TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

With venture capital data collected for TechCrunch by PitchBook and notes from active insurtech venture capitalist Florian Graillot of Astorya.vc , we now know a lot more. While the 2022 data tells a stark story, the rest of Q2 could prove pivotal for insurtech this year. billion across 78 rounds in Q1 2021.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

Tunisia, due to its inhibiting government policies, is an unfriendly place to operate any startup or access venture capital — excluding InstaDeep, Tunisian startups raised $17 million last year, according to a report by VC firm Partech. On the other side of the table are somewhat naive views that argue InstaDeep’s “Africanity.”

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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. Market Notes.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

And yet when CB Insights dropped its 2021 fintech data collection , it noted that global insurtech venture activity hit a new high in the year. billion in capital (again, an all-time record, and a 90% gain over 2020.). billion in capital (again, an all-time record, and a 90% gain over 2020.).

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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. Staying in Asia, Anna and Alex take the pulse on China’s venture capital scene. Manish has more.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Miscommunication and poor project data accounts for 48% of all rework on U.S. Lack of data transparency : Manual data collection and data entry are still common on construction sites. construction job sites, costing the industry over $31 billion annually according to FMI research.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

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. Singapore, get your exotic taste buds ready : Vow, an Australian-based cultured meat company, gobbled up $49.2 Sarah has more.

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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

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Also participating in the financing is SCAN Group, a mission-driven organization dedicated to keeping seniors healthy and independent. The company just raised its $40 million series B, led by Omega Healthcare , who also prepaid $10 million to install SafelyYou’s solution across close to 1,000 healthcare facilities.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

Until recently it was headquartered 2 blocks from our offices in Santa Monica so we literally saw it emerge under our feet and we proudly invested in the last 3 rounds of financing. Today the company officially announced its most recent round of capital ?—?having Bird already has an enormous lead in data collection.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

update, which does away with automatic opt-ins for data collection, and Google’s plan to phase out third-party cookies do not signal a death knell for digital advertisers. Image Credits: Kwanchai Lerttanapunyaporn / EyeEm (opens in a new window). CTO Hunter Jensen writes in a guest column.

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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

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. Now, TechCrunch has exclusive details on the size of that round and the nature of the relationship.

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Ian Hathaway

OCTOBER 31, 2019

One of the drawbacks of venture capital databases is that they are dynamic. Many startups in Silicon Valley and other leading startup hubs have increasingly relied on unpriced rounds (SAFEs or convertible notes) for their first or even second rounds of financing. Information trickles in, often with significant time lags.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

For example, we haven’t yet partnered with any companies in robotics, procurement and finance, and labor management, but we’re seeing a lot of interesting early players emerge. A lot of this tech is focused on job sites, but given the need for data collection and analysis, what advances are you seeing in back-end technologies?

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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. . Meyler Capital is taking the analytical rigor of modern internet marketing and applying it to fund marketing. . When I was single, I registered for (a lot of) dating websites. 8) Monitor .

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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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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. . Meyler Capital is taking the analytical rigor of modern internet marketing and applying it to fund marketing. . ff Venture Capital hired two full-time engineers to build out Totem.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

million in a Series A financing co-led by Accel and Insight Partners. . Existing backer s Avid Ventures, Better Tomorrow Ventures and BoxGroup also participated in the financing, along with new investors Flexport and The Fintech Fund.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Most founders are exclusively focused on getting a check from a private VC firm, but in the first half of this year, corporate venture capital funding totaled $79 billion across 2,099 deals globally. Is chasing venture capital the right choice for your startup, or are you doing it because it’s what’s expected?

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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. One of the most common areas of attention respondents highlighted were startups focused on construction and manufacturing.

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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. Existing backers Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and NEA also put money in the round, along with new investor Geodesic Ventures. NEA led the company’s $52.5

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2022

Moove helps finance vehicles for ride-hailing drivers, which appears to be a growth market. Data science in a box ? It appears to offer a hybrid of data collection and analysis as a service to customers. Pareto is perhaps something of a response to the market dearth of data scientists for hire.

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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. . “I’m also eager to see brands utilize tokens for loyalty and rewards, a topic I’ve heard people discuss but not yet embrace.”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 5, 2022

Fintech startups are taking the downturn harder than most other sectors, data indicates. Data collected by Andreessen Horowitz shows that public fintech companies are suffering from greater valuation declines than other technology categories. Constrafor grabs $106M in equity, credit to finance construction subcontractors.

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