TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2023

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. Sometimes, due to the nature of the startup game, we over index on “the new.” It just made me think about that larger comprehension coupled with the nimbleness of a startup.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

million downloads to make it “the largest and first Black-owned personal finance platform” to do so, Rodney Williams, co-founder and president of SoLo, told TechCrunch. based and Black-owned with registered users or downloads above 1 million. SoLo Funds has acquired over 1 million registered users and over 1.3

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Online language learning continues to be a huge opportunity for startups, with the most engaging experiences meeting a surge of interest from consumers looking for more productivity out of the hours that they spend on their smartphones. “A lot of startups are born out of pain, and this is how EWA started, too,” he said.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

Zeni , a Palo Alto fintech company providing real-time financial services data to venture-backed startups, raised $34 million in Series B funding led by Elevation Capital. They can also download the financial data in the “slice” that they want. I believe we have the opportunity to build a large company.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 3, 2021

In the wake of the murder of George Floyd and nationwide protests, venture capital firms are making newfound commitments to invest in, or at least evaluate, potential investments that are led by diverse founders. So, what exactly do those action steps look like? So, what exactly do those action steps look like? Let’s take a deeper look.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 25, 2023

The fund, known as Cool River Venture, will primarily focus on investing in technology-related industries. Zhang’s new venture emerges as Hong Kong aims to attract affluent individuals following a period of population decline and isolation caused by the Covid pandemic.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

The round was led by Gojek’s investment arm Go Ventures, with participation from returning investors AC Ventures and East Ventures. ” While it doesn’t have a reseller network, KitaBeli works with delivery partners for last-mile deliveries, presenting the gig as an opportunity to earn extra money.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2021

Indonesian startup CoLearn started as a chain of physical tutoring centers and was in the process of shifting to a hybrid offline-online model when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. CoLearn has since been downloaded more than 3.5 The round also included participation from returning investors Sequoia Capital India’s Surge and AC Ventures.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

For Lindsay Tjepkema — who has been entrenched in the world of B2B marketing for more than 15 years — the opportunity was massive. And now Casted has raised $7 million in Series A funding led by Revolution Ventures. . But when you’re a B2B company or an enterprise company, the number of downloads doesn’t help.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2016

At the Upfront Summit in early February, we had a chance to have many off-the-record conversations with Limited Partners (LPs) who fund Venture Capital (VC) funds about their views of the market. LPs Still Believe Strongly in Venture Capital as a Diverse Source of Returns. That’s money that fuels our startup ecosystems.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2021

ULesson , an edtech startup based in Nigeria that sells digital curriculum to students through SD cards, has raised $7.5 The round is led by Owl Ventures, which closed over half a billion in new fund money just months ago. Similar to many edtech startups, uLesson has benefited from the overnight adoption of remote education.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

CRE Ventures led that round , but this time, the company, which has offices in Cape Town and New York, brought in a blue-chip group of investors spanning gaming, media and fintech. VC firm Konvoy Ventures led the Series A round. 6 investors on 2021’s mobile gaming trends and opportunities. million seed investment.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 16, 2023

This expansion into the global market is a significant move for WeBudding, which already boasts over 400,000 content downloads and a community of over 2,000 global creators selling more than 15,000 products on its platform with over 10,000 digital stationery products sold monthly. billion (approximately USD 1.66

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

One of the first decisions we had to make in setting up our new VC fund, Versatile Venture Capital , was our CRM and marketing technology infrastructure. . If you can, I recommend join HubSpot for Startups , which offers generous discounts. HubSpot doesn’t allow blocking of downloads and Docsend does, so we continue to use them. .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Fashion startup Virgio, co-founded by Amar Nagaram, former chief executive of Myntra, has raised $37 million in a new financing round as the young firm looks to build “a global fashion brand” from the South Asian market. The startup’s approach has prompted some to draw comparisons between its model with that of the behemoth Shein.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Voltron Data co-founder and CEO Josh Patterson said that at its heart, the startup is a standards company that aims to spread the word on the power of data and analytics standardization via Apache Arrow. The open source tool has proved amazingly popular, with the company reporting more than 42 million downloads per month.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

We live in a world with a stereotypical representation of what a startup founder looks like, so it’s no wonder that a large portion of the population feels underrepresented. A Gender Gap Grader study shows that women represent 9 percent of developers in the startup ecosystem. Here are four startup myths that hold innovation back.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

In 2020, Chinese startup Zilliz — which builds cloud-native software to process data for AI applications and unstructured data analytics, and is the creator of Milvus , the popular open source vector database for similarity searches — raised $43 million to scale its business and prep the company to make a move into the U.S.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Philippines-based Plentina , a buy now, pay later startup focused on emerging markets, announced today it has raised $2.2 The latest funding was led by TMV, with participation from Global Founders Capital and returning investors AV Ventures, Techstars and Unpopular Ventures. seed round. BNPL is not a winner-takes-all game.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 4, 2023

In this series, we have explored a variety of funding options for startups looking to launch a new financial product as well as terms to consider when negotiating your first warehouse facility. Download the a16z Guide to Raising Debt Thank You Your download will begin shortly. Or click here to download manually.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

I think I’ve read Paul Graham’s post on “ Startup = Growth ” three or four times now. Viewing the article through the lens of a venture capitalist there’s much to agree with under the mantra of “growth!” Eventually a successful startup will grow into a big company. Growth, again.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

Mara, a São Paulo-based startup that aims to “reinvent” the grocery shopping experience for the underserved in Latin America, has raised $6 million in a funding round co-led by Canary and Caffeinated Capital. Because much of this population is of a lower-income demographic, downloading an app can be cost-prohibitive and difficult.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

billion downloads last year, while leading meditation app Calm alone pulled in $118.2 That may leave some to believe the digital well-being market is essentially solved, but a new startup, Lumi Interactive, believes the opposite is true. Mobile well-being apps topped 1.2 million in revenue, data from Sensor Tower indicates.

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2022

Qwili , a startup that provides a hybrid sales product to micro and small merchants in South Africa, has raised $1.2 million in seed funding a year after closing an undisclosed pre-seed round. The company’s hardware is a low-cost NFC-enabled smartphone called Qwili Pula that allows merchants to send and receive payments.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Why would they choose to venture into the Japanese market? However, even in conservative markets, the changing global landscape can still give rise to new markets and opportunities. But opportunities wait for no one, and Habitto did not wait idly by. Habitto has continued to see an increase in downloads.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 24, 2021

After seven years in the production of electronic gadgets, under his company Imose Technologies , Osayi Izedonmwen took leave to explore an idea that he had toyed with for some time — an edtech startup, Teesas , which now offers video classes and other digital educational material for learners in Nigeria. million pre-seed funding round.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

I had an hour to interview Mike Hirshland of Polaris Ventures. Since then Mike his built his career by investing in early-stage companies (seed or series A), which is remarkable given that Polaris Ventures is a $1 billion fund. Venture Financings we Discussed. SGN games downloaded +17mm times on mobile devices.

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TechCrunch

JULY 9, 2021

One, a year-old upstart in London that launched in December, just closed its round this week led by Craft Ventures. The other, a four-year-old, Bay Area-based startup, has raised $3 million in previously undisclosed seed funding, including from 500 Startups. The startup on which Craft just made a bet, leading its $2.2

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

It’s that time of year, time to look back and reflect on the most significant storylines in the tech, startup, and VC world. And, with that warning, I offer to you, the big stories in the startup and investing ecosystem of 2018, written in ascending order of importance and magnitude…. 6/ Venture Capital In Expansion Phase.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

That platform, called Flink , attracted the attention of Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm Accel, which just led a $12 million Series A for the company. And, the app was recently ranked in the top 10 of all apps downloaded in Mexico via Google Play, surpassing Spotify and Facebook app downloads, according to Amozurrutia.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

Funding backers included Y Combinator, Tinder co-founder Justin Mateen, Canary, Hustle Fund, Necessary Ventures and the co-founders of TaskUs. Yummy’s app can be downloaded for free, and the company charges a delivery fee or merchant fee. The total investment includes pre-seeding capital raised in 2020.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

The company attended pitch competition after pitch competition, raising about a total of $100,000, until one day in the summer of 2020 an analyst for musician Jay-Z’s Marcy Ventures happened to be in the audience. By 2021, the app had gone viral after Jay-Z’s Marcy Ventures wrote a blog post about it. “We By the time it raised its $2.5

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The Indian insurance platform InsuranceDekho has raised $150 million in a Series A funding round as the more than a decade old firm eyes merger and acquisition opportunities at a time when the market slump has engulfed most startups in the South Asian nation.

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Impact Hub

MAY 13, 2021

Turning challenges into opportunities. This article is the first in a series of eight where we will share the stories of African startups from Ghana and Nigeria who are doing just that. Yakubu and Raymond claim that the New Economy Booster program was pivotal in granting them access to learning resources and networking opportunities.

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NZ Entrepreneur

AUGUST 22, 2023

GEN member organisations include universities, district councils, New Zealand Trade and Enterprise, Xero, NZ Entrepreneur, Bridgewest Ventures NZ and many more. Like all entrepreneurs, he looks for and takes advantage of opportunities while managing risk.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 9, 2020

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TechCrunch

JUNE 21, 2022

Participants in the round also included Rebel VC, Kharis Capital, Newman Capital, First Check Ventures, Micro Ventures, Springcamp and AngelHub. Its founders say it has been downloaded more than a million times since then, driven in part by increased interest in mobile banking and online investments during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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