TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Leta , a Kenyan B2B supply chain and logistics SaaS provider launched last year to optimize fleet management, is looking for growth opportunities in West Africa, even as it scales operations in its existing five markets. A SaaS provider for businesses, logistics providers and marketplaces.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2021

Early-stage startups are increasingly looking for alternative ways to access capital, meaning not every company wants to raise money from VCs or take on debt. In recent years, a flurry of startups have emerged to give companies other options. Image Credits: Architect Capital founder James Sagan / Architect Capital.

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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 CEO is Guru Hariharan, who you might remember from retail analytics company Boomerang Commerce , a Startup Battlefield finalist in 2014.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

Today, London-based Legl — a 2019-founded SaaS startup that sells tools to law firms wanting to digitize processes and automate workflows in areas like client onboarding, payments and compliance to support a more modern customer experience — is announcing the close of an $18 million Series B round, just over a year after it raised a $7M Series A.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Register India’s SaaS-based logistics management platform Shipsy has secured US$25 million funding in its Series B financing round led by Z3 Partners and A91 Partners along with participation from Sequoia Capital India’s Surge. Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The decentralized reality of office work after the COVID-19 pandemic continues to drive plenty of startup activity. 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.),

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Private equity firm Vista Equity Partners announced today that it is taking a majority stake in Drift , a company which aims to be the Amazon of businesses, with a “growth investment” that propels the venture-backed startup to unicorn status. The startup says it is out to ”reimagine the B2B buying experience,” according to Cancel.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) has emerged as a pan-industry force by just about every estimation. SaaS has been bucking many of the venture slowdown trends , while data from Gartner indicates that SaaS constituted the lion’s share ($123 billion) of cloud end-user spending ($332 billion) last year. Employee SaaS dashboard.

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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

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. In addition to Loop Health, other startups are addressing health insurance in India. That includes 15 care specialists, Kale said.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Hevo Data, a SaaS startup that is helping firms collate troves of data they generate and accumulate to make better use of them, has raised $30 million in a new financing round following a strong year of growth. Sequoia Capital India led the San Francisco and Bangalore-headquartered startup’s $30 million Series B round.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 28, 2023

Register Startup founders are often too focused on the amount of money they can get from an investor that they mostly fail to see the value that other investors have to offer to grow their businesses further. Indelible Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in B2B SaaS startups that can scale internationally.

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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. Following is the list of startups available in the seventh cohort.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 1, 2022

Register Dianxiaomi, the parent company of BigSeller, Southeast Asia’s ecommerce enabler, has raised US$100 million in its Series C financing round led by Huaxing Growth Capital and Tiger Global Management along with participation from existing investors CDH Investments, GGV Capital, and Gaorong Capital.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

Early-stage venture capital fund Newtopia VC launched Monday with $50 million to invest in tech startups based in Latin America. The fund will invest between $250,000 and $1 million in startups at the seed stage to help them achieve the milestones needed on the path to raising a Series A.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

million in seed funding from Sequoia Capital India. The new capital will be used for tech development and hiring, and brings Outplay’s total raised so far to $9.3 Its previous funding was a $2 million raise from Sequoia Capital India’s Surge announced in March after Outplay took part in the program’s fourth cohort.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Register CLASSUM , a South Korea-based B2B SaaS company that provides and interactive learning platform, has announced raising $11 million in its pre-Series B funding round. The funding round was anchored by Dunamu & Partners and participated by Silicon Valley-based Big Basin Capital and South Korean investor Pearl Abyss Capital.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2023

Brian Schwarzbach Contributor Brian Schwarzbach is an SF-based investor with Cathay Innovation, a global venture capital firm investing across North America, Europe, Asia and Africa. We’ll explore each below, along with some food for thought for founders building startups in this (re)emerging space.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2022

In addition, the company launched a SaaS merchandising product that uses machine learning to make sure products are in-stock and shelved correctly. Where he believes Clerk is getting it right is by having a “ First Principles approach,” which enables the company to offer a cheaper cost structure. Clerk’s team.

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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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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 4, 2024

My previous startup was bootstrapped, easy, fast, and 100% control. Fundraising is different for each startup, and it’s also very different in each stage of that startup. Let’s get one thing very clear, not every startup has to raise investment nor it’s the job of a startup to raise money. Still no new email.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The demand for SaaS products that enables online transactions has dramatically increased during Covid-19, according to CEO of Upflowy Guillaume Ang. The latest funding was led by Counterpart Ventures, in addition to returning investors Tidal, Global Founders Capital, Black Nova and Antler.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Synthetic speech tech startup Murf gives a voice, literally, to content creators of all sizes. million seed led by Elevation Capital and angel investors who helped them recruit talent, invest in product innovation and user acquisition.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Bengaluru-based artificial intelligence SaaS voice automation company Skit, formerly known as Vernacular.ai, developed its AI-based voice automation platform VIVA, short for Vernacular Intelligent Voice Assistant, which enables corporations to automate 90% of their call center operations powered by Natural Language Understanding (NLU) technology.

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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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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2023

As our fellow fintech enthusiast Alex Johnson pointed out , there was one name that stood out on that list for being “not like the others”: fintech startup Brex. So it’s no surprise that we have seen a flurry of financial technology startups offering banking services catered to certain populations based on factors such as age and ethnicity.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 8, 2015

See also: Innovator’s Solution for SaaS Startups. There’s a familiar path now to SaaS companies that start in the SMB (small-to-medium business) part of the market. In short, new startups leverage a distribution advantage to acquire SMB customers at scale. Why does this happen?

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Founded by Younghak Ahn, EVENTUS is not just another startup; it’s a tech force rewriting the script for business events, and its impact is felt far beyond Korean shores. “We created an educational SaaS that enabled real-time two-way communication between teachers and students through IT. ” Ahn highlights.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 6, 2015

SaaS Enabled Marketplaces employ elegant business models. They are verticalized SaaS companies that manage a marketplace to create winner-take-all market dynamics. In addition, a startup must determine what rake to charge. When should a startup remove the toll to access the marketplace? SEM or FSEM?

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 31, 2023

Register Indonesia-based cybersecurity-as-a-service startup Peris.ai The startup, co-founded by David Samuel and Deden Gobel, said it will use the fresh funding to further build and enhance its cybersecurity platform, train machine learning and AI capabilities, and nurture the ethical hacker community. Currently, Peris.ai

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Kerry Wang told TechCrunch that she felt some interview processes didn’t enable enough time for them to fully demonstrate how they were different. Talent comes in all shapes and sizes, and Searchlight is the latest to see its approach backed by venture capital. million seed round in 2019. million seed round in 2019.

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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. ” To date, Savana has raised $54.2

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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

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Bain Capital Ventures has named Christina Melas-Kyriazi, a former Affirm executive and angel investor, as its newest partner. Matt Harris, partner at Bain Capital Ventures, agrees. As an angel investor, Melas-Kyriazi has invested in over 20 startups, many of which are in the fintech, proptech and enterprise SaaS sectors.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 31, 2023

The share of AI-enabled web searches approaches 50% of all consumer search as consumer behavior patterns evolve, especially on mobile. But the overwhelming desire for the US to continue to lead the innovation wave it started creates safe harbors , the same provisions which enabled the web to flourish, are applied to AI.

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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. Kontent launched in 2015 as an internal startup of 18-year-old bootstrapped software developer Kentico. .”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

Startups have never had it so good. The company has a SaaS pricing model and is already working with mid-market companies like Ally, Pulumi, ReadMe and LaunchNotes. Correlated’s differentiator is that it has taken on that task itself and enables customers to quickly see value once they are up-and-running, he added.

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