AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 31, 2023

Led by LG Technology Ventures, the venture capital arm of the LG Group, the round also saw participation from Safar Partners, UOB Venture Management, and existing investors Alpha JWC and LDV Partners. LG Technology Ventures was established in 2018 in Silicon Valley and manages over $500 million of fund assets.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

Iron Pillar and Uncorrelated Ventures led the round, with participation from existing investors Nexus Venture Partners, Chiratae Ventures and Next47. The result of those major disruptions? “We will not expand into new industries or adjacent product areas,” he told TechCrunch in an email interview.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

This collaborative program also includes prominent VC organizations like Kleiner Perkins, Salesforce Ventures and Initialized Capital to develop lasting mentorships with the TC Include founder cohort. We’re disrupting boring, inefficient and outdated diversity training through real talk and interactive gaming.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted a lot in the world, and supply chains are no exception. . But getting real-time access to information from transportation providers has remained somewhat elusive for shippers and logistics companies alike. . A number of applications that aim to solve workflow challenges across the supply chain exist.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

The rush to grow, outrun, and disrupt runs in the lifeblood of today’s entrepreneurs, driving their fervor and enabling them to capture markets from giants of industries too big to maneuver in a quickly changing landscape. Startups are the embodiment of frenetic action.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Sequoia Capital India, Insight Partners and Insignia Ventures Partners co-led the Series B round. Flip, which intends to be the most customer-centric financial technology company in the world, enables users to do fair financial transactions from anywhere to anyone. The funding brings Flip’s total capital raised to $65million. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

Ugandan technology-enabled asset finance company Tugende today announced that it has closed $3.6 Between 2006 and 2010, CEO Wilkerson, then a journalist and researcher, spent a great deal of time using motorcycles ( Boda bodas ) for quick and flexible transport. Partech is doubling the size of its African venture fund to $143 million.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2023

Wellthy is a startup aimed at helping caregivers be more equipped to deal with all aspects of their various responsibilities by serving as a self-described “tech-enabled care concierge.” It’s not uncommon for caregivers to feel overwhelmed as they navigate the administrative and logistical complexities of caring for a parent.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

It has now become a materials innovation company disrupting how clothes are made. It is enabling people to contribute to the possibility that their children will enjoy the lives that they did and making them feel good about it? — ?through Most of what we wear on our bodies today is made from plastic. This needs to change. And it will.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Having reliable transportation is at the top of any gig worker’s list, but in Latin America, that’s not always easy to secure. The company’s Series A was led by Kayyak Ventures and included individual investors like Creditas’ Sergio Furio, Betterfly’s Eduardo della Magiora and Affirm’s Huey Lin.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

So he teamed up with former Lyft exec Andrew Woolf to found Coast , a company that is aiming to meet those needs with the mission of becoming “the financial platform for the future of transportation.”. It’s the perfect recipe for a startup to come in and disrupt it with a much better experience,” Mohnot told TechCrunch via e-mail.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

Roger Lee is a general partner at Battery Ventures, based in Menlo Park, CA, who focuses on investments in software and consumer tech, including online marketplaces. Justin Da Rosa is a vice president with Battery Ventures in San Francisco. The end-to-end approach makes the most sense when disrupting very large markets.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Because Sweetgreen raised hundreds of millions of dollars during its life as a private company, including myriad venture capital rounds — through a Series I in 2019 — along with capital from other investors. Salads transport well — they are not soup — and are as plant-based as you’d like. with some 1.35

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

During the pandemic, delivery startups — whether focused on groceries, essentials, or takeout — became the darling children of venture capital firms. According a report from AgFunder, total venture investment for “e-grocery” companies reached $18.5 billion post-money valuation, while Gopuff, a U.S.-based

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2022

Battery startups are working to disrupt more than just cars and trucks. ” Battery startups are working to disrupt more than just cars and trucks. In a TC+ post, Martinez explains how to identify the right kind of growth hire, which traits to look for, and how to set clear expectations and milestones once they’re on board.

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OurCrowd

MAY 20, 2022

Our mission statement is to enable the vision of cultivated meat by reducing its cost and improving its quality,” Guy Nevo Michrowski, ProFuse CEO, tells Amy Teibel in The Times of Israel. Animal agriculture emits more greenhouse gases than the entire transportation sector. I felt deep down that there had to be a better way to do it.

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Plantish aims to produce 3D-printed fish from soy, seaweed and other vegetable proteins, but unlike other offerings of fish flakes or chunks, “the company is working on an innovative technology that enables the creation of whole cut fish fillets,” Forbes reports. Learn More. AEYE Health: Strong signs for eye disease detection.

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StartupNation

MARCH 10, 2021

In December 2020, the company announced that they are the autonomous shuttle provider for Autono-MaaS , which is a transportation project in Hiroshima, Japan. Schneider has over 25 years of experience in the mobility and transportation sectors, and we’re excited to see what he does with the company in 2021. Groundspeed.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 11, 2016

I'm excited to announce that Brooklyn Bridge Ventures has led a $1 million round into Agrilyst. Indoor farms consume a lot of energy--cutting into the sustainability gains around transportation decreases. At Brooklyn Bridge Ventures , there's no such thing as too early to have a conversation. Food is a big market.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Supply chains have become front-page news since the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted global networks of everything from furniture makers to grocery suppliers. They have been recognized for this innovation in FreightDocs, FreightWaves, and Venture Michigan. It also enables users to automate workflows and resolve accounts.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

In more than a decade of writing about the Internet and tech-enabled businesses I’ve learned that mobs don’t do nuance well. Currencies only began in earnest about 2,500 years ago and ever since have been a great enabler of democracy and social mobility, not the other way around. We’ll have to see how it all plays out.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 14, 2016

Inexpensive equity dollars enable capital-intensive companies to amass the warchest necessary to dethrone incumbents. Equally important to note, real estate and transportation are two industries startups historically haven’t upheaved. More money raised for less dilution.

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OurCrowd

MARCH 3, 2020

of the world’s greenhouse gases — more than all forms of global transportation combined. The time has never been better for new technology to disrupt these alarming trends. Livestock accounts for 14.5% Worse still, global demand for meat has doubled over the past 30 years as nations become wealthier and larger.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 26, 2022

The company announced today that it has raised a $70 million Series C led by Gobi Partners and SPIL Ventures, with participation from returning investor Inspire Ventures. What portion of that sales cost is spent on logistics and transportation and warehousing? The answer is very well-documented. It’s about 8%.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

Veev, a real estate developer turned tech-enabled homebuilder, announced today that it has raised $400 million a Series D round that propels the company to “unicorn status.” In recent years, a number of tech-enabled home builders have emerged to help address the nation’s housing shortage.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

. “We can improve both outcomes and costs by moving care from the hospital back to the place it started — at home,” they write in a post that explores five innovations enabling at-home care and identifies investment opportunities like acute care and infrastructure development. Image Credits: Cowboy Ventures / Guild Education.

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2021

The trio started the company as a bus-hailing service in Egypt and other ride-sharing services in emerging markets with fragmented public transportation. Its services, mainly bus-hailing, enables users to make intra-state journeys by booking seats on buses running a fixed route. Per Crunchbase , Swvl has raised over $170 million.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

That’s the product Backbone , the startup Patil helped to cofound, is selling: a platform designed to enable companies to respond to supply chain disruptions by surfacing replacement options, including vendors. ” Building a supply chain backbone. .

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

This post was a shortened version of a more detailed post he had written for his own blog titled “ A Disruptive Cab Ride to Riches: The Uber Payoff.” In other words, the arrival of a product or service like Uber will have zero impact on the overall market size of the car-for-hire transportation market. Transporting kids.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

“We need to reform stock options so that they become a tool in order to compete internationally for talent,” he says, noting that the idea is to enable Spain to compete with regimes already offered by countries elsewhere in Europe, such as the U.K., France and Germany. That we generate a positive benchmark.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

million in pre-Series A funding, led by Newtown Partners, through the Imperial Venture Fund, with participation from Wavemaker Partners, TMV, Innoport and SGInnovate. Right now, the platform can tell companies what is causing delays, but prescriptive AI will also enable it to make automated suggestions.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic didn’t just upend the transportation industry. Shawn Carolan , partner, Menlo Ventures. Abhijit Ganguly , senior manager, Goodyear Ventures. Sebastian Peck , managing director, InMotion Ventures. COVID-19 disrupted virtually every sector of the transportation industry.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2022

And good news, btw, we’re offering 15% off Disrupt tickets (excluding online or expo tickets) for you, our trusty Daily Crunch readers. Slumdog $5-illonnaire : Landa is the latest startup to attract venture capital, in this case $33 million, to democratize real estate ownership, Mary Ann writes. See you tomorrow! — Christine and Haje.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Elana Berkowitz is a founding partner of Springbank Collective , which invests in early stage companies building the infrastructure to enable working women and families to thrive across career, care and household consumers. That means they required a lot of upfront venture capital investment to disrupt their respective markets.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

BeamUP today announced that it raised $15 million in a seed funding round led by StageOne Ventures and Ibex Investments along with participation from angels including Workday CEO Chano Fernandez. Nate Meir, for one, a partner at StageOne Ventures, expressed confidence in BeamUP’s trajectory. A photo of the BeamUP team.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Shared transportation in Nigeria, Africa’s largest country by population, is a thriving business, at least when done the conventional way: offline. While most mobility tech in the country is centred around two-wheelers and car-hailing, there’s been hardly any deliberate disruption in the bus-sharing and mass transit space.

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