TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

” That might work inside mature companies, but early-stage founders who are presenting themselves to investors must be more specific. In an interview with Natasha Mascarenhas, B2B stealth startup founder Akshaya Dinesh recounted the time her team was rejected by an accelerator because they hadn’t yet picked a CEO.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

military and VCs determined to finance pioneering space startups. 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. We’re talking folks from NASA, the U.S.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2022

Guanchun Wang, Laiye’s founder and CEO, saw the “value of artificial intelligence” in the years he worked at Baidu’s smart speaker department after his film discovery startup was sold to the Chinese search engine giant. To fill the gap, he started Laiye in 2015. based Lightspeed Venture Partners. Image Credits: Laiye.

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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., Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet?

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Startup Blogpost

JANUARY 3, 2023

Simplicity and Data Collection. Antreas Koutis , Administrative Manager, Financer. Shaun Connell , Founder, Writing Tips Institute. Arthur Worsley , Founder, The Art Of Living. Simplicity and Data Collection. Saikat Ghosh , Founder, esitenow. ” Knowledge of Current Trends. UX Experience.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Enter Torii , a SaaS management tool that brings entire businesses together around the cloud apps they use so they can not only discover all of the apps they have, but automatically take action on those most appropriate for return on investment. 6 cloud trends to watch in 2022.

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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. I know you want to see who made the cut.

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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

AUGUST 26, 2022

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. Startups and VC.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 27, 2016

That’s why today I’m so excited to finally be able to tell you about Density , a company I led a $4 million financing (2) along with Jason Calacanis (We’re teaming up on the board together! At the earliest stages when I invest my decision is 70% team / 30% market (5). Why Density?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

” It will also use the funding to continue investing in its product, including adding in more integrations alongside the 250 it already has with a variety of big-name and lesser known email, payments, CRM, CMS and document storage services. “Now we are not only focused on data collection, but document generation.”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 5, 2022

Affirm — which was founded by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin — has built technology that can underwrite individual transactions, and once determining a customer is eligible, it can offer them the option to pay on a biweekly or monthly basis. Constrafor grabs $106M in equity, credit to finance construction subcontractors. And elsewhere.

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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. Spring into action : Electric vehicle startup Faraday Future signed a $350 million financing deal to hopefully get it out of its previous monetary challenges and to launch its first vehicle, Jaclyn reports. The TechCrunch Top 3.

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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

JANUARY 20, 2021

Since its seed it’s also increased recurrent revenues 10x — and is expecting growth to keep stepping up, fuelled by the new financing. “We are seeing strong traction from industries like eCommerce, Financial Services and Marketing Agencies,” CEO & co-founder Jiaqi Pan tells TechCrunch. Landbot gets $2.2M

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2022

Moove helps finance vehicles for ride-hailing drivers, which appears to be a growth market. To kick off, our own Walter Thompson has a great investor survey up today that attacks the question of how to pitch venture capitalists as a founder. For founders, it appears to be a central pillar of commanding investor attention.

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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. “Instead, what we did is we spent years investing into data science and algorithms,” notes Kay.

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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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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

of Colorado expand diabetes treatment availability Sprout incubator invests $1M in smart cow sensor firm Protag Introductions More than 4,400 high-tech jobs. The rollout of 5G cellular data, coupled with the growth of internet of things (IoT) sensors and autonomous indoor devices, is driving strong demand for in-building wireless coverage.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2022

Data privacy is top of mind for online sellers, and for good reason: Regulators in China, Europe and North America are taking an interest, and iOS 14.5 allowed many consumers to disable data tracking, with negative consequences for companies that relied on Facebook’s granular ad targeting. Instead, it chose the SPAC route.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Sisu Data , which aims to help businesses make better decisions, announced today it has raised $62 million in a Series C round of funding led by Green Bay Ventures. The financing brings San Francisco-based Sisu’s total raised since its 2018 inception to over $128 million. NEA led the company’s $52.5 million Series B in October of 2019.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Besides my experience, I read and talk about diversity in tech every day, so when I was offered a chance to speak to three founders from underrepresented groups at TechCrunch Disrupt, I was eager for the opportunity. Every entrepreneur swims against a current, but these founders face challenges that their white, male counterparts do not.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

Consumer credit reporting agency TransUnion recently announced it had invested an undisclosed sum in Spring Labs, which is building out a blockchain-based data-sharing platform. Chaouki told TechCrunch that there were “many” reasons for working strategically with, and investing in, Spring Labs. This is a pretty big move for us.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

million pre-Series A investment. The company was launched in 2015 by Oluwatomi Ayorinde and Damilola Ayorinde as MobileForms, a data collection agent network. It’s a thriving business for banks, larger fintechs such as OPay and TeamApt, and even smaller ones like CrowdForce , who today is announcing that it has raised a $3.6

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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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