani Capital are among its other investors.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

Daloopa closed on a $20 million Series A round, led by Credit Suisse Asset Management’s NEXT Investors, to continue developing its data extraction technology for financial institutions, which is now being expanded globally. Customers can request data sets with a couple of clicks of a button and have it delivered the next day.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2022

Staying in Asia, Anna and Alex take the pulse on China’s venture capital scene. Learning from my failures: Lessons from a 2-time founder. Squadhelp CEO and founder Darpan Munjal shut down his previous company, a fashion e-commerce venture, after four years of “solid growth.” You can sign up here.).

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

The new financing was led by ABS Capital Partners, and follows three consecutive years of 50% year-over-year growth for Apptopia’s business, which has been profitable since the beginning of last year, the company says. Existing investors, including Blossom Street Ventures, also participated in the round.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The round of funding was led by Cota Capital. Including Cota Capital, the round will bring seven new investors to Activ Surgical: BAM Funds, Magnetar Capital, Mint Ventures, Castor Ventures, Dream One Vision and Nvidia. The company’s founder, Peter Kim, holds a patent for a type of robot assisted surgery.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

My friend Michael Broukhim, founder & co-CEO of FabFitFun and I recently had a catch-up meeting for 3-miles on the Santa Monica “Bird Trail” No company has ever elicited so many questions by friends, colleagues, entrepreneurs, fellow VCs and journalists as has Bird, the company that pioneered the electronic scooter as a service market.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

Early-stage founders, usually first-timers, often tie themselves in knots as they try to project the qualities they hope investors are seeking. How to identify unicorn founders when they’re still early-stage. What, exactly, are investors looking for? Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2022

Inspired by a motorcycle journey, Packworks is on a mission to change that, with a mobile enterprise resource planning platform (ERP) that just raised $2 million led by logistics group Fast Group and CVC Capital Partners, with participation from ADB Ventures, Arise, Techstars and Ideaspace Foundation.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

An ad tech veteran who has logged time at Google and The Rubicon Project (now Magnite), Casey Saran is co-founder and CEO of Spaceback. But the digital ad ecosystem can’t get by only using broader data-crunching techniques to replace “retargeting.” Casey Saran. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Ads need to do more work today.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

I talk to so many founders — capable, smart, well-connected, experienced founders — who are working on problems that genuinely just don’t matter. I was just thinking about my own family,” said George Netscher, founder and CEO at SafelyYou. George Netscher, CEO and co-founder of SafelyYou.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

It can be used as a storytelling tool to enable ecosystem organizations to see the different onramps and paths that different founders take, and identify what’s working as well as gaps that need to be addressed. In my initial effort I collected all of the resource information that I could find. Defining Categories of Information.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

T he startup uses blockchain with the aim of creating a richer network effect of data that allows credit bureaus and others to predict the creditworthiness of people who are not in the traditional credit bureau system. GreatPoint Ventures and August Capital, among other existing investors, are participating in the Series B round as well. “We

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

million in an oversubscribed pre-Series A round led by returning investor Intudo Ventures, with participation from Quest Ventures. The new capital will be used for product launches, marketing and hiring. It says its data classification system can recognize over 73% of all items on invoices. Populix’s founding team.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

It’s the secret sauce that ties its automated systems, sensors and data collection together into a central nervous system. You could be the greatest farmer in the world in Salinas Valley, and I pick you up and bring you to New Jersey and that knowledge doesn’t transfer,” says Irving Fain, founder and CEO of Bowery Farming.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The sun’s a ball of buttah” : Butter, now flush with $9 million in funding , led by Gradient Ventures, is helping smaller food distribution businesses comply with food safety rules, Catherine writes. TechCrunch+ is our membership program that helps founders and startup teams get ahead of the pack. You can sign up here.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

It’s like, if you have a picture of a bridge, that doesn’t tell you whether it’ll fall down or not,” explained Cradle CEO and co-founder Stef van Grieken. million in a seed round co-led by Index Ventures and Kindred Capital, with participation from angels John Zimmer, Feike Sijbesma and Emily Leproust.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

million in new funding to continue building its consumer-friendly data collection and monetization service. Datacy is a tool that allows individuals to collect their browsing data, manage it, have it anonymized and aggregated with others and then sold. So it’s a good use of venture capital, in other words.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2020

million) in pre-seed investment led by Passion Capital, with participation from SeedCamp, as well as several founders of British consumer tech startups: Alex Chesterman (Cazoo and Zoopla); Neil Hutchinson (Forward Internet Group); Steve Pankhurst (FriendsReunited); James Hind (Carwow); and Jack Tang (Urban). million (about USD $1.82

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . But, most funds raise capital and source deals the same way people looked for dates 20 years ago: by networking at conferences (or bars). . Most of us want one spouse and we’re done.

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