TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

Chicago’s startup scene is finally getting the attention it long felt it deserved. By now it’s common knowledge that 2021 is shaping up to be a breakout year for the startup and venture capital worlds, surpassing years of strong results in a long-term bull market for tech-focused business upstarts.

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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. Absolutely!

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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

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. As such, most startups have had to domicile abroad to access funding.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

Mental health startup Ksana Health has received $2 million in seed funding led by re:Mind Capital, the mental health VC arm of Christian Angermayer and Apeiron Investment Group. It’s a move informed by two trends: passive data collection, and a burgeoning mental health crisis in teens and young adults. .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The Australia-based startup, which just raised $4 million, has built a platform that offers drag and drop tools for A/B testing and personalization on the web and mobile apps, and the best part is businesses don’t need to know any code to engage with it. The Australian tech scene is driving innovation globally.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

Aruna was created to bring them closer to customers like restaurants and exporters, the way farm-to-table startups are aggregating the agricultural supply chain. When an Aruna fishery applies for a loan, the platform is able to provide transaction data collected on the platform for credit scoring.

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TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2022

For Amanda D’Ambra and Joan Zhang, the idea of starting and co-founding an eating disorder care startup was personal: Both struggled with an eating disorder, along with other mental health issues, and received treatment — a treatment they hope more people will be able to access. Senate is reviewing potential privacy rights violations.

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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. Startups pitching on the main stage. Alright, alright.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Back in August during Y Combinator’s two-day demo extravaganza , TechCrunch noted a number of startups from India that stood out from the batch. Seeing so many India-focused startups in the mix wasn’t a fluke. Data shows that India’s venture capital scene has grown sharply in recent years. Bikayi is one such startup.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Allison Xu is an investor at Bain Capital Ventures, where she focuses on investments in the fintech and property tech sectors. 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.

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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

JANUARY 2, 2022

Data labeling is a critical part of automating artificial intelligence and machine learning model, but at the same time, it can be time-consuming and tedious work. AIMMO announced today it has raised $12 million in a Series A round to advance its data labeling technology and spur global expansions. ScreenShot | AIMMO website.

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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. Rwazi collects data such as product usage, frequency of consumption, and household budgets and income.

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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

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

In this instance, African web3 startup Nestcoin said it had to lay off employees as a result of not having that access. 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 Jaclyn has more.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

On the investment front we have VCs like Chris Boshuizen (Data Collective DCVC), Mike Collett (Promus Ventures) and Tess Hatch (Bessemer Venture Partners). Think the Startup Battlefield, but for space. Up your exposure game with a Space Startup Exhibitor Package ($360). Go boldly for $100 less.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

There were two markets for insurtech startups in 2021: one welcoming and one dismissive. 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. per share after going public.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Lightspeed Venture Partners led the tranche, with participation from Basis Set Ventures, Footwork VC, Peterson Ventures, Sierra Ventures, Liquid 2 Ventures and individual investors, including Zoom CEO Eric Yuan and Zola CEO Shan-Lyn Ma. so that they can focus on what they love: their brand and customers.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Still, the success of startups like Invisible AI , which uses AI systems to ostensibly optimize factory processes, suggests there’s some semblance of demand out there. “Everything done in manufacturing, from safety audits to continuous improvement cycles, is still based on manual data collection using stop watches and clipboards.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Startups hoping to raise a nine-figure round in the future had best temper their ambition; venture funding events worth $100 million or more are going extinct — quickly. A few years back, nine-figure venture funding events were common. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Good times.

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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. Shakir and Aoun both agree that Amazon’s expansion is providing new pressure for startups and investors to enter the space with stronger offerings. “At

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

The venture capital market is retreating somewhat from its aggressive 2021 pace, new data indicates. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. But while aggregated data is useful for charting larger and slower-moving trends in the startup market, we care more this morning about near-term changes.

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2022

In fact, there’s a cottage industry of “gifting-as-a-service” startups that promise to streamline the task, ranging from companies such as Reachdesk and &Open to Sendoso and Goody. The idea of corporate gifting to maintain client relationships isn’t a novel concept. Investors agree.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

In April 2021, TechCrunch published a venture capitalist’s take that “ the era of the European insurtech IPO will soon be upon us.” After all, just last June, this column explored the rapid-fire fundraising in the insurance technology startup market, declaring that “ insurtech is hot on both sides of the Atlantic.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2022

Daasity , an e-commerce analytics and data company, secured $15 million in Series A funding as it continues developing its approach to helping consumer brands better leverage their customer data to make smarter decisions. Data collection isn’t the problem: It’s what companies are doing with it.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

We’re just about two weeks away from launching TC Sessions: Space 2020 , our first focused foray into early-stage space startups and the essential satellite industries that support them. Connect and build relationships and opportunities with the global space startup community. Fast Money for your startup. Space expo.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

For an ecosystem that covers a majority of the planet, the oceans have basically been ignored by startups and investors alike. 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. But, she added, there’s still more room to grow. “We

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

The startup announced today it has raised $1.2 million in an oversubscribed pre-Series A round led by returning investor Intudo Ventures, with participation from Quest Ventures. Its customers range in size from tech startups to multinational conglomerates. Populix has now raised a total of $2.3

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

based startup, pitched a handful of investors during TechCrunch’s Battlefield competition. It just closed on $19 million in Series A funding in a round co-led by Future Ventures and Blackhorn Ventures, with participation from Booz Allen, Lockheed Martin, 40 North Ventures, and Autotech Ventures.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

Waterloo-based SkyWatch was among the first startups to recognize that the key to unlocking the real benefits of the space economy lay in making Earth observation data accessible and portable, and now the company has raised a $17.2 million Series B to help it further that goal.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

Reveal today announced that it raised $50 million in a Series A round led by Insight Partners with participation from Eight Roads, Chalfen Ventures, and Dig Ventures. The capital brings the startup’s total raised to about $54 million. With customers including Qualtrics, Tealium, Contentsquare, and Vonage.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

Established in 2006, JotForm allows customizable data collection for enhanced lead generation, survey distribution, payment collections and more. Over the past decade, venture capital has become synonymous with entrepreneurship. The exact numbers shift every year, but data compiled by Fundable show that only 0.05

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Deepgram, a company developing voice-recognition tech for the enterprise, today raised $47 million in new funding led by Madrona Venture Group with participation from Citi Ventures and Alkeon. He was quick to point out that the company complies with GDPR and lets users request that their data be deleted at any time.

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2021

Meet June , a new startup that wants to make it easier to create analytics dashboards and generate reports even if you’re not a product analytics expert. June is built on top of your Segment data. Like many no-code startups, it uses templates and a graphical interface so that non-technical profiles can start using it.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The adtech startups that can figure out how to adapt ads that can interact with the remote control, a synced smartphone or voice commands — maybe even make them shoppable — can theoretically produce a game-changer. But the digital ad ecosystem can’t get by only using broader data-crunching techniques to replace “retargeting.”

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