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

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Data shows that India’s venture capital scene has grown sharply in recent years. 2019 was the country’s biggest ever in terms of venture dollars invested, with Bain counting $10 billion during the year. In 2020, the third quarter brought the country’s venture capital scene back to form. Bikayi is one such startup.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

This January, Germany’s largest vaccine maker BioNTech announced that it had agreed to acquire Tunisian-born and London-headquartered AI startup InstaDeep for up to £562 million, including a performance-tied £200 million tranche investment. First, when completed (at $682 million, adjusted in U.S. In 2019, InstaDeep raised an $8.5

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

The judges for this pitch-off will be Yoon Choi (Muirwoods Ventures), Mar Hershenson (Pear VC) and Gabriel Scheer (Elemental Excelerator) on day one; and Sven Strohband (Khosla Ventures), Victoria Beasley (Prelude Ventures) and John Du (GM Ventures) on day two. ” Mar Hershenson — Pear VC. ” Mar Hershenson — Pear VC.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

Then in 2019, the state of technology was such that Li and co-founders Daniel Chen and Jeremy Huang could create data extraction capabilities through the use of artificial intelligence-driven software. 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

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The Series A investment is led by Ventech VC, along with Atlantic Labs, APEX Ventures, Space Capital, Lunar Ventures plus some additional angel investors. “The geospatial sector is something that we are focussing on currently as we have a strong belief that vast amounts of visual data is being produced by them.

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Gust

OCTOBER 17, 2012

I began studying angel investing returns about 10 years ago as a result of a problem I couldn’t resolve: The investing world seemed certain that angel investors were rubes. Conventional wisdom dictated that they made reckless investments in very early-stage ventures mostly doomed to fail. So which is it? Only they’re not.

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

The venture capital fund of the future will perform the same tasks as the venture funds of today: help portfolio companies, evaluate new investment opportunities and build networks of other investors, potential hires, and founders. There has never been more data collected on startups than today.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Mary Ann starts us off by reporting on SoftBank writing down an almost $100 million investment into FTX. Startups and VC. At this point, we all expect our data to move pretty quickly, but there is so much of it that it’s still a headache. The real-time data startup grabbed $12.9 No bother, we are here for you.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2022

Startups and VC. Asia’s crypto games and web3 investment powerhouse Animoca Brands is making inroads into Japan as its local unit picks up $45 million in financing at a $500 million pre-money valuation. The investment comes at a time when the country is tightening regulations around the crypto industry, writes Rita.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Via TechCrunch by Arman Tabatabai: Venture capital has been flooding the various subverticals under the robotics umbrella in recent years, and the construction space is one of the largest beneficiaries. Last November, we surveyed 13 of the top robotics-focused VCs to find out which areas of robotics are exciting them most going into 2020.

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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). . The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 3, 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 of use raise capital and source deals the same way people looked for dates 20 years ago: by networking at conferences (or bars). . The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Data collection isn’t the problem: It’s what companies are doing with it. Instead of raking in user data as a general practice, companies should aggregate information to optimize product development and create a superior customer experience, writes Maxim Kharchenko, director of fintech products at Rakuten Viber.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2022

Healthie announced a $16 million Series A led by Velvet Sea Ventures with participation from Greymatter Capital, Watershed, Builders VC and a customer syndicate. The company said that despite landing the new cash infusion, they “had more money in the bank than capital raised to date, supporting a large and growing team.”.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

The product itself is focused on data collection; from the first 50 companies ESGgo spoke to, they learned that there were no tools available. “Without that, it’s difficult to determine what is right from what is wrong, or what is a strong investment from a shortsighted one.” A screenshot of the ESGgo app dashboard.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2022

” My prediction: We’ll be running many articles in 2022 with tactics for zero-party data collection. If I could have done it all over again, I guess it would have been the same price discovery and guaranteed capital without the name SPAC associated with it, just because it’s been unfair.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Each of them has cracked the code that grants access to capital and influential social networks, but I also wanted to learn about how they approached leadership and management, hear some of their strategies for building confidence and find out whether generic best practices for startup success applied to their lived experiences.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

Adam Goulburn, a partner at Lux Capital, was first struck by Eikon Therapeutics’ pitch to use super microscopes to develop drugs when founder Eric Betzig posed a simple question: How can you understand life if you don’t look at it live? . “It In a press release, John Hall, an investment analyst at T. million Series B round.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2022

Startups and VC. And with Sarah Kunst (Cleo Capital), Christine Choi (M13), and others included, it’s well worth your time. It’s one way to disburse lots of capital at once, but without the operational hassle of managing it. It appears to offer a hybrid of data collection and analysis as a service to customers.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2021

Barcelona-based Landbot , a “no-code” chatbot builder, has bagged an $8 million Series A led by the Spanish-Israeli VC firm Swanlaab, alongside support from Spain’s innovation-focused public agency, CDTI. Previous investors Nauta Capital, Encomenda and Bankinter also participated in the round.

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OurCrowd

JULY 11, 2021

Foretellix is expanding its Series B investment round from $25M to $31M due to significant oversubscription. The round is led by MoreTech VC and a leading European carmaker has joined the round alongside a leading testing and tooling company with significant focus on automotive solutions, a Top-10 US insurance company, and a Japanese VC.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2021

Jeff Farrah is the general counsel of the National Venture Capital Association. Congressional committees have held scores of hearings, lawsuits have been filed and legislation has been introduced to regulate privacy and data collection. since before the dawn of the modern venture capital industry.” Jeff Farrah.

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