TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

The first quarter of 2022 brought a historically huge sum of investment for global startups, with the three-month period outclassing any quarter in 2018, 2019, and 2020, according to CB Insights data. But despite the fact that Q1 2022 posted historically elevated results, venture capital investment decelerated from Q4 2021 levels.

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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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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

In a statement, Cooky said the fresh funds came from Korea-based investment firm Nextrans and local venture capital firm Do Ventures. “We Since its introduction in the market barely two years ago, the Cooky app now has over 1 million downloads. The post Cooky raises $4.5m

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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

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Israeli startup Tactile Mobility uses existing vehicle sensor data to enable cars to “feel” the road in a way that generates insights about both the vehicle and the road via its cloud platform. Our company is basically divided into two parts — the data acquisition and the data monetization,” Bin-Nun told TechCrunch.

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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. With the right tools, predicting startup revenue is possible.

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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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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 23, 2024

Business analytics platform CB Insights released their State of Fintech 2023 Report which indicates the fintech sector experienced a greater downturn than the broader venture capital market—which reported that Q4’23 was “the harshest quarter for global VC in 6 years”. While the funding decline adversely impacted fintech startups, the U.S.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2021

In particular, back in February 2021, the company said it managed to generate 250 million downloads. That number has now doubled as the startup has now delivered 500 million installs. The company is raising this Series A round just seven months after raising its seed round (led by Headline and Eurazeo).

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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. Indonesian logistics startup SiCepat raises $170 million Series B. KitaBeli , an Indonesian social commerce app for group buying, announced today it has raised a $10 million Series A.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Rak Garg is a principal at Bain Capital Ventures where he leads early-stage investments in developer tools, data infrastructure, cybersecurity and enterprise software. Now, with the market downturn, raising capital for a dev-tools startup is much more difficult. Contributor. Share on Twitter. But it’s not impossible.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Over the past month a colleague ( Chang Xu ) and I sifted through data on the venture capital industry (as we do every year) and made a bunch of calls to VCs and LPs to confirm our hypotheses. As a result of the IPO window shifting we saw a massive inflow of public-market capital into the latest stages of venture.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

And now Casted has raised $7 million in Series A funding led by Revolution Ventures. . Existing backers High Alpha Capital, Elevate Ventures and Tappan Hill Ventures also participated in the financing, which brings Indianapolis-based Casted’s total raised to about $9.3 million since its inception.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

On a recent winter morning in New Delhi, Rajan Anandan and Pieter Kemps were pacing on the floor of a five-star hotel, quizzing a group of over two dozen young startup founders about their goals. One founder set eyes on getting the most downloads in the mobile gaming category. Sequoia, in comparison, is offering up to $3 million.

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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

AUGUST 3, 2022

An innovative new medical startup in Romania helped doctors from three countries collaborate to treat Ukrainian cancer patients made refugees after Russia’s brutal invasion. million downloads and raised a total of $15 million in total. Investors to date include D Moonshots, Cleverage Venture Capital, Roca X and Gapminder VC.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Stability AI, the company funding the development of open source music- and image-generating systems like Dance Diffusion and Stable Diffusion , today announced that it raised $101 million in a funding round led by Coatue and Lightspeed Venture Partners with participation from O’Shaughnessy Ventures LLC.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2021

If you follow startup news from Indonesia, you know that the country’s estimated 60 million small businesses are a hot target for tech companies. million in seed funding from Go Ventures, RTP Global, AlphaJWC, Sequoia Capital India’s Surge, FEBE Ventures and Taurus Ventures. Staff management platform Vara’s team.

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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

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Talkshoplive is a startup that’s worked with stars like Paul McCartney and Garth Brooks, as well as small businesses, to host shopping-focused live videos. Today, it’s announcing that it has raised $3 million in seed funding led by Spero Ventures. CEO Bryan Moore founded the company with his sister Tina in 2018.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Later today I’m presenting at the annual Rincon Ventures Summit in Santa Barbara. Startup Exits: A Primer from msuster. I speak privately a lot about getting an exit at a startup. We also are going to talk a lot about startups getting exits and ultimately: Companies are bought, not sold. They say the same about VC.

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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. This month last year, we reported that the company had just raised a $2.5 million seed investment.

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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

JULY 20, 2021

The Bangalore-based company announced today it has closed a $75 million Series C from LeapFrog and Khosla Ventures, with plans to grow its user base in India, Southeast Asia and North America. HealthifyMe is the first Indian health tech startup LeapFrog has invested in, and Khosla Ventures’ largest investment in India to date.

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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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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2021

Dott is a micromobility startup that is better known for its colorful electric scooters that you can find across several European cities. Users can download a mobile app and unlock a scooter through the app. The startup doesn’t work with third-party logistics providers.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

So, in keeping with our mission, we present to you today a list of Ukrainian tech companies and initiatives you can support, the products you can use, and the startups which you – if you’re an investor – can look at funding. But over 90% of Ukrainian startups say they need financial support to survive the war.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

French startup Homa has raised a $100 million Series B funding round. Other investors in the Series B include Northzone, Fabric Ventures, Bpifrance, Eurazeo and Singular. Since 2018, Homa has published 80 games and attracted one billion downloads. Quadrille Capital and Headline are leading the round.

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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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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A recently funded startup, Stellar Sleep, offers help via its digital sleep therapy platform that addresses insomnia through a combination of technology and psychology. Now with funding in hand, the health startup can build additional capacity and provide more comprehensive content and personalization of the user experience.

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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

JULY 14, 2021

Phantom is part of a new class of crypto startups looking to build infrastructure that streamlines blockchain-based applications and provides a more user-friendly UX for navigating the crypto world, something that can make the entire space more approachable to a non-developer audience. 0x lets any app be the Craigslist of cryptocurrency.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

Fintech startup Plentina is leveraging that trend with buy now, pay later (BNPL) installment loans that can be used and repaid through e-wallets. million seed round, co-led by former Tableau executive and ClearGraph chief executive officer Andrew Vigneault, Unpopular Ventures and DV Collective.

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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

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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